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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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I have been alternating between MF Doom and A tribe called quest lately.
Iv really been enjoying coffins(death/doom from japan) this week. Also been listening to darkthrone and enslaved while cycling to work which really fits in with he dark a miserable weather we having.
Going to a friend for new years and he has a massive record collection so I'm looking forward to a complete change in music consumption. Well not that drastic but things can get a little weird.
Yes dude, Darkrhrone. In the Shadow of the Horns is the track that comes to mind first.
Also pls show me some cool Japanese death/doom if you know of more. Nobody in my 'real' life loves metal music to the extent that I do so it's refreshing to be able to talk about it. I hate having to fill the air in car-rides with my 'acceptable' music.
Anatomia is the only other death doom band from Japan that I know of. I reckon that's a good jumping off point for a deeper search.
Darkthrone is my favorite. Almost 20 albums and IMO they're all great.
I've been listening to The Lemon Twigs most recent album Everything Harmony.
I had never heard of them until I saw the album on a year-end-best-of list; I really love those lists.
If you take a bit of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, add about half a serving of Simon and Garfunkle, two table spoons of John Denver, a dash of James Taylor, and a pinch of musical theatre to taste, you get this album.
Two big thumbs up!
I need to check that out.
It really is a treat.
I was curious, so I looked up photos of them (they are brothers) and I saw a lot of non smiling, too cool for school shoots. It kinda gave me whiplash.
Their album "Go To School" is a favorite of mine. A rock opera concept album about a monkey living as a human teenager.
I didn't listen to much music this week but the ones that stood out to me were 75% middle-eastern:
Didn't listen to any of this because I've been in a loud environment the past few hours. But the album Hamas Arc by Muslimgauze might be of interest to you.
My main artists this week:
King Diamond
Darkthrone (of course)
Darkspace
I’m back on my perpetual playlist of The weeknd
I saw him live this year and it was pretty epic with the whole stage show.
I really go into Troye Sivan and Mike Dean this year as well. The Idol tv show was trash but the music was good.
Another person I saw this year was Jessie Ware who was phenomenal live. So she’s been on repeat as well.
Finally I really fell out of love with poolsuite 80’s homage internet radio this year because they started selling NFT’s which was fucking lame.
But I listened to them last night for the first time in 6months.
https://poolsuite.net/
The past two days I have been waking up before dawn and taking walks, and part of that is being able to listen to music with a more critical eye than normal. Yesterday I decided to listen to an album I have had for a long time is the soundtrack to the movie Metropolis. This time the ending of it had put me into tears.
My mother died a year or two ago. In spite of our best efforts we tended to be somewhat distant because we both had phone anxiety and we lived hundreds of miles away from each other. The song I mentioned earlier is entitled "There'll Never be Good-Bye". The uniting theme of the film is that love means never having to say goodbye, because you're never really apart from them; they'll always be a part of you. So hearing the lyrics to that song and thinking about my mother just brought out all of the emotions. These few lines really got me:
What a beautiful and powerful concept it is that we should not let ourselves be overwhelmed by loss when the presence of a person in one's life has given us such incredible wealth and blessings. It has been said that it is sorrow through which happiness is given value, and how else better could that be illustrated than through this concept?
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. I've known of the album for a while as my sound teacher was a producer on it but I didn't listen to any of the songs until Killing the Blues was played at a concert at my school (with someone playing pedal steel, which was impressive!) and I was hooked.
My top three this week included Belle and Sebastian and R.E.M, which is pretty usual, but also Good Shoes, who had a couple indie No. 1s in the late '00s and has my mum's friend's brother's (very Spaceballs relationship) as a band member.
I have been taking advantage of Bandcamp's music feeds/recommendations and I feel like I've never discovered so much new, unique music in my life. (The contrast between exploring Bandcamp vs. listening to Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist is immense.) Poking around Bandcamp sort of feels like I get to explore small local music scenes without traveling anywhere or knowing the cool venues to go to.
This is mostly due to Crustbag's (one of my favorite YouTubers) latest video, since I've been checking out a lot of the releases he mentioned that didn't make my Top 50ish list of 2023- but it's definitely been more of a grind/hardcore/powerviolence type of week for me. Not all of these are from his video but most (some of which I knew about already, others I discovered via the video):
No Cure, Mouthbreather, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, Regional Justice Center, Reckoning Force, Private Hell, World Peace, Endless Swarm, Knocked Loose, Snuffed on Sight, End - with a bit of Deathcore too (which is a genre I typically dislike pretty strongly, but I've found artists here or there I like): The Acacia Strain, Lorna Shore
Also black/thrashers Devastator (highly recommend) and Left Cross (anti-fash death/black/war metal)