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    Goodiepal

    in Music Discussion

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    On 3/13/2011 at 8:16 AM, eh Speedy said:

    Maybe you didn't hear me. Self promotional attempts are admirable, but we're not stupid (and are offended that you think we are).

     

    and in the future, less gimmick.

    That didn't age well.

    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    For me, Siamese Dream is the obvious musical peak for SP. A stone cold rock classic. 62 mins of pure bliss. I understand those who call Mellon Collie bloated, and I could easily(?) remove 40 mins of it to make it fit on a sincle cd or something. But I mean... look at the title, the coverart, the pretentiousness, the almost delusional whole package of it. It's almost unheard of. It came out two weeks before my 18th birthday. And never before or even after, has a band I felt so connected to released such a grand concept album.

    I had high hopes for Adore, but the cringey lyrics and the latex emo style just put me off. I've tried to listen to their more recent output but it's so unbelieveably poor compared to the Gish-Siamese-Mellon Collie era, imo.  

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    Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

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    On 10/21/2020 at 11:36 PM, fumi said:

     

    I dunno so much with OPN. 'Age Of' and 'GOD' felt like an artist throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick. I also feel that (even now) he's yet to find what he's really looking for. Lots of his stuff has long sections of meh vibes and then for ten or fifteen seconds he throws in some tiny shining gem that's gone before you even had chance to appreciate it.

    This.

    When I listen to a OPN album I find it mildly fascinating. Now and then he finds the sweet spot, but every time it's over way too soon. It's like a twenty second cocktease followed by a punch to the nose over and over for 40 mins. Long road home is kinda promising, so I'll give the album a go.

     

    14 hours ago, Alcofribas said:

    as for tim hecker, harmony in ultraviolet is one of my favorite albums of all time. i now cringe when i see he has a new album out. he ran out of ideas a long time ago ?

    I don't get it. He is getting more progressively "concepty" and "arty" but ran out of ideas a long time ago? I found Konoyo to be full of new ideas both in terms of build ups, use of instruments, and so on. A bit "concepty", I agree, but still amazing soundscapes and melodies, IMO. Listen to the latest releases by Com Truise or Lorn. It's like they make the same track over and over. Thats what lacking new ideas means to me. Gotta give artists credits for exploring new fields.

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

    in Autechre

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    Wonderful album. Exactly what I need right now. Can't really remember the last time a new AE-release made me so satisfied. As always, it's not for everyone, but that Guardian-review is kinda cringeworthy. "Crowded dystopian soundworld?" No one else is in Autechres soundworld, you lazy prick. "Negative space?" Can't imagine a more positive space tbh.

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    I like the quietus review. As a hardcore fanboi for +20 years I should have been in heaven for the last couple of years. Five elseqs? 8 hrs of NTS? 35 live albums the last five years? But it’s just too much for me to grasp. It must be around 50 hrs of mostly noisy, erratic, sprawling wall of sounds. Like the IDM-version of my kids birthdays. I’m old now. I like more mellow, lush soundscapes. More Bladelores, less Fleure. More Surripere less P.:NTIL.

    So, I’m stoked AF for tomorrow.

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

    in Autechre

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    1 hour ago, naawRaybarn said:

    Hey, wait, what?? What is Sean doing here in Norway? Hiking in the mountains? Fishing? Rock climbing? Scouting after new venues for holding gigs in? Guess we'll never find out ?

    WTF. I guess he wants to get away from all the fans, paparazzi and the British tabloid press linking him to Pippa Middleton and Katie Price. Now he has found solitude in some small Norwegian community, where he can walk around like a normal man, and spends his time hiking in the forest and mountains.  But then some day, a strange creepy looking guy (that's me), stands outside the small hobbit-like hut he is renting, screaming "SEAN PLS!" Neighbors notice my AE-covid mask, and starts googling. Suddenly people realize they have an international techno star living in THEIR village! Busloads of fans comes from towns from Hammerfest to Mandal, there are AE-tribute rave parties followed by riots, chaos and a second covid wave. Norwegian tabloid press starts linking Sean to Martha Louise and Rachel Nordtømme. People are hammering at Seans door all night screaming things like “will there be another Dual Purpose release?” and “do you know what Pule means in Norwegian?”. And then Sean thinks “fuck it”, goas back to Manchester and starts working on the follow up GNIS. 

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    Ambient - The Megathread

    in Music Discussion

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    I fucking love this thread. I started on top of this last page, and I'm currently at all those lovely mountain albums from David Parsons. Amazing abience, perfect for home office working. Although I'm a bit concerned about my own listening preference changing from more complex and up-tempo music to ambient techno, then to pure ambient and droney stuff, and now mostly sorta new age space ambient. If this continues I guess will listen to whale noises only in a few years.

     

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