Clark - Body Riddle

  a.w eetbix said:

this really isnt a very great album and it certainly doesnt propel him amongst warp greats he couldnt be further.

agreed

i've heard it a few times now. i like it, but i think i like empty the bones of you better. there are 4 or 5 really amazing tracks on this new album but just not enough corkage all the way through

it's an entirely different style though ... more like musique concrete-ish, neo-classical, something like that. the hardcore bangin' tracks were relegated to the EPs; i like the new direction

the goofy shit (like roulette thrift run) on it reminds me too much of other goofy, kinda kitschy shit, like matmos

bob dedication is probably my favorite electronic track of the year

that and mother mcknight

not that he ever has, but on body riddle he seemed to make a conscious decision to shy away from flashy glitches and focus more on mood and atmosphere.

i too approve of the new direction.

I've been disappointed with electronics lately. Thought that Body Riddle would turn things around but unfortunately no..

  bfs said:

not that he ever has, but on body riddle he seemed to make a conscious decision to shy away from flashy glitches and focus more on mood and atmosphere.

 

i too approve of the new direction.

yeah yeah music is rotted one note *yawn*

nah i like it, just like i like music is rotted one note. but . . . i dont find myself pumped up all the time to put the record in like say, if it was drukqs or something when it first came out

  absolu said:

I've been disappointed with electronics lately.

that's because 'experimental' electronic music has become anything but experimental. too many people with laptops try to sound like the warp roster instead of carving out their own niche. personally, i'm much more excited about electronics as they occur within the sphere of a band, ie: animal collective, fly pan am, grizzly bear, ooioo, mum, phon, xiu xiu, etc.

  Fred McGriff said:

bob dedication is probably my favorite electronic track of the year

if one were to make a properly sequenced album out of throttle clarence and throttle furniture (five medium-length tracks, eight shorter tracks), the album would be slightly better than body riddle, i think

i would argue it would be fucking brilliant

though it's hard to deny the cohesive flow and mood of the main disc. i'm pretty happy with each standing alone and i can see why they do so.

but with some work, clark could've made a corker single disc out of the two with more songs standing on their own and having immediate appeal.

but i guess it wouldn't be a thinkin' man's record like body riddle is

*strokes chin*

right, both albums (the album and the 'album') would be really really good. 'body riddle' seems to get better every time i hear it; i can't recall a time when my opinion has changed so much about a CD. when i first heard it, i was really disappointed that it wasn't as catchy/electronic music-ish as ETBOY, but, that's just silly

JESUS CHRIST THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING

I have been listening to it so much lately. It is so densely layered, every time I hear it it is like an epiphany. No wonder, with a track like "Matthew Unburdened" which basically is the soundtrack to a huge mental baggage-loss. The album leaves me stunned every time, especially with the force that "The Autumnal Crush" leaves on.

This album sounds like electrified regurgitated jazz...by the way...that "free jazz sax solo" on Roulette Thrift Run is actually the sound of a door creaking!! When I first discovered this it was a mind fuck!!!

i would love the autumnal crush, but he blows his load too quick in that one. sick first few minutes, kinda builds up then just kind of fizzles out after that

  olson said:

i would love the autumnal crush, but he blows his load too quick in that one. sick first few minutes, kinda builds up then just kind of fizzles out after that

Yeah, I rarely have enough patience to listen to the whole track... Everything happens in the first few minutes only.

Yeah, in the first few minutes only. :angry:

y'know what's cool?

someone told me that what i always thought of as 'crazy free jazz sax solo' on roulette thrift run - easily my favourite track on the album - is actually a slowed down sample of a creaky hinge.

  kaini said:

y'know what's cool?

 

someone told me that what i always thought of as 'crazy free jazz sax solo' on roulette thrift run - easily my favourite track on the album - is actually a slowed down sample of a creaky hinge.

U should check out pierre henry he has done some great works with just a door in the 1950s.

  kaini said:

y'know what's cool?

 

someone told me that what i always thought of as 'crazy free jazz sax solo' on roulette thrift run - easily my favourite track on the album - is actually a slowed down sample of a creaky hinge.

it always sounded like a creaky hinge to me. but then, I listen to quite a lot of free jazz.

  nene multiple assgasms said:

it always sounded like a creaky hinge to me.

fun stuff :)

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I love this album to death. With that idiom in mind, It single-handedly prevented my suicide in high school. Bit of a personal thing to be putting out there on the webs, but I need to put it out there nonetheless. The Autumnal Crush...

I agree. Best electronic album ever.

I mean, ONE of the best :p

  On 5/17/2014 at 6:41 AM, totemcrackerjack said:

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I love this album to death. With that idiom in mind, It single-handedly prevented my suicide in high school. Bit of a personal thing to be putting out there on the webs, but I need to put it out there nonetheless. The Autumnal Crush...

and i still miss .. you.