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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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Shaârghot - Vol. III - Let Me Out (2023)
Just released, this might be the Industrial album of the year for me, just barely edging out 3Teeths new album from just a few months ago.
ni-hao!!!! - i!i!i!i! (2023)
Album from a garage punk "cheer punk" japanese band, sounds similar but more raw than Otoboke Beaver, if you're into that sort of thing. I am really a fan of their song "ANTI ANGER CONTROL" and "メタモルフォーゼ".
GEZAN - KLUE (2020)
Album that came out in 2020, another Japanese group, this one is sort of like a... ambient punk? noise? not quite sure how to classify it other than "brain tingling" good.
Enarria - Monstarr (2023)
This is the first track (self-)release from Enarria, a local model out of Australia. She is insanely talented, mixing some weird combo of metal (with great fry vocals) and hyperpop. Seriously been on non-stop repeat for three weeks.
I'd say they're very psychedelic while taking range from a lot of influences. RYM calls it "art punk" but yuh, they're just outside of nominal classification and it doesn't really matter that much.
But this is an excuse to say I love KLUE. Listening to it for the first time was an experience I fondly acknowledge.
The End: Live at Islington Assembly Hall.
Sinner, get ready for one of the best live albums you'll ever hear.
This is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I especially like FRAGRANT IS MY MANY FLOWER'D CROWN
I've had Wallsocket on repeat. It's somewhere around hyperpop rock opera? Really interesting themes with great characters, it explores their individual trauma in a fascinating way
I've been listening to arlo Guthrie's album "arlo" a lot this week. Never heard the Santa song at the end before and it may be my new favorite Christmas song. https://open.spotify.com/album/6k5uyj8xrtGplYOIgH9TPC?si=y370zJGhSiGDBsupj9qniw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6k5uyj8xrtGplYOIgH9TPC
Some highlights from this past week:
Ghost Brigade - IV - One With the Storm. Doom-tinged melodeath from Finland.
God Forbid - Determination. Metalcore from NJ, blending at times into melodeath/thrash territory. This is their sophomore album which has cleaner mixing and overall better song structures than those found on their first album Reject the Sickness. The third album Gone Forever and fourth album Constitution of Treason have songs that peaked higher in public consciousness, but Determination was the first one I heard by them, from when they opened for GWAR in the early 2000s.
Godeater - All Flesh Is Grass. Tech death from the UK that isn't over-the-top wankery.
Haggard - And Thou Shalt Trust ... the Seer. Death mixed with classical and medieval music, from Germany.
Harakiri for the Sky - Arson. Post-black from Austria.
Big up for Ghost Brigade and Harakiri for the Sky. You might like Marianas Rest then. I’ve been digging them lately.
Random personal memory re: God Forbid - the guitarists' dad is a piano teacher, and I took lessons from him for a year or two when I was in sixth grade. He gave me a God Forbid t-shirt for Christmas, though it was many years before I got into metal and decided to actually give them a listen. Small world.
I only have a few this week:
I've been listening through the discography of Caligula's Horse. All of it is worth a listen, but I think I did the right decision starting with their newest albums and working my way backwards. (I tried it chronologically once, and lost interest partway through their first album.)
I think my current favourite track is Graves, but that might change as I give their albums more spins.
Their single Golem from their upcoming album is also really cool.
I’ve been listening to Rósín Murphy’s Hit Parade (2023). My favourite track is Fader, which has a fantastically busy production and a positive vibe that feels similar to another of my favourite albums, The Avalanches’ We Will Always Love You.
Late on this band but Touche Amore, specifically Parting the Sea... and Lament as I wait for the remastering of
"Is Survived By"
Really into relistening to Jamila Wood's excellent Water Made Us. The Peter Cottontale feature on "Thermostat" reminds me so much of Frank Ocean that I've been listening to a lot of his singles like Chanel