eh i'm just sayin you had me expecting some session player bombast and instead i just heard drum machine snares that sound like actual snares xp
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah well drum machine snares that sound like actual snares get me wrinkling my nose instinctually
thx DJP -- i was off hunting for ryuichi sakamoto youtubes lol
― goole, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
love "Break Of Dawn," so shamelessly gooey
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
Four tracks in and this is already such an ridiculously well sequenced album!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah sequencing is great
― sisilafami, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously, flows like no tomorrow. Currently on "Gleaux."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
300 is so good
― sisilafami, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
this is kinda cheesy in parts. i cant deal with 'in your eyes'
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 14 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:44 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
no air, air
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
haha that is what i was trying to figure out what it reminded me of
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
woah, good ear!
― Evan and I'm Gettin' It (Evan R), Monday, 14 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
doesn't work in canada and i am SO UPSET.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
This album's length really works in its favor; this is a satisfying one to lose yourself in. So much beautiful empty space, especially in that final stretch
― Evan and I'm Gettin' It (Evan R), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's not quite as sprawling as Last Train To Paris but it's probably more immersive.
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
we could have parted seas just / to walk on the floor of oceans / ohhhh
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
like damn yo
hah classic example of the alleged iffy songwriting that actually sounds rad i guess
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
and this love could've built up armies / of nations unstoppable / ohhhh
so apt that the album ends with dawn actually forming her own nation state
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
xp eh, I still think her battle motifs are tacky and not very imaginative, but I can let that slide since that's not really the hook here, and it's carry-over criticism from Armor On
― Evan and I'm Gettin' It (Evan R), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
the opening line of "300" is "i feel like leonidas / battling the titans / a thousand soldiers against one sword" which appears to be a reference to either the film or to some sort of role playing game
the more OTT the battle motifs the better, i don't know how you can have an issue with this
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
It's the film, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
(Strictly speaking the comic but anyway.)
battle motifs: Tacky? or tactical?
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
a comic, of course it is
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
strictly strictly speaking Greek history and legend
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
i cant be the only one who finds this a lil samey relative to LTTP
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
xp the greek king leonidas (historical) never fought the titans (mythical) though
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Dawn's stuff feels pretty distinct from Dirty Money to me at this point -- if any 2 records risk crowding each other's space it's Golden Heart and Armor On
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm not pretending to be an expert. did frank miller invent that part of the myth though? xp
― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
i think she threw those together just for the rhyme.
― goole, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
like that she interpolates both phil collins and peter gabriel over the course of the record, so i can just think of it as prog
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
at a couple of points there are these almost old-agey computer music stabs, an ancient-future music, then with the 300 deal, yes, what a progger would be mining these days, if they existed.
which they don't.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 January 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
30 seconds in and I CANNOT WAIT TO DROP MONEY ON THIS ALBUM
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oh thank god. i have finally found a way to make this work.
and In the Hearts Tonight ALONE ugh wow ugh wow what
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 14 January 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Proggers exist, but they think Dream Theater is hip and cutting edge.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
(Obviously not every one but...too many.)
really happy how much clapping there is on here
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that's why i fux with you bb
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
midtempo clapping, too!
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
i.e. frequency!
also, never stop with the c0rny spoken word interludes dawn <3
woah @ all of this. brb picking my jaw up from the floor
― prolego, Monday, 14 January 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
man. i liked 86 but didn't love it in the context of it being the first single post-armor on.
but 3/4 of the way through GoldenHeart oh my goodness it's fucking devastating.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
just finished and I'm not gonna play it again til it's released
but I will say that 'whiteout' seems to have been more predictive than we had thought, so allow me to say
i told u
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
ok listening finally
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
EACH SWING I COUNTER I LOOK TO MY FATHERI ASK HIM FOR FAVOUR TO TAKE DOWN THIS MONSTERALL FOR THE HONOUR IT GAVE ME THE POWERTO DO LIKE NO OTHER TO SAY I HAVE CONQUERED
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
the outro's really pretty as are other parts of this album but especially the outro
― The Reverend, Monday, 14 January 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
it's p hard to fuck up claire de lune tbh, probably the greatest song ever written (no lie)
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
outro is wonderful, seriously one of the most affecting and satisfying finales to an album i can recall i think
pure pure pure after-the-curtain-falls lonely spotlight schmaltz but so good
even its borrowedness is meaningful
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
the 'pretty wicked things'/'goldenheart' suite p much completely rejects this reading of dawn as mildly autistic fantasist
the sorrow for the "fallen tales" of the former, then the yearning once more for "white knights, white horses" of the latter is a prism you can read the entire album through
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link