Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
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Mort.
May 2nd 2022


26405 Comments


spow

Flugmorph
May 2nd 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

love you guys lol

Mort.
May 2nd 2022


26405 Comments


i love nearly all sput users




evilford
May 3rd 2022


71761 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Same

WretchedCacophony
May 3rd 2022


3654 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I love all sput users

Demon of the Fall
May 3rd 2022


39137 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'Or you can do what I suspect the majority of sput users did. Not jam it in full and 5 it anyway.'

I heard 10 minutes of this, in my dreams

it was enough

Pon
Emeritus
May 3rd 2022


6187 Comments


Okay so I listened to a song from this, can confirm it's the best album ever made. Unless the same band made something better idk, further investigation needed.

Flugmorph
May 3rd 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

the odd thing about this record is that its really relaxing. Its also mixed in a way that you can listen to it on low volume quite easily and it becomes more of an ambient record. should try this for study sessions sometimes soon.

Flugmorph
May 3rd 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Stare Into Math and Be Idempotent

Although their two musical biomes are, in the purely aesthetic sense, summarily disjoint, there exists a tenable connection between the musical ethos of electronic beat-parameters Sean and Rob and the intellectually gratifying “post-death metal” of Kiwi hair-recession anonymous trio Ulcerate. A simple face-value interpretation of the two artists’ respective outputs would yield a smooth-brained response in broken tautology; “but Ulcerate is dissonant death metal with post-metal flourishes whereas Autechre create wonky intellectual dance music for the enlightened elite.” In response, I would reply, “Well, yes, of course, but you must dig deeper.”



What is meant by that seemingly condescending reproach is that it takes more than a purely aesthetic appraisal of Autechre and Ulcerate to understand their almost spiritual connection in the sphere of musical craft. It doesn’t take long to see, upon playing Confield alongside this tour-de-force of mathematically technical post-death metal, that the commonalities lie in the realm of complexity. To wax mathematical, Autechre and Ulcerate are the orthonormal basis sets defining the musical sphere, whereas most other artists are happy just spanning the musical sphere. Linear dependence is forgone so that the true cold and calculating nature of this utterly non-stochastic music can reveal itself.



JohnnyoftheWell
May 3rd 2022


64287 Comments


unironically did listen to two of what turned into my fav albums in my dreams before checking into them irl

Demon of the Fall
May 3rd 2022


39137 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Flug’s pasta makes me want to 4.5 this ngl

Cornfield actually sucks, sorry Jaq

I do like how this be atmospherically amibental though, that be big brain take right there. Not all about the rah rah this one.

parksungjoon
May 3rd 2022


47227 Comments


>To wax mathematical, Autechre and Ulcerate are the orthonormal basis sets defining the musical sphere, whereas most other artists are happy just spanning the musical sphere. Linear dependence is forgone so that the true cold and calculating nature of this utterly non-stochastic music can reveal itself.



lmao this is gold actually ngl



Flugmorph
May 4th 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

guess who wrote that without looking it up

parksungjoon
May 4th 2022


47227 Comments


allow me 1 hint: someone from this site or nah?

Flugmorph
May 4th 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

used to be on here



now its pretty easy

parksungjoon
May 4th 2022


47227 Comments


it is pretty easy now yea

sach is pretty much the only person i know of who would use "sean and rob" when referring to autechre though so that was my first thought

Flugmorph
May 4th 2022


35426 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah, was sachs review on rym

rating was 0.5 btw

FR33L0RD
May 4th 2022


6400 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Hi hi, funny hyperbolic stuff.

0GuyMan0
May 4th 2022


5652 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

this is one of my favorite sleepytime albums, yeah.

Egarran
May 4th 2022


36867 Comments


Live with death in mind and life’s shape malleable in hand — Fine-tuning the effector within is as much ‘purpose’ as any person could ask among the living and with time an inevitable definition will arrive for the aching, aimless ‘self’. Auckland, New Zealand based death metal trio Ulcerate would find life-and-death affirming definition in the tides of the unorthodox roughly a decade into their efforts by way of loosening the rigidity of their technical death metal beginnings and steeping within the blackened tea of future-consciousness.



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