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Post by MaxRichardson97 on Mar 18, 2022 10:08:23 GMT
Hey folks, Hoping all's well. Well; this is it - Here (But Not Here) is out now! For those who don't know about this project, I've been collecting voice recordings from people discussing their experiences of the past two years. There's a lot of voices from the AE community (who I won't name/tag for privacy reasons), along with my friends, family, and other acquaintances. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for the support with this project. It's been an incredible project to work on. There's AE sounds scattered in the background here and there, this is more based around samples so they're pretty quiet but you can pick some out amongst the atmospherics! If you'd like to listen; a link is below. Again; thank you so much. maxrichardson.bandcamp.com/album/here-but-not-here |
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Post by maydonpoliris on Mar 28, 2022 9:53:07 GMT
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Post by pt3r on Mar 31, 2022 5:14:56 GMT
I'll be honest I like the production of this album but I don't like the sentiment it evokes in me. Those opening words of Boris the tw*t just ruffle up my feathers the wrong way. The personal mental struggle is still too fresh to be able to indulge in the statements without almost going back to those dark times. I appreciate the effort made by MaxRichardson97 and everyone who contributed their statements but it messes too much with my head right now. It will take some time before I even listen to this in full. I'm pretty sure it was not your point to evoke this absolute crushing dread and impending doom. I know this sounds ironic coming from Mr. sunshine himself but this feels very palpable and real whereas my darkness is of a more abstract esthetic kind, does that make sense? This overall feeling can be attributed to the stunning production. Well done mate, absolutely great work, but I will have to pass for the moment being. |
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Post by MaxRichardson97 on Mar 31, 2022 9:45:54 GMT
I'll be honest I like the production of this album but I don't like the sentiment it evokes in me. Those opening words of Boris the tw*t just ruffle up my feathers the wrong way. The personal mental struggle is still too fresh to be able to indulge in the statements without almost going back too those dark times. I appreciate the effort made by MaxRichardson97 and everyone who contributed their statements but it messes too much with my head right now. It will take some time before I even listen to this in full. I'm pretty sure it was not your point to evoke this absolute crushing dread and impending doom. I know this sounds ironic coming from Mr. sunshine himself but this feels very palpable and real whereas my darkness is of a more abstract esthetic kind, does that make sense? This overall feeling can be attributed to the stunning production. Well done mate, absolutely great work, but I will have to pass for the moment being. Appreciate you listening mate, thank you! Yeah, the tonal balance was a big struggle for me writing and curating the piece really - very aware that there's some open wounds for a lot of people, myself included. There's more positivity kind of towards the middle and ends of the piece, but some is really pretty emotionally heavy stuff. |
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Post by keurslagerkurt on Apr 1, 2022 12:20:01 GMT
I'll be honest I like the production of this album but I don't like the sentiment it evokes in me. Those opening words of Boris the tw*t just ruffle up my feathers the wrong way. The personal mental struggle is still too fresh to be able to indulge in the statements without almost going back to those dark times. I appreciate the effort made by MaxRichardson97 and everyone who contributed their statements but it messes too much with my head right now. It will take some time before I even listen to this in full. I'm pretty sure it was not your point to evoke this absolute crushing dread and impending doom. I know this sounds ironic coming from Mr. sunshine himself but this feels very palpable and real whereas my darkness is of a more abstract esthetic kind, does that make sense? This overall feeling can be attributed to the stunning production. Well done mate, absolutely great work, but I will have to pass for the moment being. This reminds me of a few years ago, when the album 'A crow looked at me' from Mount Eerie got released. It was about the death of his wife, and the brutal honesty and tragic nature of it all, I could simply not get myself to listen to it. It just makes me so sad. And I agree that that is a total different thing compared to 'dark' music, it being dark ambient, noise, techno, doom,.. I enjoy the aesthetic of darkness, and the exhilarating feeling of fear in an abstract way. But that's something completely different from hyper specific, real world sadness. Anyway.. I have listened to it almost completely now, mostly in bits on the road here and there, and I must say that you did an INCREDIBLE job Max! Really thankful to have been a very small part as well, in this huge undertaking. The hardest parts for me to hear, where def also Boris'  |
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Post by pt3r on Apr 1, 2022 13:41:53 GMT
I'll be honest I like the production of this album but I don't like the sentiment it evokes in me. Those opening words of Boris the tw*t just ruffle up my feathers the wrong way. The personal mental struggle is still too fresh to be able to indulge in the statements without almost going back to those dark times. I appreciate the effort made by MaxRichardson97 and everyone who contributed their statements but it messes too much with my head right now. It will take some time before I even listen to this in full. I'm pretty sure it was not your point to evoke this absolute crushing dread and impending doom. I know this sounds ironic coming from Mr. sunshine himself but this feels very palpable and real whereas my darkness is of a more abstract esthetic kind, does that make sense? This overall feeling can be attributed to the stunning production. Well done mate, absolutely great work, but I will have to pass for the moment being. This reminds me of a few years ago, when the album 'A crow looked at me' from Mount Eerie got released. It was about the death of his wife, and the brutal honesty and tragic nature of it all, I could simply not get myself to listen to it. It just makes me so sad. And I agree that that is a total different thing compared to 'dark' music, it being dark ambient, noise, techno, doom,.. I enjoy the aesthetic of darkness, and the exhilarating feeling of fear in an abstract way. But that's something completely different from hyper specific, real world sadness. Anyway.. I have listened to it almost completely now, mostly in bits on the road here and there, and I must say that you did an INCREDIBLE job Max! Really thankful to have been a very small part as well, in this huge undertaking. The hardest parts for me to hear, where def also Boris'  Indeed, some darkness is just to real to consume in an abstract way, I had a similar experience with the (first?) album of Life Of agony called river runs red, every song on the album is separated with a chapter of an audio book telling the story of this teenage kid whose life is basically go down the drain; fights with his parents, girlfriend trouble etc... and it basically ends with you as the listener listening in on the kid who is listening to the river runs red album (very meta) slicing his wrists and his mother barging into the bathroom being confronted with the tragedy. That album was listened in full only once. After that I made sure to skip the audio book snippets, they simply messed too much with my own teenage angst. |
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Post by pt3r on Apr 1, 2022 21:41:33 GMT
I checked some more tracks and I will wrestle trough the album. The hollow BS (in hindsight) that Bojo is spouting is making me quite angry the contrast with the other witnesses is just baffling. I will have to save that Mount Eerie album for an extra sunny day.
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