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.
I hate to be a shill/political in the OP, but hurricane disaster relief from US federal govt. is abysmal so if you wanna help and get some music in return please purchase Yamir's new release
Doing this w/o his input and on my own merit. Yamir/Puerto Rico would appreciate it:
fuck you puerto rico is doing fine you leftie shitbrain
Jaxon Thompson
nah yr good. helping people in need is apolitical.
Envy was kinda lame. the post-rock didn't mesh very well with the already mediocre post hardcore, but it did lead to some instants of beauty that saved the album as a whole. wish i could understand what they're saying.
kotto was fairly standard screamo. the vocals were really good, but were sadly low in the mix most of the time.
lmao that's provably untrue but maybe yamir will come on to tell you himself if he gets the chance
the envy album I've heard was super mediocre too
the only thing I've heard on there I really like is Orchid (good!!!),Cap'n Jazz (good~), and American Football (when I was 14-ish was my favorite album).
how tf have you not heard Stratosphere yet
do that and Blind Willie Johnson
you should remove Fishmans+ from that list too it's probably the worst album-length fishmans-related release.
Nathan Wood
All Delighted People
Grayson Butler
noted. can't remove stuff at this point but i'll keep it in mind. thnx.
are you suggesting the free market works better than gov't aid?
Easton Barnes
thank you! might put off in color if i get more replies because it's cover clashes with the chart a lot tonally.
Easton Wright
Yellow Swans - Going Places Ben Frost - By The Throat
also MBDTF
Isaac Price
blessed
Jason Robinson
yeah envy is not that good. maybe try shmap'n shmazz, it's one of the best in that chart, like as og/fresh as it gets. and jeromes dream is cool but I like their second lp more (presents) so if you have ~13 minutes to spare check it out
Angel Foster
yamir died in the hurricane right?
Ryder Kelly
New History Warfare Vol. 2 Musics for Piano, Whistling, Microphone, and Tape Recorder Unit Structures
Tyler Sullivan
yes but his vengeful ghost still haunts these threads
yamir's new release was so good it turned me lib right and now I'm having second thoughts on child labor what's happening to me
his new username is under "emir" now if you wanna see his most recent posts
he hasn't posted since last thursday and he wasn't doing great then, so I'd imagine he's doing as bad as any of the other Puerto Ricans.
He must have internet+electricity+be alive still since his new release was posted today but I'd imagine it's super shitty for him.
Dominic Watson
are Sup Forums albums memejams?
Liam Hall
this one is
Kevin Robinson
>Hot Rats no
Jaxson Peterson
>>Hot Rats >no no
Grayson Morris
roommate has been watching sports center for three hours now on our TV how do I kick him off so I can play Mario Galaxy
Nicholas Murphy
Esther Lamandier - Alfonso el Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria >Medieval Music
This is definitely a new favorite. It's a solo performance, with Lamandier singing and playing harp, organ, and fiddle at different times. Lamandier's voice is gorgeous, and her skill with instruments is no less impressive. I remember some user saying he wanted more medieval music - this is definitely worth checking out. I've already listened to it several times today.
To make the most cliché comparisons possible, if you like Svitlana Nianio, Meredith Monk or Joanna Newsom you'll almost certainly enjoy this.
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal (1997) >Black Metal Way more raw than Bergtatt, and focused more on 'normal' 2nd wave styled riffs than the fairly melodic and minimal ones on their debut. Makes me sad these guys quit making metal. 3.5
Ravi Shankar - 3 Ragas (1956) >Hindustani Classical Music I know fuck all about Indian music but this was still pretty enjoyable. The style of harmony that the sitar makes is now a pretty accepted part of Western music's sound palette, but hearing some actual music in that style is still fascinating. 3.5-
Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (1979) >Noise Rock, Poseurcore Destroying art as a concept is SO modernist. Get with the times, Fair brothers. 1.0
La Monte Young/The Theater Of Eternal Music and Others - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume 1: Day of Niagara (1965) >Drone, Minimalism The recording quality makes this almost painful on first impression, with Cale's viola and Conrad's violin making piercing high frequency drones all over the place. Besides that, the actual music that can be made out of this recording seems pretty good, definitely boundary pushing for '65. If you can get over the high pitched thing it's actually pretty enjoyable. Young and his wife should have probably gotten some actual singers though, I've certainly heard better. 3.0-
Gun - s/t (1968) >Psychedelic Rock I listened to this because I heard it compared to King Crimson's debut in an offhand manner. The cover art is also by Roger Dean, so how bad could it be? It really does sound a bit Crimson-ish at parts, with a large supporting amount of backing harmony that could be a mellotron or and actual orchestra on most tracks. The songs that don't heavily feature that style are standard psych rock of the time with those later day Floyd-ish/Moody Blues/Beatles harmonies and power trio configuration. If you liked "21st Century Schizoid Man," "Epitaph," and/or "The Court Of The Crimson King," I'd recommend this. 3.0-
Grayson Walker
...last but not least
easyfun - Deep Trouble (2015) >PC Music Could really do without the vocals. The sample pitch shifting and synth stuff is sorta interesting but the drums and structure is kinda boring. I don't know if I "get" PC Music right now but I can tell there's a lot of craft put into this stuff, the same amount of scientific pop songwriting that top 40 gets, just with a little rougher aesthetic overall. Kinda want to hear more of this though. 2.0+
Elijah Diaz
Half Japanese is 100% not something I'd hold against you for not liking, but poopy review anyways.
You're panning all my favs. Stay away from Acabou Choare it's too pure
Jason Nelson
Yeah half japanese just doesn't really do it for me. I didn't like DNA that much the first time around but since I listened to Arto Lindsay's guitar on lounge lizards - s/t I got some more appreciation for his style. I don't know if that'll happen with half japanese though.
Nolan Scott
東京事変 - 大人 (Adult) (2006) >pop rock, art pop, jazz-rock
A very obvious left-turn from the progressive pop sounds of Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana, this is an effortlessly pleasant, tight album of mathy, light jazz-rock. It's very light, that's no lie, so effortlessly easy on the ears that it lacks the densely layered, cerebral compositions of her previous records. It's fruitless to try and compare this to her more experimental works, so judged on its own it's a great pop record, through and through, with incredible guitar work and an effortlessly energetic atmosphere.
3.0+
Drop Nineteens - Delaware (1992) >shoegaze, indie rock
This has forever been one of my favorite album covers ever, so listening to this was a real disappointment. The shoegaze tack is a bit misleading. "Kick the Tragedy" is an incredible piece of monolithic shoegaze noise, the rest is vaguely overdriven indie rock that lacks a personality or a soul. Sometimes catchy, mostly really underwhelming, at least from a songwriting perspective. The guitar tone is always on point, and the more prominent shoegaze sound promises an incredible side of this band that never really comes to fruition, sadly enough.
2.0+
Was (Not Was) - What Up, Dog? (1988) >funk, pop
Memes aside, I hate "Walk the Dinosaur". It's one of the dumbest, most simpering pieces of novelty pop ever written. So the shocking thing is that there are some parts of this album that are pretty alright. The straight-up funk is plastic and stiff as hell, but there are some solid grooves here and there, and it does the plastic '80s pop-funk sound decently well, it's just the style itself that really sucks. The tracks that aren't funk are weird vignettes that occupy a weird space half-way in between early Ween and Chumbawamba, and they're awful. This is worth a listen purely based on how eclectic it is, but don't expect much more.
2.0
Bentley Watson
S.C.U.M - Again Into Eyes (2011) >shoegaze
I could copy-paste my Drop Nineteens review in here, but that's lazy. S.C.U.M. have a great sound, that's for sure. Thick, syrupy, and heavily indebted to the post-punk gods of yore. Where they fail, yet again, is in the songwriting department. The tracks that don't do something incredibly generic and samey do something weird and off-putting, they don't ever find a happy medium in their songwriting. This almost coasts on the power of the sound, but it just misses the mark.
2.0+
Thomas Brooks
Iglooghost - Neō Wax Bloom (2017) >wonky, UK bass
Iglooghost perfects and fine tunes his craft here. He makes his sound a tad more palatable to the average listener, increasing the danceability tenfold, without ever sacrificing his integrity or what makes him so unique. The balance is impressive, even if sometimes the hyperactive tendencies of his EPs show up a bit too much. Even with that in mind, this is a remarkable album, a look inside the mind of one of the most exciting artists working today.
i've already listened to superman and i liked it a lot
James Mitchell
fair enough. DNA is >>> than Half Japanese though.
yuss Iglooghost love
Joseph Morgan
Natalie Rose Lebrecht - Warraw (2003) >avant-folk I actually started off with listening to the 2007 re-release from After Hours - has an extra track which more or less takes the tongue-in-cheek spiritualism to ponderous heights (not a bad thing: i like it lots). However - the dl i got was a mess, abrupt cuts after each track, hinting there should be seamless transitions but providing none. Thinking I had a bunk copy found that the original was a self-release by Lebrecht, so opted to try that - seamless transition between each track, much more cohesive experience - track 11 is missed tho.
In regards to the sounds - im a sucker for self-layered vox - in harmony or skittering off in their own directions. ANd her voice: sometimes airy, sometimes matter-o-fact, sometimes viscous and hairy - quite the cheeky channel. Percussion and brass dusty and distant, harp offerring some sharpness, and it sounds like nylon guitar is stringing up some warmth here and there (though sometimes i want some more thrills from the guitar).
Overall enjoyable (tho Ill take Imaging Weather over it) - would play while making nonsensical prayers in bed.
On to today's assigment
Aiden Morales
paging rod (or anyone that cares)
I'm making a list of lesser know electronic labels
Have any other suggestions besides EXO, Bedlam, Plus 100, Melty Tapes, TKX, Occasionally, and Crystal Display?
Jordan Wright
oh right since u asked, i liked it but only listened to it once or twice yet and it's a lot to take in so can't tell u much more on the surface though its very fun and engaging
Mason Williams
Good morning /daily/!
Listening to the new Jarboe album. It's alright.
Good opinion. I will send a small donation.
James Howard
The Element Choir & William Parker - At Christ Church Park >choir, free-improv Today's assignment: wow wow wow - i need to do some research on the element choir (and william parker i s'pose). Again, vocal layerings are the name of the game: moving like a flock in migration, subtle dispersions and muscular compressions and rhythmic swayings. But not the only name; the percussion and the upright bass are positively toe-tapping at times, providing the backbone for scurries into more charged atmospheres.The strings and the horns seem to carve and guide the flames of the voices - t me it feels as if they decide whether voices burn slow or raise to frentic heights.
What an ending! The melding and fraying of the voices and instruments (especially the organ_ seem to bring out this very pleasing grainy texture. Whoever recc'd the element choir on friday has my thanks
Very good, very moving - would writhe in bed to
Asher Williams
Definitely listen to At Rosedale United for this group. You might like it even more than this release, actually.
>all those unaccounted releases if only I had the time to add them (Thank you)
Lucas Ross
Yo, give me a jazz recommendation and I'll tell you my thoughts about it
(Preferably not TOO long, and not too obscure so I could find it)
Brandon Parker
What's your opinion on anything by mingus?
Aaron Ward
I'm new to jazz, so haven't tried him yet
I've listened to some of the classics in the genre, the one that made me fall in love with it was Pharoah Sanders' Karma (which is possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever made).
Now I just want to listen to all of the stuff I missed, so Mingus could work.
I'll start with The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady?
Xavier Brown
Introducing Lee Morgan
Robert Collins
How about listen to Mingus later and try Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Juan Allen
>ex all of a sudden into Radiohead I wonder how that happened...
Hunter Bell
yeah it sux seeing so many of those tiny labels without even half of their catalog added i have all the time in the world to add them too but im just a lazy bitch maybe someday i'll go on an adding spree
Jose Diaz
You gotta make artist profiles too sometimes which slows down the process a ton
Ian Cox
blimp
Andrew Reyes
already have - and it was great (i do think i liked it better but need more listens)
Liam Parker
Been into this one a minute. Just re-listened again.
>Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is the Devil (2013)
This seems to be one of those things that either just resonates with you or not. On the surface, it's a double album split between Drifters, the vaguely pop side ostensibly about traveling abroad, and Love Is the Devil, which is more concerned with ambient drone.
Again, I find it extremely touching and poignant--this captures better than just about anything else the drunken excitement and otherworldliness of traveling in a foreign land that progresses into disorientation and loneliness. I think it may be easy to forget that much of these songs on Drifters like "Night Walk," "I Dream in Neon," or "Casino Lisboa" are only starting points for songs and that there is a layer of dramatic irony present at all times--that the sound of a second-rate foreign pop impersonator filtering through a busted boom box into the A.M. is more about the negative space of the music.
The intoxication of a night in Bangkok that is Drifters becomes the hangover of Love Is the Devil with its ungrounded, arrhythmic, ambient arrangements that reveal an increasingly sincere expression of the isolating reality, evidenced in songs like "I Don't Know How to Find My Way Back to You," "This Is Not My City," and the especially poignant solo guitar piece, "Alone at the Danube River." 7.5-8/10
Nathan Hernandez
stop sucking my dick so hard like damn
good post mr know it all on every country's politics and humanitarian situations
chriggy...
>yamir's new release was so good it turned me lib right and now I'm having second thoughts on child labor excuse me my music is socialist propaganda
like, bleep circles or rod-core electronic?
>small donation so that was you, thanks pigwander
Gavin Myers
Crusaders - street life Fun disco jazz
Zachary Lewis
>music >fun Fuck off
>fun >disco >jazz Holy fuck, fuck offffff
Logan Phillips
disco is the most fun music, funk off
Austin Lee
Why are you sad
Matthew Miller
All music is inherently good. You cannot refute this.
Jordan Watson
All music is inherently bad. Repudiate my refusal to refute your dispute.
Adrian Foster
iunno
Joseph Nelson
Either kind of label is good
Evan Jenkins
hwats lesser known
Matthew Robinson
It's about that time, /daily/...
I need seven albums for the coming week. What have you been loving lately?
>no anonymous recs >no albums >75mins >get taste >no reserves
well anyway i can give you some polish labels i guess those will be less known, u can judge for yourself: Transatlantyk Pawlacz Perski Polish Juke Audile Snow (sd card mem) MAGIA
and some non polish ones i checked out recently Tessier-Ashpool Infinite Machine PTP
Jackson Rogers
The Motifs - Cross Paths :{}
Lincoln Jones
goreshit - Semantic Compositions on Death and Its Meaning
Michael Hall
Dunno what you like but this is great: Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
Landon Myers
Eric Copeland - Goofballs
Luke Brown
The Crinn - Shadowbreather
Hudson Butler
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Grayson Hill
rec me one (1) album i will like
Henry Gutierrez
why should i
Leo Wood
I didn't care for it much but you seem like the sort of person who'd enjoy the new Protomartyr
Hunter Long
Bill Vans
Julian Taylor
I bet he doesn't even skate, what a fucking poseur.
Gavin Hughes
ill marry you hmm protomartyr have always been the kind of modern post-punk i dont love but we will see i guess
Justin Hughes
he died sorry
Kevin Perez
leaves turn inside you is a little lame i think t.b.h. i think the uhh i guess increased ''''artsiness'''' hurts it a lil, its a lot less unhinged and more indie rawk barf although im not into post rock like at all so i guess its not for me its not bad though terminus is real good
i have been listening to fake train and repetition on repeat since yesterday, corpse pose is the best
James Stewart
I had PTP and Infinite but nothing else you listed, thanks
Jackson Sanders
unwound as a whole is a little lame
Owen Sullivan
maybe so mr. user
Xavier Gutierrez
Wow you gay homosexuals sure seem to like your "art" don't ya?
Kayden Jackson
i agree the people in these threads are homo
Jason Phillips
noted on both. thank you thanks to you as well. what pc have you heard so far?
Christopher Collins
how often will you discover new music, and it will become one of your best favorites
Colton Foster
>missed out on karenin's classic weekly pseudotourney music for this feel
Brody Wright
I usually average about 4 new favs a month
Gavin Sullivan
Like once or twice a month for me, that's prob a lot but it's true
Charles Hernandez
the fuck is with these fucking tripfags jesus fucking christ get a fucking life
Kayden Watson
i found three 9/10's last month and 25~ 8/10's this september good times all around
Jaxson Adams
i like le mystere des voix bulgares but i do not like fly, fly, my sadness. You also seem to be more into electronic type music, I'm not into that.
Matthew Murphy
Letov was the one that recommended that to me so I owe him Given that the rating may be a bit inflated from little exposure to the genre, I'd gladly take more reccs for it
you're not into any electronic genres specifically?
