Stars of the Lid Thread

>>72692292
Stars are dope, check out A Winged Victory For The Sullen too it's Adam with a pianist

and their refinement is their best album

>>72692292
>>72692428

Got me through college studies

>>72692428
also this yeah

>>72692292
yeah that's a classic of the genre OP, glad you gave it a listen. seconding A winged victory for the sullen's self-titled

what's your favorite tired sounds track/s? Austin Texas Mental Hospital for me

From a review I wrote:

Music is supposed to be one or more of these things: emotional, interesting, energetic, relaxing, impressive, textured, groovy(for lack of a better word), psychedelic, and many more. This album is scarcely any of those (or anything else).

It surprises me that so much of The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid does absolutely nothing for me. Yes, there are a few beautiful pieces here, such as Requiem for Dying Mothers part 1, Gasfarming and Piano Acquieu, but the overwhelming majority of this album is, well, underwhelming. And it's not because it's ambient music, there's plenty of interesting ambient out there, but this not usually interesting. It's not particularly relaxing, either. It rarely has any sort of mood or aesthetic.

Brian Eno claimed the goal of ambient music is to create music "as interesting as it is ignorable," so at least The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid got the "ignorable" part right. As is the case with so many of these kinds of albums, there's an outstanding album that's just 40 minutes long somewhere in here. You just have to trim out the fat.

2.5/5

>>72692631
you said next to nothing here beyond your arbitrary definition of what music "should" be (red flag for amateur music reviewer) and that you didn't like the album

good job

>>72692631
>not relaxing, emotional, textured
Did you even listen to it?
Also you really defined music?

>>72692631
nice b8

>>72692631
this gave me a hernia

>>72692678
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>>72692901
>>72692955
I'm sorry

>>72692970
it's ok

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>>72692970
>>72692631
>but the overwhelming majority of this album is, well, underwhelming
>so at least The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid got the "ignorable" part right

The only reason this is so hard to read is that you're attempting to come across as aloof. Cut out the jokes and be more specific.

>textured, groovy(for lack of a better word), psychedelic, and many more
>and many more
This is a phrase you should never use again.