Album Rating: 2.5

this album is so strange can't wrap my head around it quite yet. You Will Never Know Why is so far really good though, like it better so far tbh

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they're both 5s so you can't go wrong either way !

Album Rating: 2.5

on the third song and You Will Never Know Why is shaping up to be a def 4 at least. the glitchiness of this one though makes me uncomfortable

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on the third song and You Will Never Know Why is shaping up to be a def 4 at least.

the glitchiness of this one though makes me uncomfortable

Album Rating: 2.5

this album and The Brave Little Abacus' album make me very uncomfortable and I've listened to both over 5 times each. still haven't decided on a rating for either lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

Album is dope af

Album Rating: 5.0

this is just THE album



pop perfection, idm perfection, shoeblaze perfection wrapped up in a glitchy strange rainbow sounding package

Album Rating: 2.5

what exactly is idm

Album Rating: 5.0

intelligent dance music

Album Rating: 2.5

lol wow genres are so strange

Album Rating: 5.0

it's just a term (a bad one)

Album Rating: 5.0

I personally have separated the abbreviation IDM from what it stands for. just a way to refer to a certain type of electronic music

Album Rating: 5.0

yea like wtf makes it intelligent



its as bad as 'post-rock'

Album Rating: 5.0

"Intelligent Dance Music, most commonly known as IDM, is a term invented in the early 1990s to describe the sound of a number of electronic musicians who sought to develop dance music beyond the clubs and more into the realm of home listening. The term itself has been the subject of intense criticism, with many citing the "Intelligent" portion as elitist in nature. Aphex Twin, an artist frequently cited as a pioneer of the scene, stated in a 1997 interview: “I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music.” Regardless of the arguments surrounding its label, many acts enjoyed a strong underground following after the inception of the term, with Sheffield’s Warp Records introducing acts like Autechre, The Orb’s Dr. Alex Paterson, and B12 on its famed Artificial Intelligence compilation, as well as a number of artists who would enjoy critical acclaim during the second half of the decade, such as Boards of Canada and Prefuse 73.



By the mid-nineties, IDM’s style tended to veer away from the Techno and House sound that inspired it, with a number of the key figures either choosing to go further down the path of experimentation or employing a much more beat-focused approach to their work. Squarepusher, another one of Warp’s biggest names, combined his typically reckless style of Drum and Bass with a number of techniques more commonly found on Jazz Fusion records, further stretching IDM as a useful descriptor of a particular sound, and making it more of an umbrella term. Attempts have been made to alter the name of the genre and shake off the negative connotations, with Aphex Twin’s “braindance” description of his own music and Warp’s “electronic listening music” proving somewhat popular. Regardless, IDM remains a strong modern scene, with artists like Richard Devine and Arovane continuing this often difficult-to-define style of music."



from RYM

Album Rating: 5.0

i get why its its own sub-genre, just a horrid name

Album Rating: 5.0

posting for conmaniac

Album Rating: 2.5

thanks appreciate it.

yeah awful name but there's lots of bad genre names...Post-rock, Progressive anything, Emo, ect

Progressive Rock actually makes prefect sense as a name of a genre/movement but it should primarily be used in relation to the original movement which was actually progressive, which died in the mid-late 70's.

Album Rating: 2.5

in my opinion just like intelligent dance music dismisses other dance music as unintelligent I feel like progressive rock or metal or whatever does the same thing

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah idm is a terrible name, but what it encompasses obviously deserves its own genre