Richard Robertson

Unseen wrote:
I wonder if the trend to highly processing the vocals and cranking up the distortion on the guitar and bass might be in response to their producer’s wishes.

I wonder too, but I’m putting my bet on the band just having fun with it. Pau’s smiling a lot, and I really love her fills in Sun. In any case, their audience mostly loves it, a…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

Unseen wrote:
It’s the girls’ personalities. They are just fun to watch. Maybe it’s part of their latina-ness, but their are all very animated and effusive.

I think it also speaks to their incredible parents and other chosen support structures, including their absolute insistence on keeping final say on everything. It’s like they were train…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
And they are not half bad.

Per YouTube reviews and comments, I expected they’d be pretty good. I’ve not looked into them because I need to limit my rabbit holes. Good song, this one. I estimate it’s about 150 bpm (if it’s time signature is written in 4/4 time), bannable in Chechnya. I wonder if/how the law defines time signatures,…[Read more]

Did you guys notice the eclipse backstage near the middle of Automatic Sun? I didn’t. Just watch for a minute if you can, where I jump into it.

Unseen wrote:
having a gorgeous lead singer

Ok, I’m unintentionally imagining, behind every gorgeous performer, Unseen dancing with arms up in the air.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Let’s see how their new album does.

I don’t love the song you first suggested, a lot because of the mono-tonality of the singer, but that shouldn’t be a minus in every case. A lot of hit songs pushing the tonic a lot, i.e. the root note of the key that the song’s in. BB King comes to mine, in a few of his iconic h…[Read more]

I accidentally ran into their newest release that’s only three hours old. I like it. It’s the 3rd video below. I looked for lyrics and lucked out. (I’m not impressed by the lyrics. Am I missing something?)

I’ll present the live fancam-quality video first. The audio is unsurprisingly awful (IMO), but you can see the professional video cameras on…[Read more]

I eat babies all the time. (Before they’re actually babies.) IIRC, Japanese eating chicken and eggs call it Mother and Son, or something like that.

Another side note, I only recently learned that cheeseburgers are not kosher. Although this belief might depend on which flavor (err, I mean interpretation) of Judaism one adopts, it’s a violation of…[Read more]

Loving Arugula! I mean, Eruca Sativa!

Oh, I like that. I’ve seen online sites that can separate music into tracks, but I haven’t messed with them yet, and I’m sure they’re not this good. But they’re handy when you want to play or sing along with specific tracks.

I came to post about another lesson on listening. I was impressed by Dany’s high belting in HYCAD, live, but it wasn’t a…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
Military ‘Section 8’ is a reason for a psychological discharge.

You are correct. But I was actually referring to the HUD-VASH kind of Section 8. And HUD vs HUD-VASH housing are often in the same housing complex, as contracts for both are often initiated and admistrated by the same authority, e.g. by the city or county hou…[Read more]