The most irritating RYMers, in my opinion, are not the esoteric-charts-obsessed avant-teens but the users who immediately call anything with any amount of depth “pretentious”
Seeing this wayyy too much in the comments (I don’t feel like reading reviews yet) of the new Kristin Hayter (formerly Lingua Ignota) album, albeit “pretentious” seems to be, more often than not, replaced with “corny” or “gimmicky.”
“The gospel and fake distortion gimmick gets old after a little bit and then it just keeps going…” Have you considered that she never intended for it to be a gimmick? That she manipulated the tape herself? Or are you maybe not listening to it in good faith by assuming that it’s purely a product for attention and fame, and that she’s somehow not capable of real experimentation?
I love RYM as a site and as a concept, but just as in Everywhere Else On The Internet, misogyny is still very real, and that feels present in the reception (still only a very small part — I think wayyy more people like the album than dislike it) of SAVED!
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So I'm working on my crk oc and I NEED BODY SPRITES, PLEASE-
Nvm yall I got it
Here's what I have rn
Hes done
With and without trauma
Eat up
I changed him
He's now part of the dark cacao kingdom
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BOYMODERS UNION, ONE YEAR LATER
a year (+6 days) ago i released this album. boymoders union is an album about anxiety. it ended up representing it in more ways than I ever intended but that's fine, sometimes art does that
a concept record, it was intended as a commentary on commodification of subculture and a criticism of hedonism, but also a kind of deliberately silly and over-the-top cyberpunk thing. it presents this anxious dystopic absurd party future in its first half and contrasts it in the second half with an escape to the wilderness, more natural sounds, guitars. it's only the first half of the story it was meant to tell, but even its minor popularity led to me not wanting to finish it.
it's about an ambiguously voluntary cybernetically immortal mindwiped prostitute who escapes captivity to become a hired gun and search for a purpose in life. it was based on a character outline I wrote for a TTRPG that never got started. the world of this album is kind of like, all art has been colonized and even the most transgressive self expression is re-aimed towards thoughtless hedonism and desensitization, turned into consumer fashion. art and branding are no longer separate, unmarketability is extinct. common and easy methods of reviving the dead plummet the value of human life, allowing ultraviolence to reign. it's kind of pulpy, inspired by FPS plots, except it's an album instead.
the music is like, really diverse influences, IDM, chiptune, experimental hip hop, indie rock, breakbeat. a recurring musical element is complex post-hardcore style guitar imitated by various default MIDI sounds. the element that draws it together is overwhelming volume and density. it's loud and layered, which was fun to do.
I didn't take the response to this album well and have had a complex relationship to it since but reevaluating it has made me realize that I kind of fucking love it. I'm really proud of this record. I want people to listen to it and I'm glad they did.
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sex, fear is like slint for guys that like living in the midwest
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Absolutely nuking all my friendships by rating their music on rym
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funniest album cover ever
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For my First Post . I didn’t know about it before but I’m happy that shitgaze was added to RYMand I hope that every microgenre is added & RateYourMusic user fourths gets to name all of them Amen !
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