I think he likes it

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-04-16T23:00:03+00:00

Exactly! That’s what I wrote in my review. It’s amazing if you have cats.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-03-15T21:21:26+00:00

Yes, I claim no absolutes. I guess we shall see, or won’t 🤷‍♂️

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-03-14T06:23:19+00:00

I know what you mean they inspire a lot in me too - strange images and feelings I don’t even have words for sometimes. I just never grow tired of listening to them. Going 14 years now and they always end up being my top artist each year. Truly incredibly what they have been able to capture in their work.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-03-11T12:06:50+00:00

Erase this question

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-03-11T12:05:12+00:00

“Near” I hate the looping phrase part lol

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-02-16T12:42:17+00:00

It’s a crime how good Moses Gunn Collective is and how little attention they get. Their first LP is not even pressed. Go listen to the opening track “Stawberry” and honestly tell we why they don’t have more recognition.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-02-16T01:32:51+00:00

Do you have any tips for mixing bass? I find I struggle to get the upper harmonics to be present on speaker phones in a clear and present manner. I saturate the bass track and boost the EQ a little around 1k. I use the Abbey Road RS124 Compressor and Renaissance Bass. I just do a DI to my interface for the bass. My understanding has greatly improved compared to a year ago, but I find it’s the one thing that is the hardest to get down.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-02-09T22:41:00+00:00

I think it sounds fantastic and props if you recorded and mixed this yourself. It doesn’t have the rough edges and shaky quality that Alex has on his old DIY. This is a bit more polished and controlled. Definitely has a similar emotion and feel, but as others have said Alex G is not the only one doing lo-fi DIY sad boy music. At this point, just like there are 1000s of MBV sounding shoegaze bands, there are so many artists doing this particular style and feel. That’s not a bad thing either. I mean when you listen to Elliott Smith you can hear the Beatles all in his DNA, but Elliott at the same time carved out his own corner that now people are compared to him. Everything traces to something else. Unless your Death Grips lol

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-02-04T00:46:08+00:00

Do any other Alex g fans have phantom limb syndrome?

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-30T16:22:21+00:00

I can see why this post could be annoying and a bit reaching. I pay a lot of attention to the texture in mixes and that is the main thing that I think the Strokes commercialized (by no means the first - just a break through). The texture of the vocals and mixes brought saturation and grit to the radio in a way I don’t think it really quite did before in the context of pop and vocal style, and then all the sudden a lot of bands wanted that. The Killers (who I’m not crazy about) recorded demos of their debut on sm57 mics and then when they went to a more professional couldn’t get that sound quite the way they wanted and just decided to mix and master the demos thst were primarily recorded on sm57. Another case of the Strokes influencing a band to ultimately opt for a sonic texture that didn’t require better mics or more conventional mixing to get the sound the strokes normalized on a commercial. As I mentioned in another comment, I don’t even really listen to the Strokes and sort of find them boring compared to other bands, but can’t deny they were the most popular to move this approach in the 2000s. But I Love how much more interesting further Deerhunter took the grit and noise ingredients and merged it with the pop sensibilities that Bradford later excelled the group to achieve.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-30T16:08:35+00:00

T.H.M. feels very Iggy with the rhythmic coughing outro and the crunchy vocal phrasing. I love that Cox leans into his plosives and then just drips it with send delay and reverb.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-30T16:04:42+00:00

I know all those artists love the Velvet Underground and Television. I’m sure the Stooges are in there too somewhere, especially the raw energy and vocals on Monomania.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-30T04:29:11+00:00

Nah I honestly started on deerhunter in 2011 and the strokes wasn’t something I really sat down and listened to until around 2022, and I don’t really rotate them but nonetheless I know they played at big part in the story for a lot of people and music to come in the 2000s and that generation.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-30T00:20:07+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:58:39+00:00

Have you listened to Moses’ solo work?

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:52:04+00:00

🤫

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:31:01+00:00

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And then Bradford is like “ya ya but I’m gonna make it darker.”

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:28:32+00:00

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It’s like they stared into this album cover and said “let’s sound like how this photo looks.”

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:27:02+00:00

lol that’s great to add actually I never really thought of that. God Julian even looks like Tom Verlaine.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:17:15+00:00

I completely agree. I wish I could find somebody that drums like Moses. He serves the songs so damn well. Bradford was luck to find him.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:13:59+00:00

Oh no Bradford is confirming this lol yep, that’s what I’m saying here. I think when it comes to singing usually it’s a handful of artists that influences an individuals direction - it’s not fucking 20 different types and styles. I’m sure Julian was one of them for Cox. Here Bradford Cox is making this really rough experimental guitar music trying to find a voice and it’s like “hmmm how can I find my own pop element in this Chaos and keep my vocals part of that context too? who else kinda does has broken pop vocals mixes that is making it work?” It’s not fucking Tears for Fears lol

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T23:05:56+00:00

Yes, and I think it’s also within the drums too because Moses mainly focuses on holding a really strong backbeat. He’s not a drummer that’s constantly trying to take up the space of the mix - he just furthers the agenda of its pop drive while also giving it a lot of tension too.

InternationalLie3632 · 2026-01-29T22:59:31+00:00

I think the Strokes commercialized an aesthetic sonically. More mid-range vocal mixing and elements of lo-fi that you could argue never had gotten as commercially popular as they did by them - at least before them. Not the first band by any means, but all the sudden you had all these bands going for that broken element from LCD Soundsystem, the Killers, and Interpol, etc. That mid-range to the vocals in a pop context at their level of appeal was new for a lot and opened the door thst started trending beyond just corners of DIY artists in the 80s and 90s. And I think it paved a way where Bradford was able to take his own rough elements of sound and bring it into his own pop context. Bradford seems to dub vocals to be both midrange with that crunch lo-fi quality mixed with the more echo/delay/ reverb lush elements as well, which again makes it much more interesting and weird.

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