I really don't like Adele, and it's always so difficult to get across why, because i hate her singing even though she has an undeniably good voice. But that's what makes it so horribly boring to me, her voice is good in the same way stock photos of nature are good, or art from Ikea. Her music is like Spa Decoration, something so conventionally good that really everybody can agree on it. Even more so than most pop stars, because she built this image of being so sophisticated, even ... read more
i thought wow this sounds like fun elliott smith and then i looked it up and yep he produced it
i put this on to listen to while reading and expected it to be more ambient, like a tangerine dream album, but it gave my book a whole lotta pep
According to Don Norman, a good door is one you don’t notice going through and i think its a little bit similar with movie scores, i was watching Marty Supreme yesterday and i knew the score was done by Oneohtrix Point Never but i hadn’t listened to it before. And yet, i almost never actively noticed the score, i was just pulled in by the entire movie, the only musical moments that i actively registered were moments they used songs i already knew. But of course, while a score is a ... read more