Laurel Halo

so i picked up the new one, i quite like it, when she's working in this mode it reminds me a lot of actress

the music is completely insubstantial, in a vaguely queasy out-of-tune way. and has she put any thought into the structure of any track> it seems completely directionless and random.

i don't really think there's a separation b/w the vox and the music, nothing of consequence happens it either, and it doesn't happen in a horrible-sounding way.

― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Saturday, June 9, 2012 3:24 AM (3 years ago)

i believe the same criticisms were made of actress's recent work

minus the part about the vox

anyway still think "quarantine" is her uneasy-listening masterpiece, and that her best instrumental work is on "hour logic", as for this one it seems slight in comparison to those two. i do agree that "focus i" is the highlight.

i guess "in situ" also feels ... a little anonymous, maybe? i thought a lot of it sounded like pearson sound or a lot of percussive, minimal post-dubstep stuff ... whereas "quarantine" really sounds like nobody else

xposts if it's not clear, lex's criticism was of "quarantine", not the new one

I liked In Situ and I'll take anonymity over those horrible, grating vocals on Quarantine any day. Thank god she decided to move to instrumental music.

I think Chance of Rain is a pretty much perfect album (ask me again in 5 years). i can't really handle the textures of her previous noisier stuff, although i think "supersymmetry" was super catchy and great. love the vocal harmonies there. her super-processed vocals on "just a little pollution" from the frkwys collab disc are marvelous as well.

i like her vocals on quarantine! i don't find them horrible or grating at all. they make me feel a little light-headed, but in a good way.

i will have to look into "chance of rain" and frkwys next, i guess.

i can't really handle the textures of her previous noisier stuff

aquifer??!??

"focus 1" is a jam

I really liked her vocals on Quarantine too. that and Chance of Rain are my favorites

Anyone heard the new thing?

Just listened to it. I have a history with her of "This is interesting, but I know I'm never going to play it again". I was expecting the same outcome after the first couple of tracks but it won me over by the end. There are even a couple of nice pop moments in "Moontalk" (positively jaunty!) and "Do U Ever Happen" (dreamy).

First impressions: Sounds like the closest Halo has come to pop songwriting since "King Felix", but this is still very uniformly slow and with jazzy cut-up beats. Thankfully it's not as much of a trudge as Quarantine though, moreso like a meeting point between her instrumental electronic projects and her vocal explorations.

Do U Ever Happen is indeed v. dreamy

mix from july
https://soundcloud.com/discwoman/discwoman-27-x-laurel-halo

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/517731/large/192562685860.jpg

new record, more ambient than dust

it completely rules

ooooooh, psyched to hear this

Hoping it’s not as alienating as the last one ☝️

haven't heard this yet, looking forward to it!

I heard Yanny

I really liked this new one, enough to push me to revisit her earlier work which I have enjoyed but have trouble recalling after listening

chance of rain is a classic of the 2010s

really psyched for this, obv

Hour logic tho

Damn this is v beautiful and unexpected. Requiem-like at times with echoes of Shostakovich.

Some very otherworldly textures on here. An unusual recording altogether. Don't think I've heard much like it. "The Sick Mind" reminds me of Debussy.

Don’t sleep on king Felix st

Halo wraps 4 tracks around an orchestral loop, with house beats ricocheting off the motif. Last track is purely ambient

Vocals?

Yeah vocals for sure

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/king_felix_f1/spring/

Not to be confused with the king Felix ep by halo

the new record is so elegant, much prefer it to dust. quietude and the sick mind remind me a little of some of blue gene tyranny's electronic stuff and the opener is so wearily gorgeous. this deserves more attention

this is my favorite thing she's done since quarantine but also it feels weird to say that bc neither record is v alike

ppl who hated quarantine were extremely wrong incidentally

dust is my fav thing she’s ever done. gonna listen to this today. i wonder if i will like it!!!!

ppl who hated quarantine were extremely wrong incidentally

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:56 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn straight

Yes. Quarantine got a lot of unwarranted hate, especially because of the vocal style she chose. Some of Ilm was very snide. I felt like I was at school again.

Dust was cool. Not spent enough time with the new one but it sounded good first time round.

i found dust difficult to get into but i guess i should've just tried harder, it sounds wonderful rn

thisS trippy

It's almost like ambient free jazz

got so excited after listening to dust ] i put on hour logic and then quarantine and wow, these records rule so much, all her records... rule so much?

raw silk feels p minor , but it’s good and will be useful to me

i should relisten to quarantine

Listened up this cranked up on the stereo today followed by the new Pram. It was a good afternoon.

If I like this one, which should I check out next?

I had like 8 intense, meaningful listens to this and then suddenly felt done with it. But nothing wrong with that.

Chance of Rain is my favorite but it’s fairly different from this. Honestly they all are but maybe just work backwards and do Dust next.

Put on Dust, but wasn't digging the vocals, so I switched to Chance of Rain, and I'm liking it much more.

Search: hour logic, in situ, king Felix ep
Antenna, behind the green door, her DJ mixes
King Felix - spring

Destroy: quarantine, sunlight on the faded
Dust

?
quarantine is the best record she ever made

I love Chance of Rain

Wow, damn, Chance of Rain is really good! I had kind of given up on her after the Quarantine hype.

Important to put quarantine in context. It was given attention in indie circles probably due to its eye catching cover but if you followed her music prior it came as a massive surprise. Almost like tilt by Scott walker as opposed to his earlier material. Quarantine sounds nothing like any other halo record until maybe dust came out. Her avant- grade side doesn’t do much for me. King Felix spring is still her best record and slept on so yeah...