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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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Lots of Ewan Dobson. He's been streaming on twitch and YouTube. It's really cool he goes through questions in the chat and tells stories and stuff. A very interesting and funny dude. The YouTube streams are performances while the twitch streams are practice, and it's really interesting to see how he practices and prepares for performance.
It's prompted me to listen to his stuff more and work on some of his stuff for guitar. He's been one of my favorites for probably a decade now so it's been great to see him play online.
Oh, snap. Ewan is streaming on twitch now? I am definitely going to check that out. LFTL: https://www.twitch.tv/ewan_dobson
Yeah he played for about 3 hours on candyrat channel on Saturday. He's playing on his yt channel tomorrow. Twitch is usually a couple times per week simetime in the afternoon/evening EST
Yoshiko Sai - Mangekyou, a Japanese singer from the 70's, it's super good, it's a bit romantic/melancholic but at the same time it has this groovy thing of the music of that time (the drums/bass probably) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBeiuhb36RY&t=1180s (the cover is also great)
Lot's of Kendrick Lamar today too, never really got into it but was missing.
Flatbush Zombies - Vacation in Hell on repeat all week. Love a good hip-hop ensemble. They seem like a fun, wacky bunch, and they make great music. It's hard to describe with a genre - it has a unique creativity that I find more and more of as I listen to the album in a loop.
I overheard a cover of Pink Floyd's /Time/ and was reminded of the next song on the album, the amazing /The Great Gig in the Sky/.
On YouTube, I found three different amazing videos of live performances of the song, one with the original voice performer, and two covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanO3qf9-rE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0rpKOEAt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZ6hmHj2MA
Slow Meadow's Costero is a beautiful instrumental album.
Phoebe Bridgers's Punisher is fantastic folk (with great album art!).
Allie X's Cape God is a really solid pop album with only a couple of missteps.
The new Doves album! I didn't even know they got back together, so it was a nice surprise
Tyler Childers - Long Violent History
Been spinning Diamond Construct's most recent release, an EP called DCX2. These guys are definitely all in on the new influx of nu-metal into hardcore. That, sadly, includes some pretty immature lyrics. But you can't deny the instruments and actual vox hit like a bag full of bricks. Complimenting the djent riffs is a lot of Korn-like harmonics and start-stop song writing. Hopefully, these guys avoid what lead to nu-metal's downfall, which was taking itself too seriously in my opinion. Because this stuff rips.
New Butcher Brown and Takuya Kuroda albums kept my weekend pretty funky. The effects Kuroda's able to acheive with instrumental loops are really damn impressive. The bass and drums shine all over that record too.