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“Looking at Your Pager” by KH

DV:

What if Crazy Frog but not annoying? is not a formula I expected to be a winning one in 2022, and yet here we are. Four Tet, a name that has apparently never even appeared as a reference point on this blog, made one of the best songs of the year out of the cheap ringtone synths and what sounds like mp3 compression artifacts, a chirpy sample from 3LW (pitch shifted and chopped enough that it’s wild to realize it lifts basically an entire verse), and a squelchy synth bass. It sounds almost academic, but the result is insistently catchy and active, an effervescent delight that lingers in the air far longer than its short runtime would suggest.

MG:

What a fucking year for Keiran Hebden – he knows it, too. From his legal victory over Domino Records to the (re) discovery of his super-massive playlist, a surreal treasure chest that feels like being able to look through someone’s notebook of thoughts (or diary, or dream journal, or whatever, but I will keep pretentiously calling it a notebook of thoughts), to his non-stop release schedule which encompassed established projects like Four Tet and relative mysteries like this one, KH, which is credited with only two songs: “Looking at Your Pager” and 2019′s “Only Human.” Perhaps because of the song’s real-life context or perhaps because it was released at the dawn of summer, it’s always sounded like pure and total joy to me. The 3LW sample hints at minor distress (an unreachable other, people as distractions) but as the complaints crest, a wobbling bass drops like a meteor or a string of synth notes clears the air and their affect renders all other emotion meaningless. Fed through the KH filter, our modern problems sound silly and happiness feels inevitable. It’s a sort of Rainbow Road of imagination but its unreality doesn’t diminish its portent.

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not a question. . but imagine You x Jack Antonoff.. i’d implode.

absolutely not

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Which is the more essential autumnal sound:

slide guitar

or

twinkle-light electronics

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not to downplay how much homophobia is still an issue but i feel like it would be impossible to communicate to The Youth today just how intense homophobia was in like, the 90's and early 00's

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“hope is a muscle that allows us to connect!!!!!”

i scream as i beat the joints of my Hemnes bed frame with a rubber mallet.

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FYI Bandcamp fridays are returning this Friday, September 2, as well as October 7th, November 4th, and December 2nd.

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too late uwu 😶

it's too late for all of us! i don't know who i think i'm kidding anyway, the devastation will also be art, bring it on.

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heavy rotations

tagged by @imathers for for albums we’ve been into lately so here’s my

favorite recent (2021/2022) releases:

(caveat that i am not much of an albums person, still)

Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE  (she’s still king)

Beach House - ONCE TWICE MELODY (everything hurts but i still have an argument in me for the lusciousness of a double album, and, also, on a related unrelated note, an argument for the superiority of the Smashing Pumpkins to My Bloody Valentine)

TDJ - SPF INFINI (bby’s 1st dj mix)

yeule - GLITCH PRINCESS (this one predated but also obviously heavily influenced my aliens phase)

Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS (the Tuesday Night Music Club of 2022 iykyk)

Panda Bear/Sonic Boom - RESET (i also watched The Big Lebowski for the second time in my life this year, not because i like it, but because i have started wearing cardigan sweaters with shorts a lot, just like these two fools, i’m sure)

and, of course, Ethel Cain - PREACHER’S DAUGHTER (i also like to fall asleep to reruns of Forensic Files, nothing has ever made as much sense to me as Ethel Cain)

older albums that i’m still listening to (this month)

George Harrison - ALL THINGS MUST PASS (i made a playlist for my husband of all the stuff i think Beach House is inspired by, which heavily informed my listening habits for a bit)

Steely Dan - PRETZEL LOGIC (lmao it’s background music! you can do anything with Steely Dan in the background. they’re like nice wallpaper, the most tasteful of the tacky.)

U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE (first off, yes, it’s me. second, you know i bet Beach House bump this one, too!)

The Prodigy - THE FAT OF THE LAND (nothing like crying along with “Breathe,” nothing at all)

i’m tagging @nuplan

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all dogs are cops. they are constantly tattling. if they can’t tattle on you, they tattle on themselves.

cats are the only pure beings on the planet . dogs are cute but they smell weird sometimes

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Summer David Teniers II (1610–1690) The National Gallery, London

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From: The Wonder of Life by John Arthur Thomson Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Date: 1914 Source: Archive.org

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A Woman Looks at a Painting of Herself and Sees that She Is Portrayed as a Skeleton Wilkes (possibly) Wellcome Collection

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truly nothing like a nice walk through a park

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