Christ this is awful

Christ this is awful

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What makes you think it's awful?

leave

i thought so too, once

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I remember my first day on Sup Forums

It's not good when I listen to it

It is musically bad

So what shitty Sup Forumscore artist do you think is gonna have cancer strike their family next?

and what exactly in your opinion makes it musically bad

Kanye

>le I wish I was Built to Spill mémé

Fuck you cunt

Are you able to communicate in non-memes?

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The Glow pt.2 is so fuggin good tho

your favorite album is worse

It is now when you are no longer a teenager

This thread is so fucking epic.

This album sounds like if American Football tried to be Granddaddy

Guys the album is bad okay

If the title track is supposed to be the best song you're really in trouble

(You)

(Sup Forums)

Give me a concise reason it's bad

It's bad because it's not very good

2/10 b8

Not a favorite of mine either but not awful.

This thread is awful for not giving proper criticism.

phil is possibly the greatest guitarist of our generation but you are all too dense and short sighted to understand that

But Phil's music isn't good because of technical skill. There are different reasons it's good. He's not even a particularly great guitarist

Can someone give a legitimate explanation of this album.

To me it sounds exactly like someone improvised a whole record on the spot. It sounds very loose, without much structure/melody.

It seems pretty premeditated to me, but Phil's "process" or style of writing is pretty much to have a sort of idea, then write it as he records it

It's a lo-fi cult classic

if you think think album has no melody or structure, you haven't listened to much folk at all.

it's nearly folk pop ffs.

Ah ok

I have literally zero folk experience as I'm Russian. But I've heard ITAOTS and other folk recommended by p4k like Nick Drake and so on.

Still it sounds like a free-form kind of record, a little like Laughing Stock. But on the latter, I at least had some idea what was going on.

did you even get to the second part of it? much better imo.

skip to Samurai Sword and listen with headphones.

if you don't like it then the Microphones just aren't 4 u.

I think this is the best thread in the history of Sup Forums

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OK maybe I should give it a second try. Are the lyrics important in it? I can't understand shit about this record

You have to be cold when listening to it, OP.

headphones are important. phil is very talented at sound manipulation. i don't even care about lyrics.

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youtube.com/watch?v=59sdwW9FB3c

Yeah, I finally remember what confused the hell out of me in this record. It's that feeling that it's a recording of a studio, an environment around the artist rather than the artist himself. The distrtion of the drums, the hum of the equipment, the finger slides on the guitar, the pauses and so on.

I don't understand what all of it means. Now that I'm listening to it—it's actually folk pop, but layered under a whole bunch of other stuff.

like i fucking care

i forget what exactly it was, but the hum at the end of I Am Bored happens throughout the course of the album. most of the noise is intentional sound manipulation, but i believe that buzz was from somewhere outside.

the atmosphere on the album is unmatched.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

I simply don't understand what the artist meant by it. Isn't folk supposed to be about artist's feelings alone? OK, I get this "bare bones" style of recording, reminds me of Springsteen's Nebraska.
But then there's that weird hum/noise like on Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or Kid A. It's atmospheric I agree, but to me it's also unexplainable and weird as fuck. The distorted drums… What does it all mean in the context of the album? I just don't get it.

You sound far too analytical.

why did he marry an old lady with no hair

this album isn't fucking folk look at Dont Wake me Up
Phil writes music and it happens to be acoustic sometimes. but his music is all about building an atmosphere, a natural force, whether thats a gentle breeze of acoustic instruments and ambient sounds and noises or a gale force bluster of distortion and fuzz.
he isnt trying to sing about his feelings over a couple chords, he is making a single piece of music that feels rather than means

He's straight up not a good guitarist but he's a great artist

But don't you think the distorted drums just clash with folk heavily? They sound like sound collage, but can't get the meaning behind it.

Yep, it's ok on its own, but when stuff like this obviously muffles other instruments, it's getting weird.

also "not getting it" because it's "weird" is the poorest excuse for saying an album is awful you fucking pleb

Phil is a mediocre guitarist and an incredibly naturally talented producer

you said you listened to NMH, Holland 1945 and Song Against Sex have harsher distortion on every instrument than almost any song on The Glow Pt 2.

>but m-muh production values

Look, I'm not that arrogant to say everything I don't understand is bad. I simply don't have the "key" to understanding this record. I wrote in this thread hoping someone would explain the concept of the album to me

But it's more like effect. It doesn't drown out the artist's voice or the guitars at all.

Take youtube.com/watch?v=59sdwW9FB3c . At 0:49 starts a weird detuned radio sound with distorted drums, and the song ends with a complete silence with some hum. ITAOTS doesn't have "sound collage" moments like this

he's using the noise as another instrument. sound manip 101.

oh ok sorry for snapping at you i thought you were OP man

Yeah but once again: can anybody tell me what it means, if anything at all? The modern alienation and detachment like on Kid A? I just fail to grasp it although I believe others when they say it's good. I can hear there's some good folk music beneath it all, but I fail to understand how it's tied to the sound manipulation

The point of art is to find your own "meaning." It's music, he was going for a certain aesthetic and he's a talented enough producer to turn static into an instrument.

Listen to the album Mount Eerie if you want to know what he was aiming for with the noisier stuff.

JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC AND DECIDE IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT WHO CARES ABOUT DEEPER MEANINGS

>"What did he mean by this?" the thread

it's mostly about a saturated feeling of being overwhelmed by the cities ( and perhaps social life ) and wanting to become one with nature

The point is, it's not "deeper" meaning. It's the most basic meaning. I'm not trying to decipher satanic messages playing the record backwards, I'm simply confused by the sound of the record itself.

OK, will try Mount Eerie

the titular song on Mount Eerie is the best thing he's done.

the trips have spoken

OK you've made me listen to it. It better be good

what kind of music is it anyway
i keep seeing it and thought i should try it but if it's that bad maybe i'll pass

lo-fi folk rock

I gave this a listen. Twice. I can't into it at all. The male voice at the beginning I cannot stand, I'm not into that brand of folk music and the distortion effect doesn't add anything.

I think I gave it an honest shot and maybe after like 10 times I would get something out of it but I don't think I can put myself through too much more.

Maybe you should listen and find out for yourself.

OP's either being contrarian or trying to bait hard. It's indie-folk, and it's definitely worth a listen.

obvious b8 is obvious

oh, that's boring

> artist is called The Microphones
> because he manipulates sound
> mfw i realize

Typical normalfag response.

typical normalfag genre

he actually goes hard tho

youtube.com/watch?v=nva9XwhaBMs

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My favorite song off the album is The Moon
>basic guitar idea
>multilayered guitars playing little variations on the idea make for a very comfortable "surrounded by guitars" sort of feeling
>quickly changes into a sort of abrasive/fast paced song with lyrics about the sadness of a lost relationship and regret about trying to make it work again
>trumpet arrangements add emotion during the chorus

It's sort of introspective music to listen to while driving at night, not something I'd put on with my friends.

hm, you're right, that wasn't as bad as "lo-fi folk rock" makes it sound

>because he manipulates sound
I understood it more as a preoccupation with what he was able to capture with his microphones, or in the recording process, and any release as a product of that
he talked about it in an interview at some point iirc