1/3/2024 0 Comments Ryley walker mckayDisclaimer: Expectations of this record need to leveraged, as it does not compare to their previous albums, one of which (Lost in the Dream) is perhaps the best album of the millennium (It is between that and Kid-A for me). Play this record in the car, volume loud, as you drive through the twists and turns of an empty autumn road. While it may leave a little more on the table than it's predecessors, I don't Live Here Anymore is still the best damn road-trip record of the year. Some fans, myself being one of them, will certainly miss some of the unhurried outros, synth washes and interludes that give TWOD records their pastoral haziness, but the vaporous ether of the past has been swapped for a glossy shimmer which is new to the bands repertoire. To that effect, I Don't Live Here Anymore is another fantastic record by the Philadelphia synth-folkers. I have crystal clear mental images of walking down 16th Street Mall to Slave Ambient blasting through my headphones, or listening to "Arms Like Boulders" as I lounged in City Park. Some of the best music feels more like Polaroids than sounds a sonic snapshot of a moment and nobody captures that as well as Philly based The War On Drugs. The War on Drugs: I Don't Live Here Anymore. So.without further ado, here are some of my favorite (studio) records of 2021! Feel free to ask me about my favorites.I love the conversation! ( And then going out, or staying in, and purchasing their record!). If this list is a bit long, here is the year in a nutshell: Female songwriters totally fucking rock, jazz is in a renaissance period, and Cosmic American is now a genre as formidable as any other. If you are at all a Phish fan, make sure you check out their live shows from this year, especially their Fall Tour.īut, not to worry! The world was still blessed with a wealth of infinitely interesting new records. Their improvisational brilliance ate up a lot of time normally spent diving into new acts. Because of that, I listened to them with a fever and excitement that I haven't had since I first got into them in that same late nineties time period. My favorite band came out of their pandemic hiatus in a way that I've never seen, nor expected, and had their best year since the late nineties. So, I have to admit, Phish kind of messed up this list for me.
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