Sophistipop

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Album: Gaucho: Yeah okay, more obvious now, but this wasn't a good car speaker album at all. Definitely a headphones in bed album, where all the little intricacies really flourish. Still a little uneven, but I came out liking it more than previously

Babylon Sisters: 7 Really gets me in the headspace of horny old Californian dude doin exactly what you expect him to

Hey Nineteen: 10 We stan a problematic king? Maybe?

Glamour Profession: 9 Wait, these guys do drugs? Wow.

Gaucho: 7 Shoutout to UC Santa Barbara for naming their sports team the Gauchos cause that's a cool ass name. Also shoutout to all you gay cowboys ig

Time Out of Mind: 10 Man, I don't know how they found the exact perfect sounding instrument to come in at the perfect time every time, but they did. Congrats!

My Rival: 5 When the kid who picked their first Pokemon at the same time as me and has been dogwalked every single battle since then spots me across Route 35 and decides they want another ass whoopin:

Third World Man: 6 Guess we sobered up for the final track. Sick guitar though

Album: Steve McQueen: Listen, when you have that insane of a first half, you can let up a little in the second half. Just how it goes. That said, if you do a little addition by subtraction then this becomes an all around all-timer

Faron Young: 9 Somebody's traveling thru that one picture of like ninety different chains occupying a single stop off the highway

Bonny: 11 The opening riff gives me shivers, how can you make it sound so perfect? I kinda just wanna hit replay over and over on this and never finish the rate

Appetite: 10 White suburban mom Prefab Sprout naming their kid Appietyte

When Love Breaks Down: 10 Thomas Dolby is that bitch!!!

Goodbye Lucille #1: 10 Somewhere there's gotta be a Johnny with super similar life details convinced Prefab Sprout is spying on him. Love him screaming, the time for yearning is over it's time to yell

Hallelujah: 9 Taking this time to say I really love her voice in backup. Both of em actually have outstanding voices, they work well in tandem

Moving the River: 8 Was kinda iffy but it built up to a solid tune, especially the closing keys. Also "turkey hungry, chicken free" is gonna be in my brain for a bit

Horsin' Around: 9 IT'S HORSE TIME

Desire As: 7 Time to look up what a slyph is

Blueberry Pies: 5 They can't all be winners

When the Angels: 8 This is just a fun one

Album: Hats: At its best, some of the most gorgeous soundscapes I've had the pleasure of hearing

Over the Hillside: 6 Very good but I'm not quite yearning enough just yet. Love the strings & his voice at the end though

The Downtown Lights: 10 Gonna take the elevator up to the biggest window in the tallest tower put my hand on the glass and just gaze

Let's Go Out Tonight: 9 This is a dangerously short number of steps away from being straight out of the American Football album we rated last month

Headlights on the Parade: 10 These last three songs have reached Kano levels of ripping out my heart. Jesus these keys, oh god the strings came in now too wtf

From a Late Night Train: 7 Oh yeah, that sure is the smoky sax that represents the empty late night streets

Seven A.M.: 8 You know, the Black Eyed Peas were asking that exact same question, lemme ask them

Saturday Night: 10 Think I might weep

Album: Love Deluxe: Sade is a star. Crazy thing is, this has all the potential to grow even more on me

No Ordinary Love: 10 Introducing that guitar riff at the perfect time is the secret ingredient that turns this from great to extraordinary

Feel No Pain: 10 What a soulful beat. The hell with it, I'm gonna do it for you, Sade. I'M GONNA DO IT FOR YOU!!!

I Couldn't Love You More: 8 "IF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD" struck me like a lightning bolt

Like a Tattoo: 8 The instrumental bridge was stunning, a perfect fit for the tone & followup to the story told

Kiss of Life: 10 I mean, it sounds fantastic, but this is a straight Sade carry. Could listen to her voice all night long, straight heaven entering these ear drums

Cherish the Day: 7 So true, stream The Beths - Not Running

Pearls: 7 Making all of us at the Sophistipop reveal wearing monocles & sipping the finest wines & yearning feel not good

Bullet Proof Soul: 10 The way this is hitting I think Sade's packing a gatling gun

Mermaid: 7 No Sade? No problem

BONUS TRACKS

I'm Not in Love: 7 There was a part near the end where I started leviating three inches off the ground

The Look of Love, Pt.1: 10 Holy shit we have Comedy Bang Bang star Martin Sheffield Lickly in this rate!?

The Chauffeur: 6 They said "gimme that 'somebody murdered eight people in Beverly Hills and was never caught' type beat"

Missing: 7 Have a specific memory of the remix in a commercial for some music compilation

Out of Touch: 10 Happy Out of Touch Thursday to all who celebrate

Steppin' Out: 7 Maybe we do need a GTA radio rate

Careless Whisper: 10 🎷😎

Being Boring: 9 The opposite actually, kinda digs its way into your cranium

Messages From the Stars: 9 If this came out today there's a section of popheads that would go insane for it

More Than This: 6 Honestly I didn't even register a song was playing

Perfect Way: 8 This rate is a Wane psyop to get more people to listen to Scritti Politti. Anyway there's a music line here that kinda made me think I was listening to the Super Mario Underground theme. Actually there's another tiny moment in the bridge that sounded a little like the Yoshi's Islands Map Theme played on a keyboard. Is Mario Scritti Politti!?

True: 7 Where Adam Sandler & that scab at

Forbidden Colours: 9 Fuck it. Let's have him win again with a variation of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Drip Dry Eyes: 9 It's too late to say Do City Pop Rate on popheads (except to you, Kvo), but still, hope to see YMO do well in both subs this weekend

Woman in Chains: 6 Alice in Chains idk man the comment well is dry

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