The Web's Dear Freja

The Stone Roses only had one great album in them and its massive critical and commercial success arguably destroyed them. But goddamn what an album it was, blending 60s British pop, indie jangle and 80s alternative into an incredible sustained stretch of wall-to-wall bangers. It’s easily one of my all-time favorite albums and I seem to get re-obsessed with it every few months. I’m in one of my Stone Roses phases now so please enjoy this, my favorite song off the album

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—I came across this video, where the "Black MIDI" gimmick is that a lot of notes are played at the same time:

And I quite liked it (and the visuals in the last part before the outro still make me want to get a tattoo), and so I downloaded the MIDI file and told my computer to make an MP3 out of it with a nice soundfont so I could listen to it and have it sound better than in that YouTube video. My computer did not like the very large number of notes, and the result is something that does sound nice, but also has a lot of varying slowdown, so the 2:30 original is stretched to 4:49. It's pretty weird. I quite like it.

Song that's been stuck in my head a lot recently:

Today has been a bad day for me, but I made it a little better by sitting and listening to stella. Thanks, stella.