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Topic: Wolf Parade's latest, Expo 86, dynamically compressed? (Read 3526 times) previous topic - next topic
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Wolf Parade's latest, Expo 86, dynamically compressed?

I'm hearing from people with "advance copies" that the album seems to have succumb to the loudness war.

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Any one else think the quality is a bit odd? I have the flac.


I have the FLAC too and the CD is definitely compressed and brickwalled, with a lot of clipping, but unforuntately that's par for the course for many CDs these days. I was loving the music, but I had to take a breather halfway through because of it. Fuck the loudness wars, fuck them hard.


I don't know much about the loudness war, but this doesn't make any sense to me...I thought only music destined for the "masses" tended to be subjected to the loudness wars, not "indie" music. That is to say, artists like John Mayer not Neutral Milk Hotel...

If I sound elitist or something, I don't mean to. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, mainly "indie rock", jazz, and classical so I've yet to come across an album that is dynamically compressed or what have you. So really, I'm surprised. I also thought that the loudness war was going out of vogue...I suppose I was wrong.

Thoughts?

Wolf Parade's latest, Expo 86, dynamically compressed?

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Quote from: OverlordXenu on
I don't know much about the loudness war, but this doesn't make any sense to me...I thought only music destined for the "masses" tended to be subjected to the loudness wars, not "indie" music. That is to say, artists like John Mayer not Neutral Milk Hotel...

My counterexample is one word: shitgaze.
 

Wolf Parade's latest, Expo 86, dynamically compressed?

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Quote from: OverlordXenu on
I don't know much about the loudness war, but this doesn't make any sense to me...I thought only music destined for the "masses" tended to be subjected to the loudness wars, not "indie" music. That is to say, artists like John Mayer not Neutral Milk Hotel...


It's a myth that the "indie" scene is free from the loudness war. Here's DR analysis of your Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998): http://dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=5344

and waveform of Holland 1945: