Actress - Ghettoville

nah RULE

His music bores me to tears. Bearing in mind a long, long time ago I said that about BoC and SAWII lol.

As soon as I press play I'm looking for an excuse to press skip. Having said that I love N.E.W off his last album. This dude remains an enigma to me....

I keep coming back to this album, it's a grower! My favorite track is 'Corner' which a good track to lurk, creep and trudge to. Other faves are 'Birdcage', 'Our', 'Image' & 'Rule' - so I guess I prefer the ones that have nostalgically twisted melodies above the simpler distorted techno tracks.. but I enjoy it all the way through anyway.

  On 2/18/2014 at 7:27 PM, kirm said:

Them Ghettoville tracks on 45 sound a bit weird to my ears but think it’s just cause I’ve listened to it so much at normal speed!

 

Interesting though and they do kinda work at that speed but I prefer the slow sludgy feel of the originals.

the originals are likely the faster versions. i'm pretty sure he slowed every single track down by 20% or so before calling it.

this album would be much better without first 5 tracks

no

  On 5/23/2014 at 10:13 PM, sheatheman said:

no

yeah, right! ...like you know music :p

This album is just not very good. Nice moments but who really cares

  On 5/25/2014 at 5:15 PM, dr lopez said:

This album is just not very good. Nice moments but who really cares

  On 5/25/2014 at 5:15 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 5/25/2014 at 5:15 PM, dr lopez said:

This album is just very good. Nice moments but who not really cares

 

Shame on you, this album is really mediocre and you fall for hype. I don't care for it with my heart.

oh shit

who cares about the frequency range?

It's just nothing special.

That, and getting toasted. Nicely toasted.

Seriously though this is actress at his most blunted, crunked-out lo-fi and as such requires a certain mindset going in to appreciate. Feels like a natural progression from Splazsh & RIP (both excellent in their own right, as was Hazyville) but that's just like my opinion man

Alco forgot the 'imho tbh' at the end of his post it seems.

We all have ears. If people dislike something why shouldn't they be allowed to comment on it? On a music forum of all places.

Edit: imo tbh

  On 5/27/2014 at 2:09 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

it's not the disliking it that bothers me its the assuming that your opinion is a fact that does

 

or, given that I should be aware that each post is an opinion, it's the sheer arrogance of asserting something as crap when I don't think people have the right credentials to do so. it is more appropriate to say 'I don't like this and here's why'

Maybe it's you who's assuming such things. Facts are presented in a specific way and "this is crap" very rarely hits the spot, as well as other basic expressions, it's metaphorical language from the start. It doesn't even mean that you don't like something, the same way some people tend to like "sick" and "bad" things. There are no right credentials to use it, if you are bothered so much by a stranger's use of words, then it's your duty to ask him why he thinks so to make conclusions. Above you've written his opinion off right away with "who the fuck are you" attitude, which is no less arrogant, given that music producers and critics are crap 90% ot time and having such credentials means nothing.

this is a forum where people discuss music. no credentials are required. it's cool.

that's cool dude, I don't mean to be flippant and snobbish and totally understand your frustration.

I should be more careful with my dismissive comments tbh. It's hard to express dislike for an album without coming across like a dick.

*posts credentials*

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fw4gYWkXgo

If you watch this whole video, many if you will understand the conundrum of liking/not liking this album.

Yeah as opposed to actress himself saying "Xenakis is boring, move on" like how is that not dismissive and flippant?? ILL HAVE U KNOW Xenakis had more creativity in his fingernail than actress has in his entire body!

The respect also comes from the attitude of the artists themselves. If they carry themselves like a twat, I'm more inclined to snap back (on an obscure music forum)

^troof

Actress sets the tone for discussion of his music, and he's less than gracious toward other artists.

  On 5/29/2014 at 6:33 AM, Candiru said:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fw4gYWkXgo

 

If you watch this whole video, many if you will understand the conundrum of liking/not liking this album.

jesus christ what is this?

also what does that have to do with thinking actress is good or not