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What have you been listening to this week?
Filling in again this week at Whom's request.
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!
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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Albums this week:
Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel
Jenn Champion: Single Rider
Snail Mail: Lush (my favorite album this year)
Men I Trust: Headroom
Metric: Grow Up and Blow Away
Ezi: Afraid of the Dark EP
I've got pretty specific music tastes, mostly leaning towards female vocals and pop style tunes.
Well clearly we listen to some of the same music! I like your style. I've actually been listening to all of Men I Trust this week as well! Becoming a big fan. I've only heard some of the music from the self titled album, it's not on Google Music so I haven't been able to go through the whole thing.
Big fan of Soccer Mommy! Funny, Clean isn't my favorite album, I prefer either Collection or For Young Hearts. The audio engineering is hugely improved in Clean though, makes it a little nicer to listen to for me.
Thanks for the recommendations, I'm digging Rosemary Fairweather so far! Also I've come across Yumi Zouma before but I'd forgotten! I dig it fo sho, gonna have to go through their albums.
I'll be listening to all they albums you recommended, thanks!
Also, maybe you'll like:
Shura - Nothing's Real
Thanks again for the recs!
Enjoying some Yumi Zouma right now, digging EP III. I'll need to dig into the rest this week. Ennoying Willowbank too.
I gave Girl In Red a quick try, I'm pretty sure I'll get into it ha.
I've been on a bit of a pop kick lately, but moving towards funky/groovy tunes. Do you have any thoughts or recs for anyone that got real good bass lines like Men I Trust? I love the female vocals with that funky bass.
Dig it all, thanks for the recs.
Miho is pretty awesome, thanks for that one. Too bad Google Music doesn't have much of any of her music.
Digging Mr Twin Sister too, need to listen more though. That bass is doing it for me.
Neon Indian def isn't my style (at the moment!) but definitely super cool. I'm saving that album cause I think I'll be enjoying it sometime in the future.
Gotta say thanks for the Yumi rec, I've been listening to them most of today actually. Willowbank and EP III are def my favorite so far but I'm listening to Yoncalla more tonight and tomorrow and so far I'm into it very much. Great band, had to get into it a little bit but on repeat listens it gets better and better.
Turning into a fan ha!
Yeah I've been realizing I should have started at the beginning. I usually do! I'll start from the beginning this weekend. I've def listened to EP III like a few times a day for the last couple days.
I'll have to do some more exploring, thanks for the Miho info. I think I can get into Amazon to Lefrak! I'm listening to it now. I'll have to be in the right mood for sure, but it's solid.
I've got a feeling that there aren't a lot of those records out there! I love being able to get vinyl from an artist you love but is so small. Usually they don't press a lot, but it's the best getting a physical copy of an album you really love.
Yeah I noticed your style seems to be a little less upbeat, I'm not sure if I have any recommendations for that at the moment.
Well maybe:
Crustation - Bloom
It's old school trip hop, one of my favorite albums ever. It's definitely not pop, definitely more depressing lyrics haha. Maybe you'll like it, who knows!
We are lucky!
I'd start chronologically for sure, start Dummy, then the self titled, then Third. Their last album (Third), isn't my cup of tea, but Dummy is something amazing. If you can get access to it, the live album at Roseland album is also fantastic.
I've not been listening to trip hop for quite some time. Some quick recs:
Airlock - Drystar
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Etro Anime - See the Sound
Lunascape - Mindstalking
Morcheeba - Who can you Trust? (So flippin good)
Pelican City - Rhode Island
These are intentionally all over the place, trip hop can be so all over the place haha. There is so much out there.
I heard Snail Mail's first album Habit a little while back and it was almost a daily thing for at least a week. I have no idea why it was so compelling to me. I started listening to Lush, there's definitely some catchy stuff on there but it didn't have that effect.
Ah yes, I get it for sure. Habit is a great album. Lindsey is a good songwriter, but I get caught up on the audio mix. The lo-fi style isn't really for me, I like the mix to be clearer/cleaner. I know it's silly but it can bring an entire album down for me.
But the vocals of both albums, so goooood.
Female vocals and pop styles you say? Might want to check out Kacey Johansing, she was one of our better finds in last year's l2t bestof. Sounds like some kind of mystical 80s daydream. Kelly Dance was pretty good too, if you go for the more haunted style.
https://imgur.com/L30T9HU
@Bauke has been trying to get me to have good musical tastes and I've been fighting him every step of the way.
マクロスMACROSS 82-99 is my jam
Just got my A Million Miles Away tape in yesterday!
No, I just hoisted that onto you now, because I think your tastes are good and well-defined 😬
I've been listening to a lot of orchestral and violin music. I've always been interested in playing violin and learning music. I play some guitar now and I own a few guitars, but buying a decent violin is a different beast altogether. Learning it is also much more challenging without a teacher. So I plan on buying a decent violin and getting a teacher after I finish school next year.
Other than that I recently fell away from current popular music and went back to my old ways of listening to Ska. Five Iron Frenzy is my favorite band of all time and listening to them reminds me of good times I had back in middle and high school. Streetlight Manifesto is a really great, maybe the best current, ska band.
Oh god I love Tom Waits so much. It's hard for me to listen to him now. I went through a period of my life not too long ago where I would get wasted every night and listen to Tom Waits (among other artists, but he sticks out the most when I think of the scene) while I self-harmed.
I've had a lot of commuting this week and so I've had more listening time that usual:
Puscifer - Money Shot
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
Tool - Aenima
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Still Life
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Cult of Luna - Cult of Luna
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
I'm playing drums for a couple of songs on a Prince tribute show next week, so I've been listening to those on repeat. (So far I'm definitely on Controversy and Kiss, but I might also get drafted into playing Housequake and a couple of others.)
Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles. Not like anything I usually listen to, but I found Cory Henry through Snarky Puppy and he is pretty amazing, check him out.
So this week I turned back time a bit and listened to The Marshal Mathers LP because I was feeling a lot of anxiety and the familiarity plus the anger let me really let it out. It helps that I know all the lyrics to every song so I was able to have a bit of catharsis. I listened to some Die Antwoord for similar reasons - they have a nice mix of silly and aggressive that I really vibe too when I'm feeling shitty.
Tonight is a Death Grips night. I've been having the kind of anxiety where it's hard to pinpoint the trigger and I just feel chaotic inside, so DG channels that quite a bit. I've also been listening to Kimya Dawson, specifically The Beer and The Competition. She has a way of being honest about her life that makes her so relatable. I think I listened to her on the last thread I posted on as well.
Mixed in with that has been some staples of mine - The Front Bottoms, The Wonder Years, Old Grey, etc.
*Oh yeah I also listened to some Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Pixies
Been getting back into my favorite retro-wave artist: Perturbator. Next to Gost and Dance with the Dead, it makes me feel like I'm living in a cyberpunky reality.
I discovered 'QSTN - Favela EP' this week. Check it: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/favela-ep/1270856060?l=en
Some influences from south america (guitar etc) and, what do you call that, hip-hop? style beats. Really chill :)