I'll keep my Richard rec for next time. I'm giving you Virgins by Tim Hecker.

No rush brother!

This is my next pick for you is,

Not Your Muse by Celeste (2021)

whod be down for ktt wide secret santa thred ?

I listened last night

Pros: Amazing vocals like super stupidly good, and feel like they sound pretty unique for this type of music. Very epic and large sounding.

Cons: i cant quite figure out why but not a lot of the songs grabbed me right away on first listen even if the sound they have is cool.

Favorites: Victoria, Dreamlife

pains - i love this i love the simplicity of it, nice & sincere lyrics.. sounds like something i would have had on repeat back in the day

face 2 face - sounding like something off of in my mind or girl very groovy, his vocals are falling a bit flat on here but besides that it’s a fantastic song 2 groove 2

we remain in our clouds, silver haze

i wonder who laurie is she seems 2 be important 2 a lot of ppl, whoever she is

realtime - beautiful music. just a nice simple song 2 vibe 2, whoever the producer is has a great ear 4 meshing smooth 2gether

barely new - lots of oh’s, whoa’s & oooooo’s, not much else 2 say lol, sometimes, feels like there’s no time

this painted world - man, i love the music on this song the most but he’s not really doing much with it almost feel like it would have been better as an instrumental here, regardless it’s nice on the ears

group 1987 - oooohhh’s & ahhhhh’s gorgeous i love it a lot

hold me down - here we go.. i knew this would be my fav just from the song title.. might have 2 send this song 2 a certain some1

really reminding me of this.. i can’t be crazy 4 thinking this

personal use - okay this groovy.. let’s see where it goes.. okay yeah this that s***, a fire ass instrumental 2 shake ya booty 2

tsss tsss tssss tssss tssssss tssssss

of course he had 2 come in at the end with those sweet harmonies, what a guy

the system - smooth, he sounds like me when i try 2 sing prince songs, not really hitting the mark but who cares if it sounds good lol..

overall i’d give this a 6.5/10, he definitely wears some of his inspirations on his sleeve, the album cover had me thinking this was gonna be something completely different but i left pleasantly surprised. can’t say i’ll be adding this 2 my rotation but it’s definitely a good time. my fav song was definitely hold me down. i appreciate u 4 sharing this with me

shania twain recommendation?

now that’s what i call music!!!

I hear u. I see u listen to The Cure. U should also check their cover of A Forest. Sound of the winter!

A goat. Shame she retired because the game needed her.

Registrations for the next round are now open. We will launch sometime next week. You can register by quoting this post.

You can also always just exchange albums ITT without a partner if you want.

If you do decide to register for the next round, that will be with a randomly chosen partner.

My partner never gave me an album 😔

leggo

YEAH

me

Finished listening to it. It definitely was a difficult listen because she was singing to her own tune irrespective of the instruments.

Though, it Is 1979 and things were way different in how songs were constructed. Not bad, but now I am listening to Fiona Apple to further that sound or aura she was playong

Please provide me with their name so I can permanently ban them from participating.

i think my partner is still listening 2 the album i gave them

surely it couldn’t be bc it was a bad album, right bulby?

They love it and are writing a 3,000 word review on it.

yooooo
It’s not that serious, I just think they are too busy 😢

Had the day off today and been listening all morning, very nice album and very danceable. Seems like it might be a movie soundtrack based on the title too?

"Dirty Bossa" is very Thundercat at points which was sick, love that. Cortezz too. The mixture of english as well as french was dope, it adds an extra layer to it

I noticed there's a lot of repeat features too, it gave it a group / label album kind of vibe? It seems like Varnish is the producer

I wouldn't say I had a least favorite song but I definitely preferred the dance songs over the ones that were more trap, my favorite ones were Illusion and Cortezz

Production wise Illusion was amazing, very chill

If he's producing all of that on his own that's crazy

Idk if you've heard of the band Bloc Party but the singer sounds like him. Very different sound to what they make though

Definitely enjoyed this, funky summer vibes the dance songs were the way to go for me

Would anyone like to exchange an album

glad you f***ed with it fam!

and yes there is a film attached to this. check it out!