Kirby's "An empty bliss beyond this world" is actually one of the best conceptual records that I've heard, especially among those that also work commercially (as opposed to something like lucier's "I'm sitting in a room"). There's a good bit of detail on it online, on wikipedia for example, so I'm not gonna write about it here, but you should definitely give it a listen.Bunny_boy wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:45 am ...Leyland Kirby, of all people, did that Caretaker record made up of samples 78s to evoke an interwar / postwar music hall atmosphere (... for his grandmother?).
So doing a record that evokes your childhood being a mallrat fits into these really well.
Adventurous new music genres?
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- KVRist
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- KVRAF
- 7152 posts since 23 Nov, 2016 from a small city
That's the one I was thinking of!Opaque wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 2:06 pmKirby's "An empty bliss beyond this world" is actually one of the best conceptual records that I've heard, especially among those that also work commercially (as opposed to something like lucier's "I'm sitting in a room"). There's a good bit of detail on it online, on wikipedia for example, so I'm not gonna write about it here, but you should definitely give it a listen.Bunny_boy wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:45 am ...Leyland Kirby, of all people, did that Caretaker record made up of samples 78s to evoke an interwar / postwar music hall atmosphere (... for his grandmother?).
So doing a record that evokes your childhood being a mallrat fits into these really well.
Couldn't remember it's name.The intent is very different to his stuff under the VVM monicker
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Genre is useful when stocking the bins of a record store. When I started, the first bands I had going could easily be assigned a genre, first was three-chord RnR, next was "Prog".
As a grown person the intent was to subvert genre, it was easier to start from the familiar - and to frame it as entertainment, comedy - but by the end "C & W" might not have been the most reasonable assessment. I had one thing, just me where the first part got tagged "blues", the second part "neo-baroque" but I start with a feel, choose 'a band' or that and start writing parts. Genre formally is too restrictive for me, and too predictive. I prefer freedom.
As a grown person the intent was to subvert genre, it was easier to start from the familiar - and to frame it as entertainment, comedy - but by the end "C & W" might not have been the most reasonable assessment. I had one thing, just me where the first part got tagged "blues", the second part "neo-baroque" but I start with a feel, choose 'a band' or that and start writing parts. Genre formally is too restrictive for me, and too predictive. I prefer freedom.