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3 days ago |
pitchfork.com | Kieran Press-Reynolds
One of my small joys during the pandemic doldrums was opening my SoundCloud feed to some of the most ridiculously crammed cyphers I’d ever seen. Anywhere from five to two dozen rappers would trade off every 30 seconds like a middle-school talent show. ivvys’ madcap “ig reels” restores the collaborative chaos of golden age digicore.
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1 week ago |
gq.com | Kieran Press-Reynolds
Only seconds into the podcast, Adam Friedland shat himself. It seeped through his white linen pants onto his red camping chair, leaving “a little puddle of diarrhea,” per co-host Stavros Halkias, who spent the first minute after this happened guffawing like a hobgoblin. It’s a classic moment. But it’s not even the most ridiculous thing ever to happen on Cum Town, Friedland and Halkias’ weekly podcast with Nick Mullen, which amassed a serious cult fanbase over the six years it ran.
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1 week ago |
pitchfork.com | Kieran Press-Reynolds
Electric jolts, apocalyptic bass thuds, bitcrush like a flamethrower of pixels: These are the hallmarks of something I’m half-jokingly calling “rage 2.0,” the hyper-cluttered sound of so much buzzy new online rap. It’s Ken Carson grunting over synths that slash like guillotines and Jane Remover shrieking against a wall of shuddering noise, the kind of rap that borders on maximalist EDM.
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2 weeks ago |
pitchfork.com | Kieran Press-Reynolds
Instagram Reels used to be the place where TikTok trends went to die. It was the retirement home where yuppies would calm their souls with cashmere-soft capybaras and virtuous meal hacks, or get a mild buzz from aspirational travel montages and clips lifted from TV shows like Breaking Bad. But slowly this leftovers lounge became a shortform sideshow, convulsing with lunacy.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Kieran Press-Reynolds
Instagram Reels used to be the place where TikTok trends went to die. It was the retirement home where yuppies would calm their souls with cashmere-soft capybaras and virtuous meal hacks, or get a mild buzz from aspirational travel montages and clips lifted from TV shows like Breaking Bad. But slowly this leftovers lounge became a shortform sideshow, convulsing with lunacy.
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