Hello Mr. F-
Thanks for comments on Takin’ Off and that Pitchfork review. On the former (and prior to reading your comments) I went over to the current "Best Debut Album" thread and added that one to it. The more I listened last night the more it impressed me. On the latter, your comments about the "KW - The Epic" review are appropriate. While it’s likely a number of different reviewers covered the recordings you list, the "cultural context" the KW/Epic reviewer works in has to be suspected of influencing their "appreciation" of it.
To O and all...
I check out some of the links and recordings recommended here - certainly not every one. Even so, the content is overwhelming. How do the regulars here...Orpheus, Alex, Frogman, Acman & Rok LISTEN! to all of that stuff? Very often, just one of those albums is like a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. It takes a long time to "eat". I don’t have the capacity to digest things that fast...I’m still listening to stuff listed here from months ago and now will be chewing on Takin’ Off. I personally can’t keep up (not that it is a competition or race - I get that) but for me, if nobody recorded one new thing ever again, there’d be plenty for me to last another couple of lifetimes.
Just felt I had to share :-)
Thanks for comments on Takin’ Off and that Pitchfork review. On the former (and prior to reading your comments) I went over to the current "Best Debut Album" thread and added that one to it. The more I listened last night the more it impressed me. On the latter, your comments about the "KW - The Epic" review are appropriate. While it’s likely a number of different reviewers covered the recordings you list, the "cultural context" the KW/Epic reviewer works in has to be suspected of influencing their "appreciation" of it.
To O and all...
I check out some of the links and recordings recommended here - certainly not every one. Even so, the content is overwhelming. How do the regulars here...Orpheus, Alex, Frogman, Acman & Rok LISTEN! to all of that stuff? Very often, just one of those albums is like a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. It takes a long time to "eat". I don’t have the capacity to digest things that fast...I’m still listening to stuff listed here from months ago and now will be chewing on Takin’ Off. I personally can’t keep up (not that it is a competition or race - I get that) but for me, if nobody recorded one new thing ever again, there’d be plenty for me to last another couple of lifetimes.
Just felt I had to share :-)