Text While Driving If You Want to Meet God (豆瓣)

表演者: Vegyn
流派: 电子
专辑类型: 选集
介质: CD
发行时间: 2019-06-06
出版者: PLZ Make It Ruins
唱片数: 1

豆瓣评分

7.7

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简介 · · · · · ·

　　Never one to pass up an opportunity to self-aggrandize, Kanye West famously immortalized his work ethic on his debut album. “You can't fathom my love, dude,” he declared. “Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers… I deserve to do these numbers.” It’s an axiom that’s motivated countless would-be artists in the decade and a half since: You want to be as ... (展开全部) 　　Never one to pass up an opportunity to self-aggrandize, Kanye West famously immortalized his work ethic on his debut album. “You can't fathom my love, dude,” he declared. “Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers… I deserve to do these numbers.” It’s an axiom that’s motivated countless would-be artists in the decade and a half since: You want to be as good as Kanye? Put your nose to the grindstone and eventually you’ll get there. Even if the stuff you make is middling, nobody will hear it but you. Unless you want them to.
　　Text While Driving If You Want to Meet God!, a 71-track collection of bits and beats from Frank Ocean collaborator Vegyn, lays his hard drive bare. It’s a showcase of interesting drafts; an honest recording of the London multi-hyphenate’s musical trials since the relatively concise (but similarly cheeky) All Bad Things Have Ended—Your Lunch Included in 2014. Only a handful of songs reach the two-minute mark, and their nonsensical, diaristic titles suggest a busy artist tapping in the first phrase that comes to mind.
　　Throughout the largely instrumental Text, the artist born Joe Thornalley toys with ambient, hip-hop, and dramatically sound-stretched electronica. Vegyn also explores emotive ’80s synths and electric pianos, an affinity he shares with countless other producers looking to tap into that classic Vangelis magic. He writes crystalline arpeggios, invoking Nobuo Uematsu and other great video game composers, while his drums, if they’re present at all, rarely impose. The lack of structure makes Text even more of a mood record, something to put on in the background of a low-key gathering that won’t distract from conversation.
　　There are moments of brilliance, like the woozy twinkles on “Try and Do a Cd After That (132 Bpm),” the electric piano melancholia of “Sadly Does It (123 Bpm),” or the interplay of guitar and drums on “Save Yall Ready Know What It Is 003 (138 Bpm),” which evokes one of Vegyn’s best Endless contributions, “Slide on Me.” While the music is hardly uninspired, the abundance of micro-exercises highlights just how prosaic even the most beautiful chords can be when, given no purpose within the context of a song, they’re teased out and left to dry.
　　There isn’t much polish to be found here, either. Mastering levels can vary dramatically from track to track, forcing the listener to continuously reach for the volume, and the alphabetical sorting—an inherent result of the album’s framing as a track dump—makes sequencing moot. That’s sort of the point. This is raw Vegyn: an artist pulling back the curtain to reveal the scattered pieces of recorded music littering his cutting-room floor. Like the recent Radiohead OK Computer leaks, Text reveals genre-spanning influences and methodologies. Vegyn is clearly a gifted producer and an inventive arranger. What remains to be seen is whether he can focus those promising creative energies to deliver songs that are less fleeting.

曲目 · · · · · ·

1.4 Year Break (126 BPM) 0:47
2.80's Nihtmare Setup (127.136 BPM) 1:07
3.100 Leagues V2 (142 BPM) 0:59
4.201886 002 _ (145 BPM) 1:24
5.A Thousand 500 Apr V2 (149.287 BPM) 0:58
6.All in Me All of It - (124 BPM) 0:49
7. Anothher Time Anothher Place (150 BPM) 0:55
8. B... Arp Forever V3 (109.613 BPM) 1:18
9.Bedtime Again V2 (130 BPM) 0:34
10.Big Shoes Big Hands V3 (120 BPM) 0:41
11.Buddy Lent Me the Pen Again V006 (218.814 BPM) 1:16
12.Ch---- Pa------- V2 (169.706 BPM) 1:00
13.Chords to Fix 002 (126 BPM) 0:49
14.Country Song Without (187.089 BPM) 1:06
15.Dean Told Me! (132 BPM) 1:04
16.Deep Deep Throwaway 003 (100 BPM) 1:21
17.Desktop Speaker 003 (130 BPM) 1:07
18.Dumb to Everythhing V2 (140 BPM) 1:08
19.Evil Man Two V2 (120 BPM) 1:11
20.Feet Too Tough 005 (128 BPM) 2:28
21. Find Hihs Password 003 (96 BPM)2:13
22.First of 2018 002 (140 BPM) 1:06
23.Get This Thang Right Here 003 (170 BPM) 1:23
24.Gnot Up! V2 (109 BPM) 0:41
25.Go Tow Work (134 BPM) 1:30
26.Gsc Cbd V1 (98.995 BPM) 0:46
27.Gsc Cbd V2 (98.995 BPM) 0:43
28.Happy Birthday Friendo! (154 BPM) 1:32
29.Here We Are - Chords Again (137 BPM) 1:00
30.I Only Play Games I Know (160 BPM) 0:55
31.If Not Someone Then Somewhere 004 (89.797 BPM) 1:33
32.Infinite Freeze Frame (96.532 BPM) 2:27
33.Iphone Speakerz (112 BPM) 1:13
34.Is It Rough Is It Tough (154 BPM) 1:04
35.It's All in the Eyes of (124 BPM) 1:41
36.Its Okay Its Just Okay 002 (145 BPM) 1:02
37.Last Pieces of the Year (120 BPM) 0:52
38 Less so More so (140 BPM) 0:57
39.Life Feels Good (91.71 BPM) 1:06
40.Malibu Hillside - (155 BPM) 0:55
41.Maybe Inspired (145 BPM) 0:32
42.Midday Sun (124 BPM) 1:23
43.Milk Dudz 006 (140 BPM) 1:42
44.Mistakes Were Made, Risks Were Taken (155 BPM) 0:53
45.Monét Monét (135 BPM) 1:13
46.Nobody's Business (148 BPM) 1:08
47.Noise Making Problem (100 BPM) 0:43
48.Ns10 + Sub Combo Classic V2 (120 BPM) 1:02
49.Nuish (103.181 BPM) 1:18
50.Olbass All Bass 004 (140 BPM) 2:21
51.Once a Smoker - Always a Smoker (108.065 BPM) 1:06
52.One More for the Homies (115.203 BPM) 1:15
53.Picnic B_st_rd (112.380 BPM) 1:17
54.Picnic Trajegdy (142 BPM) 1:25
55.Positive Nightmare (134 BPM) 1:00
56.Post Thought of Knowing Nothing (152 BPM) 1:09
57.Pull Shark (127 BPM) 1:06
58.Right Noww (150 BPM) 0:54
59.Sadly Does It (123 BPM) 1:03
60.Safety at Night (99.226 BPM) 1:41
61.Save Yall Ready Know What It Is 003 (138 BPM) 1:53
62.Snslo Modem (135 BPM) 1:09
63.Thouhtless Thouhts (155 BPM) 1:17
64.To All the Photos Going up Online Rn (118 BPM) 1:06
65.Try and Do a Cd After That (132 BPM) 1:04
66.Try Towards Overtime (140 BPM) 1:05
67.Veggie Burritotu (120 BPM) 0:49
68.Waitin on an Ambulance 002 (205.367 BPM) 1:17
69.What Goody in the Back (138.089 BPM) 1:13
70.Whhat the Fuck Did I Buy_ 002 (123 BPM) 1:19
71.Yo This Is the Next Tune Yah Get Me (124 BPM) 2:24