yeah, i'm just seeing that comment now in my secret inbox, and it's absolutely hilarious. talk about hipster bullshit - it's the people rejecting this as 'poppy' that are vacuous scene kids. on a musical level, trying to compare this to older melt banana is like comparing a jazz musician to a child bashing on a garbage can. this isn't a bit of an evolution, it's leaps and bounds ahead of anything they've ever done.
something similar can be said for boredoms. their early work sounds like a bunch of drunken orangutans smashing their way through a pre-school. chocolate synthesizer may very well be the most absolutely idiotic thing anybody has ever released. anybody claiming to actually enjoy listening to it is lying through their pretentious as fuck teeth - it's a party trick that dumb teenagers can scare their mom with, not something anybody actually connects to or enjoys. this is the hipster scene shit. there's not a musically inclined person on the planet that would uphold it as anything but absolute nonsense, just a bunch of hipsters that think it's cool through a chain of recs. nor was it in any way novel; noise rock came out of the late 70s and early 80s and was practically retro by the time the boredoms came around. the kind of operatic post-rock they swung to, on the other hand, is both musical and novel. to think there's even any kind of comparison is just hilarious.
don't fret, though. if this is too mainstream for you, just record yourself knocking over some garbage cans. that should amuse you for a while.
uny
See I don't like that attitude. It basically narrows down to "That's something I don't like and I can't see how anyone can, so objectively it can't be good", which is a very dangerous way of thinking. Thinking like that is what stopped albums like this being produced earlier (besides obvious technical limitations).
deathtokoalas
no. that's very much binary thinking, in declaring everything subjective or nothing subjective at all. you're jumping to unjustified conclusions that don't at all follow. there's a lot of space for subjectivity in music, but there's also a lot of space for objective statements. i don't really have patience for dumbfuck hippies that want to say that burping into a vocoder is equivalent to writing a symphony.
also, this is really a logical extension of ministry c. 1988.
AmericaTheEngravy sauce
people are just idiots. they were saying similar things when cellscape came out.
