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Your Full-Time Bedroom Demon

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/03/lady-gaga-killah/

Published: March 14, 2025 00:33

Lady Gaga featuring Gesaffelstein “Killah” Lady Gaga seems more impressive and iconic these days because we have enough pop music history on either side of her prime breakthrough years to fully appreciate exactly how great she’s always been. She’s a…

People Can’t Escape Their Fate

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/03/banks-delulu/

Published: March 6, 2025 18:06

Banks “Delulu” I’m sure plenty of people can and will take “Delulu” at face value, but it’s pretty clearly written as a parody of someone so utterly convinced their situationship with an indifferent guy is leading to something more profound, to the point…

Unstuck From The Dark Side

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/03/unstuck-from-the-dark-side/

Published: March 6, 2025 02:06

Panda Bear “Just As Well” Panda Bear and his collaborators in Animal Collective are masters of taking a basically normal song and giving it a wild and flamboyant arrangement. They’ve done this a lot of different ways through the past 25 years, but this…

All My Inner Thoughts Sound Like Ahh Ahh

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/03/tate-mcrae-purple-lace-bra/

Published: March 4, 2025 22:15

Tate McRae “Purple Lace Bra” My impression of Tate McRae’s earlier music was along the lines of “hey, why shouldn’t there be a new pop artist who is to Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls what The Black Crowes were to The Rolling Stones and Led…

Things Your Lover Wouldn’t Know

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/the-verve-drive-you-home/

Published: February 28, 2025 18:30

The Verve “Drive You Home” The Verve defaulted to an extremely high level of drama and romanticism in their songs, but even by that standard the emotion in “Drive You Home” is so potent and undiluted that it can be taxing as a listener. You can’t listen to…

Now Concrete Is My Religion

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/tricky-feed-me/

Published: February 27, 2025 21:14

Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird “Feed Me” “Feed Me” has an odd sense of gravity to it. There’s a solid bass groove at the center, but the looped chimes sample seems as though it’s always drifting out of frame. It’s like being gently pulled in two different…

Clear Blue And Unconditional Skies

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/tlc-waterfalls/

Published: February 24, 2025 21:30

TLC “Waterfalls” I am confident that if you put on TLC’s “Waterfalls” and focused all of your attention on LeMarquis Jefferson’s bass line, you will fall in love. But what would you fall in love with?   Maybe you’d fall in love with the character of the…

Sweet Destiny

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/mariah-carey-vision-of-love/

Published: February 20, 2025 23:28

Mariah Carey “Vision of Love” “Vision of Love” may be the best debut single of all time. It introduces Mariah Carey as a fully-formed artist – a vocal powerhouse who can sing with a lot of nuance, a songwriter with an exceptional gift for melody, a…

They All Disappear From View

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/the-field-from-here-we-go-sublime/

Published: February 20, 2025 03:20

The Field “From Here We Go Sublime” Axel Willner isn’t the only electronic music producer who has messed around with glitchy samples, but I think he’s the only one who’s ever made the sound of a CD skipping feel like a symphony. “From Here We Go Sublime”…

You Know I’m Such A Fool For You

https://www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/cranberries-linger/

Published: February 18, 2025 23:37

The Cranberries “Linger” I’ve heard “Linger” countless times since I was 14 years old, and though I’ve always liked the song a lot, I’ve passively heard it out in the world far more often than I’ve deliberately put it on. It’s the kind of song that’s…