The Grayfox
#MusicTheoryBro
Looking through those old posts reminded me of so many people who used to be here who were also over at Everdying, Jesterhead and also the original IF forum here. How many of them still lurk around? Who knows?
Jeez, I think you guys have been reading too many of the early forum topics on here Clayman is fantastic. Practically any legendary song would sound like shit if put through the Clayman 2020 filter. There's not a single song on Clayman I'd rate lower than 8 and most are 9 or 10. If good production mattered that much I'd be giving Foregone the same marks, rather than mostly 5 and 6's, so I think some of these takes are pretty exaggerated.
IF major dip in quality is from SC onwards. Pretty much everything before that is solid in terms of ideas, even if the execution is sometimes off (ASOP).
The SOAPF thread is a trip. A chance to see Krofius in his prime, and me and A88 when we were young and full of hopes and dreams for IF. Then SC came along like a fucking plague and spread disease through all of us.
Well, unfortunately I have to report that my post wasn't aimed at you it was based on comments about Clayman being "saved" by production, which is ridiculous to me. As if the music can't stand on its own merits.
Let us get back to the original point which was rudely deflected earlier: Foregone is vomit inducing. I just vomited again when I remembered listening to it.
In my opinion, here has more presence than ever. I'm at a point where I'm not sure if the metallic overprocessed effect is something else or just autotunes used throughout the whole album, to a point where they have even used it for the growls. Then, I will say, and I'm probably not wrong, that most of the vocal melodies have been written by Benson. There's no way that Anders is suddenly so "creative". For anyone who has been listening to the guy for the past decades, we all know that he's more "limited" than that.Well yeah, I've been listening to Anders and autotune machine doing the deed for a decade plus now, so it's not that gross to me anymore. I just roll my eyes at it.
In my opinion, here has more presence than ever. I'm at a point where I'm not sure if the metallic overprocessed effect is something else or just autotunes used throughout the whole album, to a point where they have even used it for the growls. Then, I will say, and I'm probably not wrong, that most of the vocal melodies have been written by Benson. There's no way that Anders is suddenly so "creative". For anyone who has been listening to the guy for the past decades, we all know that he's more "limited" than that.
But yes, for me, taking aside the music, that I don't really recognize anymore, the vocals are the lost annoying part of this album. Like, I could maybe, enjoy this kind of music coming from a different band, but the vocals, never!