Rustie - Glass Swords

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?