pluramon (also, radian)

no other comments? boo.

so this will be brief.

radian were boring. not offensive, but boring. the drummer did some interesting stuff. the rest was very underdeveloped.

pluramon started out with some ungodly loud electronic glurches and squeals and then settled down into some vaguely lush-esque ballads, which grew increasingly sloppy and unmemorable (as the sound mix tumbled into chaos), and by the fourth song or so, it was genuinely awful, and along with a third or more of the audience i got up and left. it was basically unlistenable. i think this is partly due to a botched sound mix (i blame the band as much as the pompidou for this) and partly to what seemed to be extremely boring songs. the singer they had was this modelesque girl with perfect cheekbones and bangs, but with a mousy and extremely thin voice. she was undermic'ed anyhow. the whole presentation meant to be pretty slick, with videos projected onto the rear of the stage and little spotlights on each of the musicians. but the overall effect reminded me of some worthless mtv band with a boffo visual presentation and no interesting music. i'm open to the possibility that the lp presents another pluramon altogether but i'm a bit dubious.

but i didn't read your message until this morning

i went to a shitty concert today too, only it was an accompaniment to a good film, but the music was so overwhelming shitty that i couldn't concentrate on the film

i'm having bad luck with my outings recently

TG 11 is a p immense record huh

new Radian album out called "On Dark Silent Off," reviewed at Pitchfork today. i don't think anything can beat TG11, though there's some nice drumming on the new one. it's kinda rock-ish, more fleshed-out feeling, but still has the unmistakable idiosyncrasies of the early Radian sound.

Hey braunld, would this appeal to a fan of Pluramon?

I'm not sure, never really listened to Pluramon. the Radian stuff would appeal to you if you like Tortoise, John McEntire's drumming, post rock stuff like that.. with subtle glitch-y, cut up, aural trickery stuff going on. this new one already sounds more inspired than most of the Thrill Jockey stuff.

I like the new Radian a bunch. I reviewed it for The Wire; it was supposed to run in the December issue but got pushed.

Will check it out, thanks :)

Whoa, I didn't know there was a new one. I loved TG11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDrqSyTAJA

underrated classic track

Pluramon is an artist that would have benefited from remixes, to offer insight on what the sonic ingredients (stems) were, if nothing else.

Curious exactly what you mean, Sanpaku. Pluramon are a great band though, no? "Dreams Top Rock" is the logical merger of glitch and shoegaze and done well IMO

Marcus Schmickler is an electronic composer. I've always assumed Pluramon was synthetic shoegaze, ala Ulrich Schnauss (for some reason, I thought Schnauss was involved when I typed the above).

The premier glitch/shoegaze merger (to my ears) remains Sweet Trip. Pluramon was doing something else, a crystalline emulation of shoegaze in which perhaps no guitar strings were harmed, with political lyrics.

By no guitars were harmed, do you mean played at all? Because there's definitely some of that on the track I posted. I'm very interested to check out Sweet Trip, thanks!

Wow Sanpaku, really good suggestion :-)

saw Marcus Schmickler play an 8-channel piece last week and it was mind-blowing, the best set I've seen all year

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