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
thisS trippy
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
It's almost like ambient free jazz
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
got so excited after listening to dust ] i put on hour logic and then quarantine and wow, these records rule so much, all her records... rule so much?
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
raw silk feels p minor , but it’s good and will be useful to me
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
i should relisten to quarantine
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
Listened up this cranked up on the stereo today followed by the new Pram. It was a good afternoon.
If I like this one, which should I check out next?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
I had like 8 intense, meaningful listens to this and then suddenly felt done with it. But nothing wrong with that.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
Chance of Rain is my favorite but it’s fairly different from this. Honestly they all are but maybe just work backwards and do Dust next.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
Put on Dust, but wasn't digging the vocals, so I switched to Chance of Rain, and I'm liking it much more.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
Search: hour logic, in situ, king Felix epAntenna, behind the green door, her DJ mixes King Felix - spring
Destroy: quarantine, sunlight on the faded Dust
― Ross, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
?quarantine is the best record she ever made
I love Chance of Rain
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
Wow, damn, Chance of Rain is really good! I had kind of given up on her after the Quarantine hype.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
Important to put quarantine in context. It was given attention in indie circles probably due to its eye catching cover but if you followed her music prior it came as a massive surprise. Almost like tilt by Scott walker as opposed to his earlier material. Quarantine sounds nothing like any other halo record until maybe dust came out. Her avant- grade side doesn’t do much for me. King Felix spring is still her best record and slept on so yeah...
― Ross, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
vocals on Quarantine are a dealbreaker for me
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
the whole strange focus on the surreal quality of the vocals and the shunning of expected vocal production are really the amazing things about the album for me
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 05:55 (six years ago) link
I'm really liking Raw Silk Uncut Wood
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
I love the closing track on quarantine
Halo has done vocals in many other forms, the ones on quarantine are a little more jagged and raw.
Pop vocal halo : king Felix - ep
Swirling choral vocals used more for texture : king Felix spring ep
― Dreadnought of chicanery (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link