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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:
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I've been listening to the new Bon Iver EP, SABLE, this morning. I'm still digesting it all, but the EP is a bit of a return to some of their earlier work, more acoustic than their recent releases. Emotional and complex lyrics from Justin, as usual. S P E Y S I D E is an early standout for me.
Rubblebucket - Year of the Banana
Just came out today actually. I am loving it. It's rubblebucket continuing their streak of original songwriting. They stay oh so weird and simple and light, but heady and introspective and constantly look for the light within. Psychedelic pop. They are really lovely humans, every one of them!
The new GOAT album is an absolute groovy banger. if you enjoy psych mixed with some world music and dancing around the house then this is for you.
Been looking into some of the roadburn announcements. Human impact and stress positions are on the lost of bands to see.
Chat Pile - Cool World - gnarly, experimental metal born out of the stress of living in modern society, including the impending threat of climate change.
Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line - a bit closer to their hardcore roots in their earlier album. Julien Baker makes a great appearance on the last song (probably my favorite song even with it's heartfelt but slightly corny lyrics) and I'm wondering if after this and her appearance on Turnstile's last album, she's going to be a mainstay as the go to indie feature for hardcore bands.
Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have To Lose Something - love this noisy experimental indie band. Had to cancel their tour after their van was stolen twice (yes twice) in Seattle so I'm sad for everyone who won't get to hear "1/500" live.
Below are my faves from week of 10/11 which is what I've been checking out this week.
Aside from new stuff, also been heavily listening to David Bazan in general and specifically a side project, Lo Tom. They're one of my favorite bands and one very consistently in rotation. Also Iress, Black Fucking Cancer, Harp, Groin, Arioch and a bunch of random individual tracks on shuffle (which is how I often listen in the car, so I can hear a lot of my collection in bits and pieces).
Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music.
HAEVN - Wide Awake
Dutch ambient-pop band with a very easy listening sound and a number of collaborations with artists and choirs that give some of their songs some international cultural influence. I wouldn't necessarily call it commercial but it is very slickly produced. That said, in this case I find that enjoyable, even if I feel it's "big" music in a "soundtrack to a film" kind of way.
BABii - DareDeviil2000
Hyperpop / future-pop artist and one of the first of the genre that I've liked. It's much more laid back compared to most other pop in those subgenres. It still has plenty of genre crossover and lots of experimental and changing influences depending on the track, but it feels much more constructed rather than the typical hyperpop chaos.
MASTER BOOT RECORD - HARDWAREZ
Heavy, chiptune/digital, instrumental, industrial-leaning metal from a veteran of the sound. Yet again, MBR does not disappoint. With tracks named after various computer parts, a price of $3.86 (I see what you did there) and a motherboard as the album art, MBR fully commits to their aesthetic, as expected. Always a fun listen.
Extreme heavy music (harsh vocals)
Vitriolic - Black Steel Vengeance
Blackened speed metal from Finland (that isn't obviously sketchy? Nice.) Fast, old-school, satanic. Classic old-school black/thrash riffs and production. Raspy, hellish, ghoulish vocals.
Abberrator - Beckoning Tribulation
Death metal that sometimes leans into death/doom territory. Slow, doomy growling passages that morph into fast death metal blasts. Absolute barrage of death growls, filthy murky riffs, and an absolute wall of noisy and heavy drums.
Bonus Record (any time, any genre, any reason)
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
Sophomore release from this Toronto death metal band and the release that introduced me to them. Massive mix here. Feedback, a few touches of progressive influence, deep growls, death/doom-style plodding and stomping interspersed with blasting sections. Just a wall of filthy death metal. All of their releases are worth a listen, especially this one.