Thank you guys for opening the discussion on this album.
Like Bruno and probably a few, I need more listenings but I feel there is something. It happened before for other releases ; I persevered and eventually loved them. I guess it’ll be the same with GOD. We’ll see…
B.
quoted 71 lines Le 16 nov. 2015 à 21:53, nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com> a écrit :
> Le 16 nov. 2015 à 21:53, nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com> a écrit :
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> new OPN is, i find, just astounding.
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> following RPlus7 with this. the guy is bold. he wanted to go bigger and he did. really toes the ling between abstraction and structure in a way that few achieve. i was actually hoping he was going to go even more 'pop'!
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> for me, the 2nd half of the album is just stacked with hits. 'animals' is my absolute jam right now. crushing track.
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> cheers to warp for allowing dudes like Lopatin to just focus on music. so much meticulous time and love in his work.
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> seeing him live this friday in NYC. very stoked!!!
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> and sticky drama seems to me the new era's 'come to daddy'?!
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> From: alucas@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:01:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: OPN - G.O.D.
> To: mehmet.ismail85@gmail.com
> CC: brunogola@gmail.com; alecwild6@gmail.com; idm@hyperreal.org
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> Have you all watched the video for Sticky Drama? Crazy stuff.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-e4i2BL_Q <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-e4i2BL_Q>
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> I love the new album. I'd been looking forward to it since I heard about it. Pretty sure that I was one of the people who had R Plus Seven on their best of '13 lists, and GOD will be on my best of '15, for sure.
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> And I realize that Battles aren't IDM (but Bjork is?), but they're on Warp (which has to count for something, although I don't think anyone would ever have tried to say that Vincent Gallo was IDM...), and their new album is also really good.
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> Anyway.
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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM, mehmet.ismail85@googlemail.com <mailto:mehmet.ismail85@googlemail.com> <mehmet.ismail85@gmail.com <mailto:mehmet.ismail85@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I'm right there with you guys. Love the powerful synths and the use of chipspeech. Can't shake Sticky Drama from my brain and I absolutely do not mind that at all.
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> On 16 Nov 2015, at 16:19, Bruno Gola <brunogola@gmail.com <mailto:brunogola@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Alec Wild <alecwild6@gmail.com <mailto:alecwild6@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Sticky Drama is 100% in my top 5 songs of the year. It's really fantastic.
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> its also my favorite of the new album.
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> On Nov 16, 2015 7:44 AM, "Bruno Gola" <brunogola@gmail.com <mailto:brunogola@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I saw him live last week in berlin.
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> still dont know if i loved or hated.
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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Mehmet Ismail <mehmet.ismail85@gmail.com <mailto:mehmet.ismail85@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Oneohtrix Point Never rarely gets mentioned on here. Last mention seems to have been March 2014 and before that R Plus 7 was mentioned as a favourite album of 2013 by quite a few of us - me included. So with that said, it's obvious I really like his stuff and yep, I'm loving G.O.D.
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> If you have listened and care to comment, what do you guys think about G.O.D. and his more recent works i.e. Commissions I and II?
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> p.s. I don't think anybody on here asked each other for favourites of 2014. I'll ask for 2015 favourites at the end of the year if nobody else does by then.
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