I have a feeling the reason Beach House won't do so many full on shoegaze vibe walls of noise type songs is that they are too much of songwriters and musicians to do this too much. It would just be too easy for them to just drone on and on.
Its pretty good, especially for 20 years later. I put it on the level of love spreads, which is very good. Its just not on the level
of stuff like elephant stone and she bangs the drums, but yeh ill take it.
"The thing that I hate about the music industry is all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Grimes is a female musician’ and ‘Grimes has a girly voice.’ It’s like, yeah, but I’m a producer and I spend all day looking at fucking graphs and EQs and doing really technical work.”
What graphs? Is she using excel to make music?
'“Trent Reznor started out making music on computers,” she says. “He was smart. He was into math. He was coming at it from an intellectual perspective and a scientific perspective. "
She's acting as if you have to be Alan Turing to use GarageBand.
I'm a pretty huge fan of his music, but I haven't been as enthusiastic about Benji as most people, it seems. I feel like, while the lyrics have definitely gotten more interesting, and the music has gotten more energetic, I'm missing a lot of the things that I really love about his music. Such as the complex and exploratory guitar work - the musicianship is still there, but it seems to have been simplified for mass consumption. Also I really liked his melodies, even though they were all pretty uniformly melancholy. The new songs seem rather tuneless in comparison - although the subject matter and tone is a lot more varied.
They went full on Joy Division with the drums and bass parts. This is a really well written vocal part and lyric. It's not reinventing music or anything, but it's pretty good. U2 aren't going to win any hipster points anyway, they're too old for that.
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