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Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

brun027 — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:39:54 GMT

Author: brun027

Posted: 03/30/2014 19:39

Would be very good if it had, say, half of its duration. There are not many moments that grab my attention, and kind of goes nowhere sometimes idk, not bad, but too long. My favourite track was 'Rule'.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

meccalecca — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:24:18 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 01/30/2014 17:24

Finally getting around to listening. Not in love with it yet, but I can see this growing on me

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

HoldenM — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:34:50 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 01/29/2014 03:34

Really dense sound. Not the most engaging or easiest listen, but really great.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

SuedeSwede — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:01:43 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 01/27/2014 21:01

Put a comment on this album moderation page about 2 hours ago, it was accepted but it's not been added as a 2014 album yet.

Wanna put this on my chart, can a moderator make this valid now?

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

SuedeSwede — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:27:18 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 01/27/2014 20:27

Really liked this, but I preferred You Are No One just.

So...

1. You Are No One.
2. Ghettoville

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:46:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/27/2014 18:46

I quite liked this one. Pretty nice sounding. While I might have the same "criticisms" that I had with Defago's album, it sounded nice.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Defago — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:06:41 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 01/23/2014 00:06

19loveless91 wrote:

Ghettoville > You Are No One

I enjoyed Ghettoville, but haven't quite been hooked.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:11:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/22/2014 23:11

It's such a good album. #1 right now for the year, and I expect it to be in the top 15 or so when the end of the year comes around.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Norman Bates — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:09:58 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 01/22/2014 21:09

A second, and then a third, listenings left me somewhat more enthustiatic. Quite enjoyed it this time.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

19loveless91 — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:08:24 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 01/22/2014 21:08

That was a pretty long listen but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit actually.. Will try again before the week is over. So far though, Ghettoville > You Are No One

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

videoheadcleaner — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:11:20 GMT

Author: videoheadcleaner

Posted: 01/22/2014 06:11

Could have split this album in two. Even though I create ambient music, I found parts of this too sparse. Favourite tracks were 'Our' and 'Don't.'

2014 ALC Rankings
1. We Are No One.
2. Ghettoville

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:34:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/22/2014 05:34

It was quite enjoyable. It did drag at times and there were certainly some less than stellar numbers, but it was never unpleasant. "Birdcage" and I think the one before it (can't remember the name and am too lazy to look it up) were my favorites.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:07:21 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/22/2014 04:07

I can definitely see the complaints about the first half being a bit dead, for me I didn't really get hooked until Birdcage and then I pretty consistently liked it throughout. Like I said in my original response, I think the first half was going for a really desolate kind of feel, matches the name of the album to me at the very least, but I can see two sides to the coin on it. I liked it, but I felt weary at times.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Necharsian — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:02:30 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 01/22/2014 04:02

GeevyDallas wrote:

I often thought it was sterile...

GeevyDallas wrote:

The second half is much better

agree with these. Wasnt really a fan of RIP but i figured this was still something i would like. I donno it's not terrible but the first half really put me off listening to the rest. It's like it was made to just be a bunch of sounds rather than hold any sort of atmosphere.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Hayden — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:50:11 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/20/2014 21:50

It was actually really different from his other albums.

Biiiiiit too long for me, but it's a pretty decent album. Not sure how often I'll go back to it though. Would have been in the later half of my top 100 of 2013 chart.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:38:23 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 01/20/2014 21:38

I enjoyed "R.I.P" a lot and was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately I think it's just ok. It has some really cool moments, but I think it really drags at times. It's not bad, but I don't think it's nearly as good as I know Actress can do.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

GeevyDallas — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:23:40 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 01/20/2014 20:23

I'm a big Actress fan, but this is the worst album he's put out, it lacks the charm and variety that his other work has and I often thought it was sterile and lacking in any sort of character. It wasn't really attention grabbing or dynamic(horrible word, couldn't think of a better one) enough to justify the length either. The second half is much better. Rule and Gaze are tunes and stand head and shoulders above the rest of the album. People slated Zomby for the off the walls nature of With Love, the fact it constantly and abruptly changed throughout the course of it's hour plus length, but I think he's onto something, especially when dropping these mad long albums. I hope this isn't the last thing Mr. Cunningham releases under the Actress moniker, it would be a shit way to go out.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Norman Bates — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:15:48 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 01/20/2014 20:15

One of the very few 2014 albums I have listened to, only once though, wasn't impressed. Re-listen within the week probs.

Re: #2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:30:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/20/2014 19:30

Probably in my top three of the year so far. I hadn't listened to any Actress stuff beforehand so I was surprised how minimal it was, but it never lost my interest. The first half in particular has this really downtrodden, desolate feel to it. But yeah, it was a really interesting album, only behind the new Silver Mt Zion and Angel Olsen on the year for me so far.

#2 - Ghettoville - 2014 Weekly Listening Club

MrFrogger — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:27:15 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 01/20/2014 19:27

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Album: Ghettoville
Artist: Actress
Label: Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune
Released: January 1st, 2014
Country: United Kingdom

Of the half a dozen or so 2014 albums that I've listened to, this is the only one that really blew me away. It could only be really be classified as "ambient" but that's hardly a good descriptor at all. Actress takes influence from many other genres, IDM, Post-Dubstep(Akin to Mount Kimbie) and even some downtempo. He then takes all these genres and twists them into a loop, creating what I believe to be his best(and possibly final) work.

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