October Music

Music I’ve bought in October. Huh, I bought more stuff this month than I thought… The Vanishing Twin album is nice, I think, but I’ve only listened to it a couple times yet. Perhaps not as immediate as previous albums? The album from Total Wife is so much fun — I’ve been listening almost exclusively to music from the 90s over the past few weeks, so when I started playing this, my brain totally went “So what My Bloody Valentine album is this?” The 90s are really back — half the new bands are shoegaze bands, and the other half are drum’n’bass. Speaking of… Nia Archives is probably the one who made the drum’n’bass revival happen. But I have to say that her second album is a bit of a disappointment — it’s not as exuberant as her previous stuff. But in a way, that’s very on brand — in the 90s all the original drum’n’bass acts had very brief careers… I mean — I like the album, but… Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new album, though — so good. The new Ministry album… sounds like a Ministry album. I’m…