i do want to walk back my hot-take a bit
but, this is another one of those where, initially when the album was
promoted, the more caustic or abrasive and sort of edgy songs were pushed
as the promos
and the actual album is not by any stretch BAD, i'd just be going along
listening to one of the newer songs and then a song that to be honest
sounded like something years old by Plaid would come along in between
so really i was just sort of frustrated like, geez, this is classic old
plaid not some edgy new territory
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:40 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 82 lines I started listening to this this morning and wasn’t too impressed but now> I started listening to this this morning and wasn’t too impressed but now
> that I’ve got *hold music* lodged in my mind it’s taken on a new malevolent
> quality.
>
> There’s a frequently used hold music that sounds like Dilla or Flying
> Lotus that I’m always juiced to hear.
>
> Back to Plaid - to me they’ve always seemed held back by the “naive”
> quality of their melodies. Not particularly unique to them.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, June 13, 2019, Connor Higgins <connor1higgins@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oof, I hear a bit of that in their melodies but less so than previous
>> albums. The sound design is fantastic though. Never been a huge fan of
>> Plaid, but I'm liking this album.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 3:56 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it's like the hold music for a very 'hot' up and coming silicon valley
>>> tech firm
>>>
>>> Clint Anderson
>>> Systems Engineer
>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them
>>>> cliche
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jeffrey J Davis
>>>>
>>>> jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com
>>>>
>>>> www.jeffreyjdavis.com
>>>>
>>>> 218.833.2847
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > 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:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 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.
>>>>
>>>