Where Angels Fear
1 min readOct 10, 2021

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I'm afraid it isn't, no.

The pack is recent-ish ¹.

I mean, fair enough, if you're producing for film/television (or some other period production), you'll have legitimate reason to want to make something that sounds appropriate, but with better production values and an updated sound.

So, for professionals with a specific remit, it's a legitimate offering.

But, otherwise, there's no excuse for it and people should not be encouraged to revisit that sound when making music for normal release — even Daft Punk should've left it alone after that first 'ironic' track.

I might do something not dissimilar myself ... an 'ironic', nostalgic nod to 1988-to-1990 ... but, even then, I'd use sounds more appropriate to that specific period, not simply bland sounds of the late '90s/early '00s repurposed as my parents' warmed over acoustic sloppy seconds — the pack isn't even that true to the era.

¹ There was, unfortunately, a renewed interest in the sound in the last couple of years as people too young to know any better (re)discovered the sounds of the (late) '80s.

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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