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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
I've been listening to the stuff I usually listen to as of late, but I'm doing it in a different manner. I recently signed up for Apple Music. I was sort of inspired to do so due to the whole Spotify drama that's going down, as I've been playing with the idea of giving a music streaming service a try. I signed up for 6 months of Apple Music for free and have been using it rather than PlexAmp, which I use to stream my own library. So far, I really like it. I like that they have curated playlists based on themes. The other day, I did dishes while listening to a 90s hip hop mix. A streaming service like Apple Music gives me the ability to listen to whatever in the moment, while I can use my personal library in Plex for the stuff I really love.
As for actual music, I've really been into Magdalena Bay's latest album Mercurial World recently. It's synthpop, electropop, dance, with a female vocalist. Really fun stuff. I highly recommend watching the video for the song Secrets (Your Fire). It has an "early internet" theme to the video. The song gets stuck in my head a lot. Enjoy!
Mercurial World is so good, and while I don't put too much stock in popular opinion, I'm genuinely thrilled that it seems to be getting the recognition it deserves.
I've listened to the closing track, "The Beginning", more times than I can count.
And if you listen to the album in full, and set it to repeat, "The Beginning" transitions back into the opening song, "The End." Pop on some headphones and listen to "The Beginning" turn around to "The End" and take a read of the lyrics for "The End" ...
I've been jammin to We Don't Talk About Bruno recently it's good
Here I was, thinking that I had finally gotten that out of my head, but even just reading the name of it is enough to resurrect the earworm.
Ludovico Einaudi, Hans Zimmer and The Marías.
Cocteau Twins
Nick Drake
Snail's House
If you like psychedelic rock, you might like this album:
Lastryko - Sesje (Full Album 2022)
It's all instrumental, and the drums are very intricate.
Thanks, I'm really enjoying this album.
If you don't already know them, you'd probably also like this band/album: Ozric Tentacles - Space for the Earth. It's one of my favorite recent psych-rock albums.
I listened to the whole thing this week. My favorite track is ‘Space for the Earth’ - the flute player is goin WILD.
I also like the track ‘Blooperdome’. I had never heard of Ozric Tentacles. It’s so awesome they’ve been making albums since 1989!
Just bein funky in their own zone.
I recently learned that Nightwish released a re-master of their 2004 symphonic metal masterpiece Once last year, so I've been listening to that a lot, further cementing it as probably my most-listened-to album of all time.
I've been listening to Archspire. All of their albums are fairly consistent in tone, solid quality if you want to listen to technical death metal. Oddly, I was never really into death metal, but there's something I just enjoy about this band, probably somewhere between the melodic guitar and seemingly inhuman drumming (the only "trick" the drummer uses is kick triggers). It seems like a band I shouldn't like, but I'm listening to it in the same way I would Meshuggah, I guess, even if they're radically different bands.
Maybe the best tech death available, and I think it's because they have good songwriting which prevents their incredible technicality from becoming a gimmick
Jungkook of BTS sings covers and tried to make a song on some of his vlives. It's nice to see the song writing process and it's reassuring to see talented people struggle (as in, things don't come easy to them as the media can portray and people are self-conscious, yet still put themselves out there). Also, it's very intimate and he has a very nice voice.
This is more of a question.
From slashdot:
Does anyone know what the author is referring to?
The article that quote is from doesn't really shed much light on who the author is specifically referring to:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/
But if I had to guess, it's probably in reference to the growing wave of indie nu-jazz and jazz-fusion musicians/bands who have a more EDM inspired style. E.g. Too Many Zooz, Moon Hooch, MEUTE, The Comet is Coming, Manu Delago, etc.
Wow thanks. That’s some hot takes there.
I don’t know what they are referring to, but I know there is a variety of EDM called Electro-Swing that takes a lot of cues from Swing and Jazz (often directly mixing tracks from the previous century with contemporary percussion). Apple Music has a curated Electro-Swing Essentials playlist. I’d say one of my favorite EDM/Lounge artists who incorporates Jazz and Blues is Parov Stelar. Here are a few tracks, specifically:
I'll list my recent bandcamp Friday purchases, typically these are items that have been on heavy rotation or are highly-anticipated by me:
Havasu | Pedro The Lion
Traveler | Traveler
Desolate Endscape | Phrenelith
X | Krvvla | Brucia Records
The Redemptive End | GROZA
RimWorld P-Music Mod OST | Peppsen
Purifying Blade | ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE | A.S.M.
Le Dernier Rempart | Herzel
Realms of Exquisite Morbidity | Malignant Altar | Dark Descent Records
Undo the Chains | Wraith
As Cold As A Stranger Sunset [Album] | Huronian | Dolorem Records
Tales Of Othertime | Stormkeep
The Fall of Cintra | Hekseblad
Trisagion | Ethereal Shroud
Note: ASM looks edgy but from the research I and some other metal fans have done, they appear to be safe (non-racist, non-alt-right, etc). Metal genres are a minefield laden with bigots, so one has to be careful.
Separately, other things I've been checking out:
Cry | Cigarettes After Sex
Pathos | Obsidian Sea | Ripple Music
Twilight Insurgency | Lunar Blood
Engine of Hell | Emma Ruth Rundle
I'll Probably Be Asleep | Hachiku
Heard about a Kiwi band called The Beths. Started listening to their 2020 album Jump Rope Gazers.
I've been enjoying a host of country and folk this week, but the album Lil JLs Blue Bonanza by Charlie Crockett especially.
I finally got a data plan so I made a spotify account to listen to music while I drive and also to find new music and while there's a lot of dross I did find some songs I liked:
I do feel like I've hit another wall as the daily mixes appear to be all the same songs I've already heard.
Lots of Sparks and Broken Social Scene
White Lies - Am I Really Going To Die popped up on my recommended list and holy shit it slaps! Haven't listened to them in years and had no expectations whatsoever. That bass and the Morrissey-eque chorus really brings it together. I've linked to the extended version because I feel the intro is important to the song.
In a completely different genre I was recommended Night Crowned newest album Hädanfärd and I already know it's gonna be one of my favorite albums this years. The aggression in his voice mixed with speedy drums and melodic pieces scattered around in a dark Scandinavian ambience is just amazing. Also I love it's in Swedish.