9.0
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#485
All Time
11
Tracks
“From the album title onwards, unstoppably ardent feeling fills this awe-inspiring album from the British art-rock trio, whose music swells your heart and fizzes your mind. Creeping ever further out of the underground since forming at Glasgow School of Art in 2015, you’d need a whiteboard to triangulate the various acts that come to mind listening to them – Bill Orcutt, This Heat, Tirzah, Zach Hill”
“Still House Plants' third LP If I don't make it, I love u is an engrossing testament to the musical elasticity and emotional potency of rock music. The UK-based trio — David Kennedy on drums, Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach on vocals and Finlay Clark on guitar — has both retained much of the aesthetic vocabulary of their previous work and emboldened each other to use that vocabulary in ways more fully i”
“If I don’t make it, I love u by Glaswegian trio Still House Plants is an album that sounds the most like everyday life than anything I’ve ever heard. Given descriptions of it across the blogosphere as slippery art-rock, reminding listeners of everything from R&B to post-hardcore, that may sound absurd. It’s cacophonous and disorienting. Ambient music already approximates the everyday with mimicry ”
