I feel like HTDW is what this wants to be. But far better.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I feel that both were created with different mindsets and both are successful in what they set out to do.
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Album Rating: 4.5
James Blake does some of what HtDW does and more
albeit in a frustrating way. some stuff here is a chore to swallow
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Album Rating: 4.5
" I think 'Unluck' is the perfect set up, simply because it's one of the more "normal" tracks on the lp"
not sure i agree with this honestly...it's sort of sonically indicative of James Blake (minus the coming piano, which is an awesome surprise obv) but that beat is pretty fucking trippy....doesn't actually fit with the song by most means (but it works!). sort of a "difficult" song imo
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i don't understand how this is dubstep
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albeit in a frustrating way. some stuff here is a chore to swallow
My biggest problem with this.
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i don't understand how this is dubstep
Well there's your first problem
not sure i agree with this honestly...it's sort of sonically indicative of James Blake (minus the coming piano, which is an awesome surprise obv) but that beat is pretty fucking trippy....doesn't actually fit with the song by most means (but it works!). sort of a "difficult" song imo
I don't find it difficult in the slightest; I mean, yeah the beat is pretty interesting but it's nothing overly hard to swallow, and it's one of the more "steady" tracks on the album
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Album Rating: 4.5
if dubstep wasn't so cool these days people would probably just call this electronica right?
it's like calling a horse a zebra because they've got manes
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*scoff* *scoff* yeah okay planewreck... I read the fucking wikipedia, and I've listened to this album, yet it still sounds nothing like the wikipedia description..
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Album Rating: 4.5
Well I have facebook friends whose walls are dubstep dubstep dubstep videos every morning and they rarely seem to change tempo or tonality, have vocals, free-tempos, piano, or any semblance of the calmness of this record. If you're telling me dubstep is more associated than "electronica" with these things than it is with durty basslines, ok.
Call it what you want I love the styling/instrumentation choices on this record a ton. I'm just battling songs/parts of songs where I'm waiting for something to stick.
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Album Rating: 4.0
to dub or not to dub.
it's not really a question
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Album Rating: 4.5
what separates this from dubstep is that college kids dont post james blake remixes of la roux songs on music blogs 8)
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alright... reading the pitchfork review helped a ton. Gots it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
this isn't wub wub dubstep but it is dubstep
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perfect way of saying it
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f you're telling me dubstep is more associated than "electronica" with these things than it is with durty basslines, ok
Dubstep isn't just about "dirty basslines" and that isn't how it started out either. And what do you mean by "more associated with electronica"? Do you mean that it should be associated with electronic music, because it already is. Electronica is a term, and in that lies house, trip hop, dubstep, drum & bass, idm etc etc etc etc
I don't see how this isn't dubstep. Haven't we come to acknowledge dubstep as a blanket genre term yet? There aren't set limitations on what can be done with the genre, and here he's blending other styles to suit his purpose. Dubstep definitely pertains to much of what is done here.
It's this in a nutshell. People said the same thing about Burial when he first popped up, "oh my god, his beats are so garage". Now that "Burial sound" isn't his anymore, its been replicated 10x over. Just because this is something you haven't heard before doesn't mean that it doesn't belong in the same genre, it's just another extension of where this genre can go
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*scoff* *scoff* yeah okay planewreck... I read the fucking wikipedia, and I've listened to this album, yet it still sounds nothing like the wikipedia description..
So if you didn't know what dubstep was (and I base that on the fact that you had to look it up online) why would you say that you find it hard to see how this is dubstep?
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Album Rating: 4.5
let's get a "history of dubstep" feature
Dubstep isn't just about "dirty basslines" and that isn't how it started out either. And what do you mean by "more associated with electronica"? Do you mean that it should be associated with electronic music, because it already is. Electronica is a term, and in that lies house, trip hop, dubstep, drum & bass, idm etc etc etc etc
I meant more associated with other types of electronica like trip-hop. I'm working from a shitty perspective 'cause I've only explored electronica recently and slightly and probably stumbled across misinformation, (so correct me) but: the subtleness of this (and maybe fragmented parts) would make it trip-hop instead of dubstep. Trip-hoppy, experimental, fucked up soul r&b, with some low dubsteppy basswork and syncopations.
I'm not guessing this can't be associated with dubstep, only that people use it as the foremost term because it's getting popular. Maybe if trip-hop was mad popular they'd call him a trip-hop singer-songwriter.
"Unluck" is soo good. pplaying falling juuuuu taking care of wouldn't like you
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Album Rating: 4.0
dev droppin bitches left n right.
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Album Rating: 4.5
i don't see how this is trip hop
trip hop is basically hip hop beats with downtempo, jazz, psychedelic etc. influences
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