#album: give me the future

[lyricallymnded]

club 57 // bastille

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

[darkcircles4lyfe]

To Build Something Else

Whenever I read a fanfiction that takes place in the future where the hero kids continue their schooling as normal and emerge as pro heroes into the existing system, I always kinda view it as like, “AU where things weren’t as bad” or “AU where everyone is still pretending that this is the way things should be” or “AU where good and evil are morally uncomplicated.” I’m not trying to call anybody out—I’ll still read and enjoy these sometimes—but that’s how I’ve always looked at it. I’m starting to notice other people feeling it too. I’ve read fics where they point out how redundant and unfair it is to go back to being students after saving the world (remember how many pros straight up quit and left a bunch of kids to keep fighting?). I’ve seen people acknowledge how trauma will affect their ability to keep going. Perhaps the trickiest thing to wrap our heads around is how the villains will fit into it all if not through death, punishment, or imprisonment. What about all the other trappings of society? The heavily regulated quirk use, the government-funded pros aiding police control and contributing to cover-ups that maintain the illusion of peace. Hero idolization, quirk counseling, civilian helplessness. Judging a person’s worth or character based on their quirk…

It would sound too obvious and cheesy to simply point out that society isn’t “just the way things are,” that change is possible. We all know this, and yet we struggle to pinpoint exactly where to aim our sights, find the source, make any meaningful progress. The other day I read some articles from my university’s student newspaper around 1970, and it made me feel sick wondering if progress is really an illusion. Fact is, it’s easy to intellectually deconstruct society, but very difficult to imagine how to build something else.

In this fictional world, heroes have offered a mythical vision of safety and triumph. When All Might arrived, everything was going to be okay. But let’s not forget how this story began: with a moment where All Might paused, like a bystander, and in his place, a desperate civilian kid hurtled forward without any common sense. If you ask me, it wasn’t that Izuku was so good and pure and selfless, it was that he disregarded everything.

And so the person who “saves the world” (if we can even reduce it to such a concept) is not the person who puts everyone at ease and makes crowds cheer. It’s the person who makes everyone hold their breath, with a feeling in the air like the pressure changed, and it smells like rain. It is natural to be worried about the future. It’s honest. It means you can see what’s really going on. Hero society has never felt this exposed, but the people are held back from the edge of despair because there is also so much potential brewing. Electricity about to strike. The world will NOT go back to the way it was, no matter what. That much is certain. But what if we still live to see the dawn? What then? What if one person’s courage to break the mold makes all the difference?

I’m not just talking about Izuku, you know. I’m talking about Horikoshi.

To an extent, I’ve given up on predicting how exactly things will play out, because if nothing else, I can tell he’s planning something big—so big, I can’t quite picture it. I’m watching and waiting for the one person who can. I just know where he’s coming from. I think about how he’s never come this far before because his other stories were snuffed out. I know he used to struggle to see the future of his career. I relate to his stubbornly rebellious resolve to do what he wants anyway. To keep dreaming. I know that emotional sincerity is his specialty. And now he’s even directly breaking the fourth wall, having characters talk about what’s supposed to happen in comic books. Gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, we’ve been shown how something else can happen. He’s not done yet.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

MAILMAN - SOUNDGARDEN

BABYGIRL WHAT IF THE SINGLE PLANK PATH TURNED MY YOUTHFUL INNOCENCE INTO A TOXIC COCKTAIL OF HUBRIS AND MORBID RESIGNATION

yeah. follow for more of the character of all time XO

[stillavoidingbaddays]

As much as I loved GMTF and the digital era they went through with euphoric synths, epic drums and robotic autotune, I AM SO READY FOR SADNESS AND HEARTBREAK from this new bastille album. Give me rising swells, give me cinemactic strings and composition, give me raw emotional vocals and harmonies, give me soft acoustics, give me peaceful lullabies. GIVE ME IT NOW!!!!

[encrucijada]

distorted light beam by bastille has done so much for me

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

So I know I already talked about el horso in a shorter post for April Fool’s Day, but after finally experiencing the sequel thanks to Acai’s video where he plays it on Clone Hero, I feel I need to dedicate some more post space this time.

el zebro is the longer continuation of el horso. Both can be described as long mashup projects posted by the el horso YouTube channel that are purposely designed to be hard to listen to due to the amount of shitposting in the songs, the amount of times Weezer gets used, and the particular techniques done and the way they are executed. These techniques include: Changing the speed, changing the pitch, editing spoken words, editing the beat while retaining the same sound font. doing layering that creates a wall of noise, and having sections be out of sync of each other. In addition, these videos are a visual experience along with being an audio experience, the editing is not to be taken for granted. These two projects essentially exist to make listeners/viewers uncomfortable by taking any sense of familiarity, whether that applies to the songs (or other references) used or traditional music conventions, and using that against listeners/viewers. Along with that, things can be very stagnant at times, but things can also change quickly. And you know what? I like that. Don’t get me wrong, I can despise parts of these projects in my soul, but the intoxicating allure of these projects is just making it through the storm. (As I said in the tags of my last post, el horso is good at being bad, not bad at being good. For el zebro, I’d say that it more so refuses being purely good for too long.)

With that being said, there are genuinely things surrounding these projects I unironically enjoy. Some sections are just too good and they get stuck in my brain. However, I think one of the things I most enjoy is the evolution from el horso to el zebro. Now, that does require listening to and/or watching both el horso and el zebro, but hear me out here. el zebro is a bit more repetitive than el horso, and because of that, they create different experiences to me. I listen to el horso curled up in a ball on the floor, while with el zebro, I’m at least only laying on the floor. el horso has me laughing due to the insanity of it all while el zebro more often has me laughing due to just the pure humor. el zebro is more diverse in terms of picking songs from different bands, genres, and years. In a way, this makes el zebro feel like a more complete experience, and I’m glad for that considering I was a bit hesitant on getting into it after my experience with el horso. Both projects are jank, but looking at the progression between el horso and el zebro, I’m glad the sequel left a more positive impact on me. Honestly, I was feeling genuine emotion at certain parts of el zebro, particularly the end.

As far as I know, all the people that were in some way a part of these projects are good people, I’d go check them out and how they orbit around the mashup community. If you want to experience el horso and el zebro for yourself due to this post, both are on the el horso channel, but here are the links for el horso and el zebro for your convenience. Now, if you want a bit of a middle man or buffer for the experiences so you don’t go in headfirst, I’d recommend checking out Acai playing el horso in Clone Hero and Acai playing el zebro in Clone Hero for funniness from both him and his chat along with occasional moments to pause.

[drop-the-curtain-123]

ok very specific gripe about assassination classroom

But how comes the series is all "be yourself, use your hobbies, despite everyone judgement, for good" then just... Never questions the roasting of Mimura air guitaring?

Look at my boy! He's so unwell afterwards

Ik now there are more scenes later in the manga that again use it as a Punchline. It just encapsulates that weird gap of "things that are just never Not the Joke/Mocked" which kind of defeats the show messaging 😭

t's not even used in a "do it anyway, grow strong and proud" like some others, it's just. There.

(hi rinka btw happy belated birthday to you)

Anyway unconsequential nitpicking rant over, have a good day.

[aggsart]

Bastille album covers mini paintings collection

acrylic on canvas

7,5 cm x 7,5 cm each

[taegularities]

i wish i had the words to explain what yoongi and his d-day did for my mental health this year. i really wish i had the power to somehow let him know that i related to every word he said in that album and everything he spoke about in his documentary, and that his wisdom and reassurances really pushed me forward like nothing else all these months. ugh i wish.

[bastille-songs-battle]

in case any of you are wondering, wild world is best, followed by bad blood, doom days, and then give me the future. my word is god and this is non negotiable.

[lyricallymnded]

future holds // bastille feat. bim

[coffeeworldsasaki]

NEW BASTILLE ALBUM IN OCTOBER

[landhinlove]

the entire live album is going to be in my top songs of the year I just know it

[suncaptor]

there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.

[crunchycrystals]

told my mom about the tour bc i wanted to talk about it and she asked who was on tour and i said "... fall out boy" and her immediate reaction was "SERIOUSLY??" so maybe i was right to hide me liking their music from my family for about 16 months