like the new tracks, looking forward to this
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
Really like this new stuff quite a bit. A lot to take in at once, but I think I'd rank it at least as high as Chance of Rain right off the bat.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
I listen to Chance of Rain in the gym on a regular basis -- hard to say why it makes a good workout record, but I never liked the pressure of "motivational" workout music.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
Man In Situ is really good.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Yep, it's really excellent.
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 08:07 (eight years ago) link
really like the new one, fantastically empty, something I find myself just wanting to inhabit for a while
― ogmor, Monday, 26 October 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
'Found I'!!
That one's definitely going on my picks of the year mixtape.
― austinato (Austin), Monday, 26 October 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Listening on youtube now, this is great.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
And it even has more jazzy electric piano like the bookends of Chance of Rain, just like I wanted
I love how Focus I sounds like a lounge/acid jazz track only just slightly too heavy and dark.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, 'Focus I' is what I meant earlier.
Yeah, great track.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
man this whole record actually, second time through, fuck it's fantastic
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
this is a little more dancey than chance of rain, and only in a good way
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
so i picked up the new one, i quite like it, when she's working in this mode it reminds me a lot of actress
the music is completely insubstantial, in a vaguely queasy out-of-tune way. and has she put any thought into the structure of any track> it seems completely directionless and random.
i don't really think there's a separation b/w the vox and the music, nothing of consequence happens it either, and it doesn't happen in a horrible-sounding way.
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Saturday, June 9, 2012 3:24 AM (3 years ago)
i believe the same criticisms were made of actress's recent work
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:42 (eight years ago) link
minus the part about the vox
anyway still think "quarantine" is her uneasy-listening masterpiece, and that her best instrumental work is on "hour logic", as for this one it seems slight in comparison to those two. i do agree that "focus i" is the highlight.
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:45 (eight years ago) link
i guess "in situ" also feels ... a little anonymous, maybe? i thought a lot of it sounded like pearson sound or a lot of percussive, minimal post-dubstep stuff ... whereas "quarantine" really sounds like nobody else
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:48 (eight years ago) link
xposts if it's not clear, lex's criticism was of "quarantine", not the new one
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
I liked In Situ and I'll take anonymity over those horrible, grating vocals on Quarantine any day. Thank god she decided to move to instrumental music.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link
I think Chance of Rain is a pretty much perfect album (ask me again in 5 years). i can't really handle the textures of her previous noisier stuff, although i think "supersymmetry" was super catchy and great. love the vocal harmonies there. her super-processed vocals on "just a little pollution" from the frkwys collab disc are marvelous as well.
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 28 January 2016 09:25 (eight years ago) link
i like her vocals on quarantine! i don't find them horrible or grating at all. they make me feel a little light-headed, but in a good way.
i will have to look into "chance of rain" and frkwys next, i guess.
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 09:44 (eight years ago) link
i can't really handle the textures of her previous noisier stuff
aquifer??!??
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
"focus 1" is a jam
― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
I really liked her vocals on Quarantine too. that and Chance of Rain are my favorites
― Dan S, Friday, 29 January 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link
Anyone heard the new thing?
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 25 June 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link
Just listened to it. I have a history with her of "This is interesting, but I know I'm never going to play it again". I was expecting the same outcome after the first couple of tracks but it won me over by the end. There are even a couple of nice pop moments in "Moontalk" (positively jaunty!) and "Do U Ever Happen" (dreamy).
― Jeff W, Sunday, 25 June 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link
First impressions: Sounds like the closest Halo has come to pop songwriting since "King Felix", but this is still very uniformly slow and with jazzy cut-up beats. Thankfully it's not as much of a trudge as Quarantine though, moreso like a meeting point between her instrumental electronic projects and her vocal explorations.
Do U Ever Happen is indeed v. dreamy
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:17 (seven years ago) link
mix from julyhttps://soundcloud.com/discwoman/discwoman-27-x-laurel-halo
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/517731/large/192562685860.jpg
new record, more ambient than dust
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
it completely rules
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
ooooooh, psyched to hear this
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Hoping it’s not as alienating as the last one ☝️
― Ross, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
haven't heard this yet, looking forward to it!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
I heard Yanny
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 19 July 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
I really liked this new one, enough to push me to revisit her earlier work which I have enjoyed but have trouble recalling after listening
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
chance of rain is a classic of the 2010s
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
really psyched for this, obv
Hour logic tho
― Legalize dreams (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
Damn this is v beautiful and unexpected. Requiem-like at times with echoes of Shostakovich.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 20 July 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Some very otherworldly textures on here. An unusual recording altogether. Don't think I've heard much like it. "The Sick Mind" reminds me of Debussy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 July 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
Don’t sleep on king Felix st
Halo wraps 4 tracks around an orchestral loop, with house beats ricocheting off the motif. Last track is purely ambient
― Legalize dreams (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 06:57 (six years ago) link
Vocals?
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 July 2018 07:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah vocals for sure
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/king_felix_f1/spring/
― Legalize dreams (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 08:14 (six years ago) link
Not to be confused with the king Felix ep by halo
― Legalize dreams (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
the new record is so elegant, much prefer it to dust. quietude and the sick mind remind me a little of some of blue gene tyranny's electronic stuff and the opener is so wearily gorgeous. this deserves more attention
― ogmor, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
this is my favorite thing she's done since quarantine but also it feels weird to say that bc neither record is v alike
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
ppl who hated quarantine were extremely wrong incidentally
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
dust is my fav thing she’s ever done. gonna listen to this today. i wonder if i will like it!!!!
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:56 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
damn straight
― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
Yes. Quarantine got a lot of unwarranted hate, especially because of the vocal style she chose. Some of Ilm was very snide. I felt like I was at school again.
Dust was cool. Not spent enough time with the new one but it sounded good first time round.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
i found dust difficult to get into but i guess i should've just tried harder, it sounds wonderful rn
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link