Album Rating: 1.5
I did not go into that comment expecting it to end with a Corey Feldman reference 10/10 good game Sowing
"Musically, it is absolutely lackluster and bare bones as it should be."
Bullseye. I guess the next phase of discussion would be over what degree that sparseness constitutes a musical/artistic/whatever statement or suggests something that's present through deconstruction or w/e but I'm done overthinking this album for today. Sparseness is evocative.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Mostly agree with what u said tho sowing
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Album Rating: 1.0
A well-deserved one. Man's been on a roll.
If you are referring to soulless technical wankery, conmaniac, then I completely agree - if it doesn't flow well and is a jumbled mess, then chances are, I won't rate it highly. However, music is the sum of its individual components. It can have both tragic lyrics and brilliant instrumentation - and that's in a much superior league for me than some boring acoustic guitar plucking with the same boring repetitive chords used in every indie folk release.
This is why Clear Moon and Wind's Poem are much better than this turd - the atmosphere crafted on those two albums is engaging and drawing in - unlike on here.
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Album Rating: 1.0
Fuck, you got me there, mate
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Album Rating: 1.0
Site needs more people like potsy to remind us all why stuff like this or Carrie and lowell is the epitome of trash
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Album Rating: 1.5
You got enough bait there to go whaling, boi
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Album Rating: 4.5
I guess the next phase of discussion would be over what degree that sparseness constitutes a musical/artistic/whatever statement or suggests something that's present through deconstruction or w/e
I would say to whatever degree it is effective. If an artist can evoke an emotional response from listeners by employing only a little more than silence, then technically isn't he/she successful? (insert an "art is in the ears/eyes if the beholder" axiom). There's no specific, solid line where "this much instrumentation" constitutes music/art.
if it doesn't flow well and is a jumbled mess, then chances are, I won't rate it highly. However, music is the sum of its individual components. It can have both tragic lyrics and brilliant instrumentation - and that's in a much superior league for me than some boring acoustic guitar plucking with the same boring repetitive chords used in every indie folk release
You actually make an interesting point here, because it calls into question what sort of instrumentation makes sense to accentuate the concept of a real-time death journal. I'd say the artist, in this case, was not in a frame of mind to beautify the music in a sense, nor in a mindset to smear it with anger or denial. I'm not sure what stage of grief he was in, perhaps the album spans multiple ones? There are certainly instances of shock, pain/guilt, and depression. He's just floating through this album aimlessly dictating his thoughts/memories as a means of coping. In that way, it is a perfect distillation of a man mired in tragedy.
On the other hand, Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell also dealt with death directly, but added several more layers instrumentally and in production. I'd rather hear C&L any day, but it is more for my own convenience because this is actually a more genuine/honest record. That's why it makes me so uncomfortable and drives me to avoid it - I don't want to confront those ideas/emotions every damn day, or even more than once a year, because I'd sink into the darkest corner of my house and never re-emerge. If that sort of visceral emotional response doesn't indicate powerful art, then I don't know what does.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Lowell isnt even dead
Only carrie
LAME
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lowell isnt even dead only carrie LAME [2]
I will admit that I haven't listened to Phil's other material yet. If hearing what he does with "more" would affect my opinions on this record I highly doubt it. In regards to this one record the argument of arguing for or against its sonic qualities is lost on me. Looking at this piece as a whole, with what it says and does and how I resonated with it, nothing with how it sounds was ever boring or out of place for me. I would never pit this album against his other material unless I found there to be a reason to do so (such as looking at what changes between Lost Wisdom 1 and 2). As a piece, everything this album does works for what it is doing in my eyes.
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Album Rating: 5.0
If I had to wager, once I get around to hearing The Glow Pt. 2 or Flashlight or "Mount Eerie" or anything else he's done I would appreciate and like them as much as I like this album. If for entirely different reasons. 90% of the time I don't see anything attractive in comparing albums in a discography if the end goal is to devalue one over the other.
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Album Rating: 3.0
real life footage of Lowell when he found out his step-son wrote an indie folk album about him;
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/008/910/IF0yE_copy.jpg
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vintage meme
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Album Rating: 3.0
thanks i found it at value village
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lovely "stream of consciousness" style write up. Very engaging, and mostly agreed, although I'm not sure I'd criticise the discussion surrounding the record as much as you - I personally found all the different takes and discussions that this prompted to be really rewarding, whether it was the rehashed 'is this even music' stances to the types of arguments that you allude to. I think it's been a while since a record prompted quite so much productive and generally well meaning discussion about music on sput.
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