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The new Fleet Foxes is so good, which isn’t surprising but I think he just keeps getting better and better or at least as I get older and listen to indie music less, I appreciate the style of arrangements he’s been gravitating towards and the like modern classical and art pop influences. The sort of unexpectedly overt Steve Reich style strings on ‘Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman’ are so good and that track also samples an unused Brian Wilson vocal take I guess, but it still sounds very Fleet Foxes. Idk where to post about the new Oneohtrix Point Never, but it’s real good and more ‘indie’ than most of his other stuff, I guess aside from Black Snow, but that was a very poppy single on an album of weird and unpoppy music. https://youtu.be/MYr5MypHAhQ I actually like this track more, but I love all three tracks he put out, one is like 22 seconds long though. But this one is more like R plus 7 or something with the lo fi tape warble that the other track has https://youtu.be/EH0pcBZMfEg
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exquisite tea posted:I last saw Andrew Bird perform in 2012 or so, around the same time he was touring for Break It Yourself. The man plays the violin like it was an extension of his own body. I remembered feeling awestruck and at the same time tremendously sad that so much talent was bound up a single person. Yeah I saw him around then, or I guess before 2010 because I was like 16, at Radio City Music Hall and it’s really mind blowing. Like, not only can he play well as a solo violinist, but with a loop pedal he can be as lush as a symphony while also playing beautiful pizzicato stuff and on top of all that, he’s also a whistling virtuoso. I mean I’m serious, I’ve never heard anyone whistle as well as he does, and he does it while he plays violin. exquisite tea posted:I have respect for anyone who can play the violin well. It's an instrument that takes like 10 years of practice simply to not suck. This is also true, I took cello lessons briefly in high school before I realized that you need to be pretty rich to play any stringed instrument like that, but even though I was able to play very basic stuff, when I tried to play a single note on a violin it felt like it was impossible not to make horrible screeching noises. imhotep fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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mycophobia posted:great album: I love it, was very surprised by the lack of drums and just the shift from the sound of the NTS sessions and Elseq, etc. but Oversteps and Quaristice are probably my favorite Autechre albums and I really like their more melodic albums.
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mycophobia posted:it seems drier than Quaristice and Oversteps. like a lot less reverb, which is interesting. tons of little details going on in the background too. Hm, yeah although I love the way they use reverb, not when it’s just drenched in dark reverb, but stuff like fwze from quaristice, if you listen to that on headphones it’s almost like whiplash as the space that the sounds are ‘in’ transform rapidly as they pan back and forth, and swell/shrink/mutate like every other beat, it’s bonkers https://youtu.be/O_DaqCB8aHU Stuff like Bladelores tho is an example of the sort of autechre verb that I don’t like. But yeah the new album is weird and unexpected but I was in love by the time the second track finished. It’s not only a normal album length, but it’s weirdly straight forward, and tracks like psin m and th red a remind me of boards of Canada and F7 almost sounds like it could be a post rock song if Autechre remixes or covered one. And then stuff like Metaz Form8, gr4 and r cazt are beautiful and lush, overall it’s a bizarrely ‘sentimental’ album if you can call autechre’s stuff sentimental, it’s just more blatantly uh, optimistic or something. Then of course there’s tracks like sch.mefd 2, or M4 Lema and esc desc which are more abrasive, but then they sort of open up and make way for a beautiful pad, or you can sort of just hear the inner workings of them and hear that there’s more to it. Then like au14 is pretty classic autechre, but still cool. And agreed, it’s really nice to have an hour long album and not a 5 disc album, or an 8 hour thing like the NTS sessions.. even Exai was 2 hours long, and I thought that was excessive. You heard this, the Japanese bonus track? It’s lovely, I like it more than some tracks on the album, the subtle movement and texture of the pad underneath the violin sounding lead, which i think sounds like the closest they’ve come to emulating an actual acoustic instrument, is just incredible https://youtu.be/2Kqbu8VSDd4 imhotep fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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Idk how the gently caress they did quaristice mainly on the old Elektron devices, I’m borrowing a friends machinedrum SP1 UW MKII, and loaded the autechre sysex from their quaristice tour and like, they definitely push the machinedrum to its limit and do things I had no idea were possible with it, but if they really did only use hardware on it I have no idea how they did like any of that stuff like fwze. Here’s a little clip of me playing some https://twitter.com/burtchintus/status/1321047942518616067?s=21 it’s so fun, it’s like a private autechre concert circa 2008, but minus the melody.
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Bad snipe, but OPN’s new album ‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’ is out Friday and I’m stoked, he released a second ‘suite’ of 5 tunes, this one is probably his most indie, it’s funny hearing like a rock/pop acoustic drum beat in an opn song. Incredible sound design as usual, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zqGnV5GTo This one has The Weeknd and it’s my least favorite, it sounds the weeknd more than an opn song and it sounds like The Weeknd trying good make a cheesy Phil Collins song or something https://youtu.be/g9x_3chVyW4 https://youtu.be/PttLnfRHeYI Love this one too, but it’s more like the older experimental stuff but with Nolan Berollin rapping on it? I like it, I’ve just never heard of him, but I love the weird style of rap that a few producers sometimes do like opn’s collaboration with Ishmael Butler, or Jam City’s collaboration with Main Attrakionz. And these two sound like cool interstitial radio bits, like the first ep ‘drive time suite’s cross talk I, I love the old radio theme that’s constant in all these tracks https://youtu.be/rpfOp7NqctM https://youtu.be/I6CyY2dHa9I Also the new Actress is cool so far, just started listening.
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Another new Autechre came out today, called Plus and it’s insane https://youtu.be/DYReXEknBlg
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captainOrbital posted:Thanks to whatever the hell you people were arguing about, I have really gotten into In the Morse Code of Brake Lights. I love Sign, but Plus is maybe my new favorite, I can’t stop listening. I could never get into the first three or so autechre albums or basically most of their stuff up until envane is just weirdly dated and plodding to me, and I know that’s like heresy to autechre fans so I might be a poser but I just couldn’t ever get into them beyond a few tracks from each. It’s mainly the drums, they’re just like too up front and bit crushed, and I guess that’s what makes it ‘dated’ sounding to me. I’d rather listen to SAW by aphex twin or early boards of canada, even tho boc have a similarly dated drum sound now to me, but they’re still great. I like that the album covers for the new records look like red and green versions of Pokémon games, too:  
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lol this just showed up on my YouTube feed, I don’t know who made this but i thought it was funny https://youtu.be/koOL_9ikfpQ
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air- posted:Holy gently caress... What??? That’s incredibly sad, she was truly one of the most talented electronic musicians of our generation. This is one of my favorites, at least from her album/the less ‘clubby’ tunes https://youtu.be/q0rqR06E1WU She also just released a really good single like two days ago as well as the Autechre remix of Bipp a couple of weeks ago, both on Numbers. RIP 
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only got to see her when RA did a PC music showcase at SXSW 2015 and that was an awesome show
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Nihonniboku posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFMhqHVlIQ I like a lot of this, but the vocals aren’t quite my taste or the last part, but I know it’s very well done still. I guess I wanted it to be more like do make say think, but I was trying to think of other bands that have a jazzy sound like that, but I haven’t really been keeping up with like indie as much as I used to in general, at least in the last few years. For whatever reason it reminded me of this song which I hadn’t heard in years, which isn’t much like it but the album is pretty white guy jazz overall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPkNyIDzu0o
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caroline polachek also sings on oneohtrix point never's long road home, but through a bunch of wobbly vocoders, but they did a version where her voice is mostly unprocessed and it rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbfgRI8G38 i still prefer the original because i love vocoders but both are great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5azY0dH67U
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I just found out bibio has a new album which came out in October, but no one’s posted it, but the single is more indie rock than a lot of his stuff usually, the rest of the album is sort of a specific kind of funk or rnb sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5P9XGefS4
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the best indie track of the year is by lil yachty tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSemB-pfR2c Jam city produced the track for him and its mostly just yachty singing on a different arrangement/mix of his own previously released song, but I think I like the yachty one more now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3q5dSsG8Y Also the best mac demarco song is chamber of reflection and it’s entirely due to the sample/track they covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oS_B6IaKE imhotep fucked around with this message at 17:34 on May 1, 2023 |
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