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.
christ String Quartet 2 flew by. it was an experience. not the monolith i was expecting, every minute was beautiful and enjoyable. almost invigorating?
dickhead tell me your thoughts on Dig Lazarus Dig i've been arguing with a few other cave fans about it
Easton Stewart
@Breadhead Don't worry I haven't forgotten your chart, pruning my massive backlog to a manageable size
@Jangle and Trans I'll do both your listenalongs in due time
Xavier Martinez
What's up, /dorkly/, Brogwessor Brovenglut here, telling you all to beef up, fuckin' nerds.
The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume I, by Kitaro >new age, progressive electronic, traditional Japanese music, meditation music
Kūkai was, amongst other things, a scholar. He is attributed with inventing the 'kana' syllabary and, while unattested, Kūkai might have written the famous Iroha poem as well. Furthermore, he is the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism. Like Kūkai, Kitaro seeks to, if not reinvent, at least reinvigorate the New Age with a tribute to the Shingon founder. Already the name alludes to a timeline and on Volume I, I hear an exploratory sound, an open sound, where Kitaro does his utmost to avoid the pastiche of his genre. While the album is primarily driven by flowing synth leads, the accompaniment is flanked by flute, tribal drumming and even a David Gilmore-esque dreamscape guitar lead on “Flow”. The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume I is not a progressive masterpiece, though, but it is soothing sonic experience where the composition is built on every up-going chord progression and never takes a turn to the somber or melancholic. I can almost hear the chanting of the Kokuzō mantra and the revelation thereafter, through the beautiful harmonic lines of the choir and the synth lead on “The Wind”. Authentic, expressive and well-orchestrated, albeit a tad too comfortable.
2.5 (Good)
RNG DECIDES NEXT: 3.2 = Made in Altan Urag, by Altan Urag
Ayden Allen
loool
Lincoln Perry
Has anyone listened to the new Baths album?
It was probably my most anticipated album of the last few years.
It mostly lived up to my expectations, wouldve loved a bit more beats like on Cerulean but songs like Adam Copies are s i c k
Gabriel Reyes
idk kinda like grinderman I don't like the style that much and it's also one of my least listened ones title track is pretty good and has some other nice songs but feels kinda weak in comparison to the rest of his discog to me
Carter Morales
understandable but i feel like it opens up conceptually if you allow it it's obviously a departure from his usual sound but his grinderman/abattoir blues era was the kick up the arse his music needed after the drop that was nocturama - we call upon the author is also his best writers-block song, beating out king ink and there she goes
Evan Turner
LISTENALONG SCHEDULE
Just used a randomizer, here's the order. We can push a couple dates back or forward a few days due to holidays, but save this so you'll remember.
I'll have this weekend's pick in just a little.
Alexander James
>I'm last brb kill self
Cooper Reyes
I'm listening to Streetcleaner walking through the rich neighborhoods. This albums boring as shit. Can I get some recs to listen to instead? Anything on Spotify or Apple Music. pic related is what it looks like.
Easton Nguyen
>Can I get some recs to listen to instead? Is Bengt Berger's "Bitter Funeral Beer" on spotify?
Gavin Gomez
none of you have the capacity to write quality criticism
Evan Gutierrez
Rec me something for my mansion walk
Jackson Flores
>none of you have the capacity to write quality criticism You're a big ding dong with a tiny ding dong.
Get criticized, son.
Ryder Wood
Hello there. I'm kinda new to daily.
Here's a chart of my fav albums, rec me thing either close to those style of albums you listened recently. I'm opened to pretty much all the genres.
Yep, Goth-Trad, Benga, Caspa, Coki & Loefah for instance. Thanks for the playlist, I'll check it out! And yeah, Figure is always active and goddamn his music style is always really nice to hear. Now he's getting to reacher other genres he's getting even nicer to hear from. From his last album Monster 8, I'd reccomand The Twilight Zone (video is very nice too), The Ring and Reverse Bear Trap.
Ethan Sanchez
Why isn't afro warrior on your chart when skream! is
Joshua Allen
It would easily be in the 100 chart, but I made a 40 one for easier purposes to be quite honest.
William Bell
>new Baths album holy shit, how did i miss that? gonna listen to it rn
Henry Reyes
LISTENALONG PICK #116
Creme Soda - Tricky Zingers
Fine to hate it, and say what you will, but I think it’s a unique style.
gonna take the TOEFL in a couple hours, haven't opened an english textbook in years, don't know how to feel.
anyway >Stereolab - Peng! A record that often gets dismissed in what is the great discography of Stereolab, yet I think an important one to get the full picture of the band and the progression of their sound, here we find a watered-down version of them, maybe at their poppiest. The krautrock and tvu (you know what song) influences are pretty clear however the album never moves too far from a Noise Pop sound. 6+
Isaac Bell
Holy shit The new fucking Jaden Smith album starts with a 4-part multitrack intro that's exactly 13:37 long and it's the most beautiful thing to be released this year Even if the rest of this album pales, Jaden Smith of all people just delivered the best 14 minutes of music this year.
Carter Barnes
lmao. you get tix to brockhampton bro??? you like that EXPerimental hip hop?? a lil alt-rnb??? some uhhh BON IVER??? 22 A MILLION???? DIRTY PROJECTORS?????? YOU LIKE THAT FRANK OCEAN BRO??????? YOU LIKE THAT "PRODUCTION"?????? wow so SMOooth.... they really out here killin it bruh....
Aaron Foster
holy shit his rapping sounds like if Lil B wasn't a meme...
Cooper Jackson
Fuck brockhampton keep kevin on backup. I'm impressed. He's going on about conspiracy theories and shit this is crazy.
Jason Rodriguez
best taste ITT desu Light Bringer - Scenes of Infinity Hibria - Defying the Rules Orden Ogan - To the End Cardiacs - Sing to God Sikth - Death of a Dead Day Hammerforce - Access Denied Fact - s/t Fail Emotions - Speed of Light Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - Feeling of Unity Terravita - The Power of Fire the new Infected Mushroom cYsmix - Voodooism youtube.com/watch?v=SyORw8bee4o
Jason Hughes
Wow, wasn't expecting that to be honest. Thanks! I will add all of this to my long listenlist!
Aaron Rivera
Oh, also, I want to get to listen to Baths, so which album should I listen first?
Nathaniel Davis
MBDTF isn't very good so far.
(fish) i will forgive you this time. but not again.
(jangle) this looks interesting.
(lamb) braxton is v good
yeah it was a lot less exhausting than i expected. i always hear rain forest aesthetics applied to it, which works well to me.
goddamnit why am i always so late AAAA
Ian Williams
Cerulean
Josiah Evans
I really hate that people overrate it so much because it does have some good songs on it. Monster, Lost in the World, and Gorgeous are good tracks in particular. Will still be interested to hear ur thots tho
Wyatt Wood
Has some great songs for sure, but nobody talks about how nearly unlistenable others are
Hudson Robinson
monster is the only one so far that hasn't blown ass honestly was expecting the opener to at least be catchy with its sample, but it wasn't at all. #1 album of 2010
Jeremiah Johnson
also anyone know some good poets? i wanna get read. the more avant-teen the better.
Justin Smith
Kanye west
Robert Martin
>built a house up on that ass >that's an ass-tate
Noah Baker
Homer
Owen Smith
Keep It Heavy deserves to be 8 minutes long And what kind of madman releases their listenalong as a jpg?
Ryan Johnson
prolly not a bad call. cute ball
Asher Smith
Rick Ross and Kanye aren't really good rappers at all are they
Levi White
Nope. I never understood how Rick Ross got so popular.
Landon Perry
...
Jackson Smith
I can’t take post Internet teens seriously if they don’t like Kanye desu
Chase Long
i liked a few beats on yeezus. nicki's verse on monster is rly good.
Elijah James
Listen to 808s
Luis Diaz
i've listened to Twin Infinitives about 4 times. it's still shit. i'm not going to waste any more of my time on post-heroin garage rock, much less on some pop rap record that i don't like the biggest single off of..
Thomas Davis
What is your favorite album of the 2010s so far, /daily/?
Ethan Sanders
MBDTF
Ayden Mitchell
This but unironically if fka twigs didn’t exist
Evan Parker
Your mistake was listening to twin infinitives at all, it’s trash
Henry Allen
for real though, it's probably the 2013 Twin Infinitives reissue
Ethan Young
but really it's probably Oversteps :x
Jose Price
>Favorite overall release Jim O'Rourke's Fast Car
>Favorite Album either Holograms - s/t or Unsilent Death
updated this a couple days ago after hearing Imperial.
Nathan Price
Damn you like Nails that much?
Michael Ramirez
yussss
grindcore kicks so much ass when its done right and nails are easily one of the best bands in that genre of this decade
Levi Lopez
Yeah! What grindcore do you like otherwise???
Jacob Scott
>Mel-Banana >Nails >The Books >Autechre good taste all around
>nails are easily one of the best bands in that genre of this decade If only they didn't split up after three albums
Jacob Watson
Why is he so effay bros?
Aaron Collins
basic bitch shit
Insect Warfare, Gridlink, Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, the list goes on...
It's a genre I'd like to get into more but feel like if I did a lot at once I'd get burned out very fast by it
thnk u lad
they split up? I didn't hear about that
hoo
Aaron Diaz
Hiro please
Jeremiah Ross
Where TF is Discordance Axis and Gridlink..... Smdh......
Btw listen to the Orchid / Pig Destroyer split, the orchid part sucks pretty much but the Pig Destroyer part is crazy
David Jones
I put gridlink in there but I forgot abt DA srry :(( they're good though
>3 Orchid songs >8 Nails songs sounds about right. Will backlog
Austin Murphy
Now that I'm checking it it seems they didn't but I remember reading it somewhere after YWNBOOU dropped
Nicholas Smith
haven't updated in a bit
>X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents I generally prefer my punk as loud and/or angry as possible, but this band has the chops and attitude to be very entertaining without looking for extremes. They're extremely catchy on songs like Identity and Oh Bondage Up Yours (I listened to the bonus track reissue) and Poly Styrene is a great vocalist with good lyrics that largely discuss the insanities and inanities of hyperconsumerism. The album could maybe do with a little less sax, the "repeat the vocal melody ON SAX" formula gets old quick, but otherwise, no real complaints. Could see this becoming a 3.5 depending on how often I return to this. 3.0+
>KUL - The Eye It's Björk! Wow! Sadly she hadn't really found her calling yet, she doesn't sound great paired with this dark post-punk sound most of the time, it's too ugly. Her vocals an sich are actually bad on the opening track, which is kinda shocking, but luckily her vocals are fine otherwise, if a little misplaced. Exception to the rule is Dismembered, which is by far the catchiest and best track on the album. Otherwise the album's an interesting oddity showing Björk's roots (sort of) while serving some decent murky post-punk tracks and a surprising little tribal percussion track at the end. Ultimately it sounds like a band that hasn't come into its own yet, though, and it wouldn't have gained traction if Björk didn't end up being as big as she is. 2.5+
>Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach Sorry, it's nothing more than a fun gimmick with low replay value. Bach's compositions are solid enough to survive the transition to an early Moog synthesizer and it's all pleasant enough but yeah, it didn't survive the test of time too well and is more of a novelty than anything else. 2.5-
Jason Foster
loud city song
Easton Stewart
Was just thinking of this R Plus Seven Both Joanna Newsom albums
David Bailey
Sorry this is taking so long to finish, had study groups for finals and had to drop my brother off at his first school dance yesterday and today was more studying. Also rewatched It’s such a Beautiful Day and currently watching The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Anyway enough with the blog post back to the “reviews.”
>Boces – Mercury Rev
This was some of the most fun I’ve had with an album in a long time. Every song is just so full of charisma and charm that I couldn’t help but smile the entire time I was listening to it. Great the entire way through.
7/10
>Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
Multiple times I thought I was listening to some acoustic version of Eureka. It’s pleasant and nice like all of Drake’s work but there many points where all the other instruments get in the way of everything else.
5/10
>Pure Grava – Ween
This album sounds very ween. Crazy, sporadic, and totally not meant for me. Still pretty fun though.
5/10
>Chi – The Original Recordings
Sounds like if Residents did an ambient album that’s not Eskimo. Interesting at times but boring most of the time.
4/10
>Science 1994 – Indian summer
Some great hardcore, not amazing but not bad.
5/10
>Quebec – Ween
All over the place in the best way possible. Ween manages to cover so many ideas so creatively.
6/10
>Tundra – Lakker
Sounds almost like the burial and James Ferraro crossover we never got. Lots of harsh and lush tones, choirs in the background, and beats that keep the entire thing together. It is fantastic.
6/10
>I Trawl the Megahertz - Paddy Mcaloon
Where has this been my entire life? Title track is god damn amazing. Everything else is amazing as well, even if it can’t beat the S/T. Utterly fantastic.
7/10
This was a lot of fun, thanks for all the recs guys! What do I do now?
Mason Howard
You could pick some trips off the /daily/core chart. Make sure to pick people you think you won't have compatible taste with, you'll either discover something new that you like and surprise yourself, or make someone upset. Win win.
Cameron Roberts
>that indian summer score
Logan Hughes
sondre lerche - pleasure
Chase Wilson
Too bad you didn't like CHI, I thought it was above average for something weird sounding as Dutch tribal ambiance and yeah Megahertz was just as stunning when I first heard it
Don’t even try to pretend that wasn’t you nyar!!!! (Also I bought a book that Rothko wrote on his philosophy on art etc so I’ll tell you about it once it finished :))))
+yeezys ~tbk, gloss drop, r+7, product -t++, luxury problems, gp, modern jester, the hype williams release even tho i havent heard it but i know theyre hakcs
Lol it genuinely wasn't! Once in a while an user posts something like this and I think they do it to make me question my memory. Like, I don't remember posting this! But who else would!? Excellent /daily/ mischief afoot.
Thanks, I'd love to hear about that book!
Gavin Smith
one down
Asher Gomez
wasn't planning on participating but even my brother started talking about this group so I might as well
Leo Bennett
two down
Jaxon Sanchez
>Album - Artist
I would say either make a month chart for december and chill until then, or do a tourney, or make a chart in a certain style you want to explore
Austin Ramirez
loool
Alexander Brooks
Can one of you fellas help me out? Can't for the life of me find an album. I believe it's Japanese punk jazz with a yellow album cover and the guy on the cover has a monkey or something on his shoulder
