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🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · Aug 23

Summer Topster!!!!!!

Compiled a bunch of recent FLs and other albums I've been listening to since the last big topster I made at the end of April. Lemme know what your favorites are! 😊

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[10/10] the descriptions I’ve heard about it. It’s a whole lotta fun, with a lot of trippy and wild song ideas that you just get bombarded with on pretty much every track. Check it out!!

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[9/10] see the appeal behind them.

Overall though, I thought You’re Weird Now was a pretty solid album, and one that I’ll definitely have to spend more time with going forward just to really let it sink in for me, as I honestly was not expecting this sort of direction given…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[8/10] “Red Flag to Angry Bull” and “When Dogs Bark”, as I personally feel like the set of sounds that the band works with on You’re Weird Now as well as Kassie Carlson’s vocal style favor the more chaotic moments a lot more naturally than these tracks, even if I can still…

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🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[7/10] even impressed me with just how well it manages to stay fresh for its whole run time, jumping around to all these new ideas so cohesively.

I think if there’s anything that I’d consider a weak point for me personally, it’s likely the slower moments on the album like…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[6/10] a major role in the album’s production which is a fascinating tidbit for me. “Deep Sight” is one of my personal favorites from the track-list thanks in large part to its incredible bass-tones and pretty wild breakdown in its last leg. The 5 minute “Panglossian Mannequin”…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[5/10] identity for yourself. The aforementioned qualities all culminate pretty nicely onto tracks like “Life’s a Zoo” with all of its wild vocal phrases and chaotic structure. The appearance from Stephen Malkmus of Pavement fame was pretty fun too, and he had apparently played…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[4/10] Other cuts like “CEO of Personal & Pleasure” dive into more of a synth-pop territory and are prime examples of just how much the band leans into electronics across the entire album. I also appreciate its lyrics about feeling jaded over constantly trying to find an…

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🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[3/10] vocals from lead singer Kassie Carlson, whose vocal contributions on tracks like “Psychosis Is Just a Number” and “Crocodile Cloud” sound so youthful even as she’s laying down lines about going so insane that reality and fiction start to feel like one in the same.

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[2/10] Currently, it seems Guerilla Toss is operating with a distinctly clean, bright punk and noise rock sound, with instrumentation and production that for the most part comes off pretty light and pop-centric. This is only cemented further by the higher register and cheery…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

[1/10] You’re Weird Now is the 6th and latest studio album from the New York based Punk and Psychedelia band, Guerilla Toss. The album acts as my introduction to the band, one that’s had a pretty diverse output over the course of the decade plus that they’ve been active.

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2h

Today I listened to You’re Weird Now by Guerilla Toss.

Here are my first impressions below ⬇️

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[13/13] are honestly fantastic, and ones that I will definitely be coming back to over and over again for a while. Check them out!!!!

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[12/13] to this year and it’s a bit of a shame that their studio album presence has fallen off quite a bit after This Is Happening (aside from american dream which, from what I can tell, is globally considered the band’s most disappointing release). Even still, these 3 albums…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[11/13] It also comes to a rousing climax that I think is just a fantastic way to send off the whole album.

But yeah, Sound of Silver was, unsurprisingly, another fantastic album from LCD Soundsystem. They’ve quickly become one of my favorite groups I’ve gotten introduced…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[10/13] the piano rock spin on the closer, “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”, a track with the pretty self-explanatory theme of having mood swings in a city that is so all over the place; it’s clean but also filthy, safer but “wasting my time”, etc.

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[9/13] both high, high, high, high, high on lemon sips” line. While I do wish I got a little more out of the vocals from the self-titled track, I still very much love the cerebral grooves and angelic rising vocal harmonies throughout its instrumental. And lastly, I love…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[8/13] life interesting by making constantly reckless decisions with your best friends, foregoing stability for unpredictability, at least from how I read into it. I also love all the fun vocal inflections on “Watch the Tapes” like the “Ah-whoo-hoo!’s” and the repeated “We’re…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[7/13] Kamen, someone who the band had dedicated a 46-minute release to just a year prior, immediately following his death in 2006). “All My Friends” is a fun track characterized by a peppy drum beat and a bunch of 8th note piano hits, and is lyrically about preferring to make…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[6/13] debut record. Even more emotional tracks like “Someone Great” still fit so well within Sound of Silver, a track about the death of someone you respected and admired and how it’s impacted you despite the fact that you saw it coming (supposedly it’s about Dr. George…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[5/13] else to say that I haven’t already about the other 2 records from them that I really enjoyed. They’ve managed to craft a run of albums that feel so consistently fun, groovy, and infectious from start to finish, even including the singles on the expanded edition of their…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[4/13] the sputtering, distorted synth-lines and overdubbed group vocals from James Murphy on the opener, “Get Innocuous!”, to the deep bass-line, muted guitar plucks, and quirky vocal chants on “North American Scum” and beyond. I mean it really doesn’t leave me with much…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[3/13] the same sonic identity that made both the self-titled record and This Is Happening so special to me.

And you know what, in terms of quality I can gladly say it very easily lives up to the standard set on those two projects. I enjoyed pretty much everything on it from…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[2/13] from their self-titled debut, Sound of Silver is the last of them that I’ve had to check out. Given how much I love both of those other projects, I understandably had pretty high hopes for Sound of Silver too, and I can definitely say that the album at least maintains…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

[1/13] Sound of Silver is the sophomore studio album from one of the most beloved electronic rock and dance-punk outfits of the past 25 years, LCD Soundsystem. In regards to the most important albums in the group’s discography, those being their original 3 album run starting…

🎵Aviator🎵 @aviatormusic.bsky.social · 2d

Today I listened to Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem.

Here are my first impressions below ⬇️