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The old five-point scale has been retired in favor of just rating stuff 1-10, which allows me a much more nuanced final rating. Still don't take it that seriously. Most of these come from my own collection, so the grades skew rather high. Your results may vary if you send me stuff to review.

Each album is given three Essential tracks, my personal favorites, regardless of how weird and inconsequential they are. The Quintessential pick is the one I think best represents the album as a whole, so you can try one song instead of a whole album of songs. Non-Essential picks range from merely disappointing to outright unlistenable.

lost kluster

[#] Blogging (2006)

Reviewed September 2, 2018

Way cooler than blogging.

Blogging isn't cool. Only moms and woke computer kids still blog about shit. That this low-bit EP is named after the horribly uncool practice seems like a type mismatch. After all, moms are physically incapable of listening to anything that isn't the Bee Gees, and woke computer kids are too busy rocking out with their cock out to canyon.mid and sniffing fabric glue, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Another one from the 20kbps vault (and one that is actually 20kbps in bitrate), lost kluster's Blogging EP is a pretty cool but super short three-song set of loopy beats and glitch-bass that progressively gets cooler as it continues. You know, unlike writing blog posts.

The pitfall of so many albums, the first track here, the awkwardly double-titled "Office shit/Comment readed", is the weakest. Some wind noises, a slime monster's heartbeat, and a two-note bassline. Out in three minutes, and you'll probably never return to it. The other two tracks work a lot better, thankfully. "Blogger" makes a V6 engine swing to some walking percussion and the sound of some guy (the mythical lost kluster himself?) shitting himself into a microphone, and it progresses really nicely. "Night stuff", meanwhile, sounds like being put on hold by the Gods above. Seriously, that horn section? Way cooler than blogging. Way cooler than blogging.

Essential:	Quintessential:	Non-Essential:	Rating:
"Blogger", "Night stuff"	"Night stuff"	"Office shit/Comment readed"
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