Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend (June 4, 2021) Album • Page 8

Review coming soon. I love this album

 

So happy for them!

 

yeah man this is everything

 

Lipstick On The Glass might be my favorite at the moment

 

3 listens in. AOTY of the year I reckon

 

lipstick and greatest hits

 

After a week of listening on repeat, I have no doubt this will be near the top of my EOTY list. Delicious Things and Lipstick are special.

 

the fact that those two songs are back to back, let alone exist in the same album, is outright unfair for every other album that's released this year

 

The hooks on this album are fucking spectacular

 

If anyone comes across a webstore selling one of the color variants, can you send the link my way? I'm so bummed I hesitated on that blue vinyl!

 

the production on this is unreal

 

Anyone managed to track down the Record Store Day track “Time Is Not a Straight Line”?

 

Feeling Myself is illegally good. Keep coming back to that one.

 

Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend

 

Don’t know if I’ve ever read a review where I’ve gone between agreeing and disagreeing as many times as that one lol

Biggest disagreement by far though is that they don’t have a “quintessence.” Every song this band has released is very much a Wolf Alice song to me. They may dip into different genres but the WA vibe is always there.

also insane to compare the production on Ellie’s vocals to a marvel movie, she sounds incredible on this thing

 

pitchfork is trash

 

Yeah, no matter what kind of music they make, every song feels like a Wolf Alice song. Bizarre take

 

That Marvel CGI bodysuit comment feels weird

 

maybe I just don't like Ian's reviews

 

Pitchfork reviews generally bore me - aside from @copperperson997 and a few other writers - it’s just the style. I much prefer BrooklynVegan and Stereogum

 

I try to feel as little as possible about pitchfork but that review is seriously fucking wack, eight paragraphs to say "making a record that sounds great kinda sucks, actually" while unfavorably comparing them to the 1975 is almost like, market researched to piss me off specifically

 

There was a time that I liked keeping up with music reviews on the big sites, but now, going out of my way to read a writer who has a drastically different music taste than mine’s take on albums I like is very unappealing

exhibit A: that review

 

I love to read stuff by people whose ears/brains are drastically different from mine, as long as their criticisms are well-founded and made in good faith. This did not read that way to me.

 

happy 6th birthday to 'My Love is Cool'