This one is one of my favorite albums, and it always gets me pumped up and excited cause of JD Beck’s fast beats and DOMi’s funky tunes. Weirdly, I listen to it a lot when I’m on a flight and it’s taking off haha… Idk how that association came to be.
The new album… however, falls a bit flat IMO. I love the pumped up energy, but I really felt every song was quite similar. Plus online, I read people complaining that the recording quality was really not that great - but I couldn’t make it out from the YouTube videos… so I didn’t buy the vinyl (was even considering the signed version).
What about you? What do you think of the new stuff?
ETA: I just noticed they released an instrumental only version! I’m giving that a shot now. IIRC, people were a bit underwhelmed by the vocals? Cute that they named the release on YT as You Asked, when the album was called Who Asked.
With the latest album I have a quite similar experience as you have. Feels like they’re showing off their technicall skills but forgot to make it aesthetically pleasing to listen to.
They kind of gave that away with the Rick Beato interview. When they wrote this album they primarily focused on notating and only started actually playing the music when it was time to record the album.
Sound quality seems to be related to the binaural microphone they used to record the album. Again: conceptually interesting but not especially nice to listen to.
Still love them though! Second album is often just over the top experimenting with a lot of breakthrough artists.
I have the same feelings for the new Raye album. Sheer fucking hubris 😁
Great album! What do you think of the new stuff?
This one is one of my favorite albums, and it always gets me pumped up and excited cause of JD Beck’s fast beats and DOMi’s funky tunes. Weirdly, I listen to it a lot when I’m on a flight and it’s taking off haha… Idk how that association came to be.
The new album… however, falls a bit flat IMO. I love the pumped up energy, but I really felt every song was quite similar. Plus online, I read people complaining that the recording quality was really not that great - but I couldn’t make it out from the YouTube videos… so I didn’t buy the vinyl (was even considering the signed version).
What about you? What do you think of the new stuff?
ETA: I just noticed they released an instrumental only version! I’m giving that a shot now. IIRC, people were a bit underwhelmed by the vocals? Cute that they named the release on YT as You Asked, when the album was called Who Asked.
With the latest album I have a quite similar experience as you have. Feels like they’re showing off their technicall skills but forgot to make it aesthetically pleasing to listen to.
They kind of gave that away with the Rick Beato interview. When they wrote this album they primarily focused on notating and only started actually playing the music when it was time to record the album.
Sound quality seems to be related to the binaural microphone they used to record the album. Again: conceptually interesting but not especially nice to listen to.
Still love them though! Second album is often just over the top experimenting with a lot of breakthrough artists.
I have the same feelings for the new Raye album. Sheer fucking hubris 😁