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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
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Some more singles released for Pedro The Lion / David Bazan's upcoming release and they're great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBXtkiLy1B8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z-k7QO-x0U
Been listening to the Knocked Loose singles (and the full album soon now that it's out).
Also: ACxDC, Wraith, Terminal Nation, Burn In Hell, Contention, Alice in Chains, Opeth, Ancst
Macklemore's protest track. Aurora.
A Projection (goth/new wave/etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7CndC-CQrw
man, i love Dave -- but... he's starting to sound the same with every new single. I like it, but Dave has definitely settled on a sound for a time where Jurado is still cranking out stuff all over the [still narrow] board.
Yeah, for me personally I don't see that as a negative, I think he's found what works for him and is sticking to that (and honestly often I prefer that to bands that ruin their sound over time). His typical sound really, really works for me, though so I'm biased. Not to mention, honestly, there's tons of variety in his entire body of work between Bazan, PtL, headphones, Lo Tom, etc. so I think he's taken plenty of opportunities to express various types of sounds. I mean even early PtL and current day PtL sound pretty different, they've had multiple eras of sounds (Hard to Find a Friend vs. Control vs. now)
On the latest he's going back to some synth stuff (which he's done before but not super often) and he's definitely playing around with a few things here and there that are unexpected- like the arpeggiator at the end of the title track (Modesto)- that conjures a sound that's not common for him, even though the rest of the track is relatively typical Dave. I think he's still having fun, still genuinely playing with sounds even if he's settled in a particular lane.
I love Dave. I've been following his career since the days of The Guilty / Coolidge. It is nice to hear... everything come into it wrt synth etc. I'd murder for another Headphones record, though.
I hope this album goes huge and he makes a lot of money.
Very much feel the same about another Headphones record, the existing one is such a gem
lets toss in some more Soft Drugs, too... and might as well include some Overseas.
Again just listening to K-Pop and rap, nothing out of the ordinary for me haha. This week I've been listening to a lot of k-pop artists I haven't listened to much previously. These include IVE, Loossemble and Loona, and Viviz. On the rap side of things, I've just been half-assedly following the Kendrick-Drake feud and have been listening to Kendrick's disses. I'm a long time Kendrick fan so I'm a biased against Drake here but they've both put out good songs (save for Drake's latest song, that is just sad).
Anyways, highlights this week are:
So iv started listening to swans. I'm no stranger to experimental and challenging music but I still kinda just going slow with it. In saying that I have found myself wanting to listen to it more. Iv also chosen more accessible albums to start with.
Currently listening to To be kind and white lights...
I wanted to try listening to swans, to me they seem like they're from that first wave of experimental/industrial bands from the 70s and 80s within the US (Chrome is a good example). Is this correct? Not as "electronic" as Cabaret Voltaire but more rock oriented like Chrome.
I think their earlier stuff is more electronic/industrial. So yea I think they are more rock. I think I saw a chart that described some albums as no wave.
Venjent, specifically his Let It Roll Winter 2024 set. I'm usually more a fan of darker drum n' bass like neurofunk, but Venjent kind of blurs the lines on so much stuff and I just find his tracks and sets so fun and creative.
Also, DJ Shadow Nobody Stream (particularly the track at 2:45) came on at a burger restaurant and blew my socks off, so now I guess I'm gonna have to listen to all of DJ Shadow's discography.
For the past 2 weeks I was listening to alot of first-wave Industrial because it helps me focus for studying (Yes, sometimes noise-like experimental music works wonders). Now that my finals are over I'm not really finding much to spin on my turntable system, I could head on over to the record store but there's a good chance I won't find anything particularly good.
I have gotten into some more 60s stuff like the Rolling Stones and 'The Seeds', recently listened to a UK pressing of Between the Buttons and I generally liked it. As for the seeds I was listening to their S/T and it's interesting how they've gotten more re-appraisal over the following decades, which means I should try finding their follow up album. Their S/T is quite good regardless, a bit 'Seedy' on some lyrics, esp 'Nobody spoils my fun', but the final track 'Falling in Love' is probably one of the best closers on such a 60s album.
A ton of From Indian Lakes. Definitely one of my favorite bands in the last decade and hearing the evolution from emo-revivalists to post-hardcore to this dreampop/shoegaze adjacent indie rock is really great. Their new album is Stereogum's Album of the Week and I'm excited to hear it, especially given how much I loved their previous album "Dimly Lit"
Also revisiting Rival Schools.
Kendrick Lamar
Hit a very nice string of albums this last weekish:
Feed Me Weird Things - Squarepusher (I've tried Squarepusher before but bounced off. Seeing this was more nu-jazz than IDM made me give it a shot, really loved it)
Juliana Gattas - Maquillada en la Cama (kinda cheese 00's dance feel, but getting the great parts of 00's dance cheese)
Hitsujibungaku - Our Hope (great j-indie)
Pretty. Odd. - Panic At the Disco (I gave it a shot since I disliked pop punk in middle school - it can't keep the momentum going all the way, but I like their faux-Beatles)
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (prefer the less trap-heavy stuff on it, but man are the peaks high)
samlrc - A Lonely Sinner (post-rock typically bounces off me, something clicked here)
DANGERDOOM - THE MOUSE AND THE MASK (wasn't expecting an entire Adult Swim block, god does it work well with Doom's feel)
Black County, New Road - Ants From Up There (The Place Where He Inserted The Blade left one hell of an impression on me, I get the hype around this)
Naked City - Torture Garden (a friend got me into their self-titled hell jazz album long ago - I wanted more of that. Got it! I find it hilarious they ended up in a Sega CD commercial)