#Indiependence

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Inhaler at Indiependence Fest the other day

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[dailytomlinson]

11 November saw the return of Louis Tomlinson with his long-awaited sophomore album, Faith In The Future, ending a two-year wait that seemed to last an eternity. Everyone has been raving about the deluxe drop’s extended 16 tracks. Faith In The Future follows the hypnotising success of his 2020 debut album, Walls, and serves as the British extraordinaire’s stepping stone into a new era and illustrates an assured step forward, both sonically and artistically. This further solidifies as the 30-year-old Brit-pop musician achieved his first solo Number 1 album after a challenging week-long battle with Bruce Springsteen, thanks to his massive loyal fans who have been inundating him with praise, admiration, and unwavering support since its release.

Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, he said, “My album is Number 1 on the Official Charts – I can’t quite believe I’m saying that. I just want to say a massive, massive thank you for all the incredible support the fans have shown me in the last week and my whole career. This is an absolute honour and not necessarily something I saw coming. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

Faith in the Future is a genre-spanning album with a diverse soundscape devised for a live setting on an arena tour. For an album written and produced during the pandemic across two years, it feels anything but isolated or withered—thanks to Tomlinson’s multifaceted songwriting strengths, which have endured the test of time while remaining unapologetically true to himself as his confidence shines throughout, bringing a warm sonic embrace. He has meticulously crafted a selection of songs, ingrained in grittier, indie-rock, pop-punk, acoustic ballads, laid-back grunge, and vibrant, danceable pop tunes with mellow undertones, shuffling through varied 90s and 00s influences with a sheer versatility that doesn’t feel redundant.

Louis guarded his artistic vision during his solo debut album by lingering within the Walls, which explored his comfort zone with slick choruses and pop-inclined music, adorned with intimate, evocative lyrics. However, with his sophomore album, he eases up and lets go of the closed mindset, embracing a more abstract style of evocative songwriting and venturing into diverse sonic realms with unwavering confidence while adapting to a learning curve. Even the album’s title Faith in the Future affirms his determination and optimism for his career ahead. To sum up, this album is for everyone who has a sincere passion for music and who deeply appreciates artistic excellence and its roots from the core of their being.

The musically explosive track, “The Greatest,” thrives off the enthusiasm of Louis’ power-packed live performances and serves as a brilliant, anthemic introduction to the album, instilling listeners with tremendous joy. This passionate singalong number, featuring soul-quaking percussions coupled with his velvety vocals over acoustic chords, expands into a blazing tour opener as it crescendos to a resounding chorus giving fans the serotonin rush to chant over the rousing rhythms till the end. But that’s not all; “The Greatest” is a vibrant yet sincere ode to his massive, ardent fan base, aka Louies, which talks a lot about an artist devoting an entire song to their poignant, stronger-than-ever bond, while dispelling the stereotype of “being a fangirl” and reiterating the notion that fans are the core of the music industry.

The full force of pulsating songs such as “Written All Over Your Face,” “Face the Music,” “Out of My System,” and “Silver Tongues,” smack us in the face, exploring the early 2000s modern alt-rock and pop-punk zones with vibrant, foot-tapping beats — something Tomlinson has dabbled with in the past when he first embarked on his solo career in 2016 and delivered club-ready singles like “Miss You,” and dance-pop crossovers with Steve Aoki and Bebe Rexha. These songs are soaking in live performance glow and charting unfamiliar territory of sonic influences with sheer confidence, giving us a fresh taste of his more mature sound through irresistible head-bopping, arena-ready bangers that we can’t stop jamming to.

“Written All Over Your Face” and “Face the Music” delve into the themes of love, denial, passion, and romance, with buoyant, and danceable pop-rock arrangements coupled with his mellifluous singing and chiming in the roaring background vocals, that are sure to put your dancing shoes on and bobbing your head to the beats. With its strong Arctic Monkeys overtones strewn throughout, the swaggering pop-punk “Out Of My System” upends our perceptions and sends us into a tailspin as Tomlinson embraces something more gritty and industrial rock-tinged adorned with thumping bass, drum percussions, departing from the conventional pop. As he belts out, “Gotta get it out of my system / Gotta get it off of my chest. I’ve already lived a good portion of my life, but I still have to complete it,” this instrument-driven masterpiece immediately becomes one of the most sonically ambitious and boisterous compositions by the singer, showcasing his unprecedented skills, halting you in your tracks.

“Out Of My System” accompanies a pulsating, grainy-textured music video with intensely red-hued connotations, featuring the British singer and his band jamming together in a room. With its electrifying ambience, fierce energy, and reflection of Tomlinson’s bold onstage presence, the only element that seemed to miss from the video was his jubilant fans flocking around, which we’ll undoubtedly witness during his forthcoming tour.

The last single off his new album, “Silver Tongues,” prior to the release, opens with hush ballad-esque vocals, giving the audience an impression that it’s going to be a warm track, adorned with lush piano chords. However, merely a few seconds in, it erupts into intensified percussions and enthralling guitar riffs with unflappable, airy vocals with a throbbing chorus. With a sharp contrast to the exhilarating orchestration coupled with Louis’ anthemic vocals, there’s a heavier, more profound and thought-provoking lyrical mix hinting at being a nostalgic ode while looking forward that feels unequivocal to him.

In “Common People,” Louis pays an elegant homage to Doncaster, the town where he grew up, as he chronicles everything from his life, inspiration, desires, and ambitions, with utmost humility and gratitude as he revisits his humble beginnings, synchronised with the acoustic guitar riffs, and bass chords, creating an enthralling, empathic harmony. Louis spoke about the song in his Rolling Stone interview, saying, “I’ve got that place to thank for who I am. I’m very aware of that and I love it. So it was important for me to have a song that honoured that and gave Doncaster its credit. I dressed it up as a love song. But really, the intention was just to give Donny a moment.”

The other groovy numbers include the raucous “She Is Beauty We Are World Class,” festival-heralded “Headline” boasting an impeccable chorus, indie-rock-drenched “All This Time” bathing in the ingenious soundscape, along with “Bigger Than Me,” and “Lucky Again,” that pack, beguiling rhythms with intriguing storytelling and sincere emotionality, probing the themes of self-reflection, choices, chances, struggles with love, fate and relationships. Tomlinson’s heart, however, is in the slow soundscapes that embrace heart-stirring emotional connections with swelling guitars that echo in pop ballads bathing in melancholic undertones like “Chicago,” “Saturdays,” “Angels Fly,” and “Holding On To Heartache.” He’s a master at producing visual imagery with deeply poignant, epic moments, and his confidence soars through his sturdy song writing that perfectly balances the album while navigating his artistry through these mellow tracks. The album concludes with the song, “That’s the Way Love Goes,” a perfect laid-back song that binds the album together and wraps it up on a cherishing optimistic note.

To support his album, Louis Tomlinson will also embark on aq UK and European Arena tour for 2023, with more dates to be announced. Grab your tickets here!

[prettyflowcrs]

MUSE: olivia wilder. heterosexual. 19-27. / PLOT: ‘ my period is late, and i admit to it while we spend some time together, and now we’re on a mission to get pregnancy tests to make sure it’s not a pregnancy ‘ fwb, best friends, exes, young couple, one-night-stand, etc.  / open to M.

it was a very chaotic night, olivia was refusing to drink, almost pretending like she is in fact taking sips of her beer, but the fact her period was already two weeks late was making her question everything. they met to spend some time together, but it ended up blowing up when she admitted to being late. surprisingly he didn’t give her a chance to protest, he made her get up and both of them went straight to the nearest pharmacy to get some tests. liv was walking around trying to ignore the alley she was supposed to be looking the tests at prolonging the time of ignorance.

[crowley1990]

Going to musical festivals is just like a hobby for me. I’ve seen soooo many bands over the years because of it.

[thefeminine-urge]

Goodbye Paradise

Have you ever had your heart drop to the floor?

It bounces back into place

Stay there, bloody tenderheartedness

Blinded by a sunstrike on the eyes

Look at me, wet from too much mourning dew

Look at you, fiery from too much fire news

Black and white, guide me through

Growing along with your philosophical food

A cool house sits at the top of the city's lungs, but you still want to run for better sights

I'm on your side

Paradise is getting a hell of punishment from the shady god-like

Goodbye paradise - I'll catch you at gigs when the punks have risen

Have wild senses with truly doll-like

Still yours,

But regardless, I am mine

By - Alina Bleue

[themcst]

      ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʜᴏᴍᴇ!

            ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴇ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇᴇɴ?

                  ᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ,

                        sᴏ ʟᴇᴛ’s ʙᴇɢɪɴ

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[purified-zone]

[inhalerupdates]

Inhaler performing at Indiependence Festival in Cork last night!

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[woomycritiques543]

FYI: Alastor was created by Viv when she was in high school. He's not an attempt to appeal to the Onceler crowd

Bruh thats not even an excuse.

She legit could have redesigned him to not do that, since Lucifer and Charlie and Angel and Husk are a thing. He definitely was after.

She could have choosen to be more creative with it.

But NOOOoooooo crowd appeal is more important apparently. 

Especially nowadays, seeing how the series has become for the past... three or more years. It also makes me miss the 2019 Hazbin days (besides... the toxic as all hell fandom 😬). It just felt like Vivziepop used to be more bright and passionate. Now- she just overworks herself a ton for crowd appeal, and seems a quite miserable if I were to be 100% honest. If she wasnt so rude and weaponizing her trauma like she did a week ago against people who were also traumatized (from generations of discrimination) by the very representation she promised to "improve", (and yet barely does so unless it benefits mostly herself.) I would genuinely feel bad for her. But Hazbin wise- she did this to herself.

Pitching Hazbin and causing herself to no longer 100% own her own ocs- by herself. When she could have made Hazbin indiependent, post poned Helluva Boss, and none of this would happened. Instead, she bit off more than she can chew, and now herself and her freinds are having to suffer for it. Helluva Boss being created while she was in the middle of pitching an entire cartoon? Also, her own fault. She keeps complaining about her workload with HB/H and such, but how can I actuallt feel bad for her if again- she did that to herself. This was supposed to be a passion project, and now its just a overworked stressed out mess that's more about profit and validation above all else. To the point where it's production is filled with artist mistreatment (of multiple people! stop with the "erin frost!" bullshit!), stress venting every few months, constantly trying to appeal to what's "hip" in adult animation (Brandon Rodgers modern family guy "adult comedy" and all) and Vivziepop just stressing the hell out of herself and effecting her own health while all anyone can do is watch as she piles herself with more and more stress.

(more on this down below...)

The series is becoming the very thing Vivziepop herself said that she was against a year or so back- a mainstream, overproduced, fame focused franchise from a big name studio (Spindlehorse) that mistreats the people it promises to help. Does this franchise even need the "indie" title anymore? It has big name actors, thousands of pieces of merchandising, hundreds of artists, and millions of dollars behind it. It might as well just be another big name studio's sellout cartoon. Studio mistreatment, overproduction, constant merchandising, and all. Its gone from " a little passion project that was made to get away from the harsh conditions of large studio production"- to a "bigger is better" capitalistic, sell out of it's former self. Sure, there's passion left, but not enough to where there's actual care for those who produce it. It's come to a point where both Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are now as close to a "capitalism embracing, big name cartoon" that a "indie" franchise can get. A big name, capitalism embracing, money hoarding, big name cartoon. The very thing indie creators go freelance to stay away from, in the first place! Now, it takes advantage of it's "indie" label to trick freelance artists into going back into the very conditions they were trying to avoid. Truly, a depressing case of a indie creator letting both fame, fortune, and validation take control of their intentions, with their treatment of others along with it.

AKA: The Butch Hartman story. Except its being speedrun by a scene girl with a show full of suit wearing sparkledog furries.

(Not that theres anything wrong with the other details (sparkledogs are nice away from animation.) but you get the idea 😞)

[thesnowfelled]

THESNOWFELLED   . . . .   ❝  I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it KISSES them so gently? And then it COVERS them up snug, you know, with a white QUILT; and perhaps it says, ‘go to SLEEP, darlings, till the SUMMER comes again. ❞   . . . .   an INDIEPENDENT MULTIMUSE blog written by GWENDOLYN. This blog is +18 with triggering material tagged. Several fandoms including but not limited to greek mythology, the vampire diaries, fandomless, legacies, and more.

[projectofnapskintprojectofnaps]

Toontrack『SDX Indiependent』は、シアトルの伝説的スタジオAvast! Recording Co.で収録されたビンテージドラム音源。

Superior Drummer 3と連携し、インディーミュージックをはじめ、幅広いジャンルに対応したプロ仕様のドラムサウンドを自宅で再現できます。

[nicoleaudreyco]

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[in-my-brocken-heart]

En un par de dias se cumple un año (10 dias para ser exactos) desde que tome la decisión de dejarte ir.. Y esta canción me ha traido una vez más tu recuerdo a la mente y al corazón. Tu mi dosis sintetica 🖤✨

Me creerías si te digo que fue lo mas difícil que pude hacer en toda mi vida?. Tenia mucho miedo porque sabia que no encontraria a alguien igual a ti, sabia que lo que perdia era mas grande que lo que podria ganar, sabia que lo que fuera a decir esa noche cambiaria las cosas para siempre y a pesar de eso, lo hice, pero creeme cuando te digo que en el fondo de mi corazon yo queria que nada de lo que estaba pasando fuera real, pero asi fue..

Llevaba meses, muchos meses pensando que era lo que tenia que hacer y aun asi no me alcanzo el tiempo, pues no tenia las respuestas, espero que entiendas cuando te digo que ya estaba cansado fisica y mentalmente y aun asi no se de donde sacaba energias para seguir luchando, pues dure todavia casi un año con pensamientos interminables de que era lo que tenia que hacer para que funcionaramos, pero aun asi, no nos alcanzo la salud mental para aguantar un poco más por este amor que nos teniamos, este amor tan real pero semiamargo que nos teníamos.

Recuerdo esa ultima aventura a tolantongo, ibamos tan ajustados de dinero que a pesar de eso, creo que ambos pudimos disfrutar de tan hermoso lugar, a pesar de no haber tenido tantos ratos solos para platicar, te juro que incluso ahi me la pase pensando como podiamos salvar lo nuestro y aun asi, los recuerdos de esos dias son lo mas bonito que conservo de nosotros.

Recuerdo todas las veces que me pedias atención y que me acercara a ti para decirte como me sentia, que me notabas distante, seco y tan diferente y si, lo acepto, todo eso fue tal cual, fui todo eso.. Por cobarde, sabia que no podia darte lo que necesitabas, lo supe desde hace mucho y más sin embargo siempre me quize quedar porque habia otras cosas que te estaba ofreciendo, tristemente jamas fuiste capaz de notarlo, hasta que ya no tenia nada para darte, fue cuando me rompi, ese 5 de junio..

Hubo otras formas en las que pense que podria funcionar, como la propuesta de irnos a vivir a ciudad de México, empeza de cero, un nuevo lugar para ti, mayores oportunidades, y una nueva oportunidad para ambos, al principio aceptaste y me senti aliviado por eso, pero al cabo de semanas te retractaste y entonces se me cayo el mundo al suelo pues no podia obligarte y entonces simplemente nos dejamos ir poco a poco a partir de eso y hasta volvernos unos completos desconocidos..

Te fuiste hace ya un año y aunque acepto el hecho de que ahora estes con alguien que espero de corazon te este dando todo lo que mereces, he de admitir que me duele tanto en el alma, no haber podido ser yo quien este ahí contigo, pues ¿recuerdas? Tantas promesas que nos hicimos solo para quedarse en eso.. promesas.

Me hubiera encantado ser el hombre que te protegiera, te hiciera feliz y cuidara, ese hombre al que pudieras ver como tu amigo, tu novio y quiza familia algun día, hice todo lo que estaba en mis manos y aun asi tu me conocias, no me hubiera rendido hasta conseguirlo, pero ya no estabamos conectados, ya no eramos..

Esto que escribo creo que jamas lo sabras, pero por eso lo pongo aqui (guardo aun nuestras fotos y todos nuestros recuerdos), y aun asi nada de esto sera suficiente para todo lo que aun me encantaria estar diciendote y viviendo contigo y porque tu y yo sabemos que este ha sido nuestro rinconcito cuando necesitamos sacar nuestras penas, penas que a nadie le contariamos, lo pongo aqui porque se que a veces regresas por aca entonces tengo la esperanza de que si ves esto, conozcas la verdad, se que es tarde y esta bien pero en mi corazon necesito que lo sepas y algun dia me perdones por dejarte ir sin decirte porque.. Te dje ir porque no merecías a alguien como yo, alguien que a pesar de todo el amor que pudo darte, jamas encontro la forma de hacerlo, mis manos quedaron llenas llenas de amor que jamas pude darte por el simple hecho de que no era visible para ti, ¿como podria yo aceptar el amor que me dabas, si no era capaz de darte el amor que merecias? (Deje que el miedo, el orgullo y la tristeza acabara con nosotros). Jamas me perdonare por eso..

Te deje ir porque ya sabia lo que pasaria incluso antes de que pasara y tenia que elegir, si seguia intentando salvar algo que ya no tenia solides o salvarte a ti.. por nuestra salud mental, por el tiempo juntos, por los bonitos recuerdos que teniamos, por el cariño, por el amor que no nos pudimos dar, aunque en el fondo me quedara sólo, tenia que tomar una desicion, asi me odiaras y te perdiera solo la tome..

Te deje ir.

Pero mantengo mi palabra y mi promesa contigo, aunque ya no estemos juntos, tu sabes cual es. Espero no la olvides.

Y si algún dia te vuelvo a ver no dire nada, solo preguntare si puedo abrazarte, y si accedes.. Te prometo.. No!, me prometo no volverte a soltar. Hasta entonces mi marinero❤️🌻

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On the bass - Robert Keating

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