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| Poll: Please listen to both albums in full before voting, then choose your favorite. |
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| Valley Of Grace by Elucid |
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66% |
[10] |
| Clairvoyant by The Contortionist |
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33% |
[5] |
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| Total Votes : 15 |
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts 
- #1
- Posted: 08/19/2018 20:36
- Post subject: 2017 Championship Tournament: Play-In Game #3
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Play-In 3A:
Valley Of Grace by Elucid
Nominated By: dividesbyzero
Genres [RYM]: Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop
Play-In 3B:
Clairvoyant by The Contortionist
Nominated By: AwaitingAndrew
Genres [RYM]: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Post-Metal
Instructions:
Please listen to both albums in full before voting. Share your thoughts and/or your vote in this thread. This poll will be tallied in fourteen days. See Tournament Spreadsheet for the full bracket.
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Last edited by baystateoftheart on 08/21/2018 21:09; edited 1 time in total
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AwaitingAndrew
Gender: Male
- #2
- Posted: 08/20/2018 00:11
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Valley Of Grace is about as different an album as you could get from my nomination. It's a bit too underground to have replay value for me personally, but I enjoyed the album. The beats and music are rather experimental, and Elucid's delivery over the beats is solid.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #3
- Posted: 08/20/2018 21:29
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Started Elucid's album. I need this album to fight either Open Mike Eagle's album or the Quelle Chris album. Because Valley of Grace can challenge them with its quirky instrumentals and story telling. Won't vote yet due to the metal album on the other side I need to listen to but Elucid needs to get into the championship.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #4
- Posted: 08/20/2018 23:05
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But damn you also had Clairvoyant, which this band shares the same qualities as Porcupine Tree. And I have slept over Porcupine Tree. Especially since I love the hell of Deadwing. This might be the hardest of the three play in games.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #5
- Posted: 08/20/2018 23:47
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Had to give it to The Contortionist. Love the Elucid album but Clairvoyant is such a beautiful album to the point I need more albums like this and Deadwing in my life. Any other suggestions? Also the new Deafheaven album does count in this.
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AwaitingAndrew
Gender: Male
- #6
- Posted: 08/21/2018 01:14
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| Luigii wrote: | | Had to give it to The Contortionist. Love the Elucid album but Clairvoyant is such a beautiful album to the point I need more albums like this and Deadwing in my life. Any other suggestions? Also the new Deafheaven album does count in this. |
Glad you enjoyed! I was introduced to The Contortionist in 2016 when I saw them on tour with Dance Gavin Dance, Good Tiger, and Hail The Sun. Out of those bands, of which I'm all a fan, I would say Good Tiger is by far the closest to them in terms of their sound. I haven't found any albums that completely match the sound from Clairvoyant, even from the band's own discography - they had a different vocalist up until Language in 2014. The vocalist was previously in another band, but I haven't checked them out yet to see how their sound compares.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #7
- Posted: 08/21/2018 01:22
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| AwaitingAndrew wrote: | | Glad you enjoyed! I was introduced to The Contortionist in 2016 when I saw them on tour with Dance Gavin Dance, Good Tiger, and Hail The Sun. Out of those bands, of which I'm all a fan, I would say Good Tiger is by far the closest to them in terms of their sound. I haven't found any albums that completely match the sound from Clairvoyant, even from the band's own discography - they had a different vocalist up until Language in 2014. The vocalist was previously in another band, but I haven't checked them out yet to see how their sound compares. |
I will get to Good Tiger. Any album I should visit first?
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Location: Detroit 
- #8
- Posted: 08/21/2018 19:06
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Elucid is a daring experimental rapper and producer. The Contortionist is a bland "post-metal" group who are just another boring, rehashed version of Dredg and Junius. I think the answer is pretty clear.
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BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
- #9
- Posted: 08/22/2018 02:04
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Holy shit! Valley of Grace is taking over my world. Reminds me of sth that might have been on Def Jux back in the day.
Easy win here for Elucid even though I liked Clairvoyant.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #10
- Posted: 08/22/2018 02:07
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| Tilly wrote: | Holy shit! Valley of Grace is taking over my world. Reminds me of sth that might have been on Def Jux back in the day.
Easy win here for Elucid even though I liked Clairvoyant. |
Honestly both of these were top notch. Can't complain of this match up.
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