this is gaycelmusic.com my main space on durango.
i mainly use this to space my fave songs and albums rn, later i may use one those posts to do a substack post too, it's like my music scrapbook.
first things to be said, i am not, in any ways, an expert in music theory. far from it. but i may say some terms referring it here and there just because! it's fun! if i'm wrong and you know correct me! i love learning new things :DD
don't be afraid to talk/disscuss wth me about the stuff i put in here! it's all it is about, actually. putting funny thoughts into reality and sharing it with everyone that bothers to read it!
The Passionate Ones - Nourished by Time
i have a deep feeling that this guy's gonna go big this year, The Passionate Ones is basically what you would think by the title alone, a lovely journey through yearning of love and recognition that is leveled-up by these pop R&B synths that are groovy as hell. loved all of it.
LUX - Rosalía
with LUX's heavy catholic imagery and history, Rosalía gives us a show of vocal performance and storytelling that her previous works were already giving through, this one's more proficient at it though.
EUSEXUA [Reissue] - FKA Twigs
While i did like the original issue of EUSEXUA, with the cheesyness of Perfect Stranger and autencity of Childlike Things, i get why she did the reissue and i appreciate it just as much! if not more. EUSEXUA is world of possibilities and opportunities inside a record, no wonder she would do it again and again.
Vanities - Malibu
A ambient album that is very chique with it's silence and ambience, though sometimes the artist just seems to not know what to put in the record really, but i like it all the same.
I Love My Computer - Ninajirachi
first time listening to ninajirachi's work and i am enamored with the renaissance o hyperpop that I Love My Computer is, it gives us all the glitchs and bits that we loved years ago but now with a breath of fresh air. a type of nostalgia that we gen-z now discovered to have and the virtual world is our coachella 2016 moment (iykyk)
Lifetimes - Erika De Casier
One of my favorite artists of all time came back with a banger of an album, that's Lifetime. it's grunge and trip-hop, with a bunch of nods to our great Madonna's Ray Of Light era and i absolutely love it, truly an experience for certain moods and moments but aways appreciated.
choke enough (Deluxe) - Oklou
airy, minimalist and glitchy pop is all we needed and didn't know. when choke enough dropped i did not like it much, being honest here, but by time and a lot of listens to Viscus and Harvest Sky, i started to really appreciate the album for what it is.
Essex Honey - Blood Orange
definitetly top three of the year, Essex Honey didn't share something new with us but instead gave us an excellent soul and R&B performance alongside some of the best artists we have out there. it's all about some good crying sessions.
I quit - HAIM
totally a pop rock gem of 2025, one of my most-listened of the year and i'm not ashamed of it! relationships are aways something to be talked about in songs and when done well, it never gets overdone.
EUSEXUA Afterglow - FKA Twigs
a beautiful continuation to the world of EUSEXUA, but shows us everything through a sex-party-show afterglow that i maybe liked more than the other two EUSEXUAs. it's kinda giving renaissance - beyoncé sometimes, and i don't hate it! just found surprising i guess.
that's it! see you some other time~
DJ Storm | HÖR London Takeover - Apr 27 / 2023: this one might be by far my most favorite of all, and truly the most iconic from the channel too. but i could be wrong
DJ Storm is a iconic legend from the 90's on the eletronic drum and bass scene. alongside DJ Kemistry they were an amazing duo of their time, the two of them even got a album together called 'DJ Kicks: Kemistry & Storm (i might talk about this one later on heh). unfortunally Kemistry died on 1999 in a car crash.
this set is like my favorite thing everrr!! it's so fun and catchy and nerdy and groovy and did i already said fun? it's just great overall, a full brainStorm (!) for your ears. it starts great, singular and maybe, kinda, slow-mo/not that jumpy and then- Booom! just adrenaline all round.
this is be the most i'll be talking on here, i think their history deserve
something more long and full-on searched.
Risa Taniguchi | HÖR - Mar 31 / 2023: from now on you'll notice that i'm a noob at the eletronic scene stuff and it's artists. but this set is just so cool i couldn't not put it here.
Risa Taniguchi seems to have mastered what she does and I Do Not Have A Clue What It Is. but it's good! and interesting! good to think and relax, even. i like it every much because when you are in a moment of doing something else, it does not distract me much, just takes me to her world and the whole vibe she seems to have created around her sound. (thinking of it now,,, i should listen to her original tracks.. yeah, i should)
while it's just a set of songs she -i suppose- likes, it's very well intercalated into each other and you don't get overwhelmed with it's sounds and textures (because there are! and a lot of them!). just put in mind that it is kinda experimental, or a lot idk. some ppl like and some don't, it's all okay!
The Brvtalist - Mercury 200 / February 26 / 3pm-4pm: this is actually what introduced me to my HOR craze of today and it couldn't be more eletric and cunt than this like.
techno made me happy the year this dropped. like literally. it just gave me the fun i needed in the months of pain in the pandemic.
these two guys have an amazing energy together and their sets are very cool, i like to see every once in a while if they have some new stuff somewhere bc they are that interesting to me. they got some songs orignal tracks on streaming services that are a vibe too, i like it very much thank u.
BRAVA | HÖR - May 17 / 2023:i do not know anything abou this sweet girl but she is my lord and saviour since like, yesterday, lord bless her.
her vibe is IMMACULATE, the video is IMMACULATE, the song selection is IMMACULATE, EVERYTHING IS IMMACULATE.
serving hapiness, fashion, charisma, and most importantly latino realness she gave the best set as of recently for HÖR. it's perfect for dancing alone and idk just putting it at your party with some friends and not-so-friends,,, life is good when good art is made, and this is art.
i hope that you liked my little selection of video sets and found one that catched your ears enough to put it in your playlist!
gayncelmusic is back babyy
if i'm being 100% honest here, i'm not familiar with vampire weekend and just listened to this album on a whim of the apple music algorithm rec i got. on any case, i loved it! it's great and of nothing i would expect from a tumblrina band like them to make.
Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend is a mixture of their usual sound identity with something completely new, using pop-rock and chamber/classical references to make the album of the year. i really see Penguin Cafe Orchestra being a reference here, with the eletronic chamber effects and little bells being integrated with it's harmonia, the use of the eletric guitar here also screams the ochestra's earlier works.
this album feels like late-20s-crisis and the feel that everything is ending way too fast. many times here i hear parts that where the band didn't know how to work the vocals and just focused a little too much on the instrumentals, giving a empty space that sometimes is amazing and other times not soo much.
it impresses me everytime how they just know how to cross the pop-experimental line ever so smoothly that when we get to the industrial-esque parts of it, it fits just like a glove. they craved the album sound with the track Classical, where all their bets are placed to emerge the listener on their airy, energetic and minimalistic trip, and that comes with immense success given that it is the best song in the project.
I gave it a positive 7.5(75) score that may or may not get higher with time, it's a great contender for the list of best 2024 and i hope listen more of this from them!
it's called Armazem (de Resenhas Mal-Passadas) and it's a pt-br based two person work: me and Livia, a good friend of mine :D we are kinda redoing the neocities blog we had onto substack but it already has some fun/funny stuff in there if you got interested!
my most recent post in it is about the album 'Only God Was Above Us', from the band Vampire Weekend. Be sure to check it out !
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