I am so here for it. I think it’s pretty fair to say at this point that if nothing else, I do just dig the math-rock vibe, the aesthetic, the feel of it. Some I like more than others, but as a genre, generally, I’m finding I enjoy it very much. Which is interesting because I tend to have a harder time with instrumental stuff and math-rock is frequently instrumental, but I dunno. It’s rhythmically and harmonically interesting, it’s very technically proficient (which is something that I don’t always notice, but sometimes does give a little extra oomph), and it’s emotional in a way I love that I can’t quite explain. I dunno. All of the math-rock I’ve listened to so far (American Football, Piglet, Clever Girl, Feed Me Jack, and now Cuzco) feels really tender to me. Bright and vibrant, and also tender and a little bit soulful. I dunno, I feel it. I think it’s great.
All of that is pretty general to the feelings I’ve been developing toward the genre at large, those are all generalizations. That said, all of those things I find are well represented in my experience listening to Cuzco. So, it checks out. My more specific feelings about Cuzco are as follows:
A Medicine for Melancholy really is a “medicine for melancholy”. Part of that is just that I felt like shit on the day I listened to it. All day felt, just, bad, so anxious all day, and it got particularly bad at night. Listening to this genuinely helped, I think. It made me feel just a little bit better, it calmed me down a little, maybe. If nothing else, I did just keep listening to it. Six times instead of my minimum of two. I liked it more every time. 9/10, I love it
I didn’t listen to A Miracle Sun Design as many times as I did A Medicine for Melancholy. Only four times (still two more than my minimum). I don’t know if those last two times would’ve made me feel something I wasn’t feeing. I do know I was having a particularly tough day for Medicine—it was intense, and the music hit different with that context, with that feeling. That said, I also think I just didn’t like Miracle quite as much. It’s still really good, but it didn’t have the impact, didn’t have the same feeling.
Sketchbook I only listened to the twice. I still liked it but it did feel a little more sketch-like, I suppose, and I didn’t happen to love that in this instance. What can ya do.
Anyway, yeah. Big fan of Cuzco. Easy A
Cuzco complete, now listening to: Sungazer
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