Laurel Halo

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

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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...

vocals on Quarantine are a dealbreaker for me

the whole strange focus on the surreal quality of the vocals and the shunning of expected vocal production are really the amazing things about the album for me

I'm really liking Raw Silk Uncut Wood

I love the closing track on quarantine

Halo has done vocals in many other forms, the ones on quarantine are a little more jagged and raw.

Pop vocal halo : king Felix - ep

Swirling choral vocals used more for texture : king Felix spring ep

i had completely forgotten her vocals worked in and out of hour logic too, i think i thought they were a sample at the time

Absolutely Brad - one of her finest records too

Hour Logic EP taken off Spotify for some dumb reason.

Don't think she will ever top it for me though unless she made a whole album of Strawberry Skies or Holodays.

strawberry skies is dope

also that kuedo - halo collapsing in space remix is some next level shit

Hour logic definitely up there nashwan, hell one song sounds like Tekken music

Carcass is such a motherfucker of a song

I'm revisiting Quarantine for the first time in years because I liked the new album so much. it's so claustrophobic and unpleasant - like it's a great record, but also kind of a jarring experience. I remember allmusic called it like a soundtrack to a science fiction nightmare, which is a good lens to view the record through imo (especially when considering that album cover!)

https://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2019/laurel-halo-dj-kicks-album-art.jpg

oh fuck yes

here 4 it

Tracklist
01. Laurel Halo - Public Art
02. Stallone the Reducer - Always Hate
03. Red Axes - 5 Min (Feat. CAR)
04. Parris - Puro Rosaceae
05. Rrose - Cricoid Pressure
06. Machine Woman - Just Made Some Jazz Music
07. WCC - Ana
08. FIT Siegel - Pennyrut
09. Yamaoka - Plastic PQ
10. Siete Catorce – Canto
11. Facta - Poliwhirl
12. Laurel Halo & Hodge - The Light Within You
13. Ikonika - Bodied
14. Griffit Vigo - A.C.I.D (Electronic Gqom Mix)
15. Panda Lassow - Lachowa
16. Dario Zenker - Koraimer Bro
17. Final Cut - Temptation
18. Aos - Violent Light
19. Geoffrey Landers - Brian’s Having a Party
20. Via Maris - Side Effects
21. Laurel Halo - Oneiroi
22. Nick León - Pelican Dub
23. Stefan Ringer - Lust
24. Kirk The Flirt - Loser
25. Laurel Halo - Sweetie (DJ-Kicks)
26. Blake Baxter - Funky World (Blake Baxter Remix)
27. Kiki Kudo - Freakey Keke
28. Group A - Ketabali
29. Whitefield Brothers – Ntu

good tracklist

really cool

she is a great DJ based on the one time I saw her

been playing the heck out of this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O5a5rUR2uo

yes that is great, such a shame it is so short

yeah all three are too short

https://youtu.be/Z15xEKpXzSM

https://media.giphy.com/media/Oivne3ir8TzcA/giphy.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z15xEKpXzSM

pretty good

picked up the CD today

first listen: extremely dope

how is it that nickB posted "tru" and "sweetie" six years ago?!?!?

weird browser glitch i guess

second, third listen - still dope

kicks ass

best mix ever

this is kinda getting me high

This is great! Some of her stuff can be a bit too esoteric for me but I think this is very approachable. "Temptation" bangs.

Great mix, although it left me feeling a bit woozy.

right? it's genuinely a mood-alterer.

It doesn't exactly have a lot of moments of firm ground to cling to.

i actually just went through and pulled the unmixed versions of my fave tracks for closer inspection; that would be the Parris, Ikonika, Red Axes/CAR, Nick León, Dario Zenker, Kiki Kudo, Via Maris and Halo originals... most of which hail from the mini-EP I suppose.

I like it a lot and it feels very much like a whole -- there really aren't so much "stand out tracks" for me although there are moments. Especially good toward the end.

TBH though listening to it emphasized to me how much better and more interesting Halo's music is than a lot of her selections.

xp agree

ikonika one is a slapper

whole mix sounds v smudged and dirty

This is pretty much everything I want from a mix. Who else is doing smooth, trippy techno these days?