azurelore

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just a pretty girl, building up a pretty world

i used to do things; now, not so much

let's all be gay and destroy capitalism together 😊

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2024 seems like another of those years, musically, where a week doesn't pass without someone i like unexpectedly dropping a new and superb album. on the basis of nothing real, i'm starting to half-expect a new weird-ass experimental nin album, the way things are going.

currently soaking in the kmfdm, and it's funny because, like. it's really good, really solid—but aside from a few stylistic flourishes or production details it sounds completely unchanged from what they were doing 35 years ago.

and this isn't a criticism—they always pull it off.

these guys are the epitome of consistent artists. everything they do is, in a sense, just more of the same—but for them part of that sameness is always being just as strong and interesting as last time and the time before and the time before that, even as nothing really changes.

whereas you look at, say, reznor's stuff from 1989 through to now, and for all that i enjoy nearly all of it for its expressive value and stubborn authenticity, it's all so different musically and inconsistent in how well it hits. every few years he's a different artist. (this is also a good thing, and defines reznor's perspective.)

or compare, say, garbage, who over 30 years somehow miraculously seem to get better with almost every album, absorbing new influences and trying new stuff but just using it all to reinforce and better articulate their basic thesis or premise as a creative project.

kmfdm is just, like—"welcome back, jim; take a seat, we know what you're here for." and that egg sandwich they put down without your having to ask for it is always exactly as good as you remember.

maybe they'll have a new label of root beer in the cooler, that you haven't tried.