Ensemble Pearl for Post/Math

Bump! The mediafire link still works for the time being, and I can reupload if necessary.

I really appreciate your insight on this one; I never considered these guys for consideration in any subgenre other than Krautrock or Psych/Space. I guess I ultimately based my final decision on the massive similarities to Barn Owl and Boris (who were once up for submission and were bounced around from team to team with Psych/Space ultimately their resting point). The Ensemble Pearl record sounds like a continuation of Boris' excellent prior collaboration with Stephen O'Malley & Sunn O))), Altar. I changed the thread title and hope it positively draws the attention of the other team members.

Edited by Gordy - July 05 2021 at 23:42

Cristi wrote: as long as we don't know which team to look into this band, it's gonna take a while and nothing will get done.

^ Gordy's following Nick's lead, which I think is a fantastic, thoughtful post since Nick mentioned some other categories. I know we have the request that one one subgenre be listed now, but that used to be different. It was common at one time for multiple possible subgenres to be in the title and then for multiple team's members to check out the music and comment in the suggestion thread and then decide on best fit in conversation there (sometimes we'd duke it outa bit when multiple teams wanted something. Avant Prog often won). When team members are really busy, this can be hard. Often it worked well and avoided later ping-ponging. The suggestion threads often were more vibrant with more debates then and conversations with various team's members sharing their opinions on suitability (was lots of fun).

Often people would post their preferred subgenre as the first, and then mention "ors" for other subgenres if unsure. We had some specific issues, so made some changes hoping to make things easier for teams, but I wish we had the "or" system still. It can help to get a variety of opinions before taking it to the team thread.

Edited by Logan - July 06 2021 at 00:56

^ I get ya. Things used to be rather different when we joined this site. Although I'm sure the same must have happened a lot then too (maybe it was I was on the Eclectic team, and we worked closely with other teams due to the eclectic nature of the music and crossover with other teams). I get why Gordy did that in response to Nick's post -- you used the confused emoticon, which could indicate more than one aspect of confusion. I might have done the same as Gordy, would have at one time, and then hoped to see some decision made in the topic by a few people from different teams talking it out. It's often hard to know best fit, and it can take team members from multiple teams to figure that out. I liked it when it was more common for teams to talk it out and decide in the suggestion threads rather than taking it to them team threads before deciding (more transparent and more fun, I thought, but I digress).

Edited by Logan - July 06 2021 at 01:14

I didn't mean to imply that you did anything wrong, Cristi. Sorry if it comes across like that. That's just my piss poor tangential conversational style.

It's probably why I end up having so few conversations with people in real life.

Edited by Logan - July 06 2021 at 01:30

Cristi wrote: Gordy wrote: Cristi wrote: as long as we don't know which team to look into this band, it's gonna take a while and nothing will get done.  As part of the Prog Metal team, what are your opinions on their eligibility? if you want one team to evaluate, don't write three subgenres in the suggestion title. Sorry, but who's to look into this band?  I'll add them for suggestion for experimental/post metal then.

So here's where things stand as of 7/30:

nick_h_nz wrote: The only reason I changed my Yes vote to a Move is because it would have left the band in limbo, which I didn’t want. By changing my vote to Move, it can be passed on to the Post team. I would rather see them under the prog metal umbrella, but if it comes down to it, getting them into PA is the war, so I’m prepared to lose a battle in order to hopefully win the war. 😜 I have suggested that if the Post team don’t like it, it could come back to us, rather than be rejected outright. To be fair, though, I think the band stands a good chance with the Post team, or I wouldn’t be comfortable changing to a Move vote.

Edited by Gordy - July 30 2021 at 23:56

My YES. Let me recommend them in my blog.