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BallsMcGrath wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2025 5:02 pm Third track. Omar still putting farts in the music.

Nevbox wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:13 am There’s something called “gapless playback” where all the tracks play without gaps. The version I have is gapless where I don’t hear a space or gaps in between tracks. I couldn’t find a single track version, I don’t think that exists.

Go whet your grave
Labyrinth we're lost in
The home of the bear
Home(hole?) in the water

ffmpeg -i (filename) -af areverse reversed.mp3

Jehu wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:22 pm New album slaps. TMV are back baby, for real this time.

Now all we need is for them to acknowledge it's existence ffs.

fluxcedalia wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:49 pm

Jehu wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:22 pm New album slaps. TMV are back baby, for real this time.

Now all we need is for them to acknowledge it's existence ffs.

Oh, by any chance, is there a slightest possibility you like to... drive idk?

djzap wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:54 am Something I note about this album is the heavy and prominent use of vocal fx, probably more so on this album than any other since DitC?
I feel like after watching If This Ever Gets Weird that the vocal processing was a core tenet of early TMV in some way to them, and that might be part of the 'harkening back to their roots' on this album.

djzap wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:54 am Something I note about this album is the heavy and prominent use of vocal fx, probably more so on this album than any other since DitC?
I feel like after watching If This Ever Gets Weird that the vocal processing was a core tenet of early TMV in some way to them, and that might be part of the 'harkening back to their roots' on this album.

Also god damn this album just keeps growing and growing on me. It's so addictive and so good.

djzap wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:28 pm I wonder if this is some sort of pre-master of the album, considering the early leak and the quite bass heavy sound to it. The ST record was also bass heavy but not really in this way, it still felt quite crisp and balanced where this sounds a little muted.

By the way the current leak is a transcode, just to be aware. It seems like the initial leak may have been a single MP3 128kbps of the whole album, which is low quality enough. Then someone seems to have used that and split it into the 18 tracks, re-encoding it to 320kbps MP3. So it's going to be slightly worse quality than the original 128kbps single MP3 version (which I don't think is really making the rounds out there like the split version). If you look at the spectrograph for the MP3 it cuts off pretty hard at 16kHz with just occasional bits of noise above that which is indicative of a 128kbps MP3.

I've set up this EQ for it that sounds quite nice IMO in case anyone else wants to try it out.
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Hughesta wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 3:59 am really wish I had even the slightest idea what this man is saying on Fin

G.O.Dayz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:55 pm I haven't really started trying to make out lyrics but settling with the instrumentals, I love this thing more every listen. It's almost like a puzzle; between the way the tracks are broken up, the way the leak was split up from one long track, the artwork, and some stray lyrics I've caught, it evokes Pangea to me - broken pieces made up of one original whole.