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.
>illegals and latin-americans are the same thing lol also damn how based do i get while high
Cooper Morris
Ukrainian New Stage stuff. Tonight, it was dada-influenced garage industrial - not very good, despite the other two bands related to it being great (Tovarisch and Kazma Kazma)
Elijah Phillips
>tfw hangin out in the bred
Luis Nguyen
>not naming the thread post-sincere-post-post-ironic-meta-digi-modernism edition missed fucking oportunity, also the elimination chamber match is habbening now
Seems interesting, I'll check it out. I don't know many 70s artists bar obvious ones like Plastic People of the Universe.
Aaron Flores
I feel like all that has needed to be said about these records has been said, so I'll just leave my personal onions
>Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam Pretty cool overall and deserves all the praise and hype it gets. As for me though, I pretty much only love Chasing A Bee and Frittering. Everything else is okay. Will definitely check out Boces soon.
>Comus - First Utterance This album is definitely weird as fuck, but it's intriguing and unlike anything I've ever heard. It's like Current 93 but not utter shite. I'll need time to decide if this'll be a regular spin or a coolio thing that I think of from time to time but don't listen to regularly. I doubt I'll be sticking any songs into playlsits
Gavin Martin
yeah, go to bread
Nathaniel Ward
I wanted to give nyarl "Drip Drip" as a love song rec but it was too long
Adrian Allen
Yuri Morozov is probably one of the best of the Russian underground, he's definitely had the most diverse and prolific career most people haven't heard of any of them though cause they all had to remain hidden and anonymous from the strict soviet cultural controls, so their music never saw the light of day outside of Russian tape circles
Chase Cox
I'm well aware of how difficult magnitoalbom releases are to come by, given that they were only given to close friends. Even some of the most famous artists out there have holes in their discography that will probably never get patched. It's always a small miracle when a bootleg emerges.
Justin Perez
Shouldve recced Diana
Robert Phillips
> Tribo Massáhi- Estrelando Embaixador NICE!
Caleb Butler
jamming to some shinsei kamattechan right now, probably some field recordings later to round the night out
Aiden Turner
I'm in, boys! we did it, /daily/!
Asher Sanders
słodka kotka
Jason Perez
thanks, it's a male kitty though :)
p nice, is this improvised stuff?
Carter Rogers
whom'st up
Joseph Miller
me, makin' beats
rec me rare soul/funk/afrobeats with good breaks
Gavin Lewis
I think so, though it might be material from their early cassettes that have yet to see an internet release. It's very hard to find information on non-Koka Records releases from New Stage Ukraine.
Chinua Achebe was a literary God donut speak his name in vain
Ethan Morgan
I should finish TFA, I remember liking what I read. His criticism of HoD is ass tho.
Zachary Lewis
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Cooper Jenkins
heart of darkness has clear racist themes, but i disagree with achebe when he says academia should stop reading it. it should still be taught because it is an important piece of literature and a beautiful piece of writing imo. i'm still torn on whether or not conrad was racist himself, however.
Josiah Myers
Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life (2017) >indie rock
Japandroids have always sounded like a less ambitious, much more boring Titus Andronicus that have never had a song half as good as "A More Perfect Union", and they continue that streak of pure mediocrity with this record. It's just boring as shit commercial rock from start to finish. This whole style of overly anthemic indie punk has already been done to death, but this is bland even for it's genre. The lyrics are sappy; the songs are unmemorable and derivative, and they rely on their choruses far too much; and it all just seems like music concocted for maximum profitability in a beer commercial. The title track is alright, the rest is fucking worthless.
0.5
Nolan Sanders
I was just relistening to that first Vampire Weekend album recently, and it really has so much energy and spunk on the first half that it kind of loses going into the second half
still a fantastic, cheeky little album tho, imho
Mason Torres
Erasmo Carlos - Carlos, Erasmo... (1971) >MPB
Rogério Duprat doesn't have a massive role in this album, but the influence of his style of arranging practically bleeds over every single track here. It's a lot more rooted in western rock than anything else done by him or Chiquinho de Moraes, but the very distinctly Brazilian arrangements are still put front and center, and they're wonderful. I don't really care for the more straightforward folk rock tracks that much, but these heavily orchestrated, lush tracks are really astounding, and some of the best MPB I've heard.
3.0+
Dominic Reyes
David Bowie - No Plan (2017) >art rock
"Lazarus" is of course an astounding track (see my year-old write-up of Blackstar for convoluted, stupid thoughts), and the title track is no slouch either. You can definitely tell it's an outtake from Blackstar, it's got the same very dark, dismal, jazzy atmosphere, and the vocals are terrific. The other two tracks are pretty middle-of-the-road. I don't like the hard-edged "Killing a Little Time" at all really, and "When I Met You" is a pretty safe little pop tune, decent but unmemorable. I'm glad they put this EP out, because the title track really is terrific, and it's a nice listen because I really wish we could get more of that Blackstar sound, but it's a bit pointless.
2.5
yeah, the first four tracks are really great, but the only track besides those i really like is walcott.
honestly it blows its load in its first two minutes with mansard roof
Aaron Martin
nice! It's for real one of my favorite albums out there, and it's mainly /because/ of the folk rock tracks that I think it's so good. That said, one of the drawbacks of this album is that Carlos doesn't let the tracks really develop (Case in point: Gente Aberta). Even so, I think this is a fantastic album and I'm glad you gave it a shot
Xavier Watson
oh yeah, gente aberta definitely seemed like it cut off /right/ when it was getting good. thanks for showing me the album though!
Michael Nguyen
i'm pretty sure it was written in good will. it may be inherently racist and perpetuating some harmful ideas but it also does a good job of exposing hypocrytical colonialist attitudes and stuff like that
Jacob Phillips
Who's ready for another year of angry Beyonce fans?
Also in the theoretical circumstance I made a Ukrainian New Stage chart would anyone want it
Elijah Young
>You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power Wow you guys weren't memeing, this is fucking amazing. It has such a captivating, surreal atmosphere that gives me chills. There is very little change in sound throughout both of these pieces, but that doesn't matter when the sound is that damn good. 9
>Glassworks "Opening" was a beautiful piano piece and works great as what its title says it is. "Floe" was pretty cool; I was not expecting that electric organ when it came in. "Facades" was beautiful too. I wasn't floored by the rest of it, but I still really enjoyed the majority of this album. 7
>Too Many Voices I was not a fan of this one. Most of the tracks here were pretty messy and dragged on too long (or felt like they did). "Forgotten" was actually really great though. 4
I also bumped up Coltrane's Meditations up to a 9. I can't stop listening to it.
You should probably come back to those bass records if and when you get a greater appreciation for modern electronic music, just saying
Oliver Torres
this is the greatest song of all time
Isaac Campbell
crazy that Current 93 won a grammy this year
Isaiah Carter
huh
Jose Bell
wait what
Jack Rogers
Oh shit I just saw. That's crazy man.
Camden Miller
>Also in the theoretical circumstance I made a Ukrainian New Stage chart would anyone want it I would : )
Dominic Nguyen
Only a 2 for Mr Bungle?
Mason Garcia
I like how you have 18 possible values between the scores 0 and 3.
Isaac Lopez
I think Pi might be dying.
Cameron Ross
Is this a bamboozle?
Mason Martinez
:0
do you know why???
Brandon Davis
Ni, but she seems to have some respiratory problems. Might be because of the bedding, so I cleaned their enclosure and changed to a different kind of bedding. She seems a little bit more active now, but she still has one eye mostly closed and breathes very slowly :(
he shoulda done that collab with The Acacia Strain Alt Slowcore vs Hardcore Slowcore
but this is even worse than i thought wtf havent heard anything i thought was this bad in months
lovin that pic desu
get well soon mouser
Lucas Rogers
Missed grammys, was kween bae?
Sebastian Ramirez
isn't it just 11 cos I don't use a 0.5- a 1 or a 1.5?
GET WELL SOON PI
Adam Lee
you just know
thats heading for the door tho
sleep tight pipper
Samuel Torres
I hope your dog gets better
Chase Jenkins
hes 2 yung to die
Lincoln Lee
bump for pi
Asher Murphy
Anyway, how's your sex life?
Mason Jones
my dick dont work
Samuel Martin
same
Matthew Ramirez
Quick review bump
The Awakening - Hear, Sense and Feel >jazz, spiritual jazz
Thoroughly uninspired and boring work, can't write too much on it. It's not bad, per se, but it's not all that good either. I thought stuff on the Black Jazz label would be as good as Infant Eyes but it doesn't seem to be the case.
