On TD – yep, what a splendid and extensive career and library they have, and Edgar was tremendously instrumental in cultivating their sound of course. I really like the pause menu theme from GTA V, and introspecting to it while it morphs seamlessly into different tonal and timbral configurations of similar pitch material.
It’s quite antithetical to the Carpenter Brut posted earlier, and an awful lot of TD’s music made me introspect deeply on many aspects of life and being.
The end of Tangram remains as one of the most crushingly haunting moments in music I know.
Learning To Live is my fave DT song and Met Pt.1 is right up there.
Regarding styles of rock, I’ve liked many and don’t think quality ceased post-'90s but it’s lost its place in the mainstream. I’ve mainly listened to The Alan Parsons Project and Jethro Tull recently for more interesting and progressive sounding rock stuff, so clearly my biases, for rock music specifically, still tend to lie pre-2000.
More TD…
2:40 is one of my fave sonic auras that TD have created. Sometimes the most inspired material just comes about through loosely planned improvisation.