I can’t believe there’s another album for Pale Machine- 10 years later no less! Pale Machine has been my favorite album for years! Thank you, Bo en, for making another masterpiece!
This music feels like seeing a once-loved one again for the first time in years. It’s all so familiar, but so much has changed, you can’t quite be sure if it’s really the same person or not. It’s somewhere between comforting and painful, and you know it doesn’t have to mean so much, but it does, it does. They look happier. Until they don’t. You’re don’t know if you’re allowed to enjoy it. At least, that’s how it made me feel the first time I listened to it. I think it’s beautiful.
The improvement in the mixing is INSANE but I also love how bo en's preserved/reinterpreted some of the rawness of the original album, especially with "I Hate Winter", "Paler, Still Paler" and "Our Time". I love how miserable the delivery is in the second - its a moody tone but there's such an exhaustion in his voice. Its like the loneliness of the narrator in Pale Machine has worn him down over the years - the story hasn't changed, neither has the hunger for intimacy, but he's spent all of his energy screaming into the void with no response. Gorgeous song and gorgeous sequel
What I really like is I can hear that bo en's producing&mixing skill has improved so much. It feels something like reuniting with cousin in a very long time and you find out they've grown into proud and independent individual
It’s interesting how this is sort of like a weird mirror of the original pale machine. The lower-energy tracks are now higher energy, the prettier songs are now more intense, and the high energy tracks are now slower and more melancholic. Makes for a quite intriguing listening experience and a great companion + tribute to the original, while still offering a completely new experience using the old melodies..
"Pale Machine 2" Tracklist: 01 - Prelude (with Toby Fox): 0:00 02 - I Still Miss You (with Tomggg): 3:30 03 - Be Okay '23 (with Avec Avec): 6:37 04 - Every Day I Walk Around Like Crazy! Don't You? (with Plus-Tech Squeeze Box): 10:08 05 - (We Are) Friends (with Winamp Boys): 12:24 06 - I Hate Winter (with Cwondo): 16:58 07 - Paler, Still Paler: 19:33 08 - Our Time (with PAS TASTA): 21:21 09 - MWP '03 (with Kane West): 25:13 10 - I'll Fall (Again) (with Bamster & Babymorocco): 28:34 close your eyes :)
Thank you bo en for this album. Thanks to Tomggg, Avec Avec, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Winamp Boys, Cwondo, PAS TASTA, Kane West, Bamster and Babymorocco for your contributions to Pale Machine 2. And thank you to Toby Fox, Aoi Yamamoto, Takayuki Mogami, Tadashi Machida, Kintaro Hagiya, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ayana Tsujita, Melody English and Masaru Tanaka for your work on Prelude. What a bunch of incredibly talented people!
I really like this album. compared to the 1st one, this feels more upbeat and joyful. It's like years later, life finally got better and it was worth the wait. You are more positive and instead of faking emotions, you accept and still carry on. You are at your best. Bad memories still get to you, but you block them with positivity. You don't feel alone anymore and you have more confidence than you ever did. It's like a reward for going through all the negativity.
@@Misa_Susakisame, it did seem more busy and noisy, but i think it’s like he’s looking at what each of the songs represent but with hindsight and that in itself produces a new meaning
I cannot believe this guy said "hey guys, here's a masterpiece" and then came back 10 years later and said "hey guys here's the masterpiece but again" Everyone who worked on this album did amazing I knew they snuck the airhorn back into My Time. They think they're so slick 24:44
I felt so warm at 4:22, I don't know how to describe it but it genuinely feels like the music has aged right with me, I've changed, I've improved, I don't feel the need to drown in my sorrows as much anymore and life is generally easier and more carefree now, this album is so beautiful.
"hehe" my ass thanks for putting this out calum. can't wait to listen to all of it Edit: Speaking as an emotional musician, this SOUNDS like so much emotion and mulling over melodies for years and years. It hit me so hard and helped me make art today.
Y'know that feeling where it feels like your skin is crawling, or where it feels like you about to cry and your heart is about to escape your entire body. I felt that the whole way through. I was and still am a huge fan of pale machine. This sequel felt as if you picked up a juice box, but didn't read the label and just guessed it was apple juice. Then, BAM, hits you with a whole ton of flavor. You see it's fruit punch, and even though you now know its fruit punch, it still tastes good as heck. bo en you're honestly amazing. Really. I will very much be keeping this in my playlist with a bunch of random videos, but I hope that when I shuffle it, this album will show up and I'll have the excitement of a 8 year old when I hear it.
Wait, a new album from bo en? A second album for Pale Machine? Can I witness another masterpiece before my eyes, and now I will be able to appreciate this great work of art.
This is a real masterpiece. I'm so glad that the meaning of the songs remains, but the style has improved. I'm ready to listen to these gorgeous songs forever!!!! Thank you for this awesome album!
i honestly prefer the originals. they felt more creative imo. more pure and not as bloated. But still not "better". Just something i prefer, this one feels a bit like it got "pop-ified" if you know what i mean.
@@wtrflshpop-ified 💀 alr get your pretentious ass out of here tell me you hate letting people change w/o telling me I LOVE THE OG PALE MACHINE ok that shit MEANS something to me but this shit is amazing, so quit being a debby downer and leave people alone
@@wtrflsh I didn't say that this album is "better" than the previous one. What I meant was that style can develop for the better. I just find it funny that you can re-listen to something old in a new style. After all, the old album still exists, so you don't have to force yourself to listen to something you don't like :) The two albums are good in their own way, and that makes me happy.
@@kkojisan good point. Honestly im always scared of musicians losing their old identity through reinventing themselves, whether genuine or money/attention driven. Maybe im too pessimistic. It's not bad for sure.
its been so long since the original pale machine came out. it got me through some very though times and hearing this makes me tear up.. thank you bo en. ❤
i need to take a moment to just express how much bo en and pale machine have meant to me. growing up, pale machine 1 was everything to me and helped me through a LOT of hard times. It was silly, it was emotional, it made me feel things that no other song could make me feel. seeing My Time explode in popularity thanks to omori recently made me so happy, because bo deserved the spotlight!!! i thought for a long time that bo would just focus on video game soundtracks, and wouldn't really come back to producing his own albums, which was still cool anyway and i was very happy he was doing something he enjoyed! then i saw the 10 year tour stuff start coming around, which included 2 of some other favorite artists of mine and im very excited to see the show!! i was so excited to see bo coming into the scene again. and now, 10 years later, a remastered version of an album that shaped me. i have no words except thank you so much bo, i definitely sound like a suck up rn but i'm so unbelievably happy haha. from the bottom of the heart of a random guy on the internet, much love
My 2020 self is crying rn tysm bo en for this masterpiece Edit: THIS VERSION OF MY TIME IS ??? OH MY GOD???? ITS SO AMAZINF?? I WAS SO FLABBERGASTED 🎉🎉🎉
it’s been a long time since the last album and i can’t fully explain the weird nostalgia yet newness i feel listening to this one , thanks for this new album
Delicious! Also, not sure why, but this is making me realize how much I would LOVE to see a collaboration between bo en and Hakushi Hasegawa. I feel like their styles would lend themselves very well to each other.
genuinely one of the most beautiful albums ever, pale machine was already so good but this?? it feels like an old friend i havent talked to in so long, heartwarming
I didn't know how to embrace them, and i didn't know how to be honest, but i didn't know how to say goodbye, so they left me, and i don't know how to fall in love again. pale machine 1 was my shit in 2014. thank you Bo En for making an album for us lonely fucks who came into adolescence damaged, who needed to hear "you're gonna be okay," who needed to cry about it, who would love and lose over and over because of our own screwups or because the people we loved were screwed up too, or because of the screwed up state of the world we live in, and because of the big deep hole we carry around inside, the ways we push away sincerity and connection because it's scary or imperfect and we don't know how to be honest about how we feel. those kids not sure if we're gonna make it. thank you for following up that album with a set of dancefloor remixes of the same words, the same feelings, those same patterns, but now for us in our 20s, adults who indeed wish we could forget the rent, who did love and lose and meet and fight and make up and sometimes lose all over again. those of us who still don't know if everything's gonna be okay, living alone, feeling alone, still not sure where to go, and stranded feeling like they can't get there without love from a lost someone with whom things will never work out. it was simpler then, listening to pale machine 1, even as we were more dishonest, trapped, immature and insecure. we couldn't foresee incompatibility, only chemistry, couldn't know the burn of things going up in flames time and again, the rippling pain of losing someone slow you fought hard to keep but even by your own admission not hard enough. back then heartbreak was just a fantasy. we hadn't failed others and ourselves, been failed by others, been rejected over and over, watched promising connections be smashed against the struggle to survive and the desperate lack of time in grown-up society for spending together. us, who know we need to stick our necks back out and try, try, try again, but finding it hard to feel anything other than alienated. so thank you for reminding us of the kaleidoscope of life, the beauty of melody and harmony and the undeniable urge to dance. rhythms from around the world, demanding our attention and curiosity. something else beautiful and unexpected yet familiar enough to let in and accept as a gift, skipping past the paranoia that would call everything from the outside poison. thank you for being patient with stubborn loneliness, for coming back for those of us who have grown and changed but still not enough to count ourselves fixed, those of us doing our best but still making the same mistakes. are you like me, to sing the ways i feel? i can't be sure. but like you say, it's gonna be okay. we're gonna be okay. i'll fall in love again. i don't know how yet, but i will. a thousand Thank Yous to you, bo en, and ten thousand wishes for your peace and happiness.
OH MY GOD. I’m 5 months too late, but damn, I was 7/8 when pale machine came out, and I’ve been listening to it ever since…. Now I’m 18 and just??? Wow. Pale machine literally has always meant so much to me, it helped me through a lot of really hard times, and I can already love pale machine 2 just as much. It’s such a lovely album band it’s so intense it literally brought tears to my eyes. This album is literally all I ever needed, thank you so much Bo en for gifting us with this masterpiece, your music literally means the world to me 🫶🫶
Genuinely thank you for getting Plus-Tech Squeeze Box on this. I had no idea they were still around, and i really loved them growing up. So, so cool to see such an ideal pairing for what I assume is their first new material in years
I used to listen this with a dear friend of mine ten years ago, almost every day. Awaiting for Omori (we didn't know it was gonna take seven whole years but anyway) we noticed your music is amazing. Now I sit here listening to one of the best albums I've ever heard once again, this time alone... but remembering the great amazing times I had listening to it. Thank you.
Pale machine 2: Electric Boogaloo?! It is interesting how you took the parts that made the original PM and did it again with years of new inspiration and life to boast! By the most technical of terms this should be called a remix, as you mixed the songs again - with new things of course - but I dont know... I also don't really care because the music is very fun!
Already posted about this on “Paler, Still Paler” but my interpretation of this album (in relation to the original “Pale Machine” album) is that it’s essentially like you’ve tried to reinvent yourself, start anew to escape the pain, but then it slowly creeps back into your life until it eventually breaks you and sends you into madness. The first handful of songs here are super joyful and upbeat, then “(We Are) Friends” feels bittersweet, and “I Hate Winter” and “Paler, Still Paler” are much more melancholy. “Our time” is chaos and insanity. (The last two songs feel kinda separate imo) And yeah, like a lot of others have said, many of these songs feel very different to their original counterparts while still retaining a sort of similar energy, it’s interesting
dear bo en i'm so happy that i get to see a new album of yours, regardless of what i think of this album, your music means a lot and inspires me to become a better musician. thanks a lot and i hope for a happy listening. nickflowers.
There is no way I can condense how much the original Pale Machine album meant and still means to me in a single comment. Thank you Mr. En, this kicks so much ass
THE WAY I SCREAMED- Can barely wait to listen to this!!!! Just hearing the first seconds already gave me goosebumps and floods of nostalgia 🥺 Thank you so much for sharing your music with us!!
*genuinely sobbed when i heard the my time leitmotif in the intro. pale machine is a great album that helped me alot while i was growing up and stuck inside in 2020, so glad i can witness another masterpiece now, thank you bo en
I just want to say: thank you, bo en. the original pale machine album was a huge comfort for me when I found it at 11--I was becoming incredibly depressed, bullied, and was beginning to show signs of OCD. I thought about ending myself all the time. your music inspired and comforted me in those times when I felt like I was completely alone and that my feelings were impossible to understand. I'm almost 20 now, but 5 months ago when this album came out, I was fresh out of leaving a long-time friend group because they'd become incredibly toxic and careless people who relied on drugs to be happy. I was left with very few friends and felt like I was at an even lower mental state than when I was 11. and then this album released, and it felt almost like a sign. that things were going to be okay, that everything keeps moving, that friendships come and go, and that I would make it through this. and I have. I'm coming to terms with a lot of things, and i'm still struggling, but i'm doing alright. I'm not thinking about jumping off a bridge anymore, at least. your music has been with me these past 8 years, and I couldn't be more grateful for the joy and comfort it's brought me. the more playful tone of this album really sets a mood of hope in contrast to the melancholic tone of the original, and I think that's wonderful.
@@Thestuffdoer thank you. I recently officially became 20, actually. I'm also going to walk my adult school (failed HS due to mental health problems--go figure) graduation soon after two years of struggle, and am finally feeling like I'll start a new point in my life. again, it isn't perfect, but I'm healing. thank you for responding, and I hope you also have good fortune in the upcoming future.
this album was on CONSTANT repeat back in 2019 when i first discovered it and it's such an incredible feeling listening to the same songs reimagined and seeing how far the songs have come and how far we have come :)
Okay so honestly? Most of this is music that I'm probably not going to listen to. idk it just didn't fit my tastes (at least not on the first listen) HOWEVER I think that this is a really amazing sequel to Pale Machine, it's clear each song takes inspiration from the original, and yet it's completely different and almost unrecognizable (save for the last 3) Prelude in particular feels like a huge love letter to the original album, and then it suddenly shifts gears and switches to a much more vibrant, upbeat, fast-paced electronic feel. Got excited whenever I recognized a bit of a song, and was just sorta grooving for the rest of it lol. Found the cover art very fitting as well! Most of the songs felt like they had a similar energy to the artwork. It really feels like you've grown and evolved so much since the original and this is, for the most part, a more upbeat and happy-sounding album. Hope you're doing well, bo en. Pale Machine is a very special album to me and I think you made something really special here too. Edit: I take it back this is fire 🔥🔥🔥
I used to listen to your Pale Machine album every day walking home from school when I was still in high school- this is so nostalgic!! It feels so amazing getting to listen to your re-mastered album and experience it all over again for the first time!!!! I'm smiling so big while listening but it makes me want to cry at the same time. Amazing album!!! Can't wait to hear it in person!!!
The moment the violin started I felt the 12 yo me bristle and rise up from the depths of my soul. This feels so much like a personal reprise, from being 12 to being 18. Puberty to teenagehood, teenagehood to adulthood
I never expected them to upload this section, but it left me shocked and impressed, simply art and perfect, all the noises and instruments in time sound simply magical, I love your work, you never disappoint me
Talk about the sequel we didn't deserve! As if Pale Machine wasn't enough, Pale Machine 2 delights and elevates using a list of previously existing bangers with a twist. Featuring mixing that really makes every layer POP as if you're sitting in a bubble while the wacky world plays out around you! Welcome old friends that have gotten just a little bit older, but boy-howdy did they age like fine wine! Some would say if Pale Machine was so good, why isn't there a Pale Machine 2? My question now is: Since we got a Pale Machine 2, will there be a Pale Machine 3 in another decade? If so, can't wait to listen with my kid! Thank you to all who contributed to this masterpiece--this showcase of talented minds and honed skills. It was truly an honour and pleasure!
After so long, it's honestly surreal to see another album, another Pale Machine no less! What a wonderful way to slowly end the year with this as my soundtrack. Thank you, bo en.
I have been listening for 10 years, and to see the 2nd album be released, I’m genuinely smiling so hard and also trying not to sob, it’s beautiful 🌹🌹🌹🌹
PALE MACHINE 2 IS A MASTERPIECE ALBUM SEQUEL TO THE MASTERPIECE ALBUM PALE MACHINE 😭😭♥♥🔥🔥 for real though!!! oh my god i felt like i was transcending a whole decade ago while listening to the original while also going through a breakup and listening to this now?? i feel like transcending past all the cruel and unusual punishment the world's faced in the past ten years and just . Awakening. you are a godsend, bo en 💗
I first came across Bo-en from his remix of Friends on the Anodyne remix album forever ago, so to hear the remix (with a Jersey Club break?!) all this time later is a real joy.
holy heck, I didn't even realize a second one had come out despite adoring the first. hell yeah it's like others say where it's familiar yet different. it's like seeing an old friend after so long but they're different, yet still the same thank you
I remember sitting in middle school art class and discovering 'my time' on soundcloud what seemed like so many years ago, i sit here now a senior in highschool literally kicking my feet and squealing in my desk chair. Your music has truly inspired me in many stages of growing up and it sucks I won't be able to see you on tour, however ill take this music and keep creating more inspired than before !! :)
your musical ability never ceases to amaze me!! i couldn't begin to put into words how much pale machine meant to me. it helped me through some of my worst moments. you've breathed new life into it, it's an experience that's both excitingly new and comfortingly familiar at the same time. i adore it!!
AHHH OH MY GOD ALL OF THE MOTIFFS IN THE FIRST SONG here are all the ones I heard, let me know if I missed some: my time (obvi) friend, winter valentine
small hc's for our time 1. 22:39 we hear the "i just" repeat over and over again, which is normal also in my time, but it gets more distorted. my "theory" is this song is getting played onto some sort of music playing device, like a boom box or a cd player, and the person grabs something and hits the device over and over again. we even hear at around 22:39-22:40 an object, in my theory a bat, getting rised into the air, presumably prepared to strike 2. btw this is specifically for omori, the game. SPOILERS BTW FOR BAD END OF OMORI 23:11 - this is obviously just a headcanon and no where near canon, so oh well. i personally believe when it says "as the voices inside my head" i believe Sunny is talking about omori, as the voice inside his head. then a bunch of oyasumi's. that would be omori repeating over and over to sunny, in a way "do it, do it, do it!" like trying to provoke him or smth idk. and in the end, sunny eventually "sucumbs" and oyasumi's (khs). 23:25 - we hear some sped up background smth (idk how to explain it "dabadaba") which in my head is sunny's mind spirling 23:34 - oyasumi again, but this time some new background vocals, presumably children, join in as a "choir". it doesnt seem as more than a group of 5-7 maybe even less, which makes me think the headspace gang would join in with omori in "convincing" sunny to oyasumi you can hear the most of the children's voices, in my opinion, at "your" 23:36 23:48 whatever the f7ck this is, idek i gotta do my german homework lol ANYHOW i am thankful if you read this intire f7cking paragraf of my writing, and honestly concerned at how much free time you may have CHECK YOUR PHONE BATTERY BTW BYEEEE-
bo en! this is really a masterpiece. you can feel every emotion that went into creating this, every song is a roller coaster of feelings and sounds, it's so unique. It's so cool to see how far you've come as a musician, what's changed from pale machine 1 and what hasnt. This album really tickles my brain. thank u :)
Bo en you are amazing we thank you all for your work your symphonies will spread far and wide and be enjoyed by musical ears and unlike. i will praise it and listen in joy all the same. beautiful art beautiful music.
🔥🔥🔥 I listened to the first album a while back, love the new energy! I feel like it was cranked up all the way and it feel a lot more positive lmao!!!! I'll fall might be one of the best songs on the album
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pale machine was so good they made pale machine 2!
and it is not an electric boogaloo at all
sometimes bo en sounds like "speder2" or "2号．"
Wowzers
:D
True
I can’t believe there’s another album for Pale Machine- 10 years later no less! Pale Machine has been my favorite album for years! Thank you, Bo en, for making another masterpiece!
Fr
welp it's basically a version 2 of the album, still really good.
@ih8theinternet oh yeah lol
This music feels like seeing a once-loved one again for the first time in years. It’s all so familiar, but so much has changed, you can’t quite be sure if it’s really the same person or not.
It’s somewhere between comforting and painful, and you know it doesn’t have to mean so much, but it does, it does. They look happier. Until they don’t. You’re don’t know if you’re allowed to enjoy it.
At least, that’s how it made me feel the first time I listened to it.
I think it’s beautiful.
oh ym god thats so real
please stop, please
FOR REAL wtf
reminds me of omori
no way really?@@bonkers.mp4
The improvement in the mixing is INSANE but I also love how bo en's preserved/reinterpreted some of the rawness of the original album, especially with "I Hate Winter", "Paler, Still Paler" and "Our Time". I love how miserable the delivery is in the second - its a moody tone but there's such an exhaustion in his voice. Its like the loneliness of the narrator in Pale Machine has worn him down over the years - the story hasn't changed, neither has the hunger for intimacy, but he's spent all of his energy screaming into the void with no response. Gorgeous song and gorgeous sequel
couldn't agree more :) 💜
I adore the second one for this reason. I'm gonna eat both versions of this song and swish them around in my brain forever
What I really like is I can hear that bo en's producing&mixing skill has improved so much. It feels something like reuniting with cousin in a very long time and you find out they've grown into proud and independent individual
It’s interesting how this is sort of like a weird mirror of the original pale machine. The lower-energy tracks are now higher energy, the prettier songs are now more intense, and the high energy tracks are now slower and more melancholic. Makes for a quite intriguing listening experience and a great companion + tribute to the original, while still offering a completely new experience using the old melodies..
HIII LAVOSSSSS
0:00 - 3:28 // Prelude
3:29 - 6:36 // I still miss you
6:37 - 10:06 // Be Okay '23
10:07 - 12:23 // Every Day I Walk Around Like Crazy! Don't You?
12:24 - 16:50 // (We Are) Friends
16:58 - 19:30 // I Hate Winter
19:31 - 21:21 // Paler, Still Paler
21:21 - 25:08 // Our Time
25:13 - 28:30 // MWP '03
28:34 - 31:20 // I'll Fall (Again)
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Thank you for your service !
Thank you and also i love your pfp
Our time goes hard asfuck
I Love Winter
I remember listening to Pale Machine when I was 12 and now I'm 21. That's crazy! Regardless, you're music never fails to move me. I love this!🧡💛🧡💛
"Pale Machine 2" Tracklist:
01 - Prelude (with Toby Fox): 0:00
02 - I Still Miss You (with Tomggg): 3:30
03 - Be Okay '23 (with Avec Avec): 6:37
04 - Every Day I Walk Around Like Crazy! Don't You? (with Plus-Tech Squeeze Box): 10:08
05 - (We Are) Friends (with Winamp Boys): 12:24
06 - I Hate Winter (with Cwondo): 16:58
07 - Paler, Still Paler: 19:33
08 - Our Time (with PAS TASTA): 21:21
09 - MWP '03 (with Kane West): 25:13
10 - I'll Fall (Again) (with Bamster & Babymorocco): 28:34
close your eyes :)
Toby Fox? No wonder it’s so goimbly woimbly
@@dunno7844FRRR
as soon as i read "close your eyes" i did and i just wanna say thanks for helping me to enjoy my first listen
TOBY FOX??? I was wondering why the intro was so damn good jeez
Who's that Toby Fox guy? Never heard of him, sounds pretty good. Dude should make video game or something idk
Thank you bo en for this album.
Thanks to
Tomggg, Avec Avec, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Winamp Boys, Cwondo, PAS TASTA, Kane West, Bamster and Babymorocco for your contributions to Pale Machine 2.
And thank you to
Toby Fox, Aoi Yamamoto, Takayuki Mogami, Tadashi Machida, Kintaro Hagiya, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ayana Tsujita, Melody English and Masaru Tanaka for your work on Prelude.
What a bunch of incredibly talented people!
Wait Toby Fox is in this too???
@@Fanimatic Yeah, he shared some compositional ideas and helped writing „Prelude“!
I really like this album. compared to the 1st one, this feels more upbeat and joyful. It's like years later, life finally got better and it was worth the wait. You are more positive and instead of faking emotions, you accept and still carry on. You are at your best. Bad memories still get to you, but you block them with positivity. You don't feel alone anymore and you have more confidence than you ever did. It's like a reward for going through all the negativity.
Really?
I found it to be wayyy more busy and noisy, so not at all relaxed. I still love it, but it left me a little confused and somber.
@@Misa_Susakisame, it did seem more busy and noisy, but i think it’s like he’s looking at what each of the songs represent but with hindsight and that in itself produces a new meaning
@@laceylopp7039 Which is really cool to see! I'm not saying I don't enjoy it, because I do. It's just very different.
"relaxed and peaceful" my fucking ass did you not hear our time??????
my guy this album is a BANGER because of the chaos
I fixed it@@Misa_Susaki
This prelude harmony with the strings is so nostalgic to me at this point, pale machine is one of my favorite things in the planet. Thank you bo en!
I cannot believe this guy said "hey guys, here's a masterpiece" and then came back 10 years later and said "hey guys here's the masterpiece but again"
Everyone who worked on this album did amazing
I knew they snuck the airhorn back into My Time. They think they're so slick 24:44
the tonal whiplash of going from Our Time to MWP '03 is immense i think my neck is snapped.
did it snap like ma- *dies*
I felt so warm at 4:22, I don't know how to describe it but it genuinely feels like the music has aged right with me, I've changed, I've improved, I don't feel the need to drown in my sorrows as much anymore and life is generally easier and more carefree now, this album is so beautiful.
RGHH SO REAL
we made it... my favorite album of all time... thank you so much for your work bo we love your music
hi jmoriboy
@@azuwure HI AZUWURE
"hehe" my ass
thanks for putting this out calum. can't wait to listen to all of it
Edit: Speaking as an emotional musician, this SOUNDS like so much emotion and mulling over melodies for years and years. It hit me so hard and helped me make art today.
Y'know that feeling where it feels like your skin is crawling, or where it feels like you about to cry and your heart is about to escape your entire body. I felt that the whole way through.
I was and still am a huge fan of pale machine. This sequel felt as if you picked up a juice box, but didn't read the label and just guessed it was apple juice. Then, BAM, hits you with a whole ton of flavor. You see it's fruit punch, and even though you now know its fruit punch, it still tastes good as heck.
bo en you're honestly amazing. Really. I will very much be keeping this in my playlist with a bunch of random videos, but I hope that when I shuffle it, this album will show up and I'll have the excitement of a 8 year old when I hear it.
Y’know what I really like that analogy I might start using it to describe other pleasant surprises lmao
Wait, a new album from bo en? A second album for Pale Machine? Can I witness another masterpiece before my eyes, and now I will be able to appreciate this great work of art.
This is a real masterpiece. I'm so glad that the meaning of the songs remains, but the style has improved. I'm ready to listen to these gorgeous songs forever!!!! Thank you for this awesome album!
i honestly prefer the originals. they felt more creative imo. more pure and not as bloated.
But still not "better". Just something i prefer, this one feels a bit like it got "pop-ified" if you know what i mean.
@@wtrflshpop-ified 💀 alr get your pretentious ass out of here tell me you hate letting people change w/o telling me I LOVE THE OG PALE MACHINE ok that shit MEANS something to me but this shit is amazing, so quit being a debby downer and leave people alone
@@wtrflsh I didn't say that this album is "better" than the previous one. What I meant was that style can develop for the better.
I just find it funny that you can re-listen to something old in a new style.
After all, the old album still exists, so you don't have to force yourself to listen to something you don't like :)
The two albums are good in their own way, and that makes me happy.
@@kkojisan good point. Honestly im always scared of musicians losing their old identity through reinventing themselves, whether genuine or money/attention driven. Maybe im too pessimistic. It's not bad for sure.
@@wtrflsh"pop-fied"? This music has become more erratic, breaking a lot, and changes wildly. That is the opposite of pop music.
was listening to this and did NOT expect the jersey club type beat in we are still friends
its been so long since the original pale machine came out. it got me through some very though times and hearing this makes me tear up.. thank you bo en. ❤
Just finished listening to every individual video and aw man… this couldn’t have been released at a better time
That intro, such an underated piece from the Pale Machine 1.
The absolute fever dream "My Time" has evolved into. Love it
i need to take a moment to just express how much bo en and pale machine have meant to me. growing up, pale machine 1 was everything to me and helped me through a LOT of hard times. It was silly, it was emotional, it made me feel things that no other song could make me feel. seeing My Time explode in popularity thanks to omori recently made me so happy, because bo deserved the spotlight!!! i thought for a long time that bo would just focus on video game soundtracks, and wouldn't really come back to producing his own albums, which was still cool anyway and i was very happy he was doing something he enjoyed! then i saw the 10 year tour stuff start coming around, which included 2 of some other favorite artists of mine and im very excited to see the show!! i was so excited to see bo coming into the scene again. and now, 10 years later, a remastered version of an album that shaped me. i have no words except thank you so much bo, i definitely sound like a suck up rn but i'm so unbelievably happy haha. from the bottom of the heart of a random guy on the internet, much love
If Pale Machine's such a good album why isn't there an- OH SHIT
OH FUCK.
My 2020 self is crying rn tysm bo en for this masterpiece
Edit: THIS VERSION OF MY TIME IS ??? OH MY GOD???? ITS SO AMAZINF?? I WAS SO FLABBERGASTED 🎉🎉🎉
NO CAUSE FR WE GETTING OUT OF HEADSPACE W THIS ONE !!1!!!111!!11 ( sorryif ur not an omori fan just had to make the ref HELP )
@@zzimplez it's okay, I actually used to be one 😔😔😔😔
it’s been a long time since the last album and i can’t fully explain the weird nostalgia yet newness i feel listening to this one , thanks for this new album
Crying wishing I could make it to a live concert. Your music makes me so happy.
same
Delicious! Also, not sure why, but this is making me realize how much I would LOVE to see a collaboration between bo en and Hakushi Hasegawa. I feel like their styles would lend themselves very well to each other.
oh man, i wholeheartedly agree!
SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been listening to him a lot lately, really great stuff
WE GETTING OUT OF HEADSPACE WITH THIS ONE‼️
REAL ‼️‼️
WE GETTING OUR EYE TAKEN OUT WITH THIS ONE!!!
WE FALLIN OFF THE HOSPITAL WITH THIS ONE
@@frogchamp.4697WE GETTIN OUT THE PINATA TREATMENT WITH THIS ONE!
WE PUSHING OUR SISTER DOWN THE STAIRS W THIS ONE ‼️‼️‼️
genuinely one of the most beautiful albums ever, pale machine was already so good but this?? it feels like an old friend i havent talked to in so long, heartwarming
私はpale machineからbo enさんを知りました。それからずっとお気に入りのアルバムの1つだったので、pale machine2が出たことがすごく嬉しいです！ありがとうございます！
I didn't know how to embrace them, and i didn't know how to be honest, but i didn't know how to say goodbye, so they left me, and i don't know how to fall in love again.
pale machine 1 was my shit in 2014. thank you Bo En for making an album for us lonely fucks who came into adolescence damaged, who needed to hear "you're gonna be okay," who needed to cry about it, who would love and lose over and over because of our own screwups or because the people we loved were screwed up too, or because of the screwed up state of the world we live in, and because of the big deep hole we carry around inside, the ways we push away sincerity and connection because it's scary or imperfect and we don't know how to be honest about how we feel. those kids not sure if we're gonna make it.
thank you for following up that album with a set of dancefloor remixes of the same words, the same feelings, those same patterns, but now for us in our 20s, adults who indeed wish we could forget the rent, who did love and lose and meet and fight and make up and sometimes lose all over again. those of us who still don't know if everything's gonna be okay, living alone, feeling alone, still not sure where to go, and stranded feeling like they can't get there without love from a lost someone with whom things will never work out.
it was simpler then, listening to pale machine 1, even as we were more dishonest, trapped, immature and insecure. we couldn't foresee incompatibility, only chemistry, couldn't know the burn of things going up in flames time and again, the rippling pain of losing someone slow you fought hard to keep but even by your own admission not hard enough. back then heartbreak was just a fantasy. we hadn't failed others and ourselves, been failed by others, been rejected over and over, watched promising connections be smashed against the struggle to survive and the desperate lack of time in grown-up society for spending together. us, who know we need to stick our necks back out and try, try, try again, but finding it hard to feel anything other than alienated.
so thank you for reminding us of the kaleidoscope of life, the beauty of melody and harmony and the undeniable urge to dance. rhythms from around the world, demanding our attention and curiosity. something else beautiful and unexpected yet familiar enough to let in and accept as a gift, skipping past the paranoia that would call everything from the outside poison. thank you for being patient with stubborn loneliness, for coming back for those of us who have grown and changed but still not enough to count ourselves fixed, those of us doing our best but still making the same mistakes.
are you like me, to sing the ways i feel? i can't be sure. but like you say, it's gonna be okay. we're gonna be okay. i'll fall in love again. i don't know how yet, but i will. a thousand Thank Yous to you, bo en, and ten thousand wishes for your peace and happiness.
I can't wait for Pale Machine 3 in 2033
OH MY GOD. I’m 5 months too late, but damn, I was 7/8 when pale machine came out, and I’ve been listening to it ever since…. Now I’m 18 and just??? Wow. Pale machine literally has always meant so much to me, it helped me through a lot of really hard times, and I can already love pale machine 2 just as much. It’s such a lovely album band it’s so intense it literally brought tears to my eyes. This album is literally all I ever needed, thank you so much Bo en for gifting us with this masterpiece, your music literally means the world to me 🫶🫶
pale machine has been one of my most listened to albums since i first heard it like 8 years ago
Genuinely thank you for getting Plus-Tech Squeeze Box on this. I had no idea they were still around, and i really loved them growing up. So, so cool to see such an ideal pairing for what I assume is their first new material in years
the sequel we never know we need, only Bo En would do amazing stuff like this
including the description of this album
Bo en thank you so much for releasing this masterpiece we all love you!
This was such an amazing album!
I'm so glad every song either tied with or surpassed their original version, not a single miss!
Cant believe pale machine 2 actually happened, truly a history in the making here
I used to listen this with a dear friend of mine ten years ago, almost every day. Awaiting for Omori (we didn't know it was gonna take seven whole years but anyway) we noticed your music is amazing. Now I sit here listening to one of the best albums I've ever heard once again, this time alone... but remembering the great amazing times I had listening to it. Thank you.
Я СЕЙЧАС ВЗОРВУСЬ ПРОСТО АААААААААААААААААААААААААААА ЕМАЕ СУПЕР КЛАССНО Я БУДУ СЛУШАТЬ ЭТО НА РЕПИТЕ ОКОЛО НЕДЕЛИ БЕЗ ОСТАНОВОК
Thank you, never thought this album would get an official remix, I’m so happy 😁
OH MY GOSH A ANOTHER ONE LETTTTSSS GOOOOOOOOOOO THEY EVEN REFERENCE PREVIOUS SONGS TOO LIKE WOW
Pale machine 2: Electric Boogaloo?!
It is interesting how you took the parts that made the original PM and did it again with years of new inspiration and life to boast!
By the most technical of terms this should be called a remix, as you mixed the songs again - with new things of course - but I dont know... I also don't really care because the music is very fun!
LETS GO SUNNY DOING A SOMERSAULT OFF THE BUILDING WITH THIS ONE
Already posted about this on “Paler, Still Paler” but my interpretation of this album (in relation to the original “Pale Machine” album) is that it’s essentially like you’ve tried to reinvent yourself, start anew to escape the pain, but then it slowly creeps back into your life until it eventually breaks you and sends you into madness.
The first handful of songs here are super joyful and upbeat, then “(We Are) Friends” feels bittersweet, and “I Hate Winter” and “Paler, Still Paler” are much more melancholy. “Our time” is chaos and insanity. (The last two songs feel kinda separate imo)
And yeah, like a lot of others have said, many of these songs feel very different to their original counterparts while still retaining a sort of similar energy, it’s interesting
dear bo en
i'm so happy that i get to see a new album of yours, regardless of what i think of this album, your music means a lot and inspires me to become a better musician.
thanks a lot and i hope for a happy listening.
nickflowers.
I've been waiting to hear this album for about 8 years now... Thank you so much Bo En!!!
There is no way I can condense how much the original Pale Machine album meant and still means to me in a single comment. Thank you Mr. En, this kicks so much ass
THE WAY I SCREAMED-
Can barely wait to listen to this!!!! Just hearing the first seconds already gave me goosebumps and floods of nostalgia 🥺
Thank you so much for sharing your music with us!!
What a pleasant late night surprise this is! I heard the first song and I already love it! Thx Bo En!
*genuinely sobbed when i heard the my time leitmotif in the intro. pale machine is a great album that helped me alot while i was growing up and stuck inside in 2020, so glad i can witness another masterpiece now, thank you bo en
I just want to say: thank you, bo en. the original pale machine album was a huge comfort for me when I found it at 11--I was becoming incredibly depressed, bullied, and was beginning to show signs of OCD. I thought about ending myself all the time. your music inspired and comforted me in those times when I felt like I was completely alone and that my feelings were impossible to understand.
I'm almost 20 now, but 5 months ago when this album came out, I was fresh out of leaving a long-time friend group because they'd become incredibly toxic and careless people who relied on drugs to be happy. I was left with very few friends and felt like I was at an even lower mental state than when I was 11. and then this album released, and it felt almost like a sign. that things were going to be okay, that everything keeps moving, that friendships come and go, and that I would make it through this. and I have. I'm coming to terms with a lot of things, and i'm still struggling, but i'm doing alright. I'm not thinking about jumping off a bridge anymore, at least. your music has been with me these past 8 years, and I couldn't be more grateful for the joy and comfort it's brought me. the more playful tone of this album really sets a mood of hope in contrast to the melancholic tone of the original, and I think that's wonderful.
Wow, I hope great things are coming your way
@@Thestuffdoer thank you. I recently officially became 20, actually. I'm also going to walk my adult school (failed HS due to mental health problems--go figure) graduation soon after two years of struggle, and am finally feeling like I'll start a new point in my life. again, it isn't perfect, but I'm healing.
thank you for responding, and I hope you also have good fortune in the upcoming future.
@@melonfiend8309 well congratulations on your upcoming graduation!
this album was on CONSTANT repeat back in 2019 when i first discovered it and it's such an incredible feeling listening to the same songs reimagined and seeing how far the songs have come and how far we have come :)
22:09 ABSOLUTE GOOSEBUMPS WHAT
It is a marvel that ‘our time’ was brought to fruition so brilliantly. What an absolutely sickening song. A disgusting, brilliant masterpiece.
あなたの音楽は人生を救ってくれる。ありがとう。
Okay so honestly? Most of this is music that I'm probably not going to listen to. idk it just didn't fit my tastes (at least not on the first listen)
HOWEVER
I think that this is a really amazing sequel to Pale Machine, it's clear each song takes inspiration from the original, and yet it's completely different and almost unrecognizable (save for the last 3)
Prelude in particular feels like a huge love letter to the original album, and then it suddenly shifts gears and switches to a much more vibrant, upbeat, fast-paced electronic feel. Got excited whenever I recognized a bit of a song, and was just sorta grooving for the rest of it lol. Found the cover art very fitting as well! Most of the songs felt like they had a similar energy to the artwork.
It really feels like you've grown and evolved so much since the original and this is, for the most part, a more upbeat and happy-sounding album. Hope you're doing well, bo en. Pale Machine is a very special album to me and I think you made something really special here too.
Edit: I take it back this is fire 🔥🔥🔥
Update: it's definitely growing on me, second listen lol
this album art gives me inspiration for smth
I used to listen to your Pale Machine album every day walking home from school when I was still in high school- this is so nostalgic!! It feels so amazing getting to listen to your re-mastered album and experience it all over again for the first time!!!! I'm smiling so big while listening but it makes me want to cry at the same time. Amazing album!!! Can't wait to hear it in person!!!
The moment the violin started I felt the 12 yo me bristle and rise up from the depths of my soul.
This feels so much like a personal reprise, from being 12 to being 18. Puberty to teenagehood, teenagehood to adulthood
I never expected them to upload this section, but it left me shocked and impressed, simply art and perfect, all the noises and instruments in time sound simply magical, I love your work, you never disappoint me
曲もそうですがタイトルもみんな少し変わってるのが本当に好きです......!!!10周年おめでとうございます✨
HANDS HANDS! OF HANDS! TIME WILL HANDS! WRING HANDS! MY NECK HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS. HANDS mmmmeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa HANDS
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Talk about the sequel we didn't deserve! As if Pale Machine wasn't enough, Pale Machine 2 delights and elevates using a list of previously existing bangers with a twist. Featuring mixing that really makes every layer POP as if you're sitting in a bubble while the wacky world plays out around you! Welcome old friends that have gotten just a little bit older, but boy-howdy did they age like fine wine!
Some would say if Pale Machine was so good, why isn't there a Pale Machine 2? My question now is: Since we got a Pale Machine 2, will there be a Pale Machine 3 in another decade? If so, can't wait to listen with my kid!
Thank you to all who contributed to this masterpiece--this showcase of talented minds and honed skills. It was truly an honour and pleasure!
After so long, it's honestly surreal to see another album, another Pale Machine no less!
What a wonderful way to slowly end the year with this as my soundtrack. Thank you, bo en.
ah hell yeah, another 10 years for pale machine 3 LETSGOOO
2033 we eating good🍰
if pale machine is so good, why isn't there a pale machine 2-
I have been listening for 10 years, and to see the 2nd album be released, I’m genuinely smiling so hard and also trying not to sob, it’s beautiful 🌹🌹🌹🌹
I did not expect our time to go that crazy hard. After listening to the whole album it feels like I went through every emotion ever
thank you, bo en for such great music. it has become a big part of my life. it would never be the same if not you
PALE MACHINE 2 IS A MASTERPIECE ALBUM SEQUEL TO THE MASTERPIECE ALBUM PALE MACHINE 😭😭♥♥🔥🔥
for real though!!! oh my god i felt like i was transcending a whole decade ago while listening to the original while also going through a breakup and listening to this now?? i feel like transcending past all the cruel and unusual punishment the world's faced in the past ten years and just . Awakening. you are a godsend, bo en 💗
I love how it all connects with allusions to other songs in the album littered throughout each song
I have waited a decade for this day
we are so back
I first came across Bo-en from his remix of Friends on the Anodyne remix album forever ago, so to hear the remix (with a Jersey Club break?!) all this time later is a real joy.
The strings in the prelude made me want to propose to the whole song. It’s composed so beautifully🥹💍
love this whole album, but goddamn, prelude is beautiful. cant believe you got toby fox on that
also, paler, still paler's placement is literally perfect. i love how it caught me so off guard, compared to what came before it
“If pale machine is so good why isn’t there a pale machine 2” mfers punching the air rn
if pale machine 2 was so good why isn't there a pale machine 3
@@boofy1347Whelp, I guess bo en needs to get to work.
holy heck, I didn't even realize a second one had come out despite adoring the first. hell yeah it's like others say where it's familiar yet different. it's like seeing an old friend after so long but they're different, yet still the same
thank you
I remember sitting in middle school art class and discovering 'my time' on soundcloud what seemed like so many years ago, i sit here now a senior in highschool literally kicking my feet and squealing in my desk chair. Your music has truly inspired me in many stages of growing up and it sucks I won't be able to see you on tour, however ill take this music and keep creating more inspired than before !! :)
THIS WHOLE PLAYLIST GIVES OFF SO MUCH OMORI VIBES AND I LOVE OMORI THE AUTISIM PART OF MY BRAIN IS GOING TO EXPLODE
this album, Especially Paler, Still Paler and Our time made the blood rush to my head. ethereal, surreal. Prelude was a phenomenal starter.
your musical ability never ceases to amaze me!! i couldn't begin to put into words how much pale machine meant to me. it helped me through some of my worst moments. you've breathed new life into it, it's an experience that's both excitingly new and comfortingly familiar at the same time. i adore it!!
I’ve been depressed for a while now, and then I see a sequel to my favorite album ever!
pale machineを8年前からずっと聞き続けてます！一番好きなアルバムのアレンジ盤を聴けて本当に幸せです！
and that leitmotif still is there..
its like meeting someone I haven't seen in forever. ty bo en for your beautiful work 💟
when i heard the last drop of our time at 24:36 my mind was literally BLOWN, THIS REMIX IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE AND I LOVE IT TO DEATH
RELISTENING TO YOUR OLD DISCOGRAPHY DURING WORK THIS SUMMER WAS A GREAT DECISION ON MY PART. I AM HEARING EVERYTHING AGAIN AND I FEEL POWERFUL.
AHHH OH MY GOD ALL OF THE MOTIFFS IN THE FIRST SONG here are all the ones I heard, let me know if I missed some: my time (obvi) friend, winter valentine
small hc's for our time
1. 22:39
we hear the "i just" repeat over and over again, which is normal also in my time, but it gets more distorted. my "theory" is this song is getting played onto some sort of music playing device, like a boom box or a cd player, and the person grabs something and hits the device over and over again. we even hear at around 22:39-22:40 an object, in my theory a bat, getting rised into the air, presumably prepared to strike
2. btw this is specifically for omori, the game. SPOILERS BTW FOR BAD END OF OMORI
23:11 - this is obviously just a headcanon and no where near canon, so oh well. i personally believe when it says "as the voices inside my head" i believe Sunny is talking about omori, as the voice inside his head. then a bunch of oyasumi's. that would be omori repeating over and over to sunny, in a way "do it, do it, do it!" like trying to provoke him or smth idk. and in the end, sunny eventually "sucumbs" and oyasumi's (khs).
23:25 - we hear some sped up background smth (idk how to explain it "dabadaba") which in my head is sunny's mind spirling
23:34 - oyasumi again, but this time some new background vocals, presumably children, join in as a "choir". it doesnt seem as more than a group of 5-7 maybe even less, which makes me think the headspace gang would join in with omori in "convincing" sunny to oyasumi
you can hear the most of the children's voices, in my opinion, at "your" 23:36
23:48 whatever the f7ck this is, idek i gotta do my german homework lol
ANYHOW i am thankful if you read this intire f7cking paragraf of my writing, and honestly concerned at how much free time you may have
CHECK YOUR PHONE BATTERY BTW BYEEEE-
100% and on computer charger
bo en! this is really a masterpiece. you can feel every emotion that went into creating this, every song is a roller coaster of feelings and sounds, it's so unique. It's so cool to see how far you've come as a musician, what's changed from pale machine 1 and what hasnt. This album really tickles my brain. thank u :)
I cant believe its been 2 months... A masterpiece of a masterpiece
It's beautiful to listen to, and I'm so happy bo en is still out here pursuing what he does best, and making beautiful music
AAAAAAAA IT JUST STARTED AND IM ALREADY IN LOVE WITH IT
Bo en you are amazing we thank you all for your work your symphonies will spread far and wide and be enjoyed by musical ears and unlike. i will praise it and listen in joy all the same. beautiful art beautiful music.
🔥🔥🔥 I listened to the first album a while back, love the new energy! I feel like it was cranked up all the way and it feel a lot more positive lmao!!!! I'll fall might be one of the best songs on the album