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.
hmm. tom waits would not be your thing then most likely. i always got a hyper comforting vibe from three love songs, but i find a lot of weird shit comforting.
John Hernandez
Iowa Fishtano here, world's most important music nerd.
>cumblogs
Noah Foster
Plus a thing or two I wanted to revisit
Dylan Collins
respectfully......................
Christopher Hall
....................patek philipe
Owen James
hows daily been lately
Michael Wood
Yeah right on, really dislike every tom waits album I've listened to. It's almost a shame, if someone else sung his music I'd probably like it a lot
Christian Thompson
Sorry friends, but that's wrong.
Charles Perry
thanks, was gonna shitpost the exact same thing but couldn't be bothered to download the cover
Cameron Perry
>if someone else sung his music I'd probably like it a lot i feel the exact opposite way, but i get ya.
Joseph Davis
post
i like this album cover, how is the album
Ryder Butler
nice
Anthony Taylor
What exactly do you like about it? The manic percussive gamelan, the wild free-jazz side, the long-form structure, the larger ensemble, the live show aspect?
Jayden Davis
Sam Rivers - Streams Anthony Braxton - Koln 1978 Anthony Braxton - Montreaux / Berlin Anthony Braxton - Quartet Santa Cruz 1991 Andrew Cyrille and Milford Graves - Dialogue of the Drums Albert Ayler - Greenwich Village Noah Howard - The Black Ark Dave Holland - Extended Play: Live at Birdland Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Nicholas Gonzalez
the ritualistic feel of it, the loose grooves that turn into free jazz fuckery and yeah the large ensemble
thanks piggo
Ayden Brown
thanks for this list! oh and listen to some Ornette Coleman if you havent already. You're into don cherry so im assuming you have heard, but don cherry RIPS on "This Is Our Music" by ornette
Henry Garcia
Anybody willing to give this band a listen? My dad used to play their songs in his car and I just picked up a few of their CD's today. It's got a nice female voice with a good, punk sound. youtube.com/watch?v=WGYnf3cDv7k
Oliver Allen
What should I do next?
ask for thoughts ig cause i'm too busy / lazy to write full reviews this week
Anthony Ward
Rly enjoying this meme
>thanks for this list! wtf that list was for canine stop looking at it
>and yeah the large ensemble Some of those are trios/quartets but they meet your other criteria and I think are worth your time. For more larger band stuff: Sam Rivers - Crystals Manfred Schoof - European Echoes Carla Bley - Escalator Over the Hill Baden Baden Free Jazz Orchestra - Gettin To Know Y'all The Jazz Composer's Orchestra New York Eye and Ear Control Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction Also Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for fringe percussion goodness.
Noah Phillips
Do Scott 4 if you're comfy or Swordfishtrombones if you're grumbly
James Nguyen
>Ross From Friends - Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes >Styles: It's called outsider house because it sounds like you're standing outside of a house that is playing music >Related: AЛ-90, Project Pablo
Despite being a relatively new genre, outsider house seems like it doesn't have anywhere left to go. Sun soak your synths, loop some warbled vocals in the background, put on some dusty kicks and claps high in the mix aaaand you're done. I won't lie, it sounds nice, and the opening and closing tracks have some fine grooves. I would happily put this on in the background of a party. When it comes to sitting and listening, I just get bored. There isn't a lot to chew on since it seems so low effort and the aesthetic wears on me. Every song feels so empty and limpwristed. It reminds me a lot of future funk.
>Eric Copeland - Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect >Styles: Outsider House, Neo-Psychedelia, Acid House >Related: Honestly, no clue
Quite the polar opposite of the above album, Copeland has a much more fresh and nuanced take on outsider house. You'll hear none of the aforementioned aesthetic trappings on this record. Instead, the only real similarity is the (intentionally) lo-fi sound. The use of samples here is far more varied and creative, and you can tell he was trying to have fun with it by meshing some strange and frankly ugly sounds with a strong, rhythmic backbone. Only trouble is, these samples can be hit or miss, and often these tracks far overstay their welcome. In general some songs straight up could have been cut and there is a lack of cohesion between tracks. From my understanding, this is a new direction in sound for Copeland, and this album seems like a trial run. His other album also released this year is a lot shorter, so I look forward to checking that out for hopefully a more condensed and fully realized version of this sound. Still, I enjoyed this album and I recommend it if you're into off-kilter beats.
>Stand-outs: Convoy, Qualified, Copacabana
Jack Wilson
Fun fact: There has never been good music made by an artist whose name is a pop culture reference
Joshua Gonzalez
The Beatles are a pop culture reference
Nolan Lee
name 1 good beatles song
Owen Lewis
I Wonder How I Wonder Why
Jeremiah Lee
Agree completely, Copeland's take on outsider house is sooo refreshing. Looking forward to your thoughts on Goofballs once you get around to it.
Jaxon Cruz
Yeah I will definitely check it out. Either it'll be on my next chart or I'll just listen to it in the next week or so.
Charles Martinez
rmember frends healthy sleep schedules are for SQUARES and silly beans too and all good music sounds better at night
Nathan Scott
shut up lol you dont know anything about the beatles
Logan Wood
why the fuck do you guys not like this its so pretty
Blake Jackson
they do it just for the rating curve
Wyatt Mitchell
im just gonna review this like i didn't have to leave before i saw them play last nite
Teen Suicide - I Will Be My Own Hell Because There Is a Devil Inside My Body (2012) >lo-fi indie, midwest emo
Super melodramatic and over-the-top, with a certain enough charm to it. This coasts on the fact that it has a really great sound to it. Ray utilizes lo-fi to its full extent, deftly creating dense, scratchy, shoegaze-influenced soundscapes, even if the songwriting itself may not be that great. Ray carves out some cool melodies here and there, he just tries too hard to make his music something it's not—unique.
2.0+
Daniel Lee
you can't be sure about that but i know with certainty you dont know anything about me
Josiah James
grouper aesthetic is the most basic ass shit tho next ur gonna start liking nsb baka
Daniel Thomas
surprisingly enough the friends of mine w the more reasonable curves panned this the most i already like nsb. also i feel like this basic aesthetic is pretty aligned with my basic taste haha
Connor Nelson
>he doesn't like Strawberry Fields Forever or Rain
I like DJ Shadow endtroducing and Avalanches Since I left you and Akale Wube Mata and japanese rock and 80s arcade game music
Anyone have suggestions that are maybe vaguely in line with anything I listed?
Jaxson Hall
Cornelius - Fantasma pretty much covers all of those
Evan Perez
>lo-fi indie >2017
was just typing this
Dylan Foster
also the follow-up, Point, is quite good
Adam Harris
hey daily these are 9 albums I listened to for the first time recently and enjoyed open to recs if anyone has some :)
Leo Young
Smog - The Doctor Came at Dawn Charles Cohen - Brother I Prove You Wrong Usti Waya - From Dust, We Rise
Liam Carter
belong - october language valium aggelein - hier kommt der schwarze mond john maus - songs
Nolan Campbell
if you're listening to bad music rn i'm gonna kick u in the balls
Eli Russell
thanks lads
Hunter Martinez
maybe it's cos i'm starting to get drunk but this is a million times better than I remember it and I already loved it
between jefre-cantue ledesma and lift to experience i'd say you need to hear even oxen- arrayed above the seraphim lights pretty bad. >Smog - The Doctor Came at Dawn I love this album so much
Aaron Sullivan
[spoiler]if you post in spoiler only people with good taste can read your posts[/spoiler]
solo percussion performance, composition by toshio hosokawa
Elijah Gutierrez
missed in the last thread, wanna reply like fish boie did
i'd definitely argue that /daily/ does have a decently big influence on the popularity of certain lesser-known albums, but that rarely extends outside our little bubble. albums/artists that get associated with certain trips here (fishmans/pale cocoon:FISH; sondre lerche:nyar; dialoghi del presente:jangle; khana rung thawi:torts) may get large followings around here and on RYM because they're constantly posted or talked about by trips here, but that really means little outside of RYM ratings or last.fm plays. lots of these albums were already decently RYM popular before /daily/ came around as well. fishmans may not have had the internet popularity they did before /daily/ began, but long season was already starting to get popular before FISH came around. for me, at least, people seem to associate me with albums like bad timing, key to the kingdom, and logic songs, even though I picked all of them up due to their prior semi-popularity on the site. bad timing already had 700 or so RYM ratings, key to the kingdom was a givingbear album before i started memeing it, and i picked up logic songs from a sharethread. /daily/ is incredible, i love it with all my heart and i've spent three years of my life on here, but it's really not that big of a thing outside of the people that regularly come here.
also, i have 21345 RYM pageviews
Ryan Harris
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Jayden Gonzalez
finally got around to this and i wish the user who randomy posted about it about month ago hadn't just fucked off cuz this music makes me cry, and this is supposed to be their worst thing
Liam Reed
also i'd like to add to the RYM visit discussion yesterday
holy shit i hate myself
Brayden Hernandez
>but that really means little outside of RYM ratings or last.fm plays this is the most important thing I think you said. There is little contact with the Sup Forums, /daily/, RYM, last.fm bubble with the majority of the music world.
>long season was already starting to get popular before FISH came around vry true
fuckkkkkkkk lol
Aiden Hughes
jesus christ, my internet connection is fucked
>Bjork - Homogenic I remember listening to this a long time ago and not liking it that much. I'm still not a fan of art pop in general, but this time I focused more on the trip hop/IDM instrumentals and I got a lot more enjoyment. 3.5
>Superchunk - Here's Where The Strings Come In This kind of awkward almost emo but pretty much just slow-ish indie rock reminds me of Seam a lot. I like it. 3.0+
>The Chinese Stars - A Rare Sensation You can't be this pervasively and relentlessly grating by accident. It's only 29 minutes long, but hearing the exact same irritating vocals and disjointed, messy instrumentation on every song made it feel twice as long. 1.0
Nathaniel Watson
fucking shit
Brayden Gray
>There is little contact with the Sup Forums, /daily/, RYM, last.fm bubble with the majority of the music world or just the majority of the world in general
which is why i hate when people on RYM/Sup Forums act like NMH or the microphones are some super famous arena filling acts when i'm sure most people on the streets wouldn't have a fucking clue who either of them are
Ethan Russell
not even a hot take, I just like that sort of music when drunk
Blake Harris
If anyone wants to hear a weird 2017 release, this is worth checking out. Throat singing, jew's harp (aka khomus, pronounced "ho moose"), improvised (and incredibly realistic) animal noises, weird tribal drumming, basically the weirdest New Age album ever. All done by one very odd shamanist woman from Yakutia.
it is a lot of fun I could go for a mosh right now
Jacob Murphy
"spiritual" as in taking drugs at an edm festival
finally got around to sondre lerche, I see
Julian Hughes
More like drugs in some decrepit piece of commie architecture in the woods somewhere, really
Colton Cruz
The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005) >chamber pop, indie pop, indie folk
I definitely admire this album more than I actually like it. Indie folk is generally a genre I enjoy, but it's really obvious to see that most artists in the genre adhere to specific lyrical conventions that essentially boil down to being sad. It's an inherently personal genre, so it's interesting to see an album that focuses more on storytelling, folklore, and myths over anything else (that's not ITAOTS). The storytelling here is second to none, it's unique and above all it's incredibly well done. The music is pretty much the opposite of that, it's your standard poppy indie folk stuff. Nothing bad, just incredibly bland and basic, for lack of better words.
2.0+
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire (2004) >indie pop
Does often seem like a pale imitation of some other mid-00s indie bands. To blatantly swipe from a RYM review "Like Arcade Fire without heart-scattering emotion; Like Broken Social Scene without badass sounds; Like the Smiths without drama and existencialist irony; Like the Cure without depression", this album takes a large amount of influence from other bands without ever truly capturing what makes those bands memorable. While this may not be a memorable, essential album it's a very solid one. "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" is a fantastic song, and the grandiose chamber pop sound that makes up much of this is inherently listenable without being too obvious.
2.5+
(1/2)
Gavin Ortiz
(2/2)
Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming (2011) >soul
Yeah, a lot of modern day soul artists like Bradley have very derivative sounds, but you'd really be hard-pressed to find soul this good and pure past the '70s. Leon Bridges and Aloe Blacc have the classic sound down pat, but they pale in comparison to Bradley, who brings an authenticity to the sound that truly makes it sound like a lost album from the classic days of soul. Bradley's vocals are among the most passionate, gritty, and raw I've ever heard, the man oozes soul from every pour and puts his whole heart into every single word he sings. His band is great too, not the most original surely, but tight as hell and the perfect compliment to Bradley. R.I.P. Mr. Bradley, I wish I'd gotten into your music sooner.
3.0+
Adult Mom - Momentary Lapse of Happily (2015) >indie pop, signer/songwriter
An affable, well put-together indie pop record that falls prey to every single standard convention of the genre. The lyrics are the standout, an anxious, messy collection of starkly personal musings which deserve to be paired with much more interesting songs.
2.0
James Campbell
>The lyrics are the standout, an anxious, messy collection of starkly personal musings which deserve to be paired with much more interesting songs. well shit
William Robinson
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Joseph Barnes
remembering something out of nowhere rn:
back in january 2015 when I was bigger on them, Aureate Gloom by of Montreal leaked (scheduled for release in march) a couple months early. I thought at the time "how the hell does stuff like this even happen? How can a band be sitting on 100% finished material for that length of time?" I understand there's a lot of people, operations, meetings, handshaking, setting up tours, promotional work, etc. when it comes to anyone making money to any capacity the music industry, so I can see why an artist might choose to wait on releasing their music until all of that is figured out, but how can a band have something completely finished that they choose to sit on for that long? Does it really take months to do all of that? Wouldn't all of the business elements of running a band that needs time and effort be done in the process of making that album and not put aside on until afterwards?
So I looked into it and apparently albums leaking months or in some cases years before their intended release wasn't very uncommon, especially in the age of the early Internet. It just confuses me how it happens so often.
not really trying to make a point or anything, just something that was on my mind. I'd love some further insight into this though
charles bradley kicks so much ass. I'm glad I got to see him before he peaced out
get that waits
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Ayden Murphy
The new Schwee Schwee and Chelsea Wolfe leaked well ahead of time too I don't think they were watermarked either, which means someone who worked on the album must have been angry
The way some bootlegs happen is pretty fascinating too, I think the old Dream Syndicate and Angus MacLise bootlegs released because some disgruntled intern copied whatever tapes he could find laying around
Tyler Wood
the english translation of nekojishi came out today on steam I've been playing it all day my friends have accepted my confirmed furfaggotry i just applied the R18 patch from their website anyone got some degenerate-core?
Most of the time it's just that the label wants the album/singles released at a certain time. Like, take Rihanna for example. Def Jam undoubtedly decided to release "Good Girls Gone Bad" on June 5, 2007 to capitalize on the "song of the summer" phenomenon. However, they must have decided her subsequent sound was more winter-worthy, as her next several albums ("Rated R," "Loud," "Talk That Talk," and "Unapologetic") were all released in Novembers of their respective years (2009, '10, '11, '12).
One more hilarious thing to remember about Rihanna's marketing career is that the hit singles "Disturbia" and "Rehab" from the album Good Girls Gone Bad were released in 2008, almost a year after they came out on the 2007 album. And they only hit the charts when they were sent to radio stations as singles!
But desu I was surprised to learn how the business can work like that. One of my good friends interned at Columbia (iirc?) last summer, and her team was a few months into planning the promotion and release strategy for the new Towkio single, "Drift." If you were not aware, Towkio is an up-and-coming Post Malone knock-off-ish rapper with a few hundred thousand monthly Spotify listeners. Basically, he's not much (yet, optimistically). Regardless, the label had the release of just that one single planned months in advance. Since it now only has just over one million plays on Spotify, I reckon it's considered a dud, but I think that's beside the point.
So yeah, labels are pretty good at marketing if anything. Let's not forget how long Will Toledo toiled away on bandcamp producing amazing albums for years, only to blow up overnight after release two mediocre albums... on Matador. I posted the lyrics to Twin Fantasy on Genius before he blew up, and I get notifications whenever those songs are annotated, and it was really funny to see the annotations start rolling in when he signed to Matador, before he even released Teens of Style.
Isaiah Evans
Sorry, correction:
"Disturbia" was newly recorded for "Good Girls Gone Bad: Reloaded," which was released in 2008 with the new single, but "Rehab" was indeed only released as a single on October 6, 2008, well over a year after it appeared on the original album in May 2007.
But yeah, Rehab didn't even enter the charts until November 2008.
Jacob Flores
super enjoyable album, recommended
Nicholas Ross
wdhmbt
i'm so jealous, i'd have loved to see him live :(
i remember panda bear vs the grim reaper being leaked like 5 months before its release
i didn't know how to add it to my album log since it was technically from the future lmao
Carter Gutierrez
ye i should work on more coil thx user
Luis Wright
use dubtrack instead of plug
Andrew Johnson
delete
Camden Ross
i like the twink cat
Lincoln James
Honestly all three of them I love I'm gonna 100% this shit just got to one of the sex scenes in the R18 version (which still supports steam achievements!) jesus christ this is more graphic than I was expecting I love this shit
Daniel Anderson
gonna hunt you with a knife
gonna hunt you with a shotgun
not gonna hunt you but this is sinful you know
Dylan Kelly
dont worry im in canada
Brody Flores
if you stab me in the throat I might be able to make a Tom Waits album