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I remember MK Ultra being called the new PIB back in the day.
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No one cares about duplicate posts here. Just post your favourite performances!
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This was an interview from 2015 that I had trouble finding back in the day and just rediscovered on apple music. So ofc I ripped it and here are the parts where Matt actually speaks (Don't expect any more detail than Matt has given in the past though)
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Going back to a much earlier post btw, but when did the title Blockade become known? First I’d heard of that one when I saw your post
Beats interview earlier this week (or was it last week?).
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Yes. But that's not what we're talking about. Why do you think I've put emphasis on "new" like 5 times? This was the question that you replied to:
What makes it "new"? Compared to just retrowave -
But it’s literally just the name of the label. They don’t even call it New Retrowave themselves.It's a thing because it is a record label but either you call it Retrowave or New Retrowave, no difference.I see where they come from.
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So you agree that “New” Retrowave isn’t a thing?
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But isn’t that exactly what’s Retrowave is?
When I google your description I get the exact same sentence to describe “Retrowave”. http://synthwave.wikia.com/wiki/Retrowave
NewRetroWave seems to simply be a label that releases Retrowave music. They themselves even describe it as Retrowave without the “new”. https://newretrowave.com
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Stop lying.I'm glad you guys all enjoy it -
And regarding the previous discussion: This album felt a lot like T2L 2.0 to me, but honestly I feel like these songs are connected through soundscape a lot more than T2L. They all have clear 80s influences and a focus on synth (or synth-like) melodies. By the sounds of it at least two more tracks will follow this theme, and even that is enough to have a more coherent album than T2L.
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Btw since people were doing it before:
1. Something Human
2. Thought Contagion
3. Dig Down
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Yeah or at least that their focus was on 3-4 minutes tracks. Might be one or two exceptions.Iirc Matt specifically said in an interview a few months ago that there were no 5/6+ minute songs and no prog. -
Yeah especially the last two. Straight up saying it sounds like New Born? Jesus. So far this album has been very promising in terms of trying new things and not just doing Muse by numbers, but at least 3 songs sound like Muse almost intentionally copied themselves. Oh well, we'll see how it turns out. I'll probably end up loving at least one of them.
Btw I can't remember the exact wording but I think he was talking about "ideas" rather than actual melodies.
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If you think Radiohead are actively going for inaccessibility, you’re pretentiously mistaken.Sad to see Muse trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator of modern pop music. Radiohead goes in the other direction, making their music even more complex and inaccessible. -
random instagram fan with a short attention span: "Where's the rock?"
Matt's reply: "it's coming. Next track. Let us chill out for a second lol"
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Okay my turn for why it’s good:
When we first saw the promo pictures for this ‘era’ I was excited the band might finally pull a Paramore and fully embrace a real pop album. Dig Down and Thought Contagion disappointed me in that sense, moreso than quality, ‘cos they just felt like retreads of past Muse stuff. I can’t compare this to any past songs. Maybe FAWY with the percussion and acoustic in the verses? but that’s a light one, and you’ve got the electronic elements on top of it. The synth solo especially is something I’ve wanted to hear from Muse for ages and hear it is. Some of the vocals are a bit cringe and the lyrics are gack, but they have been for years so fuck it. It’s pop, it’s fresh, it’s got some reasonably catchy bits and it’s got a mad synth solo.
I’m excited to see it live ‘cos, again, I’ve not seen them do owt like this. Will be interesting to see which versions they perform or switch between though, if they do at all.
Man, I wish Muse could write a pop song as good as Paramore.
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It definitely leaves something to be desired, but that might be because it makes me expect a chorus as good as A Little Respect, and it just doesn't deliver on that.
Nice soundscape, not terrible lyrics, and it's nice to hear that Muse can still show a LITTLE constraint. It might be very...digitally augmented so to speak, but it's still nice and mellow and doesn't go over the top like every fucking Muse song these past few years.
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One song was heavy out of the three they had initially recorded. They’ve had several recording sessions since and it’s very likely they still haven’t released the heavy one. They’re not releasing them in order of recording date.Its not a bad song but I'm still gonna have to moan.I wanted them to do something out of the blue with these new releases because Drones was a let down. They said it would be heavy and it wasn't. But from what I've heard of this apparent "upcoming album" so far has been such a let down as well. I heard out of three songs, one would be heavy. Which one is meant to be heavy? Or did they change their mind?
I still look forward to the new album (as always) but I certainly won't be going to a rip off UK tour. It's going to be full of douche bags. 2nd Law tour was bad enough.
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Matt has been listening to Erasure I take it.
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Huh? Doesn’t sound like a big deal to me.No way. Just... no way. Professionals can't make continuity errors like that and maybe expect people to be so stupid to the point of not noticing.This film is shabby work...
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Did you check all the nights at Milan for example?I don't even know which show Dead Inside was taken from as i can't see any where matt does a barrier walk from either Amsterdam, Berlin or Milan.The only one i found was from Mexico. Is it possible they put this into the film?
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Didn't buy the last two and don't plan on buying this one.