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a bunch of essays and stories about things that you only think about when youve been thinking for too long
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WAIT... I love Tongue... I’m sat in the dopamine chamber (opens the original)
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Dopamine Chamber … I am in you. Tongue starts with a very familiar formula: Grian setting the scene with his half-spoken, half-sung drawl before the band gradually charge in to add colour and texture.It feels recognisable enough at first. You can almost convince yourself you know where this is going, with Grian repeating breathlessly:“am I allowed to say it if nobody’s gonna listen”But the journey there is far less predictable than I expected.The arrival of that higher, strange, grating interlud
SICK NOTE (opens the original)
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Shall I tell you what’s not fun? A cold. A sniffle. Congestion.I’ve been ill for the past couple of days. It’s the worst kind of ill-the kind of ill where you can still function and perform daily tasks, but it’s with a heavy head and a dragging foot. You aren’t bedbound and incapable of basic coordination, so you have to work. But you also aren’t alive in any meaningful sense, so when you are working, you wonder- what’s the point??!I could feel myself getting ill over the course of last weekend.
IN DEFENCE OF THE SINGLE (opens the original)
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THIS PAST MONTH...Over the past couple of months, I’ve been interviewing bands. Think of it as a side quest. A side quest I hope will become the main quest, along with becoming the most famous author in the world, marrying a famous rockstar and living in a beach house in Malibu. All part of the larger, apparently lifelong quest of answering the question of who I am and what I want to say.However, it is not my turn to answer the questions just yet. For now, I get to ask them.1</p
WAIT... am i the only one that DOESN’T like Fontaines D.C.’s new song?? (opens the original)
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With the vast amount of media I consume, you would think I would be immune to ‘disappointment’. I have been disappointed in films, books, men, women, friends, myself, restaurants, institutions, and most tragically, every time I order a blueberry matcha from Blank Street and expect it to be tasty... it never is and I just have a sugar headache.But there are certain disappointments that cut a bit deeper..So, to that I ask the question...Am I the only one who doesn’t like Fontaines D.C.’s new music
WAIT...AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO LIKES THE STROKES NEW MUSIC?? (opens the original)
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The Strokes are back!!! Content for fans is booming right now, with a new music video1, Julian Casablancas’ interview at The Oxford Union2, and two new(ish) songs off their anticipated album ‘Reality Awaits’. There is something special about an artist who you love, who the world finally catches up to. There are the gatekeepers and then there are the gatebreakers. The Strokes’ performance of Oblivus at the end of their Coache
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