@darnpenguin:Yeah, I'll admit that it didn't exactly come out of NOWHERE-and it provided an excellent chance to reuse the policemens' leitmotif while parodying operatic conventions, but still... it just seemed out of place, what with being the only "fantasy" element of the show.
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...@mmysqueeant I liked Philip Glass's Post-Prandia. The arrangements was meant to have minimalistic qualities. I think he will take his genre in a whole new direction.
And who cares what the critics say. They hated Calliope Ourania's latest album because it was less dark and angsty than her previous work.
Seriously? That was the main selling-point for me. Sure, I love her darker work like In the Lollipop Garden, but that gets dull. The world does not consist of Black-and-Black Morality, and art that imitates this idealised world is as dull as Tastes Like Diabetes.
The lilting tones and upbeat pop stylings of For His Throne Is Frozen As Are His Lands make perfect summery dream-poppish listening. *
Her sound is always so full though - I thought that Calliope Ourania had to be a band, not a single person, and this might be a little sexist...but the fact that a woman could shred like that (on Flower River Sun Son Sun) really astounded me. Thought it was a joke for a while.
Actually, I prefer Calliope Ourania's earlier work, but For His Throne Is Frozen... is excellent too. The only problems I had with it were that, apart from a few songs, guitar is a bit less prominent and there's too many instruments in the songs - if she released something which combined the best of both her albums, that would be excellent.
Also, Benny Cabala is getting married to her and they plan to release a collaboration album. Should be an interesting combination of styles.
Oh God What. I honestly don't even know what that would sound like. I'm torn between wanting to know what it would sound like and instinctive recoil. I wasn't too keen on Benny Cabala's Baroque Snow, and from what I hear that's his best (albeit least accessible) works, and I absolutely hated his more raw effort on sound dead sound wood sound. I don't care what your guitar was made from, Benny, make it make the nice noises.
I guess I don't really appreciate what he's going for - I heard some of the theory behind it once, and it wowed me, but the practice seems to be lacking the confidence that turns experimental music into something more monolithic.
How about Shellack? I've been listening to their album Rip/Tide and it sounds like generic Britpop to me, albeit with a distinctly Russian lead singer. Why's their new album getting so much hype from the N.M.E.?
P.S. Glad to see some Lowercase People and Jes Willmorser fans in here.
Probably because said Russian lead singer only sings in Russian, about political issues. Could be interesting, but NME got them translated as lyrics akin to those of Fall Out Boy. Seriously, how do you base a whole hype campaign around bad translations?
Damn. Reminds me of The Old, Old Stallion Band being misinterpreted in China as Nazi hate-rock in '04 (dagnabbit).
No, Her Dying Words and Killing Me Slowly and all that emo shit fucking sucks. Panzergruber 88 is where it's at.
Don't make me angry, I'm a Super Saiyan Aryan Jedi. And I can come back from the dead!Well, I do like the way they use tank fire and aeroplane rockets as instrumentation. I just wish that their concerts didn't kill so many people from friendly fire.
...Unless they're supposed to. Hmm...
And yes, Her Dying Words sucks. "I'm Angry And Want To Slit My Wrists" and "There's This Tortured Relationship I Probably Don't Even Have" are even worse than "Untitled"! I always thought Killing Me Slowly were a parody of emo, though.
A young, naive English person who I am regrettably related to sent me some stupid song called "Do The Jungle Bungle" that actually made it to the finals at last year's Eurovision contest (no surprise, really). It's the most annoying thing I can remember hearing since that "Crazy Frog" thing, only this makes me want to drill a hole in my head moreso.
edited 7th Mar '11 3:38:33 PM by SeanMurrayI
Thanks for reminding me. You're a pal.
Anyway, this year's Eurovision entries don't look promising. Spain have a group of people in lobster costumes, Moldova are trying their luck with Epic Sax Guy as a solo act, and of course, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy all have stripteases. I'm rooting for that death metal band Sweden entered - were they called Killmurder or something? Help me out!

Does anyone else like Philip Glass's Post-Prandia? I know many critics feel its arrangement of wind instruments is unsophisticated, but many critics are WRONG.
edited 6th Mar '11 8:44:19 AM by mmysqueeant