Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on ANIMALS AS LEADERS - Monomyth (Official Music Video) ORIGINAL VIDEO // • ANIMALS AS LEADERS - M... ALL LINKS // linktr.ee/criticalreactions
I honestly feel like you missed on the best of the best of Animals As Leaders in their past albums, some really good well phrased and structured songs like Ectogenesis, The Woven Web, Nephele,Backpfeifengesicht, The Brain Dance and a lot more, try checking out The Joy Of Motion or The Maddness Of Many, both strong asf albums, for a sronger grasp of their sound.
Again, if you want cohesion from Animals as Leaders, the Weightless album has it for days. The entire album tells a story via instrumental fashion, each song a chapter, each part of the song moves the chapter. Absolutely brilliant. Other albums have some of my favorite singles, Weightless is by far my favorite album.
They have so many songs from each of their albums that highlight different harmonies and melodic concepts that you would love. On Impulse is probably my favorite. Song of Solomon, Tempting Time, Behaving Badly, and Apeirophobia are also good candidates. Love all your AAL breakdowns.
Monomyth was termed by Joseph Campbell, who was inspired by Jung. Hero With a Thousand Faces is the book where he explored the concept. Another term for it is "hero's journey," and works like Homer's Odyssey were among the original templates for it, though it also fits a ton of narratives, including Star Wars (George Lucas said he was consciously influenced by Campbell's work).
There it is. That was my gut reaction but something in my brain brought up creating myths for some reason. I've read Hero With a Thousand Faces a loooong time ago. I do find it a bit disappointing that Campbell mentions seeing this pattern throughout historical writings and some people, like George Lucas, consciously decide to use it as a template. Nowhere does Campbell say it's the best storytelling format but so many people *seem* to take it as gospel that it's how stories should be told; it's like some sort of great misunderstanding.
@@CriticalReactions absolutely. In possibly all fields "this is how most people typically do it" gets turned into "this is how it should/ must be done" with alarming frequency.
The Tesseract stuff might be from PORTALS, it was a live cinematic stage performance during lockdown last year. It's an amazing recap of just some of their best work and it's the best live quality performance I've seen. The audio alone should be on music platforms now.
wasn't my favorite song by them but it was very fun, impressive, and good to see aal back again. I really like the melodic songs of joy of motion and madness of many but specifically joy of motion
I've never been super into the AAL songs where rhythm seems to take the stage. Stuff like Physical Education, Song Of Solomon, On Impulse and Para Mexer gripped me more.
Drummer is playing that 12-123-123-12-123 patter over 6/4 in the beginning and then keeps and the makes varieties of that throughout as well as adding a 6 stroke role during the first guitar solo
I second the comment from Mar Tsame, I would definitely urge you to check out something off their Joy of Motion album, I'm positive you'll dig it. Tooth and Claw, The Woven Web and Physical Education are perhaps my favorites.
I personally think this is one of your best breakdowns to date. I agree with your AAL takes across the board and your musical vocabulary never ceases to impress me. Sidenote: I think you'd make an incredible music teacher for the youngins! Unfortunately music education isn't considered much of a priority for today's youth, so perhaps a college course on theory or something of the likes would be more fitting (and would save you from listening to the world's worst rendition of twinkle twinkle little star by Tillman Elementary's 3rd grade recorder ensemble on endless loop, so there's that.)
Thanks, on both accounts. Little known fact, my last online project was a (rather dry) explanation of how to use a controller profiling software. It was scripted, rather than off the cuff like this, and featured snappy editing and complex ideas being broken down into stuff that even non - software engineers could understand. So teaching is certainly something that I love to do and something that comes naturally to me.
The drummer on the RU-vid channel Drum.Dog counts this song as being in 17/16 meter and he groups it as 5+5+7. He also plays some of the drum parts to demonstrate it. He's got a good channel. Here's his video on this song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9qwzDhnyiao.html
Firefox with the privacy settings maxed out and a few privacy-centric addons like uBlock, Decentraleyes, and HTTPS Everywhere. As for your user name, what distro are you running these days? I've had Mint dualbooted since forever but have sadly lost the patience to actually boot it up these days.
@@CriticalReactions nice. Sounds like my add-ons set-up as well. Been running Arch these days, but I started off with Ubuntu. Ran Debian for about a decade as well.
@@Bilskirnir3124 started with manjaro but then i had to switch to kubuntu since i am still learning Im planning on getting a laptop for running arch or arch-based systems tho :D
Please do Watchtotower. Anything off of their album “Control and Resistance “. Specifically “The Fall of Reason” please. Thank you sir, love your videos!
We've shared the same reaction to AAL in the past. I've always had immense admiration for their technical skill but their music has left me wanting. This is the best track I've heard from them. Very interesting sounds throughout (love that keyboard in the beginning; it really adds something unique and special to the texture without being overbearing); the transitions were uniformly superb; the rhythms were (as always with these guys) mind-bendingly complex, but here they also add to the really unique feel/atmosphere of the track; the leads were super tasty and tasteful here too, reminding me a lot of some of John Petrucci's (Dream Theater's) early lead work. Just a stellar song overall with musicianship, aesthetics, and composition all at an extremely high level.
I'll be honest that thumbnail is surprising. I actually wasn't feeling this song as much as stuff off joy of motion on the first listen because it felt a bit too rhythmically focused, would've thought you'd be the same.
I somewhat agree and i'm really hoping, that the new album gets a bit of diversity between the rhythmic and melodic stuff. But just from Monomyth i feel we are getting a better flowing rhythmic arrangement and more development rather than stacking riffs together and jumping from one to the next. While those were definitely impressive this feels more like a well put together song. I feel they can do both really well and i trust them to get a good balance while keeping up this trend in arranging. EDIT: Wrote this before watching all of the analysis and just noticed, that i basically transcrbed some of Bryan's main thoughts :D
Don't get me wrong, I'd still like more melody writing than what was present here. But the direction towards that concept is a lot stronger here than in other stuff I've heard from them *without* giving up that super rhythmic element that they are known for.
Omg I felt the exact same way about AaL and Periphery etc. Composition was a little perturbing before . It still sort of is but I think it will get bettter
Yeah, every one of their songs I’ve heard hasn’t done much for me. There are some nice melodic parts but, overall, it’s just not for me. Their musicianship is insane, though; there’s no doubt about that.
