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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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MONO released Pilgrimage Of the Soul today. Edit:Bandcamp link to the full album. I've already seen people bad mouthing it but for me they can do no wrong. Most of the tracks titles are from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence
Here's one of the joyful silken twines I've been playing all day
Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
I've been doing a lot of revisiting this week, but it's all stuff I never really paid attention to.
Time and Materials by "Cavanaugh," a project Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti did in 2015. It's a concept album about a housing project that was required to have high-end and low income housing, from the perspective of the two handymen who keep it running. It popped up on my radar a few years ago and I just remembered the album today and finally listened to it. I'm a huge fan of OME, and enjoy everything Serengeti's done, and this is both of them at their best, with great collaborators (Hemlock Ernst, Samuel T. Herring's rap alias, Busdriver, and P.O.S., who I'd never heard before the feature),
Somebody here recommended I give Morphine a listen a while ago. I finally got back to them and I don't have anything particularly big to say about them, but they're a band I'm occasionally exploring as they're playing with a lot of cool ideas (I liked Mark Sandman's description of the band as "low rock" between Mark's voice, the basitar, and baritone sax). I haven't listened to anything specifically, just a song here or there, but I'm probably going to dive in more this week.
I finally listened to Open Mike Eagle's "Anime, Trauma, and Divorce," on the way to my Armand Hammer/Open Mike Eagle concert, actually. It's a great album, and it felt similar to Bo Burnham's "Inside," in that it it seemed like Mike was exploring his 2020 being cooped up at home, dealing with his divorce, show cancellation (The New Negroes, on Comedy Central), and everything those changes entailed.
"Solid State" by Jonathan Coulton: It's sort of a concept album about the effects of technology on our culture, if I've got that correct. It doesn't seem to have much of his humor in it, being a more thoughtful album. I didn't like it when I first listened to it, but giving it some time, it seems to have grown on me.
The new singles from IGNITE, the band had to change lead singer after Zolì Teglas decided to leave IGNITE in 2020.
And I must say that Eli Santana is one hell of a singer! Absolute banger.
Link: IGNITE - Anti-complicity Anthem