My record tracking just said “has been delivered to an agent for final delivery in CHICAGO, IL.” I’ve never seen this, any one ever experience this?
the most powerful collab I can imagine. Dylan spitting "Subterranean Homesick Blues" level bars on an El-P beat. I want it
Stayed out of this thread when it leaked and then was too busy over the weekend to listen more than once but yeah this thing is incredible, and it’s going to take a miracle (AKA a Julien Baker album) to beat it out for my AOTY. There’s nothing I can really say about it right now that hasn’t already been said. I Know The End is the best song ever.
If y'all are lookg for another beautifully sad album to cry your eyes out to, I suggest checking out the new Mike Kinsella/Owen record "The Avalanche", which also dropped this past Friday.
It shows tremendous faith in your audience to have your earth-shattering, epic closing track pivot on a lyrical callback to the central metaphor in "Moon Song", fully half the tracklist prior. What a fucking song and what a writer.
2-5 on my list are all pretty close(Worriers, CRJ, Katie Malco, Kamaiyah) but this is quite easily my #1
Waxahatchee/Perfume Genius/Phoebe/Fiona/Porridge Radio in some order. But I’m pretty sure it’s between Katie and Phoebe right now.
Katie Pruitt still standing strong as my album of the year, followed by Isbell. This is probably third at the moment.
It's been mentioned of course, but why not ;D and most of these are pretty prominent, I mean, recognizable performances from Conor, Julien and Lucy, but the rest is also really interesting and obviously that's quite an exciting list. There's also Jenny Lee from Warpaint or Tomberlin! Who I can't really decipher out there, but still cool they were involved! What's more, while we're on the connection of this thread's mutual agreement for BE vibes etc., I think I'd assign some huge credit to string arrangement on the album as well. Getting back to Rob Moose for example, who had played with Phoebe before - I've checked just now and he's also played on a lot of awesome records; Bon Iver, The National, and well, Sufjan Stevens (and that I think a few people mentioned too, for the album to sound like Sufjan at times).