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Age Of is out in the wild. Haven't investigated yet.

i don't really know what to make of it yet except that it's beautiful and grotesque in equal measure, pushed to more of an extreme than he usually does

show last night was great. eli keszler, kelly moran, gatekeeper dude, prurient, kelsey lu. the dancers from the "black snow" video, mysterious inflating garbage bag things, sculptures suspended from the ceiling as a robot voice said scary stuff, video projections very much in keeping with the whole vibe.

the new stuff sounded great in context, looking forward to listening again. a lot of the vocal stuff was very good, surprisingly.

the album cover's adult swim vibe kinda turned me off but "black snow" really grew on me and after last night i am on board with what this dude is doing.

flappy wuz right, there are some near straight up pop songs on here.

Went to that show last night. To me its like the idm version of The Wall. The feelings I got from it were Games go to the 90's with some classic OPN elements thrown in. There were moments for me that called back to Enigma, heard some moments of MBV guitars, Chris de Burgh-y beats. Also, a lot of those ballads were very Bon Iver-ish jams. I dug it tough, look forward to hearing the recorded versions. The Prurient inflating garbage bag stuff was a highlight.

on first listen this is a v. good album and maybe the most emotionally resonant thing he's done since Replica.

jealous of everyone seeing these Myriad shows

Gman sellin it. Sounds boss

a friend of mine went to the show last night too and he hated it. said Lopatin has diluted basically everything that made his work resonant and interesting, also that he'd never seen a drummer play so much and add so little. FWIW

flappy’s friend otm

and the 7pm armory show didn’t even get the inflatable sandworms

Regardless of how I'll feel about this when I eventually hear it, these descriptions you guys are dropping are some kind of ridiculous. Looking forward to this one.

Haven’t seen the show but the album is legit great. Don’t get why people want a sequel to their favorite OPN album. His entire thing is Moving On.

He’s still on fire.

The little accents of Prurient on this are so good.

Yeah moments of maybe getting perilously close to pomposity or overblowness but ... idk, it ruled. it was like a replicant Peter Gabriel or something. way too pretty at times (purposefully of course) but backgrounded by a sort of deep space infinite coldness

did I mention show ended w/ a bill fay cover? that was wonderful

the never ending happening

Haven’t seen the show but the album is legit great. Don’t get why people want a sequel to their favorite OPN album. His entire thing is Moving On.

He’s still on fire.

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I don't and I doubt my friend does either, just not digging it. But I still haven't heard the album and hope to be surprised.

Black Snow sounds like garbage

People who have seen the Myriad live show: Is it music from Age Of? Mix of new and old? Something else? I'm reviewing it, so would love to know just a tiny bit of what to expect.

from what I've heard it's the whole new album + old music as an encore

myriad is exactly as ufo said — reordered/extended age of, two older tunes as an encore.

the show as a presentation was not really engaging, i bet soundboard recording sounds fantastic.

i tried sequencing age of the way it was played live, and i think it flows better:

prologue:
age of

ecco:
still stuff
raycats

harvest:
toys 2
babylon
manifold

excess:
we'll take it
the station
myriad.industries (in lieu of live track titled love in the time of lexapro)

bondage:
warning
same
black snow
last known image

epilogue:
never ending happening (sequencing the bill fay original works perfectly)

Anohni shines

Black Snow sounds like garbage

I don’t know where that Anohni slice came from but tru too

I met Prurient/Dominick at Maryland Deathfest and totally dorked out with him.

Was expecting someone more aloof and dark but he was super stoked that I recognized him and we talked about the OPN record. Said Daniel’s got a legit vision for things and he was impressed by it all.

So weird to stumble into that tonight.

This was cool, but probably not that fit for the festival setting. Grizzly Bear sounded loud and pretty good in the distance throughout the whole set, and a lot of the audience had clearly just wandered in and was VERY confused by it all. But I kinda love the album and the whole concept of it, and Black Snow / Babylon sounds great live.

maybe i'm just not in the right mindset but i didn't enjoy Age Of at all. i'll listen again. But i never really figured out GoD either. it's a bummer because i was totally on board with everything through R Plus Seven

There's some similarities with GoD, but this new album is a lot more chill. I think I like it better because I'm not getting Skrillex vibes off any of the songs. Still prefer R+7 and Good Time soundtrack though.

I keep forgetting about the Good Time soundtrack, which I never bought and never listened to outside of what's in the movie, which I loved. Don't know why - maybe I was tired of him after GOD, or at least not as eager to preorder the LP or even ever get around to listening to the full soundtrack. I'm about to listen to Age Of for the first time with a totally open & optimistic mind.

I know I sound like a broken record, but that soundtrack is really great, in part because it avoids some of the more annoying aspects of GoD and has a very consistent vibe.

Really happy to be proven wrong. Age Of is awesome. Much better than GOD, he's doing something new, not a retread but a finely executed synthesis of many things he's done on previous albums, all while continuing to expand his sonic palette, with more acoustic instruments than ever. Too early to say "not as good as Replica, not as good as R+7." It might be better.

I'm not ready to go that far, but it is really good

obviously I disagree and find this a slightly frustrating step back from the roiling brilliance of GoD

this is DeepMind Sings the Blues

and it rules

otm

yeah this isn't for me at all, i much prefer the abstract beauty of replica/r+7 to this grotesque collage

haven't heard the album yet but saw him play what I assume was all stuff from it at primavera. he's definitely been getting funnier and there were absurd moments that made me lol. part of me wonders if he'll ever top the simple perfection of the nobody here rainbow road video. but I like how much drama and intensity there is to this stuff, how ugly some of it is. he is still developing his ear for bathos and he moves through very stark changes in tone surprisingly smoothly and organically, gestures undermining what's gone before (visuals helped with this too: grandiose organ alongside some pictures of sinks &c.). felt like a bracing dip in a plunge pool

couldn't resist thinking this is the remedial vibe harsh ppl don't know they need

think this album is p cool, really like "same"
but can't see myself relistening to it in a few years

he'll have a new one out by then

never mind listening to it in a few years, I couldn't see me reaching for it in two weeks. Nice sound design and some clever tricks but no impact on me whatsoever.

the synthesized flute-type sound in "black snow" is one of the most beautiful things i've ever heard.. idk about the rest.

at some point in recent months my impression of this guy has gone from 'purveyor of upper-middlebrow background music' to 'flipping genius', but i'm not quite sure how that happened

"Black Snow" has become one of my favorite songs of the year. I love that this album has caused so many about-faces!

really dig the new one... beautiful moments throughout, it flows well, and it's cohesive. never really got on with GoD, or R Plus 7, though this feels roughly like a blend between the two, with add'l timbres and generally honed in a bit. it does seem front-loaded, but that impression is only from 3-4 cursory listens

It does get a bit drifty towards the end. I enjoy it but with this kind of thing it takes a long time for me to get my head round it, though this one is more obviously listener-friendly than GoD (which I have ended up liking quite a lot)

there are a couple moments on this album that remind me of country pop. There are also several tracks that sound extremely similar to Frank Zappa's Civilization Phase III, an electronic album that was waaaayy ahead of its time.

just hearing Channel Pressure for the first time and holy shit is it good

are there any other records like this

I actually preferred the Games EP that preceded it, especially Strawberry Skies.

They also had these mixes of Italo Disco slowed down that were really great, the Heaven Can Wait series.

Yeah loved Games (tho the territory it was meaning is pretty run of the mill by now) whereas Channel Pressure never clicked

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