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what are the best tracks?

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From this: camraderie at arms length// libets day // i feel as if i might be vanishing // all you are going to want to do is get back here // the sublime is disappointingly elusive //



Stage 1: just a burning memory // childishly fresh eyes // my heart will stop in joy // all that follows is true // into each others eyes



Stage 2: quiet dusk coming early // misplaced in time // what does it matter how my heart breaks // last moments of pure recall //



Stage 3: back there benjamin // sublime beyond loss // long term dusk glimpses



It's about an hour of the more orchestral samples since some of the piano pieces can be a bit too faint for their own good

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still havent heard the stages albums smh



your picks are good, but i looooove "a relationship with the sublime" (which is indeed faint, piano-y). that's like one of the most deeply yearning melodies I know

“all you are going to want to do is get back here”

sometimes i want this to loop forever

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you might even say

. . . all you are going to want to do is get back here

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the "Pearl Jam - Ten" cover but it's just the two of us high fiving for having landed that joke

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Should I listen to this before the stages. I’m terrified to do either.

listen to this first yeah then do whatever the fuck you want then five my 5.0s

This is kinda like a sample-sized version of EATEOT, personally I don't think this is quite as good since it doesn't have the whole "slowly deteriorating memory" concept going for it but it’s a good gauge for how much you vibe with Kirby's style

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tbqh I was always a bit, just a bit skeptical of kirby’s intent to tie this kind of music “directly” to mental atrophy/disease (tho not as skeptical as I am of the disintegration loops as like “the definitive art about 9/11”) and sort of liked it when the conceptual framework was looser. I bet the Stages are awesome but I’m a bit afraid of them

Yeah I thought the Disintegration Loops was incredibly boring nonsense with a bunch of weighty pretense surrounding it to distract from how dull it is.

As far as the stages tying into mental decline, imo you can hear the intent about as well as any instrumental concept album, I don't know that people would have necessarily guessed it was about dementia if Kirby hadn't said as much, but knowing that and listening to the album it doesn't feel like an arbitrary connection, at least to me.

“disintegration loops” is ace bite your tongue

the 9/11 part is in no way integral in the enjoyment of it though

in my humble honest & hopefully correct opinion

I'm a hoe for high-concept modern art and I'm a hoe for ambient but Basinski does absolutely nothing for me :/

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Honestly the loops prob sit at a 3.5/5, just hate basinski’s approach to promotion and selling that story over and over again. I sort of bit this opinion from Chris ott, but I liked what he had to say: “some people were listening to WHAM when 9/11 happened, dude.”



but yea they’re fine I like d|p 6 especially

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I actually like basinski a lot, all of the other well known stuff is good too (92982 or whatever, Vivian, melancholia). Especially Vivian that one is classic to me and it’s more digestible than the loops even if I dunno how it was made

fair points all around