>Teens of Denial (Matador, 2016) was announced as Toledo's

ToD is a legit 3/10, it's derivative bland indeee rawk

I think twin fantasy is garbage but I understand why someone would like it and don't shit on the album. ToD is just bad objectively

>>70604450
>objectively
nice shitpost

ToD kinda loses me after Drugs With Friends

4/10

>Antony Hegarty changed name again and, under the new moniker Anohni, re-debuted with Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian, 2016), a collaboration with British producer Hudson Mohawke (who worked with Kanye West) and with synth-master Oneohtrix Point Never. which is simultaneously a dance record and a protest album. Middle age can be brutal. You start ranting against everything and everybody because you are beginning to realize that the world doesn't need you anymore and that you are rapidly becoming an unwelcomed guest in that rapidly changing world that you can't understand anymore. Antony may have picked all the right reasons to rant against the powerful and the rich, but it sounds monotonous and irrelevant when she doesn't also mention that most wars have ended, fewer people are being murdered in the world, and most of the nations that used to be starving colonies now are rising even faster than the old imperial nations

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>>70604416
>But one can spend more time discussing the titles of the songs than discussing the songs themselves

will wont recover from this

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>>70606142
>If you don't fall asleep after opening soul ballad Drone Bomb Me, an elegy to the Afghan children waiting to be killed by US drones, there is actually some (symphonic) drama in the climate-change plea 4 Degrees and some pathos in Why Did You Separate Me From the Earth. By the third song, however, the listener realizes that this a parade of endless tedious litanies. The musical peak is Watch Me, both for the vibrant blues refrain and for the sinister arrangement. Hopelessness benefits from the stately chamber arrangement but then turns into a sort of plantation chant with manic synths. Her proverbial vulnerability and fragility have become an excuse to sing in a derelict tone that is appropriate to lament the coming senseless apocalypse but is hardly musical. Her music is not always horrible. It just desperately calls for a less horrible singer. One can respect the ecofeminist activist while at the same time demanding some artistic talent. And of course she carefully avoids telling us how she would keep Afghanistan from falling into the hands of the Islamic fundamentalists. Easy to criticize presidents and generals, harder to actually help the Afghans become as rich and free as she is. It is debatable if the apocalypse is coming because a president uses drones to fight an unpopular war or because the people of his country (like Antony) are indifferent to the tragedies of other nations. By the same token, it is easy for a rich Westerner to rail against the very environmental disasters that made the West rich: what are the other countries of the world supposed to do, refrain from doing what made Antony rich? She sings "I don't want your future", not "I don't want my present". Protest songs are easy to write.

>>70604450

>I think twin fantasy is garbage

Oy vey

>>70606166
fuck off, bloomposter

tldr: Review reads more like a 6/10, but the album is redeemed by the two lengthiest tracks.