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Muslim-Bigfoot
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Age: 33
Location: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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- Posted: 03/31/2015 23:21
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I listened to this once and what I felt was that this album assumes you're gonna take the sincerity for granted and take it from there. Like with the minimal instrumentation and the rhetorical universally poetic intimate lyrics (I wanted to write just "intimate lyrics" but intimate lyrics with enough particularity and a little quirk and wit can become not only tolerable but also enjoyable but in contrast "intimate lyrics" without that needed amount of particularity and quirk and wit just become what I called "rhetorical universally poetic intimacy") I can't bring myself to enjoy it very much. It had its moments though when there was actual poetic beauty and some surprising lines and stuff but overall can't dig the atmosphere. I really can't enjoy vague poeticism when it takes center stage. It would be another story if it was buried down in the music or sth. _________________ "I feel like for the last two years there’s been sort of a sonic evolution happening and I’ve been experimenting more and more."
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Anti
I Dream of Drone
Age: 28
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
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- #32
- Posted: 04/01/2015 01:50
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I'm very excited to listen to this album. My one friend had it on in the background and it was enough to convince me to purchase on vinyl ($14 is a steal for a special edition, clear vinyl). I will definitely pop it on the turntable once I get home for Easter. I don't want to submit my rating yet because I wasn't committed to the listen entirely. But even with that, I am confident that I will enjoy this album completely. _________________ ...and for dessert!
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zdwyatt
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Location: Madison WI
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- #33
- Posted: 04/01/2015 13:38
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benpaco wrote: | [Favorable comparison to For Emma, Forever Ago is] high praise though ... IDK if it'll live up to that. |
It won't. It's good (in my top 10 for the year at the moment), but it's not that good. And it certainly isn't better than Illinois.
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- #34
- Posted: 04/02/2015 04:48
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Muslim-Bigfoot wrote: | I listened to this once and what I felt was that this album assumes you're gonna take the sincerity for granted and take it from there. Like with the minimal instrumentation and the rhetorical universally poetic intimate lyrics. I can't bring myself to enjoy it very much. It had its moments though when there was actual poetic beauty and some surprising lines and stuff but overall can't dig the atmosphere. I really can't enjoy vague poeticism when it takes center stage. It would be another story if it was buried down in the music or sth. |
Really, I think questioning the sincerity of the lyrics is kind of ridiculous. Nor are they vague, lacking in particularity or wit. He's singing about some of the most important, personal issues in his life- abandonment, death of loved ones, drug addiction. Each line speaks volumes and relates concretely to the rest of the poem. It takes more than one listen to support a literary critique. Of course, if you didn't like the atmosphere/wish there was more music, fine, that's your taste
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RockyRaccoon
Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Location: Maryland
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Gigantic
Location: [color=green]Christmas Island[/color]
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- #36
- Posted: 04/05/2015 04:06
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Listened to the first half with my girlfriend while baking crescent rolls. Hasn't made much of an impact on me.
Michigan and Illinois both left their mark with me as soon as they'd started.
So maybe it could be said that Carrie and Lowell is "less immediate" or w.e. Maybe that makes it less good to me?
I'm often skeptical about this whole "after multiple listens" bs. After multiple listens any album is going to leave an impression on you - just look at how many times Applerill has listened to BrokeNCYDE. do we just force ourselves to like the albums we want to like (via forced repetition) bcuz they'll make us feel "cool"? _________________ ~❅ ❄ ❆ hµM△₪ FESTIVE †®å§h ❆ ❄ ❅~
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx
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- Posted: 04/05/2015 04:27
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Gigantic wrote: | I'm often skeptical about this whole "after multiple listens" bs. After multiple listens any album is going to leave an impression on you - just look at how many times Applerill has listened to BrokeNCYDE. do we just force ourselves to like the albums we want to like (via forced repetition) bcuz they'll make us feel "cool"? |
It's not BS. After multiple listens, any album will leave an impression, true, but that impression is not always a good one. Albums with depth grow on me. Albums without depth burn out fast. _________________ follow me on the bandcamp.
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FlorianJones
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Age: 29
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- #38
- Posted: 04/05/2015 04:40
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craola wrote: | It's not BS. After multiple listens, any album will leave an impression, true, but that impression is not always a good one. Albums with depth grow on me. Albums without depth burn out fast. |
I agree with this completely. Often on first listen an album will seem either boring or bizarre, and I won't care for it but after a few more listens, I start to love it. On the other side of this, I'll sometimes listen to an album and think to myself "yeah, this is really fun I like this" but after a half dozen listens, it already feels boring and overplayed. That's why I always make a point to listen to something several times and live with it for a bit before I make a judgement.
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Silver
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- Posted: 04/05/2015 05:13
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Gigantic wrote: | Listened to the first half with my girlfriend while baking crescent rolls. Hasn't made much of an impact on me.
Michigan and Illinois both left their mark with me as soon as they'd started.
So maybe it could be said that Carrie and Lowell is "less immediate" or w.e. Maybe that makes it less good to me?
I'm often skeptical about this whole "after multiple listens" bs. After multiple listens any album is going to leave an impression on you - just look at how many times Applerill has listened to BrokeNCYDE. do we just force ourselves to like the albums we want to like (via forced repetition) bcuz they'll make us feel "cool"? |
I Stockholm Syndrome myself with every single album I've ever loved.
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Gigantic
Location: [color=green]Christmas Island[/color]
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- Posted: 04/05/2015 05:23
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Silver wrote: | I Stockholm Syndrome myself with every single album I've ever loved. |
it's not a particularly "crazy" idea - i know a guy for example who wanted to "understand" ♪avant-garde jazz♪ so he just forced himself to listen to and relisten to the staples until he "got" them. did he actually "get" them or did he just acclimatize himself to them?
although so much of what we like is dependent on so many other variables - nostalgia, association, desire, etc. that "objective appreciation" is unobtainable anyway _________________ ~❅ ❄ ❆ hµM△₪ FESTIVE †®å§h ❆ ❄ ❅~
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