Feeling the same. The first tracks released got me excited thinking they’d gone darker, which is what I wanted. But the album is still same old Plaid. Good, but not goooooood.
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quoted 71 lines On 14 Jun 2019, at 14:18, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:> On 14 Jun 2019, at 14:18, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
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>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:40 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> There’s a frequently used hold music that sounds like Dilla or Flying Lotus that I’m always juiced to hear.
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>> Back to Plaid - to me they’ve always seemed held back by the “naive” quality of their melodies. Not particularly unique to them.
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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
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>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
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>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>> >
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>>>>> > 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.