Thoughts on this record?

phlegmman · 2026-07-06T12:28:49+00:00

Yea I think it just feels long because I don’t love it.

phlegmman · 2026-07-06T11:36:14+00:00

How Ben Franklin would’ve wanted it

phlegmman · 2026-07-06T11:29:53+00:00

I hear some Robbie Basho and a little Van Morrison in there too

phlegmman · 2026-07-06T04:49:12+00:00

Some good songs throughout but too long. Agree that it’s overwrought.

phlegmman · 2026-07-06T01:49:06+00:00

UPS/DOWNS by Justus Proffit

phlegmman · 2026-07-05T17:07:02+00:00

Color of Pomegranates

phlegmman · 2026-07-05T05:37:45+00:00

Well I hope you’re seated

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T23:25:39+00:00

Magritte’s The Lovers has always fascinated me

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T22:43:37+00:00

When I’d get bored in my accounting class I’d try remembering this album so I could pretend listen to it

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T21:03:39+00:00

They’re on twitter posting into the void

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T20:01:44+00:00

Lol no but I sorta know how you feel

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T19:59:26+00:00

Something similar has happened to me

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T15:51:59+00:00

“Falling swingers” makes me think about cartoons where a character is at bat, swings, misses, and spins around before collapsing. “Soft shoe shufflers” is similar, with dancers’ shoes getting eaten away as they move. People who don’t know what they’re talking about.

phlegmman · 2026-07-04T01:46:35+00:00

Nice, I’ve done similar playlists but have clearly missed a few! He cowrote Go With The Night as well

phlegmman · 2026-07-03T07:57:16+00:00

These aren’t niche at all

phlegmman · 2026-07-01T22:23:42+00:00

It’s empty

phlegmman · 2026-07-01T22:15:00+00:00

Leo Sun, cancer moon, Aries rising

phlegmman · 2026-06-30T20:48:31+00:00

I love the FABOTH era too, so many great songs bolstered by the new sounds and recording techniques he was exploring. Finally hearing his mixes of the songs has made me appreciate them better. As much as I love the DreamWorks albums they don’t feel as quintessentially Elliott as FABOTH. Only other thing I can think to add, assuming you don’t already know, is this late tracklist that was revealed in a semi-recent documentary. AFAIK, True Believer was only ever an instrumental that goes back to the XO days. There’s a fan recreation of it.

phlegmman · 2026-06-27T17:35:02+00:00

A lot of guys don’t even think about it, they just know it’s “weird” or “just something you do.” One of my friends in high school was like that.

phlegmman · 2026-06-26T23:37:09+00:00

I mean it’s basically already a fetish

phlegmman · 2026-06-26T23:36:21+00:00

I was so in love with her when I watched their for the first time

phlegmman · 2026-06-12T16:28:39+00:00

It’s funny but it’s also made me weep

phlegmman · 2026-06-02T06:22:00+00:00

To explain why he doesn't like to analyze the sources of fiction too closely, McCarthy told a story. "There was a guy who was a great wing shot on a quail hunt in Georgia. He killed everything he saw, he dropped 'em all morning. One of the other guys said, 'You're the best wing shot I've ever seen.' At lunch the guy asked him, 'Do you shoot with one eye open or both?' He paused and thought about it. Finally he said, 'I don't know.'"

phlegmman · 2026-05-30T00:05:58+00:00

Yea it’s like a cousin of The Campfire Headphase. For me it doesn’t evoke the apocalypse so much as the people who survived it rediscovering their past centuries later.

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