Album Rating: 4.5

oh dear : (

no you can download the book online for free

A week ago my friend sang at Carnegie Hall. He told me he was given the greatest musical advice ever by the conductor at the hall.

He was told that true music comes in waves of tension.

no you can download the book online for free

"This new musicality (infinitely more in harmony with the elemental vibrations of the Universe) finds in the harp, and in the harp alone, a perfectly responsive medium, thanks to the use of the pedals, whose multifold combinations open an illimitable field both to science and to fantasy in harmony; thanks also to the tone-effects, so diverse and as yet so little known, which spring from the direct contact established between the sensitiveness of the executant's touch and the vibration of the strings producing the sounds."

-- ibid.

[what i said] Has nothing to do with this album but that really made me think about what is
real music.

duuuude wooooow my braiiiiiin is opppennniing

bobertsona

laughed quietly to myself at the notion of "real music"

4.5 superb:
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective Feels
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind

yeah, surprisingly, before the hypervulgarization of discourse in the field of music criticism and journalism following World War II, composers and critics actually used to discuss the nature of society, history, the Universe and the Divine in connection with music rather than how album X had "totally br00tal riffs"

WOW

4.5 superb:
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective Feels
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind

Whoop de doo, Basil

yeah what's your point

well if you're pandering to the swinish multitude, to people who are easily distracted and have no ability to think critically, then certainly reviews describing "totally br00tal riffs" have more merit. if you're trying to make a real contribution to the history of human civilization, then the former approach clearly has more merit

There have always been absurd criticisms towards music.

hahaha

yr livin in the past maaaaaaaaaaan

also quit rating albums on your alt that's cheating

Jane Doe didn't have any brootal harp riffs, so harp sux imo

if all music or literature or art is supposed to provide is an "escape" from everyday reality, then i would prefer that none of these things exist. i would rather think that they provide edification, education, and critical commentary on sociohistorical developments. fantasia and "escape" from reality might constitute one small aspect of music's existence, but they hardly exhaust its possibilities

of course, in an age where music is mostly looked at as a source of mere entertainment, where there's an entire industry built around controlling not only what is "mainstream" and "polished" but also smaller niche markets of things considered "indie" and "raw," these more noble aspects of music tend to fall by the wayside or are thought of as simply "pretentious"