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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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Many things:
Metal
Non-metal
The new Immolation is so good. No surprise.
Yeah for sure! They're probably one of the most consistent death metal bands of all time. I'm frustrated with the direction of their latest music videos (especially one in particular that is full of slop, which feels so out of place among the quality of everything else they do, and surprises me given they went with real art for their album cover- a sick piece by Eliran Kantor) but if I set that aside, everything else is great
With Coachella getting festival season underway, and the YouTube steams of it I've enjoyed the performances of:
The xx, Moby, The Strokes, David Byrne, Nine Inch Noize, Wet Leg, TOMORA.
I'd like to recommend watching the Nine Inch Noize set this weekend, or finding a replay of last weeks. The atmosphere of the staging, and its scale, is well worth experiencing.
David Byrne's performance is also a thoughtful and interesting production.
You may have seen many of the newer songs from it on his recent TinyDesk.
Lastly I want to mention TOMORA. It's a collaboration between Aurora and half of The Chemical Brothers. It looks and sounds as you'd expect, which I find fantastic.
My first exposure to Aurora was a Glastonbury set, that was fuelled by a live band rather than the softer tones of her studio music. So coming together with Tom from the chemical brothers is a fun leap back towards a great festival experience.
Here's a music fix they did for BBC 6 music this week: https://youtu.be/foTYFyT-86A
I've been listening to recently shared recordings by Aadam Jacobs:
From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan’s Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online
Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Live Music Archive
A few standouts I've found:
Nirvana Live at Dreamerz 1989-07-08
Pere Ubu Live at Cabaret Metro 1989-07-16
Björk Live at Pitchfork Music Festival 2013-07-19
John Cale & Chris Spedding Live at Cabaret Metro 1987-01-30
That Nirvana recording is great, cheers. I'm going to have to dig into this stuff.
I'm completely obsessed with this Spanish song inspired by One Piece: Somos Mugiwaras, by Miki Martz. I've played it multiple times every day during the past week.
A Cécile Corbel album I missed. She's mostly known for her OST of Arrietty but she's otherwise criminally underrated imo, lots of super catchy tunes and top-notch melodies :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjkM41arvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOxKG0ErDlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8huI-Iy02o
Been listening to a lot of Mac Glocky and his reimagining of other rock/metal artists' songs (Duality, Freak on a leash, and West Coast are my favorites) as well as the expanded edition of Joey Valence and Brae's Hyperyouth. One of the new songs has a music video I ended up being in which is pretty cool to think about.
For the past week I've been addicted to Gigantic Brain's self-titled album from 2016. Their Invasion Discography compilation is a classic of the cybergrind style, and while a lot of that remains, there's a bunch of extra influences and textures on this, plus the addition of clean vocals even. Not sure I can put it much better than the BC blurb:
I just discovered Jack Gardiner. I'm only 3 tracks into his newest album (genre is fusion) and it's already my favorite of 2026 so far.
Kintsugi
It's really well done but sounds a bit same-y after a while.
I've been completely captivated by Pure Reason Revolution's album Amor Vincit Omnia recently. There's something so unique and just incredible about it, but it's hard for me to convey what it is that hooks me so much.
I was struggling to make sense of how to even describe the genre, and Gemini summarized it as a combo of prog rock, synth pop, and industrial, with the harmonizing/layering vocals of something like the Beach Boys. Those are some of my favorite genres, so I guess it fits that I'd be so drawn in. I just love stumbling upon stuff like this that sounds so creative and interesting while still being something I feel like I can dance to.
These moments of discovering a new-to-me fantastic album is one of my top pleasures in life, so it's been a good week :)
It's quite intoxicating, I think it's all the vocal harmonies/layering that gives this effect. The production is a bit wonky but I sometimes prefer that to over-polished. Nice find!
Kanye West off his meds is straight up bad for society... but fat Kanye back on his meds makes some great music... and BULLY has been on close-to-loop since this last iteration came out.
I really hope more rappers bring out records that are 90-120s tracks. Nice and short... in and out... no need to drag it on.
Today has been a bit of a spare, acoustic outlaw-ish country day. Townes van Zandt into John Prine and now courtesy Mr Prine I'm listening to Blaze Foley for the first time (paying attention anyway) and I'm loving it.
All excellent if you are into this kind of thing, late era John Prine is a favourite of mine. Good music and a good human.
The modern artist that sits in the same region in my head is Jason Isbell, or at least the Foxes in the snow album. Just a bloke, a guitar and introspection. I've been returning to that album over and over again.