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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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  1. feigneddork
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    Poolside FM. It's poolside music in a faux Mac OS 8 UI with 80s clips alongside to immerse you in the 80s atmosphere.

    Poolside FM.

    It's poolside music in a faux Mac OS 8 UI with 80s clips alongside to immerse you in the 80s atmosphere.

    6 votes
  2. [2]
    aymm
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    Mostly Sabaton's new album
    3 votes
    1. rmgr
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      Oh shit I totally missed that coming out! I know what I'm listening to when I go grocery shopping tomorrow!

      Oh shit I totally missed that coming out! I know what I'm listening to when I go grocery shopping tomorrow!

      1 vote
  3. [2]
    thundergolfer
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    Bulls on Parade - Rage Against The Machine (Denzel Curry Cover)
    2 votes
    1. cfabbro
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      Such a fucking amazing cover. I honestly get chills whenever I listen to it. It's incredibly rare for anyone to be able to do RATM justice, but Denzel Curry managed it with ease. p.s. Related...

      Such a fucking amazing cover. I honestly get chills whenever I listen to it. It's incredibly rare for anyone to be able to do RATM justice, but Denzel Curry managed it with ease.

      p.s. Related Tildes topic: https://tildes.net/~music/aor/denzel_curry_covers_rage_against_the_machine_bulls_on_parade_for_like_a_version

      2 votes
  4. Tygrak
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    Slaughter Beach, Dogs new album Safe and Also No Fear. It's awesome! The first two songs - which were also the albums singles are crazy good. One Down is 10/10, really recommend listening to it...

    Slaughter Beach, Dogs new album Safe and Also No Fear. It's awesome! The first two songs - which were also the albums singles are crazy good. One Down is 10/10, really recommend listening to it and if you like it, to the rest of the album (and their two other albums, if you haven't already :P).

    2 votes
  5. jgb
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    This legendary shoegaze (one might say post-shoegaze) album has been on my radar for quite a while and it recently saw a lot of discussion on /mu/ so I finally decided to sit down and listen to...

    Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort

    This legendary shoegaze (one might say post-shoegaze) album has been on my radar for quite a while and it recently saw a lot of discussion on /mu/ so I finally decided to sit down and listen to it. I was most impressed by the sheer range and creativity of the sounds on this record - at times it sounded like Loveless, at others it sounded like the ambient music in Terraria, and at others still like a collaboration between Portishead and Apex Twin. This album would surely appeal to any fans of experimental music - I really haven't heard anything much like this before. Recommended. 8/10

    Fishmans - Long Season

    Another album, like the Sweet Trip record, that could maybe be described as an underground classic - very well known, but exclusively to basement dwellers with /mu/ and RYM constantly pinned in their browser! This record didn't quite blow me away as much as V:D:C, but that's not to say I didn't enjoy it - and again, it certainly deserves another listen before I come even close to finalizing my judgment. At its best, this album sounds fantastic - post-rocky and shoegazey and (to my ear) drawing strong influence from the psychedelic guitars of compatriats Les Rallizes Dénudés. However, at times, the album suffers from that all-too-common affliction of post-rock and experimental music - indulgence in unnecessary and frankly annoying 'soundscapes' and 'ambiences'. Long Season features more splashing and irritating plish ploshing like a mediocre Avey Tare solo effort. These, though, can be forgiven, for when Long Season is good, it's really good. 7/10

    Trist - Zrcadlení melancholie

    Fair warning - the album cover for this one is a serious trigger for self-harm. That is to say, it's a grim black-and-white image of slashed arms bleeding into a bleak, utilitarian sink. As for the album itself - well - it does what it says on the tin. Coming in at a succinct but unrelenting 37 minutes, this record is one long wall of incessantly roaring guitars, accompanied by rolling drums seemingly inspired by Great War artillery. And it's superb. This is like the soundtrack to the forges of Barad-dûr. It's what I imagine a terrified infantryman in the trenches of Verdun, catatonic from shell-shock and wide-eyed with fear would hear in his head in the minutes before being dragged away to be shot for desertion. The only relief from the unyielding intensity of the instruments is the pained, animalistic screams of the musician. I hate to say it, but these quite evidently sincere expressions of torment are perhaps the greatest weakness on this album, if only because of their slightly risible similarity to a trumpeting elephant or similar rift valley creature. That aside, this album is stellar, and I can't stop going back to it. Having listened to it I was gripped by the need to find out what had become of the tortured sole behind Trist - and with some internet digging I was both relieved and surprised to learn that instead of drinking himself to death in an austere post-soviet apartment block, he seems to be leading a relatively happy family life. Still, his album remains one of the most emotionally charged I've listened to. I thought it would be a while before I found something that could challenge 'A Crow Looked At Me' in my quest to find the most depressing musical creation ever pressed into vinyl or burned onto disc, but Zrcadlení melancholie is a serious contender. Highly recommended, but not for everyone. 9/10

    2 votes
  6. tunneljumper
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    Caligula by Lingua Ignota, and her catalogue in general. Her blend of industrial, drone, and singer-songwriter -- think Chelsea Wolfe meets sunn o))) -- uses biblical and apocalyptic imagery to...

    Caligula by Lingua Ignota, and her catalogue in general. Her blend of industrial, drone, and singer-songwriter -- think Chelsea Wolfe meets sunn o))) -- uses biblical and apocalyptic imagery to describe many contemporary issues pertinent to women, such as abuse and inequality. Her last album, All Bitches Die, was an extremely graphic retrospective of an abusive relationship she survived.

    1 vote
  7. [6]
    BashCrandiboot
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    Chance the Rapper's new album. He's such a good mood booster.

    Chance the Rapper's new album. He's such a good mood booster.

    1 vote
    1. [5]
      cfabbro
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      Yeah, I am loving Chance's new album and have already listened to it a few times all the way through. From my comment on it in the weekly album/EP release topic:

      Yeah, I am loving Chance's new album and have already listened to it a few times all the way through. From my comment on it in the weekly album/EP release topic:

      I totally disagree about Chance's new album though. I really liked it and love how diverse it is genre-wise. Do You Remember, featuring Ben Gibbard (who I adore), was amazing and I will definitely be listening to that a bunch in the coming months. We Go High, I Got You, The Big Day, Let's Go On The Run were also especially great as well, IMO.

      1 vote
      1. [4]
        ntgg
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        I have listened to his new album twice now, and I just can't get past his delivery and the lyrics to the songs. IMO, it is almost laughably bad. I did like Do You Remember, but it got real boring...

        I have listened to his new album twice now, and I just can't get past his delivery and the lyrics to the songs. IMO, it is almost laughably bad. I did like Do You Remember, but it got real boring and grating after my 3rd listen or so. Also the genre diversity doesn't really land for me as he doesn't really work in some of the genres that well. The album as a whole feels kinda disconnected and almost lazy to me.

        1 vote
        1. [3]
          cfabbro
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          That's fair enough, and to each their own. Chance is definitely not the most lyrically complex, socially conscious, challenging or "deep" rapper out there. He mostly puts out pop rap which is...

          That's fair enough, and to each their own. Chance is definitely not the most lyrically complex, socially conscious, challenging or "deep" rapper out there. He mostly puts out pop rap which is meant to be easy to consume and enjoyable to listen to, if only on a mostly surface level, which I think the album largely accomplishes.

          But when I want "deep" I listen to Kendrick, Joyner Lucas or a myriad of other older artists, not Chance. Just like back in the day I didn't listen to The Fat Boys for their "deep" lyrics either, but still enjoyed them anyways despite their silliness. ;)

          1 vote
          1. [2]
            ntgg
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            I do like plenty of pop rap, I am not trying to say that rap (or any music) needs to be deep or complex to be good. I just saw TWRP in concert last week and their music is just about as surface...

            I do like plenty of pop rap, I am not trying to say that rap (or any music) needs to be deep or complex to be good. I just saw TWRP in concert last week and their music is just about as surface level as possible but they execute it well and commit fully to their act. According to Spotify my most most listened track in the last 6 months is Busted from Phineas and Ferb, a song with absolutely no depth or meaning. To me the lyrics in the big day actively take away from the songs, and he doesn't execute it well enough to overcome the poor writing.

            1 vote
            1. cfabbro
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              Yeah, there were a few hiccups with his lyrics and laughable lines that took me out of the flow too, so I can absolutely see where you're coming from. But those moments were only on a few songs...

              Yeah, there were a few hiccups with his lyrics and laughable lines that took me out of the flow too, so I can absolutely see where you're coming from. But those moments were only on a few songs for me, so I still generally enjoyed the album and will likely listen to at least a few of the tracks I especially enjoyed a bunch of times over the next few years.

              1 vote
  8. rmgr
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    I haven't listened to a lot this week. I've sort of been making my way through Thy Art is Murder's new album Human Target. It's not bad, it's a deathcore album so at its heart it's sort of similar...

    I haven't listened to a lot this week. I've sort of been making my way through Thy Art is Murder's new album Human Target. It's not bad, it's a deathcore album so at its heart it's sort of similar to most deathcore but it does sort of have a sort of technical death metally feel.

    1 vote