{"id":5541,"date":"2011-07-21T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:37:50","slug":"nicholas-szczepanik-please-stop-loving-me-streamline-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/?p=5541","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Szczepanik &#8211; Please Stop Loving Me (Streamline, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?attachment_id=5542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5542\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nicholas-szczepanik-please-stop-loving-me-album-cover-500x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cover_art\" width=\"500\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nicholas-szczepanik-please-stop-loving-me-album-cover-500x473.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nicholas-szczepanik-please-stop-loving-me-album-cover.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nszcz.com\/\">Nicholas Szczepanik<\/a> &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Nicholas%20Szczepanik%20-%20Please%20Stop%20Loving%20Me%20(excerpt).mp3\"> Please Stop Loving Me (excerpt)<\/a><br \/>\n<audio src=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Nicholas%20Szczepanik%20-%20Please%20Stop%20Loving%20Me%20(excerpt).mp3]\" controls><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis is difficult for me. I haven&#8217;t written a full album review since <a href=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?p=5444\">Mind Over Mirrors<\/a> on June 1. That&#8217;s almost 2 months (not that I&#8217;m counting or anything). But it&#8217;s not just about having a hard time gettin my groove back, I&#8217;m also having some performance anxiety. You see, <i>Please Stop Loving Me<\/i> is downright <i>astonishing<\/i> and possibly the best drone record this year, and trying to do justice to it while my gears are rusted over is a bit nerve wracking.<\/p>\n<p>New work from Nicholas Szczepanik isn&#8217;t rare. If you&#8217;ve been keeping up with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nszcz.com\/index.php?\/discography\/ante-algo-azul\/\">Ante Algo Azul<\/a> subscription series, you&#8217;d know he&#8217;s been putting out a new 15-20 minute piece every month. However, a new <i>full length<\/i>, well, we haven&#8217;t had one of those since LAST YEAR. Withdrawal inducing, to say the least. But the best news about this recent one, though, is that it&#8217;s the longest single piece Szczepanik has released (I think?), just about 50 minutes worth of beautiful tones &#038; dreamlike drones. Fucking HEAVEN.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine a nicer way to spend each and every day than listening to <i>Please Stop Loving Me<\/i>. It dances in such organic ways, shifts and glides so smoothly, pure delicacy seeping through each moment. It&#8217;s like swimming through a spring fed lake, floating from pockets of warm to cool, rising and falling but always completely immersed.<\/p>\n<p>As wonderfully serene as it is, the whole time you&#8217;re wading waist deep in emotion, the sustained &#038; intertwined tones heavy hearted, cascading heartache, longing, and hope. An elegiac softness matched with poignant massiveness that ends on the brightest, most uplifting note, fading into the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve listened to this countless times and every time it&#8217;s more breathtaking than the last. It&#8217;s almost overwhelming how gorgeous it is. If I was the type of dude that was brought to tears by a record, <i>Please Stop Loving Me<\/i> would have made me weep until I collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Szczepanik &#8211; Please Stop Loving Me (excerpt) &nbsp; This is difficult for me. I haven&#8217;t written a full album review since Mind Over Mirrors on June 1. That&#8217;s almost 2 months (not that I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2276],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}