New PLAID album - incoming

  On 6/19/2016 at 1:08 PM, usagi said:

Clock is classic Plaid. lovely.

Yep, my favorite track on that album. Yu Mountain comes in second for me.

Further Hands is on Bleep now.

Only track I like is Elevator - which I now realise they were playing during live sets in 2014.

Odic is maybe the worst thing I've ever heard from them. The rest is meh. Not impressed.

If you're a completist, you'll want this EP but I don't care to hear it again.

They played Ooyu & RAB at Futureeverything back in 2010 so glad I finally have them, Odica is absolute genius and this EP tagged onto the album along with Nulls makes a really great set.

  On 6/20/2016 at 8:15 PM, Bread said:

The more I listen to this album the more I think of how lazy it sounds. I just know that Plaid are highly skilled and capable of pulling off some really impressive music which develops and evolves but Digging Remedy is not meeting those typical standards.

 

Their recent output pre-Digging Remedy was simply flawless

Scintilli - lots of complex patterns overlapping in a unique way that only Plaid can pull off so well. Consistent sound palette that doesn't meander too much. Lush epic tracks like founded, at last and upgrade.

Reachy Prints - the majority of the tracks go to new places and evolve really well. Again, epic tracks like Nafovanny, Wallet and Ropen. Really clear example of lots of effort and thought put into the release overall.

 

But then when I listen to Digging Remedy, I get lots of tracks with very simplistic structures, simplistic patterns, with little to no evolution (exceptions in my mind are CLOCK and Melifer)

I started having similar reactions to digging remedy after a dozen listens or so. A number of the tracks seem to start and build wonderful plaid atmospheres, and then just seem to peter out & end where usually there would be some kind of crescendo. Yesterday, during a chill countryside drive, when a play through of digging remedy ended, I immediately put in reachy prints(which I hadn't listened to in over a month, but have heard hundreds of times). The first 30 seconds of the opener, Oh, was already more interesting and immersive than the entirety of digging remedy. And I wonder if the plaid boys have similar feelings. It's probably a pretty unfair comparison by me. Reachy Prints is a fucking phenomenal album. Perhaps digging remedy is more of a collage of ideas.

  On 7/28/2016 at 3:49 PM, cloud capture said:

 

  On 6/20/2016 at 8:15 PM, Bread said:

The more I listen to this album the more I think of how lazy it sounds. I just know that Plaid are highly skilled and capable of pulling off some really impressive music which develops and evolves but Digging Remedy is not meeting those typical standards.

 

Their recent output pre-Digging Remedy was simply flawless

Scintilli - lots of complex patterns overlapping in a unique way that only Plaid can pull off so well. Consistent sound palette that doesn't meander too much. Lush epic tracks like founded, at last and upgrade.

Reachy Prints - the majority of the tracks go to new places and evolve really well. Again, epic tracks like Nafovanny, Wallet and Ropen. Really clear example of lots of effort and thought put into the release overall.

 

But then when I listen to Digging Remedy, I get lots of tracks with very simplistic structures, simplistic patterns, with little to no evolution (exceptions in my mind are CLOCK and Melifer)

I started having similar reactions to digging remedy after a dozen listens or so. A number of the tracks seem to start and build wonderful plaid atmospheres, and then just seem to peter out & end where usually there would be some kind of crescendo. Yesterday, during a chill countryside drive, when a play through of digging remedy ended, I immediately put in reachy prints(which I hadn't listened to in over a month, but have heard hundreds of times). The first 30 seconds of the opener, Oh, was already more interesting and immersive than the entirety of digging remedy. And I wonder if the plaid boys have similar feelings. It's probably a pretty unfair comparison by me. Reachy Prints is a fucking phenomenal album. Perhaps digging remedy is more of a collage of ideas.

 

Wow, finally someone that agrees!

baby step giant step is one of my fav plaid tracks ever!

  On 12/19/2016 at 5:18 PM, dr lopez said:

baby step giant step is one of my fav plaid tracks ever!

def the highlight on the album for me, tho thought I was alone on that one.

It's a quiet album against the rest of their work but I keep returning to it, I don't find it boring or half-baked- I enjoy it for being a gentler thing. If their next work is a sharper, more layered album that maybe more fans have come to expect, it may also foster more fondness for this one. Not my favorite but love it just the same.

Man, I can't wait for the new Plaid album, awesome!

From the latest littlebig mail out:

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New beat driven dance floor album ‘Polymer’ forthcoming Spring 2019 on Warp Records with new motion tracking and mapping live AV show. get in touch to be added to promo list once available.

excite

  On 1/20/2019 at 12:46 PM, fletcher said:

From the latest littlebig mail out:

 

 

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New beat driven dance floor album ‘Polymer’ forthcoming Spring 2019 on Warp Records with new motion tracking and mapping live AV show. get in touch to be added to promo list once available.

excite

Oooh yeaaaah.

finally a tiny taste of news, hopefully the album is out by April or so..

  On 7/28/2016 at 7:36 PM, Bread said:

 

  On 7/28/2016 at 3:49 PM, cloud capture said:

 

  On 6/20/2016 at 8:15 PM, Bread said:

The more I listen to this album the more I think of how lazy it sounds. I just know that Plaid are highly skilled and capable of pulling off some really impressive music which develops and evolves but Digging Remedy is not meeting those typical standards.

 

Their recent output pre-Digging Remedy was simply flawless

Scintilli - lots of complex patterns overlapping in a unique way that only Plaid can pull off so well. Consistent sound palette that doesn't meander too much. Lush epic tracks like founded, at last and upgrade.

Reachy Prints - the majority of the tracks go to new places and evolve really well. Again, epic tracks like Nafovanny, Wallet and Ropen. Really clear example of lots of effort and thought put into the release overall.

 

But then when I listen to Digging Remedy, I get lots of tracks with very simplistic structures, simplistic patterns, with little to no evolution (exceptions in my mind are CLOCK and Melifer)

I started having similar reactions to digging remedy after a dozen listens or so.  A number of the tracks seem to start and build wonderful plaid atmospheres, and then just seem to peter out & end where usually there would be some kind of crescendo.  Yesterday, during a chill countryside drive, when a play through of digging remedy ended, I immediately put in reachy prints(which I hadn't listened to in over a month, but have heard hundreds of times).  The first 30 seconds of the opener, Oh, was already more interesting and immersive than the entirety of digging remedy.  And I wonder if the plaid boys have similar feelings.  It's probably a pretty unfair comparison by me.  Reachy Prints is a fucking phenomenal album.  Perhaps digging remedy is more of a collage of ideas.

 

Wow, finally someone that agrees!

 

Agree, Scintilli and Reachy were both outstanding, I play them a lot more than Digging Remedy, it just didn't seem quite as imaginative

Honestly I haven't been impressed with anything they've done since P Brane. Mbuki Mvuki is my fucking jam though, best spring cleaning music ever.

  On 1/30/2019 at 5:46 AM, sweepstakes said:

Honestly I haven't been impressed with anything they've done since P Brane. Mbuki Mvuki is my fucking jam though, best spring cleaning music ever.

I thought the Tekkonkinkreet OST and Heaven's Door OST were really great. I also enjoyed Scintilli. The last two were not bad but felt like Plaid-lite to me - kind of rushed and short. Curious what this new one will sound like.

its Feb and still no press release, they must have pushed it back to May or something..

really, really hoping Kindling is on this album. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tKXGXzp2w

i really hope this unknown is on an EP released 3 weeks after the album drops 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaU5pv4HMQ&list=PL5ACF4A8F9BE13436&index=20&t=0s

And here it is...
 

new single 'Maru' and a bonus 'Recall' are ready to stream now... album out 7th June

https://plaid.ffm.to/maru-recall

Also if you fancy playing around with Maru...

http://pppolymer.net/Maru/index.html

https://bleep.com/release/128327-plaid-polymer

Belter!

yes

YES!

  On 4/3/2019 at 6:04 PM, getdizzzy said:

i really hope this unknown is on an EP released 3 weeks after the album drops
 

yeah this one live was the bomb

This new track "Los" is fucking awesome. Probably my favorite of the new ones.