Were you just making up names of files or what? I mean, I’ve seen some pretend file names in my day, but come on! It’s like you’re not even trying.
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Nortey Dowuona: It’s a little exciting to see that the nostalgia bug is not a curse due unto middle-aged divorcees who use Reddit in public (many of whom I am very grateful to) but belongs to each new generation that desires the ease and comforts of childhood, in which one lacked agency, trust and sometimes even basic respect. Nostalgia softens the fangs of resentment and contempt into mild bites of disrespect and rudeness, reminding us of the brightest, lightest and most lively moments in our childhood, the moments interspersed throughout our lives that keep us resubscribing to this life thing. One of those things is post-’90s house, which once was the sound of 2000s kids’ childhood and the sound of their parents’ teenage years, which Disclosure shared generously with the public, leading to these mediocre bootlickers to spread it across the Korean peninsula. But not let it be said that Cazzi Opeia is not a generous gifter.
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Will Adams: LDN Noise have a decade-plus long CV, so no surprises that “404 (New Era)” delivers sleek, space-age house that balances that familiar K-pop boisterousness. Even better is that energy being channeled into a song about the ever-increasing benefits of Logging Off.
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Harlan Talib Ockey: More moodboard than song: “I’m back bitch,” Frutiger Aero, the information superhighway, “Vogue.” As a mission statement, it’s an [8]. As music, it feels like a commercial for a more interesting product to come.
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Ian Mathers: I suspect the writers of this bouncy, house-influenced K-pop track weren’t specifically trying to leave me ruminating on “going off the radar” by returning a broken link instead of, you know, actually touching grass (etc.), but it makes me like the swift bubbliness of the rest a little more.
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Iain Mew: It took me a ridiculously long time to figure out the pun in the title. Maybe because I was too distracted by how much the chorus is like an equally exciting alternate universe version of Babymint’s “La Nueva Era.”
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Alfred Soto: The house beat and chanted chorus add at least six points to its total, and when I realized the smarts of its wordplay (and the catchiness of its wordplay!), I was sold.
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Katherine St. Asaph: 200 OK!
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