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.
Started with the second chart Despite everyone hating on the current year (just like every year) I'm quite satisfied with 2017 so far
Lucas Gray
I've been so disappointed in 2017 so far that my top 10 from 2017 doesn't even have a single album on it yet.
Halp plz :|
Kevin Barnes
hm idk, not sure about you taste you've heard Pas Pire Pop right? other than that maybe Tiny Hazard - Greyland or new Depeche Mode?
Robert Hughes
I am sorry
Logan Perez
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Aaron Lee
oh its not from 2017 but ok i trust this label they released a good eliane radigue ep so im downloading it rn
eh i could use a really shitty album to listen to sometime
you could fit that into any taxxon album
Isaiah Diaz
would any album fit better than sky simplified though
Daniel White
I grabbed it from my library because it was filed beside that Radigue EP and looked sweet; I actually like it more. Listened to it like 3 times in the last day, I'm 87% sure you'll like it.
Adrian Hill
>one of the bonus tracks is in the middle of the tracklisting
Aaron King
>Different releases of the same album have different track listings
Nolan Gray
>Hans Appelqvist - Swimming Pool
I liked some of the solo piano bits, but this is overall the worst version of r plus 7 I've heard so far. Really awfully mixed and uninspired MIDI arrangements that just did nothing for me, especially in the first half.
4/10
Leo Howard
oops, left my trip off from when i was memeing in another thread. its back now
Gavin Baker
hwere is >music that sounds bad not on purpose but sounds like it's on purpose
Noah Hall
liturgy the ark work?
Ryder Cooper
>doesn't like the Orange Milk rec
Luis Rodriguez
I've liked other orange milk, this one was disappointing though
Brandon Turner
hmm
Robert Cruz
>xxxtentacion >lil peep also, general Sup Forums question why the hate on vaporwave? newfag reporting in
Luis Roberts
it works really well in this case though
>album has the exact same songs as another album just in a different order
Hudson Cox
What did he mean by this
Zachary Allen
It's kind of a stale genre that peaked like five or six years ago and has become kind of memey since a bunch of nerds jumped on the bandwagon simply because they thought the references to outdated technology were cool.
Grayson Wright
seems like it's called absolutely free for a reason
Michael Sullivan
yeah because it's free. You don't even have to pay for it zappa just gave away copies. If you try to charge money for it the Zappa Family Trust(tm) will sue you. No lie look it up.
Austin Anderson
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Brayden Diaz
update time >Djwwww & Mc Play-station - *'~ 僕らのFANTASY *ﾟ+.｡:;+.:;｡+ﾟ* vs heat wave - I'm fuckin you tonight
my absolute favorite matchup based solely on titles is a totally weird one. Im Fuckin You Tonight is sort of an eccojams copycat that does its job less effectively and with less looping. maybe its more like screw in that respect. either way, nothing standout about it. *'~ 僕らのFANTASY *ﾟ+.｡:;+.:;｡+ﾟ* is some next-level shit though. the playstation 2 sound opening, the fucking voiceover samples and the video game music, it sort of expressed to me what i think the point of this type of music is: distortion and reappropriation of genuine culture into other culture, a giant collage of niche existences. really good.
rod advances! thanks for playing Blapp
Brayden Campbell
Post-avant jazzcore is INDEED better than progressive dreamfunk
Isaiah Moore
now I hope I win this so I can go up against rod
Jose Baker
holy fuck i actually won. check out more from the label that came out on if you liked that (wasabi tapes). it all gives off a similar vibe.
Alexander Miller
I just realized I recced my album with good friend rodriguez in mind when I actually don't know your taste at all
so uh take a look at Klein - Only if you want the R&B version of PC Music
and shit
Xavier Sanchez
yeah that's been on my radar for a few weeks. i forger are you into pc music?
Alexander Butler
i like angular guitars and reverb :)
Brandon Jackson
I guess you might like this then cus there's a lot o reverb for sure
Only just recently got into some of their stuff, biggest being easyFun and Danny L Harle Mostly because I read something like "Hover Traps" by Rustie pretty much represented the sound of PC Music
Landon Harris
Where do I start with French pop?
Aaron Morris
(i actually had already heard the heat wave record before and thought it was p good) i've been obsessed with gfoty recently. if you want to start on her, listen to her mixes in chronological order, ending with call him a doctor.
Leo Phillips
France
Joseph Stewart
yelle - pop up
Logan Hall
GFOTY's parts of PC Music Vol I and II were my least favorite parts, because they really take the idea behind PC Music further into "uncomfortable" than the other artists, I think. GFOTY really is "ironic" music-- in being knowingly drivel, having tons of unappealing attributes, all while maintaining its Pop aesthetic (and attracting people that actually like the music without knowledge of the label it came from!).
but cool ill start with VDAYMIX
Camden Lee
>GFOTY really is "ironic" music nooooooooo gfoty is not a character as much as it is a state of mind to polly. gfoty is a spiteful being who will not accept anything not currently in its mentality. crushes from its youth are casually obsessed over, boiled down into a disgusting corruption of the only music it knows. gfoty is a critical body, but it is all manifested from a place that rests inside the main being. in other words, it's not ironic, but it is bloated and warped to hell.
Aaron Gonzalez
that interpretation is valid
but some of this stuff I'm hearing from them really is awful to listen to even with that in mind like holy hell what is this song about caressing cock
Jaxson Lewis
>what is this song about caressing cock excellent. excellent is what it is.
David Foster
What are some albums like Jim O'Rourke's chamber pop stuff?
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Aloys Kontarsky / Harald Bojé / Rolf Gehlhaar / Johannes G. Fritsch performing Karlheinz Stockhausen (1970) >electroacoustic, stochastic music
An altered version of a previous Stockhausen piece in honor of Beethoven's 200th birthday, in which various tape collages are interspersed with distant radio performances of Beethoven pieces, it's really damn cool. Stockhausen's collages aren't his greatest work, but they're still done wonderfully and they probably make up his weirdest work, and that's saying something. The small Beethoven interjections make the piece. I'm not sure how if I'd like it as much, but with these samples it's a bizarre, distant piece that's pretty damn wonderful.
Just got back from Acid Mother's Temple. Shit was otherworldly.
As a special bonus one of the openers was a band made of half the members of Candy Claws and they played a bunch of songs from Ceres and Calypso. I was not expecting it at all, so it was even cooler than it already was.
Michael Wilson
The Juju - Exchange (2017) >jazz fusion
Smooth as silk jazz fusion with a lot of funk/hip hop influence. Nico Segal's trumpet playing takes the spotlight, and he's damn good, he injects a lot of power into the sound that the other instrumentalists really don't bring. The songs are alright, a lot simpler than I'd like my fusion to be and still a bit too much like Segal's work with the Social Experiment for my tastes (i.e., too damn much poppy funk), but the pure fusion stuff here is great, it's a smooth take on the genre that I've never really heard before and it's done well.
2.5+
Show Me the Body - CORPUS I (2017) >industrial hip hop, noise rock
More or less the same beat repeated over and over again with increasingly bored-sounding vocalists. The basic beat is alright, but they try and slam waaaaay too many ideas into one mixtape, and fucking NOTHING works together. The simpler tracks end up being the best, "In a Grave" bangs, because the beat is nice and Denzel Curry is awesome, but pretty much every other vocalist besides Curry is just trash. Mal Devisa is alright, but I wish she showed up more, and despite her and Curry's turns the sheer presence of someone like Babyglock, the real-life version of the "Just 2 Guyz" skit the Lonely Island does, negates any positive qualities this mixtape can have. Ignore how alluring the genres may be, this is pretty damn bad.
0.5+
Oliver Price
ALRIGHT LETS START
Diana Ross - Diana (1980) >disco
Yeah, this sure is a halfway decent disco album released after disco hit it's prime with no elements that I like about disco. I didn't really expect much more, but this is a pretty damn bland album. It's strengths lie in Ross' natural charisma as a vocalist (seriously, she's phenomenal) and the joyous "I'm Coming Out", but the rest is pretty bland. Not bad, just really, really bland. I love disco and this is pretty middling even to me.
2.0-
jesus how long has it been?
gah damn i'm jealous
Lincoln Walker
how does he do it woops this will be done tomorrow
Noah Mitchell
83% of what makes blumfeld great is the lyrics just fyi
Dominic Richardson
would I get the same experience if I look up translations?
Logan Butler
New Gorillaz is a DamonAlbarnSideProject/10
lots of interesting collab choices but nothing pops out
and Albarn hides his voice behind the Feel Good Inc. filter at all times, which is really stupid
also the rip that's going around has some really irritating amp buzzing in the background, very obvious on some tracks like Andromeda and Sex Murder Party
Kayden James
well, the delivery is spoken or pretty much spoken a lot of the time. actually idt they benefit the music a whole lot, or that the music benefits them. so probably yeah
Camden Long
alright I'll try and read along to some translations when I'm listening then
Angel Wright
too long
Oliver Davis
Taking a break from math homework to write some short, shitty reviews.
>Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa Y'all shleepin' on this I swear. People rave about Easy Lee, but that's not even the best track on here. That'd have to go to Dexter for sure. The only track I really didn't care for was the closer, Fools Garden. This extremely skeletal version of Microhouse appeals to me so much more than the highly produced, kind of bloated versions like Immunity. For sure not gonna be everyone's thing, but I loved it. 8
>Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma Astounding. Hands down one of the best pure-noise albums that exists out there. I was sort of turned of by the opening track, which seems really unfitting from the rest of the album in retrospect. One of the best-executed noise albums ever, and I enjoyed it much more than Imperial Distortion (jump-scare, the album). 8
>Sun Ra and His Hoes - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy It's fuckin' Sun Ra, bitch. The playing/note choice/form is all here, but I can't help but feel a lot of this is much more skeletal than from what I've enjoyed in his catalog. "Moon Dance" is easily one of the dude's best tracks, and yet "Voice of Space" is just...boring. Really adventurous, but not exactly what I'm looking for in this kind of music. 7
>Metá Metá - MM3 Yeah okay I fucks with it. Legit and unique idk what else to say about it. Pulls off so many styles so well, I guess I just thought a few tracks were a little iffy.
Worst review ever holy shit. 7
1/2
Zachary Barnes
>Jeff Mangum - Live at Jittery Joe's SHUT THAT FUCKING BABY UP.
Not surprised that I liked this a lot. The recording is shotty, sure, but I think it suits NMH's songs really well. If it were just Jeff talking about stuff that might be interesting, but there's far too much crowd banter and CRYING BABIES (the worst sound ever. If someone made an album of crying baby sounds I would rate that shit to a 0 faster than the speed of light). His cover of "I Love How You Love Me" is incredible. In fact, the entire album is super consistent in quality. Anyone who says they don't like NMH is lying idc. 7
>Cyrus - Inversion The A-side kicks so much ass but you know this. The B-side would be okay if it were like a fifth of the length, otherwise it's pretty bad. 6
>チャラン・ポ・ランタンと愉快なカンカンバルカン - ただ、それだけ。 The hell? This is really energetic, catchy carabet/polka from japan. It has a lot of incredible track on it, but I really feel like the energy gets tiring and old after a bit. 6
>ဦးဘသန်း - Basic Method in Music Volume 1 Was really looking forward to liking this, but really it just didn't appeal to me that much. Everything was kind of dull and too long. Oh well. 5
>Talk Talk - London 1986 Worse renditions of songs I'm not even huge on in the first place. They should've done songs from when they actually made good music. That'd be cool. 5
>Tiger Trap - s/t Nah. I thought this was going to convert me to twee or something but it hasn't happened yet dawg. It's "noisey" sure, but I feel like this is just a consequence of production and not really planned that way. Nothing really special imo. 4
