| Rafter / Xyz |
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| Album: | Xyz | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Rafter | Added: | Feb 2017 | |
| Label: | Joyful Noise | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-02-22 | Pull Date: | 2017-04-26 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 23 | Apr 9 | Apr 2 | Mar 26 | Mar 19 | Mar 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 20, 2017: | Music for Misfits Lonely World | 4. | Mar 21, 2017: | Magnetized Toner Oblivion | |
| 2. | Apr 06, 2017: | Sound and Solidarity Lonely World, Your Kind | 5. | Mar 16, 2017: | Munch Time Lonely World | |
| 3. | Mar 31, 2017: | Music Casserole Lifelike | 6. | Mar 04, 2017: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles I’Ve Done The Strangest Things |
| Album Review |
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| Shay Z Reviewed 2017-02-21 | ||
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Goofy, playful psych-pop for a good time! After taking some wild artistic wanderings through black metal, reggae, and dance, Rafter is back with a “roots” album if you can call it that. Rafter doing what Rafter does best: super-catchy, kaleidoscopic bedroom pop. Full of youthful instrumentation, foot-stomping choruses, and kooky horn sections, the album is a playful jaunt through the childhood you wish you had. The lyrics dwell on some angsty loneliness, but generally fun record! Genre: Playground pop RIYL: Animal Collective, Passion Pit, Santigold, the Beatles after Acid Favorite Tracks: 2, 3, 9 (but worth playing most tracks!) I’ve Done the Strangest Things (3:18) - Freak Folk, looping weird vocals, harmonica, organ! Lonely World (3:24)* - interesting textures, thumping, horns come in at 2:00, funky drums, soft crooning You Are the Last of Your Kind (4:34)* - Anthemic, thumping intro, awesome percussion Lifelike (3:40) - Rattling, reverberating percussion, sultry vocals, slower cooler Oblivion (3:51) - More Beatles inspired, trippy chorus, less poppy, more psych The Things I’ve Learned from Reggae (3:39 ) - Slower, very spacey, Suess-esque playfulness When I Die I wanna Get Some of My Blood on Them (4:45) - Dancy, big horns at 2:30 Rafter vs. Maimai (4:03) - Woozy piano intro, soft space craft landing, slow, dreamy We Could Be Monsters (3:44) - *Funky! Wow, strong song, cool synthesizer Weird Animal (3:46) - Love this beat, slow burning ballad almost | ||
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