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Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

cestuneblague — Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:37:01 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 02/06/2025 22:37

These Puffin turning into... Tournament Doves

Armand Hammer 8-7

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

baystateoftheart — Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:33:06 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 02/06/2025 22:33

Two interesting and enjoyable experimental tracks. I preferred Doves by a long shot until it petered out into the void without a true verse from Elucid. Still, I think it's the better one here by a nose.

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

cestuneblague — Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:08:07 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 02/06/2025 22:08

Again, another bump to break this tie

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

cestuneblague — Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:02:59 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 02/05/2025 05:02

Armand. I'm still pretty fair-weather on The Smile.

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

KitchenSink — Sun, 2 Feb 2025 16:23:33 GMT

Author: KitchenSink

Posted: 02/02/2025 21:23

LedZep wrote:

Not sure why it's a bonus track and wasn't chosen as a closer for We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, sounds like a masterful closing track.

yeah I feel similarly. on streaming it's been updated such that Doves is the last track, but they also removed Junglepussy's verses, or rather I think she asked them to be removed because people were clowning on her for some reason which sucks. I'd love like a physical release that includes both Doves as the closer and doesn't remove Junglepussy's verses but seems unlikely to happen

Tap wrote:

Thank you KitchenSink for bringing this to my attention!!

🥰

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

Tap — Sun, 2 Feb 2025 02:14:49 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 02/02/2025 07:14

Wow, I missed Doves last year, but that was incredible. I'd never listened to any of The Smile either, and it is no slouch, I wouldn't cry foul if it came away the victor in this matchup. But Doves is huge! Maybe the best I've heard from the duo?? Hard to say. Thank you KitchenSink for bringing this to my attention!!

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

travelful — Sat, 1 Feb 2025 14:19:32 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 02/01/2025 19:19

Two interesting tracks but much prefer Doves. Another one of my favorites of this first batch. Top 3 for sure.

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

dihansse — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:48:38 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 01/31/2025 17:48

Doves is certainly a very intriguing track but I stick with my own rec: The Smile

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

craola — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:59:37 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 01/31/2025 13:59

i'm kind of mixed on bending hectic. on the one hand, it's very clever, and it's quite interesting, but it doesn't really move me the way this armand hammer track, which is new to me, moves me. i feel like bending hectic gets a bit carried away driving through the mountain passes. i have to listen to doves a few more times to get a better feel for it, but i'm leaning that way at the moment.

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

LedZep — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:34:31 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 01/31/2025 10:34

Probably the best pairing so far. Doves was on my long shortlist for nominations. Not sure why it's a bonus track and wasn't chosen as a closer for We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, sounds like a masterful closing track. Bending Hectic is maaaaybe the best Smile track? IDK. There was a time when the lack of Yorke projects made me question if he'll ever release another truly great album, with or without Radiohead. Now we have 3 very solid The Smile albums and I'm content. Anyway, Doves gets my vote.

Re: 2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

KitchenSink — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:45:54 GMT

Author: KitchenSink

Posted: 01/31/2025 01:45

there's a fair few Radiohead songs that feel vaguely post-rocky, and Bending Hectic feels like a really tight distillation and extension of Greenwood & co working within that mode. (This is actually my first time listening to this project, and I'm given to understand that much of it is kind of in this vein). Anyway cool stuff

Doves though is one of the most stunningly beautiful pieces of music I've heard over the past decade plus, could easily take this tournament as well as basically any other.

I got nothing. What do you even write about this. Music exists for this kind of creation

2024 BST: Bending Hectic v Doves

cestuneblague — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:52:23 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 01/30/2025 18:52

The Smile- Bending Hectic

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Repping: London

Ponymaster: Dihansse

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Armand Hammer- Doves

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Repping: New York City

Ponymaster: KitchenSink