talking heads shmalking shmeads
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Album Rating: 5.0
talking heads is one of the best bands ever agreed
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Album Rating: 5.0
What's everyone's favourites off this?
For me, definitely:
1. A new kind of water
2. Cenotaph
3. Paper hats
4. Independence
5. Makeshift swahili
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Album Rating: 5.0
easy top 5. order irrelevant or hard to suss out
paper hats
cenotaph
spqr
makeshift swahili
a new kind of water
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Album Rating: 5.0
Cool, we share 4 of 5. Independence just has this hypnotic quality to it that I like, but spqr is very solid. I kind of wish triumph, radio prague, and hi baku were more fleshed out. They're almost too minimal
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Album Rating: 5.0
all told the peaks feel fairly "obvious" to me. those five (maybe six) songs kinda have more energy than the rest. or however you want to characterize it. def a 5 tho
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Personal top five (though this is an album that unequivocally works best as a “whole” or whatever):
1. Sleep
2. Makeshift Swahili
3. A New Kind of Water
4. Shrink Wrap
5. Paper Hats
Shrink Wrap doesn’t get enough love. (Nor does Sleep for that matter.)
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Album Rating: 5.0
"sleep" is cool, shrinkwrap is cool but less cool. radio prague is good musique concrete or whatever; independence is cool and triumph is fine and the closer is fine. I kinda get why the closer had to be that way but I'd maybe appreciate a slightly cooler one. amazing album though, so deliciously adventurous and every sound feels so crookedly in its place. the amazing songs are amazing and the less good songs are still great in context, awesome just awesome
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What was once my “least favorite” track, “Radio Prague”, Ive garnered a whole new respect for over the years. In a vacuum, it’s obviously a bit insubstantial and obtuse, but as a harbinger for “Makeshift Swahili,” it’s actually marvelous, and kind of ‘sets the tone’ of impending doom. The Peel Sessions version of Swahili includes a Radio Progue-esque intro even, and now it’s difficult for me to listen to either of those tracks divorced from one another. Peanut butter and jelly, as they say
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah I agree they play much better in the full context of the album, helps to break things up a bit. Shrinkwrap is probably my favourite of the interlude-y tracks, but sleep is close behind. I don't think I'd ever have a reason to play radio progue or the closer on their own tho.
Also tectac: I checked out the peel sessions and the ep. The former is superb, but the latter is... Honestly kind of shit lol. I only heard it once but the 2nd track kind of grated on me. I'm gonna give it a couple more plays though. It took me a while to get into their lps so who knows
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Album Rating: 5.0
Sleep is a red herring and it's kind of hilarious; the first time I heard it I was expecting an easy-listening experience
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Well the “EP” is basically just the one song of the same name - Health & Efficiency. That track rules and is probably among This Heat’s top tracks for me. Side Two is basically just an experiment that loses a lot of the effect in the absence of vinyl. It’s a tape drone that is meant to sound different at different speeds. Experimental but not particularly interesting. Just forget about that “track” and pretend Health & Efficiency is just a single 😀
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah the first track is great, I'm relistening now. Should I check out their other singles, like "metal"? I skimmed through some of the spotify stuff and it sounded kind of meh to me. The peel sessions is so good tho. Actually weird going back to the debut afterwards
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Album Rating: 4.0
Makeshift Swahili would be even better if it didn't cut to a bad live recording halfway through
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@Reefa if you truly feel that way, check the Peel Session recording 😃
@Gyro: I like “Repeat” a lot, It’s like a mega-extended version of “24-track Loop” that goes through tons of different variations on the main riff. Check it. And “Metal” is basically a 20-some minute percussive drone track. Nothing special and way longer than it really needs to be. Skippable.
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Album Rating: 4.0
These guys definitely need to be making waves in next year's Sputcore 'vs' championship competition (or whatever the hell it's called). The momentum appears to be building.
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ay noted
right on the notes page
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they can face off against talk talk in round 1
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Album Rating: 3.4
the collab w/ Mario Diekuuroh is tite
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"they can face off against talk talk in round 1"
thats messed up johnny
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