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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The most essential aspect of writing is to hold deep and unshakable feeling of shame for every string of words you manage to thread together, followed by suicidal embarrassment

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

New Knifeplay live to the boards will take your breath: knifeplayforever.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

knifeplayforever.bandcamp.com

Live in Seattle, by Knifeplay

5 track album

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The latest Julien Baker and Torres record, the list goes on. Pinegrove cast a long shadow on the contemporary music scene. I’m not complaining

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I wonder if Nick Levine realizes that his pedal steel playing in Pinegrove is responsible for the instruments now-essential inclusion in the hottest indie music these days. Waxahatchee, the whole Wednesday-MJ LENDERMAN circle of artists (all hugely indebted to Xandy Chelmis’ phenomenal spirit)

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The new Friendship deserves as much attention as MJ Lenderman’s ‘Manning Fireworks’ got last year. Breezy but dense with some road-honed musicianship, and Dan Wriggins’ poetic explorarions of the everyday are the sharpest theyve ever been. Run, dont walk: friendshipphl.bandcamp.com/album/cavema...

friendshipphl.bandcamp.com

Caveman Wakes Up, by Friendship

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you snagged the Erika de Casier cassette, sincerely, fuck you (I’m deathly jealous)

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Specifically calling out one music critic with HBO credits who writes god-awful long-winded listicles to resounding applause from his ever-diminishing audience of Gen Xers who think music stopped being good in the mid-90s, if not earlier

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“Listicles” gotta be the lowest form of journalism and some writers entire careers are made from them. Oooh an arbitrary ranking. They’re never interesting!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Of course, Pinegrove itself owes quite a bit to Modern Baseball

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pinegrove’s influence on contemporary popular indie music’s sound has really yet to be grappled. What an institution!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Cannot for the life of me understand the appeal of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band. Sardonic without being smart, loquacious lyricism to the point of absurdity. And seeing him live, sheesh. He literally could not play his guitar!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The exceptional level of panning I’m seeing across the critical millieu only serves to reinforce that the latest Car Seat Headrest is for the heads

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

New Turnstile is fun, but can we please stop calling them a hardcore band? This is textbook pop hard rock. ‘Seeing Stars/Birds’ could’ve been a Limp Bizkit b-side, let’s be serious

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Do I repay my student loans, or preorder the Autechre reissues? Quite the dilemma.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

People are going to speak on Jim-E Stack with the same vitriol they attack Jack Antonoff for his supposed influence on the production of the uber-pop girlies of the past decade for the last Bon Iver, that mediocre new Lorde single, and god knows what he has next. And this time, they might be right!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Someone’s gotta explain why the double cassette of Adrienne Lenker’s ‘Live at Revolution Hall’ just cost me 50 bucks, damn!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I mean no disrespect to Built To Spill and the soundtracks of Garden State, Scott Pilgrim, etc., but I will not defend them as good films

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The only band willing to stand up to Big Indie and the terrible films it spawned

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Saw one of the worst opening acts I could recall open for the brilliant and sardonic Bill Callahan Sunday night in Kingston. Out of respect, I will be holding my tongue.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New Bon Iver is a sleeper without a hit. Im glad Justin Vernon is comfortable now that the Taylor Swift royalties are steady paydays, but not nothing kills that K-fueled creative spark like the insistent ennui of financial security. And Jim-E Stack, apparently!

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It’s evolution versus reinvention. There is no one formula an artist can follow; it’s holistic, deeply married to their individual (or collaborative) craft. I’m of the opinion that ‘SABLE, fABLE’ is a sorry evolution that’s the product of cultural homogeneity shaping influence.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

on who you ask. Robin’s commitment to melody and songcraft, coupled with his interest in international sounds (I hope he continues treading down the path of Brasilero with Tim Bernardes!) is balanced by their recent touring enterprise, which is openly a retrospective of Fleet Foxes’ ouvre.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Similar criticisms can be found for Fleet Foxes, the vessel for Robin Pecknold’s unique synthesis of 20th century folk and chamber pop music and exceptional voice. Their 2022 album ‘Shore’ can be viewed through the same lens of reinvention, but the success of the result will be different based

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

from their personal expression, to something influenced by the demands of the market. You see this in every medium, it’s not unique to popular music.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I think it boils down to something relatively simple- time. Bon Iver is pushing 20 years as a band and creative outlet for Justin Vernon. Coupled with his not-usual commercial success, that level of mass cultural appeal will reflect itself back on the artist, who’s work is transformed—

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I don’t think it’s a product of “too many cooks in the kitchen”, considering ‘i,i’ had over 20 people contribute to the engineering of the album, while ‘SABLE, fABLE’ had a lean 6, the second fewest after ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’s two, lol

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

(Out of respect, I am not going to talk about Danielle Haim, but I am not a fan of the Haim sisters sonic direction)

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Jim-E Stack is an excellent producer; Mk.gee is a burgeoning guitar talent who’s best work is ahead of him; Dijon is in a similar place, and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with after 2021’s endlessly relistenablw and heartfelt ‘Absolutely’; Jenn Wasner is criminally underrated

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When you fractionate light through a prism you cast a rainbow; when you combine a number of colors without considering their physiochemical relationship, you muddy their unique sensations.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

working with Kanye West— music has always been intimately in conflict with the human desire to categorize and arrange as we seek understanding, defining genres based on immediate sounds and the touch points buried within. The reality is always messier, more ephemeral.

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

resulted in rapturous, singular works that command attention and force the listener to reconsider their relationship to music. I’ll never forget how I felt the first time I heard the crackling synthetic drums of ‘10 Death Breast’. Like a digital car crash, in no small way the product of

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

BJ Burton’s touch has produced some of the defining touch points in 21st century music so far. The last two LOW albums, the aforementioned ‘22, a million’. The beauty in decay, the harshness of static, how the violence of our society informs art filtered through layers of digital processing—

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I think a lot of my criticisms boil down to the production. Jim-E Stack took lead after doing the Bon Iver COVID singles; meanwhile, BJ Burton is credited on the two best songs, ‘Speyside’ and ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It’s fine to seek resurrection and reinvention through your art, but the fawning praise I’m seeing in the music press seems to ignore the fact that the confluence of influences and collaborators on the album results in a bloated, directionless sex playlist album

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Can’t believe the guy who made the groundbreaking ‘22, a million’ a decade ago just put out the soft-rock snoozer that is ‘SABLE, fABLE’. I have a few thoughts 👇

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Im not fuckin’ with anyone who’s not straight up committed to a radical vision of a better world

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Underrated guitar record that’s sure to make waves once the word gets out from the ever-talented @moreeazemusic.bsky.social and exciting @lynnavery.bsky.social, who’s collaborative ‘Phantasy & Reality’ record from last year is a must-listen pinkmust.bandcamp.com/album/pink-m...

pinkmust.bandcamp.com

Pink Must, by Pink Must

9 track album

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

When the check engine light turns off on its own >>>>>>>>

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Set my Teams status to “Do Not Disturb” out of respect for this afternoon’s Autechre close listen tidal.com/album/160239...

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Autechre - Tri Repetae

Listen to Tri Repetae on your streaming service

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Really need to start practicing conversational Mandarin. The Chinese Century is in full effect, and there’s no way I’m dying in/for the US of A

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Amusing to see the tremendous uptick in activity here since Twitter is down, lol

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Houthis adding an almost 25% surcharge to shipping companies operating in collusion with “Israeli” ports with sinkings and seizures, nice

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Chocolate getting more expensive cause of surge in gold demand (reducing crop lands)

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Smoking pressure and catching up on movements in the global financial markets

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Beach House has long been my sonic comfort for long winters. When those first few signs of spring show their heads, phenomenal tracks like ‘Sparks’ seem to go dormant, ready again to warm on those long, nighttime walks home in the below-freezing chill. See you next season ❄️ tidal.com/track/686408...

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Beach House - Sparks

Listen to Sparks on your streaming service

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Post Rock Princess, The Music Appreciator @postrockprincess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Wife That Lets Me Talk About Experimental Noise Albums (I Got That)

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