| Artist |
Meat Beat Manifesto |
| Album Title: |
Opaque Couché |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Ambient Electronica |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
05/10/2019 |
| Label |
Flexidisc |
| Catalog No |
FLX014CD |
| Bar Code No |
8 81626 52432 9 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard 4 Panel Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Untroduction (1:36)
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| 2.
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Pin Drop (6:37)
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| 3.
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(Ear-Lips) (2:46)
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| 4.
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Agelast (3:42)
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| 5.
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Hailing Frequencies Open (2:20)
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| 6.
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Bolinas (2:47)
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| 7.
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Call Sign (4:52)
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| 8.
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Moving Pulse (5:16)
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| 9.
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No Design (4:57)
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| 10.
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C/2015 V2 (2:01)
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| 11.
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CarrierFreq (2:43)
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| 12.
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Forced To Lie (4:58)
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| 13.
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Break Test (2:42)
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| 14.
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Present For Sally (5:01)
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| 15.
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Critical Soul Vibrations (4:50)
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| 16.
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Wandering Soul #11 (2:36)
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| Date Acquired |
06/05/2020 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
pop.market (Discogs) |
| Purchase Price |
17.66 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs entry:
MusicBrainz entry: (close but not exact) |
Notes |
Comes in gatefold cardboard sleeve
Jack says of the album: “Opaque Couché”* continues the search for the most imperfect pop song, with sixteen opaque tracks it can be seen as a companion to Impossible Star”
* Opaque Couché is known as “the world’s ugliest color”, used on cigarette packets to discourage smoking.
Packaging is actually darker than the color it's named after.
2 and 9 originally appeared on Meat Beat Manifesto - Pin Drop / No Design in longer forms.
4 originally appeared on Meat Beat Manifesto - 2.2 in a different form.
14 originally appeared on Meat Beat Manifesto - 2.2 in an identical form.
Producer – Jack Dangers
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Analyzed Folder: Meat Beat Manifesto - Opaque Couché_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR10 -2.60 dB -14.73 dB 01 - Untroduction.flac
DR6 -0.30 dB -7.31 dB 02 - Pin Drop.flac
DR9 -0.30 dB -9.98 dB 03 - (Ear-Lips).flac
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.24 dB 04 - Agelast.flac
DR9 -4.23 dB -16.74 dB 05 - Hailing Frequencies Open.flac
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.36 dB 06 - Bolinas.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -9.19 dB 07 - Call Sign.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -8.47 dB 08 - Moving Pulse.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -7.89 dB 09 - No Design.flac
DR9 -0.50 dB -13.85 dB 10 - C;2015 V2.flac
DR8 -0.50 dB -10.29 dB 11 - CarrierFreq.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -8.08 dB 12 - Forced To Lie.flac
DR6 -0.30 dB -7.88 dB 13 - Break Test.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -7.97 dB 14 - Present For Sally.flac
DR6 -0.30 dB -7.79 dB 15 - Critical Soul Vibrations.flac
DR10 -0.94 dB -14.97 dB 16 - Wandering Soul #11.flac
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Number of Files: 16
Official DR Value: DR8
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by Paul Simpson:
Opaque couché is supposedly the world's ugliest color, and it covers U.K. cigarette packs in order to deter smoking. It's also what adorns the cover of Meat Beat Manifesto's like-named full-length, and while it might signal that this is a difficult, unpleasant album, that isn't quite the case. Like its predecessor, 2018's Impossible Star, Opaque Couché is typical of MBM's brand of eclecticism, if nowhere near as angry or blown-out as their earlier albums. The album's best and most exciting tracks are the ones which play around with jungle, a style anticipated by early MBM tracks like "Radio Babylon." "Pin Drop" and "No Design" (both released on a limited pre-album 12") collide fast, choppy breakbeats with mangled vocal samples, yet there's still a sense of spaciousness to the tracks, rather than just a constant headrush. Elsewhere, there's the much calmer ambient techno of "Agelast" and "Bolinas," the latter balancing delicate acoustic guitar notes over a tricky, squishy beat. A bit of paranoia creeps into the steady, vocoder-heavy "Moving Pulse," as well as "CarrierFreq," which repeats the words "I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do" over a dragging thump. "Forced to Lie" is an airy, midtempo breakbeat track punctuated by more vocoders and a raspy, Beefheart-sounding sample ("They wreck minds, burn brains"). Also demonstrating the group's long-standing preoccupation with obscure, ear-catching samples is "Break Test," in which an unnamed narrator recalls rifling through Bob Dylan's trash and finding letters and pictures, until the singer/songwriter noticed what was happening and stopped throwing out anything of interest. Another jungle-ish track, "Critical Soul Vibrations," appears near the end of the release, and like the previous ones, it's so good that it makes you wish MBM would do an entire album in that style. As it stands, however, Opaque Couché is just as enjoyable as the majority of the group's other records.
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