awepittance Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 not sure, but i would like to think theSun would be making threats involving knives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coax Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Well, needledrops review is up Is aiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 lol at comparing T Ess Xi with Lone's Galaxy Garden I like the point he makes about the long tracks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Ugh that guy. He knows what he's talking about, but I wish he'd stop with those awkward stutter edits and shitty jokes. Lame, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 He's not bad at all but the glitch reference is out of place with Ae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Ugh that guy. He knows what he's talking about, but I wish he'd stop with those awkward stutter edits and shitty jokes. Lame, I think it serves him well... he doesn't take himself too seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schlitze Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Fantano sucks balls imo, i've seen other Ae reviews by this douche, his script isn't too bad (although it's not great) it's his childrens tv presenter brand of enthusiasm and delivery, as if he's talking to babies, it's just stoopid and unsuitable. Someone has told him he's awesome at some point and he's ran with it. I think he may have lost his soul along the way and we're left with this vacant shell of tardishness which he sees as a sufficient substitute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 i think his reviews are thoughtful and decent. My only complaint about him is he seems to only review stuff thats relatively hyped up. yeah i actually like the fact that he tries to explain his viewpoint, but i think he mostly just hits up all the main hipster spots like pitchfork, tmt, gorillavsbear etc and does his reviews based on those "trending" albums plus whatever the majority consensus hypes him towards if you check his older videos, you'll notice he was trying to expose some lesser known artists- but too much of his audience now just wants to hear him talk about what they're listening to and he seems to be satisfying those needs now btw: his cal chuchesta gag is now embarrassingly bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cear Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I was subscribed to him for a long while, but the problem I had with him (though I liked the idea a lot of video reviewing) is that his reviews were all very very similar to each other. His Skrillex review is what tipped the scale though. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I really dislike how he's like, there are elements of Glitch on Exai, there are elements of IDM on exai, it's a meaningless reference. why can't he just talk about the sounds directly instead of using the genre-language reducing valve? avant-garde techno....ambient...drum and bass.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 it's a very hand-wavy way to talk about music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apriorion Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 The boy likes himself too much. He likes his own schtick, he likes his own appearance, and he clearly likes the sound of his own voice. I feel like I just watched a video of a guy masterbating for about 12 minutes in front of the mirror, and then he edited out some of the parts where things were going a little slow so it looks more passionate throughout the duration of 9 minutes. Although I agree with a few points he made, it could have been made more efficiently and with more insight. Nothing I saw warranted a video. Even if it were written, it would have been about as bland as the typical music blog post. I've read more interesting points on watmm, is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 hey let's review his review. I give it a 7/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 hey let's review his review. I give it a 7/10. Im feeling a strong 6 to a light 7. How'd you feel about the review? Love it? Hate it? Why? Anthony Fantano... theneedledrop... forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Which review should we review next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Lol, exai review thread turns into theneedledrop review of reviews thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 As far as reviewers go, Fantano does a good job. He can rub people the wrong way, sure, but he does make a point of actually describing the music. Plus he gave it an 8, so I don't feel like killing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 rofl I think it was a fine review, and that he speaks very articulately about the music -- not from a musician's standpoint (he doesn't talk about time signatures and triplets and stereo widening), but from a listener's perspective. He seems to like hip-hop and hard metal a lot, so if he wants to say 'glitch,' fine -- I know what he means, good enough. And I think a lot of the things he says about the music -- that it's expansive, detailed, cerebral yet still emotional, not necessarily hugely new for autechre, a 'feat' -- I think are true. I wish he'd picked up on how dubby some of the tracks are, but you can't talk about everything. But again, I laud his effort to really try to describe the music itself and the experience of listening to it -- so sick of reading reviews that devote 90% of their column space to the artist's and album's backstory instead of telling me what it sounds like. I find him a ton less 'hand-wavy' than a lot of the other reviews that have been posted to this thread. Also, he speaks exactly like a good friend of mine, which is kind of uncanny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 rofl I think it was a fine review, and that he speaks very articulately about the music -- not from a musician's standpoint (he doesn't talk about time signatures and triplets and stereo widening), but from a listener's perspective. He seems to like hip-hop and hard metal a lot, so if he wants to say 'glitch,' fine -- I know what he means, good enough. And I think a lot of the things he says about the music -- that it's expansive, detailed, cerebral yet still emotional, not necessarily hugely new for autechre, a 'feat' -- I think are true. I wish he'd picked up on how dubby some of the tracks are, but you can't talk about everything. But again, I laud his effort to really try to describe the music itself and the experience of listening to it -- so sick of reading reviews that devote 90% of their column space to the artist's and album's backstory instead of telling me what it sounds like. I find him a ton less 'hand-wavy' than a lot of the other reviews that have been posted to this thread. Also, he speaks exactly like a good friend of mine, which is kind of uncanny. Well said, you make a lot of good points. To add he does a good job of adding emphasis to things while also keeping a casual/chill vibe. The writing may be a lot less creative, but he gets to the point and doesn't try and make "impressions" feel anymore thought over than they should be. If I want to witness another person's perspective of a certain album/track I'd rather they draw/paint a picture or make a video that abstractly amplifies what a piece of music says to them; commonalities between one another and the musician. Kind of like looking at the exai vinyl as you listen to 11 is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine recorder Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 "For devotees who are willing to gaze into the digital abyss, Exai holds unfathomable depths" popmatters review-spot on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Well, needledrops review is up Is aiight cool review for this little time it has been out but lol how does one bop his head on exai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Well, needledrops review is up Is aiight cool review for this little time it has been out but lol how does one bop his head on exai? I was thinking that same thing. For anyone who knows music theory, does autechre even follower a time signature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 exai is possibly the easiest album to bop ones head to. ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Most ae tracks are in 4/4. Actually off the top of my head I can only think of two which aren't: 777 and Cichli. Maybe some parts of Sublimit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coax Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I'm not able to hear less obvious time signatures as much, but aren't Uviol, Maphive 6.1 and Hub examples of signatures other than 4/4? I'm sure there are others, need to check again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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