if you were reasonably certain that you could hear a misprogrammed snare in a song that has 500k views on YouTube by an artist with 600k monthly listeners that is generally fun but obviously (as a result of the snare) now is unlistenable, would you try and contact someone in the song's production team to issue a corrected version on streaming services or do you live a normal, happy life

this is one of the canonical youtube videos btw

there should be a ritual that happens when I make a post that includes a new tag that will have... implications later (the first tag for an artist, or else a bit that I am thinking of doing)

what is "there exists a tunnel under ocean boulevard"?

What can I say about Brat? It taught me it was okay to be weird

pretty sure this DVD series is the reason that music videos are one of my primary interests? I would like to see a reboot that features Hannah Lux Davis, Director X, Sophie Muller, and Dave Meyers

This is the first record in the "fringe" category that I'm posting in my will-probably-take-all-of-2025 2024 retrospective, so I'll explain briefly that this category represents stuff that I had some vague appreciation for but never quite "took to" in 2024. (For those keeping track, that makes the current category list for 2024 records: "Safe Bets", "You Could Make a Case For", and "The Fringe"; there are 6 more categories making up my notes that I have yet to write any reviews from). I'll be writing about "fringe" records either because they became more important to me in the months that followed or because I still have some nagging idea that there's something there, even if I never found myself listening to the album regularly. This first one is a case where I've actually found myself reaching for it more in the first few months of 2025!

https://bubblelove.bandcamp.com/album/bubble-love

Bubble Love took a while to grow on me because I wanted more Tread and this is not that–but of course it's not, it's even released under a different name! Tread's tracks had this cool forward momentum to them; they were headed somewhere and I was getting to hear what happened along the way. This one in contrast simmers, perhaps giving the DJ the reins with any track selection to stay somewhere for a moment before their work takes people on to the next destination. The sampling simultaneously feels blunt and like a more restrained DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ, and there are some gloriously 90s steel drum and panflute patches that sound like they come from a CD-ROM where a cartoon dog teaches you chemistry concepts. The "Love"/"Hate" combo is very good back to back, but I'm partial to "Ugly"

I unironically love this music video reaction video on youtube dot com. The way this guy responds to the moment of discovering who Heems is makes me so happy. I have not looked at literally anything else he has said or done so apologies in advance but yeah man

https://oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-enough

here’s an album that’s a great example of “I put it on while doing something else and found it vaguely pleasant; I sat down and listened to it while doing little else and realized it was extremely my shit”. The little synth horns and flutes on this thing are so good. Love how many moments just don’t have drums? The Taste or Waste crew heard Stardew Valley in “thank you for recording” but I hear, like… Microsoft Encarta? Computer programmers who are obsessed with Kraftwerk? It’s icy and weird but kinda boppy, it’s got features by bladee and underscores, it’s hitting all the right notes for me. I’m not quite convinced it’s all-timer album material but I am definitely going to enjoy it right now