exactly. p sure OPN is huge on /mu
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah suppose I oughta investigate a bit more then! Rifts has been like Dam-Funk's Toeachizown to me, both awesome comps that don't exactly make me want to check out their other work, just because they're so massive and hard to digest
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
so void of even recent signification that it fulfils whatever cuckslaying dreamwish you conjure in your fevered smartphones have fragmented reality and made me master delusion
― imago, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
hey now
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
what are you talking about?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
it fulfils nice dreamwishes too. opn is whatever you want it to be
― imago, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
just trying to get my head around why 4chan likes it so much
they're real into Deathgrips too. i see the crossover.
guess i expected the typical avant-dude crew at the show, which skews a little older. the 4chan universe is only in my periphery.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
i'm just not into the mountain dew chugging nu metal tweaker vibe of this project.
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this is what's so great about the album! he dignifies this degraded/commodified form of experience in a way that risks making fun of it but never does. some kind of uncanny return vibe but now composed in a way that provides these real moments of epiphany that don't feel manufactured or formulaic. his music always sort of did this, but it was never as effective before because he didn't embrace ugliness quite so brazenly.
― Treeship, Thursday, 27 October 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
i mean, the past albums were very effective, they only suffer in comparison to this one, which feels more challenging and original.
did any of you guys see a version of this show that had a video component containing what looked like documentary footage from a hollywood horror film costume workshop? there were all these carefully rendered, hideous masks, just displayed without context.
think i am going to vote for sticky drama after all btw
― Treeship, Thursday, 27 October 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
like i said, the sound palate just isn't palatable to me. i appreciate the concept more than the record itself. replica and r plus seven were conceptually interesting and musically compelling and emotional. i'm hyped on whatever he does next
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 October 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
i need to go to bed sorry for the garbage first sentence
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 October 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
i always found his concepts a bit muddled until this album.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 27 October 2016 08:25 (seven years ago) link
well this is his first album that's openly a ~concept~ album
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 October 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
i think Replica was pretty well defined: microsamples of commercials and tv shows, simulacra reassembled in a hall of mirrors. R Plus Seven is a bit more vague, but the feeling I get from the "Problem Areas" video is the horror of the singularity. there's a lot of drifting through space in an infinite plastic future feel to that record, techno-horror, very Kurzweil. GOD is def not his first concept album
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
is it bad that I found Replica really really dull btw
― imago, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
of course not. like i said, i love that there's a clear through line connecting all of his records, despite the fact that they all sound radically different.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Replica is by far my favorite, I'd give it another shot, imago!
I'm with flappy bird as far as appreciating GoD but not enjoying the actual listening experience
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
don't forget to vote!
― Treeship, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link
i agree with pretty much everything flappy bird said above
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 06:13 (seven years ago) link
i adore everything he's done up until GoD, and i will intensely devour whatever he does next
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
a lot of times when the most recent album by a favorite artist is disappointing (to you, at least), you worry that they're headed off in some disagreeable trajectory or that they've lost the spark or whatever. i don't get that from OPN and GoD. i appreciate his experimentation and need to try something new, i just don't particularly like where he went it.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 06:16 (seven years ago) link
garden of excrete
― salthigh, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
There are many other great songs on this, but I think I've listened to Sticky Drama at least once a week ever since this was released.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Anyone still listen to this?
― treeship., Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
I wrote a lot of bullshit about this album on this thread. It still moves me more than the other stuff he did. And live this material was tremendous, especially with the video and light components
― treeship., Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link