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Old 11-03-2019, 01:45 AM
TheBang
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Re: DRIFT Series 1 - New album, Nov 1, 2019
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Originally Posted by dubman View Post
when I say I'll never fully understand this band....

damn it.
The great thing about this process is that we'll always have the previous versions, if that's what we prefer.

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Hell of a thing to try listening to it as a stand-alone. Almost wanna make a thread on how perception changes from what an album is expected to be, and how these tracks were revealed to us. I’m almost certain I would have a different reaction to these tracks if this was presented traditionally, which I think is the point of their frustrations with the format!
That was definitely going through my mind as I was trying to grind through the box set analysis, especially the new tracks. Trying to listen to and absorb all the new tracks was very much like listening to a new album for the first time. And it was in stark contrast to the way we got all the other tracks, getting a week to digest it by itself on its own merits and then evaluate it again later as part of a larger collection, and then maybe within the context of a curated collection (the sampler).