What shit album

>>71841273
You seem to lack empathy, friend. Too bad you'll never have a wife to die on you.

>>71841273
okay, but you never even said why the album was bad, you retard.

>>71841341

I feel bad the guy lost his wife, but the album is trash. I defy you to listen to it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCYpqbYYteo&t=11s

it's worse than that, he murdered his wife just to garner critical acclaim
pretty sad and disgusting that anyone would call this a "favorite" album

>>71841354
because its mostly spoken word. i don't mind reading the slow crushing lyrics. but this is barely music.
i can't excuse poor instrumentation even if thats the point

>>71841354

Its not music.

>>71841394
>>71841480
Yikes.

>>71841674
Truth hurts.

>>71841674
why don't you counter the argument bud :)

A+ thread
brings a lot of new ideas to the table
refreshing

>>71841690
>>71841699
the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity

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Its really pretentious spoken word dribble with minimal instrumentation, which would be fine if he actually did anything original or innovative [spoiler alert: he doesnt] Pic related, this is probably what this guy actually thinks throughout his day

>>71841801
how is it pretentious?

>>71841815
Umm the lyrics are preachy self indulgent schlock?

>>71841831
I disagree

Sufjan Stevens did it better

>>71841842
K. To me this entire album seemed like him using his wifes death as an opportunity to try and sound really smart

>>71841858
Because Sufjan has actual lyrical ability and subtlety

>>71841799
boring

its better than the new sun kil moon. Also that is pretentious, this is not.

>>71841868
wanna know how I know you didn't know who he was until this came out

>>71841923
do i need to take a picture of the records i bought from him?
you'll post a picture of yours also right?

>>71841934
if that's what will vindicate you I can't really stop you

I don't see how anyone can say it's pretentious or that he's just trying to sound smart.
I found the lyrics to be extremely blunt/frank, almost uncomfortably so

It's pretty good but musically it's just not that substantial in ideas. The minimalism has no careful execution or planning it's just minimalism in its most basic thoughtless form with barely singy spoken word on top. Nevertheless his vocals carries some nice melodies at times and sometimes the nothing instrumentation actually compliments the vocals.

Definitely being overrated cus muh wife tho.

>>71841978
The pretention is in how unpoetic and basic it is

>>71841273
>>71841801
>>71841831


>Caring this much about the supposed critical merit of what a grieving man has to say

Give it a rest, you can't really hate on a guy from speaking to his true experience. Maybe you don't like what he has to say (or how he says it), but if that's the case, just leave it alone.

>muh nothing original and innovative

But that's not really the point is it? He's was trying to cope with his loss and create a piece dedicated to a passed loved one. I'm sure he was totally thinking about what some neckbeard on 4chan was gonna think about it's greater relevance to music as a whole or some shit.

>sad Kermit reads old livejournal posts while lazily strumming on his guitar: the album

>>71841879
Ye hes good rogue

>>71842066
delete this

>>71842046
Ok, and I should like it why? You basically just admitted its his personal project and theres no reason anyone else should give a shit about it

>>71842863

>I should like it why?

I'm not telling you you should like it.

>You basically just admitted it's his personal project

That's because it is.

>There's no reason anyone else should give a shit about it.

Yeah there isn't, but people do, so I mean, there must be something to it right?

Phil wanted to release a record for his wife. Sure you can nitpick but I just don't see the point in such a personal album being taken apart like that. Either you like it or you don't. No need to shitpost.

>>71841384
I'll nibble at this b8
>he murdered his wife
wut

I can't feel empathy for him because I've never known what it's like to love.

Anyone else?

It's not overrated, it's incredible, you're just approaching it with the wrong criteria. If you don't like it move on

I heard this album yesterday. Last time I listened to ME years ago. But this album hit me hard.

While I can understand somebody can't understand appeal of it. I've lost my father this summer and album really spoke to me. And in it's simplicity, lack of complicated poetry, it's all good. People trying to convice themselves and others that some people are 'pretentious' cause they are trying to express themselves are so over-analyzing, for fucks sake.

>>71843250
not even your family or pets?

>>71843344
mom and dad died no pets

>>71841273
I was banned for saying bad things about this album

>you collapsed on the front steps, i wailed
>i don't think of that dust as you, you are the sunset
>when you get back from wherever it is you've gone, but then i remember death is real
>today our daughter asked "does mama swim?"......... i told her "yes she does ....... & that's probably all she does"
>look at me, death is REAL
>i went back to feel alone there but cradled you in my chest

:'(

Is this more Eerie or more Microphones? Fucking hate the latter, love the former.

>>71841995
>>71841801
>>71841995

how can you lived for however long you've lived and no one has explained to you how painfully dismissive calling something 'pretentious' is

>>71843475
Pretention is a perfectly fine criticism, used when the creator far exceeds their natural ability and fails for such.

>>71843436
more Eerie
[spoiler]Why do you hate the Microphones?[/spoiler]

>>71844084
I hated his reliance on lo-fi to communicate a point. Feels really lazy, whereas Eerie is planned compositions.

Probably boils down to me being a huge fan of Have A Nice Life.

>>71843506
Disagree because people don't even go into the detail on what makes it pretentious. It's mostly used a buzzword and more often than not a valid criticism. And so what if an artwork is pretentious? It's generally supposed to put more importance into mundane things. What seperates the good from the bad lies within the execution, of course.

>>71844203
Oh sure, it's the same affect of saying "Shit." when used lazily. And thus should just be ignored. But pretension is a very real, and very common, fault of all artistes.

Someone make a kickstarter so we can kill Phil's daughter

I want another album

>>71843413
shit, dude

Wow, this thread reminds me why I don't browse mu.

>>71841858
Truth. Emotional impact doesn't mean great music when it's hardly music at all.

>>71844715
Edgy kids invaded every post about Phil sometime a year ago. They used to be comfy but all good things must come to an end I guess