•The medium itself is no longer identifiable...and the confusion of the medium and the message is the first great formula of this new era
•The cinema in its current efforts is getting closer and closer, and with greater and greater perfection, to the absolute real, in its banality, its veracity, in its naked obviousness, in its boredom, and at the same time in its presumption, in its pretension to being the real, the immediate, the unsignified, which is the craziest of undertakings...no culture has ever had toward its signs this naive and paranoid, puritan and terrorist vision. Terrorism is always that of the real.
•The pressure of information pursues an irresistible destructuration of the social . . . to total entropy
•The medium is the message–the sender is the receiver–the circularity of all poles–the end of panoptic and perspectival space–such is the alpha and omega of our modernity
•There is a fresco here [in the RER] that traces the long route traversed, starting with the man of Tautavel passing through Marx and Einstein to arrive at Dorothée Bis...Why not save this fresco from decomposition? Later the speleologists will re-discover it, at the same time that they discover a culture that chose to bury itself in order to definitively escape its own shadow, to bury its seductions and its artifices as if it were already consecrating them to another world.
have I pregamed hard enough for this album I'm not sure I'll even enjoy??
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Album Rating: 3.5
marshall mcluhan moment
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Album Rating: 4.0
The medium really do be the message if you think about it
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Album Rating: 4.0
It's out. For some reason I thought' it'd be on the 10th. About to jam in a second.
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Album Rating: 4.0
First track is such a middle finger lol gotta love it.
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Album Rating: 3.5
it really is lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
welp, here goes my first listen
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Album Rating: 4.0
um, okay I'm scared lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think the review is spot on. If you take out Perverts, Houseofwhatever and Pulldrone this is an excellent album. But those are 40+ minutes of absolutely nothing.
Love the main melody in Etienne. Could listen to it forever.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Saying those tracks are absolutely nothing is wildly disingenuous
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Album Rating: 4.0
Musically speaking they don't provide much to the experience. I'm sure they have their reason and meaning to be within the context of the album but I'm not keen to put myself through them a second time.
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excellent call out for vacillator, that song hits super hard
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Album Rating: 4.0
Good lord, what an experience.
That felt more like experiencing a horror movie than anything else, and I think that leaves the album in an interesting spot. I think the ambient/drone songs are absolutely necessary and add to the ride, but I also understand the temptation to cleave this thing cleanly in half to just have the tasty parts, meaning the actual songs.
I’ll have to give it that a try and see how that holds up. While I’m not sure how much I want to revisit this in its totality, I’m pretty moved and unnerved by this 90 minute beast and so I can’t say it wasn’t effective lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'm on my second listen without the 3 aforementioned tracks and it's (for me!) a much better experience. But to each their own.
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I think this album only works as a late night cinematic experience. I don't often watch movies more than once as opposed to albums, because of how all encompassing they are, and i think the same could be said about this. The parts that tie into the Simulacrum are really interesting. And the soundscapes are quite terrifying at times. I don't think this would work as well with the T/t and Housofpsychoticwomn cut out, for that reason.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Exactly, squiggly.
I’m game to try just the “songs” as an experience, but Perverts the 90 minute behemoth is really great and I think it’s okay that I do not have the desire to sit through it again for a while.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I can agree to that first contact experience. That's exactly what i did the first time I've listened to this and it was what it was, frightening, heavy, unpleasant, probably what it sets out to be.
I never dissect out pieces of an album I don't like, ever. But there are really great songs on this that get drown by the unforgiving nature of those three drone beasts so I think it's fair to single them out as an alternative experience. Fake or not.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
only thing that would make me respect her more is if her new setlists were something like
1. Perverts
2. Houseofpsychoticwomn
3. Pulldrone
4. Etienne
5. American Teenager
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Album Rating: 1.5
Ethel's "Songs to Listen to" (Bring Me The Horizon), it just feels like a bad fever dream. Hopefully actual songs next time.
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Jesper do you really think this is a 5 or are you trying to balance the ratings graph
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