I think "less musical" is perfectly apt to describe something considerably more stripped back and minimal than what an artist is used to producing
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that's a pretty terrible definition tho. agree with boney that less/more "musical" should be avoided
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ah yes my favourite genre of less musicalism
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Music is music for sure and I wouldn’t say I have a set opinion on this, but I do think there’s something to the idea that Elverum on CROW (haven’t heard this) is deprecating certain elements we expect of “music” to point us to some other endgame. But of corse the result is music anyhow
CROW is the very rare record where I’d make such a claim though, hard to think of another where extra musical concerns are so clearly part of the form of the record. But even those become “music”. I guess I just want to have a Theory about that album and this is what I settled on lol
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yeah i wouldn't quantify music that way. you could say it's "less dense" or "less reliant on what we might typically consider musical conventions" but i wouldn't say maximal artists' products are "more musical" than minimalist composers anymore than saying jackson pollock is "more art" than robert mangold.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i think both this record and crow do very interesting Musical things though -- this one in elverum finding a voice for old means of working that seemed "dumb" in the face of what happened to him, for sure, i think it is an extremely mount eerie-sounding album.
i think the way crow is presented isnt like, There Is No Music To Be Had Of This, but more like.. i dont know the guitar and tinny little drumbeat are a very interesting sound palette to me that i can't necessarily explain, but it feels full in a certain way.
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Album Rating: 5.0
also, this album is a masterpiece
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yeah youre right for sure...it's music that withholds from us (or at least that's how it feels to me) but still music. I love about half of Crow in a way that has started to feel very musical to me
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Album Rating: 5.0
i'm vexed by the kozelek comparisons too even though i guess they're valid
fuck off mark
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There are no Kozelek comparisons to be made
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Album Rating: 4.3
I mean... there are though
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Kozelek presents free-form rambling thoughts and dialogues from his day-to-day life.
Phil is singing songs with deliberate narratives about his love, her death, and their daughter.
They're really not at all comparable. The closest they come together is Benji solely due to the theme of death, but otherwise...? What? Just because two white dudes are singing over folk music doesn't mean they're at all similar or in need for comparison here.
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Album Rating: 4.3
I didn't say there was a comparison in the subject matter of their lyrics. The direct comparison is in the style of music they are currently playing and their vocal delivery.
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There's a larger rift there than anywhere else...
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Album Rating: 4.3
Sure
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Two Paintings is a masterstroke
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Oh man this first track already kills me. The way the sound/chords interface with the Crow album, how it feels more elaborate and removed from the event...
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Great album, great review. Re: jokes I wanted to mention my favorite one related to this album: it happened when Phil played "Distortion" in Seattle (maybe other places too?) and appears a little after 8:00 in this video.
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Album Rating: 2.0
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/phil-elverum-michelle-williams-husband-marriage
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Apparently WITTR remixed a couple Mount Eerie songs...
https://www.spin.com/2018/09/mount-eerie-wolves-in-the-throne-room-7-picture-disc-remixes/
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