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Review Summary: Vagueness is a good thing The tracks here are mostly built on a slab of two or three similar, yet slightly dissonant synth chords, or pads. The pads carry a weighty feeling of mystique and subtlety. They linger together for a bit over three quarters of the track, then one of the pads drops out, leaving the other one to soberly conclude the track. They are accompanied by a simple rhythm section, including intricate clicks, scantly placed basslines, and pleasantly soft beeps. Being the focal point of the music and thus deciding where it gets to go, the pads always opt to position the listeners in the margins of our own brain, giving us a surreal feeling that is then rectified by the stark outro. Pola has done this trick on other tracks, but on this album it seems to be his bona fide statement.
You might dedicate a certain amount of your brain to the nuances of sunlight as it covers and reflects across areas you’re familiar with at certain times of day, if you were to listen to this on a walk or when doing something tedious. You may also be having vague feelings that are too indistinct to put into words, but are nonetheless enjoyable to feel. It’s best enjoyed in a quiet setting, where it can effortlessly interface with your aesthetic sensibilities to the extent that you wonder how tuned into his own senses Pola had to be to make this.
A lot probably.
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This is why I dislike /mu/ and other so-called music enthusiasts who don't own high-end audio equipment worth $5,000. The album Pola Meets Lyrics has 1,306 ratings on RYM, many of them highly positive, while this other Pola album only has 194 ratings simply because it didn’t gain the same level of attention. The internet encourages laziness and inauthenticity. One album has a zillion fans, the other remains unknown, even though, ironically, the lesser known one is much better.
This leads me to suspect that many rated the more popular album not out of genuine appreciation, but because they were influenced by the opinions of their peers. It raises the question of whether they even engage with Pola’s work as an artist or merely echo the consensus, prioritizing social validation over personal connection to the music.
A bunch of monkeys.
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^ Spitting straight up facts bro, keep going!
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Pola takeover 2024 lfg
gonna track down whoever rec'd me Pola Meets Lyrica and not every Pola album individually and cut off both their big toes. see how they like THAT for authenticity! thank you myri for vouching for this record it is finally possibly for me to conceive that it's Actually Really Good. expand your groupthink today!
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It's a shame my high-end audio equipment only cost $4999.
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Gotta hear this asap.
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I completely agree Baseline, I'm incredulous that this gets way less attention. Grahhh!!!!
Anyway thank you for the pos's. Johnny, this record and Chiendent are super awesome, although Chiendent is an outtakesy type record it seems (maybe to its benefit, idk. I kind of like that about it).
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