Girl, Who Asked?

It’s that time of the year again!!! It has been another full year of hunting down as many new albums as possible, and what a successful hunt it was. Overall I listened to 336 albums from a massive range of genres, so I hope there will be a little something for everyone. So without further ado, welcome to the 2025 Girl, Who Asked Awards Show! Allow me to introduce this year’s categories. Uncut Gems for Uncut Princesses Dog Penis Undoers Party Favors Fear Fuel for Hoes who Love Being Scared  For Girls who are Cowboys Album of the Year   Uncut Gems for Uncut Princesses This is an "honorable mentions" section of sorts. I evaluate albums as one full cohesive piece of music. I love seeing how artists construct a full experience, the way that a well assembled tracklist with well placed interludes can become so much more than the sum of its parts. But sometimes looking at the forest causes you to miss some really beautiful trees. This category is for those messy forests with be...

  FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA Afterglow Tracks  11 Runtime  40mins Favorite Tracks  Love Crimes, Wild And Alone, HARD, Predictable Girl, Sushi   I have mixed opinions about Charli XCX’s critically acclaimed 2024 album BRAT, but I cannot deny the cultural sensation it sparked. It was, for many people, their first interaction with this club style electronic dance music, and its fusion with Charli’s addicting pop songwriting had people instantly hooked. They wanted more. And it was at this point, at exactly the right time, that FKA Twigs announced EUSEXUA, coming early 2025. And the hype was instantaneous. Twigs is known for her attention to detail, her artistry, her ability to craft vibes and sounds you don’t really experience anywhere else. She’s a powerhouse in the Art Pop world, and no stranger to club music, often using deconstructed club beats and stylings to build masterpieces like her 2019 album MAGDALENE. EUSEXUA sadly, was none of these things. The production was...

Old Saw - The Wringing Cloth Tracks  12 Runtime  1hr 13mins Favorite Tracks  Tilt of the Lamp, Long Distance Engraving, Lacustrina, Mock Silver, Aproxmare   Despite my homosexual tendencies and my transgender approach to art, I’ve never been the hugest fan of noise music. Fused with other genres the texture and composition stylings of noise music can elevate music to near divinity, but noise and harsh noise on its own is never going to be a first choice for me. The one exception to this however, is ambient noise. Artists like Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Tim Hecker have taught me so much about how much detail and care can be expressed in music that sounds so simple. A recent fixation of mine has been ambient country and Americana. I’ve been playing Dust Devils, a Wild West TTRPG, with some friends in my spare time, and our setting is Arizona, 1895. With no magic, no frills, just the Wild West, setting the tone has been instrumental in telling an engaging st...

La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car  Tracks  14 Runtime  1hr 5mins Favorite Tracks  Man with Hands and Ankles Bound, Environmental Catastrophe Film, Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un - Sound, Landlord Calls the Sheriff In, Steve, I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In, End Times Sermon   There are very few songs that are as ruthlessly undoing as La Dispute’s 2011 hit King Park. It’s earth shattering. Lead singer Jordan Dreyer’s prose and descriptions, as he tells this story of a teenager accidentally killing a child in a drive-by shooting, is vivid, uncomfortable, far too close. Set to a driving, almost reckless guitar riff, it builds and builds and builds until it finally zooms in on the finale: the shooter, hiding in a motel room, surrounded by cops, holding the murder weapon, with one idea left, one way out. Dreyer screams that idea, his voice cracking, breaking under its own weight, one final question. “Can I still get into ...