Incredible album right?

>>74492096
6/10 at best

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>>74492096
no it's shit

>>74492096
It's alright. The production by OPN and Hudson Mohawke is great. Her voice isn't bad, either, but the lyrics are extremely preachy.

>>74492195
It doesn't strike me as "preachy", the most overtly political lyrics are no more on the nose than some folk-singers. It's not subtle but I think it works for the album very well.

>>74492195
>her

>opn and hudmo came together to make this piece of shit

wasted potential general?

It was okay
It's been months since I listened to it so I could give it another shot

>>74492096
The reservation exclusive bonus track was good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIubgsfK8E

i like it but I much prefer her Johnsons stuff, don't really ever come back to this one tbqhwy

>>74492420
Never listened to any of her other. Is it that different this album?

>>74492452
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgwp-iQenn4

Anohni and OPN are a really good team together, especially on OPN's Returnal
This version is so fucking good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrTM1WuCFzU

Marrow is my favorite off Hopelessness, and yet i was disappointed from Paraidse, i only really liked the title track

>>74492480
This is fucking incredible.

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. 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.

>>74492628

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.

>>74492628
>>74492640

Fuck off Scaruffi.