Comments on: Clark — Ted E.P.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:06:35 +0000

this review is stupid. can you even describe what the music sounds like without comparing it to someone else? anonymous is a bit of a douche but he knows what he’s saying.

By: doctorvee » Music of 2007: #40–#21

doctorvee » Music of 2007: #40–#21 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:13:37 +0000

[...] My original review of Ted E.P. [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:03:09 +0000

Immediately after listening to the Ted E.P. for the third time, I started searching for reviews to see if anyone else thought it was as terrible as I think it is. After three or four immensely positive reviews, I thought I was the last sane person left. Fortunately I’m not; your review describes exactly how I felt about every single track.

By: some one else

some one else — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:36:50 +0000

you are clearly an idiot and don’t understand electronic music.
music is a message from the artist and if he may sound similar to other artists that is just cause he is influenced from them.
NO ONE IS COMPLETELY ORIGINAL THESE DAYS – ALL ART IS FORMED FROM OTHER ART!

By: arpafarpagon

arpafarpagon — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:49:31 +0000

How can you not like all the crazy stuff that’s going on in the highend and long reverbs of Campfire Headphase.

(Sorry if my English is bad, I’m from America LOL)

By: cey22

cey22 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:00:50 +0000

i stack shelves as well =].
Oh, and i was a little dissapointed with the E.P as well, two tracks i had heard before (got the bibio one on download (legally!) before the e.p).
And three tracks that sound like cast offs from Body Riddle, same distorted big beat drums, rythmic patterns etc.. melodies are not that special…….ramble ramble ramble ramble
Try not to get so opiniated about music people. it’s all subjective !
Who knows smoke one and take another listen you might like it a bit more one day.

By: doctorvee » It was war. It is war

doctorvee » It was war. It is war — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:21:39 +0000

[...] a post about some CDs I got in the post (yawn, mind you it contains an interesting reference to Chris Clark) and another one that actually seems to be about [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:44:43 +0000

I haven’t read all of the comments cause it would have been a bit too much,I hope I wont repeat things that have been already said.

Some of the first comments were about someone being disappointed by Chris Clark’s lates work: to be honest when I first heard “Ted” at Cargo I wasn’t sure about it because of the 4/4 beat, now I think it’s one of the most amazing tunes I’ve heard in the last moths..take it as you want, compare it to Clarence Park or whatever, it is obviously different, but you can’t do your whole life the same style, right?

I think that many times it’s much easier to get glitchy and confusing in the sound and mostly in the drums, but that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily good. On the opposite, i think that combining just a few good elements which make a tune complete and powerful is much harder.

I will just speak about this tune, I actually think that “Ted” is a sign of growth: it’s too easy and too obvious to try to analyse how a track has been made and try to criticise negatively because of that.
I know it might sound pathetic, but in the end it’s still about the final result of a track, not about it’s process , right?

What Warp Records has een releasing in the last years is not properly my cup of tea, but I think that Chris Clark is it’s best producers on it, and “Ted” (his work in general)is amazingly deep.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:52:08 +0000

Well, I did explain why I never investigated Bibio — he was cited as a major influence on The Campfire Headphase which is BOC’s most boring album. I had heard reviews which suggested that it wouldn’t be the sort of music that I’d be interested in. The mundane Ted ‘remix’ confirmed my conceptions about his music.

For those complaining about the poorly written nature of the review, I did flag that up at the very start of the post. I fired off the whole thing and wrote it pretty much as I thought it, I didn’t read over it or edit it. I just wanted to fire something off to register my disappointment in the EP. I didn’t promise anything other than that, I wasn’t prepared to devote any more time to the post.

By: Peter Broomfield

Peter Broomfield — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:22:05 +0000

I’m fond of your website, chap, but it does seem such a shame that what is otherwise well organised, thoughtful and informative blogging, plainly falls down on badly written, puerile, and uninformative music reviews. Bibio has long been a criminally underrated, innovative producer. A compliment from Boards of Canada on your record sleeve hardly means you are guaranteed royalty sums and recognition fit for retirement. I don’ t mean to sound harsh but I find it abit insulting that his music, which is nothing short of masterful, is met with such verbal complaceny. At least dignify what you review with more thorough reasons as to why you don’t like it. That you have never bothered to investigate his work before is something that you clearly feel proud of. I really don’t understand this attitude, sorry…