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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 9, 2023 11:51:33 GMT
I love Australia bands these days - my #2 album of 2021 (Amyl and The Sniffers), my #1 atm for 2023 (Tee Vee Repairmann) and the best political Rock album in a long time, by anybody - Bad // Dreems - Hoo Ha! which somehow went into the Top 10 (?) in Australia for a ballsy, mostly very fine, Clash-like record? I also love how cheap their videos look.........fncking Punks man.......
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Aug 27, 2023 14:08:23 GMT
It's 1995 and you have insomnia, so you turn on MTV and they actually had something like this on. First Aphex Twin song I ever heard, iirc.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 27, 2023 15:04:44 GMT
It's 1995 and you have insomnia, so you turn on MTV and they actually had something like this on. First Aphex Twin song I ever heard, iirc. Amazing video...... * There's no way to know anything about Aphex Twin from the video - and in 1995 all videos featured the artist in them.......so it's mysterious where everything else was obvious........now Moby could have done this too..........but this video is also more subversive than Moby tbh: * The editing and visual effects (if they even are really "effects"?) are insanely integrated - only Peter Gabriel is comparable maybe - nothing seems random - even though it appears on the surface as a random pastiche........the water alone is eerie...... * The images are precisely cohesive - as music ebbs, flows and repeats several "pieces" do the same thing approaching the forefront then receding and reappearing........before the "killing" this plays to a sneaky visual narrative - so that it's disorienting like a short film would be and it uses the whole frame too * Because it is wordless there's no way to connect what the song is "about" the way you would a typical pop song of course but all the images seek an explanation.........it actually functions with this video to say instrumental music can be more complex than music with lyrics Quite a dizzying piece of work.........
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