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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'm still hooked on Angine de Poitrine. They are like the aliens in Arrival, come to teach us new ways to understand time and language. I can get it out of my head.
I was introduced to them by someone I work with a week or so ago, and I have also been surprised by how good their first album is. It's oddly pleasing, and rife with hooks despite dissonance and counterpoint. They often sound like a fusion of math rock and jazz to me. The two piece band with looped twin neck guitar lends itself to comparison with El Ten Eleven. That makes them often sounds like El Ten Eleven trying to write an album in the sound of Do Make Say Think.
Their music honestly seems monumental to me the way Refused's album The Shape of Punk to Come felt. It fits together so perfectly that it seems effortless, like this is what music always has been, and always should be. But I imagine other musicians following them will have the same trouble matching their style. Even Refused couldn't live up to what they accomplished when they got back together (don't get me wrong, I actually like Freedom and War Music in their own right).
I just discovered them up a couple days ago and absolutely fell in love with both their music and their performance. I cannot get the track Fabienk out of my head.
See username above.
I like to think I'm as big of a fan as you. I own all the albums on CD (both original and Taylor's version of applicable) plus a somewhat rare Walmart exclusive EP. If I hear a track in the wild that could be either version I can almost always tell you which version it is. That said, the latest album was such a massive letdown for me that I have completely stopped listening to Taylor since shortly after its release and quite frankly I have very little hope that we'll ever get any truly good music from her again.
*Edit: to answer the question I just bought tickets to see Poppy later this summer so I've been listening to a lot of Poppy.
yeah that was kinda a gimmee
Uranium
CDR
https://cruelforceofficial.bandcamp.com/album/haneda
https://hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/coronach-24-bit-hd-audio
https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/album/incongruous-forms-of-evergrowing-rot
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/sword-sorcery-vengeance
https://acephalicvoid.bandcamp.com/album/we-chose-death
I started deep diving into the full discography of Kate Bush, because she's been a blind spot of mine that I've wanted to remedy for a long time now.
Conclusion: The hype is real.
Interesting. Are you familiar with some of her more famous songs at all? Are you familiar with some of the notable covers of her songs?
I introduced a friend to Placebo's cover of her single "Running Up That Hill" and while he didn't like it, I was surprised he'd never come across it before. On the flip side, sometimes people hear a popular song, like Smooth Criminal, and have stronger associations with the cover (Alien Ant Farm) than the original (Michael Jackson).
At some point in my childhood I had seen the music video for Cloudbusting and it kind of stuck in my subconscious as a thing I had vague memories of but without any context (was it from a movie? tv show? can't remember).
Recently I came across it again, solving the mystery, and sparking more interest in the rest of Kate Bush's music. The only song of hers that I recognize at all as having heard before is Running Up That Hill, but it's not something I could have named or even told you the artist if you played it for me, so I really was going in pretty blind.
Been listening to a lot of acoustic covers, some from the original bands like Staind, Puddle of Mudd, and Paramore, but I've also been listening to Ernesto Schnack's covers of SOAD and Tool.
I've also been on a bit of a blues kick, listening to Blues Delight, Albert Collins, and Lost in Blues.
Are you familiar with the YouTube channel "Brass Against"? They do covers of a bunch of rock songs with the addition of a brass section. I think you should check out the SOAD cover featuring Cunio. The guys voice is incredible.
Not acoustic at all I just think we have similar tastes.
*Edit: a link
I'd never heard of them, thanks for putting me on!
I enjoyed the Toxicity cover you linked (Cunio's vocals rock) and really dug their Know Your Enemy cover with Sophia Urista as well.
Ohhhh man, thank you so much for bringing Ernesto Schnack to my attention! And he sells tabs. Even better :)
I was listening to the Pixel Sphere soundtrack yesterday, trying to find a nice tune for my match 3. I pulled a track from this group for Cave Creeps.
https://pixelsphere.org/music/
I wanna try out the game itself sometime too, seems neat.
https://pixelsphere.org/
I've been doing a deeper dive into Krisiun's discography. Jeez, without going into full tech death or prog territory at all these 3 brothers are some of the most skillful players that I've heard. I saw them once back in the mid-2000s and was blown away. I've really been enjoying how consistent they are and the sheer intensity has been right up my alley lately.
Oh yeah, also Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness album. It's so good. I wish Tobias could take a break from Ghost to make another good album for once (sorry, I can't stand Ghost).
Yeah Krisiun always lands in my brain in a similar way to Ulcerate or Hate Eternal. It's highly technical death metal while at the same time far from being the subset of specific things that has become to be known as "tech death"
Also agree on Repugnant. It's the best thing Tobias has ever done. I want more of that. It's also very unique. It's got that tight-rope walking of "dark/gothic influence without being cheesy" that isn't commonplace in the genre. It's pulling some outside stuff in and melding with it in a way that's pretty rare.
You can almost tell that Ghost came out of the same mind in a way. There's a small essence underneath that ties the two together just having taken two extremely divergent paths
I'm of two minds with Ghost. I will at the same time be frustrated that it's what a lot of people consider "metal", etc but I have come to enjoy it for what it is, at least the early few records and an occasional song since, which is more just initially more metal-leaning now-theatrical-rock that self-awarely leans into the cheese. I feel like Ghost, as a Tobias vehicle, arrives where it does from a genuine metal background and so I have found the lens through which I can enjoy it. I think sometimes feeling a sonic link in my head between something like Blue Oyster Cult and Ghost helps contextualize it for me too somehow
That said i am not trying to convince anyone to give Ghost a first or second try or to avoid them. Just how it has come to settle in my head, as an opinionated music listener
I've been obsessed with this rhythm game called UNBEATABLE and I cannot stop listening to their OST.
My Medicine- Snoop Dogg
I came across a song from this EP by Ethan Regan and have been weirdly playing the EP on repeat. Sometimes for up to 3 hours while I work. It’s just so peaceful and has hints of things that remind me of other artists and songs that I love.
Hummus Vacuum — "G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-N-E" at least once a day every day
I am not a fan of R'n'B. Like, not at all.
But I've been listening to ELIZA so much lately, that I even bought her first album on vinyl. She has a new Album out: The Darkening Green. I can wholeheartedly recommend giving it a listen.
Saw Model/Actriz in my IG feed (yet another introduction-via-KEXP) and have had them on repeat constantly ever since. "Diva" is an incredible tune if you're into noise-rock that actually has a beat/is somewhat danceable. Their singer Cole Haden has a wicked stage presence.
https://youtu.be/TN6thttwwDY?si=OS4kw6BWxXkrCTX0