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UCB Chemistry PhD Candidate | Organic methods for energy storage, occasionally electrochemistry for organic methods | Proud UAW 4811 member.
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Happy to have my (extremely abbreviated) review of one of my favorite albums of the year up in this issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social ! Read the rest of it, subscribe, etc
All Hell | ALBUM An aughts Welsh indie group still striving for Midwest emo stardom, Los Campesinos! should be extremely annoying. Their vocals are nasal and their titles adolescent enough — “Adult Acne Stigmata,” “kms,” “To Hell in a Handjob” — that they could pass for local in any St. Louis basement. Instead, their first studio album since the Trump administration proves one of the most affecting of the year. The melodies are crystalline, and the lyrics pass right through solipsism into wan sincerity, inflected with unsubtle anglicisms (there’s an entire song about praying to soccer league rankings). It’s an effective road map for a British invasion narrowly focused on playlists belonging to the saddest teenagers in suburban Illinois.
December 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM