>>128485043
Seems like he only reviewed the debut album and she's so irrelevant he didn't even bother to review the others :/ being a maggie fan seems like a never ending humiliation ritual

>>128485043
That one song that Pharrell liked was cool. Have heard nothing from this woman since then. Probably for a reason. Also why did anons on here try to make her a thing in the wake of Taylor's humiliating album a couple months ago?

>>128485604
It's just one very obsessed Pakistani man and the handful of people he convinced to join him in posting endless threads about his waifu.

>>128485043
To be honest, I actually agree with Fantano. HIiaPL has a handful of decent songs (namely "Retrograde", "Fallingwater" and "Light On") but far too much filler and moodboard music. I know it went Gold from all the hype "Alaska" generated but the music is forgettable.

>>128485604
Dude, give Surrender a listen. It's my personal favorite Pop album of the 2020s. If you like Folk, then The Echo and Blood Ballet are very worthy. Notes from the Archive has a decent Rock EP on it.

1. Satellite: https://youtu.be/FxhaT1hgBp4
2. Anywhere With You: https://youtu.be/rhqYKHpiZ3E
3. Love You for a Long Time: https://youtu.be/iKYxMnW7bgs
4. Celadon & Gold: https://youtu.be/5gwFH-y5HxE
5. Overdrive: https://youtu.be/gigJjgPThYA
6. The Kill: https://youtu.be/64J-9g3RftQ
7. Shatter: https://youtu.be/gWjr_r5vJzA
8. That's Where I Am: https://youtu.be/WdrNXRdkuG4
9. Together: https://youtu.be/Nn-DhwRUs2U
10. One More Afternoon: https://youtu.be/WMfvDeHBikk
11. Want Want: https://youtu.be/SylF32J2g8k
12. Horses: https://youtu.be/0Da6AvsegGs
13. Embers: https://youtu.be/mqkCx2yj_ac
14. Symmetry: https://youtu.be/gmE5zgqlgtI
15. Wolves: https://youtu.be/G8VxeMPe85Q
16. Deep in the Earth: https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/deep-in-the-earth
17. Little Joys: https://maggierogers.bandcamp.com/track/little-joys
18. Fallingwater: https://youtu.be/bR1d8l92Q8Q
19. James: https://youtu.be/Ka5iDC1cZfI
20. Don't Forget Me: https://youtu.be/JHh3w5xgSkc

>>128485043
kek, I watched his y u no review for her album after this. It got the same criticism: unremarkable, not a lot of talent, just a boring, blank slate. Fantano coming with the accurate takes.

>>128485043
Daaaaaaaamn

>>128485043
I didn't have Fantano being murdered by an enraged Indian man on my 2025 bingo card but I'm here for it.

>>128485043
Way too high

>>128488467
kek maggiefag actually agrees with him. check the longpost

>>128488474
Poor benchod has been mindcucked by a melon ffs

>>128488468
Actually, 3/10 suits the album just fine. It's not so low as to be comically bad, but low enough to be a solid F. The album is way too polished. He mentioned the song Overnight as being, "the kind of cinematic depression you can only afford to soak in if you have nothing else wrong going on in your life." I'd say that's accurate. He also mentions that the title track has her trying way too hard vocally and she ends up sounding like a poor imitation of Jewel or Regina Spector. Again, accurate.

>>128485043
A full transcription of his review courtesy of Turboscribe:
Hi everyone, Fethony Vertano here, the internet's busiest music nerd. And it's time for a review of the new Maggie Rogers record, Heard It In A Past Life. Singer, songwriter, and producer, Miss Maggie Rogers.
She has a new full-length album out over here. She is coming in hot with a lot of promo. Despite only recently dropping a big commercial album with Capitol Records, Maggie's artistic trajectory has been heavily documented, as if music audiences have been following her every move up until this point.
You can go online and read endlessly about everything from what she used to listen to when she was younger, to the Berklee music program that she won a songwriting award with, dropping a few albums independently, and auditioning a song for Pharrell that literally brought him to tears. It's okay to cry at me. I'm too sick for this right now.
You're just ashamed of your emotions, and I hate to see it, it kills me. Then there's Maggie's label signing, her fledgling hit, her SNL appearance. It's been a very guided rise to prominence, which, you know what, is fine.
I honestly wish today's music industry did more to invest in up-and-coming artists as opposed to ambulance-chasing every single viral internet hit. And knowing that's the current state of things, I went into this record assuming that Maggie has something special and substantive, something that doesn't quite translate to the memetic passageways that most music is promoted through today. Plus, this LP did get number two on the Billboard Top 200, even if it was released super early in the year and only moved a very modest 37,000 copies.

I'm also pretty delighted to see talented names like Greg Kirsten in on the production of this record on some key tracks. But overall, the sound and the style and the aesthetic of this record, it's kind of a hodgepodge. It has the synthetic grooves of a synth-pop album, but also the relatability of like a folk or a singer-songwriter record.
There's also a low-key sensuality to it, like a classic sophisticity pop band like Prefab Sprout, to a degree, to a very subtle degree. There are also some tracks on this thing that are pretty anthemic and grandiose, which feels like yet another nod to the 80s, especially on the closing track here. There's also a few points on this record where I can tell Maggie is pulling pretty directly from some heavy hitters out of the huge wave of female singer-songwriters that were banging the charts in the 90s.
And finally, I think there's something about Maggie's sound that would really appeal to Haim fans. The super funky and poppy guitar and bass-based sound coming out of some of the songs on this record, it really does feel like something off of a Haim album. I do like the very danceable and moody and sexy production surrounding a lot of these tracks.
If anything, the beats and the instrumentals on this thing, they really are a huge selling point. Like the plucky bassline and nocturnal atmosphere and swaying groove of The Knife. The song Overnight is similarly moonlit and sad and, I guess, romantic.
The track also exudes the kind of cinematic depression you can only afford to soak in if you have nothing else wrong going on in your life. The tracks say it feels like a bit of a throwback to an old-school 90s R&B jam, but with some production updates, some bubbly arpeggios. Probably my favorite track on here as it's attached to one of the best tunes on the record, too.

But the instrumentation and the mixing across this entire record, it's not amazing. There are some points where it comes off very shoddy. Like on the opening track, Give a Little, which has a complete lack.
It's totally devoid of, like, any appealing melodies. The lead vocal melody that Maggie is singing on the opening verse of this track, it's absolutely mind-bending as to why somebody would record this and save it. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Like most of everything else on this track, it sounds totally thrown together and just on this song to pad out time around the chorus, which is actually pretty decent.
There are also some tracks on here that are just drowning in this overly sentimental vibe, like Light On, which kind of runs like Bruce Springsteen at his worst with Avicii's Wake Me Up. There's also a total loss of personality at some points on this thing, like on the piano ballad from this record, Past Life, which in some moments sounds like a really off Jewel or Regina Spector impression. Plus, this song is one of the few moments on this LP where Maggie just seems too overcome with emotion to worry about whether or not she's straining vocally or articulating the words she's actually saying.
It just feels very performative, which I understand all music is to some degree, but I feel like the key to a great performance is to trick the audience into thinking that what you're doing there in front of the lenses and the lights, it's all natural. I can't say Maggie has gotten over that hump, though. But even when Maggie is at her best vocally on this album, her singing is still pretty average.

I could not honestly pick her voice out of a lineup if you made me. There are also a few eyebrow-raising instrumentals on this LP that I just can't really get my head around, like the song On-Off, which features this really heavy sub-bass and skipping pianos and weird sound effects. It sounds like what you would do if you tried to remix a bunch of pieces from an old One-O-Tricks Point Never track into a pop tune, but the results were not satisfying at all.
And then we have the super chunky beats and sad piano chords on the Cut Falling Water, which basically feels like what would happen if you gave a generic Macklemore guest singer the opportunity to just do a full song by themselves. My ears throughout this track were stinging with anticipation for the moment Macklemore was gonna pop in and start whisper rapping about, like, white privilege or his ice cream hitting the ground. Then there's also the super overdriven and distorted beat on the Cut Burning, which literally does sound like burning.
There are some quite horrid points on this instrumental that I can't believe nobody attached to this record heard this and thought, you know, this is like an opportunity for a redo. I mean, the production being this much of a mess is not the case for every song on this record, but it happens enough times to ruin the overall experience pretty heavily. Plus, this record is also pretty short on memorable songwriting, personality coming out of the vocals.
Past Life does have its bright spots, but they're mostly predicated on the instrumental being really danceable and lush, like on the Cut Retrograde. Meanwhile, more low-key cuts on this thing, like Alaska, are so faint, it's like the song thrives off of this really vague quirk that doesn't really get appealing until the hook. But I think I'm gonna leave it at that.
I dislike this record quite a bit. Uh, way more misses than hits on this thing. Definitely.

There are points on this thing that are super average, super uninteresting, risks that don't really pay off, but above all else, despite the gargantuan sense of drama being injected into multiple tracks here, it's just boring. I'm feeling a strong 3 to a light 4 on this thing.

>>128488831
fantano should create a whole like onlline archive of these transcripts to read. Just search up the album you want

>>128490289
the entire point of fantano is that you don't have to read him

>>128490570
I prefer reading him because I can read faster than he can talk.

>>128485043
LOOOOOL MAGGIEFAG BTFO

When did /mu/ become pro-Fantano?