Alright. So there's a leak, you've heard it, or you will in the next hour.
Let's go. Discussion questions that absolutely fucking must be answered:
1. Will you buy the vinyl?
2. Is it a return to form (I don't mean by this "is it not a bass wankery record", in the literal sense of 1996-2002 relived)?
3. how many out of 5? no decimal points you fucking hair splitters.
1 - dogshit dildo
2 - has a couple non-nauseating moments, but overall weak sauce
3 - couple great parts, boring as shit otherwise
4 - unf, imma rock this for a few months
5 - classic, total classic
4. Is this some kind of synthesis of prevailing trends repackaged into a Jenkinson cupcake? (I refer mostly to the extremely techno-ish synth stuff that bookends the record and the general focus on grindy low-ass bass. We won't say the d-word, but pretend I did.)
add your own questions, too, of course. If that post isn't editable, lemme know and you can hack that shit up.
ReplyDelete1. Probably buy the vinyl
ReplyDelete2. I guess it's a return to form in the sense that it feels like Ultravisitor-2-but-not-quite-as-good
3. 4
4. I don't know, none of this smacks of being particularly trendy to me. It's maybe a little less complex (read: not drill-n-bass) at times than older releases, but I'm fine with that.
5. Once, but it was by accident, and I couldn't sit down for a week.
Also found this while doing some related Googling:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may11/articles/sqpshr.htm
One interesting tidbit:
"Nowadays I am not as happy to make those references, and since Hello Everything I officially don’t use the Amen break anymore"
Just to dip my toes in, in case I never get around to a more thorough track-to-track weigh-in:
ReplyDelete1. New, maybe. Hypothetical used-bin find, definitely.
2. It's not, but it's more satisfying than the last few records. Dunno, would you call Go Plastic a return to form after all the Music is Rotted...-era weirdness? I think the only truly regressive, "return-to-form" move I've ever heard him make is Hello Everything, although I will actually go to bat for Hello Everything and I know lots of people won't.
3. 3.8888888888882
4. I mean sure, but not as much as the last album repackaged some trends that were feeling pretty well used-up two years before it came out. I"m stoked/relieved that it doesn't sound like Skrillex or some bullshit. And I mean, really, Drum & Bass was also a prevailing trend for much of Squarepusher's heyday.
5. She said she was 18. Good thing South Carolina law recognizes dog years.
6. Ruby Tuesday, with Chili's a distant second.
easy way out.
ReplyDelete1. nope
2. i think its a bit of a cop out using the same fucking flanger wahh wahh wonky bass thingy all the time, the last few handful of records have bored the shit out of me, as does this one. a return to form would be making something a little more dynamic and engaging. honestly i can hear a lot of this being some video game music or in the titles for a new series on MTV about fixed gear bikes and how extreme they are.
3.2
4.maybe, i think the dude is old and has no way of avoiding writing some pop music that youngsters with no schoolin' will flock to.
5. Only at Myrtle Beach.
6. Dooky Chase Restaurant (that exists. seriously. i'm not fucking with you look it up.)
7. makers on ice
1- Doubt it, half cause I have a shitty record player right now
ReplyDelete2- No, but it does seem like a dude who is at least partially trying to draw from that part of his musical life at least in the swagger factor
3- 3- nothing grabbed my balls in two dedicated listenings.
4- yes- I heard the word hokey a few times spoken by something in my head while listening
5-Fuck a chicken?
6- Ultimate warrior masks from 1991
7-rollin up shit I can't pronounciate
I won't lie, it's kinda grown on me, even as my aggressive disinterest in Dark Steering has intensified. The album as whole is like this litter of stillborn mule babies that Selection Sixteen had put inside Ultravisitor. The tracks whose gills at least had time to close first, who would've grown up to be total bangers with some proper prenatal care, are The Metallurgist and Drax 2 (which reminds me a lot of some of the music from Halloween).
ReplyDeleteFirst off, hearing Drax for the first time was the dopest thing I remember since hearing Exploding Psychology for the first time.
ReplyDelete1 - I bought the vinyl like 2-3 months ago. First Squarepusher record I've bought (or even noticed, much less been waiting for) since Ultravisitor, but I had a feeling.
2 - Yes, but more Go Plastic and Selection Sixteen than anything. Would've loved a little less repetition on the opening joint and a few more, but no less varied than Wish You Could Talk.
3 - 4 out of 5.
4 - Y'all are crazy. Those joints are classic SP. I agree on the initial cheesy sentiment (Unreal Square, Stadium Ice)...but do you remember how painful that slap bass on Massif sounded the first 10 times you heard it? And you love that shit now.
The two things I would've liked was something more on the Hard Normal Daddy level of complexity (one Beep Street) and a few more joints that I just totally didn't expect, but I think Stadium Ice and Red In Blue kinda hit that nail on the head.
I know I'm always ra ra about shit but if y'all aren't feeling Metallurgist -> Drax I can't ride. Need to drax ya whip up.