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He gave it a 6 ? a fking 6 ??

 

I give hime him a fucking ZERO

 

6/10 is not even remotely funny. it cannot be less that 8 or 9 basically, cause it's so good. fucking noobs that listening to bad quality mp3s...

 

 

I think all of my favourite albums would still sound great at 64 kbit/s, so that's not a valid argument. It is a bit telling as well that there's so much talking about the sound quality of this album. It may be great, I cannot really tell even though my setup is not that bad, but I don't really care about that. There's fantastic emotional depth on SAW or ICBYD and it doesn't really matter what quality the files, (physical) record or audio setup is.

I'm not saying that Syro doesn't work at lower quality, but as I said, there seems to be a lot talk about the sound quality and mastering per se, compared to other albums.

 

Definitely agree about an unusual amount of chatter about the mastering etc. I think part of the reason its mentioned so much is because its refreshingly 'uncompressed' sounding compared to sooooo much electronic music now. Its not in-your-face loud at every moment and has a lot of breathing room. If most albums were mastered this way I don't think it would be in the discussion so much.

 

that's interesting you say that since my very first impression of Minipops is that it sounded more compressed than any previous Aphex material. Of course it doesn't sound like its trying to emulate modern shitty 'edm' music but still.

 

anyways if people are not in love with the way the CD or digital was mastered, at least check out the vinyl (or a rip of it). It has noticeably more dynamic range and the transients are more sharp/punchy. On Xmas Evet10 for example you can hear the different volume levels of each bass line stab, whereas on the CD they sound almost the same volume the whole time. You can also much more clearly hear the piano riff on Xmas Evet10 on vinyl VS cd

 

my very first impression of minipops was that it blew my tits off

 

pressing play on syro feels like taking a drug: instant dopamine

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if you dont like minipops or xmas_eve off syro you are not my friend

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I hope the next one is more like collapse Edit: more glitchy

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I'm at work and I just saw this:

 

Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks
UNITED KINGDOM
1. Imagine Dragons, "Warriors" (Universal Music Ltd.)
2. alt-J, "Lovely Day (Bonus Track)" (Infectious)
3. Slash, "Sweet Child O' MIne - feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators; Live at Spotify, London" (Roadrunner Records)
4. James Bay, "Let It Go" (Republic Records)
5. Aphex Twin, "minipops 67(120.2)(source field mix)" (Warp Records)
6. SBTRKT, "Voices In My Head" (Young Turks Recordings Ltd)
7. Flying Lotus, "Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)" (Warp Records)
8. Slipknot, "The Devil In I" (Roadrunner Records)
9. Waze & Odyssey, "Bump & Grind 2014 (Waze & Odyssey vs. R. Kelly) - Radio Edit" (RCA Records)
10. Baz Luhrmann, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Suncreen)" (Capitol Records)
Above FlyLo and SBTRKT! I'm surprised.
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MEGA-interview ultra detailed conversation MEGA extensive in-depth interview
TOTALLY & UTTERLY SYROBONKERS!!!!

Wow, Noyzelab, easy on the superlatives on your own article. I'm immediately getting sceptical here.

Anyway, this could be good but I hope the interview is written better than this piece. Still have no idea what the connection Barclays - Aphex Twin is?

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Mr. Anthony's criticisms are kind of weird. Way too much talk of production quality which I guess he expected to be mindblowing and ahead of the curve in 2014? Needed more talk about the tunes themselves. He said Anastasia was dull as an album closer, but what would he think about it if it was just presented to him solo. He called a 10 minute track a monster and gave praise to all but like 3 tracks, and gave it a 6. Many other albums he gives 8s don't get as much praise as he gave Syro in that video.

He gave the FKA album 'LP1" an 8/10 for perspective. The production quality is on the same level as syro... well except the bass in Syro is more juicy, but as tunes I didn't hear anything nearly as fun or as detailed or as engaging as Syro.

So who knows, maybe he draws a number out of a hat for the score.

He also seems to be reviewing the album holistically. What if an album has 6 out of 12 tracks that you think are MONSTERS and insane, but the other 6 are kinda sucky. a 5/10? Would you give an album with a solid 12 out of 12 so-so tracks a 5/10?

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What I'm talking about has nothing to do with that interview...

And here I thought the GREATEST MOST SYROBONKERS RDJ INTERVIEW EVER was better than any new music :happy:

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Fantano has obviously never used drugs that is why he is so nauseatingly pedantic. I don't really mind the review though. I just enjoy hearing him pause to over emphasize the pronunciation of words.

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Syro (esp tracks 6-9 & 11) = RDJ's most 'skeletal' album? In some ways it reminds me of what Autechre did with Untilted. Except on Syro there are almost no typical effects (delays, reverbs, post production glitches, etc) whatsoever on this section of tracks.

I keep getting this symbolic meaning out of the album art, as well as the gear list. One obvious theme being transparency, full disclosure. In a way a good chunk (6-9, 11) of this album sounds like that as well, no trickery no washing of effects to embellish a sound or emotion, it's almost like he's daring us to like his music without any of the modern flash. Not too dissimilar to what he did with Analord, but I'd argue went a step more. Analord had a lot of knob twiddling and spring reverb, this has a surprisingly low amount of that even on the songs that sound like all hardware

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I'm never going to link another anthony fanto review again. This guy has used the following negatives against it:

  • His style sounds like Aphex which is vintage apparently
  • Too many notes, and didn't feel the need to understand it
  • Minipops isn't as good as the other songs
  • His DnB isn't Come To Daddy
  • His album might make other artists release music who haven't in a while

Well done. I agree its not good.

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