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From:
Clint Anderson
To:
kent williams
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Date:
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:18:55 -0500
Subject:
Re: Plaid Polymer
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going to listen a couple more times but i dunno, i find a lot of the tracks painfully cliched and predictable, which has always been my issue with plaid 'generic safe music with pseudo-idm percussion' Clint Anderson Systems Engineer "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 16 lines Those guys really have a way of being evocatively melodic in a way no one> Those guys really have a way of being evocatively melodic in a way no one > else seems to even try. Aphex Twin does a good job on a few tracks per > release, but can't keep it up for 13 tracks the way Plaid can. > > Dancers is perhaps the best exemplar -- unexpected, but emotionally > exciting chord change after chord change. > > I splurged and got the 24-bit WAV files and I think that's how they should > be heard -- punchy and dynamic and spacious. Haven't blind-tested them > against 16-bit wav (or MP3) but if you're going to shell out for the album, > I have to think it's worth the splurge. > > I wonder why Warp releases 24-bit WAV files but only 16-bit FLAC files. > FLAC encodes 24-bits just fine; in fact the first thing I do when i > download them is convert them to 24-bit FLAC. >