Emperor X - Oversleepers International (May 5, 2017) Album • Page 24

This album is probably going to be the second most obscure thing to make my top ten list for this year. It's so good, he's so underrated it kills me.

 

hope it's out by morning tomorrow (young jesus that is)

wish I saw them more times before leaving LA, kinda regret taking their accessibility for granted. saw them a buncha times till around May 2016, and then again in August of this year, and the growth was unbelievable.

sorry to hijack back to Chad and Ian Cohen and underratedness

 

also re: underratedness

every artist has like a radius of intensity in their audience. the way intensity is distributed from the center outwards and the overall area that spans non-trivial intensity are kinda two different things. I'd like to think that the reasons for Chad's apparent underratedness is that his art skips the surface level social network type of hype, but the people who are meant to connect with it end up doing so, and sharing it with the other people they know who would also understand it. in other words, his total area may not seem as big as you would expect for an artist of his caliber (and to be real, clout) due to sparsity in outer regions but the center's sturdy & fine, tyvm

also like, everybody who likes his music will like his music forever I feel like, unlike most other artists

 

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT THE TITLE TRACK REMINDS ME OF

there's a riff that is reminiscent of "transatlanticism"

 

good bump!

still the aoty

 

it's a really great record

 

20 songbooks back in stock with the next 20 orders

 

Songbooks are really cool btw

 

they are so cool

 

Think this is still in my top 5 of the year. I just really wish the first three songs weren't the first three singles. That always makes it harder for me to listen to a record.

 

i still don't get that response, those are the first three songs you're hearing anyways, haha

 

Yeah, but because i'd been hearing them for awhile, it felt like the actual album didn't start until track 4. It's just a matter of personal preference, but usually i like singles better on an album because the tracks around them provide some context and usually adds new dimensions. That doesn't happen when the singles are released by tracklist, though. The album is still excellent, it just impacts the way i experience the record. Alvvays did the same thing.

Personally, i like the idea from the 50s/60s of having singles that weren't album tracks.

 

i had heard versions of like six or seven songs before the album came out, haha. the three singles plus tanline debris, descendent for riot command, brown recluse, low ion orbit cannon. it does make a first listen very interesting but once the new songs settle in the same way as the old ones

 

on a comp that mineral girls and @nohandstoholdonto helped put out!!!

 

I'm going to spend all my energy for the next several years trying to manifest this event into existence.

also, follow me on twitter, y'all!

 

jesus christ

 

saw a new copy of this in the bargain bin at rough trade for $5. what a deal for those in Brooklyn who haven’t picked up a copy yet.

 

aoty

 

This was #5 for me

 

hey for those of you who have the vinyl, does the ambient noise at the end play forever? jw if that was the purpose of it

 

just saw this

it doesn't, but that was chad's intention when he recorded it. can't remember if he told me it was a pressing issue or they just decided not to

he wanted the digital version to be much much longer too but the label wouldn't let him lol

 

also this is the least i've ever thought about what my aoty should be

 

yeah when I first heard the download i figured the vinyl would have a locked groove and i'm surprised that it doesn't

 

that was one of the first things i asked chad about when i was driving him to the bus after the first show i did with him this year, hah.

he also purposely made sure that the song length was 11:11 on the digital

 

are locked grooves more expensive? Bc I can see that being an issue for them

yeah the mineral girls album is rly gr8