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  1. In 2017 all I heard was continuation of Clark self-titled (2014) which is an album I still don't enjoy.  Buuut after a long pause on Clark I put on Death Peak for the first time in 6 years and damn, I was surprised I kind of love it from beginning to end.  For being a post- Totem's Flare era album Death Peak sticks out.  I can hear the culmination of his prior tracks and specifically from Turning Dragon and some of the good parts of Iradelphic.  Basically not at all what I heard on release

    Wondering what others think on revisiting this one. I know it's not the golden era of Clark but really I think it is a strong work comparable to those albums. There's a ton of interesting ideas and production (of course), a focused sense of progression between tracks with some strong motifs, it feels cinematic in the way Body Riddle does.  I couldn't necro-post the original thread so here's a new one

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  2. 2 minutes ago, o00o said:

    Did you guys watch the killer in cinema? On Netflix it says next Friday and sailing the high seas didn’t wash it ashore either 

    Yeah it's the blink-and-you-miss-it Netflix strategy of putting it in a few theaters for a weekend or two before it drops on streaming.  Like, I wanna say a few dozen theaters nationally got this.  I'm a big fan of Fincher so I drove to the nearest showing 2 hours away.  No idea if this is being shown outside of the United States.

    Really lame because this film rocks in the theater. The sound design / soundtrack and bass is very slick, I'm glad I made it out to see it.  Frustrating they can't just give The Killer a standard wide release.

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  3. On 10/30/2023 at 9:16 AM, Alcofribas said:

    *the killer semi-spoilers*

    Yeah this is exactly how I experienced this movie. His voice-over lines are delivered like half-assed tweets to calm himself down while demonstrating zero self-reflection, he just cranks up The Smiths.  Found myself laughing at times the theater was silent so I don't know if it tracks with everybody.  But I can also see this being "yeah I get it who cares" for some people too.  Taut and straight without the narrative twists in Fincher's best work.  I loved it and it might be his funniest

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  4. On 10/1/2023 at 10:29 AM, o00o said:

    It really depends on the creator. It’s like the rest of the internet. You can just watch a bunch of videos the creator did and get a really good impression what the channel is about. Also when you use the search engine it starts showing you more of what you search for. It feels a bit like training a dog. If you train your algorithm to show you nice things and mute the bullshit it’s really interesting and high quality but you can also train it to just show a bunch of shit 

    That's the thing though, on TikTok it's become easier than ever to be less intentional with what you're consuming. You can put in the work to curate like you've done but how many others have as much scrutiny? The interest?

    If there's a trend I'm seeing it's in platforms making it easier to not think about the message in the content. You can swallow questionable platitudes framed as wisdom in corny fonts, even plain bad advice, and with scarcely a memory of the origin of the advice: You scrolled quickly and the phrase became lodged in your brain forever.

    Compare to the conscious effort required to read a book. The context of its author, their reputation and their research, a body of work, and deciding how to interpret the author's thoughts behind their words. Reading criticisms and contemporaries. Etc.

    Bit of a tangent but yes, I know there is "reliable" and helpful advice/wisdom on these platforms. There is also plenty of bad advice and misinformation and hardly any tools or context to tell the difference, save for one's personal intuition.

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  5. Link, because none was given.. https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-animals

    This is ambience, it's glacial and it's nothing like his other work which is refreshing for me. Obvious comparisons to SAW II

     

    I caught him again a few days ago on tour and it seems like he's varied up the show quite a bit since the 2018/2019 All Melody tour(s). It's still him with seven keyboards +Juno lush factory, but it was less of the same (I've seen him three times).  I've restored my interest.

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  6. thanks for sharing. it's wearing its influences (too?) proudly. the production is not nearly as precise as BOC/Ae/et.al. and is somehow muddy and too "clean" at the same time. If I dreamt after listening to boards of canada and artificial intelligence this is the music my brain would make.

    Besides some of the timbres taken from BOC songs they really focus on nailing the chords and progressions to sound like them which might be what distances me from the album. Like others have said I hear a more authentic voice emerging in some tracks and that's more interesting to me. Still I enjoyed listening.

  7. 23 hours ago, exitonly said:

    saw that in high school, i liked it. messed up movie tho, should be obvious why most people wouldn’t want to see it

    If you're warned about the incredibly dark sexual assault scene(s) then that makes sense. Having that in the middle of an action sci-fi was really off-putting the first time I watched it. Still one of my favorites from the 90s though.

  8. 18 hours ago, YELLOW said:

    First watch tonight for this one. It remains kinda obscure despite the names attached to it, but it’s on HBO right now. The “trivia” says that Aphex played at the party scene at the end, how true do we think that is…

    One of the local art-house theatres was showing Strange Days in 35mm on New Year's Eve. It kicked ass, even more on my second viewing, probably better this time because it was on a big screen. Why does nobody talk about this movie: It has a great cyberpunk-lite setting, it has perfect 90s sci-fi movie characters and aesthetic, it's packed with ideas and politically relevant themes. It's James Cameron/ Katheryn Bigelow, why did this flop?

     

    I caught Aftersun a few days ago and was surprised how much I loved it. It's about as understated as you can get and it works so well. One of the best child performances I've ever seen too.

     

     

    7 hours ago, Silent Member said:

    Watched Barbarian. Maybe I expected too much from this. It was allright. I had heard so much hype about how mind blowing this was, and I took precautions to not get anything spoiled, but eh. It's fine.

    I agree with you on Barbarian. I think the first half was flawless in building some great scares. Second half derails hard though. My take on why this was hyped: people are starving for popcorn horror flicks in October that don't suck.

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  9. I've been on four different antidepressants over the course of 20 years and have lost all faith in them.  Sometimes I think it helps and sometimes I think the drug makes it distinctly worse.

    This year my body has plunged into the deepest suicidal depression I've ever known, but I'm coming out the other side right before Winter. [x] Lost job [x] Lost partner [x] Lost home (but I have an apartment now)

    Now to climb out of debt and find a job in a recession. My sympathy with all others powering on in silent glory.

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