Thread 126829796

ITT, we let go of our musical bluepills. For me, I think I'm ready to admit that Death Grips has aged like fucking milk. They sound very lame and forced to me now.

>>126829796 (OP)
Took the words right out of my mouth OP.

Personally... everything by GSY!BE sounds like garbage now. I can get better post-rock from Swans or Radiohead & better electro-acoustic from literally anywhere from John Cage to Stockhausen. Skinny Fists in psrticular is so fucking bad - the crescendos genuinely make me cringe

>>126829796 (OP)
funny I had the exact opposite reaction listening through Exmilitary and The Money Store again today after a long hiatus and they're still incredible.
I'm as impressed by them now as I was 12 years ago when I first got into them

>>126830945
Exmilitary is their only album that still holds up. Money Store sounds extremely dated.

>>126830945
In retrospect Andy & Zach were the best parts of the project - Ride's lyrics are really tryhard and take away from what could have been a really good experimental electronic duo

>>126830945
Exmilitary made alot more sense to me as an adult then it did when i first heard it as a teen
Year of the snitch aged pretty well too

>>126831298
Andy has never been a producer, it's Zach making the instrumentals. Also there's no Death Grips without Ride on the vocals, I don't really care about the lyrics, I never really do. The esoteric weird shit fits the sound and I've never felt a need to dig deeper into them, his voice as another texture to the sound is vital to the band.

Death Grips are a fine band and most of their songs are good. I have my grievances with their later work but saying it aged like milk seems disingenuous.

>>126829796 (OP)
i've finally started coming to terms with the embarrassing fact that i fell for the "rap is ackchually music" meme of the late 2010s

>>126829796 (OP)
The Channel Awesome of hip hop

Talking Heads and Pavement are two of the most over-mythologized bands ever. Both had dozens of contemporaries doing better versions of a similar sound.

>>126832397
Channel Awesome are good though

NOTM is one of the greatest records ever conceived and still sounds lightyears ahead of anything else ever made, but Jenny Death on the other hand is a fkn dated ass mess and sounds like shit.

>>126832865
Voila is such a cool track when you realize its basically Zach doing math rock, the way the percussion is layered and how the samples flow into each other, like how the hi-hats will transition into Bjork samples, and how Ride's "OH OH OH OH OH OH" is layered along the kickdrum

entire track is drum porn

The Powers That B is still a solid album, a perfect cohesive piece that flows like a river.

>>126830817
This was a favourite band in the very early 00s. I didn't know them when LYSF was new, but pretty shortly afterward. I bought Yanqui new on CD (and was somewhat disappointed). It didn't take long into the 00s before that sound fully exhausted itself - basically 9/11 killed it, but not right away - and Silver Mt. Zion definitely didn't do much to help (This Is Our Punk Rock was the end of the line for me). The effect of this band at the time was somewhat profound but it was definitely helped by a general atmosphere and scene. Today, I fully agree with you - but I don't think the music has changed at all. It is what it always was but there is just nothing there anymore to support its pathos. I see no reason at all to listen to any of it, to listen to their new music (which I tried to do in 2012 when they came back - a bad move - and was turned away again), or to see them play live. Post rock in general is done, but GYBE especially are dead and buried forever. (But I grant if you weren't there, it may have some value for you.)

>>126833488
>band drops Government Plates out of nowhere
>refuse to refer to it as an album or ep
>its not all that well received by the fanbase
>they drop notm which shares the same production style as GP
>announce its part of a double album
>the second disc releases a year later
>it sounds literally nothing like the first
>disc 2 on a double album is their longest album yet
Nobody can convince me notm and jd are connected in any way. GP and NOTM was originally going to be the double album and the label either made them change it or DG themselves did it as an excuse to get funding for JD.

>GP begins with a house being broken into (Window getting smashed)
>NOTM begins with house alarm being turned on (DOORS AND WINDOWS ON, MOTIONS ON BEEP BEEP BEEP)

>>126829796 (OP)
I flip-flop on them every year.