Customer Reviews

Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Are some of the songs short- yes. Would you like some to continue and unfold more- yes. Does it still flow great, almost like a continuous track and keep your head noddin- yes. Is it still good, solid Prefuse- absolutely.

In addition to flowing very well, there are some very nice standouts (ex. Regalo, DEC Funk All Eras, Fountains of Spring, Four Reels Collide, Nature's Uplifting Revenge, No Light Still Rocks, Simple Loop Choir, Yuletide, Digan Lo, Preparation Kids Choir)

For those initiated with the world of Prefuse 73- by all means, rock this at max volume- should have no trouble or problem riding the groove.

For those new, I still say this is a very fine listen, but do also def recommend One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished and the like.

I find the first review to be very inaccurate. I have all the P73 releases and rank this one in the higher section. Great grooves and beats, appealing sounds and all placed together nicely. The fact that some of the "songs" are good but short and blend into other nice tracks makes me want to just play the album all over again- much like Extinguished in that sense.

(Also- for those looking for more GSH '09 material- Savath y Savalas "La Llama" is also out (on Stones Throw). More good listening- but nothing like P73, so make sure you know that up front.)

Anyway- no qualms at all with this album. In fact, I'm gonna hit play again.

...something comes along and just takes my breath away. It doesnt happen as often as i wish it would, but when it does - hot damn, its pure magic. Before purchasing this album by hip-hop/electronic/glitch mad professor Scott Herren, i didnt think it would be a 5-star album. I just wanted some chilled glitchy beats to throw on when im in that certain mood for chilled glitchy beats. But when the album blasted open with 4 minutes of genious music crammed into seven tracks, i knew i was in for a ride.

'Everything She Touched' whizzes through each track, shifting straight onto the next, not letting you catch your breath - kinda like Ramones live when Dee Dee Ramone leapt the band from one song to the next in a matter of short breaths. Its exciting the whole way through, with very few dull moments (there are a couple, to be honest, but with 29 tracks it can't all be gold). The music is clever, with genious use of every sound and instrument he samples and cuts up. He uses leftover reverb from old vinyls, double bass guitars, choirs...shoved shoulder-to-shoulder with mind-bending hip hop beats. This is all pieced together and then violently thrown in a blender to create some really twisted, yet wonderful, tracks.

This is the kind of album that, from each listen, discover a new element within - a subtle backing track you didnt before notice amongst the sounds of vinyl hiss or some faint voices. Its a refreshing listening experience - something i have yet to find in many recent releases. Being an electronic music producer myself, i find myself scratching my head to many of these tracks thinking: "how the hell does he do this?" before the album suddenly leaps into the next song with a surprising twist. Pure brilliance.

Like flipping the channels on some very dangerous practice sessions for the seasoned knob-twiddler, ESTTA works well in the most ephemeral sense but remains too scattershot to continually dig deep.

I've kept up with Prefuse since One Word Extinguisher and, up until this album, it was my favorite. I liked Security Screenings and Preparations quite a bit, but neither of them hit me as hard as Everything She Touched Turned Ampexican. I feel that this album brings back a lot of the glitch and sound of One Word Extinguisher that the other albums did not have. I suppose that may turn off some listeners, but I will still recommend this album because I really feel that it is one of his best.

I get what some folks don't like about this album. But I can't agree. Even though the first several tracks sound like they probably should have been one big one, since they flow together, it really doesn't make a difference. I often like to pick my favorite songs out of an album and mix them together with other things I'm listening to, but in this case, here you get an album that is better listened to in it's entirety. Most of the tracks are pretty unusual anyway, so the best thing you can do is just listen to it all the way through. There are a ton of really impressive moments in there.

This is my favorite Prefuse 73 album so far.

Wow. So many beautiful ideas.

I have listened to virtually everything made under Guillermo Scott Herren's Prefuse 73 moniker. The attention to detail in the majority of his music is unbelievable. It is really what sets his work apart from others in his craft. Prefuse is a terrific composer who uses his musical tool kit in ways that many others haven't considered.

So I downloaded this album tonight, April 20th, the (cough) release date. The download quality is excellent.

I'm listening to it right now, so this is a first-listen review and I'm not going to come back and amend it when it's done. The first dozen or so tracks are preambles. Up through "Regalo", they all feel like full-length songs that haven't been completed. I don't know why I get that sense, but I do.

"Regalo" is beautiful and altogether awesome. Means 'gift' in Spanish. Apt.

The passage from "Nature's Uplifting Revenge" through "No Lights Still Rock" is excellent. Made me lose interest in writing.

"Digan Lo" is very cool. 'They say' is the Spanish to English translation, I think.

OK. I'm just going to go with the back half of this album being very good. Worth the price of admission once you get to track 14. The beginning still felt like a sampler.

This album is a little moodier than some of his other work. There are only a few sunny tracks in here, and most of those don't hang around for very long. On the bright side, for those who haven't been fans of the collaborations, there are fewer than two dozen spoken words on this album and the small amount of voice on here is well-employed instrumentation. No rap.

I'd really like to hear some of these shorter thoughts completed.

Not a place to start for the uninitiated. If you haven't heard any of his work before, try "Extinguished" or "One Word Extinguisher". Or "Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey" under his Savath y Savalas name. For an existing fan, check out some of the songs I recommended here and I think you'll get the rest.

As I listen to the beginning again, I get a sense of flow, but my original impression remains. Anyway, I'll be listening to this for a while. I still listen to everything else.

For the complete listening experience, I will return to this record more often than his last two full-lengths, but I think he still has some room to grow and it is for this reason that currently a Four Tet or Towers of Asia record is a great deal more satisfying.

I'm a huge fun of OWE and the outtakes, as well as the earlier Vocal Studies. I've gone to his concerts, and I've bought every release. Sadly, Surrounded by Silence was his last decent album - even though a bit of a retread, as he was clearly out of ideas, just recycling. Now this release - in the words of G. Stein "there is no there there". This is so weak, and lackluster and so utterly lacking in any life, you wonder if this is the kind of sound fragments someone would make in a retirement home hooked up to an IV. It's as if all energy drained out of the guy. There are no compositional ideas here, and not even any textures to be excited by. I listened to this several times, but there's absolutely nothing memorable on the entire album. I feel like he needs to take a vacation and start all over again, and re-discover the kind of excitement in music that he had earlier in his career. If he merely listens to sycophants who tell him how great he is, he'll coast on his old reputation, right down into irrelevance. Time to take drastic action, if he still got it in him. I'm giving it two stars instead of one, because the album is devoid of merit, but not actively insulting.