I find your perception of this fascinating. This album was the first I'd heard of Frost*, and fell in love with this album. After the title track, this is my favourite song on the album. I guess I hadn't thought about the song much, I just love how it sounds, but your criticisms and questions do make sense. The song is a little incoherent and hard to make sense of. Either way, glad you checked this one out! Maybe listening to the whole album would give you a little more context, but also maybe not.
I'm not that familiar with this album, but I love *frost style, eclectic. I particularly love Falling Satellite from them, exceptional album where they also played a sort of proggy Epic/Brutal Dupstep (Towerblock).
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Yay, more Frost*! What a weird song. :D Weird even for them. I'm not sure about the story either, but this whole album has a satirical, sad, apocalyptic feel for me (in their usual English campy brooding style) and this song showcases that perfectly. The story in the spoken part and the song itself still doesn't fit together for me (I don't know about the cult interpretation but there's an idea!) but the groove is so good! :D I think this album might be all about context, with the returning themes and sounds and noise which the last two songs bring together for me. I do like their noisy stuff tbh. Chaos of the modern world or something like that. But I think this works because it's made with so much care? There's a lot of thought behind it, they really want to do something! And even if I don't understand the choices perfectly, that care mashes with the creepy, haunting topic of the spoken story and the society-criticism (I think that's what it's about, I see the five figures as heralds of the apocalypse or something and they sound like a large group bc they represent/shout about what all our lives seemingly celebrates or serves) of the singer-parts. There's something there I cannot touch. An absurd thing (like our absurd life...our Day & Age...) that appears in the changes and not well-mashing groove and chaos of the rest.
:) Interesting notes about the drum sound. I listen on headphones that I've manually calibrated to smooth out the frequency response and I don't think the toms and snares are out of place at all. Could be a resonant frequency(/ies) on your headphones just making them hit you in the face harder? Hard to say, but that's sound for ya. Also re: your take on the hard L/R panning, do you use anything like crossfeed for your headphones? (plugin that mimics a natural L/R channel leak as if you were listening on speakers rather than headphones) It can really improve the listening experience for anything hard panned.
The era shift probably aligns with the growth of the main protagonist. The song had elements that reminded me of Blame, by Mike and the Mechanics. I think ive compared to that song recently on a live stream too.
I find your perception of this fascinating.
This album was the first I'd heard of Frost*, and fell in love with this album.
After the title track, this is my favourite song on the album.
I guess I hadn't thought about the song much, I just love how it sounds, but your criticisms and questions do make sense. The song is a little incoherent and hard to make sense of.
Either way, glad you checked this one out! Maybe listening to the whole album would give you a little more context, but also maybe not.
I'm not that familiar with this album, but I love *frost style, eclectic.
I particularly love Falling Satellite from them, exceptional album where they also played a sort of proggy Epic/Brutal Dupstep (Towerblock).
Yay, more Frost*! What a weird song. :D Weird even for them. I'm not sure about the story either, but this whole album has a satirical, sad, apocalyptic feel for me (in their usual English campy brooding style) and this song showcases that perfectly. The story in the spoken part and the song itself still doesn't fit together for me (I don't know about the cult interpretation but there's an idea!) but the groove is so good! :D
I think this album might be all about context, with the returning themes and sounds and noise which the last two songs bring together for me. I do like their noisy stuff tbh. Chaos of the modern world or something like that.
But I think this works because it's made with so much care? There's a lot of thought behind it, they really want to do something! And even if I don't understand the choices perfectly, that care mashes with the creepy, haunting topic of the spoken story and the society-criticism (I think that's what it's about, I see the five figures as heralds of the apocalypse or something and they sound like a large group bc they represent/shout about what all our lives seemingly celebrates or serves) of the singer-parts. There's something there I cannot touch. An absurd thing (like our absurd life...our Day & Age...) that appears in the changes and not well-mashing groove and chaos of the rest.
:) Interesting notes about the drum sound. I listen on headphones that I've manually calibrated to smooth out the frequency response and I don't think the toms and snares are out of place at all. Could be a resonant frequency(/ies) on your headphones just making them hit you in the face harder? Hard to say, but that's sound for ya. Also re: your take on the hard L/R panning, do you use anything like crossfeed for your headphones? (plugin that mimics a natural L/R channel leak as if you were listening on speakers rather than headphones) It can really improve the listening experience for anything hard panned.
The era shift probably aligns with the growth of the main protagonist. The song had elements that reminded me of Blame, by Mike and the Mechanics. I think ive compared to that song recently on a live stream too.
Also regarding throwing you a curveball at a specific time, no, I just requested the first 4 tracks from Day & Age in the album order :D