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Old 01-07-2018, 06:22 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Not being an American, or into drugs, that means nothing to me, though I think you've mentioned it before.
So you did pick up on it at least. I thought the Irish were all about the green?

Goes without saying that the album is mad excellent of course.
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Old 01-07-2018, 06:25 PM   #32 (permalink)
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So you did pick up on it at least. I thought the Irish were all about the green?

Goes without saying that the album is mad excellent of course.
I only picked it up because you and I think maybe Plankton had mentioned it maybe some time last year. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me: 4:20 AM? Why do you have to do your drugs at that time? Not that I particularly care. But yes, stupendous album, and I had had my doubts about it originally. Definitely going to listen to more of her material. A big thumbs up from the big dumb Irishman.
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Old 01-07-2018, 06:27 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I only picked it up because you and I think maybe Plankton had mentioned it maybe some time last year. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me: 4:20 AM? Why do you have to do your drugs at that time? Not that I particularly care.
In 1971, the Waldos met one afternoon at 4:20 in the front courtyard of their school near the statue of Louis Pasteur. They set out in a '66 Impala armed with a "treasure map" on a journey to find a secret garden near Point Reyes. They met there at the same time every day and continued their quest. They never found the secret garden....But they keep lookin'.

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Old 01-07-2018, 11:46 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Right then, time to take a break in my busy schedule and get back to this thread, before people think I've abandoned it. Next up:

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Grindy may have fooled me here, as I read the genre tags as “poetry”, “spoken word”, but there's also “conscious hip-hop”, so maybe not. The first track is a poem though, and a very good one; she certainly gets your attention and paints a pretty vivid picture with almost no music, while the second track does have musical backing, and I like it a lot. I also like her rap style, which is basically her spoken word style but matched to the rhythms and cadences of the music, which is, I assume, a hard enough thing to do. “Ketamine for Breakfast” has a much punchier, harder edge, with some powerful beats and great piano and (maybe) brass, good backing vocals too. “Europe is Lost” appears to go back to the spoken-word style of the opener – the time 4:18 AM seems to be something of a recurring motif here; she's mentioned it, in various songs, six times that I counted – and now there's some sparse guitar, bass and percussion coming through.

Attended only by what sounds like one keyboard sample (one note I think, or one chord, or maybe two, but not much more), “We Die” is another spoken-word masterpiece. Even when some percussion and bass pumps slowly in it still remains very stripped-down, focussing all the attention on Kate's voice, which is pretty much the centrepiece of everything here. You can't really critque the music, as there's not a lot of it, but man does her vocal delivery and lyrical ability make that not even a problem! “Whoops” goes from a totally unaccompanied spoken word to a bouncy, percussive rap, superb. “Brews” carries on from this, but it's a very short spoken word track, and in fact now I can see that the main characters in some of the songs are all being referred back to – Alicia, Pete, Esther, Gemma - so maybe this can be seen as a concept album of some sort?

There's a great recurring synth line on “Pictures On a Screen”, with an almost sung chorus, very melancholy with a good sense of drama in it, and this basic atmosphere continues into “Perfect Coffee”, which then kicks up near the end of the song before falling back again into its original format. “Grubby” runs on a powerful but muted guitar riff with some sprinkly keyboards and then echoey, punchy percussion while the sense of almost a storm building is palpable on the penultimate track, “Breaks” which then flows into the powerhouse closer that is “Tunnel Vision”.

****, grindy! This album rocks! Big fan now! Thanks!

Glad you liked it that much.
And yeah, it's a concept album and the lyrics are well worth getting into, although I don't always agree with her point.
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Old 01-08-2018, 06:17 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Old 01-09-2018, 01:12 PM   #38 (permalink)
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TH you can put me to the bottom of the queue if you want I know I said I'd change my rec but I can't think of anything so if I do I will just post again.
I'll reserve your place for when you come up with something by someone I haven't heard.
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