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.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― Willl, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm quite sure that's intentional
― Number None, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
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)
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Ryderz is such a banger
could've sworn he had his own thread but i can't find it either
― nose, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
hahahahaha
http://soundcloud.com/rustie/first-mythz
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
listened to it thrice today
day's not over yet
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
um and apparently new album tomorrow?
https://soundcloud.com/rustie/peace-upzzz
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
better than the last one but still not as good as glass swords ....
― the late great, Thursday, 5 November 2015 08:04 (eight years ago) link
hope this gets released on cd.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
oof this album is absolutely dreadful
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
you mean absolutely brilliant and almost as good as glass swords
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
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 :/
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
i need glass swords back on my phone
whats the verdict on the new album?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 29 July 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
huh, i remember the reviews being bad, but liking what i heard and thinking that i need to give it a good listen.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
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
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
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
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 29 July 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
it was better than green language but still nowhere near as good as glass swords, especially due to how rough-sounding it is
― ufo, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Saturday, 7 December 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
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).
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 7 December 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
I enjoy EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE. Has a cool vaporous quality where everything seems to be constantly fading into white noise.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 7 December 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
9 years on and it's still the album of the year for me
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Saturday, 7 December 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Globes has always been the standout imo
― nashwan, Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
After Light no question
― lukas, Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
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?
― lukas, Friday, 4 June 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link