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Joined January 2012
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one hundred for today ✨
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woman had her baby on a leash just walking her up and down the train aisle
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really wonderful interview, her last answer is just so sweet
"I’m not afraid of being watched or having my art interpreted—I invite it. And really, if nobody disagreed with my art, then would it really exist?" —Huang Hanqiu @misterminsoo talks with Huang Hanqiu of the No.006 art collective about the '001' EP, their next album, and more
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new lily chou-chou lied album coming next month open.spotify.com/album/521QB…
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first three tracks on this album are an absolute career highlight open.spotify.com/album/3rFVk…
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going to the doctor now is like wait an hour in this room before we have someone review google ai about your symptoms
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anyway, been really digging michelle chen's '欲言又止', which is not officially on streaming, but you can listen to it here youtube.com/watch?v=PPeETHu7…
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been ego-searching since they re-upped the faye wong review and have some of my own rambling thoughts
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happy birthday to my goat
Faye Wong often borrowed liberally from the Cocteau Twins' style for her 1996 album 浮躁 Fuzao, but the music isn’t simply a pastiche of the Scottish band—it's also steeped in the sounds of Beijing’s nascent rock scene Revisit our review: pitchfork.visitlink.me/Y-6x2…
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what’s the greatest campus folk song?
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probably an obvious answer but i would go pao meisheng “你在日落深處等我”
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digging the new 8bite album, love “夏烬,” where both vocals and guitar feel directly borrowed from dijon but the rest is solid open.spotify.com/album/7MY1y…
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would have loved to get mad about this take but the only great mainstream album to come out of the mainland was shan yichun’s…
so depressing how bad mainstream mandopop is in the PRC. possibly the worst popular music made in the world right now
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have y’all looked at qq or netease charts? everything is about tiktok virality: nostalgia-driven ballads resurfacing from the 00s; anonymous and poorly-produced dreck made just for doomscrolling; televised singing competitions
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that said, within the mainland, the non-mainstream might be at its most interesting in history: tons of underground hip-hop, electronic, rock and left-field pop coming out
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slightly late mid-year check-in, some favourite chinese albums from 2026
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