Comments on: Return*…Come Back to Me… http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 24 May 2012 01:57:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71205 Donagh Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:03:47 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71205 For more conventional, but also very good music, you can download Timber Timbre's debut album for free, until Saturday: http://www.timbertimbre.com Echoes of Fleet Foxes, with a more gothic than country vibe. Good halloween listening. For more conventional, but also very good music, you can download Timber Timbre’s debut album for free, until Saturday:
http://www.timbertimbre.com

Echoes of Fleet Foxes, with a more gothic than country vibe. Good halloween listening.

]]> By: Kevin http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71204 Kevin Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:51:50 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71204 Therein lies the dilemma. Useful Chamber remains a great track, proving that when the disruption works, it sounds great. But when it doesn't, it sounds, as you say, 'precious'. Therein lies the dilemma. Useful Chamber remains a great track, proving that when the disruption works, it sounds great. But when it doesn’t, it sounds, as you say, ‘precious’.

]]> By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71197 Donagh Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:25:44 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71197 Thanks Kevin, for pointing out what has been nagging at me since I started listening to the album properly a couple of weeks back. They're just far too precious, a lot of time. Far too eager to break up the melody line, giving a song all sorts of angles that aren't really needed. Useful Chamber sounds like two songs stuck together. That said, I still like it alot. Thanks Kevin, for pointing out what has been nagging at me since I started listening to the album properly a couple of weeks back. They’re just far too precious, a lot of time. Far too eager to break up the melody line, giving a song all sorts of angles that aren’t really needed. Useful Chamber sounds like two songs stuck together. That said, I still like it alot.

]]> By: Kevin http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71196 Kevin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:11 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/10/27/returncome-back-to-me/#comment-71196 Great post. The Dirty Projectors album is a good, if not great record. I couldn't quite put my finger on what it is about it that keeps it from being great until I saw them in Whelan's last month. And then it hit me: 'Cannibal Resource', 'Temecula Sunrise', 'Stillness is a Move' and a couple of other tracks aside, they can be just too smart with their arrangements for their own good. When they hit their stride and stay there, what a sound. But when they descend into all these annoying little deviations, they just bend your patience until it snaps. Which is why 'Marquee Moon' is a much better song than 'Useful Chamber' - without being overly straight-up it has some semblance of shape without wanting to be ridiculously contrived, as Dirty Projectors seem to want to do. No harm in writing straight-up melodies every once in a while. Great post. The Dirty Projectors album is a good, if not great record. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it is about it that keeps it from being great until I saw them in Whelan’s last month. And then it hit me: ‘Cannibal Resource’, ‘Temecula Sunrise’, ‘Stillness is a Move’ and a couple of other tracks aside, they can be just too smart with their arrangements for their own good. When they hit their stride and stay there, what a sound. But when they descend into all these annoying little deviations, they just bend your patience until it snaps. Which is why ‘Marquee Moon’ is a much better song than ‘Useful Chamber’ - without being overly straight-up it has some semblance of shape without wanting to be ridiculously contrived, as Dirty Projectors seem to want to do.
No harm in writing straight-up melodies every once in a while.

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