This Week In Indies: April 15 - April 19
This Week in Indies: 4/15 - 4/19
Harold Halibut - April 16
Kill It With Fire 2 (EA) - April 16
Life Eater - April 16
Planet Of Lana - April 16
SolForge Fusion (EA) - April 16
Kingsgrave - April 17
No Rest For The Wicked (EA) - April 18
Welcome to This Week In Indies, a quick look at this week’s indie offerings, delivered in a bite-size serving you can enjoy now or save for a tasty treat later. Your choice! As always, you can always scope out our further-reaching 2024 release list to see what awaits in the impending weeks, months, and year.
This Week In Indies took a short hiatus during the eventful spring convention season,…
View On WordPress
3 notes
·
View notes
New Shojo Beat Releases for April 2024
These volumes will be in bookstores this month.
Kimi ni Todoke: Soulmate vol. 1 by Karuho Shiina **New Series**
Neighborhood Story vol. 2 by Ai Yazawa (creator of Nana)
Rainbow Days vol. 9 by Minami Mizuno
Tamon’s B-Side vol. 3 by Yuki Shiwasu
Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits vol. 9 by Waco Ioka Midori Yuma, and Laruha
Skip Beat! vol. 49 by Yoshiki Nakamura
93 notes
·
View notes
ttpd review: thoughts (and prayers)
cuz wtf was that. (also providing my two cents that no one gives a shit about)
Is the promotion in the room with us?
Not going to lie, this part pissed me off. As a post evermore release swiftie, the first album release I got was midnights. And while the promotion for midnights wasn't astoundingly genius, the track list release (midnights mayhem with me) was smart. Everyday, there would be chaos all over social media of taylor taking out a number and releasing the track name. The excitement over YOYOK was to die for. But after reaching peak fame, girlie just decided shit wasn't necessary anymore. Absolutely no promotion for ttpd, except a few lyrics that provided no context (or excitement) whatsoever. That, and the very non subtle "hinting" of some big reveal of what went down between her and joe, by making some playlists, that not only ruined the perspective of many of her fans and the relationship they had with her previous songs, but ALSO. THE ALBUM HAD BARELY ANYTHING ABOUT JOE. (Not that i personally care about what happened, but it was so unnecessary to center the ONLY promotion done around someone who was barely a part of the album). Swifties went on the internet to harass joe alwyn (and his female coworkers) who might as well be called a special mention on a matty healy album. Why even do all that then? We will never know.
Confusion?
taylor released 31 songs, and while a double album theory coming true would be a dream come true for any swiftie, it just... wasn't. Out of 31 songs, barely 10 stood out. Some of it just didn't make sense, in any way. "Why is this on the album?" "This sounds like a midnights vault track." "No issues, maybe this is just a skip. I'll listen to the next. Oh wait nvm. Um." Like girl what. It just feels like a giant vault album of synth pop music.
Also, it's called the tortured poets department. There is barely anything poetic or tortured about the album aesthetic. Except maybe it's torturing me, but I'm as much of a poet as she is, which basically means I'm not one.
The album just feels so different than the other albums, in the sense that they followed an aesthetic, a certain style of music and lyrics, and created some sort of story. This one just feels like she wrote many songs and put them all on an album, picked whatever track name seemed interesting enough as the album name, and called it a day. Some of the songs are gems, some create a confusion as to why they are on this album, and some just make you cringe- or atleast go "wtf". Which is fine, but if not even half the songs fall under the first category out of 30 songs, then it's a problem.
These were written by... taylor?
The lyrics omfg. I'm not going to be one of those ppl who go around saying that the lyrics sounded like an emo middle schooler (I've heard this take) BUT again, some songs have lyrics that make you question how taylor, someone who wrote the albums folklore and evermore, and many great songs like would've, could've, should've, story of us, all too well, fearless, white horse, dbatc, daylight, red... I could keep going tbh, produced...this.
It was very weird to listen to the words "tattooed golden retriever" from someone who wrote "handsome, you're a mansion with a view" (also who the FUCK is calling matty healy that??)
A very important part of taylor's music is how it is focused on the lyrics. The music itself isn't the most special, or different, in most of her songs, but what makes them (and her) special is her songwriting. However, from her songwriting going from commonly used phrases and idioms to make them tell a story, use a wide range of vocabulary, heavily using personification, allusion, transferred epithet, and a few other figures of speech that she uses in her songs to make elements such as colours, for example, tell a story, in a way it seemed effortless and fit perfectly, to this... now it feels like she's trying to do that, but that's it. She's TRYING, and it's not yielding results, and seems more like a try hard "poet" rather than... whatever she was going for. The songs are filled with self-satisfied "clever" metaphors that are being reused and recycled over and over. This is not what ppl meant when they asked you to be more environmentally friendly, taylor.
Final thoughts I guess?
While the songs are basically only an empty shell of something that taylor used to make, the album isn't all bad. Some of the songs do sound good and go well with taylor's voice (aaron dessner, the fucking legend you are) and are quite enjoyable, if not as memorable as her other songs.
There are songs such as the prophecy, clara bow, so long, london, loml, guilty as sin?, etc., that really do come through and honestly I really like them.
I do feel that the album can grow on people, but it's just... not the best. Like she says so much, and not to quote taylor swift, but genuinely the only thing in my head right now is "the more you say, the less I know".
Overall, the album is fine, but not in taylor swift standards. It's just... not bad, with some exceptions.
96 notes
·
View notes
This Week In Indies: April 29 - May 3
This Week In Indies: April 2 - May 3
May 2 - Indika
May 2 - Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure
Welcome to This Week In Indies! It’s is a peek at the week’s indie offerings on Console and PC for you to plan around in the coming days. As always, you can always scope out our further-reaching 2024 release list to see what awaits in the impending weeks, months, and year.
It’s been a little bit since we’ve given a short update on the goings-on with the staff of The Indie Informer, so this week…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Led Zeppelin Live Montreal Forum February 6 1975 - YouTube
Keep your eyes peeled for no less than 51 minutes of live uninterrupted footage from Led Zeppelin's Montreal Forum concert on February 6th 1975, courtesy of Speedy's Films! 😍 The footage will be posted on Sunday 7th April 2024.
If you click on the Play button, YouTube will show you what time the footage premieres in your country or region; for example, it shows 17:30pm for me in the UK, but shows 12:30pm for New York.
This is a HUGE deal for Zep fans - please reblog and spread the word to ensure as many people as possible see it!
72 notes
·
View notes
mutant mayhem Leo x April is cool, actually
before mm hits theaters:
I love the concept of Leo having a crush. It's something that ties him to humans.
In broad strokes, Mikey always is social, Donnie loves their tech, Raph has Casey and his vigilante thing, etc.
Leo generally has his brothers or his Honor Code. He only gets involved with humans for other's sake. He's perfectly fine (ish) with being in the sewers. Leo is the only one out of his brothers that would take it in stride.
But making him attracted to April? Giving him a reason to go up to the surface? Mwah. Chefs kiss. Good drama. Who doesn't love the stoic leader get all goofy and blushing around someone he likes? Who doesn't love the inherent conflict of love vs duty?
I know the Fandom Loves Leo + Usagi, even creating a Rise! Variant because it's fun. 03 had some fun with Usagi too. And some comics had Leo + Foot assassin bird mutant, which is delicious.
plus we can always mock or ignore it if it's bad. Like Leo + Karai from 2012.
Tl;Dr: Leo's Turn on the Awkward Teenage Crush can only be good for him.
208 notes
·
View notes