So I was clicking around teh internets and found Retirement Party - Strictly Speaking.
It's unpolished pop-punk, kind of in the theme of Blink 182 from Cheshire Cat. I'm not sure if they'd like the comparison, they're definitely not as silly, but the music is for sure a similar style. I think this is the style of music some friends of mine and I would try to write when I was playing in bands in about the year 2000, when I was 16, and it makes me happy to find new music that is in the same vein. To pick one track to listen to, try "Hall Beach".
Also, the singer from Petal sure does have a beautiful voice.
I don't know where he got the scorpions, or how he got them into my mattress.
I love RTJ and will take any new drops I can get between now and RTJ4, but Killer Mike's verse sounds like it could be plopped on top of the beat from Legend Has It. Wonder if it was just unused stuff from that song, like "Music inspired by the motion picture Venom? Uuuh, sure yeah I could write stuff inspired for that let me see what i have laying around here from that other superhero soundtrack..."
Cristoval on
0
Options
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Lots of music happenings at La Casa del Vanguard
Got my copy of Spirit of the Beehive’s Hypnic Jerks just ahead of seeing them live last weekend, and they were great, played a lot of the hits from the new record but a ton of new material as well
Also grabbed Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland on Purple Vinyl
And last night I saw what might be my top show of the year
Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese psychedelic rock with an electric sitar)
And holy shit these guys can play, just a really solid band that is in lock step with each other musically
H3KnucklesBut we decide which is rightand which is an illusion.Registered Userregular
Hey, I asked over in the chat thread where would be a good place to share this neat video I found, and knitdan suggested this thread, so here check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
It's an arrangement of New Order's Blue Monday using only instruments from the 1930's. There's some fairly esoteric choices here that get surprisingly closer to the synth sound than I would've thought possible.
jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
edited November 2018
Someone posted Wage War earlier and I kinda slept on them but they came up in a recommended spot during a Youtube rabbit hole dive.
Man that song "Stitch" is just a big dumb face punch of a song, in all the best possible ways. The album is good, solid stuff all through (if you're into that whole metalcore thing) but those swaying, stepped riffs in "Stitch" are pit fuel and great driving music.
jungleroomx on
+1
Options
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited November 2018
Picked up the new daughters
Time to get scared
Vanguard on
+2
Options
KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
Someone posted Wage War earlier and I kinda slept on them but they came up in a recommended spot during a Youtube rabbit hole dive.
Man that song "Stitch" is just a big dumb face punch of a song, in all the best possible ways. The album is good, solid stuff all through (if you're into that whole metalcore thing) but those swaying, stepped riffs in "Stitch" are pit fuel and great driving music.
It was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love Wage War. They're sick and they've gotten so big since Blueprints dropped. Both Witness and Blueprints are awesome records though for punchy metalcore.
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited November 2018
List time! While there is still a month of music left and things could potentially shift, this is my opinion about my slice of the sonic landscape in 2018. More categories likely to come.
Most Emotionally Devastating Record: Mount Eerie - Now Only
This one hits close to home. As someone with a partner who has cancer I couldn't even bring myself to listen to the first record, A Crow Looked at Me. When this dropped I just tore the bandaid off and lasted a whole 15 seconds before I was an emotional puddle. This record has completely made me question my opinions about confessionalism as an aesthetic (I previously wrote it off). Knowing this is real adds serious emotional heft to spartan arrangements of mostly just guitar (acoustic and electric) and a voice barely singing. Highly recommended if you want to engage real grief and experience extreme emotional discomfort and catharsis at the same time.
Best Reissue: Earth - Bee's Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Dylan Carlson knows that nothing is heavier than blues chords and I love him for that. Bee's Made Honey in the Lion's Skull is a masterpiece of tone and a standout in the catalog since Earth rebooted as a cowboy drone band.
Best King Gizzard Album: Float Along Fill Your Lungs
You might think this should fall under best reissue but King Gizzard reissued 5 albums this year (which means they put out 5 records two years in a row). I'll listen to everything these guys do and, judged against the other 4 releases from 2018, this point this feels like their Revolver Moment where they turned from this silly garage/surf rock band from Australia to the band we know today. The opener and the closer are both impressive and among the catchiest songs they've written.
Best Driving Music: Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
What this album lacks in variety it more than makes up in mood. You can practically hear the sun set in the opening chords of "Honeymooning". Gas up the car and drive back roads to anywhere alone or with a friend who doesn't feel compelled to fill every stretch of silence with empty conversation. Sure, the world is going to shit but at least the tunes are good.
Best Psychedelic Album: Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples
One moment a song is jazzy and introspective and the next amplifiers are buckling under the weight of fuzzed out riffs. You would think it would be difficult to carve a new path for psychedelic rock in 2018 but Kikagaku Moyo combine serious chops with playfulness and an eastern sensibility to discover something new.
Scariest Album: Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Noisy, abrasive, and incredibly bleak this is a standout album that dropped in the last leg of the year. Definitely not music that can be ignored, this is a record for people who want to look for monsters in the mirror.
Biggest Letdown: Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
Next Thing was one of my favorite albums of 2016. The songs were fun, understated, and emotionally immediate so this was one of the most anticipated albums of 2018, especially given the strength of the singles. While the songwriting has matured overall, it feels like a trade was made somewhere and the songs are less fun, less immediate. To borrow Gabrielle Hamilton's phrase, it feels like adult love - messy and complicated and not always what we expect.
Full list of what I've picked up that was released in 2018 (includes reissues). I listened to a lot more, but this what exists in my collection, either on wax or digitally (or both).
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Shopping - The Official Body
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
Bonebranches - Bloodbark
Palm - Rock Island
Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
Insect Ark - Marrow Hymns
Haley Keynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
Harakiri for the Sky - Arson
Mount Eerie - Now Only
of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood
Anna Van Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Superorganism - Superorganism
Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Willoughby's Beach EP
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Float Along Fill Your Lungs
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Eyes Like the Sky
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 12 Bar Bruise
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Oddments
Marijannah - Till Marijannah
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Sleep - The Sciences
Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Merlin - The Wizard
Beach House - 7
Wooden Shjips - V.
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Wayfarer - World's Blood
Sunn O))) - White1
Sunn O))) - White2
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Spaceslug - Eye the Tide
Palberta - Roach Goin' Down
Daneil Bachman - The Morning Star
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Kin Hana - Au Sable
Innumerabele Forms - Punishment in Flesh
Mare Cognitum - The Sea Which Has Become Known
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Magus - Thou
Ilsa - Corpse Fortress
spirit of the beehive - hypnic jerks
Conan - Existential Void Guardian
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
Windhand - Eternal Return
High on Fire - Electric Messiah
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Ought - Room Inside the World
Kenji Endo - Niyago
Skullflower - Werecat Powers Of The Crossroads At Midnight
Spaceghostpurrp's homage to DJ Screw of late 90s Texas fame (3 in the Morning being one of my all time favorites), chopped and screwed for the modern era.
Boygenius- self-titled EP (indie supergroup consisting of 3 of the best singer-songwriters today: Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and the aforementioned Lucy Dacus)
jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Latecomer to this years collection of albums, but Architects dropped "Holy Hell" on the 9th and man is this fucker a banger.
The far more dissonant, bleak, and somehow harmonized aspects of this band shine through (Probably have some grief to shed after the passing of their guitarist Tom Searle), especially the steel-throated human buzzsaw Sam Carter. It weaves a dark atmosphere that's unmatched in their genre and even brings to mind acts of the other metalcore flavor like Converge.
MsAnthropyThe Lady of Pain Breaks the Rhythm, Breaks the Rhythm, Breaks the RhythmThe City of FlowersRegistered Userregular
Hmmm. I was trying to think of what my ten favorite new albums this year were, but I had a lot of trouble remembering everything we bought (and half of it was from 2017). That said, I know I liked these ten that I do remember:
Johnny Marr - Call the Comet
Film School - Bright to Death
Dessa - Chime
The Soft Moon - Criminal
Boy Harsher - Yr Body Is Nothing
Moaning - S/T
Preoccupations - New Material
Soft Kill - Savior
The History of Colour TV - Highway Gothic
Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
And I echo the recommendation for The Beths’ record above.
Oliver Coates (who I guess is also currently on your with Thom Yorke) is a cellist / composer / producer
He had his cello hooked up to his computer and these foot pedals and made some beautiful tunes
The last thing he did was a piece to melt our faces off and it did https://www.thefader.com/2018/10/25/oliver-coates-rules-and-heres-the-proof
Also at one of my fav venues (and it was seated thank god I was tired)
poo
0
Options
surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
one of the greatest music travesties is that all this chilled out danceable music from the late 90s was just early enough to not really get all over the internet
For those who are a fan of his music, tickets for these went on sale today:
Super pleased that one of the SF concerts is finally on a weekend (read: Friday night) so I can attend. It's not BOTAR, but having the backing string quartet should be super neat.
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Kicking off 2019, I have grabbed the below these albums thus far:
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness part 1
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness part 2
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Waldegfluster - Ruinen
Living Tomb - Ossuarium
Tanukichan - Sundays
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Celeste OST
+1
Options
TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
one of the greatest music travesties is that all this chilled out danceable music from the late 90s was just early enough to not really get all over the internet
I managed to work 'On My Mind' (Preditah & JorJa Smith) in a DJ set last summer, v satisfying
all the afro-carribbean slang, still dancy electronic heavy in the DJ culture, without the break-your-neck tempo or aggro vibe of D&B? just, put it right in my veins pls
For those who are a fan of his music, tickets for these went on sale today:
Super pleased that one of the SF concerts is finally on a weekend (read: Friday night) so I can attend. It's not BOTAR, but having the backing string quartet should be super neat.
Dang, TIL that Toh Kay did his own stuff outside of Streetlight. Guess I've got some listening to catch up on! Thanks
That fake Frank Ocean new music tease really crushed my soul this week.
PSN: thewheelz
0
Options
KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
edited February 2019
This streamer popped up on Reddit and... it's crazy good. She's a keyboardist who has synthesia and perfect pitch, so she's able to transcribe a ton of songs that she may have not actually learned into piano melodies very very quickly. She has never heard of Through The Fire and the Flames before and learns/transcribes a melody of the song in about 3 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMFOHGK3PA
Here's an hour+ long clip from her actual channel of her Twitch stream of just constantly taking requests and spending 10-30 seconds on each song without any breaks. I've been listening to it for about 30 minutes and it's nutso. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaxqVBYVOVU
BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
As a decent transcriber myself (with very good and trained relative pitch, no absolute pitch for me), I'm an instant addict.
And while she occasionally breaks script and is not note for note rote with the originals, she's typically going with an inversion or slightly different chord voicing that is making the phrases more theoretically interesting.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
+1
Options
BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
edited February 2019
Warning: Music jargon ahoy!
Doing a second watch of the mega medley, and I'm pretty sure I have her mental process down, as much as someone without synesthesia can. Her memory is astounding, even though most of the time she's playing between 15-25 seconds of each piece, the near instant recall is impressive.
Basically, she's constantly cacheing phrases and keeping them in the back of her mind almost like a computer keeping stuff in RAM, and as she's doing this she's instinctivly focusing on what key each piece is in and knows the structure of the melodies so well that she can find a voice leading to swap pieces at almost any point (which can be fun, for instance, you can easily swap from Star Spangled Banner into the Imperial March from Star Wars if you know what you're doing). Her eyes keep bouncing to the chat stream when she's not needing to watch her hands and fixes on a couple of suggestions and then finds the nearest spot in the current piece/phrase to modulate keys and into the next song.
There's a great sequence of this that's easy to follow from around 3:35-5:00. She starts in D major and does the 3rd theme of Concerning Hobbits from Fellowship of the Ring, looks up a few seconds later and sees Game of Thones, finds a chord that can modulate to F Minor and launched into its main title theme, throws in a bar of Rains of Castamere, switches to A minor for the Power Rangers theme, looks up sees Tetris goes to Theme A (in D minor, the saddest of all keys according to Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap) plays that for 17 seconds sees Attack on Titan pop and modulates immediately to B minor and jumps into Crimson Bow and Arrow.
Give me a couple of hours in Sibellius or other music software and I could knock together something of that length with that many modulations, but ain't no way I'm doing it stream of consciousness style looking at a chat stream.
Shes a beast.
BlackDragon480 on
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Yeah I have relative pitch and can figure a song out without any music pretty quickly. That doesn’t mean I’m good enough to play everything perfectly or even amazingly close like she can, but I can nail specific song structure down fairly easily. Most songs have a very predictable progression, the ones that go somewhere unexpected are the ones that make you go “oooh, that was neat” because they are playing with your subconscious expectations. Once you have done several hundred songs though it becomes pretty simple to go, “Okay, so that chord progression is I - vi - IV - V”. And then it’s just a matter of what the key is.
She’s way more talented at it than I am, though.
+4
Options
BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Oh, forgot an important highlight, Guile's theme at 6:35, because it does indeed go with everything.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
+5
Options
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited March 2019
Some more recent purchases:
Hand Habits - Placeholder
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Khana Bierbood - Stranger’s from the Far East
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Internal Coil - Within a World Forgotten
Nasheim - Jord Och Aska
Lots of good folk and metal thus far
Vanguard on
0
Options
KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
I listened to a lot of new music last year, but so far this year I've mostly been focusing on old music and clearing up some of my blind spots. My folks were pretty typical classic rock fans, so my conception of the 60s and 70s was dominated by rock music and I knew much less about soul, R&B, funk, pop, jazz, the Motown/Stax scene, and so on. Been listening to a lot of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, and others as well as clearing up some of the classic rock blind spots as well (MC5, The Band, Neil Young, the Kinks). Also a lot of early American blues and guitar music like John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotten, and Mississippi John Hurt. Really amazing stuff.
For new music I have enjoyed the new William Tyler (instrumental Americana), Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock and Tobacco collab), and Julia Jacklin (sad girl indie). Better Oblivion Community Center, Solange, and Hand Habits were pretty good too. Nothing has really blown my mind yet but I'm always excited for a new album from The National.
Ohhh yeah I love me some Mountain Goats, I was just listening to Beat the Champ the other day, thinking it's an underrated one in their catalog. I have yet to dig too deep into the 90s output.
Posts
It's unpolished pop-punk, kind of in the theme of Blink 182 from Cheshire Cat. I'm not sure if they'd like the comparison, they're definitely not as silly, but the music is for sure a similar style. I think this is the style of music some friends of mine and I would try to write when I was playing in bands in about the year 2000, when I was 16, and it makes me happy to find new music that is in the same vein. To pick one track to listen to, try "Hall Beach".
Also, the singer from Petal sure does have a beautiful voice.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
Got my copy of Spirit of the Beehive’s Hypnic Jerks just ahead of seeing them live last weekend, and they were great, played a lot of the hits from the new record but a ton of new material as well
Also grabbed Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland on Purple Vinyl
And last night I saw what might be my top show of the year
Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese psychedelic rock with an electric sitar)
And holy shit these guys can play, just a really solid band that is in lock step with each other musically
Grabbed their new record, Masana Temples
And High on Fire’s new album will be here lately
My King Gizzard reprints have arrived
Now to listen to them!
Also, I’m now 2 shy of having their full discography (albums, anyway)
~ Buckaroo Banzai
This is so ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Thanks dude.
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
It's an arrangement of New Order's Blue Monday using only instruments from the 1930's. There's some fairly esoteric choices here that get surprisingly closer to the synth sound than I would've thought possible.
Man that song "Stitch" is just a big dumb face punch of a song, in all the best possible ways. The album is good, solid stuff all through (if you're into that whole metalcore thing) but those swaying, stepped riffs in "Stitch" are pit fuel and great driving music.
Time to get scared
It was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love Wage War. They're sick and they've gotten so big since Blueprints dropped. Both Witness and Blueprints are awesome records though for punchy metalcore.
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
Most Emotionally Devastating Record: Mount Eerie - Now Only
This one hits close to home. As someone with a partner who has cancer I couldn't even bring myself to listen to the first record, A Crow Looked at Me. When this dropped I just tore the bandaid off and lasted a whole 15 seconds before I was an emotional puddle. This record has completely made me question my opinions about confessionalism as an aesthetic (I previously wrote it off). Knowing this is real adds serious emotional heft to spartan arrangements of mostly just guitar (acoustic and electric) and a voice barely singing. Highly recommended if you want to engage real grief and experience extreme emotional discomfort and catharsis at the same time.
Best Reissue: Earth - Bee's Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Dylan Carlson knows that nothing is heavier than blues chords and I love him for that. Bee's Made Honey in the Lion's Skull is a masterpiece of tone and a standout in the catalog since Earth rebooted as a cowboy drone band.
Best King Gizzard Album: Float Along Fill Your Lungs
You might think this should fall under best reissue but King Gizzard reissued 5 albums this year (which means they put out 5 records two years in a row). I'll listen to everything these guys do and, judged against the other 4 releases from 2018, this point this feels like their Revolver Moment where they turned from this silly garage/surf rock band from Australia to the band we know today. The opener and the closer are both impressive and among the catchiest songs they've written.
Best Driving Music: Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
What this album lacks in variety it more than makes up in mood. You can practically hear the sun set in the opening chords of "Honeymooning". Gas up the car and drive back roads to anywhere alone or with a friend who doesn't feel compelled to fill every stretch of silence with empty conversation. Sure, the world is going to shit but at least the tunes are good.
Best Psychedelic Album: Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples
One moment a song is jazzy and introspective and the next amplifiers are buckling under the weight of fuzzed out riffs. You would think it would be difficult to carve a new path for psychedelic rock in 2018 but Kikagaku Moyo combine serious chops with playfulness and an eastern sensibility to discover something new.
Scariest Album: Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Noisy, abrasive, and incredibly bleak this is a standout album that dropped in the last leg of the year. Definitely not music that can be ignored, this is a record for people who want to look for monsters in the mirror.
Biggest Letdown: Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
Next Thing was one of my favorite albums of 2016. The songs were fun, understated, and emotionally immediate so this was one of the most anticipated albums of 2018, especially given the strength of the singles. While the songwriting has matured overall, it feels like a trade was made somewhere and the songs are less fun, less immediate. To borrow Gabrielle Hamilton's phrase, it feels like adult love - messy and complicated and not always what we expect.
Full list of what I've picked up that was released in 2018 (includes reissues). I listened to a lot more, but this what exists in my collection, either on wax or digitally (or both).
Shopping - The Official Body
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
Bonebranches - Bloodbark
Palm - Rock Island
Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
Insect Ark - Marrow Hymns
Haley Keynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
Harakiri for the Sky - Arson
Mount Eerie - Now Only
of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood
Anna Van Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Superorganism - Superorganism
Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Willoughby's Beach EP
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Float Along Fill Your Lungs
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Eyes Like the Sky
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 12 Bar Bruise
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Oddments
Marijannah - Till Marijannah
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Sleep - The Sciences
Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Merlin - The Wizard
Beach House - 7
Wooden Shjips - V.
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Wayfarer - World's Blood
Sunn O))) - White1
Sunn O))) - White2
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Spaceslug - Eye the Tide
Palberta - Roach Goin' Down
Daneil Bachman - The Morning Star
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Kin Hana - Au Sable
Innumerabele Forms - Punishment in Flesh
Mare Cognitum - The Sea Which Has Become Known
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Magus - Thou
Ilsa - Corpse Fortress
spirit of the beehive - hypnic jerks
Conan - Existential Void Guardian
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
Windhand - Eternal Return
High on Fire - Electric Messiah
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Ought - Room Inside the World
Kenji Endo - Niyago
Skullflower - Werecat Powers Of The Crossroads At Midnight
This puts me in an enjoyably delirious trance-like state:
Spaceghostpurrp's homage to DJ Screw of late 90s Texas fame (3 in the Morning being one of my all time favorites), chopped and screwed for the modern era.
Hop Along- Bark Your Head Off, Dog (indie rock, my favorite band at the moment, and the best singer in rock music today)
Lucy Dacus- Historian (indie rock/singer-songwriter, another amazing voice)
Boygenius- self-titled EP (indie supergroup consisting of 3 of the best singer-songwriters today: Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and the aforementioned Lucy Dacus)
Let's Eat Grandma- I'm All Ears (synthy British indie pop)
War on Women- Capture the Flag (militant anarcha-feminist hardcore, music for decking a neo-Nazi in the mouth)
Tierra Whack- Whack World (weirdo art-rap, 15 flows in 15 minutes)
Miya Folick- Premonitions (pop music for adults, another powerhouse voice)
The Beths- Future Me Hates Me (Kiwi power-pop, hooks for days)
The far more dissonant, bleak, and somehow harmonized aspects of this band shine through (Probably have some grief to shed after the passing of their guitarist Tom Searle), especially the steel-throated human buzzsaw Sam Carter. It weaves a dark atmosphere that's unmatched in their genre and even brings to mind acts of the other metalcore flavor like Converge.
Johnny Marr - Call the Comet
Film School - Bright to Death
Dessa - Chime
The Soft Moon - Criminal
Boy Harsher - Yr Body Is Nothing
Moaning - S/T
Preoccupations - New Material
Soft Kill - Savior
The History of Colour TV - Highway Gothic
Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
And I echo the recommendation for The Beths’ record above.
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
Oliver Coates and Visible Cloaks
Oliver Coates (who I guess is also currently on your with Thom Yorke) is a cellist / composer / producer
He had his cello hooked up to his computer and these foot pedals and made some beautiful tunes
The last thing he did was a piece to melt our faces off and it did
https://www.thefader.com/2018/10/25/oliver-coates-rules-and-heres-the-proof
Also at one of my fav venues (and it was seated thank god I was tired)
sometimes u just gotta bang the garage
one of the greatest music travesties is that all this chilled out danceable music from the late 90s was just early enough to not really get all over the internet
rip uk garage but long may it live
Super pleased that one of the SF concerts is finally on a weekend (read: Friday night) so I can attend. It's not BOTAR, but having the backing string quartet should be super neat.
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness part 1
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness part 2
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Waldegfluster - Ruinen
Living Tomb - Ossuarium
Tanukichan - Sundays
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Celeste OST
@surrealitycheck months late but yes big up UK garage
I managed to work 'On My Mind' (Preditah & JorJa Smith) in a DJ set last summer, v satisfying
all the afro-carribbean slang, still dancy electronic heavy in the DJ culture, without the break-your-neck tempo or aggro vibe of D&B? just, put it right in my veins pls
Dang, TIL that Toh Kay did his own stuff outside of Streetlight. Guess I've got some listening to catch up on! Thanks
Here's an hour+ long clip from her actual channel of her Twitch stream of just constantly taking requests and spending 10-30 seconds on each song without any breaks. I've been listening to it for about 30 minutes and it's nutso.
Link to her Twitch Stream:
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
And while she occasionally breaks script and is not note for note rote with the originals, she's typically going with an inversion or slightly different chord voicing that is making the phrases more theoretically interesting.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Doing a second watch of the mega medley, and I'm pretty sure I have her mental process down, as much as someone without synesthesia can. Her memory is astounding, even though most of the time she's playing between 15-25 seconds of each piece, the near instant recall is impressive.
Basically, she's constantly cacheing phrases and keeping them in the back of her mind almost like a computer keeping stuff in RAM, and as she's doing this she's instinctivly focusing on what key each piece is in and knows the structure of the melodies so well that she can find a voice leading to swap pieces at almost any point (which can be fun, for instance, you can easily swap from Star Spangled Banner into the Imperial March from Star Wars if you know what you're doing). Her eyes keep bouncing to the chat stream when she's not needing to watch her hands and fixes on a couple of suggestions and then finds the nearest spot in the current piece/phrase to modulate keys and into the next song.
There's a great sequence of this that's easy to follow from around 3:35-5:00. She starts in D major and does the 3rd theme of Concerning Hobbits from Fellowship of the Ring, looks up a few seconds later and sees Game of Thones, finds a chord that can modulate to F Minor and launched into its main title theme, throws in a bar of Rains of Castamere, switches to A minor for the Power Rangers theme, looks up sees Tetris goes to Theme A (in D minor, the saddest of all keys according to Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap) plays that for 17 seconds sees Attack on Titan pop and modulates immediately to B minor and jumps into Crimson Bow and Arrow.
Give me a couple of hours in Sibellius or other music software and I could knock together something of that length with that many modulations, but ain't no way I'm doing it stream of consciousness style looking at a chat stream.
Shes a beast.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
She’s way more talented at it than I am, though.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Hand Habits - Placeholder
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Khana Bierbood - Stranger’s from the Far East
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Internal Coil - Within a World Forgotten
Nasheim - Jord Och Aska
Lots of good folk and metal thus far
Fuck.
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
Changed the strings on my guitar
Going to a Torres show next Friday
Picked up tickets to Earth in June
Picked up the new Karen O - Lux Prima
And the new Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
How y’all doing?
For new music I have enjoyed the new William Tyler (instrumental Americana), Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock and Tobacco collab), and Julia Jacklin (sad girl indie). Better Oblivion Community Center, Solange, and Hand Habits were pretty good too. Nothing has really blown my mind yet but I'm always excited for a new album from The National.
https://www.facebook.com/214574788579000/posts/1666955316674266/?sfnsn=mo
FOR THE ETERNAL GLORY OF DUNDEE, ZARGOTHRAX MUST PERISH! HOOTS!
Edit: in case you haven't noticed, I am unreasonably jazzed about this.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky