Much better! I'm not gonna rate this just because it's not the kind of music I like, but I thought this fad was kind of over in 2005 or so.

Yeah. I'm not a fan at all, really. It just seems emotionless and flat, but not emotionless and flat enough that it becomes a stylistic feature. It sounds like a cologne commercial.

For calibration, I think that Panda Bear album is really drab and uninspired, too (and I've owned it for years, so it's not like I didn't give it plenty of chances). Just in general I didn't find much to get excited about from the world of what someone I worked with once called "coffee table experimental" music of the Bush era. Chillwave was fucking awful, and I can't think of a single "freak folk" branded artist that does anything for me other than Josephine Foster and some stuff on the first Akron/Family LP (although that hardly qualifies for the label in my book).

I wish I hadn't missed all the non-Legowelt stuff Danny Wolfers was doing back then, though. Smackos was the shit and I had no clue until shamefully recently.

Broadly speaking, a whole lot of the music that was fashionable in the mid 2000s was like the psychedelic* equivalent of third wave ska. And all through that my job was doing sort of demographic research about contemporary music so I have opinions (and by the end of that job I was pretty much burned out on listening to most music newer than maybe 1974 for quite a while).


*Whether it was psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic electronic music, psychedelic metal, even fucking psychedelic punk, or whatever, psychedelia had a huge mainstream "indie" revival between maybe '04 and '08.

Yeah, I never got into that Panda Bear album, assuming we're thinking of the same album, or really Animal Collective for that matter, even though they played a show at a house/venue I was living in around 2002 (or maybe 3) when they were still relatively unknown. I kept listening to the album thinking I was missing something, but alas. But speaking of freak folk, I do like Angels of Light quite a bit, and Vetiver's new album, if that counts..

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More like Portal of Whiny Old Men!

This song is catchy and I like it.