Re: Plaid Polymer

From Jeff Davis
Sent Thu, Jun 13th 2019, 21:27

only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them clich=
e
thanks,

Jeffrey J Davis

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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> going to listen a couple more times but
> i dunno, i find a lot of the tracks painfully cliched and predictable, wh=
ich has always been my issue with plaid
> 'generic safe music with pseudo-idm percussion'
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM kent williams <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wr=
ote:
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>> Those guys really have a way of being evocatively melodic in a way no on=
e else seems to even try.  Aphex Twin does a good job on a few tracks per r=
elease, but can't keep it up for 13 tracks the way Plaid can.
>>
>> Dancers is perhaps the best exemplar -- unexpected, but emotionally exci=
ting chord change after chord change.
>>
>> I splurged and got the 24-bit WAV files and I think that's how they shou=
ld be heard -- punchy and dynamic and spacious.  Haven't blind-tested them =
against 16-bit wav (or MP3) but if you're going to shell out for the album,=
 I have to think it's worth the splurge.
>>
>> I wonder why Warp releases 24-bit WAV files but only 16-bit FLAC files. =
FLAC encodes 24-bits just fine; in fact the first thing I do when i downloa=
d them is convert them to 24-bit FLAC.