DMST
This practically amounts to a drunk post, as while I am not chemically altered in any way, I am certainly in a frame of mind outside what one would call normal at the moment.
It's almost 4am.
In practical terms, I made a mistake tonight. I tried to fall asleep with Do Make Say Think playing--first & Yet & Yet, then Winter Hymn...--at way higher volume than I normally play music when I'm going to bed. Basically, I forgot to turn it down. At any rate, tangentially, there is a certain volume at which music plays back 'right'--too quiet and it sounds one-dimensional; too loud and it becomes overexaggerated and larger than life--where the stereo image is perfect and the recording comes out as it's meant to be heard. It was at that point. So, while I should have turned it down, I didn't. Couldn't.
So, I just listened through Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn for the first time, in its entirety, in that state of mind you get when you're going to bed. This amounts to my having paid way more attention than normal--and at the same time, doing less analysis, because my mind wasn't in the daytime mode where things occur linearly and all that...
Anyone who has heard this album (nickdiscredit in particular) may understand exactly what I'm getting at. I don't think I can explain it much better.
Thanks, Nick.
It's almost 4am.
In practical terms, I made a mistake tonight. I tried to fall asleep with Do Make Say Think playing--first & Yet & Yet, then Winter Hymn...--at way higher volume than I normally play music when I'm going to bed. Basically, I forgot to turn it down. At any rate, tangentially, there is a certain volume at which music plays back 'right'--too quiet and it sounds one-dimensional; too loud and it becomes overexaggerated and larger than life--where the stereo image is perfect and the recording comes out as it's meant to be heard. It was at that point. So, while I should have turned it down, I didn't. Couldn't.
So, I just listened through Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn for the first time, in its entirety, in that state of mind you get when you're going to bed. This amounts to my having paid way more attention than normal--and at the same time, doing less analysis, because my mind wasn't in the daytime mode where things occur linearly and all that...
Anyone who has heard this album (nickdiscredit in particular) may understand exactly what I'm getting at. I don't think I can explain it much better.
Thanks, Nick.