Rustie - Glass Swords

Streamed this yesterday and it's nowhere near as buoyant or thrilling as Glass Swords, which is maybe my album of the decade so far.

not sure how i feel about the album as a whole, but the d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable

i'll have to give it some time but i hear what you're saying, first impression it's definitely not as good as glass swords, not sure what's missing

I was confused as to why the vocalist on "Dream On" wasn't credited when all the others were. If the woman singing turns out to be Kelli-Leigh I would actually die.

And yeah this is just off one stream - and I love all his other stuff - so I'm definitely willing to give it a chance too.

Glorious cover art btw.

Looking forward to the D Double track but really he should have got on the phone to Flirta D for full on glorious gonzoid effect.

I CAN'T PLAY THE COMPUTER GAME THAT UNLOCKS THE TRACKS!

having said that i did not think the lead single was up to much so i haven't tried that hard. sum total of time I've spent on computer games in my life = 5 mins of mario the hedgehog when i was 7, 5 mins spent repeatedly running it into a ravine

"mario the hedgehog" eh?

Games? Is that what you call them? Games?

This is sounding pretty great so far...

It's awful

d double e and danny brown 1-2 punch in the middle is undeniable

Just hit this section, and um... it's fairly deniable imo. Bit of a wasted opportunity. Prefer the instrumentals...

Some of the early tracks are dope, think I need to spend more time with this.

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Pretty much.

feels like a bit like offcuts from the first album, all the sounds are there but the impact is not. "velcro" is alright and so is the d double e one; danny brown sounds weird like he's half putting on a british grime mc's accent. pretty blah album tbh

Rapture is cool, I especially like the first four tracks. Then it goes a bit off the rails and never really recovers.

ha, i felt the opposite - first half was most disappointing, got slightly better once it hit the rap tracks but never really hit the heights

just started playing glass swords again and while i mostly like it, it really is not the sort of thing i can listen to for very long

snd are similar in this respect

i used to like the early rustie eps from years ago, ep is probably the ideal format for him

i decided i only like the rap tracks

like almost all the vocal tracks on this, esp the danny brown one, but i think the instrumentals are easy to underrate. definitely more subdued than GS, and less ambitious, and sometimes just a bit deficient (ie the total opposite of GS where nothing could be seen as being deficient), but they still sound like no one else. i think he was thinking more melodically on this album. maybe its him trying to get more producer work, or do something 'proper' rather than weird/funny like the last one, not sure, but its still good. hopefully he hasnt gotten too self conscious.

Some parts of this album give me instant nostalgia for 80s arcade game soundtracks - I think its the general midi sounding slap bass noise he uses occasionally - but it takes me back to listening to this as an 8 year old: http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/6_Amazing_Coin-Op_Soundtracks_from_Virgin_Games

I'm quite sure that's intentional

anyone still listening to this? i think its a bit of a grower. every track with guest vocalists is great except the gorgeous children one, and even though theyre a bit sketchy, the instrumentals generally have enough good things going for them for me not to write this album off. it doesnt attack you like glass swords, but i dont see that as a negative. or maybe you just really have to be a big rustie fan.

no Hudson Mohawke thread, huh? i'm sad that i haven't heard anything i like so far off the new Hud Mo album :(

(only heard the singles, not the full thing, i'm sure there will be a couple deep cut jams)

Ryderz is such a banger

could've sworn he had his own thread but i can't find it either

hahahahaha

http://soundcloud.com/rustie/first-mythz

listened to it thrice today

day's not over yet

um and apparently new album tomorrow?

https://soundcloud.com/rustie/peace-upzzz

better than the last one but still not as good as glass swords ....

hope this gets released on cd.

oof this album is absolutely dreadful

you mean absolutely brilliant and almost as good as glass swords

he announced on twitter a few days ago that he's no longer doing shows for the foreseeable future due to mental health/substance abuse issues :/

i need glass swords back on my phone

whats the verdict on the new album?

the reviews seem good...

but, i think it's very bad, and without getting too gossipy, i understand that warp were very unhappy with it, and it was recorded during a period of heavy substance dependency.

huh, i remember the reviews being bad, but liking what i heard and thinking that i need to give it a good listen.

metacritic is 74%, pitchfork 7.3.

line from the pitchfork review:

"It is a rawer, scrappier record than either of his prior LPs, and the way he flips the bird at conventional notions of fidelity is almost punk."

part of warp's problem with it, it sounds terrible because he produced and mastered it himself

ill hear a few tracks on youtube

but i did not like the second one at all and im afraid of the long track list of the third

it was better than green language but still nowhere near as good as glass swords, especially due to how rough-sounding it is

I haven't really liked much by Rustie since Glass Swords, so I kind of forgot about how much I liked that album. Listening again now, and it still slaps.

He hasn't done much since. :(

I think it's hard to overstate the impact that Glass Swords had (even if much of it is on EDM that's all worse than Glass Swords).

I enjoy EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE. Has a cool vaporous quality where everything seems to be constantly fading into white noise.

9 years on and it's still the album of the year for me

Globes has always been the standout imo

After Light no question

So he released this excellence last April, can't imagine why I missed it: https://hypebeast.com/2020/4/rustie-russell-whyte-project-tease-new-song-music-video

And then nothing apparently?