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Mystic210
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Love it!

THOUGH, took me about two listens (granted, the first was not on speakers, but a smaller device). I love the outro, especially the piano where there's an accent note (or whatever the musical term is) where it sounds flat.

Yes, I don't know if I would call it an automatically "catchy" song, but there's definitely layers of sound to enjoy as you let them soak and grow on you!
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The Man In The Moon
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listening to it twice on earbuds on my phone thought, eh... now listening to on my computer i like it a lot more. i like the reverse effects at the beginning
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also, i'm thinking this song is a little reminiscent of laugh it off. also, it reminds me a little of bjork.
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^ yes & yes. My immediate thought was that it picks up where Laugh It Off left off tonally and takes it from one musical era (mid 70s fleetwood mac) to another (post millenial indie as informed by alternative & trip-hop). I thought Bjork, then considered how long it's been since she release a song that wasn't intentionally unconventional & abrasive in some way, and then thought of Bats For Lashes, but her stuff has never struck me as that percussive, and the combo of piano figures & percussion make this song an incredible tapestry of light wire pulsing in sync with a sudden spring storm hitting the surface of the water on a small pond as heard from a few feet below.

I only listened via earbuds. I'm afraid to play it through my system. All the animals in the neighbor might suddenly encircle my house in a trance.

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The_Paronomasial_Mattoid
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^I get a "Laugh It Off" vibe from it, too. I don't know why, but it just has that feeling to me. It really doesn't sound anything like it, but if the rest of the album is in this general area, LIO would have done beautifully on this album.
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is there a difference between dubstep and techno?
you know besides the name?

techno: uhnd chik uhnd chik uhnd chik uhnd chik
dubstep: BOOM Chik.. Boom Boom Boom Chik.. PEOOOWWwwww BOOM BOWowoWOWoWOWow zipzipzipzipzipwoowooowoow EEEEEeeeeeerrr BOOM BOOM BOOM Splat!
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The_Paronomasial_Mattoid
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Haha! Wil, you crack me up. It's true, though. This song has a very underwater, enticing quality. Like a Siren. I think that was partially the point, but I'm loving it. I'm a huge, huge fan of this song and everything else I've heard. I'm ready for it.
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Nowhere Man wrote:
mr pine wrote:
is there a difference between dubstep and techno?
you know besides the name?

techno: uhnd chik uhnd chik uhnd chik uhnd chik
dubstep: BOOM Chik.. Boom Boom Boom Chik.. PEOOOWWwwww BOOM BOWowoWOWoWOWow zipzipzipzipzipwoowooowoow EEEEEeeeeeerrr BOOM BOOM BOOM Splat!
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The Man In The Moon
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i can't wait to hear wicked child and the studio version of the other songs. plus, i'd like to see how aristicats will fit.
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It just dawned on me that the album title Currents can be read as a double entendre...

Consider that both songs we've heard are the most modern/ post-modern Eisley has ever sounded as a band, outside of that Combinations Remix that someone did...

So there's the aquatic take on it, and the fact that this is Eisley making sophisticated contemporary music, that sounds... current.

Well played Eisley, in every sense.

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$#@!.
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And there needs to be a meme with this picture


and says, "DON'T TRIP... WE GOT THIS."
That pic needs some Lil' Jon.

Wow is all I have to say about Drink the Water.

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I think it's interesting that we've been gauging Radiohead's influence on Eisley tracks since practically the days of their inception but no one's mentioned them here. This is the closest I feel they've ever been.
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Sorry to double post, but I'm not done talking about this song/the REVITALIZATION OF EISLEY. Some more thoughts:

- I finally listened to this on my headphones instead of my laptop speakers and I keep re-listening to hear all of the different instruments and h o l y c o w
- would love to hear a rapper use some of the loops from this song, I think it could be beautiful
- this weirdly makes me want to hear Eisley collab with Frank Ocean
- or I'd even love to hear someone like Grimes remix this
- if all of the album has this kind of contemporary feel to it, my mind is totally being opened up to having great tour partners like Chairlift, Widowspeak, Real Estate, or Warpaint

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princesstripandfall wrote:
you can stream "Drink The Water" at Nylon.
i definitely hear the Sucre force at work and lots of Stacy's early garageband bounce. Shocked?!



bit o' cocteau twins/DCD meets thievery corp. - very nice.

and I trace that sound everyone's discussing that shows up in Sucre to the Like the Actors EP, specifically the title track. Maybe Aristocats a bit too, but we weren't supposed to have heard that, right?

edit; did Garon grow his hair out?
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Did anything about the song make anyone think of their musical hero, Jeremy Enigk?
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The Man In The Moon
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never listened to jeremy enigk's solo so i can't say anything there. i thought radiohead, but i felt this was closer to bjork.

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i also wanna add that i like that they jam out the end of this song.

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