Lantern is underrated IMO. I never fully got into Butter, but the Satin Panthers EP & Polyfolk Dance EP are both great - it's interesting to go back to the latter and hear how much his sound has evolved since then
I def get ear fatigue by the end of the album, but the run from Dope Song through Break It (plus Kush Coma) is as good as 21st century party rap gets for me.
this came out at the point in time when I had expanded my listening into electronic music, so I have a hard time viewing it as a risky indulgence (even tho it may have been).
in 2006, Hot Chip put out The Warning, The Knife released Silent Shout, Booka Shade crossed over (kinda) with Movements, Zero 7 had The Garden, their one album wit both Jose Gonzales and Sia - these albums were my introductions to the respective artists, and The Eraser (from an artist I had been listening to for over a decade) fit naturally next to all of them. Silent Shout was the most cold and clinical-sounding of them all (tho not cheap), and it ended up topping p4k's year end list. And all this stuff was crossover indie music, not intended specifically for a club audience (altho Booka leaned most heavily there) or experimental/bedroom electronic fans.
I get that these artists were all much more niche than a Thom Yorke project in 2006 was, but still, I think The Eraser only sounded foreign and cheap to people who hadn't yet made that crossover in 2006.
"In most current-day EDM, drums are in strict lockstep; it’s why so many people deride that stuff as oontz-oontz music."
Sentence is cringe-worthy and insulting.
to be fair, Wood sounds genuinely surprised about the whole 'authentic' thing. And I'm not sure if that makes him sound like more or less of a senile old rocker.
The internet is long overdue for a moratorium on Weezer think pieces/album reviews that wistfully remember Blue/Pinkerton and bemoan the difficulty in judging their new albums "on their own terms."
Third in a row that Delicate Steve has posted about playing guitar on. hopefully he'll be opening and sitting in whenever Yeasayer announces the 2nd leg of the US tour
check out the comments on any PC Music review or feature on Resident Advisor, and you should walk away with a good idea of why a lot of electronic heads dislike them.
the short version is that the music is generally uninteresting as electronic/pop music, when divested from the trite grad school '"our vacuous pop music is a commentary on the vacuousness of pop culture, which makes it SO much more interesting once you think about it" posturing. and this infuriates a lot of electronic heads, b/c they think that PC Music owes its success to music critics who are bloviating about it as the next THING to people who only listen to a couple electronic albums a year
I myself don't have strong feelings one way or another about PC Music. - I enjoy a few of their tracks, but mostly i'm left cold by it...electronic music is very visceral for me but PC Music tracks don't make me feel much of anything (and I don't care if "that's the point, man"). However, I do completely adore the song & video for Spinee - Hell Hound
There's actually a second Dark Star cover (Cass McCombs) plus two Dark Star-related tracks - Nightfall of Diamonds by Nightfall of Diamonds (this doesn't seem to be a real band so i'm wondering who it's made up of) and Hecker's Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald.
(not trying to be a dick, I didn't notice it on the first go-thru either)
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