Took a chance on this 4 track EP collaboration of Sufjan Stevens, composer Son Lux, and rapper Serengeti (and featuring a guest appearance by Shara Worden to add another 's'). It doesn't work. At all.
Has Sufjan officially quit the whole 50 States thing? I mean, he's 36, and he's still got 48 states left to go, unless you count that BQE thing for NY, which seems poor, but that's still 47; at one a year that would make him 83...
Disappointing. (Sufjan that is; I don't have enough expectations for Drake to be disappointing; sounds good so far though. Worth the $.25 I paid already.)
Yeah. Wish I grabbed more Prestige stuff when I had the chance. I wasted a lot of 90 credit a month months on indie rock that I will hardly ever listen to again.
amclark2 - I was disappointed too. I certainly didn't think he'd get all the way through 50 states, but it was such an interesting project. As for the Drake album, it is pretty good. Not as good as some of the reviews it got, though.
Doofy - I may well listen to it a time or two again. It's only about 18 minutes long, so it may be worth seeing if it grows on me. The fact that almost all of Sufjan's vocals are autotuned to death, however, makes that unlikely.
Dylan Ettinger - Lifetime of Romance
This album I like. Very 80s electronic. I hear a lot of Art of Noise and Kraftwerk influence, but there is also some obvious elements of bands like The Cure. ETA: Some Factory sound as well.
Yeah, those box sets ... Thing is by the time a refresh comes, I've always found lots of stuff to download again; like major label retro I'll hardly ever listen to again...
@Doofy, anti-recommendations can actually be quite useful, even if they need intersubjective verification.
I don't think I ever really believed the 50 states thing - it sounded like something that was cool to say, but Stevens seems like a compulsive experimenter, how could he ever have sustained the attention span? (And who does have a 5 decade attention span?)
ETA: missed sale here. This is quite nice. But not $9 nice. For $5-6 I would quite likely have bought it, even without listening to the whole thing, and would have quite enjoyed it. For $9 I give it a spin on spotify and decide it's nice, but not that nice.
Re; attention span, while admittedly the alphabet's only about half the number of states, Sue Grafton has spent 30 years getting from A to V, which I think is admirable. But she was born in the 40's, not in the 70's. Us born in the 70's have very short att
- "No hesitation here go and download this now! This is a very exciting debut from Hanetration full of unusual and well mixed sound combinations and very worthy of the 24 minutes of your time that it will take to listen to the full EP."
- Savaran Music and Sound.
@Lowlife, I usually get album art from Amazon's page by left clicking on the image and click on properties, then copy the jpg file description. Paste the jpg description in between "bracket img close bracket" and "bracket/img close bracket" with no spaces
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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Much to my surprise these showed up on mtraks. They are beautiful and sad.
Earlier I listened to:
Prince Rama - Utopia = No Person
This one will take a few more listens to get a handle on.
Craig
Very haunting with fine field recording extracts
s / s / s - Beak & Claw
Took a chance on this 4 track EP collaboration of Sufjan Stevens, composer Son Lux, and rapper Serengeti (and featuring a guest appearance by Shara Worden to add another 's'). It doesn't work. At all.
Craig
Craig
Starting:
Disc 1
Disappointing. (Sufjan that is; I don't have enough expectations for Drake to be disappointing; sounds good so far though. Worth the $.25 I paid already.)
I need a keyboard script that inserts the text, 'Glad I grabbed all that Prestige stuff when I had the chance.'
Live Choro. Pleasant. Free.
Doofy - I may well listen to it a time or two again. It's only about 18 minutes long, so it may be worth seeing if it grows on me. The fact that almost all of Sufjan's vocals are autotuned to death, however, makes that unlikely.
Dylan Ettinger - Lifetime of Romance
This album I like. Very 80s electronic. I hear a lot of Art of Noise and Kraftwerk influence, but there is also some obvious elements of bands like The Cure. ETA: Some Factory sound as well.
Craig
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
Yeah, those box sets ... Thing is by the time a refresh comes, I've always found lots of stuff to download again; like major label retro I'll hardly ever listen to again...
Speranze Perdute Volume 2: Italian Folksongs, Mazurkas, Polkas and Waltzes
Not that I didn't get a lot of great jazz from emu...
I don't think I ever really believed the 50 states thing - it sounded like something that was cool to say, but Stevens seems like a compulsive experimenter, how could he ever have sustained the attention span? (And who does have a 5 decade attention span?)
ETA: missed sale here. This is quite nice. But not $9 nice. For $5-6 I would quite likely have bought it, even without listening to the whole thing, and would have quite enjoyed it. For $9 I give it a spin on spotify and decide it's nice, but not that nice.
Hanetration - Tenth Oar EP
To be followed by (thanks to CWOO):
Then
and I think I'm going to pick up Chessa in the 12k sale. I find Shuttle358's music immensely calming.
Played this again in the car this morning, and liking it more. Borrowed from the library just on the strength of his name - I assume he is related??
I go along with Doofy's idea of a thread on muisc we are no longer playing - I've got plenty to add!!
Could anyone help me by letting me know how to put cover artwork here
Picked up from Jonah's jazz reccs for this week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYXF0gQrKU