NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS // The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 // Reaction

[@axelmartinez3540]

As someone who has battled with depression and grief before, I don’t think any album i’ve ever heard has encapsulated the feeling of being depressed as accurately as this album. The album doesn’t tell how you how depression feels, it gives you a taste of it, makes you feel the sensations of it. Both sonically and lyrically. Will forever be one of the greatest and most important musical works ever to me for that reason.

[@User-b9q2z]

If you thought Glow was depressing, just Wait til you hear A Crow Looked at Me

[@axelmartinez3540]

I’ve listened to A Crow Looked at Me and while it was profoundly sad, it was more due to me hurting for Phil and his loss. The difference with The Glow to me is that The Glow places you directly in the shoes of a severely depressed person who can’t find any way out. It might not have an immediate sadness the way A Crow does, but if you’ve ever experienced depression it’s eerie how well it depicts the mindset of someone going through it. Both will make you cry though.

[@mag2666]

@@axelmartinez3540 i think you described this perfectly

[@Alifesalife]

@@axelmartinez3540dismal by grief

[@BelakorVenator]

Something tells me no less than 10 out of 10 people who had this album also had heavy depression, at least at that time. Was true in my shitty circle 20 or so years ago. I agree with your comment anyway.

[@grapespace]

I’ve listened to “The Glow, pt 2” countless times, and here’s my take: The instrumentals never left me feeling “frustrated”. I feel like they perfectly paint the picture offered up by the lyrics. In “I Want Wind to Blow” (as well as the title track), Phil is frustrated that he is being made to sit with his awful feelings in the aftermath of a breakup. He wants so badly to move on, but is unable to until he processes his emotions. That’s why half the track is instrumental; he’s illustrating that exact feeling to you. He’s stuck in a loop, and when his frustration with that boils over, the drums distort. The piano keys are being slammed relentlessly. Yet, it’s the same melody. The same mundanity. Every track on the album is cohesive in this way, where every minuscule element meaningfully contributes to the wider narrative. It’s pure, distilled art. 10/10

[@jasonshields9443]

I've been watching you for the past year or so, and I must say, you are my favorite for these reaction videos. No fake emotions, no pandering to your audience, it's great. You also know your stuff, so when something puzzles you or gets an emotion out of you, it feels real. This is one of my favorite albums, and it was a treat to watch you take it in.

[@CriticalReactions]

Thanks so much!

[@ichasedacrow2]

this is certainly not an album for everyone but if you're able to put preconceptions and the idea of palatability aside, embracing it for what it is, it really shows its true colors. phil elverum is someone i really look up to because he makes art for himself first and foremost. everything he makes is presented in such a raw and genuine form that, for someone like me at least, it just becomes that much more relatable

[@meatsuit6922]

Not that far in, but the whole appeal of early microphones is viewing Phil in the same way you might view an artist like Foetus, who once remarked that his instrument is the studio. The whole reason the project is called The Microphones is because Phil was specifically interested in the art of home recording. To me tese are almost like indie soundscapes more than indie songs, he uses musical passages like materials and things like volume, panning, and distortion are just as important to the composition as the actual songwriting. I'm only on the reaction to The Glow Pt 2 so far but I'm assuming further down the line in the video you see the specific value of this based on the caption of "nobody else could do this" on the video, because really like nobody else ever even tried this formula like he did if you're familiar with deconstructed club it's almost like deconstructed indie? if that makes sense *Edit: 2:43:12 haha cool I think ur starting to come around to it *Edit 2: I think the lyrics on my warm blood are supposed to be a sort of cynically optimistic inversion of the whole "there's no end", he feels completely defeated but he knows there is still life left in him by way of the insects sensing his warm blood even when he assumes he is completely cold and bled dry, his pulse continues and there is still no end, in the face of having to continue through your limits there is almost no other choice but optimism, it's like a cliffhanger saying eventually he is going to get up again, to me at least

[@bryan9406]

would highly recommend the follow up to this album (what caused Phil to switch over to his new moniker), "Mount Eerie." It pushes forward a lot of the same themes of existentialism and death while also being viewed as a continuation of the story of the main character in the album.

[@bryan9406]

lol just watched the ending and i realize now that you're aware of it

[@guyonagravitronmachinestan7595]

TGP2 is a very challenging record, but once it clicks with you the payoff is soooo rewarding, and i think that's why it is so beloved today/has influenced so many indie musicians over the years. every song is an "anti-song" in the sense that the melodies and the rhythms are there, but they're either smothered in dissonance, layered so heavily with other elements, or they're abandoned and replaced so quickly. the way everything shifts and mutates so rapidly, combined with the depressing lyricism, forces the listener to feel so many emotions in just one song, song after song.

[@Camothor10]

Idk man it made sense on the first song for me idk why people find it so hard to understand, the album is trying to portray a certain feeling and tell a story and it does that perfectly. Nothing else could simulate the unique feeling this album has

[@guyonagravitronmachinestan7595]

@@Camothor10 can definitely see it clicking with people on first listen especially from a lyrical/narrative perspective. sonically speaking all the individual segments of each song are also written in a fairly conventional style, it's just the way they were recorded and the way each track is assembled that can be challenging for most people. i view TGP2 as more of an experiment or a collection of ideas rather than an album, bc that's what it was at its core; an experiment in pushing the boundaries of recording and songwriting.

[@j.prt.979]

That repeated foghorn sounding note is definitely eerie. It represents death imo (be that metaphorical or literal).

[@CriticalReactions]

Oooooh!!!! It's a foghorn. OK....I gotta re-think about how that fits. I think death is a good starting point for that representation.

[@gianmarcobulla1678]

@@CriticalReactions Definitely, Phil Chose it to mimic the foghorn dad twin peaks uses in the scenes regarding catherine martell (One of the characters) In order to make it, he recorded a bass note and pitched it down until it was similar to it. (and various effects i guess)

[@disasteriz3766]

I think the opposite, it sounds like a hearthbeat. Something that's so dim and weak but always there no matter what natural disaster the music experiences. I think its either the sound of life or the sound of an existential unknown. I remember Phill saying he was inspired by Twin Peaks creating that sound and the feeling of mystery in its foghorn sound (or something like that).

[@7letters4letters49]

i think the face you make during 'Samurai Sword' is how the music is supposed to feel. you may not like it but the overblown sound has a reason

[@Cassssellllli]

It does a good job of perfectly sounding like being mauled by a bear

[@markuskontriner8898]

This is how I interpret "My warm Blood": This is kind of a full circle moment as the guitars at the very end are indeed from "My Wind to blow". And the ongoing heartbeats in the long "void" of music in the song could draw back to the title track, especially the lyrics "My heart beats loudly". And kind of the point of the glow pt. 2 is that there is no end, as he ends the lyrics to the song this way. So My warm blood kind of represents the same idea but in a different way because the very end of the album ties back to the very beginning. This could represent just life being caught in a vicious circle you try to escape but are not able to. I don't really know if you can follow my thought process here. This kind of makes my warm blood in my opinion one of the more important songs in this album. I don't necessarily revisit this song but really appreciate it for what it does to the whole picture of the album. Loved the reaction!

[@CoopersDescent]

They’re in the same crowd as Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Revolutionary Hydra, Death cab for cutie, 764-Hero, and so on. When the first Built to Spill record came out, it changed the sound of the Northwest. BTS influenced all those bands.

[@guts5398]

never listened to hydra or death cab for cutie before this comment, thank you 🙏🏾

[@fourtreemouths]

man it’s really puzzling to me how people can think the rhythmic / panning / harmonic intricacies in especially the first two tracks of this song are “mistakes” or messy in a bad way. Sure it’s a bit messy but i think the songs would be far more boring if they were played any differently. Also the harmonies in I Want Wind To Blow are gorgeous in their intense (although sedated) pathos. If every note were absolutely pitch perfect (in equal temperament) music would be so damn boring. Ever heard a just intonated minor 7th interval? very hauntingly powerful; it’s just that we’ve been so conditioned to hear everything in equal temperament.

[@kosmickatt9697]

I heard this album for the first time within a week of my mom passing away. I was 18, she was 40. It was sudden, not expected. This album carried me through the most traumatic experience of my life up to this point. Headless Horseman kills me.

[@met4mage]

I like to think that in "I felt your shape" he compares the gurgling you hear when you put your head to somebody's belly to "Lava flowing"

[@Mertl.]

This album has an atmosphere that I’ve never heard in any other musical project. Phil Elverum’s songwriting and approach to art is organic and ties so well with the themes of nature, life, and the universe. This is, uncontested, my favorite album of all time, nothing comes close.

[@theminerchan]

Hi, saw this video pop up in my recommended and decided to give some feedback + some context coming from someone that has listened this album for years (and in general is a big fan of Phil's work). Starting with the comparison to other indie rock bands. From what I can understand you abbandoned that idea midway through, and I don't think it's really accurate, but you were correct in assuming that there wasn't a lot of this pre-2001. You had The Mountain Goats, Elliot Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel, but nothing really had this pervasive fuzziness and specific noise rock approach to songs, so Phil was really ahead of its time with this, inspiring projects like Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Natrural Snow Buildings and in general he can be seen as the pioneer of all the DIY folk of the past 20 years. To touch on the production, you're once again correct in assuming that most instruments aren't spliced or looped, but you're heavily underesrtimating the production work that went behind the album. Lo-Fi doesn't mean low effort or "yeah let's leave it like this, it's fine enough". All of the choices are heavily deliberate and multiple takes were made specifically to capture certain dissonances or ideas. Just for reference the album was published by K-Records (Beat Happening) and recorded in the same studio as some Modest Mouse's albums. Phil himself commented on the album being *specifically* made for headphone users in mind, which is clearly evident with every re-listen. If you listen to them enough times you end up understanding that almost each song has an immense production value, where themes and ideas are layered and fleeting in a way that, I agree, makes them hard to identify and follow at a glance, but become surprising and incredible when you pick them up and the track evolves from "a wall of sounds". Next, about the themes and ideas. This is one of those great pieces of art that draws a connection between things that people never noticed before. It's not just about love, depression, longing. It's also about that. And it's not even about nature or the connections we have with it. It's about being a being living thing, in a macro(micro)cosmic world that has giant mountains, planets, insects, trees, and you, with your own raw existence. I'm clearly not going to explain what you (or anyone else) is supposed to feel, but this is genuinely the most visceral and natural album to ever exist. And to conclude: I haven't watched your other videos so I don't know enough about your background, but from what I could tell you come from a "scolarly" background. This is to say that, someone that listened to music, liked some of it, decided he wanted to make it and then decided to study how to make it. Which is absolutely a reasonable approach (i.e. classical music), but is in direct juxtaposition with what The Glow pt.2 represents. This album is not for you, it's not for me, it's not for anyone (while at the same time being for everyone). It is the purest example of "I have feelings. I want to express them. How do I do it?", instead of "I want to write a song. I have feelings. How do I write a song that sounds good about those feelings?". There is a fundamental difference there, that allows the former approach to immediately disregard any canonical approaches to songwriting and think directly in expressionist terms. I'm phisically moved by some sounds in the album, because the ground truth wasn't some academic rule about how to sound good. This is one of the purest expressions of being, and Phil deserves the world. (Thanks for listening to it, I appreciated you taking the time!)

[@theminerchan]

Two other points that didn't fit in the overall narrative. 1 - Something/Something-1 and other parts in general are (as you mentioned) avantgarde in the sense that they take noise rock elements (Sonic Youth, Unwound, Big Black etc.) and just take them to their (one could say natural) conclusion in kind of the same way that black metal does (Darkthrone, Burzum), but also with an incredibly human and personal spin on it. 2 - I'm not speaking of the intentions of the parts of silence (especially in the last track) since I don't think Phil ever commented on that, but there are easy parallels to be made. First of all to John Cage's 4'33'', and second to long takes in slow cinema. It serves an observational purpose where the listener has time to connect and reflect on what is (has been) presented to him. There are a few cool videos about "temporality" on yt :)

[@CriticalReactions]

Thanks for the lengthy, informational comment. I learned a lot about Phil's intentions and a little bit about his process. I particularly like that parallel you drew between the long silence in the last track and slow cinema. It reminds me of a lot of Tarkovsky's direction. There are several scenes in Stalker that evoke the same energy as those final moments but honestly the one scene that stands out to me is the penultimate shot in Nostalghia. Just a man, a candle, and an attempt to walk it from one end of the scene to the other. It goes out a couple of times and so he starts it over. No cuts, no dialogue, no other actors. Just a single camera tracking from right to left alongside the actor. Also your assumptions about my background and how I view music is fairly accurate. And I'm gonna take some of how you describe Phil's approach to heart moving forward.

[@SkrubsTheNeko]

Now I'm waiting for A Crow Looked at Me

[@XxuplmxX]

This is the best glow pt.2 reaction on youtube, watching you shift your perspective halfway through was so raw and fits with humanistic theme of the album so well. This was awesome to watch and even changed how I viewed a bunch of the songs in return. I gained a much greater appreciation for map and it hit me harder than it usually does.

[@lain9446]

just wanted to point out that Microphones and Mount Eerie are Phil's solo projects. He often has collaborators on his albums but overall its just him

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

You gotta listen to the follow-up called Mount Eerie (not the project, but tthe album. Well, the project is great too, but I think listening to Mount Eerie after The Glow Pt.2 has not only semantic and lyrical sense as it works kinda like an afterthought to The Glow but it is a straight up evolution sonically and musically from the ideas established before)

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

My point rests also because I feel like Mount Eerie gets often overlooked and/or overshadowed by The Glow's popularity. But Phil changed names from The Microphones to Mount Eerie for a reason, and later on he revisits the Microphones name with "Microphones in 2020" as an answer 17 years later. Oh, well. I can assure that you won't regret it. (maybe lol)

[@CriticalReactions]

The Mount Eerie album is already in the list for a full reaction :)

[@dedrick7949]

I agree so hard. I love The Glow, Pt. 2 but sonically Mount Eerie is just on a whole other level. One of the most adventurous and cinematic albums I’ve ever heard. Still a lo-fi recording but the compositions are so expansive and enveloping that it kinda just transcends its recording quality. One of the greatest musical works ever made in my opinion.

[@not_mario100]

first three tracks are insane

[@chrilborn4138]

The panning on the guitar on Instrumental is my favorite thing about it! Lol It sounds hypnotic and pretty and must've been difficult to track considering there's no way a metronome was used

[@alex11v3]

We definitely need an Mount Eerie reaction, it continues where The Glow Pt.2 ended and is way more ambitious and has a more well produced sound that you would probably liked more. Phil is a stellar songwriter, maybe other projects he made like "Dawn" would suit more your emo tastes haha, thanks for the great video as always

[@rijntje73]

I always get full on chills and goosebumps in the middle section of the title track.

[@CriticalReactions]

Neither sound familiar to me

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

Oh and that "bong" sound throughout the album is not a guitar note. It's a foghorn, like those ones on ships.

[@coleoakley8661]

This album is unbelievable, it has such a unique feeling and atmosphere that somehow feels human and other worldly at the same time. Phil’s lyrics are haunting and beautiful. It’s amazingly paced and is very cohesive despite such drastic shifts in tone and genre. Thanks for reviewing it :) The follow up album called Mount Eerie is also definitely one to check out

[@spiker1923]

1:16:43 the repeating sound at the end of songs is actually the tone of a foghorn, something Phil heard often growing up in Anacortes

[@MrKrayer]

This album got a lot of critical aclaim from music sites like Pitchfork that were the "taste makers" of the early days of indie music online. I think they got the #1 album of 2001. In those days, it was hard to find out about "underground" or more out of the norm music and so I think a lot of the following comes from this. I also think it rides off of the "outsider music" feel and the mystic of the story of one guy in the northwest writing/recording/playing everything. I love putting on this album every once in awhile. I more enjoy listening to Mirah who was produced by Phil and is more polished as well some of the low fi stuff like Kurt Blau from those K-records days.

[@alexandre-fu6zd]

One of the most important albums I have ever heard in my life, I didn't think I could feel so many emotions with songs until I heard this album some years ago

[@neromxxn2252]

Finished the video just now and can say - great analysis as always. The glow pt.2 as a song even though not being without issues is one of my favorite songs ever. The distorted guitar intro after the relatively monotone opener for me shows the monotone first days after the breakup and then the violent entrance of negative thoughts on the glow pt.2.

[@danielkillorin9742]

I see the one reoccuring note as the sun, it’s ever present in his sound worlds, and I think it shows up in Mt Eetie

[@eamoncowley214]

Great analysis!! I would definitely recommend checking out the sister album to this "Mount Eerie" or Phil Elverum's other band of the same name

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

1:25:12 On frustration: As a fan, The Glow Pt.2's intricacies and dissonances as well as lyrics brings a point on a discussion I saw in a short video on Instagram. The video portrayed a patient and his psychologist trying to elaborate on why some people are always listening to sad music, even when they are apparently on, let's say, a higher point in their lives. The patient and the psychologist enter in sort of a "rapid-fire of thoughts" conversation which leads to the conclusion that the patient feels like listening to sad music all the time because not only he identified with those feelings at one point on his life but also being that it works as an indirect way of revisiting those feelings, and for that indirect nature it also feels like he's not alone in that regard. Speaking for myself, such as the patient in that video I also feel the same way about The Glow Pt.2 (and other media as well). The thing is that Phil Elvrum managed to portray those feelings in such a specific manner as you're identifying from a Composer's standpoint that I can't help but feel in awe for it. Everything in it is so intrically connected in a way that we as viewers of this video can see your cathartic process. But the difference from a casual listener such as myself is that when I listened to it for the first time and other times as well is that for me it basically summed up to the thought of "Oh. I've been here before." (obviously it's more complex than that but I'm keeping this way for practical reasons) As a closing thought I guess that speaks a lot about you as a music reviewer.

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

A note on listening to sad music: I guess the only album I can't bring myself to listening more than one or two times is "A Crow Looked At Me" also made by Phil Elvrum as Mount Eerie.

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

damn i did elaborate a lot on that didn't i

[@adarnnit]

This is an absolutely incredible review. I really appreciate that although you didn't find it to be for your taste you were able to recognize the artistry and just how much intent went into it. Often people who are well versed in music have trouble looking past imperfections and seeing how much they can add to a work. I really hope to see you to do more indie. Specifically would love to hear your thoughts on Phil's A Crow Looked at Me album under his Mount Eerie moniker, which is focused on his wife's untimely death from cancer when their daughter was 2. Though less challenging from a musical perspective it makes The Glow Part 2 looks like a walk in the part from a lyrical perspective and its a very interesting juxaposition to listen to his thoughts about a very mature and adult situation compared to the young adult heartbreak that The Glow pt 2 is about. Also would love to see some Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, more Fugazi (Waiting Room is their biggest hit but pretty simple compared to some of their later stuff) Either way, your reviews really stand head and shoulders above the rest. Thanks for your hard work!

[@CriticalReactions]

We have Indie Rock week coming up and I won't spoil anything but at least one of your suggested bands will appear on it.

[@elsafellows4399]

I would love to hear his reaction to Bright Eyes!

[@Skrullyy]

The vocalist CAN sing really well, all the imperfections in the vocals and instrumentals are 100% intentional, paired with the story told through the lyrics it really really works, and i think if it was all "perfect" i would like the album much less

[@danielkillorin9742]

I like the distortion mixed with the indie folky guitar at the end of I want wind to blow bcoz it’s that feeling I only get from some music that feels like when you playing it cool on the outside but inside you feel a violent storm of emotion, and it’s kind of a mind numbing but that’s almost the point through my interpretation

[@j.prt.979]

Yeah, I enjoy extended repetitive sections if they’re done well. That doesn’t mean I’m rocking out to it or something, but that I like what I’m hearing due to its cohesion. I’m not annoyed by it because the stagnation and dark atmosphere come across well. I would say I enjoy the sadness of it. Enjoy =/= fun imo. The thematic/artistic side also comes through.

[@doublehsword6508]

Great reaction! Do the album Deathconsciousness by have a nice life next please! It's in the same vain; both are 10s

[@jakmak94]

This is my favourite album of all time and I love how you analyze music so this is going to be amazing

[@jcfarnham4634]

Maybe check out Phil Elverum's music after he switched to the name Mount Eerie. If you like Headless Horseman I feel like you'd dig some of his more recent more polished stuff. It's still got that heart, the imperfections, etc mind you. Just maybe not as raw as some parts of The Microphones discog

[@HawkOfGP]

Absolutely. Several Mount Eerie albums are just as good as this one to me.

[@User-b9q2z]

If you like Headless Horseman, listen to Dawn

[@oweb7754]

Would be really interesting to hear your thoughts on this album's sequel Mount Eerie (The Microphones album, not Phil's subsequent project). Think it's well worth digging into this albums narrative, and the narrative of Mount Eerie and some of Phil's inspirations (nature, where he grew up, Twin Peaks [which inspired the use of the foghorn throughout this album], black metal/ambient/avant garde music) and The Microphones place and influence in the realm of Lo-Fi music for extra context, there's lots of interesting stuff on their and the albums Wikipedia pages and lots of people have written about all those topics. Mount Eerie is my favourite of the two albums as much as I love this one and it's takes a lot of the ideas from The Glow pt 2 and expands on them and takes them even further, would be cool to hear your perspective on it coming off this album.

[@visualdrone]

I'm guessing you didn't realise that this album was written and mostly played by one man

[@CriticalReactions]

Not until over half way into the album 😄

[@DanielDay-dv8uw]

How great. I'm new here id hoped you'd reviewed So Many Dynamos Flashlights it's the most tense album I know. And I'm surprised you've never done an Elliott Smith review

[@spiker1923]

after you react to the album Mount Eerie by the Microphones, you should react to the album Microphones in 2020, which is basically a retrospect of the Microphones project

[@danielblair2684]

I've always taken this album to be not just about death, but specifically about suicide, and even more specifically about the mind space one has to be in and the journey one takes to get there to consider something like that. This helps explain a lot of the lo-fi production choices as from the very start the narrator is in a very ugly headspace. Like most tragic stories I do think this album takes on a different feeling once you know the end, and a repeated listen lets the eerie foghorn take on its true nature which is that of the inevitability represented by Samurai Sword and My Warm Blood.

[@DGog224]

Try a full album reaction to Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica!

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

Absolute banger

[@12sleep34]

THE WHOLE ALBUM????? OHH yes

[@143jcm]

there's no eennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd

[@dr.lawrencejacoby3192]

Do Not Available by the residents immediately

[@muwin8585]

i love this album so much

[@bjhough3925]

Akron/Family self titled

[@jmpsthrufyre]

Maybe check out Elliot Smith? Roman Candle is a good jumping off point

[@User-b9q2z]

Roman Candle gets absolutely no love, so underrated

[@jmpsthrufyre]

@@User-b9q2z Yup. Some of rawest most beautiful songs I've ever heard

[@j.prt.979]

I think it’s fair to say Map is the best one. I think it is personally, though the first 3 tracks come extremely close.

[@gabrielschwarz2977]

you should react to the previous album and the next one, they are kind of a trilogy. And also Microphones in 2020, where phil give a look in all of his life

[@danielkillorin9742]

Also Phile Evrum isn’t the most virtuous musician, it could very well be that he’s playing out of time because he’s trash at guitar haha but his strength is concepts, so gratifying, melody, and songwriting, and he’s a great producer

[@naumovoleg5677]

Love it. Such an outsider experience❤

[@kraai1152]

You should react to more car seat headrest

[@derk486]

OH MY GOD YOU DID IT!

[@cybersnap6072]

I never liked this album because it's just too rough for me, which is saying a lot because I have a great appreciation for rough, DIY sounds. I think the timing inconsistencies are what really spoil it for me. There are a lot of beautiful moments but I wish my guy would have bought a metronome. 56:50 "I could listen to a whole album of this." Do yourself a favor and listen to Lost Wisdom and Dawn by Mount Eerie. (a later project of the same guy who made this album) Both are absolutely jaw-doppingly gorgeous, especially lost wisdom. And thankfully Phil bought a metronome;)

[@fourtreemouths]

You ”get a metronome” people perplex me. Of course, if a player has bad tempo it can be problematic, but the ways Phil plays with microrhythms have a purpose and, in many opinions including mine, elevate and emphasize the songs’ impact. You might benefit from learning to appreciate the value in music that breathes in its rhythms, music employing a little thing called rubato. None of these songs’ distinct instruments divulge from each other in timing in ways that sound “bad” or “off time,” aka the jilted feel is intentional. Metronomic accuracy & strict tempo grids have their place but if you only value music that’s robotically glued to a equal divisions of a metronome’s pulse, you’re gonna miss out on the brilliance and beauty of a ton of material.

[@cybersnap6072]

@@fourtreemouths this comment reads like a parody of a redditor. you do you bud. I’m content being the brainlet that “misses out on the brilliance of art that’s supposed to be bad” lol

[@kqatsi]

"There are a lot of beautiful moments but I wish my guy would have bought a metronome." Buy a punctuation lesson.

[@cybersnap6072]

@@kqatsi lol roasted

[@Plinian5850]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

[@knuckless_]

YES!

[@trapyy1861]

You just reacted to a top 5 album of all time. How do you feel 😅

[@CriticalReactions]

Kinda the same...? 🤔

[@neromxxn2252]

HOLY SHIT. NO WAY

[@neromxxn2252]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE ALBUK RVER OH YHIS IS GONNA BE A TREAT

[@CrummyVCR]

We listen to so much on time, quantized , filler music that when anyone plays something "off" its rejected. The Glow Pt2 is an ice pick that abruptly skewers into your hand and hits the table below and demands you sit down and listen to its message.

[@lukasalak4162]

FINALLY A

[@MrKulturembargo]

wow! a 3hrs 23mins video with a superiority sentiment in the title... who takes this much time out of their schedule to listen to sb talking about sth they could just experience themselves in way less time?!?!?!

[@user-yb7iw1iy2y]

people like sharing their thoughts and feelings on the art they love, that doesn't replace the experience of listening to the album, it's complementary