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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/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
I'm going through my second Dave Matthews phase HARD, fifteen years after my first.
It started with an innocent guitar lesson on Drop-D tuning. Now I'm listening to him non-stop, trying to catch all his tricky riffs and syncopated singing. I can't get enough of it!
This was my gateway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNmJoLyivIc
Deep cuts only, I hope
I saw this comment last night right after I was listening to Live Trax Vol. 47.
Other than listening to Crash one time in the 90s when I was a teenager, I'd never listened to any live DMB. Which is very odd since I've been into somewhat related bands (Phish and stuffs) for about 24 years. Last year I started listening to Live Trax. Started on the first one, made it through four of them. Hit my limit, but really enjoyed them. Vol. 2 was my least favorite. Still good. So, yeah, last night was the first time putting on any DMB on since early last year. Interesting to see your post immediately afterward.
Cheers! =^)
JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life for You - he's had a weird year to say the least but the album hits pretty hard
Foxing - Greyhound - hilariously weird but very Foxing music video for it
MJ Lenderman - Joker Lips - really looking forward to this album
Luna Li - really leaning into her Tiktok era vibes which I'm all for
Navy Blue - Low Threshold - another album I'm really excited for
I really enjoyed the music in the paris olympics opening ceremony, and found a spotify playlist that does a good job capturing the wide array of songs/artists. Fun listen on a recent long drive.
Pasadena Roof Orchestra - Night Out (1979)
I had heard of them in passing but never sat and listened to them. Then I found a few of their CDs in the local Charity shop and the Night Out album found its way to the car.
20s and 30s music played on more modern instruments but the recording of them is much better. The ones that I know (the old favourites) sound like true cover versions, so I can only assume the ones I dont know are as well.
I have really enjoyed listening to this album and will be giving the other CD's a go over the weekend
Turns out when I was researching the album for this comment that it was only issued on Vinyl and Compact Cassette, as far as I can see but this German pressing of a CD must be a bootleg.
can anyone into good techno tell me if this list is good or bad? i need to know if i have good taste in techno… or not. don’t be diplomatic.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2EUiSUBXlDIzSKiyXhF5hJ
Honestly, just like what you like. It’s so subjective to qualify music in general, and even though techno is a complex genre, whatever makes you feel good, is good.
Who truly has a say? The playlist you linked isn’t what I’d choose to listen to personally, and is four-on-the-floor Berlin Techno, but it’s probably what the Berghain | Panorama Bar spins, so that’s sick.
I listen to as much music as I can, and I have certain lanes in techno, with House, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, and Breakbeat being my go to’s. Here’s some stuff off the top of my head. Mercer, Gesaffelstein, and FETISH.
There’s so many sub genres of the parent genre, you could never listen to it all.
Enjoy what you love, and don’t apologize for loving it.
I love Gesaffelstein! FETISH is alright. I want everything on the darker side or with more of a hip hop influence.
I have a wide range of genres that I'm deep into, but this has always been a blindspot.
If you have Apple Music, my boy at Apple makes some great techno playlists. I hope this link works!
Rumble Pack
sweet. I don't have Apple Music, but I'll scrape it and dump it into Spotify. Thanks!
I'll post my favorites releasing this week later, but things I've been listening to:
A fave from last week: https://weareiress.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-now-in-reverse
Definitely likely to be on my AOTY list. Doomgaze/shoegaze/dream pop. Beautiful, dark, haunting.
Noise rock / shoegaze: https://smushcore.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-were-here-id-be-home-now
Has a bedroom pop / local band vibe to it in the best way possible
Indie pop / rock / piano / synths: https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/theres-always-glimmer
Beautiful record. Intimate, quiet, heartfelt.
Indie rock with a half-sung/half-spoken vocal that just works for it. I wasn't sure at first, but about a minute in and I was sold on this. Has such a genuine feel to it: https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/animal-companionship
HEALTH's DEATH MAGIC. Their signature mix of a gentle, soothing shoegaze vocal overtop of industrial / darkwave: https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/album/death-magic
I'm often a person that leans towards listening to lots of metal... but lately I've been on a bend away from it temporarily in listening habits. Especially since I'm writing/recording music myself, and the non-metal stuff is what inspires me most.
Squeaky Feet!
Apparently this studio album has a decent following among prog fans in Germany https://squeakyfeet.bandcamp.com/album/cause-for-alarm-2
But I'm more into the live stuff, because of all the awesome improvisation. Here's a heater from last year performed at some brewery in Golden, CO on 2023-06-29 https://squeakyfeet.bandcamp.com/album/2023-06-29-new-terrain-golden-co