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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:
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Just started listening to King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard. These guys are fucking awesome. Mostly been bumping their most recent album but have been trying to dabble in the rest of their massive discography. I think my favorite song of theirs so far has been Iron Lung off of Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava ( their albums are a mouthful )
Queens of the stone ages recent album has been on rotation, but I'm not exactly in love with it. It's by no means bad but these last couple qotsa albums have been extremely mid. The singles off this album are probably the best.
Couple random songs I've really been into:
Will I see you again? - Thee Sacred Souls
These guys are awesome it's very early 70's soul type music. Been bumping this pretty hard lately
Daydreaming- NxWorries
Kinda been my summer jam and I love me some Anderson Paak
Rust ft Tom Misch - Yussef Dayes
I've got quite a few songs on my playlist from Yussef and Tom. Do yourselves a favor and check em out. Pretty badass musicians who kinda do a little of everything jazz, hip hop etc
Gibbs Leakers - Cooking Soul
If you've never heard of Cookin Soul and you like hip hop he's a pretty dope producer. Freddie gibs is one of my fav rappers so this is a big hit for me
You should check out Kikagaku Moyo if you haven't heard of them already, great psychedelic rock band from Japan.
Yeah that song was pretty dope. I'll definitely check out some of their other work! Thanks!
Madredeus – Existir
Country: Portugal
Release Year: 1990
Genres: Portuguese Folk Music, Chamber Folk
Featured Instruments: accordion, cello, female vocals, guitar, male vocals, synthesizer
My response to the music: This is basically an updating of fado, bringing in some modern sensibilities and instruments, weaving together a charming document that expresses a longing for something greater than ourselves.
Manduka – Manduka
Country: Brazil
Release Year: 1972
Genres: Progressive Folk
Featured Instruments: bongo, charango, female vocals, flute, guitar, harmonica, male vocals, tumbadora
My response to the music: Dude wrote this album during his exile in Chile, jamming with members of Los Jaivas as he explores the new culture he's living in as well as eulogizing what he left behind in Brazil. And, like all South American music worth its salt, this album has a Violeta Parra cover.
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus – Songs of Yearning
Country: UK
Release Year: 2020
Genres: Dark Folk, Neoclassical Darkwave
Featured Instruments: female vocals, spoken word
My response to the music: Sure, it's not raw like their 80s stuff, but that's fine. This is more refined yet no less beautiful. I wonder, though, why they feel it necessary to sing in English, French, Greek, Russian, a Finnish dialect of Swedish, and Latin. A sampling of Europe? Moments of eastern meditation amid rich, full textures.
Akkajee – Lastenkerääjä
Country: Finland
Release Year: 2021
Genres: Avant-Folk, Free Folk, Chamber Music
Featured Instruments: bells, female vocals, nyckelharpa, piano, thumb piano, viola, violin
My response to the music: Finnish bitches playing on the nyckelharpa and some homemade stringed instruments, or so goes the tale. I mean, you could ask them, but I hear they got sharp tongues, so probably best just to enjoy the weird-ish folk music trip through the slippery imagination of a child.
Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle: A Space Opera
Country: Netherlands
Release Year: 1998
Genres: Rock Opera, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Featured Instruments: bass, cello, drums, female vocals, flute, guitar, hammond organ, harpsichord, keyboard, male vocals, mandolin, mellotron, minimoog, piano, sitar, spoken word, synthesizer, violin
My response to the music: Regarded by most as Ayreon’s best album, this medieval space odyssey encapsulates the entire Forever mythology, of which the beginning of sentient life on Earth is but one small episode. The music here is beautiful, exciting, and engaging, but because it is earnest, it is often view by more jaded listeners as cheesy. It’s not, though, instead being a sci-fi rock opera sung by eight travelers from different periods of human history and by Forever, the super-intelligent communal alien entity who orchestrates this whole adventure. This album could inspire a D&D campaign based on it.
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
Country: USA
Release Year: 1983
Genres: Folk Punk, Alternative Rock, Acoustic Rock, Post-Punk
Featured Instruments: acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, bass drum, drum set, electric bass, electric guitar, male vocals, piano, snare drum, violin, xylophone
My response to the music: Teenage hormones meet acoustic punk. The dude's got his hands full. When he can't beat his meat, he plays guitar with as much passion, and when he can't pluck and strum that guitar, he gives his meat the same treatment.
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Country: USA
Release Year: 1965
Genres: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Featured Instruments: acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, electric guitar, guitar, harmonica, hohner pianet, male vocals, organ, piano
My response to the music: This album has such a strong beginning, of course, one that always leaves me stunned at how brutal it is (to say nothing of the organ improv "mistakes" that were taken for genius and later imitated), but for me, the closer is even stronger. “Desolation Row” is one of my favorite Dylan songs. Everything about it is beautifully ugly, and I find that paradox fascinating. And I love the little poetic flourishes that anchor the song as an image in my mind, like when Dylan sings, "Cinderella, she seems so easy, 'It takes one to know one,' she smiles, and puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style." I also have a soft spot for sprawling, epic songs, and this song is an entire world in itself. Jimi might be able to chop down a mountain with just the side of his hand, but Dylan can tear down the mightiest person with nothing but his pen. I love the variety he brings to these sometimes purposefully-janky sometimes tight performances, one moment singing an ode to a train, another moment dropping criticisms so hot no one can pick up the mic afterward. Dylan's not the guy you invite over for polite dinner conversation, unless being bewildered by poetry is your idea of a good time.
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Country: USA
Release Year: 1966
Genres: baroque pop
Featured Instruments: 12-string electric guitar, 12-string guitar, accordion, baritone saxophone, barking dog, bass, bass clarinet, bass trombone, bells, bongos, cello, clarinet, double bass, drums, electric bass, english horn, flute, french horn, glockenspiel, guitar, harmonica, harpsichord, male vocals, mandolin, organ, piano, saxophone, tack piano, tambourine, tenor saxophone, theremin, timpani, trombone, trumpet, ukulele, vibraphone, viola, violin
My response to the music: Of course you had a bad trip. What were you thinking giving a boat a man's name?
Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70 – Ikoyi Blindness
Country: Nigeria
Release Year: 1976
Genres: Afrobeat
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass, congas, drums, female vocals, male vocals, maracas, piano, rhythm guitar, sticks, tenor guitar, tenor saxophone, trumpet
My response to the music: This isn't a record, it's a torch, and I want to believe it's bright enough to provide illumination to those who cannot see. The horns are crazily complex on this one. The back and forth, the riffing. Lordy, the riffing.
Pierrot Lunaire – Pierrot Lunaire
Country: Italy
Release Year: 1974
Genres: Progressive Folk, Progressive Rock
Featured Instruments: 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, celesta, cymbal, drums, electric guitar, female vocals, flute, guitar, hammond organ, male vocals, mandolin, organ, piano, sitar, spinet, synthesizer, timpani
My response to the music: A fine intersection of prog folk and Italian prog rock, but not as gripping as their next album, Gudrun. This one is more pleasantly pastoral and not much more. It feels like a sonic exploration of the contrast of light and darkness. "Lady Ligeia" is a fascinating highlight.
Ganelin / Tarasov / Chekasin – Live in East Germany
Country: Lithuania
Release Year: 1980
Genres: European Free Jazz
Featured Instruments: bass synthesizer, clarinet, drums, electric guitar, piano, saxophone
My response to the music: This live set of glorious chaos is the grandest of all testaments to the power of music, crossing borders, clandestinely or not, and influencing people in far-flung reaches of the world. The musicians, when young, listened to jazz on their late-night radios and recorded it on handheld tape recorders, but not having reliable access to jazz and its sheet music, they were left with a lot of gaps in their knowledge, which they filled in with their own ideas, their own improvisations... which, we all know, is an excellent way to play jazz! There is so much Lithuania pride, so much local culture in all this music. I mean, this music is as Soviet as it gets, considering how these guys got their start in a café that was later shut down by the KGB because the crazy music kept the KGB from eavesdropping on foreign customers. This recording is an excellent example of the use of cheat sheets--jazz musicians having a few ideas jotted down, a loose structure, and then they go on stage and fill that structure in the moment.
Various Artists – A Clockwork Orange (no reliable streaming link)
Country: Germany, Italy, UK, USA
Release Year: 1990
Genres: Film Soundtrack, Western Classical Music, Romanticism
Featured Instruments: female vocals, orchestra, synthesizer
My response to the music: Wendy/Walter Carlos is like some kind of forerunner to Sufjan Stevens, rendering the beauty of traditional music into mechanized, synthesized, glitchy glory. My opinion is no doubt colored by the film itself, but this music is simultaneously uplifting and ominous. Except for "Timestamps". That shit is straight-up terrifying... and wonderful.
Wardruna – Kvitravn
Country: Norway
Release Year: 2021
Genres: Nordic Folk Music, Dark Folk, Neo-Pagan Folk
Featured Instruments: bukkehorn, crwth, drums, female vocals, flute, hurdy gurdy, langeleik, lur, lyre, male vocals, talharpa
My response to the music: I love the arc the Wardruna project has taken, and I've been following it since the beginning. First comes the trilogy of mythopoeic albums that are not the record of mythological events but the musical equivalent of the events themselves. Then comes Skald, the recording of a single warrior-poet re-telling a selection of the events from the trilogy. And then comes Kvitravn, where the mythopoeic is stripped away to reveal the voices of the people, of the sailing, marching, plundering horde. This album feels like the warrior-poet has strapped on his armor and girded himself with his broadsword, and his people—male and female—are all around him, responding to his song and joining him in the hunt.
Wardruna – Skald
Country: Norway
Release Year: 2018
Genres: Nordic Folk Music, Dark Folk, Neo-Pagan Folk
Featured Instruments: bukkehorn, harp, lyre, male vocals
My response to the music: I thought the Wardruna project was finished, and this album coming out of nowhere has disappointed many fans who think the project should have been closed. In a way it is, though, since what's happening here is a skald (a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds) singing of the epic events that occurred in the Runaljod cycle all those many many years ago. Understood in that context, this album makes sense. The vinyl LP insert makes this apology: “Skald was recorded live in the studio with the intention of capturing the uncompromising energy of a live performance rather than aiming for a flawless and polished expression. It sets out to give voice to the ancient craft that once lay at the heart of the Norse oral traditions, presented as it takes shape in the hands of a humble contemporary skald today.”
Karolina Cicha & Bart Pałyga – Płyta tatarska / Tatar Album
Country: Poland
Release Year: 2017
Genres: Volga Tatar Folk Music, Crimean Tatar Music
Featured Instruments: accordion, baglama, bells, dutar, electric guitar, female vocals, fiddle, frame drum, goblet drum, jew's harp, keyboard, kobyz, male vocals, noise makers, sampler
My response to the music: This is one of those folk albums recorded outside a studio, in this case in an old wooden house in the Suwałki region of Poland, no doubt the artists wanting to feel "closer" to the music they were performing. It goes without saying that this recording features a lot of traditional folk instruments, heavy on multiple fiddles, but also employing accordion, bells, rattles, and, of course, soft, deep percussion. Karolina Cicha takes the vocal lead with her high, evocative Slavic voice, Bart Pałyga instead indulging in a bit of throat singing, coming forward only at certain moments of playful gruffness. This album celebrates the historical minority Tatar language.
Moulettes – The Bear's Revenge
Country: UK
Release Year: 2012
Genres: Chamber Pop
Featured Instruments: autoharp, banjo, bass, bass guitar, bassoon, double bass, drums, female vocals, flute, guitar, kazoo, lap steel, male vocals, mandolin, nyckelharpa, pandeiro, viola, violin, washboard, whistling, zazumba
My response to the music: This is humans singing fae music, so it has the beauty but lacks the raw power of that mirror realm. It is therefore safe. "Songbird" is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. It has an otherwordly beauty to it, but it’s not performed by the otherworld denizens from which we have learned it.
Aranis – Aranis
Country: Belgium
Release Year: 2005
Genres: Chamber Music, Avant-Prog, Modern Classical
Featured Instruments: accordion, double bass, female vocals, flute, guitar, male vocals, piano, violin
My response to the music: This is basically rock in opposition meets chamber classical, and the result is dramatic violins and leaping flutes. The sparse vocals are a nice touch, lending the overall album an arthouse cinematic feel.
Xylouris White – The Sisypheans
Country: Australia, Greece
Release Year: 2019
Genres: Avant-Folk, Cretan Folk Music
Featured Instruments: drums, lute, lyre, female vocals, male vocals, whistling
My response to the music: I dig this kind of authentic, mysterious folk music from a world not my own but one I recognize as ancient and profound. I love the ritualistic sounds steeped in Mediterranean culture. A quiet, minimal record.
Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
Country: USA
Release Year: 2010
Genres: Chamber Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Progressive Folk
Featured Instruments: accordion, acoustic guitar, alto recorder, banjo, bass clarinet, bassoon, bass recorder, bulgarian tambura, cello, cornet, double bass, drum set, electric bass, electric guitar, female vocals, flute, hammond organ, harp, harpsichord, horn, kaval, kemençe, kora, oboe, piano, pump organ, rebec, soprano recorder, tarhu, tenor recorder, timpani, trombone, trumpet, vielle, viola, viola da gamba, violin
My response to the music: A faerie gumdrop gingerbread house, an illuminated manuscript of storybook poetry. Newsom isn't content to merely sing the words; she decorates them in a spring cleaning of her heart.
Леонид Фёдоров (Leonid Fedorov) – Лиловый день
Country: Russia
Release Year: 2003
Genres: Avant-Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Psychedelic Folk
Featured Instruments: bass, guitar, hurdy gurdy, male vocals
My response to the music: You think, all right, so this is what the album is going to sound like, get comfortable, and then things completely change on you. In a good way. This album has so many left turns it's hard to guess what's coming next, and that's what makes it all so intriguing. The music takes you along for a guitar-strumming ride, and then suddenly BAM! here's some musique concrète. Listen closely...you'll hear Eminem rapping in the background, underneath the rusty violins.
Anaïs Mitchell – Hymns for the Exiled
Country: USA
Release Year: 2004
Genres: Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Featured Instruments: bass, female vocals, guitar, viola, violin
My response to the music: This is (for me) her delicate, intimate debut, despite its dark subject matter of war and Orwellian politics. The production is simple and elegant, and her songwriting is superb. She tells stories as the government tells lies: that is, boldly, easily, unflinchingly.
Żywiołak – Nowa ex-tradycja
Country: Poland
Release Year: 2008
Genres: Polish Folk Music, Neo-Pagan Folk
Featured Instruments: baraban, bass guitar, djembe, electric guitar, female vocals, jew's harp, lira, lute, male vocals, oud, shekere, viol, viola
My response to the music: I love music that has a mythological bent, especially when such mystical content is supported by traditional folk music. Add in a touch of folk metal, and you have a recipe for perfection. The counterpoint of the high female vocals to the moaning fiddles and tribal drumming complete the foreboding atmosphere of this album. Anyway, what is it with Polish women and their maniacal laughing? I love it.
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Country: USA
Release Year: 1969
Genres: Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz
Featured Instruments: bass, drums, electric guitar, electric piano, organ, soprano saxophone, trumpet
My response to the music: I never feel up to the task writing down my thoughts about giant albums like this. What can I say that’s not already been said? In cases like this, I just stay away from all reviews and scribble down my disjointed thoughts as I listen. This album is a music painting. I can hear the colors. The sounds are stroke patterns and wet paint, layer by layer, from the undefined center to the consummate edges.
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl – Artlessly Falling
Country: USA
Release Year: 2020
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Featured Instruments: bass, drums, female vocals, guitar, male vocals, saxophone, trumpet
My response to the music: I've been wanting to get into Mary Halvorson for a while now but was busy getting my other jazz ducks in a row. But what better way to introduce oneself to a new artist than going the route of familiarity? In this case, I'm a big fan of Robert Wyatt's and Amirtha Kidambi's works (as different as ice and fire—but both can burn), so it was easy for me slide right into this album, which isn't as much avant-garde jazz as it appears to be. Delightful twists and turns here and there, skipping along, quiet and nuanced, and then all of a sudden crunchy guitars knock you on your ass! The storytelling is just as strong in the instrumentals as in the vocals. The guitar work on the last track is so beautifully fucked up! Quite a ride.
Enrique Males – Jarishimi Kichuapi
Country: Ecuador
Release Year: 1984
Genres: Indigenous Andean Music, Singer-Songwriter
Featured Instruments: acoustic guitar, male vocals, spoken word
My response to the music: Five minutes into this album you will sit back and say “I’ve stumbled onto something special here”. So much passion, such mastery and mystery. And the way Males plays his guitar—making it sound almost harp-like! Even without understanding the language, I feel like this music is weaving an entire folk story around me, immersing me in something strange and wonderful.
Véronique Chalot – J'ai vu le loup
Country: France
Release Year: 1977
Genres: French Folk Music, Progressive Folk
Featured Instruments: autoharp, bassoon, bombarde, double bass, dulcimer, epinette des vosges, female vocals, flute, guitar, violin, whistle
My response to the music: Beautiful, elegant, rustic... just what I've come to expect from Chalot. The Breton folk flourishes are, of course, charming. This music is born of an ancient, enchanted realm that is forever young and closer to us than one might think...
Nalle – The Wilder Shores of Love
Country: UK
Release Year: 2010
Genres: Avant-Folk, Freak Folk
Featured Instruments: double bass, drums, female vocals, harmonica, saxophone
My response to the music: The liner notes call this "fey" and "childlike", and, yes, I agree it all hangs on the vocals: if you like this sort of thing (weird, freaky female vocals), you'll love this. If you don't, you might chuck your laptop out the window. If you fear not the wilder shores, take Tuulikki's hand as she leads you through a narrative of love and death. Watch your footing, though. Or not. Some people might enjoy the thrill of plunging into the dark waters below.
I've been to the Silversun Pickups discography again. I've been listening to them off and on for the last 10 years or so and they really hold up well imo.
I was also introduced to a Greek metal band called Kawir by a coworker. I don't know what they're saying but it's some good stuff! They only have 1,200 monthly listeners so go give em a listen.
Love Silversun Pickups. Seen em live about 5 or 6 times and they always kill it! I need to go back and catchup with them haven't listened to anything from them in the last few years
I’ve rediscovered Baroness and I’ve been listening to the Purple album excessively this week. „Shock Me“ was the first song of them I’ve heard and still really dig the energy of the song.
Isak from the Red Album was my jam as a freshman in college. That whole album rips and is huge nostalgia for me.
Shock Me is a banger but I can't really get into the rest of their discography for whatever reason.
It’s definitely one of their most energetic songs but I like the theme of the Blue album and a few songs on the Yellow one too. Baroness will never be my favourite band but all in all I quite like them from time to time. I somehow can’t get into their Red album at all.
All the Jenny Lewis
Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, Jenny and Johnny and her solo stuff.
I’m going to see Postal Servie in a few months and trying to decide if I can justify buying another concert ticket to see her again this month.
I finally saw DT some months ago and what a pleasure. Unfortunately they were just opening for Eluveitie so it was a short set. I have no idea why they didn’t have their own tour. Eluveitie took me by surprise though with their pure energy and much more raw live than on albums.
Are you going by the alphabet since it’s only bands starting with C and D?
You know, I can't remember if they've had a headlining tour in the United States. I've seen them twice now and each time they've been in as a support.
I have a decent sized collection, so to make sure I listen to everything and make sure that I only hold on to those albums that I truly enjoy, I go through it alphabetically and listen to whatever's next every night before going to sleep. Before changing jobs a few years back I would listen to things at work but that's no longer an option.
I've been going through the Rush discography in the car this week.
To quote Fanboys: "Rush IS variety!!"
I had a few Windows 96 vinyls arrive earlier this week so that's all I've been playing recently.
That one is amazing. One Hundred Mornings is definitely my favorite album but I think I'd say Abstract is my favorite track.
John Williams' score to the new Indiana Jones film. Haven't seen it it, but the score is delicious.
Agree! Love a good adventure film soundtrack during the summer.
I got to see Origami Angel live this week, so in preparation for that I relistened to most of their albums, but in particular their latest release (The Brightest Days), which is a very fun emo-pop record. It's more poppy than their previous albums, but it's also very enjoyable and just plain fun. Seeing them live was a blast.
Through tiktok I found out about sign crushes motorist's Hurting, which was a nice surprise. It's got very slow and melancholic guitars paired with sad vocals, but it's a nice vibe overall. I'm not sure what genre it is but RYM calls it "slowcore/slacker rock".
On the Soundcloud side, I listened to Silkenwood's sleepover!, vol. 4, which is a collaboration between A Lot of electronic musicians who came together to make really cool, fun, and interesting music in just one weekend. A lot of variety in genre (inside the bigger EDM grouping) between songs, so feel free to skim around if some songs are not to your taste.
My cousin came across a dope boom bap hip hop artist called Ja’king the Divine, very impressed with the modern feel, would recommend if you’re a fan of that old school sound 👌🏼
New QotSA album - one of their best yet. Wasn't a fan of Villians, but this one... oof.
Also fair amount of King Gizz, Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
A lot of K-POP!
I’m Nayeon is the first album I’ve listened to in a long time that I enjoy thoroughly from start to finish. Plus it just puts me in a really nice mood and fits the weather we’re having! Can’t help but put it on repeat constantly.
(Link is to YouTube and a playlist of the album)
Oh wow I completely missed the fact that there was a full album out! I listened to Pop! when it came out, but I've kinda been off the Kpop train the last couple years so I didn't see the album. I'm listening to it now.
What other Kpop albums have you been listening to?
What did you think of it?!
In terms of what I’ve been listening to and with some quick thoughts of my own, the last one I listened to was MISAMO (Mina, Sana, and Momo). I think marshmallow and bouquet just sound so pretty and they all complement each other so well.
IT’z ME by Itzy. Never listened to Itzy so didn’t know what to expect, but since I love the song WANNABE I thought I’d give it a go. Not a bad album and will give it another listen!
Born Pink by Blackpink. Took me a while to like it but the more I listen to it the more I like it! I love the song Tally which was the first Blackpink song I loved from the get go.
TWICE’s Hare Hare mini album is really fun! Both Hare Hare and Catch a wave are really fun songs.
Have you got any albums I should give a listen? The only reason I ask as I’ve only really started listening to K-POP the last month or so since I’ve got Spotify. Since you can go on the artist’s profile you get a gist of what they’re like it’s how I started listening to Itzy!
I liked it a lot! It's really fun and very summery. The Misamo songs are also so nice, I'm so glad they finally got a subunit, they work really well together. I'm excited to see what else they release.
I love IT's ME! It's got one of the (in my opinion) coolest songs in Kpop, 24HRS, which was produced by the late Sophie. Wannabe is definitely one of their best songs, I enjoy it a lot.
As for recs, sorted by artist:
I've been listening to IDLES, recently discovered them through their fantastic studio session at From The Basement. I also recommend checking out their Tiny Desk Concert too!
So much lofi. I'm in week 4 of my 7 week summer semester (my final semester!), and I love the easy quiet background music lofi provides when I'm working/studying.
Lots of interesting things to look into in this thread, I may explore some of what was mentioned. I typically listen to game soundtracks so I've been listening to the soundtrack to Cassette Beasts. There's a good amount of upbeat faster songs to exercise to in the soundtrack.
The soundtrack can be found on Spotify
Medieval dungeon synth, by an artist called ULK.
Very calming, relaxing, reminds me of music from Fable
Finally popping my Tildes comment cherry to thank you. I'm going to a renaissance faire tomorrow and this is exactly what I needed. I listen to a lot of video game soundtracks, too. Kingdom Come: Deliverance has many albums that remind me of this genre. I'm really digging Ulk, Hole Dweller, and Malfet.
Kingdom come deliverance OST slaps hard especially when you play the dice game (modern day Farkle).
Fieh
They're a Norwegian Neo-Soul band that I was introduced to through their song "Fast Food" (Spotify, Youtube). Fell in love instantly.
They released a new single today which reminded me that I haven't listened to their entire discography yet.
I've made it though their album Cold Water Burning Skin (Spotify, YouTube) so far and have been really vibing.
Panopticon - Cedar Woods
New single from this atmospheric Black Metal band. Pretty par for the course as far as Panopticon songs go. It's long, got your post rock influenced spoken word passages and some sick solos. Looking forward to the album drop later in the year.
Crisis Sigil - God Cum Poltergeist
I'm a huge Ada Rook/Black Dresses fan but this is the first time I've dug into her Crisis Sigil project. Very few pop influences on this one, just straight grindcore pretty much all the way.
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Some nasty ass mathcore with the occasional big clean chorus to balance things out a bit.
Lauren Bousfield - Salesforce
Absolutely nuts breakcore album.
I've also been going back through Dorian Electra's back catalogue with the new singles dropping recently. Some really great queer pop music.
I can't stop listening to Sigma - Nobody To Love for a long time
Switched from Spotify to YouTube Music meaning I'm getting back to my roots so that the algorithm can pick up on my taste. Which means plenty of Eluveitie, Amon Amarth, and Nightwish.
John Fahey. I decided to dig in deeper to Fahey's stuff after hearing I think this artist at a bar in Boston. (The only thing Ross Kiah has on bandcamp seems to be bluegrass covers, not the American primitive guitar stuff he was playing that night.)
Planning on learning some Fahey tunes and maybe stealing some ideas for myself.
I've been listening to Let's Start a Band by Anthony Green on my drives into work and it keeps me calm. I always loved Anthony Green and Circa Survive, but I've been out of the loop for a while and wasn't aware of this album.
I read that his therapist recommended he write some happier songs and this was the result. I thought that was cool, and it's definitely a departure from his usual tone.
Went on a road trip last weekend with some friends and have been listening to a lot of K-pop as my friends are big fans. Some highlights include:
Haven't really listened to this new generation of K-pop groups much so I found them quite refreshing to listen to. Love NewJeans and their recent songs, highly recommend it to anyone wanting to try K-pop. NewJeans songs really try to emulate popular stuff from the 1990s and have some easy listening pop and R&B.
I have been getting my son (11mo) into Minus the Bear as they have always been one of my favourite bands.
The release of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" has me going back to 1989.
I missed it at the time, being too "manly" and "hipster" to listen to pop, but I've fallen in love with the mainstream over the past few years and am having an incredible time discovering the gems everyone else already knows.
Blank Space, Style, Bad Blood, Wildest Dreams, This Love, Clean, You Are In Love, New Romantics...
The production on this album really stands out to me, particularly on Clean. Imogen Heap works wonders.
Deep Chill genre which I discovered few years back.
Sultain+Shepard - Assassin
Eli and Fur
SG Lewis
Lane 8
Dom Dolla- Define
Some of if is slower electronic, with bit of lofi.
Also lots of 90s-2000s hip hop lofi, custom lofi from working at a desk.
This past week, classical music.
Just wrapped up season 1 of Russian Doll, so Henry Nilsson's Gotta Get Up has literally been on loop for most of this week.
My last 7 days
Found out about "30 Seconds to Mars" and been listening mainly the first 2 albums (self titled and beautiful lie) and some this is war. I haven't played the 2 newer albums through yet as parts I have listened weren't really for my taste.
As I usually listen only listen Hybrid Theory and Meteora from Linkin Park I have also added Minutes to Midnight or at least parts of it back. For couple last week I have been enjoying 4 songs in a row here and there:
Gag Order album by Kesha. I loved the Rainbow album and this is up there too. I wasn't a huge fan of her earlier stuff. It was okay, but that Rainbow album was seriously album of the year material.
Self Destruction Mode by The Chainsmokers and bludnymph. This came through my Spotify list a couple of weeks ago and I couldn’t remember the name of the song, but this morning I found it again!
Billy Gilman, Diana Degarmo, and the Twilight soundtracks.