right now i a listening to the new andy stott album, which is pleasing, and surprisingly mixes quite well with the dub i can hear my boyfriend listening to in the kitchen
@glennmagusharvey i liked that very much! In an emotional sense... i'd say it begins ominously, then becomes very sad for the next 2 minutes or so, with the darker left-hand chord progressions contributing tension and instability and the occasional more upbeat moment giving the whole a sense of poignancy. Around the fourth minute it becomes dramatic, almost to the point of exuberence, but by the fifth minute the sense of sadness is also there, and it becomes stormy, angry, tempestuous, before ultimately settling back into gentle sadness as the piece finishes.
December 6 was my birthday, so I got a present for all of y'all. I made a playlist (~80 minutes long) of music I've particularly enjoyed this past year.
does anyone know of anything that's similar to Songs:Ohia's Ghost Tropic?
sorta, one guy and a guitar (other instruments are fine ofc, but I'm making an example here), tortured-soul type folk music, but with a sorta humid atmosphere about it?
Stereolab: ABC Music. It's an anthology of live-in-the-studio radio shows, including several Peel sessions, dating from their first album up to the Sound Dust era. For the most part, these are leaner, meaner versions of the songs from their albums and EPs—stripped down like this, the grooves and riffs are catchier and more immediate. Though even at their rockingest, Stereolab probably won't melt any faces.
I particularly like the extended jam at the end of "Metronomic Underground".
Now I'm pondering grunge, and remembering how I just didn't get it at first. I mean, I knew about Nirvana, everyone did (Q94 certainly played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are" enough!), but I never heard Pearl Jam or Soundgarden or Alice in Chains or any of the Seattle bands floating under the pop radar until much later, after Kurt Cobain died and a whole bunch of punk revival and post-grunge acts showed up.
I think I actually liked what came after better than the original stuff from Seattle. The Foo Fighters' first two albums, Live, Bush, things like that. (It also helped that there wasn't a pop station in DC while I was in high school, so it was either alt-rock or adult contemporary. Really.)
I have listened to a few albums in the past few days.
Yesterday I listened to Clark by the musician of the same name, and Music For The Uninvited by Leon Vynehall, both very good electronic records that I'm curious to hear any opinions that anyone might have on.
Today I am listening to Flying Lotus' BBC Essentials mix at the suggestion of a redditor, and have Grouper's Ruins and Jimi Hendrix' Are You Experienced? on the docket for later.
Oh, and DC had a smooth jazz station in the 1990s. SMOOTH. JAZZ. They flipped from classic rock, too. I understand they're now another "old man yells at cloud" right-wing talk station now.
i was lookin at linkthony dodongo’s review of the latest death grips track and in the comments section there was this dude who was all “I like experimental music but i have no idea how anyone could enjoy death grips”
and im just
what experimental music u be listening to that’s more accessible sounding than death grips
like death grips are great but they aren’t exactly the epitome of challenging you know?
i didn't mean to imply that Death Grips are super pop-y or anything, because they're obviously not, but they aren't the epitome of "hard2get3deep4me" you know?
like, they're less challenging on average than some Kate Bush tracks
i didn't mean to imply that Death Grips are super pop-y or anything, because they're obviously not, but they aren't the epitome of "hard2get3deep4me" you know?
like, they're less challenging on average than some Kate Bush tracks
i would say that it means music that requires a lot of careful listening and close examination to appreciate fully
I have seen comments similar to this before and I don't understand them.
Generally, good music to me is more felt than thought about. Great music you can usually break down later and pinpoint exactly why it made you feel the way it did in the first place (as, for example, countless people have done to every Flying Lotus album but especially You're Dead!), but I've never been in a situation where that second part comes before the first, and I'm not sure I'd want to be.
i was lookin at linkthony dodongo’s review of the latest death grips track and in the comments section there was this dude who was all “I like experimental music but i have no idea how anyone could enjoy death grips”
and im just
what experimental music u be listening to that’s more accessible sounding than death grips
like death grips are great but they aren’t exactly the epitome of challenging you know?
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Chopin - Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 #1
(Don't worry about not knowing music terminology.)
and yeah it's the Thirsty Ear pressing that can go for like $100+ in mint condition
Just my interpretation, obviously.
Uneven in spots, but good.
https://soundcloud.com/averymerrygripsmas/
the ones with the midi christmas music and the DG acapellas are much better than the others
like, they're less challenging on average than some Kate Bush tracks
i would say that it means music that requires a lot of careful listening and close examination to appreciate fully
hypothesis: st Vincent is now dadcore
(*aenima playing softly*)
fuck
what is it about tool that attracts the "very snobbish about music but very timid in terms of taste" crowd?
that applies to both band and fanbase
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