MiffTuck

I woke up to all this today without having seen any of it before, so my apologies for my ignorance in all of this. I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to tell me where to find the allegations brought by the dozen or so women who have come forward? I saw the post and the email released by Hayley Mather this morning before she made her Instagram private, but that was it in terms of context (or lack thereof). Everything else I've seen has been people mentioning accusations but declining to repeat them because its not their story, and I'd really like to get the full picture of what exactly has been said. Chiming in on a discussion a couple of pages back about separating the art from the artist and all of that, I think it's something that's particularly difficult with an artist like Matthew Good. In my experience it's rare that an artist will present such a visceral and raw view of themselves through their art and, when you start to see bits of yourself in that, it's incredibly difficult not to attach yourself emotionally to it, particularly when you see other people opening up in having the same reactions - you start to realise that you're not alone in the vulnerabilities that you'd prefer not to show to the world. I will admit that my knee-jerk reaction was one of skepticism. Again, I didn't have time to get the full view of things, but it almost seemed to me like the accusations were put up, and then followed with the release of the email from him leading people to conflate the two so as to seem like the admissions of being a shitty person were a direct admission to having abused her and saying that his art justifies it. I, personally, did not see the context of that email, so I'm hesitant to read too much into its context. That being said, I'm starkly aware of my bias in that I've identified so much with Matthew Good's art over the past 15 years and it's difficult to reconcile that part of me with the possibility of it being made by someone who is capable of some potentially horrific behaviour. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance to work through there. So yeah, any further information that could be given or signposted to would be massively appreciated. I hope everyone's doing alright, I'm sure there are a lot of people really shaken by all of this.

I'm genuinely gutted by this. It's hard to put into words. Without Chris Cornell I would never have heard of Matthew Good; I checked him out after a recommendation on a Cornell fan forum. Hell, in a way I'm in a Matthew Good music video thanks to Chris Cornell!

My gut feeling would be that it's the rim of one of the drums being lightly struck.

How do you think it stacks up against the original? I know it's too early to say, and only time will tell if it has as much lasting power, but I think it gives it a run for its money!

Looks like I'm on the flip side of everyone here - No Liars is one of my favourites, whereas I could take or leave Los Alamos.

Not sure if I've just missed the boat and everyone already knows this, but you can buy Suburbia on the UK iTunes Store at least. And it's beautiful.

I hope this isn't out of turn or anything, but my fiancee and I spent New Years Eve at home having a quiet one (she's a bit under the weather) and I managed to convince her to record a cover of Apparitions with me. She's quite shy about her voice so it took some doing. If you fancy checking it out it's at https://soundcloud.com/user-125460458-529643579. Happy New Year all!

To be honest, it's more to do with how much you can do within the program, and the plugins you have. If you're going to invest in getting Logic Pro, then it's probably only worth it if you invest in a couple of plugins too. From personal perspective, if you're looking to demo everything yourself, I'd recommend looking into Superior Drummer and then something like Guitar Rig to record bass and guitar. Superior Drummer comes with a wealth of samples and controls to tweak to get the sound you want, and Guitar Rig has a load of different amp models and variables you can play about with too. The worst thing would be investing in Logic Pro, and then finding that you're just using the same samples that you would be in Garageband anyway.