Man I just want to thank you for staying serious with this and respecting the music. Most 'reaction' channels end up over acting and making goofy ass faces and talking over most of the songs. I can tell you are actually absorbing the songs. Much love my man.
I really appreciate Plini and his songwriting ability in the instrumental prog scene. Not that it’s not great, but I tend to get tired of the shredding over the djenty rhythms. Plini writes interesting rhythms, riffs, licks with such great feeling.
Really love your interpretation of this song following a sunrise and sunset, I think this song does a great job painting vibrant colours with the music, Plini really is a true artist
Troy Wright is the drummer on this album, and does a fantastic job. I'd be interested to hear your take on his part. It follows the rhythm guitar to a T.. which in most cases wouldn't be too flashy, but Plini's rhythm parts are complex enough to allow for a lot of creativity on Troy's end. This album is one of my all time favorite drum compositions; Troy really locks in with the rest of the band , as you indicated. But he also lets loose and does everything with his own flourish. Great review!
Thanks for reacting to this song! Love watching someone experience Plini for the first time! His music still gives me chills no matter how much I listen to it. Glad you liked it!
Highly recommend Selenium Forest if you're going to do Plini again. In my opinion, far better than Electric Sunrise (which, by all means, is great), and probably easier to analyze and learn from.
You definitely made me appreciate taking form & analysis, and music history from college. This brought back so many memories and was a great reaction/analysis of this amazing song bro.
The "verses", after the first major music/sun outburst, is to me describing life growing, due to the life giving rays from the sun. It shows what happens down in the brown dirt, tiny plants peeking, reaching upwards.
Very cool to see you finally check out Plini, my fav has always been Selenium Forest. I'd also like to throw in the band Artificial Language. Have a more Arch Echo vibe to them, but I think you'd enjoy it.
Hey, love your interpretation of how the song title relates to the textures of the song. Enjoyed the song for a long time but I wasnt able to see it that way and yet how you interpreted it perfectly fits! Thank you!
You most definitely need to check out 'Selenium Forest' next, by far one of Plini's finest songs! Plini, Sithu Aye, Widek, & Gru are my top 4 Solo artists in the current wave of modern-day Prog music (although Gru hasn't released any new music outside of guest solos on all of Widek's albums in years). Chon are also amazing artists & it's been cool seeing their style evolve throughout the years. Looking forward to seeing what your thoughts are on them.
@@Isaiah_McIntosh I love Destiny Potato/Sordid Pink & David's Bilo albums. I've seen him live with Yvette Young, Nick Johnston & Plini a couple years back, great show. Also Jakub's 'Wishful Lotus Proof' album is 🔥 Majin is my fave track of his 👌🏾
i’m about to binge watch this guy’s whole channel! i LOVE prog but don’t really understand a lot of theory or like, composition behind music. i don’t even know the proper terms i’m looking for haha. but i’m hoping to understand more about how people count time (like how tf do you figure out 13/8??) or know when a song is in drop e just by listening.
Make sure to have a solid grasp of the basics of theory before getting into more complex stuff like odd time signatures and the like. A good understanding of instrumentation and the role each instrument plays in a piece is also really useful when you really want to understand what is going on. Some songwriting knowledge would also go a long way. Good luck!
@@zauls. I appreciate the reply, thank you!! I used to have a stronger musical foundation, but kind of lost it over the years as I moved away from the arts and got more into science. Do you have any channel recommendations where I can learn the basics? Or websites, podcasts, anything?
Lizzie Turbett I don’t know if you’re still interested in this, and this may not be the answer you’re looking for but my advise would be to just find more artists that make you want to listen to their music, not just hear it. The band that did that for me was TesseracT, and since I discovered them several years ago my fundamental understanding of music has been broadened tremendously. I don’t know many channels that purely delve into theory that wouldn’t personally bore me to tears, but because I’ve listened to a broader range of music very intently I can usually figure out what any song is doing and why it works. Hope that helps? 😅
It's really like one dude with a touring band. He's phenomenal live. His band played as the backing band for like three different artists without stopping it was quite impressive.
Similar bands: Intervals Angel Vivaldi Jakub Zytecki Nick Johnston Modern Day Babylon David Maxim Mic Scale The Sumit Sithu Aye Pomegranate Tiger Wide Eyes
Plini is like more of a composer whereas Chon is just an amazingly chill math rock group. His more recent Sunhead EP is really great as well and has more jazz elements in it. The entire album is pretty short and worth a listen. Thanks for listening to all these great bands its really rare someone gives a cool and informed opinion about a lot of these bands. You NEED to check out Jakub Zyteki's most recent album tbh. It's incredible and so tasteful.
Hi Brian. Still hoping you can react to “Xanadu” by Rush, the live version off of “Exit... Stage Left”, performed in 1981. The studio version was recorded on their “A Farewell to Kings” album in 1977, but the live version is magnitudes better.
Omar Alvarado I think a classic prog week would be cool! For me, my fiancé introduced me to Pink Floyd and I REALLY started listening to them. Following them, the Beatles, Queen, rush, genesis, yes, then some more prog Metal- dream theater, symphony x, porcupine tree, opeth, riverside, and now some more modern people- has been really cool. It’s fun to hear influences all the way back and how people are using musical ideas from the 60-70’s up to today.
I did that one but it was blocked on RUclips. You can find it on my Google Drive though drive.google.com/open?id=1LqPyV7tijYyqbnkfMzExYJ43zLS8bML1 And if you want to send me a comment on it you could hit me up on Twitter (@CritReactions) or just comment on any of my videos here.
The intro of the song is in 13/8, nice reaction btw Plini appears to pay a lot of attention to dynamics on his earlier stuff and layering on his more recent stuff
Man. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Try some Dirty Loops if you want. They’re killer musicians. I mean really really good. Dirty Loops - Next To You or Rock You. Very high musicianship.
My favorite song from them your lucky i bet you feel like where have i been all this time with beautiful music like this not in my ear lol consider yourself lucky most people dont branch out with listening to different types of beautiful music cheers mate i like what you are doing here.
You should absolutely check out David Maxim Micic. I would imagine as a composer some of his stuff would really appeal to you - a lot of his music is very theatrical and grandiose, and his layering/subtleties have always been a personal favorite. It’s hard to pick only one song of his to recommend but I would say “Where Is Now?” encompasses what I just described best.
I agree on selenium. I think people just feel it's too minimalist and when Brian does videos there's an emphasis on getting him to do the most technical tracks
13/8 , when I learned it with some college buddies and I found it was more fitting to think of it as 12/8 (or triplet feel 4/4) with an extra 8th note.
Very interesting, thank you. I think, it could be interesting for you to watch "Auktyon, Medeski, Ribot - "Devushki Poyut". Live in St.Petersburg" video. It's not metal and is more experimental and jazz-rocky than progressive, but it's really interesting. And such names as Medeski, Ribot and Volkov make it even more interesting. And it's a very rare recommendation :)
If u read this, pls do Fit for an autopsy: fear tommorow or napalm dreams, both are amazing songs, they are a deathcore band with great songs and lyrics.
Check out Sithu Aye (pronounced "C2-A"). I'd suggest the entire Set Course For Andromeda double lp but for time sake i'll stick to recommending the titular song. A lot of musical storytelling involved.
I checked out Language I, which was apparently a mistake that I didn't listen to the second half. I really should remedy that one of these days. ruclips.net/video/5kTdhK8AV4g/видео.html
I believe drums on that record were programmed, so at least technique-wise there's nothing too impressive there, very standard stuff. But it serves the song well
From my counting the intro is in 13/8 (at least initially) with a 3/3/3/3/1 split inside that measure
Yeah I've got the tabs from sheet happens and it's 13/8 at the beginning and end.
123 123 123 1234 :)
I think I read somewhere that it's split as 123 123 123 12 12
Yep
Rick Beato actually talks about this song in one of his videos
This album and The Shape of Color were the soundtrack to my life for a solid year lol.
Hardest of sames.
Same.. just nonstop on for my senior year of college
Man I just want to thank you for staying serious with this and respecting the music. Most 'reaction' channels end up over acting and making goofy ass faces and talking over most of the songs. I can tell you are actually absorbing the songs. Much love my man.
Glad to see such a large amount of requests for Plini, he seems to be getting bigger which I can't be any more happy for him, fantastic musician
If isn't Chon should be Cascade or Selenium Forest by Plini, lovely!
I really appreciate Plini and his songwriting ability in the instrumental prog scene. Not that it’s not great, but I tend to get tired of the shredding over the djenty rhythms.
Plini writes interesting rhythms, riffs, licks with such great feeling.
I agree. Of all the popular artists in this genre, Plini has the most memorable melodies and riffs imo.
Really love your interpretation of this song following a sunrise and sunset, I think this song does a great job painting vibrant colours with the music, Plini really is a true artist
Troy Wright is the drummer on this album, and does a fantastic job. I'd be interested to hear your take on his part. It follows the rhythm guitar to a T.. which in most cases wouldn't be too flashy, but Plini's rhythm parts are complex enough to allow for a lot of creativity on Troy's end. This album is one of my all time favorite drum compositions; Troy really locks in with the rest of the band , as you indicated. But he also lets loose and does everything with his own flourish. Great review!
Thanks for reacting to this song! Love watching someone experience Plini for the first time! His music still gives me chills no matter how much I listen to it. Glad you liked it!
Been waiting for this one for a while. Next suggestion: David Maxim Micic- someone else’s hat. Excellent song, excellent video, exceptional artist
Yep, its fuck8ng awesome!
Damar is also incredible
Nostalgia owns, too.
Highly recommend Selenium Forest if you're going to do Plini again. In my opinion, far better than Electric Sunrise (which, by all means, is great), and probably easier to analyze and learn from.
Selenium Forest is probably my favorite work from Plini to date! Just wonderful music
Selenium forest is fucking awesome, but I think Salt + Charcoal captures Plini's energy better
I love the observations about literally following the sunrise/sunset as an interpretive model for the piece. Adds another layer for me.
Plini will have to be on the docket when there's another revisiting bands week.
We should do a Plini week!
@@ckokomo808 I'm down for that!
Paper Moon & Every Piece Matters
@@TwoandaHater Every Piece Matters is so beautiful man
You definitely made me appreciate taking form & analysis, and music history from college. This brought back so many memories and was a great reaction/analysis of this amazing song bro.
The "verses", after the first major music/sun outburst, is to me describing life growing, due to the life giving rays from the sun. It shows what happens down in the brown dirt, tiny plants peeking, reaching upwards.
The song is in 13/8 time signature. It took me also sometime to understand the count of the beat.
Very cool to see you finally check out Plini, my fav has always been Selenium Forest.
I'd also like to throw in the band Artificial Language. Have a more Arch Echo vibe to them, but I think you'd enjoy it.
Hey, love your interpretation of how the song title relates to the textures of the song. Enjoyed the song for a long time but I wasnt able to see it that way and yet how you interpreted it perfectly fits! Thank you!
I love plini! Im glad you reacted to this. And the way explained the title.... Nice bro. It does go right with the composition wonderfully.
Good point about the intro being a sunrise and the outro a sunset. Made a lot of sense when I heard this song again. By the way, nice video bro
You most definitely need to check out 'Selenium Forest' next, by far one of Plini's finest songs!
Plini, Sithu Aye, Widek, & Gru are my top 4 Solo artists in the current wave of modern-day Prog music (although Gru hasn't released any new music outside of guest solos on all of Widek's albums in years). Chon are also amazing artists & it's been cool seeing their style evolve throughout the years. Looking forward to seeing what your thoughts are on them.
How do you feel about david maxim and jakub zytecki?
@@Isaiah_McIntosh I love Destiny Potato/Sordid Pink & David's Bilo albums. I've seen him live with Yvette Young, Nick Johnston & Plini a couple years back, great show. Also Jakub's 'Wishful Lotus Proof' album is 🔥 Majin is my fave track of his 👌🏾
That's 13/8 -- actually Rick Beato does an awesome breakdown of this song
10/10 psychologists prescribe this song to cure depression
Kent Tarver your exoplanet profile pic!! sick
Lizzie Turbett its a classic!
Contortionist Good Shit
I highly recommend you listen to "Handmade Cities", it's a journey, an exquisite journey!.
David Maxim Micic would be a great follow up to this with his song Someone Else’s Hat
Agreeeed
i’m about to binge watch this guy’s whole channel! i LOVE prog but don’t really understand a lot of theory or like, composition behind music. i don’t even know the proper terms i’m looking for haha. but i’m hoping to understand more about how people count time (like how tf do you figure out 13/8??) or know when a song is in drop e just by listening.
Make sure to have a solid grasp of the basics of theory before getting into more complex stuff like odd time signatures and the like. A good understanding of instrumentation and the role each instrument plays in a piece is also really useful when you really want to understand what is going on. Some songwriting knowledge would also go a long way. Good luck!
@@zauls. I appreciate the reply, thank you!! I used to have a stronger musical foundation, but kind of lost it over the years as I moved away from the arts and got more into science. Do you have any channel recommendations where I can learn the basics? Or websites, podcasts, anything?
Lizzie Turbett I don’t know if you’re still interested in this, and this may not be the answer you’re looking for but my advise would be to just find more artists that make you want to listen to their music, not just hear it. The band that did that for me was TesseracT, and since I discovered them several years ago my fundamental understanding of music has been broadened tremendously. I don’t know many channels that purely delve into theory that wouldn’t personally bore me to tears, but because I’ve listened to a broader range of music very intently I can usually figure out what any song is doing and why it works. Hope that helps? 😅
CHON next, hype!
I’ve seen them on tour posters and never really gave them a chance. Thank you for the review
It's really like one dude with a touring band. He's phenomenal live. His band played as the backing band for like three different artists without stopping it was quite impressive.
Plini isn't a band. He is a very good guitarist and I think he composed this whole song solo. Incredible artist
Plini is the name of the band and guitarist
Similar bands:
Intervals
Angel Vivaldi
Jakub Zytecki
Nick Johnston
Modern Day Babylon
David Maxim Mic
Scale The Sumit
Sithu Aye
Pomegranate Tiger
Wide Eyes
How do you feel about I built the sky bro? If you haven't heard him check out the zenith rise album. Going by that list he should be up your alley.
It's in 13/8!
yessss i've been waiting for this one
The number of times you would get close to the time sig then run away.. :P Great vid man...This band is incredible
It just hit me. You need to react to some Evan Brewer. Currency is a good one but anything off of Alone.
I wish he would put out some more music 😭
Awesome awesome!!! Another great one by Plini is Cascade! Now I'm very excited for Chon too!
Plini's Cascade and Paper Moon are both excellent songs
Agreed
Plini is like more of a composer whereas Chon is just an amazingly chill math rock group.
His more recent Sunhead EP is really great as well and has more jazz elements in it. The entire album is pretty short and worth a listen. Thanks for listening to all these great bands its really rare someone gives a cool and informed opinion about a lot of these bands.
You NEED to check out Jakub Zyteki's most recent album tbh. It's incredible and so tasteful.
Evan brewer - actualize
He's the old the faceless bassist and Animosity, very talented bassist
He also played with Entheos. Dude is a beast.
Nice to hear professional listening to Plini who is a welcome talent.
Hi Brian. Still hoping you can react to “Xanadu” by Rush, the live version off of “Exit... Stage Left”, performed in 1981. The studio version was recorded on their “A Farewell to Kings” album in 1977, but the live version is magnitudes better.
Omar Alvarado I think a classic prog week would be cool! For me, my fiancé introduced me to Pink Floyd and I REALLY started listening to them.
Following them, the Beatles, Queen, rush, genesis, yes, then some more prog Metal- dream theater, symphony x, porcupine tree, opeth, riverside, and now some more modern people- has been really cool. It’s fun to hear influences all the way back and how people are using musical ideas from the 60-70’s up to today.
I did that one but it was blocked on RUclips. You can find it on my Google Drive though drive.google.com/open?id=1LqPyV7tijYyqbnkfMzExYJ43zLS8bML1
And if you want to send me a comment on it you could hit me up on Twitter (@CritReactions) or just comment on any of my videos here.
The intro of the song is in 13/8, nice reaction btw
Plini appears to pay a lot of attention to dynamics on his earlier stuff and layering on his more recent stuff
Man. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Try some Dirty Loops if you want. They’re killer musicians. I mean really really good. Dirty Loops - Next To You or Rock You. Very high musicianship.
My favorite song from them your lucky i bet you feel like where have i been all this time with beautiful music like this not in my ear lol consider yourself lucky most people dont branch out with listening to different types of beautiful music cheers mate i like what you are doing here.
You should absolutely check out David Maxim Micic. I would imagine as a composer some of his stuff would really appeal to you - a lot of his music is very theatrical and grandiose, and his layering/subtleties have always been a personal favorite. It’s hard to pick only one song of his to recommend but I would say “Where Is Now?” encompasses what I just described best.
I don't really understand why this song is so hyper requested. I think Selenium Forest is a way better song.
Completely agree. Selenium Forest is my favourite Plini tune by a long shot.
Cascade FTW
I just listened to it for the first time and I agree
I agree on selenium. I think people just feel it's too minimalist and when Brian does videos there's an emphasis on getting him to do the most technical tracks
i think paper moon or anything off of sunhead is much more interesting imo
If you liked Rivers of Nihil, you should check out Burial in the Sky! The guy who does sax for them also plays in burial in the sky.
If you listen to this whole album, you'll end up noticing some themes used across multiple songs. Definitely his best work imo
When he said "Pleenee", my heart dropped.
I see plini, I click like
Watching now but calling that you'll love this.
Glad u liked it 🤘🏻🇦🇺
Car bomb man you would love it any song
You should react to Igorrr maybe Camel Dancefloor or Very Noise or even Chaval. That is some trippy amazing sound and creative composition
Please check out Chon! their song Perfect Pillow!
Second Chon but I think one of their Audiotree concerts would be even better.
Famous Last Words - The Show Must go On
For when you do CHON, listen to Story!
13/8 , when I learned it with some college buddies and I found it was more fitting to think of it as 12/8 (or triplet feel 4/4) with an extra 8th note.
Andy James’ “Boots on the Ground” or “Satellites”
Everything from Plini is great! :D His songs are very "story-telling", always convey stuff like abstract fairytales and adventure stories to me.
Waterslide by Chon
You need to watch a live version.
I'm so glad you gave him a chance lol
Very interesting, thank you.
I think, it could be interesting for you to watch "Auktyon, Medeski, Ribot - "Devushki Poyut". Live in St.Petersburg" video. It's not metal and is more experimental and jazz-rocky than progressive, but it's really interesting. And such names as Medeski, Ribot and Volkov make it even more interesting. And it's a very rare recommendation :)
Maxim Kuznetsov haven’t listened to them but will check them out!
PLEASE tell me you have some Angel Vivaldi lined up for instrumental week
Fallujah - Sapphire!
Please 💖
Seen plini open for between the buried and me in Germany
Do covet for inst week though
If u read this, pls do Fit for an autopsy: fear tommorow or napalm dreams, both are amazing songs, they are a deathcore band with great songs and lyrics.
You have to check out Automaton by Intervals. Excellent song!
I just watched your reaction to Cynic, and once I saw you had a video reacting to Plini I just had to subscribe.
According to Rick Beato it actually is 11/8, divided into 3/3/3/2
it's 13/8 divided into 3/3/3/3/1
Please check out Paradoxcia by Wide Eyes!! It's similar to this song but has a faster beat
Hey Brian, it's actually a 13/8 ;) by the way you should check Distorted Harmony, particularly their song Kono Yume when you get the chance.
Why doesnt anyone request every piece matters. One or their best songs
Scale the Summit - Atlas Novus
May i request sir? from the band "INTERVALS-EPIPHANY" thank you.keep it up! keep more reviews.
Check out Sithu Aye (pronounced "C2-A"). I'd suggest the entire Set Course For Andromeda double lp but for time sake i'll stick to recommending the titular song. A lot of musical storytelling involved.
Intro is 13/8. Can count in 7/4 with the last beat cut off or just count 13 👍🏼
Check out Human Convention by The Reign on Kindo!
Ever heard of Sithu Aye? Solo project from some djenty god. Check out the song Set Course For Andromeda
Funny enough I found this artist listening to Chon and Spotify threw this song in there!
Yes selenium forest it great but i think Paper Moon or Cascade would be the way to go. Please
check out Angel Vivaldi -one. my favorite song by him
I counted the song in 13/8 using 3 groups of 3 and one of 4 (123 123 123 1234)
You could try Language by The Contortionist if you haven't already
I checked out Language I, which was apparently a mistake that I didn't listen to the second half. I really should remedy that one of these days. ruclips.net/video/5kTdhK8AV4g/видео.html
@@CriticalReactions watching it rn haha you definitely should check out the Language II
I request for a reaction to Plini Paper Moon plz :)
And its 13/8 cap'n
I mean, you have to do Sithu Aye now. You just have to man
Time signature is 13/8
Pls, Octopus - Viento Sur!
I recommend you listen to Who Bit the Moon by David Maxim Micic
Nice
finally :3
now do Chon. recommended song - Story
Cascade should be next
I believe drums on that record were programmed, so at least technique-wise there's nothing too impressive there, very standard stuff. But it serves the song well
Can you react to Felix Martin!! Any song would be cool.
Plini is awesome. I’d say David Maxim Micic is closer to Plini’s level than Chon (and I like Chon a lot)...gotta check him out.
its 13/8
I like your oranges pinks and yellows comment
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