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Modern music is a mirror image of the internet culture as well. Blasted with as many synth hooks and processed vocal melodies as possible. I was recently turned

Modern music is a mirror image of the internet culture as well. Blasted with as many synth hooks and processed vocal melodies as possible. I was recently turned onto this band called Wand. If you want to feel some delicious space in a song, check out Scarecrow by Wand. The video is amazingly simple too. The constant bombardment of shit is so real though. I want to spend time with my wife and kid. Sometimes it's hard to focus though. Everywhere you look in public there is something flashing to get your attention. Thankfully we _are_ able to turn things off for a while and just be with each other.

fokinsean 7y ago
+1 for Wand, been following them for a while. Their music has evolved quite a bit from earlier albums but they are still one of my favorites.
conception 7y ago
Random rec but first listening to this song I got a Dawn of Midi vibe. You should check them out - their album is basically one continuous song so you can't really sample a single track and get a feel for how everything is just a single flow. Just start Dysnomia on track 1 and let it go.
john___matrix 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up on Wand, just given them a listen and definitely some lovely music to get into a zone.
SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"Modern music is a mirror image of the internet culture as well. Blasted with as many synth hooks and processed vocal melodies as possible" I don't know if that's entirely fair- orchestras have always been quite overwhelming to the senses, as have choirs and organs, IMO. Swing dance music is also quite fast and filled. Similarly, in my music spheres, minimalism is quite familiar- popular music "unplugged" has made a large comeback.
- stcredzero 7y ago
  I don't know if that's entirely fair- orchestras have always been quite overwhelming to the senses, as have choirs and organs, IMO. But those were rare, special events which people went to a lot of trouble to attend. Between those orchestral performances, people had to make their own music. Contrast that with today, when orchestral music can be background noise somewhere, accorded no special value.
  - JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
    So that's more to do with availability rather than the style OP originally posited.
lisper 7y ago
> Scarecrow by Wand Wow, that is so not what I was expecting from your description. For "space in a song" I was thinking something more like "Brothers in Arms" or "Comfortably Numb".
leeoniya 7y ago
> If you want to feel some delicious space in a song, check out Scarecrow by Wand. another good one: PUSCIFER - Momma Sed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3ccmWmLhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3ccmWmLhk
akuji1993 7y ago
Pink Floyd is also a band using a lot of "whitespace" as I usually call it (design infused I guess). In my opinion few people using silence in solos as good as Gilmour.
cjarrett 7y ago
Wand is great. Thought their latest album was from a different band because it's so different than the random freebie I got from my local record store (their Golem record, it was bent)
lebca 7y ago
Could you point out where in the song you hear space? I was interpreting the conversation's use of space to mean silence. Do you mean space in the auditory spectrum, but not in the time spectrum? Meaning, this song is less crowded instrumentally than a house/edm song (auditory spectrum), but does not create space in the time spectrum, say like a Mozart sonata does?

fokinsean 7y ago

+1 for Wand, been following them for a while. Their music has evolved quite a bit from earlier albums but they are still one of my favorites.

conception 7y ago

Random rec but first listening to this song I got a Dawn of Midi vibe. You should check them out - their album is basically one continuous song so you can't really sample a single track and get a feel for how everything is just a single flow. Just start Dysnomia on track 1 and let it go.

john___matrix 7y ago

Thanks for the heads up on Wand, just given them a listen and definitely some lovely music to get into a zone.

SolaceQuantum 7y ago

"Modern music is a mirror image of the internet culture as well. Blasted with as many synth hooks and processed vocal melodies as possible" I don't know if that's entirely fair- orchestras have always been quite overwhelming to the senses, as have choirs and organs, IMO. Swing dance music is also quite fast and filled. Similarly, in my music spheres, minimalism is quite familiar- popular music "unplugged" has made a large comeback.

stcredzero 7y ago
I don't know if that's entirely fair- orchestras have always been quite overwhelming to the senses, as have choirs and organs, IMO. But those were rare, special events which people went to a lot of trouble to attend. Between those orchestral performances, people had to make their own music. Contrast that with today, when orchestral music can be background noise somewhere, accorded no special value.
- JauntyHatAngle 7y ago
  So that's more to do with availability rather than the style OP originally posited.

lisper 7y ago

> Scarecrow by Wand Wow, that is so not what I was expecting from your description. For "space in a song" I was thinking something more like "Brothers in Arms" or "Comfortably Numb".

leeoniya 7y ago

> If you want to feel some delicious space in a song, check out Scarecrow by Wand. another good one: PUSCIFER - Momma Sed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3ccmWmLhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3ccmWmLhk

akuji1993 7y ago

Pink Floyd is also a band using a lot of "whitespace" as I usually call it (design infused I guess). In my opinion few people using silence in solos as good as Gilmour.

cjarrett 7y ago

Wand is great. Thought their latest album was from a different band because it's so different than the random freebie I got from my local record store (their Golem record, it was bent)

lebca 7y ago

Could you point out where in the song you hear space? I was interpreting the conversation's use of space to mean silence. Do you mean space in the auditory spectrum, but not in the time spectrum? Meaning, this song is less crowded instrumentally than a house/edm song (auditory spectrum), but does not create space in the time spectrum, say like a Mozart sonata does?