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Mar 21Liked by Jared Smith

Feel like we're having slightly different years, but several of these are excellent. Thanks for the tip on Glitterer, too, sounds like it could be up my alley. I'm so far behind on my reviews that I was thinking of doing a post like this and now feel empowered to do so!

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You can listen to that whole Glitterer album in 20 minutes, it's a fun one. And yes please, would be excited to read that, especially if we differ in opinion.

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I wrote a long response to this and then my iPad shut off and I was too shocked/mad/tired to rewrite it. As a good percentage my new music I find from you, we for sure have a lot of overlap. But none of the albums have been played enough for me to legit make a “top anything” list. That said, I’d put Boeckner! at #1. Why not. I’m a huge fan of everything he does and this one is no different. The Kacey Musgraves is alternately wonderful and a snoozefest. The 3 or 4 semi-upbeat songs remind me of the best Jenny Lewis. The 7 slow ballads (songs 2-8 approx) are dull as doorknobs. What that means is I’ll come around to loving it come November. IDLES is better than many reviews are saying. I’m excited for the new Eno soundtrack album which drops in April sometime. And the accompanying documentary comes next month too.

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100% agree with Kacey, the title track is pure dopamine, but the rest of the album is good for background noise and I'm liking it more each listen.

With Dan Boeckner, I'd kill for another Divine Fits album, that one still never gets old.

Will listen to IDLES soon, enjoyed some of the singles.

I looked up the Eno documentary and saw this: "The film uses a computer program to select footage and edit the film so that a different version is shown each time it is screened"... uhh what.

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It was "Cardinal" more than the title track that sucked me in to Deeper Well. I love the production, the lushness, but I wanted more of the "Cardinal" sound I suppose. And yes yes yes to another Divine Fits album! I tend to prefer the live IDLES takes on the new stuff; the album doesn't have same energy.

Yes, in proper Eno form, every screening of the documentary will be different!

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