I’ve been looking forward to your thoughts on the White+ album! I share your sense of it as a compilation (an impression supported by the duo referring to it as an audio record of a period of time). The one unifying factor, I guess, is that it’s easy to envision practically all of it going really hard live in an amped-up dance club. There’s something appealing about the drums on this one — it feels physical and organic, compared to the previous album’s bloopy mind candy. I do think I prefer the more ambient tracks to the ones that could be an evolution of You Can Listen-era Carsick Cars. (As an aside, my first reaction to “Tarantism” was that it came off an alternate-universe Orbus Terrarum with rock percussion swapped in for house beats.... Maybe it’d be better sprinkled with weird, chopped-up samples?)
I want this on a t-shirt: “I reserve the right to completely change my mind about it once I’ve listened to it more.”
I’ve been looking forward to your thoughts on the White+ album! I share your sense of it as a compilation (an impression supported by the duo referring to it as an audio record of a period of time). The one unifying factor, I guess, is that it’s easy to envision practically all of it going really hard live in an amped-up dance club. There’s something appealing about the drums on this one — it feels physical and organic, compared to the previous album’s bloopy mind candy. I do think I prefer the more ambient tracks to the ones that could be an evolution of You Can Listen-era Carsick Cars. (As an aside, my first reaction to “Tarantism” was that it came off an alternate-universe Orbus Terrarum with rock percussion swapped in for house beats.... Maybe it’d be better sprinkled with weird, chopped-up samples?)