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Apprentice Guru |
It leaked 2 days ago. What does everyone think?
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Jedi |
I think it's possibly even better than the first Atlas Sound album. I've listened to it several times through and I just can't get enough of it.
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Jedi |
It's awesome. Period.
------------------------------------- Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives? http://www.last.fm/user/crob3888 |
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Jedi |
I didn't find anything redeeming in the first album. I bit too disco for my tastes. Is this "more of the same but better", or does he take it in a different direction.
I still can't believe this is the same guy from Deerhunter. ________________ The record buying public shouldn't be voting. |
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Jedi |
I didn't really care for the first albums by either Deerhunter or Atlas Sounds, but I loved Microcastle/Weird Era and I feel like this album sounds pretty similar to that one, even a bit like Sung Tongs era Animal Collective. It's definitely pop music, but it stretches itself in really strange ways, going weird places throughout the songs. I'm going to give it a few more listens today, but I was nothing but pleased with my first listens of it yesterday. ------------------------------------- Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives? http://www.last.fm/user/crob3888 |
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Jedi |
None of that makes a bit of sense to me. I can't imagine what you thought sounded disco on the first one. And it sounds a lot like Deerhunter to me. Its pretty much the same singing style with slightly different instrumentation. But to answer your question, this one is a good bit less ambient. There's not near as much of the sonic soundscape stuff from the first album. This one mixes up styles and genres a good more as well. There's a couple of Person Pitch sounding tunes, an absolutely awesome Stereolab homage with Laetitia Sadier singing. There's still plenty of the bedroom guitar strumming run through a ton of effects and fuzzed out vocals. I'm loving it. "Shelia" is freaking amazing. One of my favorite songs of the year. |
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Know-It-All |
Atlas Sound, much like the last Deerhunter album, I just do not get.
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Jedi |
Your description of the album is spot on, hophead. I was trying to explain the Animal Collective style-stuff I was hearing, but really, the Person Pitch reference much better suits it than what I had said. And yeah, "Shelia" is an amazing tune. ------------------------------------- Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives? http://www.last.fm/user/crob3888 |
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Apprentice Guru |
Agreed. It's my favorite track off of the album. |
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Jedi |
One thing I'm not crazy about is how the album ends. "Logos" is a great song, but it just sort of akwardly fades out. It doesn't feel like a proper way at all to end an album. And this is from a guy who really, really knows how to end an album. Something tells me that with this being a leak it may not be how they're planning it officially.
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Participant |
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I first heard the album. It's a terrific album, really, but it's just not the way you end it. I doubt this is the way it's supposed to finish. |
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Jedi |
Well, it's definitely the correct tracklisting, so the only thing I could think of that would be different is the final master recording.
But, I don't think it is going to be different - I don't see anything wrong with the way the album ends. Y'all are splittin' hairs. ------------------------------------- Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives? http://www.last.fm/user/crob3888 |
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Participant |
Yeah, maybe you're right. I suppose I'll probably warm up to it the more I listen to it.
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