fontaines dc's first album comes out next week, keep an ear out for it. most of the songs are already released and it sounds like its gonna be a contender for album of the year for me already. big ian curtis vibes from the singer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgLdy56ylzk
Has anyone listened to the new Unkle album, the Road part 2?
I just cannot really get into their last few projects to be honest despite holding Unkle really close to my heart. Psyence Fiction and War Stories are one of my favorite albums ever.
But their recent collaborations were rather medicore, it just lacks that kind of magic that hold so dearly. That said the song Ar.mour is pretty fucking neat.
put together an "extended" tracklist for Show Me the Body's Dog Whistle with the two Challenge Coin EP tracks "K-9" and "Talk". if anyone wants to give it a listen feel free, i think it flows pretty well together tbh. bulks the album up a little bit and gives these suckers a home
Camp Orchestra
Not For Love
Talk
Animal In A Dream
Badge Grabber
K-9
Drought
Forks and Knives
Now I Know
Madonna Rocket
Arcanum
Die for the Earth to Live
USA Lullaby
Hey they did at least 1 new rock song I guess I have to stop complaining now
https://youtu.be/eQZdBVgkYCg
https://open.spotify.com/album/53VKICyqCf91sVkTdFrzKX?si=uJF5UWEIQXOOZuSMTaeytQ
Really uplifting baroque/progressive pop music. Highly recommend this.
god DAMN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm65PCbUMZI
Love this but it's too darn short
https://youtu.be/lBHEe7XNytw
https://open.spotify.com/album/0YF8PfcGbsKg5IaFyPnlyY?si=QPhdsDuRT26ttv8_a0x0Vw
Anderson .Paak's new album is basically Malibu 2, smooth af
new kevin abstract ep is fuckin sick
https://open.spotify.com/album/6FTxwPvKmU6B6fIaS2AfGm?si=J5Aa8iJMSrWtOI6qSdei1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DqLf7-F1aY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmmsoAHXtg
any thoughts on crash talk by schoolboy?
i really wanna like it because it's schoolboy but man it's so hit and miss. maybe like 4 or 5 songs at a push stick. really disappointing.
new vampire weekend album is out. i haven't fully listened to it yet but i've just flicked through some of the songs and it sounds like its going to be fucking great.
When the Chopstix single dropped, I got really worried. It's pretty damn underwhelming as an album. It also really bothers me on how on a bunch of tracks Q's vocals sound like he recorded them in a closet, they're really muffled. Drunk, 5200 (The worst offender), Black Folk. (Also why I barely listen to 4:44, what the fuck Jay)
But anyways, the standout tracks for me were Black Folk, Dangerous and Crash.
Chopstix & Lies sound like generic pop rap radio singles, Travis really does absolutely nothing for this song. I don't really get what Q's going for here, he can make good hits, just look at Man of The Year. Instead we got some lifeless trite track.
Other tracks like Float, Numb Numb Juice try to go for a darker low end style with the instrumentals but just end up being boring. The Numb Numb Juice being a repetitive 'yeah I'm back, blaa blaa blaa' bravado track.
Same thing happens with Floating. 21 in my opinion, really sucks on minimalist style beats because his voice is monotonous as it is and doesn't really add any vocal layering to the track. The hook is wack.
Now Dangerous, Dangerous does the moody atmosphere really damn well. Cudi's harmonics go well with the guitar lead in that turns into a groovy distortion, the track builds up gently from a dreamy drug induced state into the musical equivalent of an anxiety attack with the screaming synths and sub bass, I assume this is him sobering up from his drug binge. Feels like an excerpt of a Rap version of The Downward Spiral, shame it's so short, but that makes it all the better.
Crash with the backing sample feels like a classic Q song and it really carries the song, smooth drum pattern, break ups with the sfx in the background. It's simple, and that keeps it good, you can focus on Q's rapping and he brings some strong flow, a catchy hook that isn't obnoxious and some content to it.
Black Folk is a nice laid back track yet brings in upbeat synths in juxtaposition with what Q's rapping about.
I dunno if it's just me, but has this year been crazy slow for music or what?
Easily my favourite release so far is "You're The Man" by Marvin Gaye, and that was a posthumous release of a buried album. It's a terrific album, but it's bizarre to me that I can't think of any other, new, releases that I've loved.
theres been heaps of new albums that have come out so far that i've liked and even more coming in the next few weeks.
I guess I just need to branch out and search for some new artists or something again, finally. Virtually none of my main favs have released anything in what feels like ages, and the other artists I follow closely have just been releasing endless singles, with no album in sight; it's maddeningggg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPa7M5n2CU
Loved
PUP - Morbid Stuff
The Beta Machine - Intruder
Quiet Company - On Corners & Shapes
Pretty Good
Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
HEALTH - Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear
Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
i dont keep up much with current releases, but here's some stuff that released this year i liked
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time, Part 6 (Experimental, Dark Ambient)
Celer - Xiexie (Drone, Ambient)
Health - Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear (Electro-industrial)
Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed (Avant-garde Metal (Kayo Dot worship))
Jan Jelinek & Asuna - Signals Bulletin (Ambient, Drone)
Matmos - Plastic Anniversary (IDM)
Michael Pisaro - Nature Denatured and Found Again (Field Recordings, Musique Concrète (Probably my favorite of this year so far))
The Neal Morse Band - The Great Adventure (Poppy Progressive Rock)
Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Free Folk, Ambient)
Sunn O))) - Life Metal (Drone Metal)
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (Atmospheric Sludge Metal)
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (Art Pop)
Thanks, I'll check these out when I get home later!
Wew, a lot of good releases in the last week:
Drahla - Useless Coordinates ( @Ashtiel I think you'd like this one)
https://youtu.be/qsdBVsR4qFE?t=79
Snow Ghosts - A Quiet Ritual (also probably in @Ashtiel 's wheelhouse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDhmJ2Y7_E0
Lost in Kiev - Persona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCrfdqC0YCE
last one has a few weird sections, but it is French so I'll let it slide
an 8yo kid in the waiting room at my work was listening to disney songs out of a phone and now hes listening to king gizzard. the only line hes singing along tocis "fuck shit up" in robot stop.
Found this on my Spotify today and really enjoyed it. Gonna give their other stuff a listen
New Holly Herndon album just dropped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sROgbaeOs
I've been getting into 1970s/1980s Japanese Jazz recently, and I ended up buying a couple albums and ripping them for everyone to enjoy at their highest quality
https://soundcloud.com/user-504584826/sets/masayoshi-takanaka-an-insatiable-high-2013-reissue
https://soundcloud.com/user-504584826/sets/ryo-fukui-mellow-dream-2019-reissue
https://soundcloud.com/user-504584826/sets/ryo-fukui-scenery-2019-reissue
Hope you guys enjoy them!
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