With CRTD I am aiming to show my curated media consumption to share what I like and find a way to talk about it more.
LUX is #1
LUX by ROSALÍA is my probably not my favorite album of the year but it is the best album of the year for me. I’ve been more of a casual ROSALÍA fan and listener, but this album has cemented my like for her artistry. She presents diversity, lyricism depth, and with this album a masterful level of dedication to give us a grandiosity that it’s not easy to be able to listen and then connect with.
It’s like being in some sort of heaven, even if you don’t believe in it.
#2 is Bugonia
Although The Favourite wasn’t a movie I particularly liked, Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of the directors that I pay attention to more and more, and both Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness were extremely enjoyable and educational in filmmaking terms. So I of course was super excited about Bugonia and… it’s not my favorite, but I found it to be a pretty deep and yet funny approach to very sensitive issues nowadays. I loved the depiction of insanity that every day seems more plausible among our society, and then the corporate greed that we simply can’t escape.
And although the movie drags a bit in some moments, not to mention the ending was a bit forced for me, I haven’t been able to take the movie out of my head because I overall genuinely liked it.
This was hell on earth.
Bonus (so, #3?)
Del Water Gap has turned into one of my favorite musicians since two years ago, and his latest album is probably my favorite of his so far. It sounds more grown up, with themes that explore existentialism and love in a way that doesn’t sound pretentious nor forced. It sounds like a movie, in the best possible way.
How To Live is in my constant rotation, and it just resonates with me so much not because it’s about what’s happened in my life exactly, but because it feels for the most part what I’ve felt lately towards life.
Actually, this is life on earth.
Note
I am currently reading Linghun by Ai Jiang and though I can’t review it yet, I am terrified and fascinated, and I love that.