The 2023 Escape Plan

by tarbeaux on Thu, Feb 1, 2024

A retrospective about non-2023 albums

In 2023, I didn’t delve much into listening to older music due to a notorious yearly project that consumed a significant amount of time (read about it here https://www.interdimensionalvortex.com/posts/community/2023-08-11-compost-a-reflection-on-live-albums-and-the-failing-of-this-year-community-project/). I found myself exploring albums from the reliquary, which was not very fruitful, as you can imagine. Shout out to the worst album I have heard this year, Little Woman - Throat, that I described as ‘’a bunch of ducks playing Jazz’’ and gave a 2.

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Curta'n Wall - Siege Ubsessed!

by Planex on Wed, Jan 3, 2024

LARPing is cringe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw These losers wander out to their local park wearing halloween costumes and attempt to replicate a board game at scale. Often, I imagine, it devolves into saeying coole olde englisch medieval speak and trying not to whack your Burger King coworker too hard with your +1 longstick. The LARPers are easy to make fun of. But, put yourself in their New Balance greaves for a moment. How much fun could it be if everyone took it seriously?

Grime Stone Records Abysmal Spectre

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State of the Vortex: 2023 wrap-up

by Snyde on Wed, Jan 3, 2024

On and on it spins.

As we step confidently toward the Vortex’s upcoming 6th anniversary, the roiling seas of music discourse have never been more frigid. Even the safe waters of the Vortex are awash in digression and disillusion. The Aussies are locked in a state of perpetual mental human centipede, the Ameros continue to foist their collective mental illness upon the world across yet another platform, and the Euros barely muster a peep on their most active days.

SotV wrap-up 2023

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5 years later, a retrospective of 2018

by Tarbeaux on Sun, Nov 12, 2023

Old Tarbeaux goes back to his first year on the vortex to sort all of his overrates

Ah 2018, the year I joined a cesspool of bad taste, bad faith, goat lovers linked to Angry Metal Guy known as Metal-Fi. For those unfamiliar with this hellish place, it was a forum where two factions would fight in an endless war of baiting and mocking each other’s tastes. You would have the goat crew that would swear only by the filthiest black metal and would scream in agony the moment they had to listen with something that wasn’t written in 4/4.

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