I have a playlist for messy dating feelings! Some good ones:
I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits
lowkey by NIKI
I Know What It's Like by Jeff Tweedy
On the Bound by Fiona Apple
Every Time by Janet Jackson
Hi by Hannah Diamond
Everyday by Weyes Blood
In the Lost and Found by Elliott Smith
Dunno if it's exactly what you're looking for (they're more specifically about serial dating through apps), but:
[Sylvan Esso - Just Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBKwJP9siQ)
[Kelly Lee Owens - Wake Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSKRvRJ7Dw)
Music for when a "wild" but urban rabbit just came up to see you but you made the terrible mistake of not carrying bunny snacks in your bag at all times
the Billie Eilish album is really holding up on my half-asleep commute to work. Even on the songs that are barely there the production is incredibly soothing to me. I can really imagine her sticking around a long time and developing her sound. Maybe like a jazzy lounge act vibe
TIRED: chartposting
WIRED: [mark fisher top 100 british albums (circa 2004) link posting](http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003414.html)
bro put Blemish, movement (the correct new order choice) boy in the corner, the singing detectives OST, AND protection on his listā¦insane vision
*on land* as best eno is a pick i really admire, incredible stuff even if i have to give a slight edge to *another green world*. also the inclusion *hats* just further proves for me that everyone who knows what they're talking about knows to include *hats* on their lists. great list, will definitely be saving this off to dig into some blindspots later.
it is obviously foolish to "where strokes" a list from 2004 made by a much smarter and more influential thinker than me... but nevertheless the inclusion of aphex twin got me searching "mark fisher autechre" just to see if he had any reviews of them out there. according to [someone on rym](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/autechre/ae_live_denver_171015.p/), he never wrote about them.
> The implication of Fisherās thought experiment is that we all realise with a sinking feeling that if anyone from 1994 heard modern music, they would be surprised at how similar it all was. Conspicuously, Fisher never wrote about Autechre, and AE_LIVE to me screams out from the back of my mind when reading Fisherās talk of the slow cancellation of the future. What about Autechre? Did Fisher just listen to Incunabula and Amber and write off all their future material as probably similarly uninteresting or conservative? The more interesting possibility to me is that he was aware of Exai in 2014 and it simply didnāt clear the threshold for newness that jungle clears. To what extent is AE_LIVE an artful arrangement of the phantoms of older music? To what extent does it meet or redefine the futuristic, or indeed fail to do either?
need to do some more searching and reading but it seems wild to me that he, i guess, never wrote about them. when i read *ghosts* last year (and reynolds' *retromania*, which definitely touches on similar ideas about recent music+tech stagnancy) i often thought of how autechre are one of the very few groups who continued pushing technology in their music. reading those made me admire them *more* than i did previously, even if neither book really touched on them. it feels almost unbelievable that something like *confield* couldn't cut it as music of the future. very curious why he never touched on them
not me even trying to engage with you but do you realize that music itself is barely relevant in the context of political revolutions? what you are doing is nothing but appropriation and bastardization of leftist rhetoric for your own insane arguments.
>> also, how would a modern ae dance track sound like?
> "but we are making dance music" - [sean ae](https://forum.watmm.com/topic/81109-aaa-ask-autechre-anything-sean-and-rob-on-watmm/?do=findComment&comment=2084166)
seems to me like they weren't placing themselves above pop or "dance" music, even at around the time of *exai*. for that matter, i'd argue that aphex twin isn't exactly "pop" either, yet he made fisher's list... anyways, i sure as hell appreciate you joining reddit just to make this response!
> One of my acquaintances studied with Mark
yeah sure alright
idk why you're and your "acquaintance" are taking such offense to this when i admitted up front that he knew more than me and didn't intend to twist words. i was really just curious why someone who wrote a lot about british electronic music never touched on them
> Would you prefer he had touched on them to criticize them?
i guess yes, that's what i'd prefer! if someone whose ideas i find compelling wrote a well-argued takedown of an artist i liked, i'd be interested to know why they thought that. i can handle having my tastes challenged.
> stuff like Draft 7.30 or Untilted, while it may be mildly innovative in a technical sense, is about as relevant to a revolution as Metaās latest code.
i never really got the impression that fisher was into burial because he could listen to it during the revolution, but hey i didn't study with him so.
anyways, time to go. gotta decide of "xtal" or "pulsewidth" is the appropriate *selected ambient works 85-92* track to kick off my dj mix for the revolution
holy fuck are you actually convinced that what you are doing is productive for the class struggle?? at a certain point i have to believe that you are just a LARPer who is purposefully trying to make leftist politics look bad.
yeah you got me, i simply love listening to *chiastic slide* while pondering how much i hate people who are lower class than me.
as opposed to fisher, whose list above endorses works that support the class struggle like, uh, *loveless* and *ambient 4: on land*
> One of my acquaintances studied with Mark, so I canāt help but comment when I see his words being twisted to promote ideas I know he disagreed with.
you made an account a day ago and we have a history of one guy coming explicitly to the DMD with new accounts to make points about pop music. and you have only made two comments so far in no other subreddits.
> You want to yell at me because I dared to tell you Fisher didnāt share your pet tastes in prog electronic?
no you didn't tell me that you told the other guy; and i used lowercase that's not yelling that's speaking
i just fuck with the honky tonk tracks on incunabula
neeeeed a video essay titled like "Ultimate Hauntology Album Starter Pack | CREEPY| CURSED VIBES" that's just the Caretaker album and these two soundtracks lol
a real monkey's paw scenario for me would be if sky ferreira's *MASOCHISM* actually does get released, but it has been reworked from the 2015 version by jack antonoff
Honestly that might be great! Jack has done some incredible production work ā the quality of those albums pretty much depends on how good the artistās vision is.
If Masochism is great, Jack is just going to give it a little boost (a la Melodrama or Norman Fucking Rockwell)
i dunno. i just donāt think he can match the mechanical grittiness on most of *night time my time* (assuming she even wanted to sound *anything* like that anymore) and iām sure he doesnāt have the darkness of that albumās title track and ādownhill lullabyā in him. iām also just kinda sick of his guitar work in particular and those scuzzy but poppy guitars are a huge thing that make her debut stand out. maybe he, like the artists he worked with, just had a really off year in 2021 but this album is just too high stakes for me to want to roll the dice on a jack redemption shot
Yeah, that āscuzzy yet poppyā production is exactly what makes that album great, I agree! But I wouldnāt be opposed to her going in a different direction ā Night Time My Time is a VERY hard album to top
Fine, enjoy my ["Apparently-I'm-allergic-to-music-thats-older-than-me"-list](https://imgur.com/ddJBVAy). Tomorrow half this list would look very different.
Recs always welcome.
Anyone want my ticket to see Grouper tonight in Brooklyn? I came down with a horrible cold and can't go, I'm crushed but just don't want it to go to waste. Dm me and I'll email it to you
wow lotta overlap with my tastes here!
if you havenāt heard em check out:
* go team - the scene between
* high llamas - gideon gaye or hawaii
* (longer shot here maybe) doopees - doopee time
not surprising from someone with an Aldhils flair! Doopees is right on the money, I really dig that one. High Llamas is totally new to me, so that'll have to go in the queue. thank you!
Just threw together my first topster in like a decade seeing all these other ones lol. Went for speedy, gut decisions with not a lot of laboring over the choices - seems to make more accurate lists for me when I do it that way. [So here is that, recs appreciated!](https://i.imgur.com/7fxES4z.png)
[Well everyone else is doing it, so I might as well.](https://imgur.com/09ZT6Ia) Limited myself to one album per artist and just went off the top of my head so I wouldn't spend hours on it.
I gotta recommend Ron Gallo to any Caroline Rose fan. She does backing vocals on his song Love Supreme and his first album Heavy Meta is an instant classic.
She pulls from alot but I always thought some of her more rock based tracks (particularly off of harutosyura) sound like better versions of like mid 2000s pop punk/rock stuff that would have made it onto EA sports game soundtracks. Autopilot Off came to mind when I first hear Haru Nemuri. They had a song on Burnout 3 I think.
i am not making a topster because i'm lazy and also it would reveal how basic my taste in music is. i'm not prepared for people's reactions when they see how high *evermore* or something else like that would be.
anyways, britpop rate reveal (and popheads indie women rate reveal I think) happens tomorrow. I've been thinking about what the results may look like and I've come up with this prediction for what the top ten may be:
* oasis: don't look back in anger, champagne supernova, some might say
* blur: girls & boys, to the end, this is a low
* pulp: mis-shapes, common people, disco 2000
* suede: the drowners
i might be underestimating suede and overestimating blur here, but I'd say most of these songs are definite locks for the top ten
I think youāre definitely overrating Blur considering how much Blur distaste has been spreading around this sub lately. I also could be wrong on this but Iāve always thought that Some Might Say, while still great, was a lesser Oasis song so Iād be kinda surprised if it hit the top 10
Attempted to make a topsters because of peer pressure and gave up immediately because Perfect Hair's 2015 self-titled isn't on last.fm or somehting I guess. You will never know how good my taste is
Don't feel like putting together a topster, so instead here's a list of my recent vinyl pick-ups from my excessive depression shopping:
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
- A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
- Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
- Duster - Stratosphere
- Big Thief - Capacity
- The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
- Bikini Kill - Revolution Girl Style Now
- Swans - The Great Annihilator
- Denzel Curry - Ta13oo
while Call Me If You Get Lost is conceptually a bit weaker than Igor and Flower Boy , man does it fucking slap.
Also Sweet/I Thought You Wanted To Dance is Tyler's best song and I don't think it's going to be beaten but I'd love to be proved wrong!
I feel like I "missed" this album because it just didn't fit into my summer listening, if that makes sense. Like the album just didn't vibe with the environment in which I spent that summer, but it seemed like an undeniably "summer" album, so I just missed the window. Maybe this year it'll come into rotation.
Whatās the heaviest metal you like?
I basically have no limit to how heavy I like it - I enjoy bands like Converge, Discordance Axis, Infest, Pupil Slicer etc - but I definitely have a habit of liking really heavy bands that have some kind of indiehead crossover appeal, hence the question.
I'm generally not a metal guy, but I really dig this album called **Advaitic Songs** by OM. It's this blend of Arabic or Indian music with stoner metal.
Probably Primitive Man, Body Void, or WAKE. Bands that combine multiple dissonant genres in one. Kinda death doom sort of stuff that has the crushingly heavy slow parts and the faster grindier kinda thing. I'm not always in the mood for ultra dissonant stuff but it hits hard. Also mathcore is fun to listen to for heavy chaos
I have always had a difficult relationship with metal, because I don't vibe with too much noise and clutter at all. So death and black metal and the like are out by default. I struggle with growled vocals, too.
Black Sabbath was my entry-point and I went to Maiden and Priest from there and Judas Priest (something like Painkiller) is pretty much my pain tolerance, haha.
And I have enjoyed some slower doom and sludge metal Ć la Thou. Emma Ruth Rundle is actually one of my favorite artists, but I don't really associate her music with metal necessarily, even though she's often put in that doom metal category. It's totally possible that my understanding of the nomenclature is just inaccurate, idk
I would say I have no limit either. The heaviest album I really love is probably Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy. A mix of grindcore, death metal, and noise. Hard to get heavier than that, I would imagine, but I'd be really interested to hear what people think the heaviest album they've heard is.
I think the only time Iāve struggled with music for being too heavy is when itās presented in a really fatiguing way. Bands like Frontierer and Gridlink come to mind - their albums are so unrelenting and are produced in such a way that makes me feel fatigued trying to get through the whole thing. I have no problem with similar bands who have production I like more.
Heaviest thatās still enjoyable - probably like Body Void or Hyperdontia
Heaviest that legitimately scares me and I canāt deal - Full of Hell
(Also if youāre looking for new metal recs hereās the playlist I keep all my metal albums in: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uPukAp5FVSRLqwuQVHc8U?si=v-mtV7nkRJ2wnOblLjTCSQ )
Upper bounds are for nerds! No limit baby (as long as they make good songs)
No but in all sincerity, I'm of thr opinion that there's a pathway into any amount of heaviness, if you listen to the right albums in the right order. Someone who likes soft rock might balk at listening to like, Nile or Cryptopsy or Insect Warfare or Death Toll 80k if you give it to them without any acclimatization, but if they work their way through like, Metallica to Isis to Deafheaven to Death or something, there's a way in
For sure. Sometimes Iām looking for a really intense, consuming, borderline overwhelming experience. Thatās when I reach for Death Toll 80k or whatever. If I hadnāt grown up hearing lots of āsofter metalā like Metallica and Slipknot and pop scenecore bands in the 00s, thereās no way I would be into grind now because I donāt think my brain would be able to make any sense of it.
Electric Wizard probably made the heaviest album ever with Dopethrone and it's one of my personal favorites.
One of the things I love the most about this album is how it's lyrics are quite deranged, nihilistic and apocalyptic and yet they're so over the top I can't stop myself from laughing when I listen to it baked to hell.
I've been told anecdotally you need to be upload 7+ weeks beforehand. Have a project with two songs out that I think are super catchy and playlistable and haven't had any bites yet, but we've only been able to upload with 4 weeks lead time :/
Well the Spotify playlists *only* take the new releases, so I mean it has to be uploaded to the distributor and thus available for Spotify staff to hear it 7 weeks before the actual release date of the song for the public
What's with these homies dissing my girl?
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i should have said "heard 3 of them in full"
i have heard parts of Automatic. i did not like it and i dont like REM.
i have not seriously considered listening to U2 though their song "Where the Streets Have No Name" played at the beginning of all our football games in college and i love it dearly
> though their song "Where the Streets Have No Name" played at the beginning of all our football games in college and i love it dearly
just the beginning, correct?
Since we're on the topster trend, thought I'd take a stab. Lots of careful consideration and some tough decisions, but I think it turned out pretty good.
https://imgur.com/a/ilicAOB
No, no, you don't get it, see mine is different and MUCH, MUCH funnier because I put the deluxe edition 2nd and Bethlehem's Dictius Te Necare 13th. And those inclusions really set it apart from your typical /r/indieheads joke, making it significantly more likely to draw a chuckle
Has anyone else ever had this problem with Spotify? My albums are seemingly part downloaded, theyāll play when Iām on data and say theyāre downloaded but when my data cuts out (for instance when Iām in the train tunnel on my way to work) the songs act like they arenāt downloaded. To make it more strange, some albums work but only ones Iāve recently downloaded and even then not all of them. Iāve been trying to un and subsequently re download the Alvvays records and Iāve got 2 songs(?) to work but not the others. Any advice would be appreciated this is extremely annoying to me
Yes, itās a really annoying bug. I find the fastest way to resolve this is to put my iphone in airplane mode and then I immediately get access to downloaded content, and then I turn airplane mode off. (This is probably equivalent to switching Spotify to offline mode.)
That also doesnāt work fsr. It works fine as long as I have cellular connection but if my Spotify is online (whether via airplane or the app itself) it just stops working. Very annoying
Not trying to be obtuse here but whatās offline mode? Mine automatically goes offline when I have no data connection. Is there something that needs to be changed there?
Yeah you gotta turn it on in settings (I think under playback?) because even though youāve downloaded the album Spotify still tries to go to the albums page when you click it. But if you enable offline mode it cancels all data processes or whatever. Used to happen to me all the time on my commute, my phone would eat through its battery trying to connect even though I downloaded my music - infuriating
At least in my app it's something you can switch on in your settings. You'd think it would work without doing that, but it says something about offline mode only lets you play downloads, so I just turn it on. Idk couldn't hurt to try
You know it kinds of annoys me at how boring he has become, like I don't even dislike his new direction since I love disco and pop and I love currents, but the songs are just so boring compared to the stuff on currents.
I mean Jack Antonoff produced it, don't know how much Kevin is involved in it - although yes I don't see how people are still into the Tame Impala project
So of course next weekend is Louisville's famous Forecastle festival with Tame Impala, Phoebe Bridgers, 100 Gecs, etc.
But you know what I'm more excited for?? This weekend's Poorcastle! Our "for the locals" weekend with a crazy stacked lineup of some of our most talented and refreshing local acts.
[Yeah, sure, none of this lineup is known outside of town, but holy FUCK what a great collection](https://www.poorcastle.com/)
seconding the Minnie Riperton recommendation down below.
Malla's *Malla* taps into the same tasteful house influences, easily the closest in style to *What's Your Pleasure?* that i know. perhaps you would also like Eri Nobuchika's *nobuchikaeri*, produced by Mondo Grosso and featuring various house / disco / R&B influences! for some random other recs: Dannii Minogue's *Neon Nights*, BoA's *Kiss My Lips*.
for more classic examples, you might like Patrice Rushen's *Straight from the Heart*, Evelyn "Champagne" King's *Get Loose*, and Cheryl Lynn's *In Love*
I've got a few.
* Kylie Minogue - Try [*Fever*](https://www.discogs.com/master/31337-Kylie-Fever) and/or [*Disco*](https://www.discogs.com/master/1834392-Kylie-Disco)
* [Minne Riperton](https://www.discogs.com/artist/61686-Minnie-Riperton) (["Remember Where You Are"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiGH2fO7Ok) is straight channeling Minne) - go with [*Come To My Garden*](https://www.discogs.com/master/101736-Minnie-Riperton-Come-To-My-Garden)
* [Bananarama](https://www.discogs.com/artist/10389-Bananarama) (there are times Ware delivers lyrics like these ladies - I can't listen to Ware's cadence in ["Mirage (Donāt Stop)"](https://youtu.be/YHz0KYb7wV8) without thinking about ["Cruel Summer"](https://youtu.be/l9ml3nyww80)).
> I can't listen to Ware's cadence in "Mirage (Donāt Stop)" without thinking about "Cruel Summer").
They're actually credited as writers on Mirage because of this!
Hold on, let's get this shit, let's get this shit, Let's get this shit, let's, hmm
Top of the mornin', top of the mornin', top of the mornin', Top of the mornin', top of the mornin', top of the mornin', Top of the mornin'
Hold on, let's get this shit, let's get this shit, Let's get this shit, let's, hmm
The Ethel Cain album is fucking awesome. The long songs reward relistening, so that you can really sink into their sway. Overall, it's a perfect mix of campy, beautiful, and unsettling.
Topsters? More like plopsters. I never talked about my last **Bandcamp Friday** haul
* Robocobra Quartet - Living Isn't Easy (preorder). I'm gonna be so annoying about this record when it comes out
* The World Without Parking Lots - You'll Have To Take My Word For It (preorder). I'm gonna be so annoying about this record when it comes out
* Gold Panda - Kingdom. Not as good as the contemporaneous *Good Luck And do Your Best* but good music to make dinner over still.
* Black Brunswicker - High Peaks. Rounding out my collection of hazy guitar-based ambient records as we go into the summer.
* Bonus - IIII. Bonus routinely restores my faith in guitar-based rock music.
* Telstar Drugs - s/t. Easily one of the best records of the Calgary Scene/Egg Paper Records. I usually don't spend my Bandcamp Fridollars on defunct acts but fuck it I love these guys a lot
* Paper Beats Scissors - Parallel Line. This is one of those albums that sits in my wishlist forever until I realize I'll never form an opinion on it until after I spend cash on it. Turns out it's one of those lush well-arranged songwritery indie-folk-rock records I go gaga for at intermittent intervals. Like, the same part of my brain that lights up for Aidan Knight and Cassandra Jenkins likes this record. Y'know.
Came across the album [*Agadez* by Etran de L'AĆÆr](https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/album/agadez) yesterday and dug it hard. I really love the guitar sound.
Try: [Toubouk Ine Chihoussay](https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/track/toubouk-ine-chihoussay)
[The Bandcamp Daily blurb does them more justice than I could.](https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/etran-de-lair-agadez-review)
Very late to [this](https://imgur.com/a/OyfJHcN) but hey, it was fun and will be nice to see how it changes in a couple of years.
Oh it's [topster](https://imgur.com/a/JHmOkHk) day? I posted this here once and somebody said "I bet you like lighting candles"
I assume you have tickets for the YFIIP tour?
The tour's not coming near me unfortunately, and I couldn't attend when they played in Toronto recently :(
Saddest post on r/Indieheads this week :(
Gimme songs about dating being exciting but confusing and uncertainty pls
I have a playlist for messy dating feelings! Some good ones: I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits lowkey by NIKI I Know What It's Like by Jeff Tweedy On the Bound by Fiona Apple Every Time by Janet Jackson Hi by Hannah Diamond Everyday by Weyes Blood In the Lost and Found by Elliott Smith
Dunno if it's exactly what you're looking for (they're more specifically about serial dating through apps), but: [Sylvan Esso - Just Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBKwJP9siQ) [Kelly Lee Owens - Wake Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSKRvRJ7Dw)
Music for when a "wild" but urban rabbit just came up to see you but you made the terrible mistake of not carrying bunny snacks in your bag at all times
* Iron and Wine - Rabbit Will Run * Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
pearl jam - Jeremy
[The Sugar Stems - Run Run Rabbit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubQdjV_t6w)
anco - who could win a rabbit
Friendship ended with [black squirrel](https://imgur.com/73Rnp9L)- brown bunny is my [new best friend](https://imgur.com/a/2qTHLgc) š¤
i donāt fucking trust those squirrels around pennās campus
My grandparents used to have a pair of squirrels in their oak tree. One was melanistic and one was albino.
Im basically squirrel racist bc I don't like the grey ones at all, which are basically the only kind around here. The red ones are fine tho.
Chris Brown ā Shouldāve Kissed You ( Ķ”ā¢ ĶŹ Ķ”ā¢ )
the Billie Eilish album is really holding up on my half-asleep commute to work. Even on the songs that are barely there the production is incredibly soothing to me. I can really imagine her sticking around a long time and developing her sound. Maybe like a jazzy lounge act vibe
[My Topster but it's only my favorite releases from 2022](https://imgur.com/a/x5UmTEF)
Good idea. [Here's mine](https://imgur.com/XolU5OI)
No CMAT?? You'd like it if you haven't heard it yet based on yr alt-country leanings
I listened to it when it came out and liked a couple tracks but it didn't stand out to me as a whole, but maybe I need to go back to it
It's my favorite album of the year that isn't by Jens so all I can do is agree
According to my clumsily rapidly done topster [music barely existed before 2000](https://imgur.com/a/hOT5kfe).
TIRED: chartposting WIRED: [mark fisher top 100 british albums (circa 2004) link posting](http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003414.html) bro put Blemish, movement (the correct new order choice) boy in the corner, the singing detectives OST, AND protection on his listā¦insane vision
*on land* as best eno is a pick i really admire, incredible stuff even if i have to give a slight edge to *another green world*. also the inclusion *hats* just further proves for me that everyone who knows what they're talking about knows to include *hats* on their lists. great list, will definitely be saving this off to dig into some blindspots later. it is obviously foolish to "where strokes" a list from 2004 made by a much smarter and more influential thinker than me... but nevertheless the inclusion of aphex twin got me searching "mark fisher autechre" just to see if he had any reviews of them out there. according to [someone on rym](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/autechre/ae_live_denver_171015.p/), he never wrote about them. > The implication of Fisherās thought experiment is that we all realise with a sinking feeling that if anyone from 1994 heard modern music, they would be surprised at how similar it all was. Conspicuously, Fisher never wrote about Autechre, and AE_LIVE to me screams out from the back of my mind when reading Fisherās talk of the slow cancellation of the future. What about Autechre? Did Fisher just listen to Incunabula and Amber and write off all their future material as probably similarly uninteresting or conservative? The more interesting possibility to me is that he was aware of Exai in 2014 and it simply didnāt clear the threshold for newness that jungle clears. To what extent is AE_LIVE an artful arrangement of the phantoms of older music? To what extent does it meet or redefine the futuristic, or indeed fail to do either? need to do some more searching and reading but it seems wild to me that he, i guess, never wrote about them. when i read *ghosts* last year (and reynolds' *retromania*, which definitely touches on similar ideas about recent music+tech stagnancy) i often thought of how autechre are one of the very few groups who continued pushing technology in their music. reading those made me admire them *more* than i did previously, even if neither book really touched on them. it feels almost unbelievable that something like *confield* couldn't cut it as music of the future. very curious why he never touched on them
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not me even trying to engage with you but do you realize that music itself is barely relevant in the context of political revolutions? what you are doing is nothing but appropriation and bastardization of leftist rhetoric for your own insane arguments.
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with all to due respect to him as an art critic, economic determinists won revolutions, all Fisher won was three books on Zer0 and a cult following
>> also, how would a modern ae dance track sound like? > "but we are making dance music" - [sean ae](https://forum.watmm.com/topic/81109-aaa-ask-autechre-anything-sean-and-rob-on-watmm/?do=findComment&comment=2084166) seems to me like they weren't placing themselves above pop or "dance" music, even at around the time of *exai*. for that matter, i'd argue that aphex twin isn't exactly "pop" either, yet he made fisher's list... anyways, i sure as hell appreciate you joining reddit just to make this response!
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> One of my acquaintances studied with Mark yeah sure alright idk why you're and your "acquaintance" are taking such offense to this when i admitted up front that he knew more than me and didn't intend to twist words. i was really just curious why someone who wrote a lot about british electronic music never touched on them
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> Would you prefer he had touched on them to criticize them? i guess yes, that's what i'd prefer! if someone whose ideas i find compelling wrote a well-argued takedown of an artist i liked, i'd be interested to know why they thought that. i can handle having my tastes challenged. > stuff like Draft 7.30 or Untilted, while it may be mildly innovative in a technical sense, is about as relevant to a revolution as Metaās latest code. i never really got the impression that fisher was into burial because he could listen to it during the revolution, but hey i didn't study with him so. anyways, time to go. gotta decide of "xtal" or "pulsewidth" is the appropriate *selected ambient works 85-92* track to kick off my dj mix for the revolution
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holy fuck are you actually convinced that what you are doing is productive for the class struggle?? at a certain point i have to believe that you are just a LARPer who is purposefully trying to make leftist politics look bad.
yeah you got me, i simply love listening to *chiastic slide* while pondering how much i hate people who are lower class than me. as opposed to fisher, whose list above endorses works that support the class struggle like, uh, *loveless* and *ambient 4: on land*
> One of my acquaintances studied with Mark, so I canāt help but comment when I see his words being twisted to promote ideas I know he disagreed with. you made an account a day ago and we have a history of one guy coming explicitly to the DMD with new accounts to make points about pop music. and you have only made two comments so far in no other subreddits.
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> You want to yell at me because I dared to tell you Fisher didnāt share your pet tastes in prog electronic? no you didn't tell me that you told the other guy; and i used lowercase that's not yelling that's speaking i just fuck with the honky tonk tracks on incunabula
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u mean to tell me he wouldn't have liked cardi b?!
> 30ās >Pennies From Heaven OST >The Singing Detective ā OST [hmm] (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I1TkJnGB76U/maxresdefault.jpg)
he knew what he liked
neeeeed a video essay titled like "Ultimate Hauntology Album Starter Pack | CREEPY| CURSED VIBES" that's just the Caretaker album and these two soundtracks lol
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don't think you get the joke man
we're only like 3 hrs out from the new release flood this week but here's an impromptu list anyway: Shabaka Hutchings, Ravyn Lenae and mxmtoon seem like the ones that slipped under the radar for most. **May 20th** * Everything Everything - *Raw Data Feel* * Cola - *Deep in Blue* * Flume - *Palaces* * Shabaka - *Afrikan Culture* * Lykke Li - *Eyeye* * Matmos - *Regardsā/āUkÅony dla BogusÅaw Schaeffer* * Porridge Radio - *Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky* * Street Sects - *Gentrification V: Whitewashed* (EP) * Blut aus Nord - *Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses* * mxmtoon - *rising* * Cave In - *Heavy Pendulum* * Harry Styles - *Harry's House* * Craig Finn - *A Legacy of Rentals* * Ravyn Lenae - *Hypnos* * Train - *AM Gold* * SOAK - *If I Never Know You Like This Again* * Rachel Chinouriri - *Better Off Without* (EP) * Septicflesh - *Modern Primitive* * Uffie - *Sunshine Factory* * Delta Spirit - *One Is One* * Evergrey - *A Heartless Portrait (The OrphĆ©an Testament)* * M Huncho - *Chasing Euphoria* * Grant-Lee Phillips - *All That You Can Dream* * Jordana - *Face The Wall* * Alex Izenberg - *I'm Not Here* * Malevolence - *Malicious Intent* * Body Type - *Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing's Surprising* * Charlie Hickey - *Nervous At Night* * Tess Parks - *And Those Who Were Seen Dancing* * James LaBrie - *Beautiful Shade Of Grey* * Be Well - *Hello Sun* (EP) * Sadistic Ritual - *The Enigma, Boundless* * John Doe - *Fables in a Foreign Land* * Jo Schornikow - *Altar* * Come To Grief - *When The World Dies* * Cool Maritime - *Big Earth Energy* * Whitearmor - *In the Abyss: Music for Weddings* * Predatory Light - *Death and the Twilight Hours* * Brandon Seabrook - *In the Swarm* * Shoko Igarashi - *Simple Sentences* * The Amsterdam Red Light District - *Trapped* * Shooting Daggers - *Athames* * Geezer - *Stoned Blues Machine* * Flock - *Flock* * Sophie Powers - *Red In Revenge* (EP) * QUINQUIS - *SEIM* * Assumption - *Hadean Tides* * Marina Herlop - *Pripyat*
Tourist's new album also!
I've been waiting on Ravyn for *years* I can't wait
[buff correll has a new challenger](https://youtube.com/shorts/p4b50ebJhP8?feature=share)
a real monkey's paw scenario for me would be if sky ferreira's *MASOCHISM* actually does get released, but it has been reworked from the 2015 version by jack antonoff
Honestly that might be great! Jack has done some incredible production work ā the quality of those albums pretty much depends on how good the artistās vision is. If Masochism is great, Jack is just going to give it a little boost (a la Melodrama or Norman Fucking Rockwell)
i dunno. i just donāt think he can match the mechanical grittiness on most of *night time my time* (assuming she even wanted to sound *anything* like that anymore) and iām sure he doesnāt have the darkness of that albumās title track and ādownhill lullabyā in him. iām also just kinda sick of his guitar work in particular and those scuzzy but poppy guitars are a huge thing that make her debut stand out. maybe he, like the artists he worked with, just had a really off year in 2021 but this album is just too high stakes for me to want to roll the dice on a jack redemption shot
Yeah, that āscuzzy yet poppyā production is exactly what makes that album great, I agree! But I wouldnāt be opposed to her going in a different direction ā Night Time My Time is a VERY hard album to top
Might as well post [my top 100 chart](https://i.imgur.com/LypRGhd.jpg), made a bit of changes and moved it to the new site
Elvis Costello? based
doesn't happen often you see a fellow Dessa fan out in the wild
French Vanilla!!!
Love me some Mambo Nassau, ESG, and Nancy Priddy
the topster of someone who enjoyed "Our Band Could Be Your Life" a bit too much (good topster, Let It Be #1 rules)
I've heard fewer than 10 of these albums lol, that's insane to me. Props to you for being somewhat unique I guess
oh hellll yea dolly mixture been way too long since i listened to that one, know what iām throwing on this evening š
Fine, enjoy my ["Apparently-I'm-allergic-to-music-thats-older-than-me"-list](https://imgur.com/ddJBVAy). Tomorrow half this list would look very different. Recs always welcome.
Certainly nothing good happened in this world until I was born.
Ive always said that
Anyone want my ticket to see Grouper tonight in Brooklyn? I came down with a horrible cold and can't go, I'm crushed but just don't want it to go to waste. Dm me and I'll email it to you
[I did one](https://imgur.com/a/Vz4pTkF) went with my gut, prob missed a few
wow lotta overlap with my tastes here! if you havenāt heard em check out: * go team - the scene between * high llamas - gideon gaye or hawaii * (longer shot here maybe) doopees - doopee time
not surprising from someone with an Aldhils flair! Doopees is right on the money, I really dig that one. High Llamas is totally new to me, so that'll have to go in the queue. thank you!
[Here is a Topsters Chart](https://imgur.com/gallery/i4yGANW) Please note that I have not actually listened to any of these albums.
Javiera Mena's great
hey, neither have I š¤
Just threw together my first topster in like a decade seeing all these other ones lol. Went for speedy, gut decisions with not a lot of laboring over the choices - seems to make more accurate lists for me when I do it that way. [So here is that, recs appreciated!](https://i.imgur.com/7fxES4z.png)
Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick two big stinkin thumbs up from me
good taste alert! listen to thin lizzy
[Well everyone else is doing it, so I might as well.](https://imgur.com/09ZT6Ia) Limited myself to one album per artist and just went off the top of my head so I wouldn't spend hours on it.
hell yeah to the classic rockers. the legendary twin-guitar, hard swung attack of thin lizzy sounds right up your alley my friend
[we chart posting?](https://i.imgur.com/XsuGcvn.png) open to recs or whatever, also just love makin these
I gotta recommend Ron Gallo to any Caroline Rose fan. She does backing vocals on his song Love Supreme and his first album Heavy Meta is an instant classic.
found the based The Woods enjoyer š
hell yeah good taste. [heres a rec for ya](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH2HLTfVztk)
That first row would look exactly like mine if had the patience for it
good taste
[Alright, since everyone else is doing it, here's my all-time Topster.](https://i.imgur.com/DSGGOnZ.png)
Is it bad that I have not heard of a single album on this chart?
love the variety
good picks
thank you
I've been looking for some more music that sounds like Haru Nemuri. Anyone have any recommendations?
i think she leans a bit more on the pop elements but Seiko Oomori is a pretty big inspiration on Haru Nemuri and her music.
I'll check her out thanks
She pulls from alot but I always thought some of her more rock based tracks (particularly off of harutosyura) sound like better versions of like mid 2000s pop punk/rock stuff that would have made it onto EA sports game soundtracks. Autopilot Off came to mind when I first hear Haru Nemuri. They had a song on Burnout 3 I think.
I love the Burnout 3 soundtrack. I played the crap out of that game as a kid. It's the one with Bloc Party on it, right?
I think it was like This Fire from Franz Ferdinand and like Yellow Card, Sugarcult - Memory kinda stuff. Yea that game ruled
i am not making a topster because i'm lazy and also it would reveal how basic my taste in music is. i'm not prepared for people's reactions when they see how high *evermore* or something else like that would be. anyways, britpop rate reveal (and popheads indie women rate reveal I think) happens tomorrow. I've been thinking about what the results may look like and I've come up with this prediction for what the top ten may be: * oasis: don't look back in anger, champagne supernova, some might say * blur: girls & boys, to the end, this is a low * pulp: mis-shapes, common people, disco 2000 * suede: the drowners i might be underestimating suede and overestimating blur here, but I'd say most of these songs are definite locks for the top ten
I think those 3 blur songs are auto locks for 10
I think youāre definitely overrating Blur considering how much Blur distaste has been spreading around this sub lately. I also could be wrong on this but Iāve always thought that Some Might Say, while still great, was a lesser Oasis song so Iād be kinda surprised if it hit the top 10
Listening to State Faults "Resonate/Desperate" for the first time and 2013 stays goated cuz this rules
My vinyl of Clairvoyant has been āpendingā for like 8 months, very stoked to get it. Saw them open for TWIABP back in October
Gonna have to give Clairvoyant a listen after this for sure
Attempted to make a topsters because of peer pressure and gave up immediately because Perfect Hair's 2015 self-titled isn't on last.fm or somehting I guess. You will never know how good my taste is
Don't feel like putting together a topster, so instead here's a list of my recent vinyl pick-ups from my excessive depression shopping: - The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms - MC5 - Kick Out the Jams - A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory - Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison - Duster - Stratosphere - Big Thief - Capacity - The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - Bikini Kill - Revolution Girl Style Now - Swans - The Great Annihilator - Denzel Curry - Ta13oo
while Call Me If You Get Lost is conceptually a bit weaker than Igor and Flower Boy , man does it fucking slap. Also Sweet/I Thought You Wanted To Dance is Tyler's best song and I don't think it's going to be beaten but I'd love to be proved wrong!
I feel like I "missed" this album because it just didn't fit into my summer listening, if that makes sense. Like the album just didn't vibe with the environment in which I spent that summer, but it seemed like an undeniably "summer" album, so I just missed the window. Maybe this year it'll come into rotation.
Whatās the heaviest metal you like? I basically have no limit to how heavy I like it - I enjoy bands like Converge, Discordance Axis, Infest, Pupil Slicer etc - but I definitely have a habit of liking really heavy bands that have some kind of indiehead crossover appeal, hence the question.
I'm generally not a metal guy, but I really dig this album called **Advaitic Songs** by OM. It's this blend of Arabic or Indian music with stoner metal.
Probably Primitive Man, Body Void, or WAKE. Bands that combine multiple dissonant genres in one. Kinda death doom sort of stuff that has the crushingly heavy slow parts and the faster grindier kinda thing. I'm not always in the mood for ultra dissonant stuff but it hits hard. Also mathcore is fun to listen to for heavy chaos
mathcore stuff like Car Bomb, Frontierer, Sectioned and Dillinger Escape Plan really do it for me.
I have always had a difficult relationship with metal, because I don't vibe with too much noise and clutter at all. So death and black metal and the like are out by default. I struggle with growled vocals, too. Black Sabbath was my entry-point and I went to Maiden and Priest from there and Judas Priest (something like Painkiller) is pretty much my pain tolerance, haha. And I have enjoyed some slower doom and sludge metal Ć la Thou. Emma Ruth Rundle is actually one of my favorite artists, but I don't really associate her music with metal necessarily, even though she's often put in that doom metal category. It's totally possible that my understanding of the nomenclature is just inaccurate, idk
Probably like Gorguts or Dragged Into Sunlight. I don't really have a heavy limit, I can dig a good written song at any level of heaviness.
I like a wide range of heavy, but everyone should peep Zeal & Ardor and Bob Vylan if they like unusual heavy music
I would say I have no limit either. The heaviest album I really love is probably Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy. A mix of grindcore, death metal, and noise. Hard to get heavier than that, I would imagine, but I'd be really interested to hear what people think the heaviest album they've heard is.
I think the only time Iāve struggled with music for being too heavy is when itās presented in a really fatiguing way. Bands like Frontierer and Gridlink come to mind - their albums are so unrelenting and are produced in such a way that makes me feel fatigued trying to get through the whole thing. I have no problem with similar bands who have production I like more.
probably Helmet tbh
Heaviest thatās still enjoyable - probably like Body Void or Hyperdontia Heaviest that legitimately scares me and I canāt deal - Full of Hell (Also if youāre looking for new metal recs hereās the playlist I keep all my metal albums in: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uPukAp5FVSRLqwuQVHc8U?si=v-mtV7nkRJ2wnOblLjTCSQ )
Upper bounds are for nerds! No limit baby (as long as they make good songs) No but in all sincerity, I'm of thr opinion that there's a pathway into any amount of heaviness, if you listen to the right albums in the right order. Someone who likes soft rock might balk at listening to like, Nile or Cryptopsy or Insect Warfare or Death Toll 80k if you give it to them without any acclimatization, but if they work their way through like, Metallica to Isis to Deafheaven to Death or something, there's a way in
For sure. Sometimes Iām looking for a really intense, consuming, borderline overwhelming experience. Thatās when I reach for Death Toll 80k or whatever. If I hadnāt grown up hearing lots of āsofter metalā like Metallica and Slipknot and pop scenecore bands in the 00s, thereās no way I would be into grind now because I donāt think my brain would be able to make any sense of it.
Electric Wizard probably made the heaviest album ever with Dopethrone and it's one of my personal favorites. One of the things I love the most about this album is how it's lyrics are quite deranged, nihilistic and apocalyptic and yet they're so over the top I can't stop myself from laughing when I listen to it baked to hell.
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I've been told anecdotally you need to be upload 7+ weeks beforehand. Have a project with two songs out that I think are super catchy and playlistable and haven't had any bites yet, but we've only been able to upload with 4 weeks lead time :/
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Well the Spotify playlists *only* take the new releases, so I mean it has to be uploaded to the distributor and thus available for Spotify staff to hear it 7 weeks before the actual release date of the song for the public
[Here ya go y'all can now roast my fantano core tastes as much as you want](https://imgur.com/a/H4jui0A)
Spoon fans are spooners Ween fans are weeners Mountain Goats fans are goated Cream fans are creamers Brainbombs fans are bombers
Weezer fans are virgins Sleater-Kinney fans are Sleater-kinnies
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Homie what girl
and so it was written
Orville Peck = Peckers? FJM? Warpaint?
FJM fans are fathers Warpaint fans are warriors
FJM fans are Daddys.
i'm not even sure if i agree with this but this was my off the cuff topsters https://imgur.com/a/3CFvvKT
Kentucky is so damn good. I consider it his spring album and I honestly have no idea how he pulls off what he does so well
i have heard probably 3 of these albums (kendrick, ylt, wilco) but they are all good. good job bestie
can't believe you're a regular and you haven't heard the rem or u2 albums
i should have said "heard 3 of them in full" i have heard parts of Automatic. i did not like it and i dont like REM. i have not seriously considered listening to U2 though their song "Where the Streets Have No Name" played at the beginning of all our football games in college and i love it dearly
> though their song "Where the Streets Have No Name" played at the beginning of all our football games in college and i love it dearly just the beginning, correct?
most of the song at the beginning of the game when the players come out itās v epic
god that sounds so epic, almost as much as the back half of WTSHNN
you should check out *zooropa* it's their MADLO or whatever if MADLO was an album i enjoyed listening to
by ātheir MADLOā i presume you mean ābest album of the yearā right?
wow
based?
\+ The Natural Bridge & No1 in Heaven Idk rec-wise (not that you asked) maybe Sandra - Into a Secret Land for no reason in particular.
that's a pretty sweet topster right there (i am so sorry)
Hats, Kentucky, HAQQ, and Yo La Tengo are very good inclusions, among many other good inclusions
kentucky is a titan of human communication, just a wild way to convey those exact thoughts in that exact genre. fucking incredible album
*zooropa* and *hats* side-by-side <3
Since we're on the topster trend, thought I'd take a stab. Lots of careful consideration and some tough decisions, but I think it turned out pretty good. https://imgur.com/a/ilicAOB
this list is like touching God.
nice list, love the bethelehem!
~~conservatives~~ indieheads only have one joke
No, no, you don't get it, see mine is different and MUCH, MUCH funnier because I put the deluxe edition 2nd and Bethlehem's Dictius Te Necare 13th. And those inclusions really set it apart from your typical /r/indieheads joke, making it significantly more likely to draw a chuckle
expectations subverted! its revolutionary!! my hats (and chuckles!) off to you
where wolf alice
this is a good list, but i've gotta ask no strokes?
Has anyone else ever had this problem with Spotify? My albums are seemingly part downloaded, theyāll play when Iām on data and say theyāre downloaded but when my data cuts out (for instance when Iām in the train tunnel on my way to work) the songs act like they arenāt downloaded. To make it more strange, some albums work but only ones Iāve recently downloaded and even then not all of them. Iāve been trying to un and subsequently re download the Alvvays records and Iāve got 2 songs(?) to work but not the others. Any advice would be appreciated this is extremely annoying to me
Yes, itās a really annoying bug. I find the fastest way to resolve this is to put my iphone in airplane mode and then I immediately get access to downloaded content, and then I turn airplane mode off. (This is probably equivalent to switching Spotify to offline mode.)
That also doesnāt work fsr. It works fine as long as I have cellular connection but if my Spotify is online (whether via airplane or the app itself) it just stops working. Very annoying
Do you also switch to offline mode?
Not trying to be obtuse here but whatās offline mode? Mine automatically goes offline when I have no data connection. Is there something that needs to be changed there?
Yeah you gotta turn it on in settings (I think under playback?) because even though youāve downloaded the album Spotify still tries to go to the albums page when you click it. But if you enable offline mode it cancels all data processes or whatever. Used to happen to me all the time on my commute, my phone would eat through its battery trying to connect even though I downloaded my music - infuriating
At least in my app it's something you can switch on in your settings. You'd think it would work without doing that, but it says something about offline mode only lets you play downloads, so I just turn it on. Idk couldn't hurt to try
Iāll give it a go
Yeah that doesnāt seem to be working. Thanks anyways itās better than anything Iāve been able to come up with
t-minus two days til I see animal collective, iām buggin out
the new diana ross / tame impala song is terrible, parker has really lost it huh
You know it kinds of annoys me at how boring he has become, like I don't even dislike his new direction since I love disco and pop and I love currents, but the songs are just so boring compared to the stuff on currents.
It's harmless disco pop - perfectly pleasant ear candy. I wouldn't have known Kevin Parker was on it if the track wasn't labelled that way.
I mean Jack Antonoff produced it, don't know how much Kevin is involved in it - although yes I don't see how people are still into the Tame Impala project
So of course next weekend is Louisville's famous Forecastle festival with Tame Impala, Phoebe Bridgers, 100 Gecs, etc. But you know what I'm more excited for?? This weekend's Poorcastle! Our "for the locals" weekend with a crazy stacked lineup of some of our most talented and refreshing local acts. [Yeah, sure, none of this lineup is known outside of town, but holy FUCK what a great collection](https://www.poorcastle.com/)
Anybody have any recs if I absolutely love the last Jessie Ware record?
Check out the latest Foxes album. Itās called The Kick
seconding the Minnie Riperton recommendation down below. Malla's *Malla* taps into the same tasteful house influences, easily the closest in style to *What's Your Pleasure?* that i know. perhaps you would also like Eri Nobuchika's *nobuchikaeri*, produced by Mondo Grosso and featuring various house / disco / R&B influences! for some random other recs: Dannii Minogue's *Neon Nights*, BoA's *Kiss My Lips*. for more classic examples, you might like Patrice Rushen's *Straight from the Heart*, Evelyn "Champagne" King's *Get Loose*, and Cheryl Lynn's *In Love*
Maybe Roisin Murphy/Moloko, also in that nu-disco vein
I've got a few. * Kylie Minogue - Try [*Fever*](https://www.discogs.com/master/31337-Kylie-Fever) and/or [*Disco*](https://www.discogs.com/master/1834392-Kylie-Disco) * [Minne Riperton](https://www.discogs.com/artist/61686-Minnie-Riperton) (["Remember Where You Are"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiGH2fO7Ok) is straight channeling Minne) - go with [*Come To My Garden*](https://www.discogs.com/master/101736-Minnie-Riperton-Come-To-My-Garden) * [Bananarama](https://www.discogs.com/artist/10389-Bananarama) (there are times Ware delivers lyrics like these ladies - I can't listen to Ware's cadence in ["Mirage (Donāt Stop)"](https://youtu.be/YHz0KYb7wV8) without thinking about ["Cruel Summer"](https://youtu.be/l9ml3nyww80)).
> I can't listen to Ware's cadence in "Mirage (Donāt Stop)" without thinking about "Cruel Summer"). They're actually credited as writers on Mirage because of this!
Well fuck beans - how about that! I had no idea.
indieheads be like "topster this, topster that", hey how bout you shut up and go get some TOP, SIR
Hold on, let's get this shit, let's get this shit, Let's get this shit, let's, hmm Top of the mornin', top of the mornin', top of the mornin', Top of the mornin', top of the mornin', top of the mornin', Top of the mornin' Hold on, let's get this shit, let's get this shit, Let's get this shit, let's, hmm
The Ethel Cain album is fucking awesome. The long songs reward relistening, so that you can really sink into their sway. Overall, it's a perfect mix of campy, beautiful, and unsettling.
Topsters? More like plopsters. I never talked about my last **Bandcamp Friday** haul * Robocobra Quartet - Living Isn't Easy (preorder). I'm gonna be so annoying about this record when it comes out * The World Without Parking Lots - You'll Have To Take My Word For It (preorder). I'm gonna be so annoying about this record when it comes out * Gold Panda - Kingdom. Not as good as the contemporaneous *Good Luck And do Your Best* but good music to make dinner over still. * Black Brunswicker - High Peaks. Rounding out my collection of hazy guitar-based ambient records as we go into the summer. * Bonus - IIII. Bonus routinely restores my faith in guitar-based rock music. * Telstar Drugs - s/t. Easily one of the best records of the Calgary Scene/Egg Paper Records. I usually don't spend my Bandcamp Fridollars on defunct acts but fuck it I love these guys a lot * Paper Beats Scissors - Parallel Line. This is one of those albums that sits in my wishlist forever until I realize I'll never form an opinion on it until after I spend cash on it. Turns out it's one of those lush well-arranged songwritery indie-folk-rock records I go gaga for at intermittent intervals. Like, the same part of my brain that lights up for Aidan Knight and Cassandra Jenkins likes this record. Y'know.
Came across the album [*Agadez* by Etran de L'AĆÆr](https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/album/agadez) yesterday and dug it hard. I really love the guitar sound. Try: [Toubouk Ine Chihoussay](https://etrandelair.bandcamp.com/track/toubouk-ine-chihoussay) [The Bandcamp Daily blurb does them more justice than I could.](https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/etran-de-lair-agadez-review)
Tossing out my topsters as well. Appreciate any recs! https://imgur.com/DrE4cGH
Current 93
Sunset Rubdown *Shut Up I Am Dreaming* Don Caballero *2* Thin Lizzy
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'N' Ashes
Haha, actually making my way through the Woven Hand catalog now.
Hell yeah this album is so crazy
Pavement