LOLLLL u so crazy
― the late great, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
actually if i can interject some challops of my own i think zig zag is still his best track
― the late great, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
NEW SHIT
― the late great, Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Streamed this yesterday and it's nowhere near as buoyant or thrilling as Glass Swords, which is maybe my album of the decade so far.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
not sure how i feel about the album as a whole, but the d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable
― the late great, Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
i'll have to give it some time but i hear what you're saying, first impression it's definitely not as good as glass swords, not sure what's missing
― the late great, Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
I was confused as to why the vocalist on "Dream On" wasn't credited when all the others were. If the woman singing turns out to be Kelli-Leigh I would actually die.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 21 August 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
And yeah this is just off one stream - and I love all his other stuff - so I'm definitely willing to give it a chance too.
Glorious cover art btw.
Looking forward to the D Double track but really he should have got on the phone to Flirta D for full on glorious gonzoid effect.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
I CAN'T PLAY THE COMPUTER GAME THAT UNLOCKS THE TRACKS!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
having said that i did not think the lead single was up to much so i haven't tried that hard. sum total of time I've spent on computer games in my life = 5 mins of mario the hedgehog when i was 7, 5 mins spent repeatedly running it into a ravine
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:33 (nine years ago) link
"mario the hedgehog" eh?
― Number None, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:36 (nine years ago) link
Games? Is that what you call them? Games?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
This is sounding pretty great so far...
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
It's awful
― Number None, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable
Just hit this section, and um... it's fairly deniable imo. Bit of a wasted opportunity. Prefer the instrumentals...
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Some of the early tracks are dope, think I need to spend more time with this.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
¯\(°_o)/¯
― the late great, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
feels like a bit like offcuts from the first album, all the sounds are there but the impact is not. "velcro" is alright and so is the d double e one; danny brown sounds weird like he's half putting on a british grime mc's accent. pretty blah album tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Rapture is cool, I especially like the first four tracks. Then it goes a bit off the rails and never really recovers.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
ha, i felt the opposite - first half was most disappointing, got slightly better once it hit the rap tracks but never really hit the heights
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
just started playing glass swords again and while i mostly like it, it really is not the sort of thing i can listen to for very long
snd are similar in this respect
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
i used to like the early rustie eps from years ago, ep is probably the ideal format for him
i decided i only like the rap tracks
― the late great, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
like almost all the vocal tracks on this, esp the danny brown one, but i think the instrumentals are easy to underrate. definitely more subdued than GS, and less ambitious, and sometimes just a bit deficient (ie the total opposite of GS where nothing could be seen as being deficient), but they still sound like no one else. i think he was thinking more melodically on this album. maybe its him trying to get more producer work, or do something 'proper' rather than weird/funny like the last one, not sure, but its still good. hopefully he hasnt gotten too self conscious.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
Some parts of this album give me instant nostalgia for 80s arcade game soundtracks - I think its the general midi sounding slap bass noise he uses occasionally - but it takes me back to listening to this as an 8 year old: http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/6_Amazing_Coin-Op_Soundtracks_from_Virgin_Games
― Willl, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm quite sure that's intentional
― Number None, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
anyone still listening to this? i think its a bit of a grower. every track with guest vocalists is great except the gorgeous children one, and even though theyre a bit sketchy, the instrumentals generally have enough good things going for them for me not to write this album off. it doesnt attack you like glass swords, but i dont see that as a negative. or maybe you just really have to be a big rustie fan.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
no Hudson Mohawke thread, huh? i'm sad that i haven't heard anything i like so far off the new Hud Mo album :(
(only heard the singles, not the full thing, i'm sure there will be a couple deep cut jams)
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Ryderz is such a banger
could've sworn he had his own thread but i can't find it either
― nose, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
hahahahaha
http://soundcloud.com/rustie/first-mythz
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
listened to it thrice today
day's not over yet
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
um and apparently new album tomorrow?
https://soundcloud.com/rustie/peace-upzzz
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
better than the last one but still not as good as glass swords ....
― the late great, Thursday, 5 November 2015 08:04 (eight years ago) link
hope this gets released on cd.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
oof this album is absolutely dreadful
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
you mean absolutely brilliant and almost as good as glass swords
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
he announced on twitter a few days ago that he's no longer doing shows for the foreseeable future due to mental health/substance abuse issues :/
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
i need glass swords back on my phone
whats the verdict on the new album?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 29 July 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
the reviews seem good...
but, i think it's very bad, and without getting too gossipy, i understand that warp were very unhappy with it, and it was recorded during a period of heavy substance dependency.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
huh, i remember the reviews being bad, but liking what i heard and thinking that i need to give it a good listen.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
metacritic is 74%, pitchfork 7.3.
line from the pitchfork review:
"It is a rawer, scrappier record than either of his prior LPs, and the way he flips the bird at conventional notions of fidelity is almost punk."
part of warp's problem with it, it sounds terrible because he produced and mastered it himself
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
ill hear a few tracks on youtube
but i did not like the second one at all and im afraid of the long track list of the third
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
it was better than green language but still nowhere near as good as glass swords, especially due to how rough-sounding it is
― ufo, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
I haven't really liked much by Rustie since Glass Swords, so I kind of forgot about how much I liked that album. Listening again now, and it still slaps.
― jaymc, Saturday, 7 December 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
He hasn't done much since. :(
I think it's hard to overstate the impact that Glass Swords had (even if much of it is on EDM that's all worse than Glass Swords).
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 7 December 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
I enjoy EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE. Has a cool vaporous quality where everything seems to be constantly fading into white noise.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 7 December 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
9 years on and it's still the album of the year for me
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Saturday, 7 December 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Globes has always been the standout imo
― nashwan, Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link