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Just finished watching Mario from Gojira's latest drum solo.

jfv wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:16 pm

losthighway wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:53 pm I don't mean to offend my fellow FMs here at the PRF, but I'm sorry to say the new Lorde single is weak sauce.

Have been completely out of the loop on Lorde recently but because of this post I decided to look up her latest. Thoughts:

- She's (still) gorgeous
- Song is meh, but for radio fodder it isn't awful
- If wife or kids listened to this, I wouldn't be at all upset

My daughter and I bonded over Melodrama. Watching Lorde roll out the cringe-inducing Solar Power album complete with George Michael interpolated songs, spa references, and daytime TV performances I found an unusually clever pop mega star had gotten understandably lost (the lead off single from it was bordering on the old 30 second challenge thread around here). I can see her trying to conjure her former glory, which is never the way to make good art.

Agree with your three points though.

The music isn't bad at all thanks to the original lineup sans Glen RIP, but it's more than a little funny hearing creepy Alice vocals come out of born-again conservative Alice.

Chris Brokaw - Ghost Ship

The Film Sumac & Moor Mother

Picked-up this heater at Tone Deaf last week. Proper raw gospel soul, r&b, and funk. Bangers.