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Expand Up @@ -11,19 +11,19 @@ new month! new blog! regular delays! not to fear!

### somewhere in between - leyline hex

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<iframe rss-image="/_assets/img/thumbnails/somewhereinbetween.jpg" rss-link="https://leylinehex.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-between" rss-linkname="somewhere in between by leyline hex" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 320px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=943908896/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://leylinehex.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-between">somewhere in Between by Leyline Hex</a></iframe>

between this and dusqk's album last month, i am doing amazingly with finding random atmospheric drum and bass albums and subsequently playing it to death for the full length of the subsequent month. i've somewhat gone off of pure ambient music recently, but this new niche has been filling that same spot really well, giving the same calming and quiet vibes but also a nice beat to keep my stupid adhd ass from drifting away. i would normally call the mmorpg ai voiceover soundbites cheesy, but they do a pretty solid job of simply tying together an ep that is otherwise quite varied in terms of tone and general style.

### desire, i want to turn into you - caroline polachek

<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 320px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1842192137/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://carolinepolachek.bandcamp.com/album/desire-i-want-to-turn-into-you">Desire, I Want To Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek</a></iframe>
<iframe rss-image="/_assets/img/thumbnails/desire.jpg" rss-link="https://carolinepolachek.bandcamp.com/album/desire-i-want-to-turn-into-you" rss-linkname="desire, i want to turn into you by caroline polachek" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 320px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1842192137/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://carolinepolachek.bandcamp.com/album/desire-i-want-to-turn-into-you">Desire, I Want To Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek</a></iframe>

i've listened to quite a bit of caroline polachek in the past and yet i haven't talked about her before. she's getting a mention here partly because i think her music is really good and i listened to quite a bit of it this month, but also as a bit of a protest vote against charli xcx and chappell roan. both of polachek's albums are incredible artistic works, pulling in inspiration from all kinds of strange genres and musical experimentation to make pop music that really does feel unique. i particularly love the south american vibes of Sunset and the instrumentation of Billions which sounds like it could be out of a galen tipton or giant claw album.

### elis & tom - elis regina and antonio jobin

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i originally found out about elis & tom from the famous [omelette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCp_G6J0m6g) animation, but was delighted to find that the entire album is actually very lovely! the first half or so is quite upbeat and cheery bossa nova, dips into something a bit more somber in tracks 10 through 12, before jumping back to something light and pleasant to wrap the whole thing up. elis is an absolutely insanely skilled singer but i do wish there was more antonio on the album; the conversational back-and-forth feel of águas de março in particular is so playful and fun, easily making it the best track on the album.

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### crash landing studio

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keeping up the trend of short animation in my blogposts, i stumbled onto these guys this month! these videos are all unequivocally 3d animation, but they use a bunch of cute little effects, low framerate and harsh lighting to really effectively emulate the look of stop motion animation. their approach to blocking and shot composition is also stellar, which is easy to see from my example video, but i implore you to check out the rest of their library!

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Expand Up @@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ okay that was _definitely_ rambly. lets get back to your normal programming, my

i'm also gonna start posting my last.fm monthly feed instead of my spotify playlist because i'm getting way more use out of my ipod and local music via musicbee recently. [check the link!](https://www.last.fm/user/uuupah/library/albums?from=2024-07-01&to=2024-07-31&page=1)

### sidney gish - no dogs allowed
### no dogs allowed - sidney gish
<iframe rss-image="/_assets/img/three_albums_july_2024/nodogsallowed.jpg" rss-link="https://sidneygish.bandcamp.com/album/no-dogs-allowed" rss-linkname="no dogs allowed by sidney gish on bandcamp" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 320px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2407720060/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://sidneygish.bandcamp.com/album/no-dogs-allowed">No Dogs Allowed by Sidney Gish</a></iframe>

i first listened to this album pretty soon after it came out, way back in my heavy folk indie era. the whole thing is super twee and upbeat, but there is a surprising amount of depth in the lyrics, almost like the tone is a smokescreen to sneak heartfelt musings from sidney under our noses. i normally actively dislike lyrics, but the fact that A. i was actually listening and thinking about them and B. they still somehow don't upset the overall feel of the album is a testament to how genuine they feel and how insanely whimsical the melodies, harmonies and percussions are

### kylie minogue - fever
### fever - kylie minogue
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i know, i know, i'm hardly plumbing the depths of exciting new interesting music, but i've had some kylie on my local media library for a long while, and i decided to give it a listen while doing a bit of a clean up a couple of nights ago. wow. obviously, love at first sight and can't get you out of my head are massive, worldwide hits, but the rest of the album is serving the exact same level of confidence as the real big hitters. i'm not saying that i'm so fucked up about my breakup that i think i'm unlovable, but there's something about this music that makes me go like "y'know what? yeah, there's someone out there for me" and if a silly little dance pop album can do that then it's gotta have some value

### kesha - joyride
### joyride - kesha
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yeah, the top ranked album this month is a single. i'm not sure i've ever seriously listened to kesha, but the amount of skill on display here truly blew me away. the accordion, the polyrhythmic clapping, the layering of multiple different vocalists for emphasis. kesha's voice sounds almost synthesised at moments, which could maybe be a callback to her heavily autotuned past, but this time it's all real. in some ways it's shameless, using every catchy club music trick in the book, but it works on my stupid little peanut brain
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i started thinking about final fantasy x again when completing last months top 3 albums - the track eternal lightwaves from gaia/rae remixes a track from final fantasy x-2 directly, and i think its somewhat emblematic of where the ps1/2 revival is currently focusing its energy. extremely deeply rooted childhood nostalgia aside, i truly believe that these two games are something pretty special and worth thinking about.

- world
- story
- gameplay

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