What's your AOTY 2018?

**Frownland** · 12-14-2018, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

To me, that album mostly doesn't register as "confrontational". I hear it as a form of post rock/metal hybrid. Post rock is more expressive of angst and other emotions, but not so focused on attitude. I don't know what edgy would mean in 2018 since everything has been done to death. Nothing feels edgy to me, that's for sure. The most provocative music in a time where every manner of abrasive music has been done to the furthest extreme, it seems far more challenging to dare make something embarrasingly earnest and pretty.

1. Both are done in spades.
2. Nothing ever truly reaches its limitation imo. Oversaturation is one thing, but pushing the envelope in "abrasive music" requires innovation which is difficult to predict.

windsock · 12-14-2018, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

not that the wave-lengths present a literal physical threat to you

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**Frownland** · 12-14-2018, 03:27 PM

Not to give any weight to Mord's dull ass rejectionist post, but I wouldn't call it confrontational either. Confrontational is like I'll cut off your face and you'll like it. The new Daughters album sounds more oppressive to me, like this is my dark world and you can't escape.

**Exo** · 12-14-2018, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Not to give any weight to Mord's dull ass rejectionist post, but I wouldn't call it confrontational either. Confrontational is like I'll cut off your face and you'll like it. The new Daughters album sounds more oppressive to me, like this is my dark world and you can't escape.

Very well put. It's not an album that's trying to impress you with darkness. It's a nightmare.

The road is long, the road is dark....

Album basically ends with a panic attack of not being able to get away from whatever evil is chasing him.

You can not like an album but if you think this is just an attempt to sound dark and evil, you're not really paying enough attention.

Zhanteimi · 12-14-2018, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

like this is my dark world and you can't escape.

Watch me. *deletes file*

Zhanteimi · 12-14-2018, 05:38 PM

The Daughters album is trash. It's what normies think being alt is like.

Zhanteimi · 12-14-2018, 05:49 PM

Thank the gods for that. Wouldn't want you consulting with me on anything, lest some of your failures rub off on me.

windsock · 12-14-2018, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

The Daughters album is trash. It's what normies think being alt is like.

I respect that opinion, though I've noticed that such an opinion seems to come about whenever an edgy album or band gains traction and enters any sort of relevancy.

Mondo Bungle · 12-14-2018, 05:52 PM

trash is my favorite genre

windsock · 12-14-2018, 05:56 PM

Trash sounds like a made-up genre RYM would pull out of their ass. I feel like it'd be a subgenre of either glitch hop or harsh noise.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Not to give any weight to Mord's dull ass rejectionist post, but I wouldn't call it confrontational either. Confrontational is like I'll cut off your face and you'll like it. The new Daughters album sounds more oppressive to me, like this is my dark world and you can't escape. __________________ 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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Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	The Daughters album is trash. It's what normies think being alt is like. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-14-2018, 05:49 PM	#67 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	Thank the gods for that. Wouldn't want you consulting with me on anything, lest some of your failures rub off on me. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic