S.O
Why isn’t there a period after the “O”? Does this stand for
something or does it represent a stylized dragon in love with a pig and their
tiny pigdragon egg? Listen to those gauzy, slight too-high vocals and ambient
sounds. Not grabbing me. OK, here’s some electro-conga drumming so there’s at
least a beat now but the vocals aren’t really grabbing me. It would help if the
song could hit a groove but it isn’t happening. Oh whoa. Those are some coins
falling all over that conga drum. THE END, SONG
Arthur
The falling rain is much nicer than the falling coins. That
first song kind of put me on edge. Oooooh! I like the Ooooooh singing broken up
by tiny cuts and now this bassline is building up just fine. Busting into the
actual song makes the rain go away and I’m a little sad about that. There’s a
solid Juno Reactor feeling to this song (or should I say “track”? Electronic
music fans always say “track” instead of “song” but I’ll stick with “song”).
The rain and static are cutting in and out here and there and so far there have
been no actual words. I’m a fan. At 2:30 the vocal sounds start to overlap and
almost harmonize and I’m a superfan. I could listen to this song and stare at
the ceiling or sky for a few hours and feel fine. A fine fan.
Anxi.
More dots! What does it stand for??? Is it anxiety? Because
it’s making me anxious. BUM BUM BUMM sorta ominous bass beats and then here
come some more humming women. Or ladies. Some women find “ladies” offensive but
some ladies find “women” offensive. Oh yuck. The humming sort-of word singing
was pretty nice but the spoken word stuff is a stink. About two minutes in and
it all fades away to clickity-clackety Plastikman fun. This sounds like
carrying balloons and running around a museum while going “eeeeaaaaaoooooouuuuu”.
So far in this album I’m most in favor of the vocals when they don’t result in
words. Because just before the end of this song there’s some more irritating
talking. At least it’s edited into chopped up bits so I can’t really understand
what she’s saying.
Lucid
Well those are some pretty strings. Thanks, strings! Real
words being sungspoken now that I can really understand and – GREAT NEWS – she’s
saying the name of the song right away so I don’t forget it. I’m totally
forgiving of that with singing but the talking aspect makes me much more
critical of the content. Not that I can really tell what is being said most of
the time. “Different from the rest”, “where we ought to be”, LUCID, LUCID, DON’T
YOU SEE. I think. I don’t know. This song is kind of bugging me and it just did
the same trick the last two did where a stronger beat comes in a minute before
the end. Let’s try something different next time, Kel. Lee Ow.
Evolution
Bird
That shrieking sound does kind of sound like a bird I guess.
Ooh –glockenspiel! This has a very pretty intro. Now please don’t screw it up
by saying “Bird. Buhrd.” over and over for five minutes. Strings! Or horns. Or
both. I dunno. It’s still working though. YEAH two minutes in and still no
talking. This is my favorite song so far. The beat came before the last minute
of the song and it feels like an ev // I don’t remember what I was thinking it
felt like. I went back and listened and it’s kind of jungle night-time
wind-down hyphen-using music.
Throwing Lines
This song opens with some of the same sounds that closed out
the last one. I would have liked it better if there was a more direct link but
then would have been annoyed at the slight break between songs because Play
Music still seems to have an issue with seamless playback. The sweeping bass
tones in this song are exceedingly pleasant. The vocals are just as insipid as
ever but the words fell away pretty quickly back into just “mmmmmm” and “aaaaah”.
This is the sleeping in the hyphen jungle after a long day bird watching song.
This song pairs very well with Bird.
CBM
The album seems to be hitting its stride. I like the timbre
of everything I’m hearing with a fast but soft tapping over some bass and then
NO! PLEASE STOP WITH THE RAVER SPOKEN WORD CRAP! I wonder if there’s a
word-free remix of this album. I want to keep all the vocal sounds but none of
the words. This song is just as strong as the last two except for the fact that
she keeps talking every minute or so. I wonder if she knows how annoying it is
and that’s why she’s trying to get out of the way on the cover.
Keep Walking
I just realized that the stylized dots disappeared from the
song names after the first few songs. At this point I doubt they meant anything
though because while the music is pleasing I don’t get a lot of “deep thoughts”
from this album. This song has singing that’s close to actual singing and it’s
not even so bad. Lots of held notes overlapping and even the repeated “keep
walkin’” command isn’t annoying me too much. I haven’t heard the last song yet
but I’m going to strongly recommend starting this album by listening from Bird
to the end and then treating the first five songs as an appendix. This song
does feel a little out of place after the last few since it’s more like
Radiohead than Rave Til Dawn but I’ll still take it in place of some of the
songs on the first half of the album.
8
Is that an oud? I hope it’s an oud. Or an electric zither.
Some kind of strange stringed instrument. This song has a lot of build-up,
which I’m more than fine with as long as no one starts talking. I’m thinking
about song name meanings so I’m probably reading too much into it but is the “8”
supposed to be a sideways infinity symbol? The first two minutes of the song
feel like a space journey. Great news – the vocals are breathy and nonsensical,
just like I like them. Definitely outer space. After the introduction I’m
walking down the empty corridors of a spaceship wondering where everyone else
went. I don’t think I’ll get implanted by an alien baby, just that I’ll
probably die out here alone but in the long wait for the end I’ll discover so
much more about myself than I ever did through all my missed opportunities back
when I had human contact. OK, I love this song. The whole album should have
been this. In fact, I think at almost 10 minutes this should have been its own
album. The rest of the album would be the appendix, except for the first five
songs which would be the appendix to the appendix.
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