From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2102 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 4 2017 Volume 16 : Number 2102 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Daughter [Gregory Bossert ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 22:53:57 -0700 From: Gregory Bossert Subject: Daughter ibm playing Life is Strange: Before the Storm b the prequel game to 2015bs Life is Strange, which I loved beyond any rational accounting. I assumed the prequel, which is not by the original company, would be a money grabbing train wreck, but...the first episode was pretty great. Ectophonically, the sound track to the original game was great: score from French songwriter Jonathan Morali a.k.a the group Syd Matters, with tracks from Mogwai, Sparklehorse (+PJ Harvey), alt-J, Foals, Amanda Palmer, and others. I was literally listening to it every day for a month or two. I was also prepared for the soundtrack to the prequel to be a disappointment, but wrong again: itbs great. With the exception of a couple of licensed tracks (including the great bNo Belowb from Speedy Ortiz), the new soundtrack is composed (entirely original songs) and performed by British/Swedish/French trio Daughter (with two previous albums on 4AD). Theybve released it as an album: Music from Before the Storm. Itbs a little more, well, cinematic than their previous albums, with slow-build Mogwai dynamics. I think itbs their best yet, maybe because main songwriter Elena Tonra was pushed out of her comfort zone in writing about a specific external character. Ibve gone back and started listening to their first two again and they're much better than I remembered, but I keep coming back to the new one. Anyway, uh, therebs that. Y'all could check out a song or two. Or, you know, not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XIRj_Iq3cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpcHnid3H-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQine8gbZI And if you donbt know their previous stuff (but you probably do because ecto) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QT5eGHCJdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt8MZXuSKH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt8MZXuSKH8 - -- www.gregorynormanbossert.com -- - -- www.suddensound.com -- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2102 ****************************