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We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various This EP rips.

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

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.

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

How'd you get to do that while the rest of us wait for Dec 15? I'm glad it's getting good buzz. I love all three of his films.

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.

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.

I've been saying this for years and the only people who agree with me are an IDM dad techno forum

quick recap, guy: Hey I have Hooper Bay *painstakingly holds phone in the vicinity of a record player* fans: um can you just record line out? guy eats Hooper Bay

but did anyone notice this doesn't sound like BOC

one of their best tracks, it never fails to lower my blood pressure and remind me that everything in life is exactly as it's supposed to be.

This would be one of the better tracks in a second Drift series. Barbara Barbara really surprised me, it stands up to their best from the Emerson era. Drift was interesting and had some standout moments for me. I'll be listening for sure, and it's great how these guys still find ways to do their thing.

I'm catching this in Seattle. so fucking excited.

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But what about this soundtrack? Can someone who doesn't hate him weigh in? None of his stuff after Harmony in Ultraviolet did much for me, but I really like everything up to it.