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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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Please send help, I’m still addicted to the new King Gizzard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
CONVERGE!
Truly an incredible love letter to metal. Gizzard does not miss. But they're so prolific, they do everything. I just finished digesting Paper Mache Dream Balloon, it's so cute, poignant, and introspective. Found myself dancing, looking at myself in the mirror, and asking questions. All evoked from a stumpy little thing that boasts a good flute, clarinet, and generally acoustic accoutrement.
Paper Mâché is probably my favorite KGATLW album! I must admit that metal isn’t really in my wheelhouse, so I haven’t spent much time with their new album. That said, I saw them in concert this summer with a metal-heavy setlist, and it fucking rocked! I had a great time.
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Mundane! Bloodstain!
That's pretty metal I would say haha
Thank you for making me feel less weird for liking king gizzard! Everyone is always like wtf is this whenever I turn it on at work.
I got friends who only like Sense and Presumptuous, some who only like Quarters!, some who only liked Fishing for Fishies, some who only like Keppler22b. They do so many sounds, they've got something for everyone :)
This week I discovered Raoul Vignal, a france-based singer-songwriter with some amazing guitar work. Voicewise he reminds me a lot of Neil Halstead and a bit of Sun Kil Moon (although Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon sings a lot more nasally) but he stands out by an amazing style of fingerpicking and creative use of other instruments. My favourite song of his so far is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cX3UANdmEw
This is a more folksy, faster paced song of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tluVaAGrT24
Other then that I have listened to the Pulse Live Album by Pink Floyd a lot this week. It's been ages since I've listened to it, but the solo of "Comfortably Numb" is still probably one of the greatest solos of all times, David Gilmour pours out so much feeling, it's kinda addicting.
Went to 2 very different gigs last Sunday and Monday which has influenced a lot of what I've listened to this week.
Sunday was Lindisfarne, who have been going for half a century and the remaining members still put on a great show. I grew up listening to them as they were a favourite of my dads.
Monday was The Dirty Nil - fun poppy punk. Small gig but they still gave it their all, clearly have a lot of fun doing their thing!
I'm still listening to the newest Foo Fighters album But Here We Are. Didn't like it at first but it has grown on me and I like it more and more with each listen.
I've somehow completely avoided hearing of 'Portugal the Man' before, so I'm listening to some good tunes on repeat
Samy Deluxe - Roter Velour
Music Vid here
It's a nice throwback to his older stuff and is very reminiscing of early 2000s german hiphop.
About 2-3 months ago I randomly walked into a record store I'd never been in. The music playing was something I didn't know, but it sounded like Matt Pike (of High on Fire and Sleep fame). Got to talking with the guy at the register and what we were hearing was this awesome side project of Pike's called Kalas that released a single album 10 years ago, I'd never heard of it. I was wearing an Elder shirt, and he also told me he knew the guys in Elder. The guy at the other register upstairs knew Matt Pike! That day I found my people 😁
Picked up that Kalas LP but didn't listen to it right away, and now finally for the past week I've really been on it.
(If you know who these guys are then FYI today HoF just released a remaster of The Art of Self-Defense on their Bandcamp!)
(ETA: I'm always looking for doom/stoner metal recommendations so if you have some then let me know!)
OM is my all time favorite band ever to exist in this universe or otherwise.
Om, the other band to come from Sleep alumni! Another Tildo of taste I see.
I think you can make the argument that there are similar bands to the others I've mentioned here, but there's really nothing else much at all like Om that I'm aware of. Sleep, kinda? I'm sure there's some other "drone-y" doom that's kind of like Om.
Sunn O))) is in the same galaxy...
Doom/stoner is one of my big favourites, so here's a few (some of whom you might know):
Green Lung
Dopelord
Magmakammer
Stoned Jesus
High Reeper
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Witchrider
Witch Ripper
The Sword (particularly the album Apocryphon)
Oreyeon
Monolord
Hazemaze
Spelljammer
Duel
Spaceslug
Howling Giant
Telekinetic Yeti
Goatess
Holy Serpent
Let me know if you want more!
I just wrote a big reply on mobile, but when I came back to the tab it reloaded and I lost it all 😔 Really looking forward to the Tildes is Fun app. A simpler reply, rewritten:
Wow, what a list, thanks! I know some well, some I'm just getting into, and others I will check out!
Here's a few of my own back at you:
Black Sky Giant
Sleeping Giant
Vinnum Sabbathi
Windhand
The Bright Dark
Lambda
Somali Yacht Club
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Comacozer
I've been listening to a lot of future funk lately, and this song has been one of my favourites this week:
N°9 by toconoma
I recently got a pair of sennheiser hd599s since I want to get my feet wet in the audiophile world, and oh my lord listening to music has never felt better.
Ooh, love toconoma, they have such a clean sound. Stumbled upon them randomly at some point a year or two ago, learned a bit of Highwind on guitar, it's pretty fun to play!
Free the Robots
Mostly Dungeon Synth, the highlight albums being:
Compendium I by DIM
Nimueh's Gift by Elyvilon
We Are The Past by Erang
Bergtagen by Örnatorpet
The Path Lies Hidden by Old Sorcery
Sword of Gondar by Gondar
Storm Haven by Guild of Lore
All the albums are very atmospheric, some songs more somber, others more energetic, some border on RPG music. Great stuff, very introspective at times.
Checked out Social Distortion's Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell from the public library and it's pretty solid on repeat listening.
I just rewatched Another State of Mind last weekend (documenting their tour with Youth Brigade in a knackered old school bus), definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
The Prodigy released an album of remixes from Fat of the Land this week, so off the back of that I've been listening to their first two albums for the first time in ages. Apart from that, my usual techno mixes from SoundCloud: Drumcode, Era Radio, In The Mood, Club Room with Anja Schneider, and Germ Theory.
The guy that owns my gym put me onto a blackened doom band called 1914, too. Not usually my sound but they're pretty good.
Lately I've been working through the Super Furry Animals, also a bit of Solitary Experiments.
Love SFA - what albums have you enjoyed the most so far? I actually have a weakness for their Welsh language album Mwng
My interest in music is influenced by my interest in audio, my first SFA album was Phantom Power because I found a 5.1 mix of it, I thought it was so-so as a 5.1 mix and my feelings about it musically were mixed, but I did some reading about SFA and thought I would seek out some more.
I just got some new (to me) speakers for my two channel system downstairs and what I'm noticing now is that some recordings really pop on that system and some don't. I felt like Fuzzy Logic was musically good (and had the hit Something for the Weekend) but the recording quality wasn't up to my Pioneers, but every other SFA recording I've heard sounds great on my system, so far I like Radiator a lot, I am listening to Out Spaced right now and greatly enjoying it.
Astu by Kaikkivaltias
Finnish medieval black metal in the vein of Obsequiae, Mystras, etc. Outwardly anti-fascist.
Santau by Jalang
Indonesian/Australian d-beat hardcore punk, with a message.
Torture Tomb - Selftitled EP
Greasy, beefy, death metal from Texas, latest release from Transylvanian Recordings as of the time of this comment (which nearly always knock it out of the park!)
Servant - Aetas Ascensus and Blessed by the Light of a Thousand Stars
Black metal that leans towards Dimmu Borgir and Marduk (without the sketchiness of the latter, politically)
I came across this jazz/hiphop guy through my discover weekly and I'm really enjoying his new album: McKinley Dixon - Run, Run, Run
Also really been enjoying this jazz musician from the UK:
Matthew Halsall - Calder Shapes
I have recently been obsessed with 2 bands. One is Full Trunk and the second is Red Band.
I don't get much opportunity to listen to music these days.
I did have some time to myself in the car earlier in the week however, so put on a 'classic' 00's metal anthems playlist on Spotify. It had the usual suspects from SOAD, Korn, Linkin Park etc.
I felt very old. These are tunes from 20 odd years ago now and I can't wrap my head around the idea these songs are now considered 'classics.'
It's actually been a super slow week for me with music. Just haven't really felt the urge to put on stuff and blast it. Unsurprisingly, that led to mostly a bit of indie/pop thanks to Alexandra Savior, and really not much more. Here's my boring ass last.fm chart if you're interested:
https://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/collage.php?user=swchrrnote+&type=7day&size=3x3&caption=true&playcount=true
p.s. the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is pretty good
This week I was just sorta randomly finding things in Spotify and came across "Incomplete" by Ryusenkei. Yasuyuki Horigome's singing on that album is really interesting to me and the other musicians are incredibly good together. The music itself fits squarely within "city music/"city pop"/etc, leaning a bit more in a jazz direction. The album is fairly short, but it was so nice to listen to i just put it on repeat while I did other stuff during the week. The band is as I understand it important in that genre, I'm not as familiar as I am with other stuff so I'm still looking around and listening to things. But that one really stuck out to me as just an incredibly nice one to listen to.
For the most part, I've been on an oddly specific streak of WW1-themed death/black metal lately. Main ones on rotation have been 1914, Kanonenfieber, and Porta Nigra.
Every once and a while you just stumble across one of those songs that hits you right in the feels. Great 80s synth vibes from a band I'd never heard of: Basixx - The Chase. I think I've had it on repeat all day.
I recently came across mikgazer vol.1. It's a fairly well-known shoegaze compilation album using vocaloid, and I like it a lot. Just about every song is a banger. My favorite is the final track ハルカ by 36g. The melody and lyrics are calming.
I've been listening to a lot of metal mixes by "Metal Guitar Stuff" on YouTube and Spotify (Tore Fagerheim on Spotify). Absolutely fantastic workout and background music.
It's not any kind of extreme metal so I think it appeals to a a lot of people, and there are no vocals which I know that many newer listeners to the genre find difficult to listen to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_zsAKD9Ns
I've been hooked on some of Jagwar Twin's songs:
I like these kinds of songs, like the second one, that tell little stories. In a way all songs do but yeah....
I recently got a promotion at work and my role now requires a lot more focus and contemplation. I used to listen to lots of podcasts and audiobooks at work but my new work doesn't allow for that as much.
This week I've been listen to a lot of Final Fantasy music and more specifically Potion Relaxin' with Final Fantasy. I love that I can day dream about playing Final Fantasy while being able to concentrate on my work.
Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall - an album I always end up returning to for repeat listens every year or two. The atmosphere veers from aggression to otherworldly and Mark E Smith is at his peak on that album