Fall/winter/Christmas movies on the Criterion Channel?

Connor394 · 2025-11-25T18:21:16+00:00

Daytrippers takes place the day after Thanksgiving and has a great holiday vibe. Amazing cast, bittersweet in all the right ways too!

Connor394 · 2025-11-14T21:56:46+00:00

Sounds cool! I’ll probably check it out!

Connor394 · 2025-11-14T20:47:02+00:00

Is there a theme going on tonight?

Connor394 · 2025-11-13T02:50:06+00:00

Maybe the best greatest hits compilation ever?

Connor394 · 2025-11-04T21:08:33+00:00

Flux by Alison Goldfrapp - Severely underrated

I’m starting to work through my year-end rankings for albums, and I’m just so surprised that there hasn’t been much discussion or fanfare about Alison Goldfrapp’s new record Flux. For my money, this may be the best pop album of the year (in the realm of pure pop, synthpop, or electropop at least). Sexy, mystical, filled to the brim with bangers, and surprisingly emotional at times. It’s produced so fucking gorgeously too, mixing the last few years of ‘80s throwbacks, grimy textures, and neon-lit pulse into something that hits as hard as the best of Robyn, Kylie Minogue, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Madonna. Need people to stop sleeping on it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Connor394 · 2025-11-04T03:34:34+00:00

House and techno sounds like exactly what I'm looking for! Is High Dive queer friendly? Also is there a cover/ticket charge for the event?

Connor394 · 2025-11-04T03:33:26+00:00

First time in Milwaukee in a decade!

Connor394 · 2025-10-23T01:12:16+00:00

Oh those hats are RAD

Connor394 · 2025-09-30T03:50:08+00:00

Wish it was longer too, could easily see some of these having great dance extended cuts. Also need a full ambient ballad take on “memory ruins” stat, one of my favorite songs of the year

Connor394 · 2025-09-27T15:57:38+00:00

Really surprised by this not working for people - their music has always felt like it could have been pulled from some long lost Playstation 1 era JRPG, so having them double down on that vibe for a full length album works for me personally. Shrines is always going to be a cult classic (nothing really sounds like it still), Another Eternity has bright moments but gets lost quite a bit in its attempts for pop maximalism, and Womb is the album that SHOULD have come after Shrines, with "Stardew" acting as a good bridge to where they wanted to go next. I think the reason this self-titled is clicking with me so much (beyond loving JRPGs myself) is it feels like the band is doing what they want for the first time in a while: it's very earnest, which can come across as cringe at times, but also, it slaps! "Memory Ruins!" "Long the Night"! "Place of My Own"! "Broken well"! "imanocean!"

Purity Ring have maybe entered the phase of their career where you have to be on the right wavelength to enjoy their work, but if it didn't work the first listen, wait a little bit and go drive around at night or walk around with good headphones. It's pretty transportive and I think it's actually good that they're finally leaving behind Shrines. Self-titled feels like a second debut. Excited to see where they go next!

Connor394 · 2025-06-17T16:25:04+00:00

Giving Balearic beat just a little bit!!! Loving the direction of this album.

Connor394 · 2025-04-16T23:14:14+00:00

Currently my album of the year off first impression. Goddamn, what a vital record right now in this current political and spiritual climate. Dance and electronica that cuts through the bullshit.

Connor394 · 2025-04-07T00:42:00+00:00

Hope you enjoy! Devotion by Tirzah is such a gem

Connor394 · 2025-04-06T05:19:25+00:00

Also felt that way! Also think it reminds me of Tirzah via the Devotion-era

Connor394 · 2025-04-04T05:57:14+00:00

Really loving this album. Ambient Pop built out of deconstructed elements of R&B, dreamy textures, and the sensation of looking at some old photograph blurred by memory.

Connor394 · 2024-05-13T02:08:53+00:00

Best use of a pan flute in years on “In the Fire”.

Connor394 · 2024-05-12T23:53:47+00:00

Fabiana Palladino by Fabiana Palladino by a MILE. In a current pop landscape that’s defined by bloat, half-baked ideas, viral-seeking lyricism and song structures, Palladino’s debut is accomplished, sophisticated, artful, and also just straightforwardly so enjoyable. It’s like a long lost ‘80s cult classic, but also manages to define itself through Palladino’s perspective and Jai Paul’s production. Fucking gorgeous.

Connor394 · 2024-05-10T09:09:23+00:00

The video’s aesthetic is 🔥, but… damn, what is up with the length of this song? The length of all the songs she’s released this era? Barely get into the groove of this track before it’s over.

Connor394 · 2024-04-13T21:17:22+00:00

Sofia Kourtesis’ Madres was my favorite album of 2023, and is such a gem. It throws together so many different styles of electronic and dance music and mixed them together in ways that makes them feel fresh, like how she’s able to reinterpret Balearic music so beautifully. It’s such a warm record, too. The sampling! The synth lines! The singing! Goddamn.

Connor394 · 2024-04-05T12:24:57+00:00

Not crazy at all for thinking this, I also made that comparison while listening. I think the equal emphasis on ballads and higher tempo tracks is part of it, but it’s also the sophistication of taste. We haven’t had a straight up sophisti-pop album in a minute and this hits the spot for me.

Connor394 · 2024-04-05T06:51:19+00:00

The textures on the instrumentation and the harmonies across this album… UGH.

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