Drones Album Discussion Thread

[vixi]

Post-rock would be great, and I think it would work for Muse. I'd like to hear something noise-y too, with strange time signatures.

[Hat]

Muse should really experiment more with time signatures.

[LewisF]

Muse should really experiment more with time signatures.

 

Yep. Some 5/4 and 7/8 wouldn't go amiss

[Boogles.]

Isn't Agitated in 5/4?

[LewisF]

Isn't Agitated in 5/4?

 

The ending is yeah, after that long scream

 

And Animals too. Trying to think of some others in unusual time signatures

[Hopix]

Micro Cuts and Assassin have some interesting signatures in the verses, something to do with alternating 4/4 and 12/8 I think.

[Hat]

I wasn't saying Muse have never done any other time signatures than 4/4.

 

Supremacy too if you want to list them.

[hoodoo oz]

I miss old skool Muse

 

That's understandable. Especially when I listen to something as brilliant as Space Dementia.

[Gemsy]

That's understandable. Especially when I listen to something as brilliant as Space Dementia.

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[Museic Syndrome]

The ending is yeah, after that long scream

 

And Animals too. Trying to think of some others in unusual time signatures

 

Overdue

[Peter.]

Overdue

 

yeah but that doesn't count.

[Citizen Erased 01]

Overdue

 

Overdue is a babe

[Spectrum IV]

If they can do minimal in a meaningful way like Radiohead then I'd be happy too

 

Muse and minimalist are two words that should never be in the same sentence. That's how Madness happened.

 

One or two tracks like that might be nice (Monty Jam pls), but I wouldn't want a whole album of it. My ideal would be more walls of synth glory a la 65DOS.

 

They really shouldn't do a full album of anything because that would be pretty boring.

 

A few songs in the vein of MotP or Easily wouldn't go astray though.

[Hopix]

Muse have loads of decent minimal moments.

[Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out]

Muse and minimalist are two words that should never be in the same sentence. That's how Madness happened.

 

 

 

They really shouldn't do a full album of anything because that would be pretty boring.

 

A few songs in the vein of MotP or Easily wouldn't go astray though.

 

 

Minimalist Muse = Madness, Isolated System, beginning of Ruled By Secrecy, Uprising, most of Hoodoo, Falling Away With You, Blackout, Exo part III: Redeption, Collateral Damage, Screenager (to an extent), The Gallery, Hyper Chondriac Music (maybe, it's been a while since I gave it a proper listen), Dead Inside (first half), Endlessly, and probably some others I've forgotten. You don't seriously hate all of those songs, do you?

[Gemsy]

Nishe & Forced In

[Spectrum IV]

Isolated System, beginning of Ruled By Secrecy, Uprising, most of Hoodoo, Falling Away With You, Blackout, Exo part III: Redeption, Collateral Damage, Screenager (to an extent), The Gallery, Hyper Chondriac Music (maybe, it's been a while since I gave it a proper listen), Dead Inside (first half), Endlessly, and probably some others I've forgotten. You don't seriously hate all of those songs, do you?

 

I think you misunderstand minimalism. These songs are all complex in some way, mostly tonally but in some cases texturally and atmospherically. Madness has a very basic chord progression, simple bass line, simple melody and sparse drum beat for most of the song, there's nothing really "intriguing" about it until the solo... that's minimalism.

[Jobby]

Nishe & Forced In

 

Always gotta show love for Nishe <3

 

Forced In is great as well though.

[kueller]

Late, but The Globalist's final movement has some interesting phrasing due to time signature changes from 3/4 (or 6/4) to 4/4.

[jonisdead]

I think you misunderstand minimalism. These songs are all complex in some way, mostly tonally but in some cases texturally and atmospherically. Madness has a very basic chord progression, simple bass line, simple melody and sparse drum beat for most of the song, there's nothing really "intriguing" about it until the solo... that's minimalism.

 

Minimalism isn't synonymous with boring. Much of what amuse does is maximalist, aka campy OTT etc. Many of the songs listed were minimalist albeit complex by comparison

[Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out]

I think you misunderstand minimalism. These songs are all complex in some way, mostly tonally but in some cases texturally and atmospherically. Madness has a very basic chord progression, simple bass line, simple melody and sparse drum beat for most of the song, there's nothing really "intriguing" about it until the solo... that's minimalism.

 

If minimalism means lack of intrigue, then basically none of Muse's music is minimalist at all. Madness has loads of intrigue throughout the song. In fact, the guitar solo, which you reffered to as intriguing, is one of the most stock/cliche bits of the entire song. The bassline though, for pop-rock music, is extremely intriguing.

[lurkinglurkerlurksagain]

Just had a weird thought: How bizarre would it be if Kanye West produced a Muse album?

[kueller]

Saying Muse's attempts at minimalism are boring isn't the same as saying minimalism is inherently boring.

 

Either way I liked Madness and its sparsity.

[Bumpypotato]

They should go for a style that fits their CHVRCHES cover. Obviously more in tune with Dead Inside, that dark electro-funk feel. That would be great; an album of Dead Inside/MoTP like songs.

 

I'd like to see this, actually. That CHRVCHES cover was pretty great.

Matt should start listening to Crosses. And Olafur Arnalds for the inevitable piano ballad.

 

This. Although T2L's experiments were more about style than composition. I think the latter needs shaking up.

 

Now the fanbase can stop requesting a "back to basics" album and start looking at what really made their old stuff stand out.

 

Pretty much. If we've learned anything from Drones it should be that simplicity isn't what makes the band good. Not to beat the Origin horse to death, but that's not exactly a straight forward album despite it's mostly conventional instrumentation.

[Alec Ferris]

I want Monty Jam and post-rock.

 

Make that Pelican/In Each Hand A Cutlass/Town Portal esque groovy post-rock and I'm sold.