Album Rating: 3.0

He has excellent "hooks", yes. Just listen to some of the lower register vocals in The First Matter from Hubardo or the entirety of The Mortality of Doves, also Amalia's Theme, Craven's Dawn etc.

Yeah, Hubardo has some nice hooks and so do Coffins on Io and Plastic House on Base of Sky but are we going to pretend that Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue, Choirs of the Eye, Blue Lambency Downward, Coyote, Stained Glass, Gamma Knife, Bath, Leaving Your Body Map and In the L..L..Library Loft don't exist or something? Are we going to forget that most of his work doesn't rely on "hooks" at all?
Saying that he's at his best when he's making "hooks" is basically saying he's usually making subpar music (or at least subpar for him). His work is at his best without "hooks".

If someone asked me for my favorite moments in his work I would be able to mention at least a few, if someone asked me for my favorite Driver hooks I'd just say "The Mortality of Doves and And He Built Him a Boat" (and I'm not even sure if that guitar riff in the latter counts as a hook) and that's it.

Album Rating: 4.0

Driver's vocal melodies are incredible. I think he shines when he's writing a "hook." Anything from Choirs, Coffins, Phobos, those mentioned cuts on Hubardo.

Album Rating: 4.0

Shut up Alex.

"Anything from Choirs"
There are "hooks" in Choirs of the Eye? Where? I don't remember any.

Album Rating: 3.0

"Saying that he's at his best when he's making "hooks" is basically saying he's usually making subpar music (or at least subpar for him)"





I'm just saying that me personally, I prefer when he digs in to these more melodic/melancholic/moody tendencies that one can trace back all the way to early MotW. I also have appreciation for the work he's mostly known for, just not as much as I once did. I mean, I rarely ever listen to Choirs and stuff these days, so.







"His work is at his best without "hooks"."







As he says in The Shining: "not for me" 😁

"I'm just saying that me personally, I prefer when he digs in to these more melodic/melancholic/moody tendencies that one can trace back all the way to early MotW."
I didn't mention anything about liking more the moody/melancholic stuff 'cause, you know, that's fine; liking his hooks more on the other hand, I find it odd, considering he barely makes those.

Album Rating: 3.0

But.. Can't hooks be melancholic/moody?!

... Umh, yeah?... So? I feel like I'm supposed to infer something from that question but I'm not sure what exactly.

Album Rating: 3.0

It was as much a statement as it was a question but yeah.

I still don't know why you mentioned that, I never said hooks can't melancholic or moody or something like that.

Album Rating: 3.0

"I didn't mention anything about liking more the moody/melancholic stuff 'cause, you know, that's fine; liking his hooks more on the other hand, I find it odd, considering he barely makes those."





Try reading this^ again then. Seems you like to argue just for the sake of it.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

the manifold curiosity has epic hooks

"Seems you like to argue just for the sake of it."
I do.
I read that again, I didn't notice anything that would indicate that I said something like "hooks can't be melancholic or moody". I said that if you like Driver's work more when it's moody, that's fine, but that I find it weird that you like his (very few) hooks in particular.

"the manifold curiosity has epic hooks"
I decided to listen to Choirs of the Eye again (not paying it the attention it deserves, of course, considering I'm here), right now I'm listening to that one. 10 minutes in and I haven't noticed any hooks.

Album Rating: 3.0

o_______O

who remembers when toby driver dissed sputnikmusic

Album Rating: 2.5

He was right in doing that. He use to browse this site iirc.

Album Rating: 4.0

He quoted me.



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