Actress - Ghettoville

oh man why is your font getting incrementally bigger it's like your point is becoming gradually more powerful as you say it and the words ring true i am phil sherburne!

only some of the tracks are in mono, right? or is my mind playing tricks on me like geto boys? geto boys ghettoville lol

anyway, I like the album so far. it's not as immediately transcendent like r.i.p, but then some of his best tracks have taken a while to sink in and infect my brain.

I listen to it on my JBL Micro, so it's all mono 2 me.

Nothing has hit me like Ascending yet, but I'll give it time.

rims, image, and rap have got to be in stereo, at least.

The snare hit in rims has a stereo reverb, there seems to be a tiny amount stereo reverb on image when the "lead synth" comes in. Rap is stereo all the way. You're not hearing things.

Stereo is for pussies.

This is mono seriously? Didn't notice at all

Love this so much & afraid that this is Actress' last one

Might be the last from Actress but pretty sure it won’t be last we hear from Darren Cunningham. Be interested to see what he does next and if he really does retire the Actress moniker

Only had 1 listen to this but first impressions were very good and makes sense as a squeal to Hazyville, follows a similar theme but took to its logical conclusion.. Not sure if it will surpass RIP as my fav by him tho, will have to listen more and see!

  On 1/27/2014 at 11:42 PM, vamos scorcho said:

Eh, it's kind of stupid to compare a vaporwave album with tech house minimal ambient

 

Totally different

Is Actress Vaporwave!?

"Rap" is definitely vaporwave, just put through Actress' trademark grain filter.

I don't think this one is up to the standard of the others… hope Hazyville gets a vinyl release on its own (I've heard it's going to)

I don't buy this "logical conclusion" business. There is much more that could be done.

this is so rhythmically uninteresting


#imtryingsohardtolikeit

Ride the bus through sprawling suburbia and be the only white person on the bus while streaming this from NPR. You will feel it then.

  On 1/28/2014 at 9:59 PM, koner said:

I don't think this one is up to the standard of the others… hope Hazyville gets a vinyl release on its own (I've heard it's going to)

I think I remember reading Hazyville's getting a standalone CD repress at least, not sure where I got that from. It's up for pre-order on Amazon UK but with a release date of December 31, 2014.

Here are my thoughts. It seems weak in comparison to his other releases. If the whole album were as good as "Birdcage" or "Our" it would be an 9/10 album. "Birdcage" is really blowing my mind at moment. The concept of the album doesn't feel overt. RIP is still my favorite album by old mate Actress.

  On 1/29/2014 at 6:09 PM, digman said:

Here are my thoughts. It seems weak in comparison to his other releases. If the whole album were as good as "Birdcage" or "Our" it would be an 9/10 album. "Birdcage" is really blowing my mind at moment. The concept of the album doesn't feel overt. RIP is still my favorite album by old mate Actress.

mmyes, i very much agree

My most listend track at the moment is Forgiven. I also like Rims, that funny whistle sound, and Street Corp with the subdued bass and melody. Corner is cool too.

The fact that he found old music and sampled it cheapens it somehow for me though, but I like the aesthetic. Basically mood loops with good defined noisy sound. Not sure it works as a whole album for me, I like the first few tracks the most

i like rap because it's vaporwave

me too. i was pretty happy when I heard that track. i welcome another 5 years of vapollution...

how did anthony not like r.i.p, but he gets into ghettoville so easily? he should definitely revisit it.

Gave this a first 'proper' listen yesterday, I had to turn it up pretty loud to get anything out of it and even then not much was going on. I don't mind emptiness per se but this seemed boring, like it took half the album for something other than silly noises to even happen. I'm going to keep on listening to this for a while but if I hadn't already bought it I'd have probably given up at this point.

  On 1/30/2014 at 7:44 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

how did anthony not like r.i.p, but he gets into ghettoville so easily? he should definitely revisit it.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I love Fantano but I can't even. Can't

I like it more than R.I.P.

I didn't even like R.I.P. that much. Splazsh is still my favorite by him.

yeah actress is reaaaaaaallllly far up his own ass. what with the "rip music 2014" bullshit... so lame