Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[injuddstree]

That sample has been ripped and slammed on a Twitter link. I'd be holding "production" judgements until we hear the album with headphones.

[WaitingForBluey]

So is everyone getting that same clip that was posted earlier with that phone app thingie?

Yeah

I tried it inside but couldn't get it to work, perhaps it does have to be outside

[Val]

So is everyone getting that same clip that was posted earlier with that phone app thingie?

Yeah

I tried it inside but couldn't get it to work, perhaps it does have to be outside

Works indoors just fine.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Ms Harmless]

it's a Twitter rip

[Val]

A huge improvement over afterbirth being dropped on the tiled floor

[WaitingForBluey]

So is everyone getting that same clip that was posted earlier with that phone app thingie?

Yeah

I tried it inside but couldn't get it to work, perhaps it does have to be outside

Works indoors just fine.

I'll ask one of my teenagers to figure it out for me

[Ms Harmless]

So is everyone getting that same clip that was posted earlier with that phone app thingie?

Yeah

I tried it inside but couldn't get it to work, perhaps it does have to be outside

Works indoors just fine.

I'll ask one of my teenagers to figure it out for me

yeah I got it working from the sofa, just keep scanning your ceiling until you find the yellow spiral thing

[Rangi Guy]

So is everyone getting that same clip that was posted earlier with that phone app thingie?

Yeah

I tried it inside but couldn't get it to work, perhaps it does have to be outside

Works indoors just fine.

I'll ask one of my teenagers to figure it out for me

yeah I got it working from the sofa, just keep scanning your ceiling until you find the yellow spiral thing

Now I feel like a dork for wandering out to the back lawn to try this instead of just staying at my desk

[Val]

Now I feel like a dork for wandering out to the back lawn to try this instead of just staying at my desk

Dork Matter

[Ms Harmless]

a strange spot in the sky

[Birds in Hell]

That Stone interview was great, it's always enjoyable to hear him talk about the band and their musical process.

I also found this funny:

We’ve been so fortunate that our fans have been so open to our whims and experimentations, even if sometimes they wish we’d play ‘Jeremy’ and instead we play a B-side not very well (laughs).

That said, it did nothing to heighten my low expectations of the album. Sonic issues aside, I'm really not encouraged by Josh K writing a tune, nor Watt jamming along on guitar while the band are writing, or encouraging a bunch of 60-or-pushing-it guys to be 'aggressive' and harken back to what they did 30+ years prior.

The co-writing stuff grates as I think one of the only consistently enjoyable elements of the latter day Pearl Jam records is being able to still identify the idiosyncrasies of each member's writing style, even where I don't like the end result very much. I'm not really interested in hearing a Pearl Jam song where Josh or Watt wrote the chords or riff and the other guys added bits and pieces later on.

[RockPusher]

That Stone interview was great, it's always enjoyable to hear him talk about the band and their musical process.

I also found this funny:

We’ve been so fortunate that our fans have been so open to our whims and experimentations, even if sometimes they wish we’d play ‘Jeremy’ and instead we play a B-side not very well (laughs).

That said, it did nothing to heighten my low expectations of the album. Sonic issues aside, I'm really not encouraged by Josh K writing a tune, nor Watt jamming along on guitar while the band are writing, or encouraging a bunch of 60-or-pushing-it guys to be 'aggressive' and harken back to what they did 30+ years prior.

The co-writing stuff grates as I think one of the only consistently enjoyable elements of the latter day Pearl Jam records is being able to still identify the idiosyncrasies of each member's writing style, even where I don't like the end result very much. I'm not really interested in hearing a Pearl Jam song where Josh or Watt wrote the chords or riff and the other guys added bits and pieces later on.

This feels to me a lot like caring more about the stats than the actual game being played.

[WaitingForBluey]

Eh, whatever... been there done that... why not try something new

[WaitingForBluey]

Now I feel like a dork for wandering out to the back lawn to try this instead of just staying at my desk

I'm going straight into the backyard when I get home. I want all the neighborhood teenagers to ask what I'm doing so that I can share the good news of Pearl Jam's middle-aged rock revival.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Ms Harmless]

I can still tell the idiosyncrasies of each member's writing style; we guessed Dark Matter began with Matt, it began with Matt

[Ms Harmless]

it's a Twitter rip

I promise the final version will still sound like shit, it will just have a higher bitrate

it'll sound like it does, but it won't sound exactly like this

[WaitingForBluey]

What I took away from that interview was not "oh no, Andrew Watt is writing all the songs" but "oh sweet, looks like Jeff and Stone were really involved in this one!".