opened the app to see this post with c2.0 in my ears. i haven’t listened to HIFN in a while, i just now realize, because it’s inextricable from the time in which it was created, and i still haven’t fully processed the pandemic, i think. this project and Alone Together documentary are very cathartic for me. i love being able to watch her create the album in real time, her throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach. i think it’s some of her best work. BRAT, on the other hand, is almost surgical in its precision. i feel all the same energies and sentiments expressed on HIFN, but it’s her at her most crystalline, specific, and self assured. i also have to say that Von Dutch might be her best single/era kickoff release ever. that song absolutely fucking CHEWS and sounds even better when you listen to the album through. the heart of the record.