*wave, sorry.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
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
It's a song, for sure, I'm just not sold on her way with melody. Faux-bliss imho.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
One excellent reason to use AI in your art is that it guarantees press/interest
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
There are way more traditional songwriting chops in Holly Herndon tracks than in half of the stuff imago listens to so I've got no fucking idea what he's talking about (also HH != vape so strike 2).
This bangs.
― emil.y, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
The only thing that kept me from truly diving headfirst into Holly Herndon when I first became aware of her was the videos, which I was unmoved by, but this video is AMAZING-- same director as the stuff I wasn't so keen on, the song rules as always
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
My mistake, the video that rubbed me wrong was a different director whups
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
She really should have done the soundtrack to the live action Ghost in the Shell. I hear a lot of Kenji Kawai here.
― contains pieces the size of a child's esophagus (Sanpaku), Monday, 11 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
oh this is very cool, i've never really been able to get into her work before but this has pushed into pop-enough territory for me to love it
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhh this is so good
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
i don't mean that there's no songwriting, i mean that the songwriting completely fails to engage me and there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me even if the sound design is quite cool. this is a defensible position surely
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:59 (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*
That's not "I don't like it", that's "it doesn't exist".
there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me
See, usually you stop before adding the "that do anything for me" part, which is what I find annoying. I don't mind when you don't like things that I like, I just mind when you critique things as if you have a trained musicologist's eye and have found something objectively lacking in it. Personally I find her hooks and melodies v engaging and often properly moving, but there you go.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Wow, this is good
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
I'm getting links to this from all channels in my little bubbleworld, I can't believe the video has only 20k views?!?? Anyway this track is amazing.
― lukas, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
heart in my mouth by the end of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNqNgHAEys
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
Immediately thought of the intro to this when I heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USaAO0vEOE
― Position Position, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
I thought of this (4 mins in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3cWcjZ0Q0&t=240
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
epic song
― nxd, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:16 (five years ago) link
was coming here to post "Frontier," really gorgeous tune. can't stop listening to it.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 6 May 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
gotta say, it was really lovely knowing Holly and Mat during their time in the Bay Area— they are genuinely wonderful, warm, and funny people. that they're both making such bonkers-good stuff is just icing on the cake. (same goes for EMA and few other folks from that period of my life).
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 6 May 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
I've been thinking about the whole choral feel of these new tracks, even if Holly's is the only voice on the record, and this is fascinating:
It's cool that people are getting Bulgarian vibes from Frontier :) What is crazy about these kind of polyphonic vocalisations is that they appear in geographically distinct areas all over the world.— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) May 7, 2019
Basically this record is going to be incredible.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
Yeah I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a new album release. Syro, I guess - but I have the feeling this album will be better.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
Drums could be better... there’s something about the way they sound it makes me think of a tacky “cirque du soleil”/broadway kind of soundtrack - horns on “eternal” also give me those vibes - but love what she does with the vocals and how primal it feels at times. Reminds me of Fever Ray’s s/t of all things.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
As usual, the song sounds like it's going to be the best thing ever, then doesn't quite go where it could. This one sounds particularly cool though so it probably gets away with it
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:07 (five years ago) link
album's out
― ||||||||, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
SWIM is pretty great
― imago, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
Sounds kind of messy on first listen. Lots of ideas, not sure they go anywhere particularly interesting.
― Position Position, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
SWIM is the song that heralds us into post-Evangelion new consciousness
― 57mg/20floz, Sunday, 12 May 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
This sounded pretty incredible on first listen
― Frederik B, Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
Roomful of teethish in places
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
love that video for Frontier
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
this album ranges from 'extremely compelling' to 'kind of interesting i guess but doesnt really work and i never want to listen to it again'
― ufo, Monday, 13 May 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
really digging SWIM
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
The album is definitely stronger than Platform. I always skip the sound art pieces on that ('wet bar wax', etc), the ones here are mostly more palatable.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link
Got tickets for her Barbican show in October, bravely hoping i'll be allowed a night off from our 3 year old and 3 month old.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:30 (five years ago) link
^ Holly reblogged some IG stories of her recent live shows in which I became entirely fixated on fact that there was a child in the audience -- and I confidently say that as audience members surrounding gave the kid and her dad like a 3ft radius
― 57mg/20floz, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
Surprised how bright and clear the album is, it's gorgeous. And it bumps.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
Would have loved to have seen her show here the other night but it was up against Downtown Boys, who I already had tickets for. Next time.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
Loving this album. I wasn't taken in by the individual tracks released (and maybe just wasn't in the right mood for them), but listening to it as a piece, I just kind of want to live in it. So many incredible, beautiful moments.
― Roz, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
Nice Tape Op interview: https://tapeop.com/interviews/132/holly-herndon/
― Brad C., Sunday, 28 July 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
I wonder if Spawn could be realtime if she had, like, a rack of Mac Pros to throw at the problem. If so ... c'mon Holly, just head to Kickstarter! We got you!
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about how insanely awesome the Barbican show was? Full choir onstage dancing around in a creepy Midsommar fashion, apoclayptic/utopian projections onscreen, Holly dancing around and singing with the choir, vocals being manipulated in real time (which was amazing when she was singing solo). Also during Frontier there were singers located throughout the audience, suddenly getting up with spotlights on them to join in.
Plus, we all got to sing back to Holly as part of training her AI.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link