yeah, it’s “Soma” isn’t it
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There’s so much pain and emotion surging through them and they’re so well crafted - like, they’re carefully optimized for maximum emotional response. I’ve never heard anyone else play and write in quite the same way.
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Thread has taken a beautiful turn.
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Here’s a great one
Starts out interweaved with the verse/pre-chorus, has really nice interplay with the vocal line, the fuzz and dissonant harmonics work with the theme of the track, does loads with a little and builds to a great crescendo all within about 30 seconds.
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Not the best technically or most interesting (really selling it here, aren’t I!) but one of the most enjoyable is that in the middle of Minor Victories self-titled album and I think much of it is down to context. The rest of the album doesn’t go anywhere near a guitar solo. It also feels kind of restrained in a way, perhaps emotionally rather than musically, not quite sure what I mean. Then the song Cogs comes along and picks up the pace, and about two minutes in erupts into this…
It’s strange but I sometimes think the whole album hangs perfectly around those 25 seconds or so where it just soars for a short while.
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Also a big fan of the guitar on the final 60 seconds or so of this even though it starts of just making noise…
Feels like playing a guitar solo over a chorus should only be allowed at the very most once per album though.
My Theory of the Trinity of RiMeLo would state that if it’s above the 12th fret it’s a solo
0 - 5 riff
6 - 11 melody
12+ solo
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it’s absolute nonsense but it also is great and makes sense to me as:
. a riff is usually something more muscular and rhythm based, hence low notes lock this in better
. a melody is usually extractable and isolatable/distinguishable in your head so needs the clarity of the midrange of notes
. a solo is something expressive and extravagent so the piercing shock factor of really high notes suits it.
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