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The question that people have not been asking themselves is this: "Is an artist just doing what they normally do worthy of acclaim?" Music history would tell us no: an artist should bring new understanding, new ideas in order to receive acclaim. Mozart and Haydn were not acclaimed for having tuneful music (quite the contrary, often!). They were acclaimed for their breaking of conventions, for Haydn's near-avant-garde experiments with the symphony and the string quartet and for Mozart's tremendously long, technical, and expansive works throughout his late period (in ADDITION to playing with formal procedures). Similarly, composers through Medieval times through the present all strove to present new ideas. And, yes, even in popular music the **new** has been what defines the great and memorable artists.
The Glowing Man has no new ideas from Swans. Certainly it is more chant-like than either The Seer or To Be Kind, but in style and form it is essentially the same: repetitious grooves with a gradual crescendo of sound. It's clear on this album that Gira has run out of ideas. This isn't even the case of Radiohead, where there are clearly new ideas at play but the energy to present them in lacking. This is a frontman who has been in music for 30 years and is feeling drained of creativity.
There's nothing wrong with this: Steve Reich's recent compositions (roughly 2006 to the present) have been lackluster, and ever since Glass left minimalism he went straight in the trash. But they do what they do, people like it, and that's the end of it.
But not so for Swans!
No, we have people who think "by-the-numbers" is high art, worthy of praise. These same people likely give the latest Max Richter or Colin Stetson albums high marks for naught more than "I like these artists and they're doing what they always do." So therefore, people who don't care about art in a historical sense.
good thread
i drop most artists the moment they put out an album that makes no progress(whether in concept/aim or level or style of composition and performanc) compared to the last one they did
haven't regretted it yet
>>65560361
Here we see the typical /mu/ newfag.
lizzy edition
fuck bangs
>so many idols fucking ruined because of bangs
we love bangs here
Should women be allowed to make experimental music considering how bad their track record is with it?
Is Bjork experimental for her time? Then yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVtuwxeqBYM
65558809
Looks like we're out of (You)
Stop making this thread.
Wildflower leaked from the scene in 320 /mu/, have you heard it yet? What did you think of it?
There are some tunes on it so far imo (Because I'm Me is awesome) but overall I don't think it really reaches SILY's level. Or maybe I just hyped it too much.
delet this
>>65558734
colours is pretty fucking legit m8, why cant jonathan make a mercury rev album this good again
>>65558734
really? after frankie sinatra i had like 0 expectations, so i was pleasantly surprised myself.
Dubs decides which song I buy
>>65558475
darude sandstorm
>>65558475
Creep
culture beat - mr vain
Is this the Neon Genesis Evangelion of music?
>>65558430
It had a decent closer so no
expand your music taste you fucking teenager
absoluetly, they're both overrated trash
In Rainbows is back on Spotify, everyone.
>>65558036
>back
>>65558067
You do realize the album used to be on Spotify, right?
>>65558036
>back
I didn't know it was ever on there to begin with, but great news, my favourite of theirs
The Glowing Man is fucking amazing
it's p great familia. better than the seer and maybe better than TBK for me. The title track is killer
ikr
>>65557607
>>65557607
It's like the intensity of the seer with the pacing of tbk, imo it's an improved version of both.
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>>65557587
>Last 7 days I have been into Prurient, David Bowie, Peter Bellamy, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Iggy Pop, Christian Cosmos, Johann Sebastian Bach, The Beatles, Nic Jones, Dust Belt, SPK, Empty DNA, Howlin' Wolf, Joy Division, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Forcible Confinement, Fred Anderson, Prurient + Wilt, Prurient & Kevin Drumm and Damion Romero.
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I'm into Ground Zero, SUGAR BABE, Unspecified, Chet Baker, Musicians of the Ikuta School, The Gerogerigegege, Keith Hudson, Charles Mingus, Flipper's Guitar, Planxty, スピッツ, Lamp, Fishmans, kyary pamyu pamyu, Blueboy, The Softies, My Little Airport, advantage Lucy, Eric Dolphy and WWW.
>>65557175
cloud of unknowing
pretty accurate.
>>65557175
Walk on the wild side so I guess I'm dead?
>Lantlos - Golden Mind
Does that mean I'm smart?
Which one is more punchable?
Why would you want to punch anyone, man? Are you feeling angry about something?
>>65556852
Hey, that's a cute Bjork pic. Lovely eyes.
>>65556860
Yeah. My mom took away my copy of my favorite album (The Fragile by NIN).
And I also hate both of these musicians and their fans.
cao lu edition
sluggie~
>cao lu is hot now
what happened?
Post your top three favorite albums of all time. Guess occupation and personality.
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
Arthur Russell - Tower of Dreaming
what I feel rn to be my favs
definitely maybe
houses of the holy
captain beyond
Dego - A Wha' Him Deh Pon?
Kid Koala - Live At The Knitting Factory, 2003
EriKm - Zygosis
What's your pick?
>>65556543
>"We need an album to compete with Sgt Peppers'"
>"Say no more!"
the only correct answers:
MMT
AYE?
>>65556635
>My Meaty Turd
>Are You Entertained?
>Good
nigga pls
>when someone tells me Kanye is good
>listening to rap
>>65556518
>>65556557
Haha! NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!
>>65556557
haha, funny meme dude
