i think embrya can seem totally insular at first but it really explores its specific mood in a way i can't really pin to another record
the cover art, with maxwell submerged in water, is kind of otm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
The thing with Embrya is that it is a very cerebral album. It's got a lot of sneaky, nuanced parts going on in the arrangements and conceptual stuff in the lyrics. I mean, any album that has a zero track with completely esoteric narration over it, well, you know you're in for a heavy affair.
And, if the poll allowed for a #2 pick, mine would have been Now.
― Austin, Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:07 PM (44 minutes ago)
yup
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Embrya is amazing, I hadn't heard it before now. So deep, so dreamy, it rivals Love Deluxe.
"Know These Things: Shouldn't You"!!!
― Tim F, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
omg.... Tim!
― The Reverend, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a Now and BLACKsummers'night >>> UHS and Embrya fan but the latter is idea doing-dishes-on-Sunday-morning music.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
I know it's the latest late pass ever issued, the machine is demanding I insert more coins.
― Tim F, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Never too late imo.
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Also "Gravity: Pushing to Pull"!!!
― Tim F, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
all about "drowndeep" imo
― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously so ridic that i have not had this album in my life until now.
I spent several years at the end of the 90s and beginnings of the 00s mostly thinking of neo-soul as something that needed to be resisted (the ~deep vibes~ of its era) and even though i got over that inane false binary ages ago I'm still coming across evidence of the damage it did to my tastes.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 February 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
the music press was not kind to neo-soul: the praise for it made it sound so bland, dry and ~authentic~ (and usually compared it negatively to mainstream shiny r&b), the criticisms of it were so callow and ignorant
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
The thing is a lot of neo-soul was just as modernist as any of the shiny mainstream r&b (Embrya included), but the press acted as if it was retro when it was really about updating older styles, not recreating them.
― The Reverend, Monday, 11 February 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Like, you couldn't mistake Embrya for a Maze record, as clearly as Max wears their influence, because it sounds like it was made circa 2000 and quite intentionally so.
― The Reverend, Monday, 11 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
I do not understand how Embrya is not a universally beloved cornerstone
― The Reverend, Thursday, 11 September 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
had to write about maxwell last month and it was a nice excuse to listen to embrya for a few days in a row. very few records as immersive
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link
lol look at me sort of expressing the same thought two years ago
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
"Luxury: Cococure" is dangerous: once listened, it takes permanent residence in your head.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 September 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
Link plz Brad.
Embrya has become one of my very favourite records.
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mauramagazine.com/article/53ee2e18c873d93509eb5c7b/swelter
technically a free issue but you have to sign in to read it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"drowndeep:hula" is like a hymn sung by angels in atlantis
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:47 PM (3 years ago)
ughhhhhh btw this song
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 June 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:13 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still ^^^^^
I feel like it's such a unique record. Weirdly I almost get a (late era) Leonard Cohen vibe from it, that sense of being super gentle and super heavy at the same time.
― Tim F, Monday, 27 June 2016 04:51 (seven years ago) link
"drowndeep" is the shit
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 June 2016 06:23 (seven years ago) link