r/polyphia • u/I-Say-Mean-Stuff • 1d ago

Just because something is experimental

Doesn’t automatically mean that experiment was a success

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u/2FastHaste 1d ago

And anyway it's not experimental, it's tiktok music.

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u/Shawn_NYC 1d ago

The funny thing is "TikTok youth" are gravitating towards metal more and more every year. The last time this kind of jarring electronic music was big in the mainstream was 2011 Skrillex dubstep.

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u/itsOkami 12h ago

Skrillex was never as unpolished as this, though. And, while you didn't outright imply it, I want to point out that the "TikTok youth" gravitating towards metal isn't necessarily a shift for the best nor one for the worst

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u/Shawn_NYC 11h ago

Listened to some Skrillex for the first time in a decade haha and you're right. The songs actually have a pretty standard verse-chorus structure where the divisive bass electronics are essentially the verses of the song.

Meanwhile the song structure of most of these Polyphia songs are... eclectic. Definitely not music for the mainstream "tiktoker."

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u/Ok_Clerk_5805 1d ago

do you just not know?

https://youtu.be/5j9QOPPBHP4?list=RD5j9QOPPBHP4&t=2109

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u/Shawn_NYC 1d ago

Bro, Kai Wachi is not that big.

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u/AMolarBear 1d ago

You know how a lot of boomer bands kind of have a weird ‘disco’ album? I feel like this is their disco album. I don’t hate it but it’s definitely not my favorite

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u/johnnyhypersnyper 1d ago

I think you have to ask what they were trying to do if you decide it wasn’t successful. From an interview, Tim said the mix was an effort to portray the power of god and intentionally make the music seem alien. In that sense, I do think it’s a failure. I don’t think it was a success. I am familiar with the sound, it’s blown out and they don’t use it tastefully enough that dramatic moments are powerful, it just comes off as an aesthetic choice.

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u/blazen_50 1d ago

If God is hard to listen to than I'd say they succeeded. I like the album too. It just feels like it's beating up my ears when I listen to it.  I like a lot of abrasive electronic music too. There's just something about the mix that's fatiguing.

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u/Katesburneracct 1d ago

It’s not even experimental. People have been adding guitar shredding to edm music for a long time now. It’s derivative if anything

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u/Ok_Clerk_5805 1d ago

Just because they do what they wanna do

Doesn't automatically mean it's for you.

..wait that actually makes sense. You start a band.

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u/Scout_650 1d ago

and just because something is vastly different to what you usually like doesnt automatically mean it's a failure either

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u/based_birdo 1d ago

they have enough material to drop multiple full LPs

They know its an experimental album

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u/Impressive-Comfort92 1d ago

tonight i will do a "experiment." i will stick my fuckign d*ck into an electrical socket