Artist: Alt-J Title: An Awesome Wave Genre: Alternative Release Date: 2012 Duration: 00:43:50 Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 24bit/96kHz Label: Canvasback/ATL An Awesome Wave is Alt-J’s award-winning debut. This thrilling masterpiece effortlessly blends rock with experimental pop, redefining the genre of art rock. Packed with memorable choruses, the recording is included on Guardian’s “Best Albums of 2012.” This rock quartet has been compared to artists including Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes. Standouts include “Fitzpleasure,” “Tessellate” and more.
Named after the Mac command also used as a mathematical equation to show change, formed while studying fine art at university, and prone to throwing in the odd geometric reference within their lyrics, there are signs that Cambridge-based quartet Alt-J might be a little bit too clever for their own good. Produced by Charlie Andrew (the Laurel Collective), their debut album, An Awesome Wave, is occasionally guilty of pretentiousness, particularly the irritating a cappella vocal warmup of the interlude “(The Ripe & Ruin).” But for the most part, its 13 tracks do for nu-folk what Everything Everything’s equally ambitious debut did for indie rock, breathing new life into the genre with an intriguing but accessible series of art rock twists and turns. Indeed, other than frontman Joe Newman’s impassioned — if occasionally bordering on parody — vocal style, there’s little here in common with the tweeness of Mumford & Sons. “Tessellate” combines the glitchy electronica of Thom Yorke’s solo career with the wistful wintry harmonies of Fleet Foxes; “Fitzpleasure” fizzes along with its dubstep-lite beats and acidic basslines before it’s interrupted, first by a burst of jangly post-rock and second by the kind of shimmering guitar twangs you’d expect from a Tarantino soundtrack; while “Taro” somehow melds together the unlikely bedfellows of Americana and bhangra to produce a fittingly oddball but enthralling finale. It’s to Andrew’s credit that these eclectic arrays of sound are woven together in a manner so effortlessly that the results never feel forced or contrived.
Artist: alt-J Album: An Awesome Wave Label: Infectious Music - INFECT134CDZZ Released: 2012 Genre: Folk Rock, Indie Rock Country: UK Duration: 00:45:23. Tracklisting: 01. Intro (2:38) 03.
There are a few more straightforward moments such as “Matilda,” a gentle acoustic folk ode to Natalie Portman’s troubled character in Lon, and the sparse, haunting “Ms.” But Alt-J’s wave is far more awesome when it’s at its most schizophrenic. Tracklist:. Intro – 2:37.
Interlude 1 – 1:12. Tessellate – 3:03. Breezeblocks – 3:47. Interlude 2 – 1:17.
Something Good – 3:38. Dissolve Me – 3:59. Matilda – 3:49.
Ms – 3:59. Fitzpleasure – 3:39. Interlude 3 – 0:54.
Bloodflood – 4:09. Taro – 5:15. Hand-Made – 2:37 Download.
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Hi Everyone, Been a longtime lurker and friends have been little help on this front, so turning to the community for input and advice. I recently upgraded my headphone setup to what I consider entry-level audiophile status. Here's the rig:.
Software: Audirvana+. Source Files: FLAC (all minimum 16 bit/44.1 Khz). DAC: Schiit Modi. Amp: Schiit Magni. Headphones: HiFiMan HE-400s (velour pads) Here are my planned upgrades:. IFI iUSB Power Supply. Audioquest Cinnamon USB cables.
Cablepro HiFiMAN Upgrade Cables I have a highly curated 30,000+ iTunes library that's been somewhat ignored since moving to this new setup (I even moved the whole library to my NAS to free up disk space for FLAC collecting). I've pretty much moved all my work/mobile listening over to Spotify streaming at highest quality, and then have my home setup for in-depth listening. This shift in my listening approach, and slowly getting more educated on / acquainted with soundstage and instrument separation have generally made me a more attentive listener. This has now led me on the hunt for albums that can be enjoyed to from start-to-end. Albums that have high production value, that are layered, albums that are made for headphone listening and really make you enjoy the time/money spent building a hifi listening setup. I'm open to almost all genres (not into country/hardcore/pop), and have started building a list of full albums I really enjoy.
It's also important to note that USB doesn't (and can't) suffer from what people try to explain as potentially problematic with other digital audio connections. For a connection with no flow control/retry/error correction (like S/PDIF) it's possible for noise and jitter to be introduced, the connection can't correct for it. But for USB, potential noise introduced at the physical or data link layers because of transmission of cabling problems will be corrected for. It's impossible for a higher quality USB cable to actually change the data which is being sent to your DAC. And the idea of 'clean USB power' having an effect on your DAC or amp is equally ridiculous, unless the thing is actually powered by USB (which is rare for any decent DAC, as far as I know) Unless your end device is actually using the USB power for amplification, it doesn't matter all all how many microvolts of noise your powered USB port has.
It's also important to note that USB doesn't (and can't) suffer from what people try to explain as potentially problematic with other digital audio connections. For a connection with no flow control/retry/error correction (like S/PDIF) it's possible for noise and jitter to be introduced, the connection can't correct for it. But for USB, potential noise introduced at the physical or data link layers because of transmission of cabling problems will be corrected for. The USB Audio protocol specifically does not retransmit packets on packet loss or corruption, for latency reasons. You are right though that fancy USB cables are unlikely to make a difference, unless your environment has very serious RFI/EMI issues. Software: Audirvana+ I really wouldn't bother with Audirvana. In my own tests, it actually performed objectively worse than iTunes, not being able to deliver a bit-perfect output to my audio interface/DAC - where iTunes actually performed flawlessly.
The only two reasons for using Audirvana are:. If you need to play back DSD material without converting PWM-PCM on the digital output. If you have a lot of 24/96 material, and you want automatic sample rate I would rather suggest that you use XLD to convert your FLACs to ALAC, and play them using iTunes IFI iUSB Power Supply Unless you have ground loop issues (hum or hiss), I would not bother with this, and even if that was the case, USB optoisolators come much cheaper than this. Audioquest Cinnamon USB cables 'Audiophile-grade' digital cables are misguided at best, and fraud at worst - it can't affect sound - pixelgrunt and wsjoe are right on the money here. Just to give some idea of how robust digital is, I have recorded bit-perfect audio through cable over S/PDIF. Cablepro HiFiMAN Upgrade Cables It's also extremely doubtful whether analog cables make any difference at all -, and despite Tyll claiming to hear the difference, I see nothing in any of those response graphs that indicate any actual difference. Look: You are planning on spending $199+$59+$109 = $367 on upgrades that have no effect on sound.
Put those money towards a better amp, or preferably better headphones - selling your HE-400 could get you almost all the way to a pair of HE-500s. As an avid electronic music fan, it's hard to find electronic music that can really show off what my setup can do. Check out Boards of Canada and Com Truise.
Thank me later. Edit: To be more specific. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, The Campfire Head Phase, Music Has the Right to Children, Geogaddi, and Trans Canadian Highway. Com Truise - In Decay Both groups design their music to sound nostalgic and euphoric and surprisingly it evokes those emotions (Boards of Canada especially). Interestingly, BoC is all analog too. I just listened to Radiohead - Amnesiac start to finish at 16/44.1 again on my new NHT Threes/Kora Mercury setup and it amazed me. (I went from a pair of Logitech z5500s, but had listened on my HD600s before.).
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place. The XX - XX.
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies Female vocals on a hi-fi setup nuff said. If you dont mind beats with no vocals checkout. Emancipator - safe in the steep cliffs. Emancipator - Dusk to Dawn. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher A couple more off the top of my head.
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha and/or Noble Beast. The Shins - Port of Morrow. Pretty Lights - Filling Up the City Skies. Broken Bells - Broken Bells Alt-J.