JAnonymous5150
Headphoneus Supremus
This morning it's all IEMs and closed backs for listening. I was running my Campfire Supermoon CIEMs during the video/phone calls I've been on all morning and decided they'd be a great pick for a pair to start my listening sesh with. They're comfy, nicely balanced, capable of handling any genre, and are very accurate. They're the best single planar IEM I have come across. Rught now, I'm running them off my ifi Diablo 2 being fed by my laptop. This setup sounds fantastic this morning. Supermoons aside, the Diablo 2 is another piece of gear that I've been totally happy with since I bought it earlier this year.
Up first in my musical rotation are The Blue Stones with their release from March, METRO. TBS are a Canadian band that play a hip-hop and electronic infused brand of bluesy indie rock. Their earlier work had a kind of low level energy and hook-laden grooviness that I found addicting. I think their last album strayed from much of what made them a favorite of mine so I had been anticipating this album for months, excited to hear where they took the album. Thankfully, after several listens I can confidently say that they kept the increased production value from the last album, but brought back many of the touches from the past that had been neglected. Specifically, the lyrics and songwriting went back to a less generically poppy style in favor of the well planned hooks and classic schemes from their early work. That combo produced a damn fine album and put the band back on track, IMO.
If you're an indie fan at all, give this one a listen. It's perfect for kickin' back and enjoying a sesh whike you catch a vibe. If the idea of bluey indie rock influenced by electronic genres like trip hop piques your curiosity, this album is not to be missed. It's all the catchy hookiness of top shelf indie with the low key grooves and beats of chilled out hip-hop or trip hop. What's not to like?
Up first in my musical rotation are The Blue Stones with their release from March, METRO. TBS are a Canadian band that play a hip-hop and electronic infused brand of bluesy indie rock. Their earlier work had a kind of low level energy and hook-laden grooviness that I found addicting. I think their last album strayed from much of what made them a favorite of mine so I had been anticipating this album for months, excited to hear where they took the album. Thankfully, after several listens I can confidently say that they kept the increased production value from the last album, but brought back many of the touches from the past that had been neglected. Specifically, the lyrics and songwriting went back to a less generically poppy style in favor of the well planned hooks and classic schemes from their early work. That combo produced a damn fine album and put the band back on track, IMO.
If you're an indie fan at all, give this one a listen. It's perfect for kickin' back and enjoying a sesh whike you catch a vibe. If the idea of bluey indie rock influenced by electronic genres like trip hop piques your curiosity, this album is not to be missed. It's all the catchy hookiness of top shelf indie with the low key grooves and beats of chilled out hip-hop or trip hop. What's not to like?
