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Still regularly spinning this! She’s such a unique artist
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Looks like a new project called Spellling and the Mystery School is due 25th Aug. Listing for a vinyl release went up early, guess it’ll get fully announced at some point tomorrow.
https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/spe...e-mystery-school-purple-vinyl-edition-1032816
Apple Music has the tracklist and it looks like either a reworking of past material, or a live album.
https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/spe...e-mystery-school-purple-vinyl-edition-1032816
Apple Music has the tracklist and it looks like either a reworking of past material, or a live album.
It'll be rerecordings.
Something, something, two queens maximising their joint slay.
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They said we know Kate bush isn’t releasing any new music and we’re here to help
New song from a new album out today.
The song is fantastic. I think I saw elsewhere the album is due in March?
The song is fantastic. I think I saw elsewhere the album is due in March?
I’m so fascinated by this song. It sounds very…Disney. Like the hero’s self-actualisation anthem. It took me out a bit on first play but I love it now.
I hate the way she mouths sounds on camera here, but I forgive her dd.
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FKA twigs on that unreleased Valentino show track vibes
I think this is my unexpected surprise of a stacked week.
The singles didn't really hit for me on their own, so I almost wrote this off entirely. I'M GLAD I DIDN'T, because after playing it through in full (multiple times now), it's quite a powerful album. For me, the album (mostly) gets progressively better as it descends through the tracklist, so I was shocked as I found myself loving each new track more than the last. The second half is almost straight 10s. The sequencing is great: it starts off punchy and wild, then enters a sort of sci-fi proggy atmospheric section with the ballads, pivots into what's basically grunge metal for a couple tracks (?!), gives us a Pat Benatar moment, and then finishes with a shoegaze cover of what might be my favorite My Bloody Valentine song (and might be the best thing here?).
I can't pretend to understand all of her choices: the production/mixing might be an acquired taste for most, but this album gives me the same rush as I felt listening to Sasami's Squeeze. Spellling's music feels so confidently unfashionable and not-modern in 2025 that it somehow circles back into sounding very fucking cool. I need more art school girls to embrace hard rock. That is all.
Top 5: Sometimes, Drain, Mount Analogue, Satisfaction (I love the metal moments, sorry), Destiny Arrives
The singles didn't really hit for me on their own, so I almost wrote this off entirely. I'M GLAD I DIDN'T, because after playing it through in full (multiple times now), it's quite a powerful album. For me, the album (mostly) gets progressively better as it descends through the tracklist, so I was shocked as I found myself loving each new track more than the last. The second half is almost straight 10s. The sequencing is great: it starts off punchy and wild, then enters a sort of sci-fi proggy atmospheric section with the ballads, pivots into what's basically grunge metal for a couple tracks (?!), gives us a Pat Benatar moment, and then finishes with a shoegaze cover of what might be my favorite My Bloody Valentine song (and might be the best thing here?).
I can't pretend to understand all of her choices: the production/mixing might be an acquired taste for most, but this album gives me the same rush as I felt listening to Sasami's Squeeze. Spellling's music feels so confidently unfashionable and not-modern in 2025 that it somehow circles back into sounding very fucking cool. I need more art school girls to embrace hard rock. That is all.
Top 5: Sometimes, Drain, Mount Analogue, Satisfaction (I love the metal moments, sorry), Destiny Arrives
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This took me on a journey. Surprising at every turn and I adore the theatrics.