Album Collection

This is mostly going to be a place where I put new things I'm listening to, but for the sake of a test run, let me start off with one of my favourite albums in the world (and yes, I'm a boy who listens to Ethel Cain, allow me to don my quarterzip and acquire a shelf full of feminist literature and an iced matcha latte also). I'm genuinely wearing a knockoff merch T-shirt for this album as I type. I don't particularly feel like summarising the entire lore right now but sugarfantasies has done an insanely beautiful site to explain it. Overall, I find this album has songs for every type of sad, coupled with the storyline running through it. I saw Ethel live with my best friend in the Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You tour, in her encore she claimed that American Teenager would be her last song, and then surprised us by playing Sun Bleached Flies: my absolute favourite song of hers. I genuinely cannot explain how happy I was in that moment lol (I had seen on her subreddit that she hadn't played it in any of her previous performances).

I'm very much enjoy McCafferty, and while I have Snoqualmie on repeat, today was the first time I ever listened to this album in full, being already a fan of Nails Like God, Fentanyl, and the titular track of the album. I quite enjoyed it. I generally enjoy the lyricism in these songs above all, but today I felt more caught up in the strong bass tunes in some of the songs, especially the final verse of Unforgivable Curse #3. Much preferable to lower energy sad songs. I prefer this version of Alligator Skin Boots

I've never really listened to this band before but this was a good album, albeit short. God do I love an album with a consistent narrative, in this case summed up concisely in the title: Life does indeed Rip. Every song seems like a fresh kafkaesque critique of the mundanity and lunacy of life; specifically the life of a girl coming of age (with the exception of Sad Dudes which I honestly couldn't quite interpret. The simplicities of the male mind I suppose.) The satirisation of female friendship rituals did, however, ring true to me as someone with a lot of female friends. I think that the album also speaks to something about how women would rather play into the patriarchy than... Surrender the male attention they receive? Form their own identities? (There's that simplicity again.) Certainly there is an ease in fitting into the role which society assigns you, but what is the cost? Sorority Girls is the most popular track on the album, and the one which I heard first. I'd still say it's my favourite although Slumber Party and Horrorscope have been added to my playlist.