Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Red
A new album, thanks Rivers. Rifling through these tracks as they roll by time after time, I am helpless to stop enjoying it more and more. This adjustment period for a Weezer album has become a very familiar curve. Of course it doesn't do anything to help mitigate the effects of such a thing. Right off I'm not sure if the album delivers, there are gems but I'm not really ready to enjoy it. A few times later all the choruses are in my head and starting to take over. The immediately insulting nature of such a bridge as is sandwiched in the myriad of styles of "I Am The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" makes me feel like I've just been tricked but I want it again. Again I've been forced to comply with what Rivers wants me to like but that feeling of unrest is no where to be found when I reach for it.
A cat named Stevens found a faith he could believe in? Fabulous.
A cat named Stevens found a faith he could believe in? Fabulous.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
The Odd Couple - Gnarls Barkley
Thirteen high energy tracks from the duo wearing aliases of Cee-Lo Green and Danger Mouse. Both joined with a deep list of significant past achievements, and it shows. This is the second release from Gnarls Barkley and displays the appropriate amount of growth I've come to expect from the top tier of today's performing and recording artists.
Although the album is only 39 minutes, it will not leave you wanting and you'll find yourself coming back for more faster than usual. The album art related updates to their website are definitely worth checking out, very smooth and creative.
That's all for now,
The Letter J
Although the album is only 39 minutes, it will not leave you wanting and you'll find yourself coming back for more faster than usual. The album art related updates to their website are definitely worth checking out, very smooth and creative.
That's all for now,
The Letter J
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Punch Brothers - Punch
Released Tuesday February 26th, 2008.
Finally the next thing has arrived to dominate my obsession. Such as it is at my level of affective domain for music, it can and by definition must consume me.
The CD contains 8 tracks of original material, half written as a group, half by Chris Thile alone. What you should expect is that it is the most amazing thing I've heard to date, what you won't expect is how exactly it is that good. A 3:34 opener that was used as an early single. The next 42 minutes were composed by Chris Thile in a 4 Movement dream called The Blind Leaving The Blind. They wrap the modest length (56 minutes) 8 track album up with 3 more outstanding band compositions.
-Background-
With my mind fresh with ideas from Oliver Sacks, I wonder about what it is that makes something sound good to someone and the amount of power it is subsequently given over the mind and body. It seems that at a rudimentary level that a synthetic series of tones in intervals could be played that would please a human, but we all know that is not entirely the case. I believe that the complexity and variability is due to the close relationship of music to our language processors, not of spoken word but of music language built from experience and environment much like the dialect of spoken language is built.
Back to the topic at hand, it was not immediately clear to me what I liked about Punch. It feels like it accesses so many of my interests in music all at once. It is brimming with technical excellence, compositional complexity and honest beauty that satisfies in a way that I will spend months adjusting to.
The Letter J
p.s.
Dear Punch Brothers,
Go Punch Brothers!
Finally the next thing has arrived to dominate my obsession. Such as it is at my level of affective domain for music, it can and by definition must consume me.
The CD contains 8 tracks of original material, half written as a group, half by Chris Thile alone. What you should expect is that it is the most amazing thing I've heard to date, what you won't expect is how exactly it is that good. A 3:34 opener that was used as an early single. The next 42 minutes were composed by Chris Thile in a 4 Movement dream called The Blind Leaving The Blind. They wrap the modest length (56 minutes) 8 track album up with 3 more outstanding band compositions.
-Background-
With my mind fresh with ideas from Oliver Sacks, I wonder about what it is that makes something sound good to someone and the amount of power it is subsequently given over the mind and body. It seems that at a rudimentary level that a synthetic series of tones in intervals could be played that would please a human, but we all know that is not entirely the case. I believe that the complexity and variability is due to the close relationship of music to our language processors, not of spoken word but of music language built from experience and environment much like the dialect of spoken language is built.
Back to the topic at hand, it was not immediately clear to me what I liked about Punch. It feels like it accesses so many of my interests in music all at once. It is brimming with technical excellence, compositional complexity and honest beauty that satisfies in a way that I will spend months adjusting to.
The Letter J
p.s.
Dear Punch Brothers,
Go Punch Brothers!
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