Holy shit! There’s a new Sneaker Pimps album that came out this week! Listening to it for the first time right now and am on Love Me Stupid and am enjoying this immensely. There’s so much that I’ve been meaning to log in here before details fade from memory, but lately I’ve been thinking about all the albums that I’ve loved the most since Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power came out less than three weeks ago. It’s produced with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and it’s a goddamn masterpiece and I’ve been obsessing over it since it’s debut.
Halsey: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (8/27/2021)
Grimes: Miss Anthropocene (2/22/2020)
Kerli: Shadow Works (2/22/2019)
Kimbra: Primal Heart (4/20/2018)
KANGA’s self titled album (11/4/2016)
BoA: Kiss My Lips (5/12/2015)
The Birthday Massacre: Pins and Needles (9/14/2010)
Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue (7/13/2006)
That’s off the top of my head. I know there are others but going reverse without skipping right to The Spirit Room in 2001 is hard. Also picking a favorite Utada album is hard, there’s so much good music but Ultra Blue is one of my most favorite eras. Outside of personal favorite “masterpiece” albums there have been some newish or new to me artists coming out that I’ve been enjoying like One True God, Cruel Youth, VAMPA, SIERRA, Moris Blak, Khiva, LICK, Debby Friday, and fucking Louisahhh, ugh I love her attitude that comes through in the music. There’s so much good music coming out all the time and it makes me incredibly happy. It was nice to spend a few minutes nerding out about music.
I love how 10 hours ago IAMX posted on their social media:
“ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY BEAUTIES .
THE NEW SNEAKER PIMPS ALBUM IS
!!OUT!!
AFTER AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF TIME MILKING OUR SEPARATE EGOS WE FINALLY FOUND OUR LOVE, HUMOR AND COMMON GROUND AGAIN .
WE ARE VERY PROUD .
IF ITS YOUR THING GO GET IT
IF ITS NOT YOUR THING GO GET IT ANYWAY .
DEEP LOVE
CCX”
“After an obscene amount of time milking our separate egos we finally found our love, humor and common ground again.”
^ That really resonated with me. A few friendships have dropped over the years for various irreconcilable differences, and it was usually ego based at the root. I’m grateful a few have repaired and resumed, I’m happy to have people I cared about back in my life. This happened with my meta earlier this year and I’m grateful. And I know it doesn’t always land that way, which makes each one special and a blessing.