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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 20:10:30 GMT
You need more quotation marks, let me help you: """""article""""". I like the name "hyper-real pop", though.
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Post by ignatz on Nov 3, 2015 22:38:07 GMT
Best PC Music release since "Deep Trouble". I'd say IDL was pretty massive. It was and Snow Globe was a major grower for me as well... but this is streets ahead
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Post by champiness on Nov 4, 2015 0:26:59 GMT
I'd say IDL was pretty massive. It was and Snow Globe was a major grower for me as well... but this is streets ahead "Snow Globe" seems like a real precedent for this, actually (and not just because the "Hi" video has some glowstick hearts in the style of the stars from the "Snow Globe" cover). Obviously it's a really knotty composition but like I was saying about the chord change in "Hi" it pulls a lot of tricks that just haven't been in the pop vocabulary for awhile... I think at the time I compared it to something from a musical, for the way it followed more of a narrative arc than a musical one, but the truth of it is that once upon a time those songwriting techniques were a perfectly acceptable route to popular success (listen for instance to Nat "King" Cole's 1957 UK chart-topper Love Is The Thing, where the music's often content to drift off into string fantasias after a single verse and chorus, or for that matter the spate of Original Cast Recordings of musicals that surrounded it at the dawn of the albums chart). PC Music may be all about doing weird things to pop, but their definition of "pop" is startlingly broad. I really get the sense that those 4 months of swapping albums from across the decades on the Thy Slaughter messageboard rubbed off on A.G. and co, in the best way. Oh, and as long as I'm back here in the thread, I'd like to redress my previous error of not bringing up Hannah's "press tour" runway walk sequence in the video, which is just stunning both visually and thematically. If this is what big-budget PC Music looks like then I'm in even further than I was already.
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Post by Dvnots on Nov 4, 2015 2:34:56 GMT
It was and Snow Globe was a major grower for me as well... but this is streets ahead "Snow Globe" seems like a real precedent for this, actually (and not just because the "Hi" video has some glowstick hearts in the style of the stars from the "Snow Globe" cover). Obviously it's a really knotty composition but like I was saying about the chord change in "Hi" it pulls a lot of tricks that just haven't been in the pop vocabulary for awhile... I think at the time I compared it to something from a musical, for the way it followed more of a narrative arc than a musical one, but the truth of it is that once upon a time those songwriting techniques were a perfectly acceptable route to popular success (listen for instance to Nat "King" Cole's 1957 UK chart-topper Love Is The Thing, where the music's often content to drift off into string fantasias after a single verse and chorus, or for that matter the spate of Original Cast Recordings of musicals that surrounded it at the dawn of the albums chart). PC Music may be all about doing weird things to pop, but their definition of "pop" is startlingly broad. I really get the sense that those 4 months of swapping albums from across the decades on the Thy Slaughter messageboard rubbed off on A.G. and co, in the best way. Oh, and as long as I'm back here in the thread, I'd like to redress my previous error of not bringing up Hannah's "press tour" runway walk sequence in the video, which is just stunning both visually and thematically. If this is what big-budget PC Music looks like then I'm in even further than I was already. Funny thing about that forum is that there are two active members (cookiekeys and tituspetro). Cookiekeys is AG, as on the basic profile info, it stated his birthday is the same as AG's. Tituspetro has his basic info hidden, but titus petronius was a Roman writer, keeping with the whole "medieval" thing with Thy Slaughter.\ Edit: Titus shares Nu New Edition's love of New Edition, so maybe whoever is behind Nu New Edition is the other member of Thy Slaughter.
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Post by 404error on Nov 4, 2015 4:49:49 GMT
I came back from my forum hiatus just to say that I've listened to this song at least 100 times since yesterday. I am so intensely excited for the day her album is released. From Hi to 123 HD to that little snippet of a song heard in the Pop Cube Trailer 1... this has potential to be my album of the year for sure.
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Post by ahmicunt on Nov 4, 2015 5:47:04 GMT
I always thought that Hannah Diamond's past releases and a lot of other a.g.cook's productions have audio image stronger on the left side, but with "Hi" I can hear from the centre. Has anyone else noticed that?
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Post by oc on Nov 4, 2015 11:11:36 GMT
Just going on from what ¬ said from very recent experience Proboards are shit hot on shutting whole forums down with virtually no notice and very little sympathy if they are reported for violating terms of service. It may be prudent to take down any offending links we currently have as all it takes is one person notifying them.
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Post by youknownow on Nov 4, 2015 13:43:07 GMT
Just going on from what ¬ said from very recent experience Proboards are shit hot on shutting whole forums down with virtually no notice and very little sympathy if they are reported for violating terms of service. It may be prudent to take down any offending links we currently have as all it takes is one person notifying them. this is very true. a lot of forums will be shut very easily for publicly displaying links like these
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Post by ♀ venus ♀ on Nov 5, 2015 11:18:11 GMT
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Post by mylo on Nov 5, 2015 16:01:52 GMT
Based on her i-D interview, the album sounds like its still a few months away
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 8:18:50 GMT
Based on her i-D interview, the album sounds like its still a few months away Yeah...30 demos to decide from...at least it means they are doing serious quality control on this ! On another note- the final chorus, where it repeats twice and she doesn't actually sing "hi" but says it after the second build- what does she say after the first? sounds like "wasting time" but the vocals seems to drop out a bit at that point (2:57)
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Post by dr on Nov 6, 2015 13:23:19 GMT
Based on her i-D interview, the album sounds like its still a few months away Yeah...30 demos to decide from...at least it means they are doing serious quality control on this ! On another note- the final chorus, where it repeats twice and she doesn't actually sing "hi" but says it after the second build- what does she say after the first? sounds like "wasting time" but the vocals seems to drop out a bit at that point (2:57) pretty sure it's wasting time I get chills every time that part hits. chills throughout the song, actually, but that detail just redoubles the chillage. every damn time
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Post by popcorn on Nov 8, 2015 8:10:35 GMT
I am obsessed with her. The images she creates are heavenly. I can't wait for her debut LP.
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Post by austinjamesrobinson on Nov 8, 2015 9:16:18 GMT
Still not on U.S. iTunes/Spotify, what gives? Maybe it has something to do with the Columbia deal but I thought "Hi" was an independent release (the record label for the track on UK iTunes is listed as "PC Music"). So I know PC004 (Forever) was released with Columbia. But PC003 (Hi) wasn't. Does this mean that every song beyond PC003 will be released with Columbia? Or is there really any way to know this? If they're working with Columbia, but were able to release a song independently, are they able to just pick willy-nilly which songs they can release under Columbia? Sorry, I don't know much about record labels, but I just found it odd that they are still releasing things independently aside from Columbia. Also, super confused about the deal with Columbia anyway.
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Post by ¬ on Nov 8, 2015 9:28:17 GMT
Still not on U.S. iTunes/Spotify, what gives? Maybe it has something to do with the Columbia deal but I thought "Hi" was an independent release (the record label for the track on UK iTunes is listed as "PC Music"). So I know PC004 (Forever) was released with Columbia. But PC003 (Hi) wasn't. Does this mean that every song beyond PC003 will be released with Columbia? Or is there really any way to know this? If they're working with Columbia, but were able to release a song independently, are they able to just pick willy-nilly which songs they can release under Columbia? Sorry, I don't know much about record labels, but I just found it odd that they are still releasing things independently aside from Columbia. Also, super confused about the deal with Columbia anyway. According to Amazon, 'Hi' was released with Columbia, along with Forever and presumably the Broken Flowers EP www.amazon.co.uk/Hi/dp/B017AEPM4M/ - I'm not sure why Columbia aren#t more public about it tho It's an interesting choice to release the "lead single" before the album actually seems to be nearing completion, (I was expecting them to be announced at the same time for buzz) but appreciated I guess
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