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I'm trying out Spotify's "Your Daily Mix" playlist that they curate for you. This first one is pretty awesome. Little St. Vincent, Father John Misty and PJ Harvey so far. I'm digging it.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Man... errybody's going full POP now...
Exactly why I'm so disappointed by Masseduction. Feels like such an obvious grasp for commercial relevancy.
So what, though? If it's good, it's good.
Sure, but as I said earlier I don't think it's good in this case...
There's the audio engineer part of me that really savors fun synth and drum sounds, and gets really bored when I'm hearing a lot of stock sounds. I hear a lot of stock stuff on her new album; I can literally picture the sessions where she comes in with a good idea on a guitar or piano, and then Jack Antanoff started pulling up all his stock plug-in settings, and now her record sounds like so many other records. And of course I saw your posts about her performing this live with backing tracks? These creative decisions are where the rubber meets the road, I feel, and I just don't agree with most of her decisions in this case.
Besides a few moments (the title track and New York come to mind), I think the poppiness of St. Vincent's new record is a bit overstated. The majority of songs on this record could have shown up on the S/T without being too jarring, for example.
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She's also gone on record several times saying that she didn't want to use live percussion on the record, or maybe any time in the near future. She wants those loops and beats and synths. I knew before the album dropped that there wouldn't be many (if any) live drums and that she wasn't going to tour with a drummer. I think any artist stretching and trying new things, following interests them is always a good thing. Sometimes I like the result, sometimes I don't. But I always support that kind of thinking/playing. It helps when it someone as talented as Annie Clark because she has her own orbit. She pulls me toward her and turns me on to new ideas and sounds. I don't listen to a lot of music that sounds like Masseduction. Maybe that's why it's so much more interesting to me. Ignorance really can be bliss.
Besides a few moments (the title track and New York come to mind), I think the poppiness of St. Vincent's new record is a bit overstated . The majority of songs on this record could have shown up on the S/T without being too jarring, for example.
I agree and I don't. I agree the poppiness is being overstated. But I don't know that the majority of these songs sound like they belong or could be at home on S/T. This still sounds really different to me than that record. But I do see you overall point. And I agree in general.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
I'm trying out Spotify's "Your Daily Mix" playlist that they curate for you. This first one is pretty awesome. Little St. Vincent, Father John Misty and PJ Harvey so far. I'm digging it.
Spotify does a pretty good job of recommending stuff.
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