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 xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx www.jeffreyjdavis.com 218.833.2847 On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > 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: >> >> 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.