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What are you listening to?
scarred:
All I Want - LCD Soundsystem
doombilly:
Cab Calloway - Harlem Camp Meeting
(hey, you kids can preview 3 tracks from my new album http://soundcloud.com/illicitizen-1/sets/illicitizen)
/pork shoulder in a can
rynne:
--- Quote from: De_El on 04 May 2010, 09:46 ---The first released track by How to Destroy Angels, aka Trent Reznor's new musical project with his new musical wife. The song is called "A Drowning."
I can't say I'm particularly impressed or anything, but I get an implacable but definitely positive feeling from listening to this song. It's just so Trent! Does anyone layer sounds together quite the same way Reznor does? Does anyone produce guitars or throw in dramatic quiet piano at the end of songs quite the way Reznor does? I haven't listened to Nine Inch Nails in a while, and I'm not really liable to start again for sometime, but it kind of just makes me happy to know that Trent Reznor is still out there making the music he really wants to make.
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See, I think I assessed the song in the same way but came to the opposite conclusion. I agree that 1) it is indeed "just so Trent" and 2) I wasn't particularly impressed with the song. My reaction is that the music is something Reznor could make in his sleep; and is pretty much indistinguishable from any number of atmospheric tracks he's made since The Fragile. And frankly, his wife's voice isn't enough to carry that song.
He's said HtDA will become less like NIN as it progresses, which I'm all for. I'm a big fan of Trent's and I think he makes great, interesting music when he's properly inspired, but he's been spinning his wheels an awful lot. I'm hoping that working with Mariqueen will force him out of that rut. For now, "A Drowning" isn't giving me confidence.
KvP:
It really isn't all that good. Trent's hinted offhand that Peter Christopherson might contribute at some point. I'd be interested in hearing that.
Akima:
Amazing electro-something (I'm really bad at genres) from Sterling.
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