kakajade: great bassline. im completely lyric deaf though and enjoyed the beat more, probably because i see rap like i imagine a lot of edm adepts do: a source of breakbeat samples.
Originally Posted by
Skylar
QUESTION
Which is one of your favourite tracks to open up an album (the first song of the album/ep) and why is this? (p.s if you really want to, it doesn't have to be the first song on an album, but, one that you listen to first to get in a musical mood for example)
(honorable mention: Steve Roach - Reflections in Suspension)
ive been mocked for being a huge fan of this song but the reason i think its the best opener to an album is because of the way boards of canada treat their music. if you havent listened to boards of canada before, for reference, i would accurately describe their music as concentrated melancholia or as ive seen in a youtube comment, "nostalgia for a non existent past".
the fact that i go into this album expecting the usual BOC recipe (claustrophobic, melancholic synths and slightly edgy rhythms and just fucking weird as hell samples) makes this imo the best possible song to start the album with, because the fact that they chose to start the album with practically a nature science show intro makes me feel like i am about to watch one.
the album consists of multiple bitter-sweet and sad songs, and they want me to treat them as an objective, neutral and impartial thesis. you can pick this up from many different point of views but i have always seen it as a way to tell "i am going to tell you multiple sad/melancholic stories (in the form of songs). they are not bad, they are just sad and that is a real thing that exists and we accept it as common and inevitable"