so, i'm going to analyze this purely musically, and, on that level, it's really just kind of dorky metal. really. it's not that different than iron maiden or judas priest.
if you're around though....
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
this is the night before anamanaguchi, and, see, you have to get that my interest in this is purely musical - i'm not the
grown-up that spent my childhood lost in metroid or zelda or whatever
else. i played a lot of civ, and i listened to my own cds doing it.
so, i'm going to analyze this purely musically, and, on that level, it's really just kind of dorky metal. really. it's not that different than iron maiden or judas priest.
if you're around though....
so, i'm going to analyze this purely musically, and, on that level, it's really just kind of dorky metal. really. it's not that different than iron maiden or judas priest.
if you're around though....
ugh.
https://bluehawaii.bandcamp.com/album/open-reduction-internal-fixation
tell her to release another braids record.
i had a conversation with one of the guitarists from anamanaguchi the
first time i saw them, at the saw gallery in ottawa, some time in 2011
or 2012. the opening act that night, fwiw, was supposed to be moon king,
but they couldn't make it up the 401 and 416 due to the blizzard. so,
it was during the winter of 2011-2012....
they weren't selling alcohol at club saw at the time, so i had to run across to avant-garde to take some shots during the extreme animals set.
i actually wasn't excited about moon king anyways - as a spiral beach fan, i found the material to be a move backwards and in the wrong direction. to take things full circle, i saw spiral beach open for the white stripes at the bluesfest in 2007 (and also at zaphod's....i think, twice). i was more impressed by airick's stuff with doldrums. i digress.
we had a brief talk about guitar tone, and i pointed out that i'd really like to hear the band take it to the next level regarding the psych guitars - for them to jump from doubling the 8-bit parts to actually harmonizing with them. i was expecting him to agree with me, but he shot me down rather harshly. he was actually more interested in taking the band in a more quintessentially japanese direction, and suggested i should expect them to do less chiptune and more j-pop.
"like ymo?", i suggested. meekly.
"no. poppier than that..."
so, i found myself disappointed in the second record, but not surprised by it. they were broadcasting the point. i saw them in a larger bar in ottawa in early 2013, but left them behind at that point due to artistic differences. i didn't have a lot of interest in the direction they were going in.
the new record is more mature than their last one, there's no question about that. this is certainly a giant leap forwards. i bet they even used a 64-bit recording module. think about that - it's anamanaguchi^2. in all seriousness, it's not a fair comparison, but i'm not sure their audience is going to follow them down this path. and, i'm certainly not going to have the same kind of fun dancing to this that i did dancing to my skateboard will go on, while fucked up on vodka in the dank basement of an art gallery in the middle of the winter.
rather, this would be more of interest to fans of generalized millennial faux indie rock, like imagine dragons. it's only a tad more punk than that, and a tad more trance than it, too. there's bits of, like, 65dos in the ambiance. but, the only traces of 8-bit that remain are gimmicks.
that said, if you like that style, you might consider this top notch because it kind of actually is, relatively speaking. in a relative sense, it blows imagine dragon out of the water....but it still kind of just blows, in an absolute sense.
have fun, kids. i'm going to check something else out...
https://anamanaguchi.bandcamp.com/album/usa
they weren't selling alcohol at club saw at the time, so i had to run across to avant-garde to take some shots during the extreme animals set.
i actually wasn't excited about moon king anyways - as a spiral beach fan, i found the material to be a move backwards and in the wrong direction. to take things full circle, i saw spiral beach open for the white stripes at the bluesfest in 2007 (and also at zaphod's....i think, twice). i was more impressed by airick's stuff with doldrums. i digress.
we had a brief talk about guitar tone, and i pointed out that i'd really like to hear the band take it to the next level regarding the psych guitars - for them to jump from doubling the 8-bit parts to actually harmonizing with them. i was expecting him to agree with me, but he shot me down rather harshly. he was actually more interested in taking the band in a more quintessentially japanese direction, and suggested i should expect them to do less chiptune and more j-pop.
"like ymo?", i suggested. meekly.
"no. poppier than that..."
so, i found myself disappointed in the second record, but not surprised by it. they were broadcasting the point. i saw them in a larger bar in ottawa in early 2013, but left them behind at that point due to artistic differences. i didn't have a lot of interest in the direction they were going in.
the new record is more mature than their last one, there's no question about that. this is certainly a giant leap forwards. i bet they even used a 64-bit recording module. think about that - it's anamanaguchi^2. in all seriousness, it's not a fair comparison, but i'm not sure their audience is going to follow them down this path. and, i'm certainly not going to have the same kind of fun dancing to this that i did dancing to my skateboard will go on, while fucked up on vodka in the dank basement of an art gallery in the middle of the winter.
rather, this would be more of interest to fans of generalized millennial faux indie rock, like imagine dragons. it's only a tad more punk than that, and a tad more trance than it, too. there's bits of, like, 65dos in the ambiance. but, the only traces of 8-bit that remain are gimmicks.
that said, if you like that style, you might consider this top notch because it kind of actually is, relatively speaking. in a relative sense, it blows imagine dragon out of the water....but it still kind of just blows, in an absolute sense.
have fun, kids. i'm going to check something else out...
https://anamanaguchi.bandcamp.com/album/usa
this is at the new bar in windsor on thursday night, and while it's not
the kind of thing i'd go out of my way to see, i could very well walk
past it on my way home from a show in detroit.
there's some moments in the longer tracks, but i'd consider it a little too tame for me, over all - too boxy, too repetitive, kind of generic. when she tries to break out, she mostly actually doesn't, she hits the boundary and bounces back.
if they could take it up a level to the next level of abstraction, it would be more compelling.
but, like i say, i might be walking by.
https://winelips.bandcamp.com/album/stressor-2
there's some moments in the longer tracks, but i'd consider it a little too tame for me, over all - too boxy, too repetitive, kind of generic. when she tries to break out, she mostly actually doesn't, she hits the boundary and bounces back.
if they could take it up a level to the next level of abstraction, it would be more compelling.
https://winelips.bandcamp.com/album/stressor-2
if you like amber period autechre, this might be worth the beer tomorrow night in windsor.
https://soundcloud.com/d-troy
personally, not in this weather.
it has a bit of a heavy u2 back-crossing to it, but this is otherwise even mixed to sound like an early cure record.
https://unmaker.bandcamp.com/
the
thing about those cure records that none of the copycats get is the
influence from progressive and psychedelic forms of music, which opened
the tracks up both horizontally and vertically. you could try to
describe this in terms of detail or complexity, but i think the blunt
truth is just that essentially nothing that rips on the cure is as good as the cure. no, i do this on purpose, as the most articulate means of expression is sometimes the most simplistic one.
if you love the style, i'm sure it'll be worth the beer, but i'd rather stay at home and listen to the real thing, or watch it on youtube.
if you love the style, i'm sure it'll be worth the beer, but i'd rather stay at home and listen to the real thing, or watch it on youtube.
they can cite can or the stooges if they want, but it actually sounds
like late doors. and, while this isn't the end of the review, i want to
break on through to the other side...
...of that line break. there. done. k.
in
fact, he even cites them as he's doing a clear late morrison
impersonation, which is why the universe just imploded without you even
noticing.
the first track has a neat climax, but it's kind of prodding and boring, overall.
if
you like late doors, though, maybe with a dash of faust, it's tonight,
on the edges of hamtramck. don't forget to bring a jacket.
this is tonight in windsor, and it would be worth a beer if it wasn't so awful out, and i didn't feel so gross, in general. i don't know what it is, but i haven't felt so great since i came in last month. as it is, i'm just not feeling very social today.
what i will say is that the reason i stopped to listen is that phog is advertising him as a virtuoso jazz musician, and i'm not hearing that in the recordings i've found. this ep seems to have a little bit of live playing, but the other one appears to actually be mostly sample-based.
it's probably not his fault; he probably didn't write up the event listing. so, i don't want to delve into a critical analysis of his skills that he likely didn't bring on himself. further, i could be wrong - i might be missing a real spectacle. but, i suspect the write-up is just off base. his playing is competent, and it might be a different thing for a lot of kids to see nowadays, but it's not particularly impressive, from a jazz-fusion perspective, and as that's what i'd really be going to see, it hasn't convinced me.
it's probably not his fault; he probably didn't write up the event listing. so, i don't want to delve into a critical analysis of his skills that he likely didn't bring on himself. further, i could be wrong - i might be missing a real spectacle. but, i suspect the write-up is just off base. his playing is competent, and it might be a different thing for a lot of kids to see nowadays, but it's not particularly impressive, from a jazz-fusion perspective, and as that's what i'd really be going to see, it hasn't convinced me.
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