Discovering Platform now. Sick, and reminds me a little of sometime ilxor Lynskey
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
on the cover of the latest issue of the wire.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 8:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was v cool imo
http://i67.tinypic.com/wb28lc.jpg
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9OjL6Mjqo
― nxd, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
That is excellent.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
and terrifying.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
dream combo
― nxd, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
Intrigued by the idea of working with AI but not really impressed by the actual track.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
I have a feeling that sentiment will characterize most reactions to the seemingly inevitable onslaught of music that will “use” “AI” in the next years
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
new single is pretty massive
https://youtu.be/r4sROgbaeOs
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
huge. video is nuts in the best possible way.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
I don't like the songwriting at all but that's a cool timbre she's hit upon there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
^^^^this is my opinion of every holly herndon song ever p much
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
*hides in Rockist Corner with pomenitul and other sticks-in-the-mud who still believe in old-fashioned nonsense like songwriting while the A E S T H E T I C crowd storm the cultural pantheon*
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
I'm a shameless aesthete but to these ears it comes off as an interminable string of platitudinous highs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
we're all aesthetes - there's a whole specific thing. you have to space the capitals
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I thought that was a vapourware meme, though – does HH qualify? I must know!
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
*wave, sorry.
It sounds amazing. It doesn't exactly make me want to listen to it again or use it in a dj set (although maybe for the right moment?), but still. It's just vocals, drums, and stabs, right?
Sounds like something Kanye will probably sample this year.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
awesomea welcome return
― nxd, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Save me I'm trending— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 11, 2019
(Theresa May saved her after an hour or so by jumping on a plane to Strasbourg)
― Jeff W, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
One of my happiest gig-going memories is of the time when Holly had hooked her laptop to the projector and slowly and very purposefully typed 'FUCK THERESA MAY' over the visuals in lurid pink.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Also this song is incredible, it's like a School of Seven Bells song batting around in a metal box.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
herndon can write a song imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
anyway this fucking rules
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Herndon might be the only person in any discipline doing anything worthwhile with AI
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
anyway besides sounding incredible this is clearly A Song with hooks and stuff and not just some installation piece
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
It's a song, for sure, I'm just not sold on her way with melody. Faux-bliss imho.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
One excellent reason to use AI in your art is that it guarantees press/interest
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
There are way more traditional songwriting chops in Holly Herndon tracks than in half of the stuff imago listens to so I've got no fucking idea what he's talking about (also HH != vape so strike 2).
This bangs.
― emil.y, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
The only thing that kept me from truly diving headfirst into Holly Herndon when I first became aware of her was the videos, which I was unmoved by, but this video is AMAZING-- same director as the stuff I wasn't so keen on, the song rules as always
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
My mistake, the video that rubbed me wrong was a different director whups
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
She really should have done the soundtrack to the live action Ghost in the Shell. I hear a lot of Kenji Kawai here.
― contains pieces the size of a child's esophagus (Sanpaku), Monday, 11 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
oh this is very cool, i've never really been able to get into her work before but this has pushed into pop-enough territory for me to love it
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhh this is so good
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
i don't mean that there's no songwriting, i mean that the songwriting completely fails to engage me and there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me even if the sound design is quite cool. this is a defensible position surely
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link
That's not "I don't like it", that's "it doesn't exist".
there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me
See, usually you stop before adding the "that do anything for me" part, which is what I find annoying. I don't mind when you don't like things that I like, I just mind when you critique things as if you have a trained musicologist's eye and have found something objectively lacking in it. Personally I find her hooks and melodies v engaging and often properly moving, but there you go.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Wow, this is good
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
I'm getting links to this from all channels in my little bubbleworld, I can't believe the video has only 20k views?!?? Anyway this track is amazing.
― lukas, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
heart in my mouth by the end of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNqNgHAEys
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
Immediately thought of the intro to this when I heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USaAO0vEOE
― Position Position, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
I thought of this (4 mins in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3cWcjZ0Q0&t=240
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
epic song
― nxd, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
was coming here to post "Frontier," really gorgeous tune. can't stop listening to it.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 6 May 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
gotta say, it was really lovely knowing Holly and Mat during their time in the Bay Area— they are genuinely wonderful, warm, and funny people. that they're both making such bonkers-good stuff is just icing on the cake. (same goes for EMA and few other folks from that period of my life).
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 6 May 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
I've been thinking about the whole choral feel of these new tracks, even if Holly's is the only voice on the record, and this is fascinating:
It's cool that people are getting Bulgarian vibes from Frontier :) What is crazy about these kind of polyphonic vocalisations is that they appear in geographically distinct areas all over the world.— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) May 7, 2019
Basically this record is going to be incredible.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Yeah I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a new album release. Syro, I guess - but I have the feeling this album will be better.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Drums could be better... there’s something about the way they sound it makes me think of a tacky “cirque du soleil”/broadway kind of soundtrack - horns on “eternal” also give me those vibes - but love what she does with the vocals and how primal it feels at times. Reminds me of Fever Ray’s s/t of all things.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
As usual, the song sounds like it's going to be the best thing ever, then doesn't quite go where it could. This one sounds particularly cool though so it probably gets away with it
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:07 (four years ago) link
album's out
― ||||||||, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
SWIM is pretty great
― imago, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link