Intro to the last track is... destabilising. Prob not a good idea to try to fall asleep to this album.
― ledge, Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I have no idea if it's technically AMSR, but some music (especially pure vocal harmony music, with lots of reverb, certain speeds of very choppy tremolo) does regularly provoke physical sensations - kind of shivery fingers running down my shoulders/back, but not in an unpleasant way at all.
The thing is, the supposed AMSR track on this album provokes absolutely no reaction in me at all. (I, too, have started skipping it.) Morning Sun, however, has those qualities so exactly that it's actually quite distracting to listen to it on headphones at work.
This album is absolutely phenomenal. As Roz says, the sound design is astonishing, on top of it being really intriguing and compelling music.
― The Hauntology of Celebrity (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 23 May 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
the words on that "lonely at the top" one, with their unreserved praise, also provoke a reaction of weird, pleasurable discomfort
― ultimate american sock (mh), Saturday, 23 May 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
really digging 'morning sun' + 'locker leak' off thisobvs 'chorus' is still classic
― nxd, Friday, 29 May 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
liking this one much more than "movement" so far
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
I'm late to the party but this is great!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
the sound palette seems pretty limited.. How many times can you use the 'atonal percussion rustle/avalanche' sample before it gets old? the quality of the percussion is nice, but the overload of pitched vocal samples gives it a disposable, later OPN-like quality. feels very 'of the late 2000s'. vocal clutter is way over the top. i could listen to quarantine by laurel halo all day, but the use of vocals on this is grating as shit. i miss chicks on speed produced by the mego guys.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
"disposable" is just fine by me; i'm associating this with vaporwave
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
I'm hearing early '80s Laurie Anderson in her Herndon's sound
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
i really like the spoken track - i find it funny and kind of theatrical at the same time. it reminds me a bit of some interactive theatre things i've seen.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
Any London ilxors going to the show?
― emil.y, Sunday, 7 June 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
how did this leave me cold at first? it suddenly CLICKED a few weeks ago and i haven't been able to stop listening
some of the gorgeous textures remind me of orchestra of bubbles!
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 October 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
It actually reminds me a bit of of the gentler bits of Confield, just the textural crunch of all those granular bits of micro-sound, but with heaps of sugar throughout.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 October 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
confield flakes
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzP9IwznNuQ
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Which one is the ASMR track? I listened to about 2/3 of Platform on Spotify yesterday and just got a major nostalgia buzz. 2002 laptop music redux. It was pretty though. Will probably end up buying.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:17 (4 months ago)
the clarity of the soundfield on this is so different to anything from that period, even the very best and best engineered of it like autechre
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Some of her stuff reminds me of some Tortoise -- which, coincidentally, also has a member named Herndon.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Astonishing gig last night in London - she had a couple of other people onstage with her, a vocalist/dancer whose vocals were being chopped up into a million pieces in real time. Also a dude behind a laptop whose sole job appeared to be to type messages at the audience (best one = "FUCK THERESA MAY"). It was all clearly live (and texturally quite different from the album) but I had no idea how most of it was being done.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 November 2015 10:16 (eight years ago) link
+1324232234545345 to any notion of seeing her live; IMO she wiped the floor with everyone else who played Big Ears last year, and the live-data-manipulation stuff was a major part of that
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was an excellent gig (and jam city supporting was brilliant too, and again v different to the record)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
cool talk w/DJ Rupture: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21582-lullabies-for-the-broken-brain/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
did you mean to link this? https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-holly-herndon-and-jace-clayton/
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
ha yes, wrong tab. ty.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
her process breakdown is good too (haven't gotten through the whole thing yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baj34lxF4g
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 3 March 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Discovering Platform now. Sick, and reminds me a little of sometime ilxor Lynskey
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
on the cover of the latest issue of the wire.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 8:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was v cool imo
http://i67.tinypic.com/wb28lc.jpg
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9OjL6Mjqo
― nxd, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
That is excellent.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
and terrifying.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
dream combo
― nxd, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
Intrigued by the idea of working with AI but not really impressed by the actual track.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
I have a feeling that sentiment will characterize most reactions to the seemingly inevitable onslaught of music that will “use” “AI” in the next years
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
new single is pretty massive
https://youtu.be/r4sROgbaeOs
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
huge. video is nuts in the best possible way.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
I don't like the songwriting at all but that's a cool timbre she's hit upon there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
^^^^this is my opinion of every holly herndon song ever p much
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
*hides in Rockist Corner with pomenitul and other sticks-in-the-mud who still believe in old-fashioned nonsense like songwriting while the A E S T H E T I C crowd storm the cultural pantheon*
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
I'm a shameless aesthete but to these ears it comes off as an interminable string of platitudinous highs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
we're all aesthetes - there's a whole specific thing. you have to space the capitals
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I thought that was a vapourware meme, though – does HH qualify? I must know!
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
*wave, sorry.
It sounds amazing. It doesn't exactly make me want to listen to it again or use it in a dj set (although maybe for the right moment?), but still. It's just vocals, drums, and stabs, right?
Sounds like something Kanye will probably sample this year.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
awesomea welcome return
― nxd, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Save me I'm trending— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 11, 2019
(Theresa May saved her after an hour or so by jumping on a plane to Strasbourg)
― Jeff W, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
One of my happiest gig-going memories is of the time when Holly had hooked her laptop to the projector and slowly and very purposefully typed 'FUCK THERESA MAY' over the visuals in lurid pink.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Also this song is incredible, it's like a School of Seven Bells song batting around in a metal box.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
herndon can write a song imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
anyway this fucking rules
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Herndon might be the only person in any discipline doing anything worthwhile with AI
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
anyway besides sounding incredible this is clearly A Song with hooks and stuff and not just some installation piece
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link