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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/

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  1. bhrgunatha
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    Newly released material from TROUM. No musicans affect me the way they do. They can do nothing wrong in my book. I haven't heard a single bad track, regardless of what you might think if you...

    Newly released material from TROUM. No musicans affect me the way they do. They can do nothing wrong in my book. I haven't heard a single bad track, regardless of what you might think if you decide to listen :)

    TROUM - H​ó​ro​-​Skope​î​on

    mini CD-R released in conjunction with a pagan birth / "christening" ritual in Greece, containing one long exclusive track especially recorded for this event; lim. 119 copies - handmade edition: stamped jute cloth-bag with insert

    makes me smile

    TROUM - Dream​-​Drive​-​Transmission


    Posted this somewhere else and immediately after posting, I took a little youtube detour and discovered they covered Paint it Black.

    TROUM - Paint it black

    Merry Christmas, ...if you do that is.

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  2. aphoenix
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    I have been listening to SZA's new album a lot. My daughter's spotify recap told us that she was in the top 0.005% of SZA listeners, and my google music recap told me that she was in my top 10,...

    I have been listening to SZA's new album a lot. My daughter's spotify recap told us that she was in the top 0.005% of SZA listeners, and my google music recap told me that she was in my top 10, just from playing it in the car while driving her places.

    The new album is pretty dang good, and I say that as an old white guy. She is a gifted lyricist, and some of them are darkly humourous - Kill Bill starts off musing "I might kill my ex, not the best idea", and then transitions through the murder and ends with her facing herself. She has a song that's straight out of the noughties and seems a tribute to Avril Lavigne. Some of the songs are plaintive, some angry, but all of them are deep, personal, and interesting. It might be my top album of 2022, and I have to thank my (not so) little girl for introducing me to a gifted artist.

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  3. DanBC
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    Anything at all by The Mary Wallopers, because they've got a knack of getting in my head. Also, Colby Helms. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6e0ySEJl14 This is one of the things that...

    Anything at all by The Mary Wallopers, because they've got a knack of getting in my head.

    Also, Colby Helms. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6e0ySEJl14 This is one of the things that just blows my mind about YouTube - he's fantastic. Here he is, playing live, one shot, almost no production, and it's fantastic. And he has fewer than a thousand subs and this song currently has fewer than five thousand views. The rest of his songs are great too. Lyrically, he's brilliant, and telling his story, and the playing is amazing.

    I've been trying to listen to full albums in their original play order, and two that I can recommend are Victorialand by Cocteau Twins and Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo.

    Victorialand starts gently with Lazy Calm, gives us another gentle song with Fluffy Tufts, hints at darkness with Throughout the dark months of April and May, but gives us swirly joy with Whales Tales, and it's all building to the final song - The Thinner the Air which just oof. It's haunting. This is an expertly put together album. I love most of their work, especially anything between Treasure, Victorialand, and Blue Bell Knoll. But I think this is the album that sticks with me.

    Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo (which I just found out were called Yaz in North America) is stripped back early synth pop but with Alison Moyet on vocals. It's nuts that this album has both the bubbly, fun, "Bad Connection" and also "Winter Kills", or the chart friendly songs "Don't Go" and "Midnight" and then something like "I Before E Except After C". I feel like the young people exploring 80s are missing out on so much, because I don't hear them talking about groups like Yazoo or Young Marble Giants. But maybe I'm just looking for those disussions in the wrong place. (Best intro to Young Marble Giants is I think "Final Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8ymBZwgOE but either "Colossal Youth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKBgRok2g8&list=PL8eRaHvJ2FIUnS1h5cXH-rMGE3jNnxP8q&index=7 or "salad days" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTHckSzjNaE&list=PL8eRaHvJ2FIUnS1h5cXH-rMGE3jNnxP8q&index=11 are good too)

    I've just got out of hospital after a stay of a few days (felt longer though) and fucking hell it's rough in English hospitals at the moment - I was a corridor patient for a day and IT FUCKING SUCKED. Luckily I had taken in my mp3 player fully charged so I was listening to lots of rowdy music in the day time (KATZ, Skegss, dune rats) to drown out noise and keep me upbeat, and lots of quiet music at night to drown out noise and get me sleeping. Somewhat unsuccessfully both ways if I'm honest.

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