It’s the melodies and counter melodies and counter points that work. Naive and childish with off kilter 3rds and 5ths - the long wait until the end before a final melody comes in . It’s like they are selling kitchen appliances in a manic world of robotic tech and genetically constructed clones.
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quoted 58 lines On 14 Jun 2019, at 02:40, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:> On 14 Jun 2019, at 02:40, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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,
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>>>> Jeffrey J Davis
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>>>> jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com
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>>>> www.jeffreyjdavis.com
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>>>> 218.833.2847
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>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
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>>>> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> >> 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.
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>>>> >> Dancers is perhaps the best exemplar -- unexpected, but emotionally exciting chord change after chord change.
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>>>> >> 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.
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>>>> >> 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.