just kidding, Kenneth Anger's Fireworks isn't music related and we only promote HIGH QUALITY music discussion here
The point of these threads is to encourage people to look for new and interesting music. We do this by listening to and ideally discussing albums we've never heard before. Many of us already listen to new music daily, these people are in it to venture "out of their comfort zone" by listening to albums they otherwise wouldn't have, or just to have a good time.
Making a 2016 best of songs mixtape. Gimme suggestions.
Brody James
watch your back
Lincoln Peterson
>Child Pornography - Homosexual Biscuits Dance punk for the un-dancers? Synth punk for sycophants? Party music for when the party mostly consists of disorientated vomiting, this album is full of atonal 'outsider' attempts at dance music, a more unwound version of LCD Soundsystem. This may sound appealing as a concept but in practice the music is off putting as well as compositionally boring - simple attempts at noise influences (an instrumental with loud samples of fighting and bagpipes? a 'percussion solo' made with pots and pans?) override the simple 4/4 beats, obvious chord progressions, overdriven keyboards and simplistic awful vocals. This entire bands output should be within quotation marks because it either seems like an ironic pisstake or a misguided attempt at something alternative and either way it kind of deserves derision. (A less interesting Bondage Fairies?)
And that was without getting into the name. Christ, you know a band is garbage when they make a halfhearted effort at a controversial band/album name and Child Pornography is the most basic edgy title there could be. The real shame is there are glimpses of interesting ideas but they're all overwhelmed by the garbage surrounding them - an interesting sounding guitar solo is driven to the bottom of the mix by shitty vocal whelps, yelps and keyboard hemorrhaging. Some interesting samples are shoved to the side for garbage instrumentals. The only good track is the last one and with the limited resources at hand (aka not wanting to look any further than I have to into this) I think it's a Mother of Inventions cover. I hope this is a one man band because it's shitty as a bad one man band, multiplied by however many band members there actually are.
1.0-
Happy 1386th rating!
Hudson James
Oh Kay there is going to be one furious piggo ITT
Anthony Braxton - Santa Cruz 1993 I have one previous experience with Anthony Braxton's music, I found it obtuse and ultimately very boring, the same is true here, but made a little worse by the god damn runtime... I can only listen to a black man fart through a saxophone whilst accompanied by like minded farty musicians for so long, at some point you have to draw a line in the sand, throw up your arms, breathe a sigh of exasperation and quietly sneak out of the theatre... (I didn't do this, I /forced/ myself to listen to it, but the image is nice and you understand where I'm coming from... I hope). It's one thing to improvise within scale or mode or with a particular idea in mind but I don't think Braxton is particularly interested in that, it's pretty much raw chaos the entire time. There are some enjoyable sections where everybody clicks into the same wavelength and play something coherent for about 20 seconds, but it's like trying to prospect for gems in a sewage plant if I'm being perfectly honest with you (it's not as if the crowd is oblivious either, they cheered pretty much every time this happened). It's not even as if I am incapable of appreciating free jazz, look at Science Fiction, that's a great record, but it has it's fucking head screwed on, and that's the key here, all of them are on the same bloody planet musically. Maybe I'm a fuckin pleb because a 4.07 from 100 ratings is genuinely impressive. Pianist was great, could hardly hear the drummer at times, other than that I didn't enjoy this much at all, it was a task and a half to sit through sorry jangle
I'm fuckin knackered, if you want any other thoughts ask, no guarantee they will have the same effort put into them rec Ethy and Rudi
Benjamin White
>Look up Keiji Haino on last.fm >Even Oxen is among similar artists
When is Bear releasing his solo Hurdy Gurdy improv album?
James Allen
anger?
Joseph Ortiz
Listened to this today, absolutely stunning. I'm probably biased towards cheesy japanese music but if you're into psych folk you should definitely check it out. 9/10
Robert Martin
shet
not suprised at Ethy beatin' me tho what with the hgher scores he's gotten
good luck to Eth and Rud soon pls grrrr
Asher Price
Oh, pic related is Yoshiko Sai - Mangekyou
Nicholas Carter
anger!
Thomas Jones
...
Cameron Hernandez
new year, new chart! Gonna do some 2017 albums Will fill this with albums as the year goes on Starting with Brian Eno - Reflection I never liked Eno's ambient very much, this all sounds really boring, I'm sure it works well as background music for learning or reading or something. But on its own it just doesn't offer nearly enough to keep me focused on it. The best moments are when it sounds like the slower parts of a Sigur Ros album. Overall nothing offensive, but entirely boring 1/5 aoty
John Wright
that's not anger
Matthew Ward
how dare you its the patron saint
Nathaniel King
The Gerogerigegege - Gerogerigegege Radiohead - Present Tense David Bowie - Tis A Pity She Was A Whore Janes Chance & The Contortions - Melt Yourself Down Matt Elliott - I Only Wanted To Give You Everything Even Oxen - Kaiah's Connectant Ville Grouper - I'm Clean Now Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
I like these
Brayden Hughes
this sounds very much down my path, backlogged
Colton Collins
VAPERROR and Jeff Rosenstock were both nice surprises
>VAPERROR - Acid Arcadia off-the-wall, incredibly busy and oh so groovy dance music (idk what to categorize it as, other than that Brainfeeder should sign this dude asap). there's way too much going on at any given moment but somehow the catchiness of the melodies and the constant presence of a danceable pulse make it somehow very easy to not get overwhelmed by all the different sounds coming at you. production's appropriately glossy. so yeah, i expected (maybe slightly weird) vaporwave but i got much more.
>Jeff Rosenstock - Worry One day I will probably identify with this album (which mostly centers around Rostenstock's fear of growing up), but for now it's just a really fucking well-crafted pop punk album made by a guy who is way too fucking old to still make this kind of music. It's one of those albums that'd be totally cringeworthy if they were executed just a little bit less amazingly. this album's got heart.
Samuel Wood
>Want to watch a movie >Spend two hours autismally renaming every media file I have and adding metadata to them instead
Music for this feel?
Jeremiah Sanchez
>renaming every media file I have >two hours philthy casual
Jonathan Brooks
that's a nice shade of autism you are not so long gone
Michael Ortiz
Kel Valhaal - Tense Stage / Ontological Love Anna Meredith - Nautilus Astronoid - Resin Erra - Orchid Twelve Foot Ninja - One Hand Killing Dayshell - Car Sick Cover Your Tracks - Cages Issues - The Realest Three Trapped Tigers - Kraken I See Stars - Two Hearted Deerhoof - The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue Iglooghost - Peanut Choker Knower - The Government Knows Young Thug - F Cancer Animal Collective - The Burglars (really feeling the young thug influence on that one) DG - Giving Bad People Good Ideas Ye - Waves
something like this would be mine
Mason Harris
ayy throwback
Angel Gonzalez
>not just letting foobar do that shit for you you deserve it
Logan Walker
My music was already sorted autismally, I was only renaming/sorting/tagging movies and Chinese cartoons.
Parker Russell
I once went back into my music folder and renamed every folder labeled "Disk 1/2/3/etc." to "Disc 1/2/3/etc." because that's grammatically correct.
Get on my level.
William Howard
The Gerogerigegege - 燃えない灰 (Moenai Hai) (2016) >dark ambient
I've gotta give it up for "ゲロゲリゲゲゲ / The Gerogerigegege". For a band that's most well known for their joke releases, this track is a shockingly mature 15-minute noise rock track, blistering and lo-fi with heavy shoegaze and black metal influences, but still highly emotional and depressive. It's incredibly emotive, which is shocking given the amount of humor the band normally pumps into their releases. The rest can't really stack up. "西河の果て / Out of Saiga" is a cool dark ambient piece, but "敗残兵士達の海 / Tokyo〜Sea of Losers/Donors for USA", featuring only a low buzzing tone punctuated by some sharp, sudden noises, is overlong, and "最期の調律 / Final Tuning", while kinda pretty, doesn't amount to anything more than some noodling around with tapes and a music box. This is likely the last album we'll ever get from Gero and co., and it's a nice, emotional send-off, hurt by some unnecessary tracks that go absolutely nowhere.
2.5-
Jaxon Butler
Just finished HAIM, and I liked it. Don't see why they were so hyped, or buzzed about though.
James Collins
hmm seconding Conceptual Romance and Peanut Choker Machinedrum - Do It 4 U Andy Stott - New Romantic Young Thug - Pick up the Phone Marcus Marr - Rocketship Mac Miller - Dang! idr
Benjamin Richardson
How is he fat but you can still see his collarbone Fucking black magick
New Romantics is best of the year by far Oren Ambarchi - Hubris Part 3 idk if that counts, even
Ayden Evans
>David Bowie - Tis A Pity She Was A Whore patrician choice
Ryan Anderson
Moved up Demon City cuz I'm still digging it a lot. The Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and YS were nice listens. They both seem like albums I will have to listen to a few more times to fully appreciate. I will definitely return to In Summer. Newsom has a really pleasing sound, I've only ever heard some stuff from HOOM before this. I should listen to that again.
Also checked out Marie Davidson's Adieux Au Dancefloor which is fantastic
they hang out with "it girls" like t swift and cara delevigne
Thirding Conceptual Romance and seconding New Romantics Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You Marie Davidson - Naive to the Bone Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
Eli Gonzalez
>J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only It's alright. I've been told by my friends who are fans of him that this isn't his best work (I wouldn't know personally, as this is my first release to listen by him). Everything, including the production, flow, lyricism, except some of the singing, seems solid, but doesn't stand out to me, which is odd considering I'm usually turned on to conscious hip-hop and jazz rap. I don't know really. Wasn't mad, but disappointed. (5-6/10)
>Bariyachi - Days of Comfort Decent jangle pop from the bandcamp threads. Vocals feel a little too low in terms of both pitch and the way it's mixed, kind of as though he's struggling to keep up with his own instrumentation. The riffs are pretty standard, but still hold some sense of joy in the playing, as to where the riffs don't sound completely generic. Not bad, but nothing new. (4-6/10)
Jacob Diaz
>i expected (maybe slightly weird) vaporwave but i got much more. easily the best surprise of the year for me.
Henry Garcia
get some triple six in your ears right now
Landon Nguyen
>Everything, including the production, flow, lyricism, except some of the singing, seems solid, but doesn't stand out to me, which is odd considering I'm usually turned on to conscious hip-hop and jazz rap.
That's exactly how I feel about J Cole. His music isn't bad but it doesn't quite stand out in any way. I should like everything about his music but it just comes off as incredibly average.
Dylan Morgan
>Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom It's happening. No turning back.
beep beep.
Charles Wood
childish gambino - me and your mama radiohead - burn the witch
Jaxon Mitchell
Massive Attack - Protection I especially liked the use of the dub on this album (like on "Weather Storm" and "Spying Glass"), but I think it's the only outstanding thing about it. The instruments are done better on 100th Window, the vocals - on Mezzanine, Blue Lines has a more solid atmosphere. The use of vocals was especially disappointing for me, since the band is quite famous for this. Del Naja is average at best on "Eurochild" and "Karmacoma", which don't deliver his usual smooth quiet sexy performance at all. Nicolette is quite average on "Three" and "Sly" as well. While "Spying Glass" has amazing dub on it, the whole concept of adapting it for Horace Andy's song is wrong in its core. Vocalless "Heat Miser" seems empty and completely unmemorable. The only good vocal input is by Tracy Thorn imo.
Burzum - Burzum While it produced some solid songs (especially "Ea, Lord Of The Depths, which I consider one of the most mature and complete on the album), for the most of it the album seems like a raw search, mostly vague ideas delivered in kind of a sloppy way. Dark ambient/drone~ish tracks sound especially weak, being unable to deliver the wall of sound guitar does on "Feeble Screams From The Forests Unknown" and "My Journey To The Stars".
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi A powerful first part and a bit bland second. "Ben's Radio" and "The Imam" make for rather decent introductions. Vocals sound fine, especially good when male+female ("Black Orchid", "El Solo"). Second part instrumental tracks like "Mineral Wells" and "Blue West" are kinda pale in comparison to "Vine Street Piano". In general it's a fine work tho
Hunter Miller
nice score for Funeral Mariachi, did you know it's the only album produced without Charles Gocher, did it come across in emotion to you?
Ian Morgan
For some reason the last /daily/ thread redirects to pic related and won't load, lmao. I love my home internet.
Haha glad I wasted so much of your time bitchtits.
I owe you a tourney rec right?
Aaron Jenkins
Scorpio Rising is the just a gay porno without the sex scenes and no dialogue
Nicholas Lee
Yeah, it feels considerably less colorful and diverse than their other works. I noticed the percussion's presence was rather insignificant on this. And the general mood is kinda melancholic/sad I guess.
Kayden Smith
That's right
Gavin Morgan
You cracked the code! Here's your reward.
Brayden Sullivan
there's also a good soundtrack
Hunter Rivera
Ah hahaha you're all a bunch of trip code fags :))
Jose James
this guy gets it
Christian Martin
Every time Anons post this kind of hating comments I can't help but read them in Mark E. Smith's voice
Charles Miller
>Jandek - London Tuesday
Sterling decided to jam econo, so he just brought an acoustic guitar for this show. No back up, nothing. Just him howling away on a clearly standard tuned guitar.
The general sound of the performance is rooted in the black blues stuff from post-talky phase. Strums that concentrate on this jagged stumbling exchange between the lower and the higher strings. I still do enjoy this direction, but it feels like after the last recording the Rep would bring something truly special into the light. This is just refreshing (while not even being all that fresh) his formula of the 2000s with a standard tuning…which is Jandek’s version of “Dylan gone electric” if you think about it. Yes, I do realise that he used standard tuning before but this is the first time this happens in a live setting.
Lyrics is probably where it is at from time to time. The album consists of a single piece titled “No Mind Was a Good Mind”, broken down into eight parts. The one true highlight of the performance are the lyrics to the third sections that refer to the earliest Jandek piece I heard, which is Naked In The Afternoon from Ready For The House. I have a sense that the performance with the stripped down set up tries to establish some sort of connection to his earlier work, but it doesn’t get close.
This just felt like several other 2000s albums without anything spicing it up to the point where it would be a worthwhile listen. Meh.
5/10
Dominic Sullivan
rec me 2017 albums
Logan Moore
To s, nice job rec'ing the Baby Huey album. I give it the prestigious award of being an album I will listen to. Mama Get Yourself Together is the best song on there.
Mary Bell - Mary Bell LP nice little female punk album in the tradition of 90s riot grrrl, it has a few really catchy songs, and never drownes in noise, like so many other punk albums often do. But it's missing some unique charme or an interesting feature or gimmick. 3/5
Henry Bell
Been away with family for the last few days and was hanging out with a friend yesterday who had to go back to uni this morning. I was still listening to music though so here's my updated chart without reviews cause i'm lazy.
Parker Hall
Kenneth Anger is the Kenneth Anger of music tho
Andrew Collins
Minuteflag - s/t
Minutemen and Black Flag join forces for a 15 minute jam-centric EP. It's cool and fun, and worth listening to a grand total of 1 time.
6.0 /10
Kayden Peterson
well i'm off to listen to this now, never knew such a thing existed.
Kayden Moore
might do another 2016 chart because i still feel like i've missed a lot of good stuff
ゲスの極み乙女。- 両成敗 (2016) >progressive pop, alternative rock
Far too long for its own good. The sound of the album is nice, and the instrumental performances are great, shifting between straight pop and jazz-rock perfectly, but every track really does just blend together. It makes for a somewhat enjoyable listen, but it gets old really quickly and a lot of the more progressive elements seem really shoehorned in. Not a big fan, to sum everything up.
2.0+
Anthony Hernandez
Me neither, until 20 mins ago :] I'll probably be chipping away at the SST catalogue in the near future. Lemme know what you think.
Dylan Nelson
Mekons - Fear and Whiskey (1985) >post-punk, cowpunk
The exclusive use of a drum machine in lieu of a real drummer is always something cool in rock music (and it's why J.J. Cale's Naturally is my favorite blues rock album), but it just does /not/ work here. Really, very few things about this album work. It's not punk or country, it occupies a sound most akin to the Pogues, but with a lot less energy and done with a lot more reckless abandon. None of the tracks follow any sort of cohesive theme, every track switches styles with no regard to the preceeding or following tracks, making for one hell of a disjointed album. The country jaunts are honestly quite nice, but they embrace this country sound so rarely, oftentimes opting for a more keyboard-driven new wave sound, which is done very poorly. Definitely not without it's moments (I love the vocals and the lyrics), but overall a disjointed, mediocre album.
2.0
David White
how many of you have actually sucked a dick before? like actually had a fully erect penis that wasn't yours in your mouth? like actually gagged on it and blew cum bubbles out of your nose?
Jacob Peterson
all but the cum bubbles out my nose, not that artistic
Ayden Brooks
Can't really be arsed finishing my current chart so just gonna start a tourn. Give me a 2016 rec and a random rec (preferably punky, folky or funky but i'm game for whatever) and i'll combine scores. Check out my rym if you want to before reccing rateyourmusic.com/~DiscordantJangle
Anyone have a template btw?
Your review is pretty spot on, fun but not really what you'd hope for from this collab.
Carter Martinez
mmeme
Yeah that album was always way too jubilant and bland for my tastes, while virtually everyone else promised something a lot rougher and tougher
Adrian Taylor
see you're not going to get any recs unless you post a blank template
That's orthography, not grammar. Also Foobar can do that automatically with file operations, so you're really just retarded.
Adam Russell
>Hey guys how are you doing Memediocre. >did you have a good new years eve? Yes and no! I cooked a nice four course meal for my girlfriend and a classmate, then we headed to a party and well, I don't remember anything more. Apparently I fell and tore my trousers at the knee, which is a shame because I really liked them. Also I was supposedly pretty obnoxious and gf was angry at me for that, which happens everytime I get 2drunk with her. On the way home we found some dude lying on the ground with his friends around and he was like really fucking depressed, so we stayed with him for an hour while waiting for the cops to come pick him up. >did you have a good 2016? It's been surprisingly "okay". >has 2017 treated you well so far? I've literally only stepped outside to buy pizza so far. I guess well enough.
Forgot to say I have actually already heard and like King Gizzard. Only heard a couple of black tambourine songs on youtube.
urine
Ethan Moore
sounds pretty good except your girlfriend getting angry with you. i had a really nice new years eve, went with a friend to a party where i didn't know a lot of people, but it was a lot of fun. 2016 started out pretty shitty, but ended great. 2017 has been pretty good so far. spent all day yesterday watching The OA with my gf (pretty ridiculous show though), today i finally took up my saxophone and started practicing. also went to ikea and got some memeballs.
Ryan Collins
opera is a bit boring when you can't understand what they are saying
Happy new year guys! I decided to start a new chart for the new year.
Doolittle is surprisingly varied and fresh throughout it's listen-through.
Ayden Hill
been meaning to listen to yellow swans for ages, thanks
that's fine
also in
that your first time or a relisten?
Wyatt Sanchez
>2016 David Thomas Broughton - Crippling Lack >all time Rat at Rat R - Ameriside
First time. Crazy huh?
Brandon Cook
Oh man does that mean you haven't listened to Surfer Rosa either? I switch between Surfer Rosa and Doolittle being my favourite all the time so enjoy if you haven't. Don't listen to them as much anymore but Pixies are great.
Cheers for the recs btw.
Camden Wright
these days i don't listen to liturgy as much as enter shikari & everything they influenced i should change name
Ayden Perez
>Sweet Trip - velocity design comfort I love the simultaneous and cohesive blend of floaty, lush IDM, with the pleasuring and poppy mannerisms of dreamy shoegaze and ambient pop. While I didn't find myself immediately in love with it, it definitely is something I'm going to look into more. (7/10)
>Shaun Hathaway - October Tragic. Using recordings by his mother during an ongoing custody battle with his father, Shaun showcases the drab and depressing imagery that underlies a childhood that suffers at the expense of a divorce, in an intimate experience, enough to feel the emotion, but also censoring it enough to prevent it from being invasive. With a bassy drone that plays subtly in the background, Shaun Hathaway's October is truly something that makes you just want more. (8-9/10)
Caleb Brooks
plug
Parker Gutierrez
fug
Tyler Nguyen
>2016 the hecks - the hecks >general german error message - after the warmth
Cameron Mitchell
(thanks for the cbr shill my boy) has the sax guy messaged u back yet?
Tyler Adams
I actually liked it though. I'm critiquing other CBR works though. Don't worry. ;)
And no I haven't received a message yet.
Nathan Long
>Peter And The Wolf - Lightness A nice, wintery folk record that has tendencies of blending the singer-songwriter music of the 60s, and the lo-fi indie rock, indie folk of the 2000s. Some of the ways in which the songs are orchestrated tend to remind me of Leonard Cohen. A very pleasant listen. (7/10)
