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in my opinion, second woman's newest LP, 's / w', is at least as great as their first lp which is at least as great as their first ep which are all awesome and also fantastic its like mark fell combined with basic channel/chain reaction or something algorithmic beats in a dub context Clint Anderson Systems Engineer "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings

Yeah this release is super great.

quoted 10 lines On Apr 26, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: > > in my opinion, second woman's newest LP, 's / w', is at least as great as their first lp which is at least as great as their first ep which are all awesome and also fantastic > its like mark fell combined with basic channel/chain reaction or something > algorithmic beats in a dub context > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >

Loving seeing this mark fell minimalism pushed forward. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:17 PM Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote:

quoted 18 lines Yeah this release is super great.

> Yeah this release is super great. > > > > On Apr 26, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > in my opinion, second woman's newest LP, 's / w', is at least as great > as their first lp which is at least as great as their first ep which are > all awesome and also fantastic > > its like mark fell combined with basic channel/chain reaction or > something > > algorithmic beats in a dub context > > > > Clint Anderson > > Systems Engineer > > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > >

What's cool about Mark Fell is that his music could've actually been made 10, even 20 years ago. I think the existing listenership has changed their set of values to be more open to something as minimal and unadorned as what Mark Fell does - people's listening has gotten more patient and the novelty of maximal digital music (say Richard Devine, Autechre etc) got enough play that the simplicity of Fell became extremely appealing. So what's "forward" or refreshing or whatever about isn't about utilizing new tools that haven't yet existed or making a crazy synthesis of various styles or creating a complete novel music vocabulary but making music that works extremely well in this particular moment. That's not to say this isn't taking Mark Fells style and doing something else with it; it haven't even heard it. Just an insight re: Fell that I wanted to share. The first Second Woman release sounded pretty good to me, I particular liked the melodic sheen on it that wasn't corny or "epic". On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted 6 lines are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"?

> are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"? > > i mean, it's not as egregious as those Gabor Lazar records, but it's so > spot-on teethin Mr. Fell's technique it often kinda might as well be Mark > Fell samples dropped into more layer-y/conventional song arrangements >

put the lp on 33 and its pretty epic :)

quoted 15 lines On 27 Apr 2017, at 21:42, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 Apr 2017, at 21:42, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote: > > What's cool about Mark Fell is that his music could've actually been made 10, even 20 years ago. I think the existing listenership has changed their set of values to be more open to something as minimal and unadorned as what Mark Fell does - people's listening has gotten more patient and the novelty of maximal digital music (say Richard Devine, Autechre etc) got enough play that the simplicity of Fell became extremely appealing. So what's "forward" or refreshing or whatever about isn't about utilizing new tools that haven't yet existed or making a crazy synthesis of various styles or creating a complete novel music vocabulary but making music that works extremely well in this particular moment. > > That's not to say this isn't taking Mark Fells style and doing something else with it; it haven't even heard it. Just an insight re: Fell that I wanted to share. > > The first Second Woman release sounded pretty good to me, I particular liked the melodic sheen on it that wasn't corny or "epic". > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com <mailto:cexwell@gmail.com>> wrote: > are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"? > > i mean, it's not as egregious as those Gabor Lazar records, but it's so spot-on teethin Mr. Fell's technique it often kinda might as well be Mark Fell samples dropped into more layer-y/conventional song arrangements >

by "epic" I mean like the fist-pumping, determined, slightly melancholic, festival sized emotion that I hear in stuff like Nils frahm, Clark, Max Cooper and a lot of the anthemic indie rock the kids like these days like Arcade Fire or something. kind of post-rock derived although it has reached car commercial popularity. turns me off of a lot of current music that could be described as melodic. not Second Woman. they are on the right side of history. On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Juho Hietala <hietala@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted 36 lines put the lp on 33 and its pretty epic :)

> put the lp on 33 and its pretty epic :) > > > On 27 Apr 2017, at 21:42, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote: > > What's cool about Mark Fell is that his music could've actually been made > 10, even 20 years ago. I think the existing listenership has changed their > set of values to be more open to something as minimal and unadorned as what > Mark Fell does - people's listening has gotten more patient and the novelty > of maximal digital music (say Richard Devine, Autechre etc) got enough play > that the simplicity of Fell became extremely appealing. So what's "forward" > or refreshing or whatever about isn't about utilizing new tools that > haven't yet existed or making a crazy synthesis of various styles or > creating a complete novel music vocabulary but making music that works > extremely well in this particular moment. > > That's not to say this isn't taking Mark Fells style and doing something > else with it; it haven't even heard it. Just an insight re: Fell that I > wanted to share. > > The first Second Woman release sounded pretty good to me, I particular > liked the melodic sheen on it that wasn't corny or "epic". > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote: > >> are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"? >> >> i mean, it's not as egregious as those Gabor Lazar records, but it's so >> spot-on teethin Mr. Fell's technique it often kinda might as well be Mark >> Fell samples dropped into more layer-y/conventional song arrangements >> > > >