Liturgy

looool

i can't hate on music this weird tbf. it's definitely at risk of being shit but there's something compelling in there too

he's turned pretentiousness into a fine art!

He kind of reminds me of that Kula Shaker guy

he reminds me of an ilxor

i cannot help but like this

been thinking about hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5UR5T6rTw

could use an update: Fuck Off the NPR Black Metal

Hah, I quite liked that. It's no Reign Array though.

Which other hipster metal threads can we bury Attila in?

the ones you started?

Aluk Todolo really need a thread of their own and Oranssi Pazuzu too but I think we missed the boat on that.

greg's solo album is...baffling MIDI wank?

always thought he was the straight role to hunter's freaked-out cyber-shaman thing but this is more unsuccessfully pretentious than anything hunter's released

his 'Mitrial Transmission' album from a few years ago is a favourite of mine, hypnotic processed gamelan pieces. not heard the new stuff

i haven't listened to the greg fox's solo album yet
it's not percussion?

From the review I read it's apparently MIDI triggered by drums. This is on my to do list but not high priority...

Mitrial Transmission is amazing.

Huh on the track here it sounds like the kick drum is triggering the synth bass, which always reminds me of playing Roland V-Drums in a music store in the late '90s.

https://gregfox.bandcamp.com/track/catching-an-l

The Ark Work still bannngs

yes.

um...holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNmymSI8uQ

that's some really, really good Liturgy

i am now a huge fan of this ridiculous record (the ark work)

Brad! <3

(it's become one of my absolute favourites of the decade, what a vision)

New album is out aaaah

opener is fucking sick

The Nepalese lady who cleans my room just came in and slowly backed out again. Fair response: this is fucking mental.

*classroom, just to be clear.

Wooaaaah. Hajj just turned into a metal version of a Star Wars planet theme, then a misdial, then a march. Lol.

Lol.

Looooooool

I mean this is going to encourage loads of impressionistic drivel but that first track is like listening to the original Star Trek theme while being entombed in an iron maiden full of icicles.

EXACO!!!

The title-track is truly something, if you make it that far (which you should)

The sound of this is so crazy, but makes so much sense. It feels weirdly streamlined, even though it's all over the place.

I think back when we were talking White Ward someone was dissapointed that it didn't sound more like cosmic jazz / Ayler / Alice Coltrane, and I was like 'lol, that can't be done'. But here we kinda are? And it's amazing.

I guess I have no choice but to hear this now.

loving this so far. jesus christ

AOTY

This is amazing.

the climactic build of the title-track is like staring into a new form of art, or something

One would almost say, a micro genre :D

Head's spinning in the best way possible. Played it twice now and it somehow seems to be over in 20 minutes idk. What a glorious catharsis.

Finding it literally unlistenable rn, but my ears are kinda fried already and I have a headache, so I'll try another time. So far the glitchy Pro Tools edits are not appealing, that's an ugly & dated effect imo.

Jesus Jordan I so completely feel the opposite. Ew, but, my ears want to have sex with this record. The piano of Exaco I sounds crisp and so sincere to me. The glitchy stuff fits well in a prog-like, 'fooled you we're taking this song into an entirely different direction' kind of way. This is the opposite of ugly and dated for me personally. Crazy as it is it all fits together and paints a masterpiece imo.

i cannot wait to hear it but i'm also at a loss to describe what i even want from this band after the ark work

my answer to that admittedly pertinent question is simply 'more'

The glitches are at once awful and so so perfect. They felt a bit gimmicky on Ark Work, and now they feel like an essential part of the style.

lmao from the first track i love it

This one also benefits tremendously from being the correct length for a Liturgy album

as with the ark work i'm kinda loling through every song in a good way