conatus

"Nic Vans"

Hope you enjoyed your holiday @Florence Belch. Now it's time to clock back in for Hitlor endings.

I don't want to do that actually

These songs were democratically elected

Mother Sharmila Tagore in An Evening in Paris Had to mix things up a little, I know that might be difficult for some to understand

A win is a win.

We should all start doing this actually. @Album Leak, you start!

Your top 30: BLACK STAR - 2/13 remaining 8. S.M.O. 9. Fineshyt THE BPM - 5/15 remaining 1. DEAD 5. A BUG'S LIFE 6. THE NATURE OF POWER 7. MY TYPE 14. NOIRE EUSEXUA AFTERGLOW - 1/11 remaining 4. HARD FANCY THAT - 7/9 remaining 1. Illegal 2. Girl Like Me 3. Tonight 4. Stars 6. Nice to Know You 7. Stateside 8. Romeo LIFETIME - 6/11 remaining 1. Miss 2. You Can't Always Get What You Want 3. Seasons 5. December 6. Delusional 10. Two Thieves THROUGH THE WALL - 9/17 remaining 2. Ladida 3. Sum 4. The Boy 5. Doing It Too 8. Bite the Bait 10. TTW 11. Crave 13. Sweet Sensation 15. Close 2 Me

Recap! 45. Erika de Casier - "You Got It!" 44. Rochelle Jordan - "Words 2 Say" 43. Rochelle Jordan - "Eyes Shut" 42. Erika de Casier - "The Chase" 41. Erika de Casier - "Lifetime" 40. Erika de Casier - "The Garden" 39. Amaarae - "Starkilla" 38. Sudan Archives - "YEA YEA YEA" 37. Sudan Archives - "COME AND FIND YOU" 36. Amaarae - "Kiss Me Thru the Phone pt 2" 35. FKA Twigs - "Sushi" 34. FKA Twigs - "Love Crimes" 33. Rochelle Jordan - "Get It Off" 32. Rochelle Jordan - "I'm Your Muse" 31. Rochelle Jordan - "Never Enough"

31 | NEVER ENOUGH | 7.956730769 "Once I get you off this body Finally gonna leave you behind..." Highest Scores: 11 (@KatyPrismSpirit); 10 (@California, @cloudbusting, @Curaga, @Legend E, @MP2K, @SupremeGoddess, @Tsareena) Lowest Scores: 3 (@flower moon) My Score: 8 It's "a lovely vibey track" according to worldwide angel, while flower moon is much more indifferent: "Whatever." Antisocialites is in awe of Rochelle's mind, especially "that tempo change toward the end and how it transitions with the rain into the next track, which is much more mellow and clearly R&B-adjacent… She understands the assignment so well." With honours! "Whack those silly men for me again, Miss Jordan," orders resident misandrist SupremeGoddess. "I know what it's like having these hung ugly-hot old men chasing us and playing us, they don't deserve me, iktr." But are they at least buying you dinner? Finally, KatyPrismSpirit awards it the highest honour, bestowing "a very worthy 11. KAYTRANADA and Rochelle strike pure gold. One of the best dance/house tracks I've heard in a very, very long time. It has a timeless sound to it."

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Play stupid games... 32 | I'M YOUR MUSE | 7.890384615 "Just say you love me, say you use me, say you're fiendin' Just say you need me and you hope that no one sees it..." Highest Scores: 11 (@Tsareena); 10.5 (@playboi); 10 (@cloudbusting, @Eeveelution, @Ewan Chaos, @Maddox, @Meloetta Carey, @Mezzanine, @SupremeGoddess, @worldwide angel) Lowest Scores: 2 (@flower moon) My Score: 9 "She's so ******* classy," sighs Ewan Chaos, while worldwide angel simply points and exclaims, "Y'all heard her!" "This has probably become my favourite on the album," reveals Eeveelution, "just so chic and so classy and unfortunately very overlooked!" This sentiment is shared by playboi, who calls it his "favourite song on the album, so, so underrated, love the bassline. I still wonder who's being dissed." "The outro beats saved this for me," shrugs Album Leak, while SupremeGoddess is confused as to what song she's rating: "I gave it the highest score because of the new remix she just put out, that's a JAMmmm. " Well, everyone stream Disc 1 now regardless! Of course, what about Bert and Ernie? Florence Belch says, "That BOOM is just my patience, she's ragebaiting me at this point!" And she's doing it flawlessly! Elsewhere, flower moon simply begs: "Please."

Well.

This classic

33 | GET IT OFF | 7.865384615 "I guess I'm stuck on your spirit, you cannot shake me Feel so good under your skin, it's making you crazy..." Highest Scores: 10.5 (@Curaga); 10 (@Antisocialites, @Bartender, @California, @cloudbusting, @Reverie, @Tsareena) Lowest Scores: 4 (@Album Leak) My Score: 8 "Fuuuuuuq, this is so hot. " moans Curaga, while worldwide angel shares that "this is more of my mood yesss." Bartender thinks "the chorus is so wow cathartic," whereas SupremeGoddess believes that it "would've worked better as an interlude." She then adds "it's like what Rina Sawayama would make if she was black and still making good music." I think that's a net positive overall? Anyway, flower moon is clearly fatigued by the album at this point, and "wonder[s] if I would enjoy some of these songs more in a playlist of other music where they aren't all blending into one."

So... What do we think girls? Is Twigs making the top 30?

Obviously, for those of you keeping track, FKA twigs is our first lady down to just the one song: HARD!

34 | LOVE CRIMES | 7.851346154 "Your body's a death trap, precious like a teardrop..." Highest Scores: 11 (@Pendulum); 10.5 (@K$Ellie, @masochizm, @ScorpiosGroove); 10 (@Bartender, @California, @Florence Belch, @Kid A) Lowest Scores: 3 (@Truth Teller) My Score: 5 SupremeGoddess is unhappy, of course. "She picked everything that made Eusexua fun and unique and interesting and decided to throw it all away from some Berghain beats. I DON'T **** with it." Everyone else seems to be more on board, however. "Twigs is Mother and Mother delivers," states worldwideangel, while starstruckaj is in awe of how she "really tried to grab you by the nads with this intro." KatyPrismSpirit thinks we slept on it: "This deserved a moment on its own, electronic music done WELL." "THIS is how you open an album," cheers Bartender, while Antisocialites calls it "top 10 in her discography." Even flower moon reveals it eventually won him over, as he "kinda didn't love it when it came out but now… :jonny5:" And Florence Belch? Well, we finally get the origin story. "Why does the whole album read as a "KFC Wings falls in love with Wendy's and now she can't get enough of it?""

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You were saying? 35 | SUSHI | 7.785576923 "Would you be surprised to know that my karaoke song is "Gasolina"?" Highest Scores: 11 (@ScorpiosGroove); 10.5 (@Kid A, @starstruckaj); 10 (@conatus, @Ewan Chaos, @HonourableVomit, @KBax, @K$Ellie, @Legend E, @Maddox, @masochizm, @Pendulum, @Tsareena) Lowest Scores: 0 (@Kabrona, @SupremeGoddess, @That Bad Eartha); 1 (@theblackestday) My Score: 10 Ewan Chaos gayly calls it "one of her best songs," while Pendulum declares that she "served her raw fish omakase style." "Yuk, I'm vegan," says a disgusted SupremeGoddess, while Florence Belch is astounded: "Really? After eating a whole Son of Baconator™?" KatyPrism thinks it's "truly one of her most brilliant and unique offerings to date," before throwing Afterglow some semblance of a bone: "This album went under the radar a little, but it's so fab." And yet the voters– starstruckaj proclaims that Twigs "was coming for necks on this one, who made her mad?" Probably the voters! Now… The ballroom section was obviously very divisive. flower moon thinks "it could be a 9 but that silly gay ending is not it," whereas cloudbusting says it "would be a 10 if it were all like the cvnty voguing section." "The second half with all the ballroom references is definitely the highlight," opines Indie Go Mind, while worldwide angel thinks "the build-up to that bridge is literally everything, I can't!" Antisocialites says that "the more I listen, the more I know PURE/HONEY by Beyoncé was on the mood board when she made this. The last two minutes of the song do the heavy lifting, let's not lie… But whew, those 2 minutes are insane." Curaga, however, thinks that "the ballroom part feels so grafted on. " He goes on to question Twigs's credentials, asking "Phuck does she know about ballroom?" Oh, and what house are you a part of, heaux? At least he's self-aware: "And yet I ate it up when Beyoncé did it. " The solo Twigs: she's no Beyo– Démodé thinks that "the beat change is still that girl and saves it from being Runwayfied." However, he lowballs it with a 4, revealing that "but also I kinda don't want it high." playboi declares it "overrated, the ballroom part sounds like it was added for the sake of it just so it wouldn't be the most boring song in the album." He then quotes Grace Jones: "I just didn't feel a soul." But anyway, let's close out with an anecdote from Haze, who's having "horrifying memories of me taking ballroom classes and my knees giving out during a duck walk on that very sample of walk for me." And the song itself? "It also feels a bit random here, unearned fagg0try." Welp.

Just doing anything

It helps to laugh through the pain

Okay, damn. Fine. Here you go. 36 | KISS ME THRU THE PHONE PT 2 | 7.7625 "DMin' her ex, thought I was looking for tea I'm in here sendin' her threats, I'm really upset..." Highest Scores: 10.5 (@gatito); 10 (@Antisocialites, @Florence Belch, @HonourableVomit, @Indie Go Mind, @KBax, @khorkina, @Mezzanine, @Pendulum, @That Bad Eartha) Lowest Scores: 1 (@theblackestday) My Score: 9 While worldwide angel "seem[s] to like this a lot more than most," it's a song featuring PinkPantheress that's built around an interpolation, so of course that's what the focus of the commentary is. Démodé and Florence Belch both decide to express their gratitude: "#ThankYouPinkPantheress." These twins… "PP always has the cutest little melodies," says flower moon, while starstruckaj thinks that "they kinda woke it up with this one." "Stellar song. No notes," praises Indie Go Mind, before adding, "If there was any criticism, I would say that it feels more like a Pink song wedged in Amaarae's album." Curaga is confused at first: "I was like, "Damn, she really sounds like PinkP here!" " Ignore her, she drinks. And now for the interpolation. "The way this is so superior to The Aisle," thinks Antisocialites, "It was kind of gimmicky when I first listened, because it felt just like a reworked version of it, but it slowly has become the song I return to the most from the album." #ThankYouPinkP– A couple of you weren't as crazy about it, however. "The Aisle massively outsold…" tuts Ewan Chaos, while theblackestday resolutely states that the "The Aisle interpolation is like blasphemous to the original."

MP2K giving a Sudan song a 10

37 | COME AND FIND YOU | 7.748076923 "Watch as he comes and goes So easily without restraint..." Highest Scores: 10.5 (@Haze); 10 (@California, @cloudbusting, @Florence Belch, @MP2K, @Reverie, @theblackestday, @worldwide angel) Lowest Scores: 3 (@Curaga) My Score: 9 Florence Belch says this was a "GIGA SMASH IN MY HOUSE," while a couple of you take a moment to praise Sudan's bending of genre. worldwide angel "love[s] her strings-infused electronica so much and this is a prime example of that being a success," while KatyPrismSpirit "love[s] how she incorporates different styles of music on here so perfectly." Finally, Haze is feeling the fantasy: "This song encapsulates sweltering heat and grinding bodies. HOT."