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:
quoted 66 lines Oof, I hear a bit of that in their melodies but less so than previous> 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.
>>>
>>