And just to pre-empt lj’s rejoinders: Jute Gyte, whose output I haven’t sufficiently explored yet, has delivered *much* better and more unique takes on the intersection being plumbed here.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
proper to the autodidact
I haven't got into Liturgy much at all and haven't heard this yet except for the two advance tracks but, wait, HHH studied with Tristan Murail.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
I stand corrected. I suppose this is an indictment of myself, HHH and Murail.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
I mean, if anything, it's the smugness of the Ivy League dilettante.xp
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
Now that I know, 'tis a good way of putting it.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Silver lining: maybe everyone who loves the new Liturgy will check out Tristan Murail's fabulous Portulan cycle, which Kairos released last year?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
I only just connected the dots that HHH is the grandchild of a billionaire oil tycoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunt.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 November 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
Oh I remember listening to that Murail album last year. Thanks for the reminder. I'll get it out again.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 November 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
Liturgy officially CANCELLED.xp
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
I’ve been criticized in the past for being so wide-eyed, sincere and ambitious about creating new forms for conveying like heartfelt emotion
really?
― CRVTCHΞS (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 21 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
i’m def someone who def thought liturgy’s whole thing was too pretentious to bear but i’m glad i’ve since come around.
I think the music is great, the pretension is fine, the sanctimony is unbearable.
― CRVTCHΞS (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 21 November 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
And HHH's parents developed something called imago relationship therapy. O_o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago_therapy
― jmm, Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
haha
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 21 November 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
lol
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
Wait, we’ve had this conversation before, haven’t we?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
This band are really good at one thing, and one thing only, and that's the "vibrant blast-beat chorale" thing. They have not at all figured out how to synthesize that one thing with any other thing.
The last minute of "The Fall Of SIHEMYN" is the thing that is good. I dislike everything else about this album
This band afaic has always been defined by the first two tracks of their first LP-- a terribly conceived, terribly executed a cappella "new music" intro, followed by a thrilling blast-beat chorale ("Pagan Dawn", by far their best track and one of my favourite songs in the world, seeing it live in 2011 was spectacular)
I cannot think of a worse opening track than the first track on The Ark Work, I hate it like I hate Eno's "The Drop" or the ninth Felt album
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
xps The discussion page on that article is killing me.
What a mess. Not only is it entirely unformatted, it seems to be a paper someone wrote in enthusiastic support of Imago (perhaps even at the behest of Imago), cherry-picking details from studies that support Imago without once referencing any criticisms.
― jmm, Saturday, 21 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
;_;
― imago, Saturday, 21 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
"Generation" remains one of my very favorite rock songs
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
the poo_er of the angryman ffs
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
god bless you, ever rong
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
this is less engaging than haqq and less formally interesting than the ark work but i still enjoy it. not sure the messiaen version works
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
yeah it's not as good as the previous two, but still good, basically
― imago, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah the Messiaen cover doesn't ruin it but doesn't match up to the original and takes up too much of the runtime. The opening run of tracks is phenomenal, though.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Is this album really not leagues better than their previous couple? I clicked with it right away upon hearing it, like to the point where I thought it was one of the best albums of the year in the past three weeks. It's definitely too short, kinda feels like the first act of a three act opera, with the Messiaen acting like the vorspiel
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, but WHAT a Bushwick landlord!
― imago, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
what?
― fpsa, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
the problem is that it SOUNDS like it was made by a bushwick landlord
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 16:14 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
Anyway, this new album is awesome
Have an interview: https://www.thefader.com/2023/03/23/liturgy-the-fader-interview-feature
― imago, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Someone sent me a meme that said "What kind of trans girl are you?" and there were sixteen options and one of them was just "Rhombic Dodecahedron" and I was like "What is that even supposed to mean" and then someone told me Liturgy had a new EP out and I was all "Ohhhh, yeahhhhh, rhombic dodecahedron, got it." Anyway. The new one is a rerecording of the Immortal Life EP.
I'm not sure which of the sixteen I fall under. I guess I might qualify as "depressed and dysphoric" except that I'm not actually dysphoric.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 May 2024 00:08 (three weeks ago) link