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.
>