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, such as Sondre Lerche and Jens Lekman. 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.
not sure about meme but a couple ppl here like him night falls is a bit of a masterpiece imo
Kayden Flores
it's a splendid lil album. glad to see some love for it round here.
thinking of going through the /daily/ favs like dex did. wish me luck boys
Brody Powell
this was completely underwhelming and a massive waste of time goddamn
Christopher Watson
"The differences between natural silence and digital silence"
After finishing it throughout the day when I could have listened to anything else, yes I agree At least The Earth and the Sky was more enjoyable. The comment boxes on these releases are a delight at least
Juan King
I understand the use of silence, I get it, but if you're going to use long stretches of silence puncuated by sound, at least make the sound interesting or sastifying. not a single swell in the entire 6 hour run time was worth the wait. >The comment boxes on these releases are a delight at least pic related had me chuckling
Sebastian Nguyen
>not a single swell in the entire 6 hour run time was worth the wait . >mfw the digital silence IS the swell
Benjamin Perez
fuck, ya got me
Hunter James
>Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny - Different Trains; Electric Counterpart (Steve Reich)
different from what i expected going into my first Reich comp. overall pleasant tones built around scraps of dialogue, nifty idea i guess, just didn't seem as poignant as the story behind it would lead one to believe. Metheny's overdubbed guitar was nice but didn't hit me at my core or anything. will definitely revisit this one.
2.5/5
>Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
it's noisy! as many cool little antics and tones as this album had to offer its length (specifically the two 18 min tracks) really got to me. what i thought were novel ideas mixed in with some yawns. i'm no noise expert though. i just like wolf eyes.
2/5
thanks as always to Accel for the recs. if y'all want me to drone a few albums off of you remember i'm always willing
Leo White
Criminy hoping Reich warms up on you in the future. Stick (the other trip that's a fan of Dilloway here) actually likes the yawn parts of Jester more than the noisy parts-- I always hear them as being quietly malicious and inhuman, much like Dilloway's choice of cover art implies
Isaiah Torres
certainly can't deny there's a weird weird feeling to modern jester, kinda demented i guess
Nolan Stewart
Big Thief - Capacity (2017) >indie rock
Heartfelt and languid indie rock. There's a detached folky influence to this that sets it apart, the vocals are beautiful and the reverb-soaked instrumentation is confident and a perfect compliment to the vocals. The songwriting and the basic sound of this is really nothing new at all, but it's done in such a seemingly fresh and enjoyable manner.
3.0-
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987) >hard rock
This was basically a hate listen mixed with a "I've been playing a lot of Guitar Hero" listen, so I wasn't expecting terribly much. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for "Welcome to the Jungle", along with Slash's guitar theatrics on the whole record, and boy do I hate the rest of this. A lot of people make a big fuss about Axl Rose supposedly having the biggest range out of any mainstream single, but what worth is that if he sounds so goddamn irritating on every song here? He has the most irritatingly nasal, scratchy voice, the ballads are unbearable because of him and the more hard-rocking songs don't fare much better either. The songwriting really isn't that bad here, "Mr. Brownstone" especially has a catchy melody, the vocals are just so damn terrible, and it's a horribly repetitive, mind-numbing album as well. Not a fan, as is to be expected.
0.5+
Jason Martin
Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink performing Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" (1986) >symphony, modern classical
If I get a good nights sleep, study up on the music, and really thoroughly examine every last note of the piece, I still can't write about classical music worth a damn. So me now, at 1:30 AM after spending the whole day writing various papers, is not even going to try and talk about this. At the end of the day, I /really/ adored this. Every choral part here is flooring, and the heavy empahsis on contrasts between loud and soft sections is beautiful.
3.5+
أم كلثوم [Umm Kulthum] - إسأل روحك (Is'al rouhak) (1969) >traditional arabic pop
This I just couldn't get into at all. The vocals are phenomenal, as is to be expected, I just wasn't feeling everything else that much at all. Traditional pop doesn't appeal to me that much regardless of where it's from, I guess.
2.5
Joey Bada$$ - 1999 (2012) >boom bap, east coast hip hop, jazz rap
This is very much a mixtape, with all the negatives and positives that come with it. It's an incredibly endearing piece of work, Bada$$ has a lot of youthful energy on the mic, as do all of his Pro Era collaborators. The fact that practically every beat is sampled is oddly endearing as well, and the beat selection is admittedly great. A lot of it does sadly feel very unfinished, and there's little done to the beats that really makes this much more than a showcase for Bada$$' rapping skills, no matter how good they may be. "Pennyroyal" is so good, though.
2.5+
Josiah Sullivan
Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967) >chamber folk
Desertshore is one of my favorite albums, yeah, but I really, really wish this album was entirely in the beautiful chamber folk style of the first couple tracks. It's so different from the stuff she'd later do, but so great in its own way. Nico experiments more towards the end of this album, and it doesn't work out terribly well. "It Was a Pleasure Then" boasts some guitar work from Lou Reed, yet is otherwise practically unlistenable, and there are just some really bland tracks on the b-side.
2.5+
Lincoln Russell
>That chair >Those haircuts >Those shoes What country in Eastern Europe is this?
Connor Garcia
Ow wow!
My tajik is lame as fuck, being a mix of tajik and pamir and russian. I have moved out of Tajikistan when I was like 2 months old dude.
Ummmmm finding FLAC and 320 is pretty damn hard, but my dad has some collection. I will probably see him soon and will ask for some CDs to rip.
Jordan Powell
totally agree with that Big Thief description, I know many people that shit on them for bringing nothing new but damn they know how to make indie rock that is on another level from the other million bands doing the same
Xavier Torres
Also good morning /daily/!
Last flights of the year are this week! Some team building/getting drunk event this week and then a roadtrip from Riga to Warsaw.
Listened to pretty much all the recs last night. Near Death Experience was especially enjoyable. It's like a rant of a misanthropic Steve Albini who is just pissed off about how everything works in this world.
Nolan Jackson
and Star Wars was great. I really disliked The Force Awakens upon my first viewing but left the theatre speechless yesterday.
Brandon Martinez
I know I recommended duncan avoid to someome but I dont remember who it was someone remind me to redownload entity's catalogue tomorrow at some point, I really should revisit it. I've made it a goal to have some kind of release on a label next year and best case scenario would be a release with them lol
Ian Collins
redownload entity's catalogue tomorrow at some point, you really should revisit it.
Isaiah Long
sick thanks
Adrian Hughes
bump narkopop sucks, bois
Ayden Cox
the people demand a lil wayne review
Wyatt Brooks
>Near Death Experience was especially enjoyable. knew you'd like it, glad you like it, more should like it
but there is nothing to review
Luke Myers
Infused by his extreme love of derivative rock music, Lil' Wayne brings in some rock chops with some fire in this first post-Carter III misstep. It's miles ahead of, for example, Revival with all the rock sampling, so I kinda did enjoy some bits and pieces. Plus Wayne's lines are hilarious.
At the end of the day it is still Weezy though, so....
4/10
Josiah Moore
(The Mads) >I am generally a fan of genres that have a distorted, and/or melodic sound, or a "transcendental" sounds boy do i have a band for you
Jack Wood
ur gonna need it, kid...
Jayden Jenkins
are you this shane btw
Isaac Baker
Can anyone recommend me anything that sounds like negativland or are they just too unique?
Luke Diaz
I think this is the most recent
Justin Collins
I'll update this soon though, Transgod have changed his a lot and I've made some other small changes
Josiah Moore
...
Tyler Ward
Best of luck big guy, its a lot of fun Lamb also has some changes that need done as well.
Hunter Baker
...
James Cruz
whos man is this
Brody Watson
me
Cooper Morales
...
Jacob Nguyen
big nose
Anthony Gray
Bulbous
Elijah Wilson
...
Kayden Morris
helk
Liam Reed
ACK
Owen Johnson
>good king rodriglas Oh wow this is a really good jolly name
Justin Lee
thnx someone else here came up with it for me though. very proud of them.
Bentley White
Someone throw me five recs.
Also I'm thinking on doing Merzbox in January, someone convince me otherwise or something.
You might enjoy The Books - The Way Out
Get Sissy Spacek - S/T, way better than Modern Jester.
Nolan Garcia
nah merzbox is fun Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke - Wakes on Cerulean Melt-Banana - "Charlie" Sun Watcher - Two and a Half Men Type - time to die
David Morales
You should do the merzbox. 5 recs: Infest- no man's slave Dave bixby- ode to Quetzalcoatl Bill Evans and Jim hall - undercurrents Arsedestroyer- teenass revolt Modest mouse- everywhere and his nasty parlor tricks
Jayden Martinez
don't forget to add me big guy
Aaron Watson
pictured here is the near-exact type of album i have been looking for for about 200 years
the vocals and spoken word samples do exactly what i expect/want repurposed phrases to do (i.e., the repetition/distortion of the phrase makes the quotidian idea behind it become alien, and, therefore, novel, and it basically reengages the listener in the entire process of understanding a phrase previously locked inside its definition) and the music is so pretty and unintrusive (while remaining entirely engaging and catchy) that it seems to serve mostly as emotional context. the books are obviously focused on the vocals/samples, and they make the music a sort of cushion, an environment that both informs and makes more apparent their (i.e., the vocals and samples') emotional intent and secondary (but now primary), distorted meaning.
it just makes a lot of sense to me, and it's got a lot of pretty and catchy strings and guitars and synths, enough that it's engaging in a surface-level, sonic way without all the whatever about the samples and stuff.
Julian Miller
You know the drill lads.
Zachary Bell
(crunch) Lol, thanks. I always feel weird giving out so many good scores but I think that just means I've gotten better at finding music that's up my alley?
(co) I didn't know how much of their stuff (or free improv in general) was linked to visual performance, so I'll have to look into it! Good to know.
Tyler Watson
>Type - time to die Gonna need a link for this one
finished finals friday and been drunk listening to Molina since its been good
is this an album cover and if so whats the album didnt see anything on google reverse search
Jace Nelson
>black background and dark font color nigga knows nothing of design i see
Jaxon Richardson
Concealer - No Time To Chill
Justin Perez
you made it sound like you found a 9/10 but you gave it a 7
Which is about right
Cooper Jackson
it could grow on me like it didnt blow me away immediately but once i get to know it better i think its score will rise
Kevin Clark
Rod is dailys prime tryhard poser dont ever listen to him
Connor Reyes
i like long noises. not much more to it than that.
Cooper Martin
how do you like this long japanese nose
Austin Taylor
tfw will toledo butchers his masterpiece
Lincoln Ward
oh he's come out as trans now?
Josiah Johnson
one time when i was really young i had only seen pictures of cacti with big thorns, so when i saw one with small thorns i thought it would be a secret soft kind of cactus so i grabbed it and had to pick tiny thorns out of my hands for days. its nose looks like that cactus so i dislike it.
Elijah James
i actually am not sure what this post means
Ayden Rivera
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Luis Anderson
bum?
Colton Flores
Thee Oh Sees - Help >garage rock, noise rock, dem aussies
It is some alright garage rock but I was kinda expecting more, fell to the background for me a bit.
Favorite tracks: Peanut Butter Oven, Soda St. #1, Go Meet The Seed
Yoink - Yankee Oscar India November Kilo (7) >dissonant guitar fuckery, prog, experimental bandcamp stuff
This is kinda like that Baby Labour album I listened to a week ago, the noisy guitars and weird structures with the stops and starts, all that. It isn't as good as Baby Labour but it also works as great background music. I think a problem I kinda have with these underground Bandcamp releases is that they're usually only in Bandcamp so I don't return to them, because they aren't in my usual platform, Spotify although they are interesting. The cover art is cool.
William Watson
Forgot my fave tracks: Slapbacks, Tally's Toss, Spirit Bomb
Julian Long
and my goddamn nick
Joseph Sanders
>>dissonant guitar fuckery, experimental bandcamp stuff sounds p cool im gonna check it out
Joshua Long
V/A – Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation From The Norm (1978-1981) >Dance-Punk, Disco, Funk There are definitely a lot of highlights on this 2 hour compilation of oddball disco from ZE records (namely the absolutely fantastic Annie by Kid Creole, the disco version of Contort Yourself by James Chance/James White/whatever, Material’s Busting Out, Deputy of Love by Don Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band and Lizzy Mercier Descloux’ Fire which I was already familiar with) but there are also some bands featured here that don’t live up to those high standards (e.g. Cristina, Was (Not Was), Garçons, The Waitresses). There’s even some proto-rap on Coati Mundi’s Que Pasa/Me No Pop I. Overall, the first disc is much better than the second. Also, what’s up with a 1981 song talking about Gangsta rap (granted, it’s about Cowboys too)? 3/6
Angel Evans
Man youre like only half breed Tajik/Pamiri I know of who is into music. I guess we're a nonexistent breed. Do you have any Pamiri or Tajik music apart from those requested?
Robert Davis
/daily/ attracts all sorts of people from around the world. It must be a Soros funded plot, to trick people into becoming communists by having them listen to bad-avant music and inadvertently accept Marxism into their hearts. Only Dogwander, Avant-God, and Jangle (I think Bear and Letov might also fit into this category) aren't gommies.
I'm literally only here to push my taste on everyone else and maybe sometimes listen to new music
Aiden Perry
this is exactly what a Soros-funded neomarxist would say...
Samuel Price
jangle do u like this song its choral
Blake Evans
I peeped it and it was pretty nice; remind me after the 21st and I'll give it a proper listen.
Elijah Stewart
im not gonna remind u
Parker Cook
>John Coltrane - A Love Supreme I have never heard such emotion in Jazz. Coltrane somehow manages to show his entire life through his sax and it is a god damn site to behold. Every solo, every opening, he shows everyone who he is and how he feels. Elvin Jones is most likely inhuman based on this record, every solo, groove, and hit is perfect. What shocked me the most was his emotion on this. Jones is able to follow Coltrane not only with the feel of the song but the emotions of Coltrane. Along with the emotions, everyone on here is a monster player, playing some of the most complex stuff I've ever heard. One of Coltrane's best. 9/10 >Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come I have been sleeping on Coleman hot damn this is fantastic. Coleman and Cherry are amazing on here, from the solos to the moments of being free. Also the combo of Higgins and Haden is powerful. Both underrated come together to really keep the songs together while the other two are innovating the genre. I can't wait to listen to more. 8/10 >John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) Fahey is just as wonderful as all of his other compositions and just as beautiful. The entire album has this calming atmosphere that sucks you in. Everything is so serene and nice that you forget that this is one man and his guitar. Fahey makes it sound like a legion of guitar players is behind him creating such dense and complex music. Fahey really is something to behold. 8/10
Jayden Kelly
>John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane I'm not the biggest fan of Modal Jazz but this did it for me. Coltrane creates these wonderful jazzy environments that you just get lost in. Along with the atmosphere, the playing is great as well, in particular Freddie Hubbard's solo on Dahomey Dance. Beside that its some fine modal jazz. Not my type but still very nice. 7/10 >The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun I think I get it? This is the most chaotic free jazz I heard, its loud, its abrasive, it hurts to listen too. All I can do is just lay back and just accept whats coming at me, its a great feeling. I had no idea what would happen during my listening experience. Every time the music would change, either in dynamics or in terms of who's playing, I would be more sucked in. It has been a long time since an album has left me so in the dust that I had no idea what would happen in the next minute. An odd experience that I don't think I'll be able to replicate with any other album. Also that Crescendo in the s/t at the 10 min. mark is amazing. 8/10 >Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea BIG MEME. But in reality I love this album. Magnum's voice is so enjoyable in its own raw amateur way. The band is great and lo-fi. The lyrics go from stupid to great to further stupidity to sad as all hell. Its hard not to enjoy it. However it is still a BiG mEME. 7/10
Lincoln Cox
thanks bud. seeing transgod got rid of masked dancers hit me hard
Kevin Evans
>Magnum
Isaiah Richardson
Oops
Isaiah Sanders
do thinking fellers
John Wood
then uncle meat or spiritual unity
Cooper Price
Ayyyy ooohhhh somehow got through a chart at a reasonable pace. Some final thoughts:
[1/2]
Roscoe Mitchell - Bells for the South Side (2017) >Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
A big ol’ mind fuck of an album once again. Seems to be the unofficial theme for this chart honestly, I’ve been digging into a lot that’s outside my comfort zone.
Roscoe Mitchell is a member of the prolific Art Ensemble of Chicago, who’ve spent a whole career making weirded out avant-garde jazz. I’ll admit that I haven’t heard enough stuff to say this definitively - but this seems to be right along the lines of their “normal” style. Pretty weird but not so deep into free jazz that I dislike it.
The album kicks off with “Spatial Aspects of Sound”, a track which spends the majority of its 12 minute runtime weaving between silence and clanging instrumentation which adds a weird vibe to the whole thing. I think my biggest issue with free jazz as a whole is too much of it dives straight into chaos or cacophony but this album eases into the craziness. Large stretches of this first half are spent puttering around and trying to get into a groove, honking, squeaking or otherwise using instruments in unusual manners. “Prelude to a Rose” even sounds like an Ayler track to me, with the weird bluesy tilt that makes the whole thing sound like a demented marching band. It gets a bit abstract for me but like I said, I prefer these moments to straight noisy approach to jazz.
Things do get a bit noisier though as the album progresses. “Dancing in the Canyon” is a pretty ballsy cut, easing the audience in with some pretty chimes and slowly warping into free jazz. The drumming is all over the damn place, piano slides around dissonantly and the horns waaaaail. “The Last Chord” is fairly similar, with a lot of heavy, intense drumming and slamming on the keys/chimes. Those are the only two tracks that I found were a little too much - though they were still pretty fascinating.
Sebastian Gray
[2/2]
The coolest aspect of this album though, is probably its use of electronic elements. “EP 7849” sounds oddly like glitch track, opening with some scattered drumming and then completely changing into some very abstract stuff, with droning noises, weird chimes and just this bizarre, unsettling atmosphere. It’s probably my pick for the best song on here, since it felt like it balanced a lot of different styles in a short period of time.
There’s a lot of other crazy stuff that goes on here, particularly with the use of various bells, chimes and such (which AEoC I guess called “little instruments”) but it’s a little crazy for me to talk about too well. This whole thing is absolutely fascinating through and through and while it’s a bit long and abstract for my tastes, it’s definitely one of the more engaging listens I’ve had in a bit.
3.5/5
Terry Riley - A Rainbow Curved Air (1969) >Minimalism
No matter how hard I try, I just can’t really get too heavily into minimalism. Like most of the stuff I’ve heard, it’s very enchanting and meditative for large stretches but never does quite enough to reel me in. The repetition is actually quite soothing at a point but something about the way it’s composed feels too mechanical and jagged for my liking. I usually find this use of strings to be a bit… piercing and this is no exception.
I’ll admit, Riley does a great job bringing in other instruments like sax and organ which I’m not too used to hearing in this style. And he mixes them in quite effectively which I think is a bit hard to pull off.
I’m not really sure why this didn’t stick with me but something about…. rigorously composed music that’s trying to feel hypnotic just doesn’t do it for me at the moment. Good for what it is but not something I’ll likely return to very soon.
3
Jackson Walker
Ah and while we're at it, I guess I'll post my next chart. Any idea where I should start? Mostly just put Brockhampton here so I could revisit it and put together a review.