Love or Hate?

**Goofle** · 06-22-2015, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Well for starters he's already heard it and he hated it

As most people should do.

Josef K · 06-22-2015, 09:45 AM

Chromatics - Kill for Love

Plainview · 06-22-2015, 09:58 AM

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

R&B with some Hip Hop but it's really brilliant and you might enjoy it.

DeadChannel · 06-22-2015, 10:40 AM

Portishead - Dummy

YorkeDaddy · 06-22-2015, 12:07 PM

Okay well then go ahead and put me down for both "Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas" and "A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent", however I'm more interested in your thoughts on the former so put that one on the list first

The Batlord · 06-22-2015, 12:28 PM

Hehe. Cocteau.

And, as my last one for a good minute, I'm gonna throw in...

Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

And you can throw that ahead of my other two recs, cause I'm more curious about your thoughts on that one.

Trollheart · 06-22-2015, 12:33 PM

Title: Silver
Artiste: Jesu
Genre: Post-Metal/Shoegaze/Sludge (?)
Familiarity: Zero; heard one track I think on the now-defunct Mixtape thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(Jesu_EP)

Track 1(Love) Not what I expected at all. Hard, heavy, almost distorted guitars and a quiet voice that is actually a little hard to make out (too low in the mix?). Slow song with a sense of grunge and doom metal about it I feel. Like it a lot.
Track 2(Love) More uptempo and energetic, and I can hear the singer better now. Shoegaze (if that's what this is) does tend to drown out the vocals a lot, so maybe that's it.
Track 3(Love) Slower, more crunching and buzzy even, but I like this one too.
Track 4(Love) Love the kind of marching beat on this one, the vocoders (?) and then kind of metal guitar near the end.

End result: Yeah, I really enjoyed this. If this is shoegaze, then I preferred it a whole lot more to MBV, which I could not get into at all. I'd also like to say thanks to Machine for choosing an album (EP) with only four tracks, which allowed me to get this one done really quickly.

So, Love or Hate? Definite Love

Chances of a full review: 8/10

Trollheart · 06-22-2015, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Okay well then go ahead and put me down for both "Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas" and "A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent", however I'm more interested in your thoughts on the former so put that one on the list first

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Hehe. Cocteau.

And, as my last one for a good minute, I'm gonna throw in...

Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

And you can throw that ahead of my other two recs, cause I'm more curious about your thoughts on that one.

Yeah, these are good points: although I said FCFS, if you want the order of your recs to be switched around I'm happy to do that, as I did with Goofle and Kitty. Just let me know, preferably before I add them to the list later tonight.

**Frownland** · 06-22-2015, 12:59 PM

I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate.

Machine · 06-22-2015, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate.

I was a little scared that he wouldn't like it.

06-22-2015, 12:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: Silver Artiste: Jesu Genre: Post-Metal/Shoegaze/Sludge (?) Familiarity: Zero; heard one track I think on the now-defunct Mixtape thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(Jesu_EP) Track 1(Love) Not what I expected at all. Hard, heavy, almost distorted guitars and a quiet voice that is actually a little hard to make out (too low in the mix?). Slow song with a sense of grunge and doom metal about it I feel. Like it a lot. Track 2(Love) More uptempo and energetic, and I can hear the singer better now. Shoegaze (if that's what this is) does tend to drown out the vocals a lot, so maybe that's it. Track 3(Love) Slower, more crunching and buzzy even, but I like this one too. Track 4(Love) Love the kind of marching beat on this one, the vocoders (?) and then kind of metal guitar near the end. End result: Yeah, I really enjoyed this. If this is shoegaze, then I preferred it a whole lot more to MBV, which I could not get into at all. I'd also like to say thanks to Machine for choosing an album (EP) with only four tracks, which allowed me to get this one done really quickly. So, Love or Hate? Definite Love Chances of a full review: 8/10 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 06-22-2015 at 03:09 PM.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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