#Hornsby & Halo

[dispatchdcu]

Ghost Machine #1 Review

Ghost Machine #1 Review #ghostmachine #geiger #comics #comicbooks #news #image #imagecomics #art #info #NCBD #previews #reviews #amazon

Creators: Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter J. Tomasi & Maytal Zchut Inker: Danny Miki Colorists: Brad Anderson & Bjarne Hansen Letterer: Rob Leigh Cover Artists: Gary Frank & Brad Anderson; Bryan Hitch & Brad Anderson; Francis Manapul; Jason Fabok & Brad Anderson; Peter Snejbjerg; Ivan Reis & Brad…

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#Geiger #Ghost Machine #Ghost Machine 1 #Ghost Machine 1 Review #Hornsby & Halo #Hyde Street #Image #image comics #Image Comics reviews #image reviews #Redcoat #Reviews #Rook: Exodus #The Rocketfellers

[smashpages]

When the Ghost Machine one-shot arrives in shops this week, it will include a look at Hornsby & Halo, a new comic by Peter J. Tomasi and Peter Snejbjerg.

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#comic books #comics #hornsby & halo #ghost machine #peter j. tomasi #peter snejbjerg

[graphicpolicy]

Peter Snejbjerg joins Ghost Machine

Peter Snejbjerg joins Ghost Machine #comics #comicbooks

Danish comic book artist Peter Snejbjerg is the latest artist to join Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter J. Tomasi, and Maytal Zchut at Ghost Machine, the recently launched, media company and the line of comics, published by Image Comics, co-owned and co-operated by all of its creators. The addition of Snejbjerg comes…

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#brad meltzer #bryan hitch #comic books #Comics #francis manapul #gary frank #geoff johns #ghost machine #hornsby and halo #image comics #ivan reis #jason fabok #lamont magee #maytal zchut #peter j. tomasi #peter snejbjerg

[midnightmoonbeams]

Found Pashmina wandering around with a Halo on her head. Oh Noes!! But look at that sky, though! Also, Hornsby gave me his photo! Yay!

From January 1st, 2021

#animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh #pashmina #sisterly #halo #sunset #damn that is pretty #hornsby #photo #best friends status ACHIEVED #nintendo #nintendo switch #queue

[goodnightmoonvale]

37!

For this ask meme

37: Talk about someone you thought you were in love with

So aside from my husband, who I am married to, the only other person that I've ever been in love with was my first college boyfriend. (I mean. Aside from my best friend in high school, which I know is a common wlw experience, but that situation is somewhat more complicated, so I'll set that aside for now)

My first college boyfriend, actually my first boyfriend ever, I met the spring after my freshman year. He was a vocal performance major, funny, vivacious, loved video games. Our first kiss was the night that the last Harry Potter book came out. He taught me how to use an Xbox controller and we played through all of the 3 first Halo games together. He sang me "Every Little Kiss" by Bruce Hornsby and took me to see the Hairspray movie for my birthday when it came out in theaters. He wrote me a song. We dated for 10 months and I was convinced I was going to marry him.

Since we were both Mormons at Mormon University, he had to leave to go on a mission. I stayed good friends with all of his roommates. (Ironically, this was how I met my (future) husband - he was friends with one of my boyfriend's roommates. Whenever someone asks how I met my husband I always say he was my ex-boyfriend's ex-roommate's coworker.)

Of course, several months after my first boyfriend left on his mission, I found out he'd been cheating on me (..... for a given value of cheating. Once again, this was Mormon University, there was no sex involved) with at least 2 other girls (including my aforementioned high school best friend) so. Well. There's a reason he goes in the thought I was in love with category.

#life on the moon #ask games

[theultimatefan]

Kubert, Johns, Fabok, Hitch Headline Talented Comic Creators Attending FAN EXPO Philadelphia

Batman/Superman #8 - Andy Kubert and Ghost Machine #1 - Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, Bryan Hitch

A vast array of talented comics artists and writers, spanning more than a half century of work and encompassing dozens of the most popular franchises in the history of the medium through the present, will be on hand as FAN EXPO Philadelphia today announced the Artist Alley headliners for the convention, set for May 3-5 at the Pennsyvlavnia Convention Center. Among the superstar writers and artists are Andy Kubert (“Batman: The Dark Knight III,” “X-Men”), Geoff Johns (“Geiger,” “Junkyard Joe”), Jason Fabok (“Rook: Exodus,” “Batman: Three Jokers”), Bryan Hitch (“Redcoat,” “The Ultimates”), Francis Manapul (“The Rocketfellers,” “The Flash”), Peter Tomasi (“The Rocketfellers,” “Hornsby and Halo”), Ryan Ottley (“Invincible,” “Amazing Spider-Man"), Frank Cho (“Liberty Meadows," “Wolverine"), Jae Lee (“Seven Sons,” “Stephen King’s Dark Tower”), Stephen Platt (“Moon Knight,” “Wolverine”), and Joe Wos (“Mazetoons,” “Charlie the Tuna”).

Just about every franchise imaginable will be well represented, and comics fans will revel in meeting the creators who have made them possible. Q&A’s, interactive demonstration sessions, autographs, commission opportunities, and more make the experience a can’t-miss for comics lovers.

The FAN EXPO Philadelphia field of creators also includes talents such as Rodney Barnes (“The Boondocks,” “Killadelphia”), Yanick Paquette (“Wonder Woman,” “The Incal”), Tom Grummett (“Thunderbolts”, “Superman”), Brad Anderson (“Geiger,” “The Rook: Exodus”), Heather Antos (Group Editor Licensing/IDW Publishing), Russ Braun (“The Boys,” “Jimmy’s Bastards”), Hailey Brown (Dark Horse Comics, Brink Literacy Project), Chris Burnham (“Unstoppable Doom Patrol,” “Batman, Inc.”), Jim Calafiore (“Exiles,” “Aquaman”), Joe Corroney (“Star Wars,” Lucasfilm), Mike DeCarlo (“The Simpsons,” “Archie”), Guy Gilchrist (“The Muppets,” “Nancy”), Jonathan Glapion (“Batman,” “King Spawn”), Scott Hanna (“Amazing Spider-Man,” “Superman: Lois and Clark”), Ben Harvey (“Star Wars: Darth Maul,” “X-Men”), Mike Hawthorne (“Batman,” “Deadpool”), Tim Jacobus (“Goosebumps,” “Spinetinglers”), Bob McLeod (“New Mutants,” “Superman”), Jonboy Meyers (“Venom,” “The Inhumans”), Rags Morales (“Identity Crisis,” “Batman Confidential”), Carl Potts (“Alien Legion,” “Punisher War Journal”), Aaron Reynolds (“Effin’ Birds”), Alex Saviuk (“Spider-Man,” “The Phantom”), Keith Williams (“The Hulk,” “Action Comics”), Ron Wilson (“The Thing,” “Marvel Two-in-One") and many others.

See the full list at https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpophiladelphia/comic-creators/.

The quality of the creators in Artist Alley mirrors that of the FAN EXPO Philadelphia celebrity roster, which features a first-rate list that includes the National Lampoon’s Vacation foursome of Chevy Chase (“Clark Griswald”), Beverly D’Angelo (“Ellen”), Randy Quaid (“Cousin Eddie”) and Dana Barron (“Audrey”), Hayden Christensen (Star Wars franchise), Rosario Dawson (“Ahsoka,” Rent), Rainn Wilson (“The Office,” “Lessons in Chemistry”), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler), Adam Savage (“MythBusters”), Danny Trejo (Machete, The Book of Boba Fett), Alan Tudyk (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,”), Mario Lopez (“Saved by the Bell,” “Access Hollywood”), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (“Ahsoka”), Kate Mulgrew (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Orange is the New Black”), Rose McGowan (“Charmed,” Scream), Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed,” “Picket Fences”), Felicia Day (“The Guild,” “Dragon Age: Redemption”), Emily Swallow and Gina Carano (“The Mandalorian”), and more.

FAN EXPO Philadelphia will also feature a variety of comics creators who have written and drawn many favorite stories over the past half century, exhibitors featuring classic and unique pieces from the thousands of memorable characters and scenes that Star Wars and all of its offshoots have produced, and programming panels and special events to help fans across any empire show their love of one of pop culture’s most enduring series.

Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, and Ultimate Fan Packages for FAN EXPO Philadelphia are available now. Advance pricing is available until April 18. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.

Philadelphia is the eighth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

#comics #comic con #fan expo #philadelphia

[keycomicbooks]

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#GhostMachine #1 (2024) #IvanReis Variant / #GeoffJohns, #PeterJTomasi, #FrancisManapul & #GaryFrank & Other Writers / Gary Frank, Francis Manapul, Ivan Reis & Other Artists / 1st Appearance of #Rook, #DireWolf & #Swine , #TheRocketfellers & #Hornsby and #Halo "Welcome to the First Fully Shared Creator-Owned Universes!" A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ERA FOR COMICS, CHARACTERS AND CREATORS LAUNCHES NOW! SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA https://rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/Ghost%20Machine.html  #KeyComicBooks #ImageComics #ImageUniverse #image #ComicBooks

#Ghost Machine #ivan reis #geoff johns #key comics #image comics

[darkqueensigyn]

as long as there’s skies above you: a playlist for lewis hornsby and madison campbell

1. queen bee - johnny flynn 2. sucker - jonas brothers 3. halo - beyonce 4. clumsy - fergie 5. i’ve been waiting for you - abba 6. butterfly waltz - brian crain 7. lovefool - the cardigans 8. everytime we touch (yanou’s candlelight mix) - cascada 9. firework - boyce avenue ft. david choi 10. how long will i love you - ellie goulding 11. meant to be - bebe rexha & florida georgia line 12. wake up - hilary duff 13. we found love - rihanna ft. calvin harris 14. o mistress mine - emilie autumn 15. the violet hour - sea wolf 16. ooo - karen o 17. beautiful soul - jesse mccartney 18. happily ever after - he is we 19. begin again - taylor swift 20. malibu - miley cyrus

[listen here]

#playlist #lewis hornsby #madison campbell #lewmads

[tomjopson]

Thomas Hartnell + “Eigengrau”

eigengrau (german, n.) - “intrinsic grey”; the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness

God does not grant us ghosts, Irving’s voice grates in his head, piercing and dogmatic, clattering like a metal plate dropped onto a hard floor. As he and Hickey carry the mate’s heavy body to the dead room, Hartnell knows that Manson is not the only one with a ball of ironclad dread roiling in his stomach.

The trek to the dead room is not a path Hartnell has taken before, luck on his side and the undesired task of hauling a corpse to the orlop thrust on other men’s shoulders. It takes five minutes to slide open the door, step over the other frozen corpses, and find a place to fit in Hornsby. A rustle creaks from the gaps between the wrapped corpses, and he desperately hopes a rat won’t race by his feet.

Hickey exits the room first, re-entering the halo of light around Manson and leaving Hartnell to close up. Hartnell’s foot is at the threshold when he hears another noise, loud enough to thump behind him.

His heart starts to beat faster.

It is only rats, he reasons with himself, as he turns to cast his gaze into the black room behind him.

His eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the shadows; the lantern too distant to pierce the deep, suffocating darkness. One of the bodies shifts. Hartnell’s breath hitches. The rats must have crawled into the bag. The thought of vermin gnawing at frozen skin is somehow more unnerving than the impossible notion that the corpses themselves could move.

Hartnell grits his teeth, having wasted enough time here, and starts to pull the door shut when something draws his eye back to the center of the dead room, to the apex of canvas-wrapped corpses, stacked in a rough pyramid.

His eyes have adjusted enough that he senses the shapes of the room more than he truly sees them. The bag in the center, not Hornsby but an older fatality from weeks past, turns it head.

Rats. It is only rats.

The body sits up, a groaning exhale slithering from the head.

Hartnell slams the door shut.

Hickey and Manson flinch where they are standing, their hushed conversation coming to an abrupt end with Manson staring wide-eyed and Hickey lifting an eyebrow at Hartnell.

“You all right, Tom?” Hickey asks, looking more amused than concerned.

Hartnell shakes his head, unbelieving himself.

“It was a rat,” he hears himself say, the words ringing hollow.

Hickey laughs, the noise disdainful to Hartnell’s ears.

“You’re not afraid of those little things, are you?” Hickey’s eyes gleam in the lamplight.

“I don’t like them,” Manson says as he ascends the ladder back to the fo’c’sle.

“We’ll keep them far from you, Magnus,” Hickey crows, nimbly climbing next.

Hartnell stands at the base of the ladder and spares a final glance at the dead room’s door, where it lay shut and inoffensive. The door does not lock, and amidst the seemingly endless Arctic winter night, Hartnell is glad that there is always a lantern or candle glowing near the hammocks.

He does not fear the dark, but as Winter creeps forward and digs her claws deeper into the sides of the ship, he finds that he greatly dislikes rats.

One Word Ideas (Prompts)

#thomas hartnell #the terror fanfiction #the terror amc #the terror fanfic #my writing

[justacepositivity]

Aspec playlist

Disclaimer: these are just the ways others and myself have perceived the song. Art is all about perception so if you don’t see it that way then that’s fine!

This is home by Cavetown (aro)

I would do anything for love (but I won’t do that) by meatloaf (ace)

This is gospel by Panic! (you can interpret this as aro or aroace even though that’s not technically what the songs about)

That’s so us by Allie X (could be seen as aroace friendship)

Solo by Clean Bandit (demisexual)

Hey look ma, I made it by Panic! At the Disco (asexual)

Never been in love by Will Jay (aro and aroace)

You matter to me by Sara Bareilles (all aspec and everyone in general)

Ace of hearts by Zella Day (ace)

If our love is wrong by Callum Scott (ace)

The other by Tonight Alive (aroace, all aspec)

Wild Things by Alessia Cara (all aspec)

My song by Alessia Cara (all aspec)

Songs with no romantic or sexual meaning:

When I asked if anyone would be interested in me making this a lot of people made it clear they wanted songs that weren’t romantic or sexual so I made this extra playlist of songs that have some kind of deep meaning, a lot have to do with mental illness.

Disconnect by clean bandit and marina and the Diamonds

Better off dead by sleeping with sirens (tw: mentions of wanting death, suicidal thoughts)

Anklebiters by Paramore

Monster by Paramore

Fear and loathing by Marina and the Diamonds

Morning I’m America by Jon Bellion

Dizzy by Waterparks

How to Save a Life by The Fray

Daydreamer by Young the Giant

Don’t dream it’s over by Crowded House

I’ll be good by Jaymes Young

We’ve got soul by Chapel

I’m not calling you a liar by Florence and the Machine

Talk to me by Cavetown

Earth by Sleeping at Last

Stupid Now by Drew Monson

Waves by Tonight Alive

Not so bad in LA by Allie X

Two Time by Jack Stauber

Choirs by Ashe

We fall apart by we as human

Runaway train by soul asylum

Drift away by Dobie Gray

Stay out by Nina Nesbitt

Spirits by the strumbellas

Idaho by Nerina Pallot

December by Ambershades

Marianne by Tori Amos

In the 99 by Vienna Teng

Alone in Crowds by Uhre

Maybe Not by Cat Power

Ran and File by Moses Sumney

Stoned Soul Picnic by Laura Nyro

Isolde's Very Insightful Views on Going To

Work and Suicide by beißpony

This Is Me by Davey La

Photograph by Satellites

If All I Was Was Black by Mavis Staples

The Girl Who Broke in Two by Paul

Freeman

Shadow Room by Craig and Paul Freeman

Hooray for Tom by Bruce Hornsby

Heroes by 100 Year War

Jimmy Choos by Rickie Lee Jones

Pet Cemetery by Joe Innes & The

Cavalcade

Medusa by Tyler Lyle

The Minnow and the Trout by A Fine Frenzy

5th Avenue Bar by Dylan LeBlanc

The Grass is Green by Nelly Furtado

Ether Halo by John MacLeod

Something Worth Voting For by DC Cardwell

We're All Mad In Our Own Way by Natasha Bedingfield

Small Talk by Spleen

Bird set free by Sia

Unstoppable by Sia

Generation Why by Conan Gray

This Bird has Flown by The Ghost Club

(Note: I will be adding to this regularly, if you have any songs you want me to add then let me know)

#aspec playlist #ace #asexual #aromantic #demiromantic #demisexual #ace positivity #asexual positivity #lgbt+ #lgbt positivity #aroace #aro #aro positivity

[dendre]

Hanglemez 2019/04

Holly Herndon: Proto  9.0  (kísérleti elektronika) PJ Harvey: All About Eve  9.0  (színpadi zene, de úúdeszép) Callum Easter: Here Or Nowhere  8.5  (szellemjárta, másvilági lofipop) Kornél Kovács: Stockholm Marathon  8.5  (housepopdeepoutside) Rev Magnetic: Verses Universe  8.5  (electro shoegaze) The Caretaker: Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6  8.5  (dark ambient) These New Puritans: Inside The Rose  8.5  (posztpop)  96 Back: Excitable, Girl  8.5  (nu-electro) Georgia: Time 8.5  (absztrakt elektronika) Billie Eilish: When We Fall Asleep, Where...  8.5  (pop) Minor Poet: The Good News  8.5  (00′s indierock) Henning: Natter Utan Dagar  8.5  (softrock, “markknopflerwave”) Fennesz: Agora  8.5  (ambient) Ohtis: Curve Of Earth  8.5  (folkamericana) Tree: We Grown Now  8.5  (hiphop) Lafawndah: Ancestor Boy  8.5  (keleties altr&b, deconstruct tribal glitch bass)

Avey Tare: Cows On Hourglass Pond  8.0  (neopsychfolktronica) The Fat White Family: Serfs Up!  8.0  (neopsych) Sote: Parallel Persia  8.0  (elektroakusztikus perzsa klasszikuszene) Anderson .Paak: Ventura  8.0  (neosoulfunk) Intellexual: Intellexual  8.0  (neosoul-jazz) Visible Cloaks+Yoshio Ojima+Satsuki S: serenitatem  8.0  (ambient) Smallpeople: Afterglow  8.0  (deep house) Central: Om Dans  8.0  (tech house) Kristín Anna: I Must Be The Devil  8.0  (avantfolk) Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe  8.0  (gitárpop-pop) Aldous Harding: Designer  8.0  (indiefolkpop) Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising  8.0  (carpenters-pop) Kronos Quartet & Marja & Mahsa Vahdat: Placeless  8.0  (perzsa kamarafolk) Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats: Anger Management  8.0  (hiphop) Romeo Santos: Utopía  8.0  (bachata) DJ Spider: Democide  8.0  (dark techno) Duke: Uingizaji Hewa  8.0  (singeli) Beth Gibbons & TPNRSO: Górecki Symphony No. 3.  8.0  (modern klasszikus) Lucinda Chua: Antidotes 1 EP  8.0  (csellós kamara-r&b-szofiszti-ambient pop) Prins Thomas: Ambitions  7.5  (baltibeat) Jayda G: Significant Changes  7.5  (akadémikus disco) The Chemical Brothers: No Geography  7.5  (dancepop) Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel  7.5  (posztpunk) Caroline Shaw+Attacca Quartet: Orange  7.5  (kamarazene) Kelsey Lu: Blood  7.5  (hibrid artpop, csellóval) C Duncan: Health  7.5  (szofiszti-kamarapop) Nihiltoxica: Biiri EP  7.5  (bugandian techno) Jeff Tweedy: Warmer  7.5  (folkrock) Jenny Lewis: On The Line  7.5  (soft americana pop) Otoboke Beaver: Itekoma Hits  7.5  (punk, popnoise) Ifriqiyya Électrique: Laylet el Booree  7.5  (sufi rock) Umut Adan: Bahar  7.5  (anatolian psychrock) Altin Gün: Gece  7.5  (anatolian rock) Flume: Hi This Is Flume  7.5  (wonky mixtape) Stealing Sheeps: Big Wows  7.5  (electropop) Marina: Love + Fear  7.5  (pop) Beyoncé: Homecoming  7.5  (koncertlemez) The Flaming Lips: King’s Mouth  7.5  (pszichpop-ambientpop) Mini Dresses: Heaven Sent  7.5  (lofi dreampop) PUP: Morbid Stuff  7.5  (punkrock) Spiral Stairs: We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tize  7.5  (heartland rock) Craig Finn: I Need A New War  7.5  (heartland altcountry) Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero  7.5  (heartland softrock) Quelle Chris: Guns  7.5  (abstract hiphop) Kevin Morby: Oh My God  7.5  (indie folkrock) Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band: The State Between Us  7.5  (bigband-dance) Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Ancestral Recall  7.5  (trombitás-spokenes jazz)

Ex Hex: It’s Real  7.0  (powerpop, garagesoftrock) Rozi Plain: What A Boost  7.0  (indie artpop) Idlewild: Interview Music  7.0  (hymndie rock) Lambchop: This (Is What I...)  7.0  (indietronica) Bibio: Ribbons  7.0  (folktronica) Billy Woods + Kenny Segal: Hiding Places  7.0  (abstract hiphop) Pivot Gang: You Can’t Sit With Us  7.0  (jazzrap) Angelique Kidjo: Celia  7.0  (afrocuban) Joni Void: Mise en Abyme  7.0  (hangkollázs-elektronika) Refugees For Refugees: Amina  7.0  (worldmusic) Mdou Moctar: Ilana  7.0  (tuareg desert blues) Martha: Love Keeps Kicking  7.0  (power indiepop) Control Top: Covert Contracts  7.0  (queercore) Big Thief: UFO-F  7.0  (indierock, indiefolk) Priests: The Seduction Of Kansas  7.0  (punkpopindie) Bogdan Raczynski: Rave ‘Till You Cry  7.0  (idm) DJ Nate: Take Off Mode  7.0  (footwork) Lizzo: Coz I Love You  7.0  (popsoulrap) Bill Mackay: Fountain Fire  7.0  (americana, instru gitárzene) Foxygen: Seeing Other People  7.0  (retropoprock) The Ninth Wave: Infancy Part 1  7.0  (pomp new wave) Jab: Erg Herbe  7.0  (new age-space ambient) Shana Cleveland: Night Of The Worm Moon  7.0  (psychfolk-dalszerző-előadó) Patio: Essentials  6.5  (posztpunk) American Football: American Football (LP3)  6.5  (midwest emo, dreampostrock) Cinematic Orchestra: To Believe  6.5  (background pop) Tiger And Woods: AOD  6.5  (summery discopop) Kel Assouf: Black Tenere  6.5  (desert blueselectrorock) Citizen Bravo: Build A Thing Of Beauty  6.5  (geek indiepoprock) Faith Eliott: Impossible Bodies  6.5  (indiefolk) Girl Unit: Song Feel  6.5  (pop bass) Insignificant Other: I’m So Glad...  6.5  (twee-indiepoppunk) Kap Bambino: Dust, Fierce, Forever  6.5  (electroclash) HVL: Rhythmic Sonatas  6.5  (acid techno) Deafkids: Metaprogramacao  6.5  (tribal noiserock)

Logos: Imperial Flood  6.0  (weightless, ambient grime) Paws: Your Church On My Bonefire  6.0  (indierock) Wand: Laughing Matter  6.0  (neopsych artrock) Dis Fig: Purge  6.0  (posztindustrial power noise) Alberich: Quantized Angel  6.0  (posztindustrial power noise) Kinbrae: Landforms  6.0  (electronic ambient posztrock) Brutus: Nest  6.0  (dallamos poszthc) Real Life Buildings: Ohio And West  6.0  (tweepop) Emily Reo: Only You Can See It  6.0  (artsypop) Laura Stevenson: The Big Freeze  6.5  (indiefolk) Frankie Cosmos: Haunted Items 6.0  (piano indiefolk) The Gotobeds: Debt Begins At 30  6.0  (posztpunk-indierock)      Angel Du$t: Pretty Buff  6.0  (poppunk) Tommy Four Seven: Veer  6.0  (indusztri techno) Gesaffelstein: Hyperion  6.0  (electropop-synthwave) Minimal Violence: InDreams  6.0  (’91 style ravetechno) Lamb: The Secret Of Letting Go  6.0  (trippop) Las Hermanas Caronni: Santa Plastica  6.0  (argentin-francia kamarafolkjazz) Adam Stafford: The Acid Bothy  5.5  (psychedelic synth jams) Tamaryn: Dreaming The Dark  5.5  (dreamy synthpop) Apparat: LP5  5.5  (artsypop) Khalid: Free Spirit  5.5  (pop) Gary Clark Jr.: This Land  5.5  (retrosoulrock)

+++ Floating Points: LateNightTales  8.5  (válogatás obskúrus souljazzambientből) Laurel Halo: DJ-Kicks  8.5  (mixlemez, nagyon jó tech-outsider-electrohouse) Marvin Gaye: You’re The Man  8.0  (posztumusz lemez 1972-es felvételekből és azok remixeiből, néha nagyon jó, néha kislemez b-oldal-minőség) Vatican Shadow: Berghain 09  8.0  (dj-mix industri dark techno) Válogatás: Eminent Domain  7.0  (noise-techno)

(Ezeken kívül még sok lemezbe belehallgattam, és maximum 10 percet töltöttem velük, mert annyira nem nekem szóltak vagy szimplán borzasztóak voltak, ezeket nem sorolom. És igen, ez amolyan laza sorrend.) 

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Április első fele elszállt anélkül, hogy esélyem lett volna zenét hallgatni, úgyhogy márciushoz hasonlóan ez is egy félhónap volt ilyen szempontból. Nem is hallgattam meg mindent, amit szerettem volna (de még hiszek benne, hogy májusban utol tudom érni magam). Inkább leginkább azokat, amik érdekeltek, amiktől jót reméltem, és pont ezért talán némileg aránytalanul sok a jobb lemez (7.5-8-as), mint a közepes-átlagos-rossz - mert persze inkább többen, mint kevesebben szállították is a reményeknek megfelelőt. (Amúgy meg kicsit azt érzem, végignézve most a lemezeken, hogy megengedőbb voltam a pontszámokkal, de sebaj.)

Legjobban Holly Herndon albuma tetszett áprilisban. Lehet, az is segítette az első helyre, hogy úgy egy hete hallgatom, szóval az élmény is a legfrissebbek közé tartozik. Herndon folytatja a Platformon megkezdett utat, a mesterséges intelligencia humanizálásának vizsgálatát, ezúttal nagyon sok emberi hanggal, énekkel, kórussal, továbbra is elvarázsoltan, behatárolhatatlanul. Tudom, kiszámítható is vagyok, ha PJ Harvey csinál valamit, azt ájultan rajongom. Persze eskü, nem akarok én így tenni, de hát mennyire gyönyörű színpadi zene ez is. Mennyire nem írtak róla szinte sehol. Amilyenek a dalai, olyat tud kamarahangszerelésben is. Éjszaka a tökéletes hallgatni. 

Callum Easter egy edinburgh-i underdog, nem lesz belőle sztár, de harmonikás, szabálytalan kamara-indiepopja tök élvezetes anyag. Kornél Kovács mifiúnk második lemeze is telitalálat, sőt, jobb mint az első, annyira nincs párja manapság játékos, humoros, sablonoktól eltérő house-ban. Még egy ilyen szintlépés, plusz egy szégyentelen gigasláger és világsztár lehetne, ha akarna. Azt hiszem, nem akar. Rev Magnetic: nem tudok róluk szinte semmit, ők is skótok, és eszetlen jó shoegaze-lemezt csináltak, jövő héten jelenik meg, de pár dal már hallgatható róla. (Sokat hallgattam áprilisban, úgyhogy ide tettem, még pár hasonló promo-esettel együtt.) The Caretaker: nem mondom, hogy hallottam az összeset ebből a sorozatból, mert nem - és hogy nem kellett hozzá egy megfelelő pillanat, mert de. Simán elfogadom, ha ezt valaki fasságnak tartja, de ha annak a valakinek van egy olyan pillanata és végighallgatja, akkor garantáltan agyeldobás, még a híres lemezénél is jobban. Igazából annyira nagy és szokatlan élmény, hogy több pontot is érdemelne, de még csak egyszer hallottam. Állítólag ez a sorozatzáró egyúttal a Caretaker alteregó befejezése is. A These New Puritansek kezdettől drukkere vagyok, mindegyik lemezt szerettem, de egyik se olyan jó, amilyent elképzelek, hogy tudnának. Ez se. Az első üdítő volt 2008-ban, a Hidden majdnem megcsinálta 2010-ben, a Field Of Reeds tök jól kanyarodott 2013-ban, de egyik sem ért oda, ahova hallani szeretném. Most meg fenét csináltak poplemezt, de Mark Hollis-tisztelgést se rendesen. Igazából kicsit mérges vagyok rájuk. 

Kétségtelen, hogy az electro most nagyon megy, 96 Back is egy gyönyör annak, aki bírja az ilyesmit. Meg persze megy a ‘91 rave és az acid is, de nekem azokban nincs annyi, hogy érdemes legyen újra olyan lemezeket csinálni. Vagy csak nem hallottam még olyat, ami megfogott volna. Az electróval meg még mindig lehet mit kezdeni. New York kínai negyedében élő producerpáros a Georgia és ez ordít debütlemezükről, ami nagyon fülbizsergető, izgága absztrakt elektronika. Billie Eilish-ről itt írtam, fenntartom, nagyon jó ívű poplemez. A Minor Poet fura zárvány, olyan, mintha 2004-es indierockot akarna játszani, de a Champs eszközkészletével. Annyira fülbemászó, hogy a rövid minialbum már több, többórás autóúton nem akart kijönni a cd-játszóból. Henninget úgy ajánlotta Klág Dávid, hogy ő a csúcs a svéd markknopflerwave-ben és tényleg. Mármint aki kicsit is el tud felejtkezni a Dire Straitsben, annak ez egy örömóda. Fennesz előző két lemeze nem annyira kapott el, ez meg igen. Az Ohtis első rendes albuma 17 évig készült, csak közben a trió egyik tagja heroinfüggő lett, meg ezek az illinois-i fiúk amolyan klasszik slackernek tűnnek, akik itt ragadtak a kilencvenes évekből, szóval nem csoda, hogy nem kapkodtak. Viszont cserében van néhány nagyon szép daluk. Hiphopból Tree tetszett a legjobban, ennek az LP-nek tényleg pazar a flow-ja. És még Lafawndah-t hallottam izgalmasabbnak a sokan másoknál.

De amúgy még valóban sok jót hallottam, eddig ez volt az év hónapja. Az új Avey Tare a legjobb az Animaltől, vagy bármelyik Animaltől a Merriweather óta, a Fat White Family sokat javított az előzőhöz képest, ez egy koherens, jó LP. Nem folytatom, ott vannak, a 8.0-asok mind tetszettek. Mégha Harding kicsit kevésbé is, mint az előző, mert az nagyon. És Weyes Blood is picit kevésbé, mint igazából bármelyik eddigi. Végighallgattam az új után mindet, és egyértelműen az előzővel volt a csúcson, ez pedig kicsit olyan, mint Julia Holter 2015-ös lemeze, hogy akkor megmutatja, hogy az addigiakat tudja széles körben is könnyebben befogadhatóan, csak Holternek tökéletesen sikerült a mutatvány, a friss Weyes-LP meg egy kicsit túlpolírozott lett és ez lehet a foxygenes mifúnk, Rado hibája, plusz persze a Carpenters-tribute is kissé túlcsordul, de ez persze csak szőrözés, jó lemez az. Na jó, még Beyoncéról. Hát nyilván agyeldobás, rocktörténeti mérföldkőkoncert lehetett ott helyben, meg képpel biztosan jobb élmény (nem néztem még meg), de ez a 110 perces monstrum élő album ne legyen már az év lemeze. Egyrészt sokkal több az üresjárat, mint a többi korszakos, örök klasszik koncertlemezeken, mert azokon ki merték azokat vágni, itt meg muszáj megkapnunk az egészet, néha végtelenül egyszerű összekötő szövegekkel, amik másodszorra már semmiképp nem érdekesek. Sőt, a tényleg jó zenei részek úgy 50 percet tesznek ki, ha annyi a lemez, sokkal-sokkal hatásosabb. Khalid albuma viszont minden szempontból tök csalódás, az elsőt nagyon bírtam. Na mindegy van itt helyette bőven más.

És akkor most meghallgatom az új Vampire Weekendet.

Ezek tetszettek a legjobban áprilisban. A második kupacban (és harmadik elején) még olyanok vannak, amiket szerintem abszolút érdemes meghallgatni annak, aki bírja az adott stílust, a harmadik-negyedik adagban viszont már azok szerepelnek, amikhez rajongónak kell lenni és úgy sem kizárt a csalódás.

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