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Trollheart · 01-23-2016, 02:23 PM

Title: Immunity
Artiste: Jon Hopkins
Genre: Ambient
Familiarity: Zero; though I feel I've heard this before somehow
Recommended by: YorkeDaddy

Expectations: Kind of hard to say, as like I intimate above, this seems really familiar and I think I may have listened to it before...

1. We disappear: Odd sort of scratchy sound against a kind of slow techno (?) beat, that I have to admit sets my teeth on edge. Maybe I haven't heard this before. Maybe I meant to but never got around to it. I think I would remember this. The end part is nice, when the more abrasive stuff falls out. I'd still only go White on it though.
2. Open eye signal: This is better. Use of loops (?) and a good beat with some nice lush synth. Gets a little frenetic near the end.
3. Breathe this air: Nice slow ambient piece on piano mostly, picks up later into the track, gets faster and stronger
4. Collider: Seems to be mostly percussion, loops and a sample of someone breathing. Meh.
5. Abandon window: This is just a beautiful little piano melody with some choral synth.
6. Form by firelight: Back to the loops and samples. It's okay but a little too fragmented for my liking.
7. Sun harmonics: This is quite pleasant, but way too long for what's in it. Eleven minutes? The last two minutes just seem to be ambient sound, particularly the old needle-stuck-in-a-groove (ask yer da!) thing. Boo.

8. Immunity: Almost as long: a ten-minuter, though it starts out nice and slow with a solo piano and some loops. Where it will go is anyone's guess. Oh, vocals! Now that is different. Female? Actually, there are a lot of vox credited but this is the first time I've heard any. Sort of an unnecessarily long-drawn-out ending. Nice though.

End result: Decent enough but a little too composer-oriented for me. Can't really say I enjoyed it much.

So, Love or Hate? All I can do is give it a Like.

01-23-2016, 02:23 PM	#2782 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: Immunity Artiste: Jon Hopkins Genre: Ambient Familiarity: Zero; though I feel I've heard this before somehow Recommended by: YorkeDaddy Expectations: Kind of hard to say, as like I intimate above, this seems really familiar and I think I may have listened to it before... 1. We disappear: Odd sort of scratchy sound against a kind of slow techno (?) beat, that I have to admit sets my teeth on edge. Maybe I haven't heard this before. Maybe I meant to but never got around to it. I think I would remember this. The end part is nice, when the more abrasive stuff falls out. I'd still only go White on it though. 2. Open eye signal: This is better. Use of loops (?) and a good beat with some nice lush synth. Gets a little frenetic near the end. 3. Breathe this air: Nice slow ambient piece on piano mostly, picks up later into the track, gets faster and stronger 4. Collider: Seems to be mostly percussion, loops and a sample of someone breathing. Meh. 5. Abandon window: This is just a beautiful little piano melody with some choral synth. 6. Form by firelight: Back to the loops and samples. It's okay but a little too fragmented for my liking. 7. Sun harmonics: This is quite pleasant, but way too long for what's in it. Eleven minutes? The last two minutes just seem to be ambient sound, particularly the old needle-stuck-in-a-groove (ask yer da!) thing. Boo. 8. Immunity: Almost as long: a ten-minuter, though it starts out nice and slow with a solo piano and some loops. Where it will go is anyone's guess. Oh, vocals! Now that is different. Female? Actually, there are a lot of vox credited but this is the first time I've heard any. Sort of an unnecessarily long-drawn-out ending. Nice though. End result: Decent enough but a little too composer-oriented for me. Can't really say I enjoyed it much. So, Love or Hate? All I can do is give it a Like. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018