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
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> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com> wrote:
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>> only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them
>> cliche
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>> Jeffrey J Davis
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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'
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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 4:00 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
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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.
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