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6 votes
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Lykke Li – Bron (2020)
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Ghost win 2019 Music Export Prize – award celebrates Swedish creators in the music industry and their efforts to positively spread Swedish music across the globe
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What are some good recommendations for ambient background music?
This thread can be used for general recommendations for everyone, so feel free to recommend anything that fits. For me specifically, I'm looking for soundscape-style music that has the following...
This thread can be used for general recommendations for everyone, so feel free to recommend anything that fits.
For me specifically, I'm looking for soundscape-style music that has the following properties:
- no lyrics
- very "low motion" (the music feels smooth, slow, and uneventful -- no fast or abrupt sounds, rhythms, or melodies)
- euphonic (the music has an overall pleasant sound and feel to it)
A lot of the ambient and drone music out there hits 1 and 2, but doesn't often hit 3. Much of what I've found tends to have a darker or more neutral tone than what I'm looking for, and some of it comes across as a bit grating. I instead want something that's sort of persistently, mildly pleasant, if that makes sense.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I'm specifically looking for music that I can fall asleep to and read books to, which is why the fact that it should be almost completely unobtrusive is so important!
20 votes -
Like Moths To Flames - Selective Sacrifice (2020)
5 votes -
Eddie Van Halen dead at 65
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Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1965)
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Aesop Rock & TOBACCO are Malibu Ken - Corn Maze (2018)
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Ja Rule (feat. Lil' Mo & Vita) - Put It On Me (2000)
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Bill O'Dwyer - Maia's Lullaby II (2020)
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Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (2020)
6 votes -
Smokey Robinson - Sara Smile + Ooo Baby Baby [Live from Daryl's House]
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Orbital Junction - Egos and Instincts (2020)
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Phil Ochs - Lou Marsh (1964)
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Gorillaz - The Pink Phantom ft. Elton John & 6LACK (2020)
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How Dagny's luminous pop battles Norway's endless nights – Strangers/Lovers emerges as one of 2020's most assured debuts
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Allison Leyton-Brown - How I Roll (full album, co-produced by me) (2016)
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Gangstagrass - Home (2018)
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Weird Al - We're All Doomed
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"Chan Chan" cover by Los Jubilados del Caribe, live
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XXXTentacion - Moonlight (2019)
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Lifafa - Nikamma (2019)
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Horyzon - Gravity (2020)
5 votes -
Napalm Death - Backlash Just Because (2020)
5 votes -
Dropdead - Warfare State (2019)
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DM DOKURO - Sign Language (Gaster's theme remix)
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Freezepop - Fantasizer
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Deep Sea Diver - Wishing (support your local stages!) (2020)
5 votes -
Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2
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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...
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/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
4 votes -
Dj Jules - Vaping in the Hood (2016)
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Pink Floyd – Us and Them (Piano Cover by Josh Cohen) (2017)
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Lemon Demon - Redesign Your Logo (2016)
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Nelchael Nelchabarren - Painful retribution (Disbelief hard mode phase 5) (2017)
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Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres
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KRS-One and DJ Kid Capri - The Block Party (2020)
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Boxplot - Voicemail Poems (2019)
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WARGASM - Backyard Bastards (2020)
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/backyard-bastards/1532748158?i=1532748159 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5pdpC268ZugcBl48WGVe4j YouTube -...
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/backyard-bastards/1532748158?i=1532748159
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5pdpC268ZugcBl48WGVe4j
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Rnppk23jIAt the risk of just posting every new Wargasm single as they drop, UK duo Wargasm is back with a new single that continues their genre mash-up goodness. Backyard Bastards evokes feelings of Treats era Sleigh Bells. Like Sleigh Bells, the programmed drum beats sound like the fall out of the sky as the punctuate some super distorted guitar riffs. But noise rock is just one layer of this track, which includes Sam Matlock's growls and shouts along side Milkie Way's super smooth cleans.
Lyrically, the band seems to take a step into politics just a bit rather than just the general rage of their past efforts with selections like
When you're tired of living for these bastards
I'll teach you how to kill your gods
and hunt your masters
I'm sick of feeling but this feeling's too strong
I wanna kill somebody but I know it's wrongA section that may speak a lot to fellow young people like them, who feel they've been dealt a raw hand by a generation that swam in comfort in excess in pervious decades.
For fans of Sleigh Bells, My Ticket Home and Papa Roach.
2 votes -
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams (2020)
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Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone (1966)
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Daft Punk - Instant Crush (2013)
9 votes -
The Bullseyes - World Doesn't Care (2020)
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Telomic & V O E - Not Thinking Straight (2020)
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Five classical composers write for metal band
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M83 - Solitude (2016)
3 votes -
Mouth Dreams - A new mouth album trailer by Neil Cicierega
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Youth Sector - Renting Spaces In My World (2019)
2 votes -
A deep dive into K-pop
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The Big Moon - Your Light (2020)
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Compare and Contrast: Split Enz "I Got You"/"I See Red"
So I thought I'd try a little experiment here. Here are 2 songs I like from the same band. They're very different songs, and here's why I like them: I Got You - This is a song about infatuation....
So I thought I'd try a little experiment here. Here are 2 songs I like from the same band. They're very different songs, and here's why I like them:
I Got You - This is a song about infatuation. It conveys that feeling I had when I was smitten with someone as a teenager. It feels very intimate to me, like the singer's directly expressing his innermost feelings to the person he's infatuated with. Or perhaps thinking of what he would say if he had the guts. It's very much a new wave pop song, and is probably the most well-known of Split Enz songs, at least where I live in the US.
I See Red - This is very much a song of rage. To me it's about a guy who's been dumped, or maybe who was infatuated with someone, and now they're with someone else. Whereas "I Got You" was very poppy, this is more punky. (I mean it's still pop, but with a punk flavor.) Putting it together with the previous song makes a lot of sense to me, even though they have such different tone. It's like the 2 songs together tell a story. I also love the phrase "down the drain like molten toothpaste." There's just something so illustrative about "molten toothpaste."
Anyway, just thought I'd share these random thoughts.
3 votes