Composer Reacts to We Lost The Sea - The Last Dive of David Shaw (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2021
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on The Last Dive of David Shaw
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For more sad context, We Lost the Sea actually used to have a vocalist, this album is their first release as an instrumental group. Their vocalist tragically committed suicide some time before they began work on this album, with that event having a huge effect on all their music following it.
Damn. I remember finding this album back in 2016, but I never knew this.
its what makes Swan Song such a destructive last track for me, its obviously immaculate as a 2nd part to challenger but its really clear in that song it was made for Chris.
its make me happy see someone reach to this genre
The first time I listened to Departure Songs as a whole I was blowed away by how almost every second was beautiful and the experience made me so happy, but that was me hearing it completelly blind to any meaning behind it. Tho I'm fluent in english, the "Departure" on the title didn't even stand out to me. A second listen after reading the description of the tracks, reading the transcription of the intros and doing research blowed me away again, tho this time it was a haunting, depressive and bittersweet feeling. The overall theme of the album and the background of the events that happened to the band made it really stands out to me as one of the most powerful emotive albums I've heard in my life. A fav of mine, that's for sure.
Amazing song off an amazing album. As you can probably guess, every song on this album, Departure Songs, is about people who sacrificed their lives for the greater good of others and the progression of the human race. Easily one of my favorite post-rock albums of all time. Hope you do more from it, each song is incredible in it's own right and reflects the story that inspired it perfectly.
Wow, that's a heavy concept for an entire album.
@@articircle It gets even heavier when you know that this album is the band coming to terms with the death of their vocalist.
@@Spielix Oh wow... that's depressing. :( Definitely adds even more underlying weight to the songs.
I think the peaceful beginning is David first getting into the water and diving. When the music gets more aggressive and distorted, I think is when he gets tangeled. After this section, there is a period of time where the only sound is feedback from the guitar, almost like a flatlining heartbeat. Then it comes back to the clean guitar theme briefly, which I imagine as the team recovering David's body, followed by the piano which brings a very bitter sweet feeling. David recovered the other diver's body, but lost his life in the process. The piano would represent the feelings of the crew recovering both bodies
This is why I love post rock/post metal. It makes you feel and says so much with little to no words, and really paints some vivid imagery and emotion.
IM SO HAPPY YOU DID MORE OF THIS ALBUM
Pretty amazing story, and a hell of a way to set up a song! No idea what to expect from the music after that as I barely remember these guys from the first track we heard, but this was definitely awesome. I guess the obvious genre placement is post-rock/metal, but what really sets this apart from the genre's typical track is how profoundly infused with emotion it was. I don't know how much of that is due to knowing the story that inspired it, but I think even without that the way it slowly and methodically builds to that earth-shattering climax is incredibly powerful. It's easy to imagine the descent into the depths and the struggle to reach the surface, and how that painful journey back, instead of breaking the surface instead becomes breaking away from life, and there's definitely something cosmic and otherworldly about the climax here, and then the gentle moments are like an in memoriam from those left behind. Great, great track, and definitely makes me want to check these guys out.
I found out through other comments that this whole album is about people giving their lives for extraordinary causes or goals and that it was a way for the band to cope with the loss of their singer, who committed suicide sometime after making their second album. This is the band's third album and it was their first time making an instrumental one. Just....super heavy. It's not wonder they capture the emotions so well in their writing.
It would be so awesome if you could react to Numenorean - Home.
Atmospheric Depressive Blackgaze/BM.
This song means a lot for me, especially the lyrics and im interested what you think off it.
Sadly they annouced a couple days ago that they split up.
RIP David Shaw and Chris Torpy
Very glad you opened with the context for the song -- without that, this just wouldn't have hit the same. But with that context, everything hit so hard.They did a fantastic job conveying the emotions of the situation.
But I like your idea of plotting out a narrative journey in your head for a song that doesn't necessarily have an explicit one.
It's what I typically do for reactions, though with less of a "story" tied to it (that's usually for more casual listening). It's how I can remember the order of events even in longer songs, I remember the emotional or atmospheric concepts that my brain assigns to each section and hopefully I can remember a detail or two about why I assigned that section the feeling or concept.
@@CriticalReactions That's very neat -- like a mnemonic device but with a lot more depth than mnemonic devices usually have.
Great reaction!
An absolutely fabulous song with just incredible subject matter. They really honored the memories of both men with this effort. When I first heard it a year or two back, it was like my whole week came to a halt and I couldn't help but listen to it for a few days. A song I can think of that has a similar vibe is the song "Abyssopelagic II: Signals of Anxiety" from The Ocean's 2013 album Pelagial (ua-cam.com/video/NPrDWD1WtRI/v-deo.html). Each song represents a layer of the ocean going deeper and deeper. Abyssopelagic II is the song that accompanies you just before you reach the lowest depths.
Totally unrelated, but a band to put on your radar is a now-defunct band from South Florida from the early 2000's called Into the Moat. They have been local heroes for a lot of people in the metal and hardcore scene down there for many years. They're a math/metalcore band with a sound that is somewhere along the lines of Dillinger Escape Plan, if they tuned down and were a little bit more avant-garde, but still stayed menacing and catchy as hell. A serious rollercoaster of composition.
The song "Advocate v. Activist" off their last album The Campaign (2009) is a pretty good introduction (ua-cam.com/video/LLHLM3JMw9o/v-deo.html). Try to imagine a whole pit at a show of people going nuts who know every note of something like this...for a whole hour-long set. They're one of those bands where you look down and realize that what would have been 5 minutes of music for most bands just happened in less than 30 seconds.
The problem with this album is, that it sets such a high mark for post rock. It's difficult to find another album that generates such an emotional response.
Their follow up to this is on equal footing, it's such a great album. The Last Sun is such an amazing track when you know what the album concept is, its the perfect finisher.
@@rump438 That's funny because I can't stand The Last Sun. I was tripping on mushrooms when I first listened to that album, and the blaring intro to The Last Sun really fucked up my trip. Now anytime that song comes on, it gives me PTSD. LOL
"Speechless"said a guy with Tourettes 🙄This is absolutely a quintessential dirge if you ask me ❤️ The arrangements on this are simply cinematic and truly invoke the plights of the cascading emotional expression intended 👌 My life would be far more empty without ever hearing this 🙄 Amazing in every conceptualization 👌
Has a ever so slight "The Dirty Three" emotionally ability to lead and pull the Heart Strings❤️🤘
Ptsss 🤔 Consider doing a "Dirty Three" analysis I'll send a suggestion 👌
Man you gotta do bogatyri, best song on this album
Well... If the last theme song was variety without a cohesive thread this was certainly the opposite 😊
Sincerely enjoy both ends of the spectrum when executed this well!
Please listen to Challenger Pt 2 man
You should check out "Oblivious/Obnoxious/Defiant" by Chapel of Disease. They're death metal but with a spin on it with how they approach their sound, it's some of the more unique death metal I've heard. I think you would dig it
I'll keep that in mind.
Please do react to HILLS LIKE WHITE LIONS. They have some strong Mastodon vibes here and there, but a great great band. Their 2020 self titled album tells the tale of Sonnentau on a journey full of quests, in which he has to come to terms with his weaknesses and needs.
Leprous - Nighttime Disguise please