Synthesizers, drum machines, turntables, samplers, vocals

The cliches and typical goth images in "Rain in Soho" are intentional. The whole song is like an invocation of the idea of "goth". It's mood-setting. It's the only song on the album with lyrics like that.

Yeah this is far less embarrassing and shitty than Refused's comeback attempt

De-Loused is a stone-cold classic of accessible, intense prog rock. Anyone who loves anything about classic rock should love it. Once Omar started producing the records himself, and the songs got longer and longer and noodlier and spacier, they just got kinda lost up their own ass. I actually liked Octahedron okay,…

I think the "emo revival", as far as music press is concerned, started in earnest with The World is a Beautiful Place and Into It Over It, in 2013. I think it's great that these young bands are getting press and attention and that emo is no longer considered painfully uncool, but yeah it is a little bit irritating…

I'm not usually a stickler about genres (and especially subgenres), in fact I think it's one of the more annoying things that music fans on the internet argue about. But when I hear "emo" in a contemporary context, I think of The Hotelier, Modern Baseball, Joyce Manor, The World is a Beautiful Place, etc… the kind of…

I'd also love a new Hot Cross album, but those guys seem to have disappeared off the face of the Earth entirely

True, and they did actually play with JEW as well. People back in the day had no idea what to make of ATDI and kept trying to hang the "emo" label on them, probably because there are some superficial similarities to bands like Drive Like Jehu, Jawbreaker, Cap'n Jazz. But musically speaking, bands like JEW or TGUK and…

Author seems to think that ATDI has something to do with emo. They were always a post-hardcore band. Their peers were Refused and Glassjaw, not the Get Up Kids or Jimmy fucking Eat World. To describe Inter Alia as emo is abject nonsense, but I guess I can understand it being disappointing if you're listening to it…

It has nothing to do with political themes and everything to do with his technical skill. Listen to DNA or FEEL and listen to his use of complex rhyme schemes, slippery rhythms, internal rhymes, enjambments, assonance and consonance, weird time signatures, tempo changes, etc. However unlike, say, Eminem (another…

So many amazing moments…

Dude we already know from two albums ago that his dick is as big as the Eiffel Tower

Whitman and Dickinson are absolutely the godfather and godmother of American literature. Poe, Twain, and Melville helped too.

I think the point that the movie makes is that once you begin to perceive time as flat or circular, you realize that you don't really have a choice. It's kind of like Slaughterhouse Five that way.

I think the point the show is trying to make is that the system swallows and corrupts everyone. Even the guys who are supposedly maybe sorta trying to do the right thing- Caputo, Healy, Bailey- end up failing and doing terrible, even monstrous things. Having Humphrey or Piscatella be the killer would have been…

"Yet the band also takes its first stab at more sober and contemplative material with “Dune,” a measured, midtempo cut describing depression."

You can't seriously think that "Don't Hurt Yourself", an angry hip hop song, sounds the same as "Sandcastles", a piano ballad, or "Daddy Lessons" a straight up country song

You are arguing for art to be untouchable and free from criticism. Why can't the point of view of a work of art be challenged? Of course artists are free to tackle any topic they want, and the audience is free to respond in kind.

Can we please acknowledge that the reviewer never said that Louis CAN'T or SHOULDN'T talk about trans issues? He merely said that it was "problematic" to do so. Now, I know that the word "problematic" is super overused nowadays and its meaning has thus been diluted, but it is not a synonym for "wrong". It is not WRONG…

Same as before: unsubstantiated rumors, with nobody coming forward to say it was definitely LCK and he definitely did [blank] to [person].