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Topic	I need to tell you about my favourite songs and albums of 2017.
thundersheep 01/08/18 9:31:10 PM #44:	Album #10 Hippo Campus - Landmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TQKEUne5Q As I've said at least 18 times on this board now, it was a real matter of chance that I discovered this band in the first place. Me and my girlfriend were at a bar on vacation wondering what we should do that night. Deciding to look for live music within walking distance we decided on Hippo Campus and the rest... well I'll tell you the rest. It was a rock bar in a seedier part of town so we really had no idea what type of music to expect or the crowd that type of music would bring in. Lucky for us everyone was extremely friendly and surprisingly trustworthy. I distinctly remember people just leaving their bags/backpacks in the dark corner of the room where we were standing, rather than just checking them in at the front. Extremely positive vibes as the kids say. The same could be said for the music and their performance. There's a curious optimism to this album and it quickly became one of my favourite feelgood albums of the year. It's an album filled with bright, infectious melodies yet the compositions are unique and varied enough to prevent the music from sounding frivolous, no matter how happy and carefree the timbres are. The album also contains a couple of my favourite moments of the year (which I now realize could be a separate and much more interesting list) in both it's intro and false ending. The track I posted has a heavily processed intro called "Sun Veins" that leads beautifully into "Way It Goes" and I mean beautifully. It's the kind of stuff seamless playback was invented for. The false ending is more of an album quirk and I just love that it fools me every time. Two slow tracks are played back-to-back "Poems" and "Monsoon" and the latter just has the exact feel of an album closer. No matter how many times I listen to the album I get to the end of Monsoon and reflect on how good it was, only to remember there are still 4 tracks left. It's kind of like thinking you left only one piece of pizza in the box and then finding out there are actually two... or five? Anyway it's a great indie rock record with some pop sensibilities and it turns out I might actually be seeing them again next week as we return to Vancouver... how serendipitous. --- http://soundcloud.com/thundersheep/these-beautiful-nightmares <cite>thundersheep posted [p:893678451] in I need to ... [t:76106177]...</cite> <quote>Album #10 Hippo Campus - Landmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TQKEUne5Q As I've said at least 18 times on this board now, it was a real matter of chance that I discovered this band in the first place. Me and my girlfriend were at a bar on vacation wondering what we should do that night. Deciding to look for live music within walking distance we decided on Hippo Campus and the rest... well I'll tell you the rest. It was a rock bar in a seedier part of town so we really had no idea what type of music to expect or the crowd that type of music would bring in. Lucky for us everyone was extremely friendly and surprisingly trustworthy. I distinctly remember people just leaving their bags/backpacks in the dark corner of the room where we were standing, rather than just checking them in at the front. Extremely positive vibes as the kids say. The same could be said for the music and their performance. There's a curious optimism to this album and it quickly became one of my favourite feelgood albums of the year. It's an album filled with bright, infectious melodies yet the compositions are unique and varied enough to prevent the music from sounding frivolous, no matter how happy and carefree the timbres are. The album also contains a couple of my favourite moments of the year (which I now realize could be a separate and much more interesting list) in both it's intro and false ending. The track I posted has a heavily processed intro called "Sun Veins" that leads beautifully into "Way It Goes" and I mean beautifully. It's the kind of stuff seamless playback was invented for. The false ending is more of an album quirk and I just love that it fools me every time. Two slow tracks are played back-to-back "Poems" and "Monsoon" and the latter just has the exact feel of an album closer. No matter how many times I listen to the album I get to the end of Monsoon and reflect on how good it was, only to remember there are still 4 tracks left. It's kind of like thinking you left only one piece of pizza in the box and then finding out there are actually two... or five? Anyway it's a great indie rock record with some pop sensibilities and it turns out I might actually be seeing them again next week as we return to Vancouver... how serendipitous. --- http://soundcloud.com/thundersheep/these-beautiful-nightmares</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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