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From:
Connor Higgins
To:
Clint Anderson
Cc:
Jeff Davis , kent williams , do id
Date:
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:12:06 -0700
Subject:
Re: Plaid Polymer
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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:
quoted 59 lines it's like the hold music for a very 'hot' up and coming silicon valley> 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. >> >