Laurel Halo

I've only listened to this a couple of times but it promises to be another fantastic piece of work from Halo.

I could easily see myself dancing to this in a nightclub

Sort of related but I really want to hear something from the Behind the Green Door 12" on a club system, especially "Sex Mission".

Sex Mission is a great ridiculous name for a track as well. On their RA mix earlier this year, Blondes drop it alongside other straight up club tracks and it definitely works.

new album is real lush.. mastering is excellent, sounds great at high volume. could be way off, but some of the percussion recalls the (dry, direct) sound qualities of untilted by autechre, but softer-edged. Not sure if this can be attributed to her use of the Elektron machinedrum, or if autechre even used one on untilted. Wouldn't compare them otherwise, as this rides easier, doesn't feel over-laboured.

I really like how immersive some of her stuff is. Like, I can switch off completely to a Laurel Halo release and just drift away... Sort of the opposite of being really engaged and aware (which I have to do with Autechre), it works best when I'm just nodding off or what have you - it's very visual.

went from tentative to thinking this record rules, at times it sounds like an instrumental underworld record

i like some of the watery hues but the songs on this haven't really grabbed me all that much just yet. or at least i haven't quite grasped them - quite slippery music isn't it?

this record rules. I could go for some more electric piano tho.

really enjoying this.

serendip is amazing, so heavy.

That track 'Throw' with the detuned piano really reminds me of something - I think it's Polygon Window-era Aphex.

Still play Chance of Rain all the time. A truly great record imo.

yeah, i forgot about it because i've been rediscovering Quarantine but it is really good.

I really want a whole record of music that sounds like Dr Echt/Out, so beautiful

Double EP being released end of this month.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=31354

good news. that Nebenwirkungen is real nice.

Just ordered Chance of Rain and Quarantine today. I'm behind. New songs sound great.

Got In Situ in the mail today. Listening now. . .

like the new tracks, looking forward to this

Really like this new stuff quite a bit. A lot to take in at once, but I think I'd rank it at least as high as Chance of Rain right off the bat.

I listen to Chance of Rain in the gym on a regular basis -- hard to say why it makes a good workout record, but I never liked the pressure of "motivational" workout music.

Man In Situ is really good.

Yep, it's really excellent.

really like the new one, fantastically empty, something I find myself just wanting to inhabit for a while

'Found I'!!

That one's definitely going on my picks of the year mixtape.

Listening on youtube now, this is great.

And it even has more jazzy electric piano like the bookends of Chance of Rain, just like I wanted

I love how Focus I sounds like a lounge/acid jazz track only just slightly too heavy and dark.

Sorry, 'Focus I' is what I meant earlier.

Yeah, great track.

man this whole record actually, second time through, fuck it's fantastic

this is a little more dancey than chance of rain, and only in a good way

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

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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