The Lobby | WEEKLY REPORT, 8/15/2023
Already been four months? Time sure flies when you’re doing sweet F.A., so let’s buckle down for another pit stop before we inevitably...
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Mario
- Aug 2
The Lobby | YO LA TENGO - THIS STUPID WORLD (2023)
Now, I had an unfinished scribble of a text regarding this one really popular Low album from the 90s but I wasn’t moved enough to bother...
Mario
- Jul 26
The Lobby | JOHN COLTRANE & ERIC DOLPHY - EVENINGS AT THE VILLAGE GATE (1961)
We have been propelled around 72 years back into a brief 80-minute modal respite with two jazz titans of totalitarian proportions:...
Mario
- Jul 5
The Lobby | DICK SLESSIG COMBO - WICHITA LINEMAN (2004)
I’ve spent this last month in a sloven, tiresome haze with a potentially numerous sort of things to say, yet an infinitely limited...
Mario
- May 24
The Lobby | JESSIE WARE - THAT! FEELS GOOD! (2023)
Whispers, emanating over and over into my now conscious ears. I shuffle about, observing the spellbound shuffling tarantisms present in...
Mario
- May 12
The Lobby | Depression 'n' Music, Pt. 1
We’re slumped over on a hard, wood table with the lights shut. The darkness that laminates each wall of our humble cabin is oppressive,...
Mario
- May 4
The Lobby | PORTRAYAL OF GUILT - DEVIL MUSIC (2023)
Not a nanosecond is wasted when entering One Last Taste of Heaven, with a rather excellent first stint of post-sacrificial hellbound...
Mario
- Apr 26
The Lobby | WEEKLY REPORT, 4/24/2023
Wanna see where ideas come to die hideous demises? Welcome back to the tar pit, my unnamed and unknown somehow-readers. Let’s cut the...
Mario
- Apr 19
The Lobby | PORCUPINE TREE - GLASS ARM SHATTERING (2005)
This is a song I’ve been compelled to write about as of 30 minutes ago. I was writing about the new Space Camp album one day, and the...
Mario
- Apr 11
The Lobby | SWANS - LOVE OF LIFE (1992)
The gothic-rock entourages of Swans would further continue with Love of Life (1992, Young God). This particular album is peppered with...
Mario
- Apr 5
The Lobby | BOYGENIUS - THE RECORD (2023)
I tend to give an album a week before I consider writing about it, but this fuzz ought to be addressed eventually. There always comes a...
Mario
- Mar 29
The Lobby | COMUS - FIRST UTTERANCE (1971)
Right, let’s have some fun. All this hokey present-day hullabaloos gotta have at least one breath of downtime available. Luckily, we’ve...
Mario
- Mar 21
The Lobby | RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - 12 (2023)
"From now on, I will be living with cancer. But, I am hoping to make music for a little longer." A lot of shit went down lately for...
Mario
- Mar 14
The Lobby | MODEL/ACTRIZ - DOGSBODY (2023)
Dogsbody (2023, True Panther) would be the debut album of Model/Actriz. Donkey Show immediately assumes martial rhythms and utterly...
Mario
- Mar 7
The Lobby | CANYON OBSERVER - FIGURA (2023)
The plateau of birdsong births the environment to which this album eventually wreaks havoc. Hear that pleasant atmosphere, that harmony...
Mario
- Mar 4
The Lobby | CAROLINE POLACHEK - DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU (2023)
A bellow ringing out among the most ravenous of fjords opens up a song title-dropping a different environment, Welcome To My Island....
Mario
- Feb 21
The Lobby | WEEKLY REPORT, 2/18/2023
Since I didn’t quite know what album to toss into this undesirable spotlight affectionately known as my words, I may as well throw each...
Mario
- Feb 15
The Lobby | SHINTARO SAKAMOTO - HOW TO LIVE WITH A PHANTOM (2011)
Sitting with an album like this and writing about it is a more humbling process than anything previously concocted within my very...
Mario
- Feb 15
The Lobby | STEREOLAB - SOUND-DUST (2001)
Pulsing synths and bells make the machine come to life in the form of Black Ants in Sound-Dust, a parrot of a system reboot within this...
Mario
- Feb 7
The Lobby | LITURGY - RENIHILATION (2009)
Liturgy’s first album would come in 2009, with Renihilation. This album paints a plain silky beige from where their career and art can...
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