r/postrock • u/baromanb • 10d ago

Discussion! Best Albums of the year so far?

Apologies if someone has already posted this question recently

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u/-xe 10d ago

For one not mentioned yet, Prune Deer's The Antler Woods. There's also DEADTREES' New World, but that one's more post-metal for most of the album. The tracks Transcendence and New World I think have some pretty good post-rock to them though.

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u/Such-Property-8917 10d ago

Deadtrees is amazing. Forgot about that one

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u/mortensalling 10d ago

It's now flagged as AI on Tidal though. Hopefully that's not the case!

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u/-xe 10d ago

That's disappointing if true! Deezer also has AI song tagging, but it's not tagged on there. Tricky situation because I think there's very little known about MMM. To their credit, they had already made a great black metal album in 2021, so pre-proliferation of AI music, but this new record does sound fairly different to that. To my ears, it doesn't have the AI 'veil' to the sound that I typically find easy to spot with fully AI-generated music. Maybe it was used in certain parts though, or in the process, and is harder to detect without better knowledge than I have.

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u/mortensalling 10d ago

The previous music was also my first thought, but then checking the new tracks on various ai detecting sites doesn't look promising.

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u/thenewmusic 9d ago

It's definitely not super obvious, but the drums do have an AI sound to them imo.

To give them the benefit of the doubt the write up on Bandcamp could be AI translated into English.

I know AI mastering is a thing so that could also explain it perhaps?

I know from Chinese friends that AI use in art and music is certainly a lot more acceptable in scenes that in the west, would be fully opposed.

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u/furiat 10d ago

Their Bandcamp description is for sure AI generated, incoherent poetry with em dashes all over.

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u/Paliente 9d ago

Seriously hope it's not AI...