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The Seer or, whichever you prefer, the most overrated album of 2012, that isn't quite as good as hipster majorities claim. The choice is yours, dear unadulterated reader. (I find it to be a rather easy one.)
Experimental rock, noise rock, punk rock, post-rock, gothic rock, industrial rock, folk rock, whatever rock I suppose? Honestly, taggers, make up your damn minds already.
Swans, the great whatever-rock rocking rock band that everybody seems to love for not sure what, and that's completely not the point. Have you heard the word yet? No? Well then, I must educate you on this case; in fact I have the obligation to- The Seer is the best album of 2012, if you hadn't known that simple fact already, and for a reason, too, because the hipster masses said so. There.
Don’t you just find it adorable when little children play with each other, especially when they pretend to be some heroes of some sort? Or when they try to mimic their parents or other people and they start speaking in that high self-righteous tone and act as if they were mature? I know right! That’s totally cute!
But don’t we find this kind of behavior somewhat improper when paired with a bunch of pretentious, angsty and much older people? Yeah, I thought so, too.
I especially love it when a conversation derails and hipsies start hippity-hipping about their music. They suddenly become overly pretentious and prone to angst! But I digress.
So The Swans released a new album- The Seer, erm, I mean, Swans released their new album- Seer, what? Wait, ah. Swans released their new album- The Seer, well that was unnecessarily complex. As is the actual music put in there. Let’s just try to cut it short, since I’m not really in the mood for wasting my time of actually writing an honest review here, shall we?
Swans really did their damnedest this time making this album as overly pretentious and (allegedly) artistic as they could. The lyrics don't make sense and are generally stupid, but that gives the piece the deeper meaning that tickles the fancy of all the hipsies, who can attempt to interpret it to their liking and simply adore the feeling of superiority doing so!
What? There's more? Oh yeah, and they played a bunch of instruments with fancy effects and stuff to create a more distinguished and enjoyable experience for our adolescent brats! Oh, and they played them all at once! Rejoice.
But who am I to judge the great, all-knowing hipster majorities, who know shi- I mean, know the purest definition of art and are capable of finding the truest (of the true) diamonds in the rough by using their thoroughly furnished artistic measures? Nobody. For I am but a humble bystander, who happens to have a somewhat well-calibrated sense of art, or maybe just the common sense. Who knows.
You have to admit, that it’s really adorable when hipsies oversaturate the value of a certain music piece (which could be a piece of garbage to begin with, anything really) to the point other hipsies start liking it as well; and how they value often exaggerated, or even imaginary, “artistic” (oh please, just shoosh) meanings over actual enjoyment of the said music experience. Just mix both of the aforementioned attributes…
Yes, that’s right! You get The Seer- an overrated mix of pretentiousness, hipsie grief, non-existent artistic values and orphan tears that isn’t even enjoyable to listen to!
Isn’t that just swell, children? Now back to your bunks, it’s getting late!
Wirrak escribió:Pues a mí no me parece para tanto.
Swans really did their damnedest this time making this album as overly pretentious and (allegedly) artistic as they could. The lyrics don't make sense and are generally stupid, but that gives the piece the deeper meaning that tickles the fancy of all the hipsies, who can attempt to interpret it to their liking and simply adore the feeling of superiority doing so!
What? There's more? Oh yeah, and they played a bunch of instruments with fancy effects and stuff to create a more distinguished and enjoyable experience for our adolescent brats! Oh, and they played them all at once! Rejoice.
Jolocho Jolochov Joloch escribió:No me digáis que no es gracioso ésto:Swans really did their damnedest this time making this album as overly pretentious and (allegedly) artistic as they could. The lyrics don't make sense and are generally stupid, but that gives the piece the deeper meaning that tickles the fancy of all the hipsies, who can attempt to interpret it to their liking and simply adore the feeling of superiority doing so!
What? There's more? Oh yeah, and they played a bunch of instruments with fancy effects and stuff to create a more distinguished and enjoyable experience for our adolescent brats! Oh, and they played them all at once! Rejoice.
-GeR- escribió:Jolocho Jolochov Joloch escribió:No me digáis que no es gracioso ésto:Swans really did their damnedest this time making this album as overly pretentious and (allegedly) artistic as they could. The lyrics don't make sense and are generally stupid, but that gives the piece the deeper meaning that tickles the fancy of all the hipsies, who can attempt to interpret it to their liking and simply adore the feeling of superiority doing so!
What? There's more? Oh yeah, and they played a bunch of instruments with fancy effects and stuff to create a more distinguished and enjoyable experience for our adolescent brats! Oh, and they played them all at once! Rejoice.
Pues a mí la reseña me parece una bazofia de las gordas, abusando del término "hipster" cada dos por tres, lo cuál me parece todavía más patético.
Pues sí, hay un propósito artístico en los Swans; y sí, las letras son abstractas; y sí, tocan todos los instrumentos a la vez; y sí, experimentan con su música. Lo que yo me pregunto es, ¿desde cuándo éstos son valores detestables?
Estableciendo una comparativa, ¿os acordáis de aquellos días en que se empezó a mediatizar el término "perroflauta"? Cómo un término vulgar utilizado dentro del underground fue paulatinamente mediatizado, y finalmente aplicado a cualquier sujeto cuya ideología tuviera un ligero tinte izquierdista (con un tono claramente despectivo, por supuesto). Evidentemente, del punkie costroso tocando la flauta con su pulgoso perro al lado al chaval que se manifiesta por unos derechos, pero que aproximadamente tiene una vida acomodada hay unos cuantos saltos. Y sin embargo, se engloban dentro del mismo término despectivo: "perroflauta".
Hago este rodeo para intentar explicar la sensación de patada en los cojones que me revuelve el cuerpo entero cada vez que leo la palabra "hipster", sentimiento que aumenta exponencialmente en el caso de esta reseña, en la que lo dice un mínimo de 15 veces en apenas cinco párrafos. Vaya, ahora parece que ya no mola escuchar música experimental, y que haya que pedir perdón por hacerlo, y que no existe diferencia entre alguien que pueda disfrutar plenamente de una obra como lo es "The Seer" a cualquier flipado de buenas a primeras que consume y desecha a una velocidad de vértigo, encumbrando grupos y denostándolos al día siguiente. Igual que tampoco existe diferencia entre el chaval acomodado que se manifiesta a favor de la educación pública y el punkie costroso que toca la flauta para sacar la pasta para pagarse la papela.
El problema es que en el caso del "perroflauta" hay una clara estrategia a la hora de hacerlo, y hay alguien que gana haciéndolo. En el caso de "hipster", no tengo ni zorra de quién gana qué; a lo mejor se acerca la tiranía del conservadurismo musical en que sólo pueda existir el formato estrofa-estribillo con subida de medio tono en el estribillo final, no sé. Total, que el artículo me parece una mamarrachada de tres pares de cojones que bien podría ser sustituido por una sola frase que dijera "hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster hipster" de principio a fin, así sin puntos ni comas. Viene a decir lo mismo, y el autor se habría ahorrado los ingeniosos chascarrillos que abundan en su glorioso texto. Porque ser moderno no mola, desde luego. Nos ha quedado clarinete a todos.
kiba escribió:A mí me parece soporífero. Y ya lo he intentado con The Seer unas pocas veces ya... pero no. Seré muy básico, no sabré apreciar la magnitud de tal obra.
FleiborFlei escribió:kiba escribió:A mí me parece soporífero. Y ya lo he intentado con The Seer unas pocas veces ya... pero no. Seré muy básico, no sabré apreciar la magnitud de tal obra.
Es totalmente respetable que no te gusten o que flipes con ellos, lo que no soporto es que se etiquete a la peña según te guste un grupo en una época u otra.
Si te molaban dígamos 1 año antes Swans eras cool, kvlt, trve o lo que sea y ahora te dicen hipster, WTF?
CesarAguilar escribió:Yo no he escuchado el disco porque no estoy en modo Swans. Pero la vida me ha enseñado que la peña solo gasta tanta virulencia verborreica en criticar a los más grandes. ¿Verdad Jolocho?
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