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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.
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Bendik Giske - Bendik Giske
An album that is ambient in its form, but exclusively uses the saxophone as its canvas and paint and brush. With every texture a saxophone could possibly produce, Bendik Giske creates soundscapes that range from spiritual bliss to subtle menace. A significant player in these textures is the percussive sound of the saxophone's key touches, amplified and looped to produce the impression of distant tribal drums. Overlaying this rhythm, the melodies humm or purr or growl or scream with ecstatic abandon. Stand out tracks to me are 'Not Yet', for its vibrant use of dynamics, and 'Rush', for its intense pace.
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
Some of the most twisted, alien-sounding black metal to come out in recent memory. The guitars sound like call of some extraterrestrial insect swarm, and the vocals are enraged, as you'd expect, but the real standout is the album's rhythmic elements. These range from tricky odd-time signature grooves (on 'Burning Kingdom of Now'), to sudden tactus shifts (in the outro to 'Mind of the Sun'), to drunken-sounding, meandering tuplet-base grooved (on 'Hungry Ghosts', and in the intro to 'Solar Witch'). A soundtrack to insanity.
Squid - O Monolith
Alternative rock pulled in the direction of several other genres - the guitar textures of post-rock, the compositional complexity of prog, the irreverent vocal delivery of post-punk, and the, well, noise of noise rock. In many ways, the album reminds me of some of Black Midi's work, but has a songwriterly approach more in line with Black Country New Road. Stand out tracks to me are the opener, 'Swing (In a Dream)', for its catchy, bouncy rhythm, and 'After the Flash' for the layered, abrasive texture of its outro.
Me Lost Me - RPG
An album of very solemn, traditional English folk, but which incorporates electronic elements in a subtle, textural way. This contrast meshes beautifully with the album's lyrical themes about the digital worlds we often find ourselves lost in. Meditative and relaxing but far from boring. Stand out tracks to me are 'Heat!', which veers closest to true electronica, and 'Mirie it is While Summer I Last' for its use of Middle English and minimalist structure.
I loved the first Squid album, was not as enamoured with O Monolith, unfortunately. It didn't have any hooks, and while it is consistently good and impressive when you listen to it with a critical ear, it sort of just passes over me when I put it on.
Yeah, I can see that. Honestly, I wasn't even immediately smitten with it myself, but something told me it would grow on me, and it did. Anyway, It's the first album of theirs I've heard - it sounds like I should go check out their earlier stuff too!
They only have one other album, Bright Green Field. I absolutely loved it. Narrator and Documentary Filmmaker are my favorites on that album. They also got a lot of hype off of their pre-album music, particularly Houseplants.
I recently discovered Turisas' 2007 cover of Boney M's Rasputin and have been listening to it quite a lot lately. As someone who loves both that song in particular as well as several metal bands, this has been perfect for me.
Other than that, I've been listening to a mix of Gloryhammer and Portal Stories: Mel OST. Interestingly, the former lead vocalist for Gloryhammer got kicked out a couple years back, and has since started a new band very, very much like it called Angus McSix. I still feel kinda torn by this, as the two bands are decidedly at odds with each other as far as I'm aware, but both have incredibly good music. Really not sure how to handle my favorite band undergoing mitosis, frankly!
Oh man. I freaking hate that song, mostly because Spotify thinks I want to listen to it 14 times a day...
Gloryhammer is awesome though.
I know it’s been a controversial split and I’m certainly not trying to take anyone down, but Gloryhammer’s new vocalist is so, so good in my opinion. Amazing range and vocal stamina. They put on a phenomenal live show during their most recent tour. Plus, their most recent album is easily one of my favorites.
Oh, no doubt, Sozos was a fantastic pick. He fits in perfectly and sounds very similar to how Winkler did, and since Winkler did a great job, that means so is Sozos.
Overall, I think I liked McSix's debut album slightly more than Return to the Kingdom of Fife – Master of the Universe is wonderful, in particular – but both were decidedly excellent and Keeper of the Celestial Flame was astoundingly good, especially with Alex Henderson's fantastic animation added to the mix.
I'm 10 years late to the party, but I've been on a big Childish Gambino kick. The album "Because The Internet" is a masterpiece.
The screenplay is an interesting read too! Probably Atlanta (tv show) already in his mind somewhere at that point.
I started listening to Gambino in 2016 and felt like I was late to the party. Welcome! I think The Worst Guys is my favorite song from that album, but he has so much amazing music that I was absolutely dumbfounded for not having known about it sooner.
My Three 6 Mafia/Hypnotize Minds discography just popped up on the rotation.
Juicy J's solo work really hits the spot if you already like Three 6!
-Juicy J
These are what's been rolling through my playlist this week:
That girl talk album is such a banger. I swing round to it about once a year and it's just so fun and joyous.
It really is, remembering it hit me with a massive wave of nostalgia. The mashups subreddit was what brought me to reddit around 2009 and I remember when this album dropped just having my mind blown. Have a lot of memories in college with that album playing in the background.
"Feed the Animals" and "Night Ripper" are also amazing, IMO, but "All Day" is incredible. \m/
Night Ripper is so good!
I'm a big fan of Ratatat (electronic rock) and this week I've been binging their fifth album Magnifique on repeat. Shoutout to the songs:
Cream on Chrome
Abrasive
Abrasive blew my mind when I first heard it. I'd never heard of Ratatat before then and it was just such a distinctive style.
I think I've been listening to them since highschool. I think they're who really good me into electronic music.
Last few days I've been in a music slump, so I switched to jazz to cleanse the palate.
The Lounge Lizards - the "original" jazz punk band.
Joy on Fire - a current Jazz Punk band whom I like a lot.
Mulatu Astatke - the father of Ethiopian Jazz. I was eating at an Ethiopian restaurant the other day for the first time and this was on, I asked the owner and he told me about how back in Ethiopia this was all his family would listen to growing up.
The Lounge Lizards are absolutely awesome. I've listened to 'Queen of All Ears' too many times to count; one of my all time favorite albums.
If you like Mulatu Astatke, there's a whole assortment of modern ethio-jazz worth checking out (not sure how familiar you are with the genre) These days it's typically fused heavily with funk and psych-rock, but other genre influences come into play sometimes. In particular, I'd recommend Black Flower, Kibrom Birhane, M.Chuzi, Azmari, Compro Oro (more towards post-rock), and uKanDanZ (more towards hard rock). I'm pretty sure most of these releases were put out on the Sdban Records label, which seems to be a nexus for the style.
Thanks, I'm not at all familiar with ethio-jazz outside of this one artist, so that's awesome! I really appreciate it!
Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
Country: USA
Release Year: 1969
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, balafon, bass, bass saxophone, cornet, drums, male vocals, piano, tenor saxophone, trumpet
My response to the music: I’m not saying anything new here when I point out that sides A and B are nothing alike, and that’s fine. But Side A is definitely the draw, a meandering with purpose, attention-gripping, 20-minute jam session driven by “African” grooves, certainly influenced by Shepp’s recent time in Algeria. This recording’s got members from Art Ensemble of Chicago featured on it.
Gong – You
Country: France
Release Year: 1974
Genres: Space Rock, Canterbury Scene
Featured Instruments: bass, guitar, female vocals, male vocals, mellotron, spoken word, synthesizer
My response to the music: What an amazing album! Starts off carnivalsque, drawing you into the big top, and then they raise the stakes, launching into long psychedelic phrases that take you higher, and once you’re ready for speech again, they put you on a trippy carousel and soothe you back to Earth with some hypnotic female vocals.
The Police – Outlandos d'Amour
Country: UK
Release Year: 1978
Genres: New Wave, Pop Rock
Featured Instruments: bass guitar, drums, guitar, male vocals, spoken word
My response to the music: I always tune up my annoying falsetto voice when this album comes along...after all, I gotta completely ruin the wonderful "Roxanne" in the best way I know how. Actually the end of side A, "Peanuts", is one of my favorite musical moments on this album, because amid all the groovy white reggae, there's an interlude of wild guitars and jazzy-edge saxophones. But then it's right back into the witty, sarcastic songwriting of The Police.
Faded Paper Figures – Morningside
Country: USA
Release Year: 2023
Genres: Indie Pop, Indietronica
Featured Instruments: female vocals, male vocals
My response to the music: Have you ever, as Bright Eyes sings, seen things by the light of day and understood how insane everything was the night before? That's this album, wrestling with memory, anger, and regret, a weary confession of condition and identity. This is how you get free of the past: you hang your laundry out to dry. By the warm light of dawn, you get perspective. When the bonfire fades to embers, what you couldn't see by the light of the blaze you understand by the glow of what remains. I guess you can't gain the wisdom to leave L.A. if you were never foolish enough to go there in the first place.
Colette Magny – Répression sample
Country: France
Release Year: 1972
Genres: Chanson, Jazz
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, double bass, drums, female vocals, guitar, piano, trumpet
My response to the music: An unrestrained flow of vocals protesting everything from war to social injustice to the illusions the media feeds us to keep us docile. Magny's full, smoky blues vocals stand apart from anything else I've ever heard from a female vocalist in this field.
Quinchuquimanda – Imbayacuna
Country: Ecuador
Release Year: 1979
Genres: Indigenous Andean Music
Featured Instruments: female vocals, male vocals
My response to the music: A lovely little one-and-done release filled with traditional Andean music, some of which the band created lyrics for. This album is as dirty and rustic as it gets, complete with uncouth dances and barnyard noises. An excellent recording of musicians who know what they're doing, are comfortable doing it, and are having a blast laughing, whistling, and trilling.
Anaïs Mitchell – The Brightness
Country: USA
Release Year: 2007
Genres: Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Featured Instruments: acoustic bass, banjo, baritone saxophone, cello, drums, female vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, male vocals, organ, piano, viola
My response to the music: She continues her understated magic on this album, simultaneously being intimate yet keeping us at arm's length. We get a few glimpses into her life, but she still seems to be the kind of artist who plays her cards close to her chest.
Heikki Sarmanto Big Band – Everything Is It
Country: Finland
Release Year: 1972
Genres: Experimental Big Band, Jazz Fusion
Featured Instruments: bass, celesta, drums, electric piano, female vocals, flugelhorn, flute, piano, sopranino saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet
My response to the music: Yeah, the experimental part is definitely the moments where structure breaks down but also the interspersed female vocals, as if she is a narrator to all these jazz tracks. The album art completes the idea of being inside an aviary with this woman, where she is the chief songbird. There are many narrow, twisting paths here, and they are all a joy to traverse.
Espers – Espers
Country: USA
Release Year: 2004
Genres: Psychedelic Folk, Chamber Folk
Featured Instruments: 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, autoharp, bass, bowed guitar, cello, chimes, dulcimer, electric guitar, female vocals, finger cymbals, flute, harmonica, keyboard, male vocals, recorder, viola, violin
My response to the music: It’s surprising to me that these people are from Pennsylvania, considering that there’s just not that much good psychedelic folk with a Medieval tint like this to come out of the States. But there’s so much inspiration to be had there, if you just look around you, especially in a mountainous place of such sylvan beauty. “Daughter” is the standout here.
Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia / Jan A. P. Kaczmarek – Muzyka na koniec
Country: Poland
Release Year: 1982
Genres: Avant-Folk, Ambient, Chamber Folk
Featured Instruments: flute, guitar, male vocals, piano, spoken word, synthesizer, violin, zither
My response to the music: A beautiful, mostly-instrumental album centered around the meditative zither and its accompanying flutes. This is one of those rare albums that simultaneously disturbs and comforts, depending on whether you're floating away on the woodwinds or being dragged back down to the cold earth by the screeching, cave-born strings. Minimal throughout. The vocals—when there are any—are distant and vaguely ritualistic.
Fulano – Fulano
Country: Chile
Release Year: 1987
Genres: Avant-Prog, Jazz-Rock
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass, clarinet, drums, electric piano, female vocals, flute, guitar, male vocals, piano, piccolo, soprano saxophone, synthesizer
My response to the music: Arlette Jecquier makes this album. It's a fine experimental album full of all the avant quirkiness one would expect from a band channeling Zappa and Magma at the same time, but really, it's her vocals that hold it all together and raise the bar of excellence. Or that's just my bias talking, because I have a weak spot for weird female vocals, the more off-putting the better. Not to say this is all off-putting. The band is comfortable with experimental, structureless space as much as it follows clear synth- and bass-driven melodic lines.
Haki R. Madhubuti / Nation – Medasi
Country: USA
Release Year: 1984
Genres: Spiritual Jazz, Spoken Word
Featured Instruments: bass, drums, female vocals, flute, male vocals, piano, saxophone, spoken word
My response to the music: A very black jazz album. Proudly black, couched in activist poetry, complete with beautiful, expressive female vocals that make the soul simultaneously ache and soar. Look at the back cover art and you'll see what this album is all about: a black mother holding up her black infant, hopeful yet realistic, strong and caring. Building a community that heals.
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Country: UK
Release Year: 1969
Genres: Pop Rock
Featured Instruments: 12-string acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, bongos, cowbell, drums, electric guitar, hammond organ, handclaps, harpsichord, lowrey organ, maracas, moog synthesizer, piano, tape loops, timpani, wind chimes
My response to the music: The Dark Horse emerges at last on this album with “Something”, the first ever non-Lennon/McCartney Beatles’ single. When it went #1 in America, Lennon’s estimation of it being the best song on the album was clearly justified. After all, it was Lennon’s idea to finally give Harrison a single release, to help give his bandmate courage and confidence in songwriting. The greatness of Harrison thus further emerges with this song and with “Here Comes the Sun”. As everyone knows, this is the Beatles’ final album, as it was released before but recorded after Let It Be and the imminent breakup of the band is painted all over the music. The Fab Four didn’t enjoy working together anymore, and their ability to make music together suffered. They knew they were breaking up, and they wanted to leave as the greatest band in history. Are they? In America, Abbey Road is their biggest selling album, but is it their best? Twelve of the 17 tracks first surfaced during the “Get Back” sessions, and thus some songs got days of attention, whereas others received very little focus. Some songs are just fragments, highlighting two things: the band’s fatigue and Lennon’s divided attention (Yoko and heroin). What happens in the end, therefore, is the throwing of all these fragments into a medley, one last, great run before the band breaks up, one final “hurrah!”
Ben Folds – Songs for Goldfish
Country: USA
Release Year: 2005
Genres: Piano Rock
Featured Instruments: bass guitar, drums, male vocals, piano, spoken word
My response to the music: All of Ben Folds' fun-loving sarcasm is on brilliant display on this live album. From his beloved hits to his audience-favorite "Rock This Bitch" digression, Folds truly rocks the concert hall with his energy.
Secos & Molhados – Secos & Molhados
Country: Brazil
Release Year: 1973
Genres: Folk Pop, Progressive Pop, Art Pop
Featured Instruments: 12-string acoustic guitar, accordion, acoustic guitar, bamboo flute, drums, electric bass, guitar, male vocals, ocarina, piano, synthesizer, transverse flute
My response to the music: Pretty much one of the most charming albums in my collection, and I love Ney Matogrosso’s voice so much I went and got some of his solo albums. By the way, their first four albums all have the same name. This is their quirky, playful debut, full of androgynous, poetic pop, when Matogrosso is still part of the band. Apparently they sing in both Portuguese and Spanish, but since I don’t understand either language, it’s all just beautiful vocalizing to me. Which is enough for me to adore the music of this masterpiece.
Secos & Molhados – Secos & Molhados
Country: Brazil
Release Year: 1974
Genres: Progressive Pop, Contemporary Folk, Glam Rock, Art Pop, MPB
Featured Instruments: 12-string acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, castanets, concertina, drums, flute, guitar, male vocals, organ, piano, timbales, transverse flute, viola caipira
My response to the music: Though this isn’t as good as their perfect debut album, that’s not really a criticism. It’s hard to perfectly repeat oneself. I’m not going to pretend to understand the social and political situations out of which grew this album, but Ney Matogrosso is a firecracker unlike any I’ve ever heard. There’s something beautifully primal about him. I’ve just discovered that the band name, when translated into English, is “Dry & Wet”. I wonder what—if anything—that refers to. This music is daring and creative and can be appreciated even without understanding Portuguese, but suffice it to say, they believed their land was dead and their people sad.
Slapp Happy – Slapp Happy
Country: Germany
Release Year: 1974
Genres: Art Pop
Featured Instruments: bass, cello, congas, double bass, drums, female vocals, guitar, keyboard, male vocals, mandolin, rackett-bassoon, saxophone, tablas, tambura, trumpet, violin, whistle
My response to the music: Oddball cabaret pop tunes. I’ve adored Dagmar’s quirky yet bold (sexy?) vocals since I heard her collaborate with Henry Cow. This album is a long-time coming addition to my permanent rotation. Boppy and fun songs overall, even splashes of some groovy tropical motifs, complete with bongos.
The Mothers – The Grand Wazoo
Country: USA
Release Year: 1972
Genres: Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion
Featured Instruments: bass, bottleneck guitar, drums, female vocals, gong, guitar, male vocals, mini moog, saxophone
My response to the music: Zappa out fusion-ing the best fusion-ers, at least as far as the wheelchair-bound Zappa style goes. I guess he couldn’t tour for a while after being thrown off the stage by a crazy man, so he went with something that didn’t have to be fodder for a touring band.
Richard Dawson – Nothing Important
Country: UK
Release Year: 2014
Genres: Avant-Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Featured Instruments: guitar, harp, male vocals
My response to the music: This album reminds me of Macbeth's words, how life is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
So this is what betrayal sounds like. Or perhaps despair that leads to suicide. So much psychic weight in this music. Incredible and fascinating, not as hard to listen to as one might think. Dawson truly gives zero fucks on this album. His voice and playing reflect the nihilism he embraces. Frightening poetry married to discordant guitar music played at acute angles that'll give you nosebleeds. When one creates a living masterpiece through a grueling year-long process only to see it destroyed within a week...yeah, it's pretty hard to see any meaning in that. Anyone want to go on a drinking binge misadventure with the twelve apostles?
Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
Country: USA
Release Year: 2003
Genres: Power Pop, Alternative Rock
Featured Instruments: bass, drums, flugelhorn, guitar, keyboard, male vocals, pedal steel, trumpet
My response to the music: Power pop is not a genre I seek out, and I’d get really tired of it if there was too much in rotation. Everything about this album is fun and beautiful. This is power pop at its best... at least of what I've heard. What I love most about this album is the bets they clearly took. "Bet you can't make a country song using wordplay and actually make it sound good!" BAM. "Bet you can't write a beautiful, soaring ballad about football!" BAM.
Meredith Monk – Key
Country: USA
Release Year: 1977
Genres: Minimalism
Featured Instruments: electric organ, female vocals, jew's harp, male vocals
My response to the music: The Japanese have a tradition of eating slices of fresh ginger between pieces of sushi to cleanse the palate, thus ensuring the flavor of the previous sushi doesn’t mix with / mitigate against the flavor of the next piece. Sometimes in my music appreciation journey, I get the feeling like sounds are starting to mix together, and things are getting a bit confusing or boring, and then along comes Monk and, like a slice of fresh ginger, she cleanses my palate and reminds me why I love music so much.
Oumou Sangaré – Worotan
Country: Mali
Release Year: 1996
Genres: Wassoulou
Featured Instruments: bass, djembe, female vocals, flute, guitar, xalam
My response to the music: "I'm a strong, surviving black woman who don't need no man" in beautiful, traditional call-and-response girl music form. There's a part in the Bible where God makes a woman the leader of the Israelites because no man has the courage to do it. Give this album to any man you know to be a deadbeat or a coward.
Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages
Country: USA
Release Year: 1974
Genres: Outlaw Country
Featured Instruments: 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, bass, dobro, drums, electric guitar, fiddle, keyboard, male vocals, mandolin, pedal steel guitar
My response to the music: Tear in my damn beer, and that ain't no joke! Is there anything more bitter, more profoundly sundering or more destructive to the human spirit, than the dissolution of a marriage?
Сергей Калугин (Sergey Kalugin) – Nigredo
Country: Russia
Release Year: 1994
Genres:
Progressive Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Avtorskaya pesnya
Featured Instruments: acoustic guitar, bass, cello, flute, guitar, keyboard, male vocals, rebec, rhythm machine, vargan
My response to the music: I guess what I love most about this album is how the delicate, yet passionate progressive folk is punctuated by short spoken-word poetry bits. It makes one feel as if one is at an intimate live performance in some out-of-the-way salon / bar / coffee shop, just Kalugin and a small group of friends. This album consists of four poetic recitations and five musical pieces, and throughout one is aware of the fire always simmering, intensified into moments of blazing most often with the addition of distant, mystical female voices. Without understanding Russian the listener can enjoy this ever-changing fire. With the lyrics, new worlds of mythic and religious imagery open up.
Μίκης Θεοδωράκης & Μαρία Φαραντούρη (Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri) – The Ballad of Mauthausen / Six Songs
Country: Greece
Release Year: 1966
Genres: Entechna, Contemporary Folk
Featured Instruments: female vocals
My response to the music: The ballad is music based on the poems of Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης (Iakovos Kambanellis), a concentration camp survivor who wrote about the Holocaust, the music itself being composed/conducted by Mikis Theodorakis, the vocals passionately performed by Maria Farantouri. The other six songs, renamed the Farantouri Cycle later in honor of the singer, are leftist, poetic defiance of military tyranny.
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
Country: USA
Release Year: 2006
Genres: Rock Opera, Pop Punk, Alternative Rock
Featured Instruments: acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, female vocals, guitar, male vocals, organ, piano, synthesizer, wurlitzer
My response to the music: This album is an absolute gem, a blast to listen to and sing along with, and just overall a fun way of dealing with what teenagers would consider "edgy" themes. MCR takes those cringey feelings of youth and puts them into interesting songs that make it all palatable.
Oleś / Trzaska / Oleś – Mikro Muzik
Country: Poland
Release Year: 2002
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, bass clarinet, double bass, drums, soprano saxophone
My response to the music: When I see a "free jazz" tag, I think wild, chaotic, discordant, sometimes even bordering on the ridiculous, but this album is mellow, not at all what I was expecting. Like wooden windchime mellow, thus giving it an introspective atmosphere. The soprano and alto saxophone dance around each other, from room to room, playing hide-and-seek with the bass and percussion. Like someone else wrote, beautiful "klezmer-flavored moments". Hence the overall sneaking-about feel. This is an album that appeals to me most on its use of silent spaces and not being afraid to sculpt the music one note at a time.
There's a few weekly/monthly mixes that I always check out and listen to - all of these are on youtube and they have plenty of episodes to go back to enjoy.
Nora en Pure's Purified Radio (Deep House, Melodic House, etc)
DJ Electric Samurai's monthly mixes (Psytrance of various flavours)
Book Club Radio mixes (Groovy House, various edm, their Pride Mix in June was a fun ride)
For individual songs/artists... nothing really comes to mind, unfortunately. There are several spotify mixes and artist radios I cycle through during my commute, but it's either forgettable noise, or songs I've been listening to for ages - artists like Phaxe, Morten Granau, Ghost Rider (Psytrance), Lyriel, Mono Inc, Faun, Santiago (gothic/symphonic/folk metalish)... just a ton of semi-random stuff.
On my drive home today I turned up the volume (and had it on repeat for a few times) for Thunder by Gaby Ponte, LUM!X & Prezioso. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzHlbFItlw
Misterwives just released a new album today. Really enjoying Dagger. Ultraviolet is a nice way to end the album as well.
Have also been listening to Take Me Back to London by Ed Sheeran. Very different from his mainstream and even a different rap style than his old school. Every time I hear another song by him I'm always amazed at how diverse and talented he is.
Oh hey thanks for the heads up on new Misterwives! I’ll be checking that out this week for sure!
Just discovered Grabbitz; 'Die for You' has won the hearts of the family and we all belt it out when it comes on.
Hell yeah, he's awesome. I mostly enjoy his EDM tracks (Friends EP is probably his best work) but his other stuff is great too.
I’m reading “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records” and listing to stuff I missed in the 90s.
Totally loving Meat Puppets - ii, especially “Lost”. It’s nothing like the Black Flag / Bad Brains hardcore I liked back in the day but it totally clicks for me now
Hope you like Dark Tranquillity (melodic death metal from Sweden), because I do:
And then afterwards,
And this week I picked up:
Fine day anthem - Skrillex, Boys Noize has been playing lately. Great use of the sample of Opus III’s It’s a fine day. Both tracks have been played in DJ sets I went to this year and it’s such a great track on the dancefloor.
Drumz nightmare - Karizma. Discovered it while played by The Blessed Madonna in their covid at home boilerroom set. Cool and relaxing atmosphere that still keeps you pulled in somehow.
This week I haven't got anything on repeat, just my playlist with over 6700+ tracks, pretty much any genre under the sun.
Coldplay's 'Hymn For The Weekend' caught my ear last night, I never realized how detailed the instrumental track is.
Besides that, Bossfight & hayve - 'Deadlock' is just bass head goodness.
I’ve never been a big fan of TessseracT, but they just released a new song, War of Being, from the new album and goddamn I can’t stop listening to it
https://youtu.be/UnkpPIupQxM
Downside is that I still don’t really like their previous albums that much, so I can’t even listen to them while I wait for the new album…
Mostly the new albums from Django Django and Queens of the Stone Age lately.
I've been listening to EGOIST's "Toujishya" a lot over the past week. It's been slowly growing on me. I've also been listening to Destiny 2 OST's.
Queen's "Radio Ga Ga" and other songs from them
QotSA’s new album.