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.
heck boy you will love The Boatman's Call and Small Change or I'll eat a tube of sunscreen
Elijah Rogers
Jack White - Boarding House Reach (2018) >blues rock, experimental rock
An impressively awful misfire from White. If there's one thing that Jack White does well, it's simplicity. If you go through the White Stripes' discography, you can see that they slowly get worse as they add more instruments to the fray, White's strengths lie in simple, raucous, garagey blues rock tunes. So this, a Zappa-esque cavalcade of sounds, fails miserably. White goes through so many styles and he does all of them poorly, his guitar is pushed so far into the background, the album is a hot mess all the way through. When it sounds like it's pushing more blatantly towards experimentation, White screws it all up and tries to bring it back to poppy blues rock, he can't figure out what he's doing on this record, and it is so, so terrible.
0.5
>Maus is only as good as your relationship status is bad hmm this should be interesting
yeah, i kinda dug fakevox when i heard it, hope i like this one even more.
>Antipop Consortium - Arrythmia I didn't enjoy some of the beats on this, because they felt too... sparse? It wasn't bad though, and there were some parts that I liked (In particular, I think the skit and the last track were pretty good).
>Player 1 & Bloody Bones - Crime Rate Sky High This was pretty good, although it felt kind of samey to me and nothing really stood out.
>Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep Lots of fun. I could see myself bumping this up to a 4 after a few more listens.
>Flanch - Flanch This was cool. It was very moody, and kind of dark. I wish it was longer.
iron n wine, girl talk, willis, bjork, tzaisk, guernica good cocoon, maus, harsh 70s meh
Hunter Peterson
tommy wright, brotha lynch hung, daf, current 93, ksiezyc, bjork, three 6 mafia, guernica, red moon are great smiths is okay i should relisten to pom pom
i've been putting off listening to it because i hate the album art i'll get around to it soon
>I swear I didn't forget about this I sure did! Excited to see your thoughts on milo :)
Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See (1968) >psychedelic rock
See, I knew I'd like this more than the debut! This is one of the few psych albums where the longer tracks absolutely blow the shorter tracks out of the water. The longer tracks are masterpieces of kaleidoscopic, droning psychedelia. The band knows just how long to drag out certain notes to create the most enveloping, psychedelic effects. When the tracks get shorter, the sound gets a lot more generic.
3.0+
The Hirsch Effekt - Holon : Agnosie (2015) >post-hardcore, progressive metal
An otherwise standard post-hardcore record with some really nice detours into more artistic territory. Can't get behind the actual hardcore, or lost of the metal, but there are some really nice bits that focus a lot more on atmosphere, and the band has a shockingly solid grip on what makes for good atmosphere in music. I dig a lot of the math rock/mathcore stuff too.
2.5
Grateful Dead - Europe '72 (1972) >psychedelic rock, jam band
I've found my white whale: a Grateful Dead album I actually really enjoy. Psych rock/jam band Dead still gets on my nerves, it's really impressive how they manage to make 16 minute songs that go absolutely nowhere (I'm looking at you, "Truckin'"). I do kinda like country rock Dead, though, and all the country rock stuff here is really good. American Beauty suffers from being too rigid, this allows the down-home songs to really let loose, it's nice, comfy, and enjoyable as hell.
just listened to Pom Pom and damn does it have some jams like white freckles, but the entire middle-end bit is eh
I sweart to god ever chat you've ever made always has "how haven't you heard that yet" but I'm excited for Pale Cocoon thoughts even though I don't think it'll be your thing
thanks again btw
Ian Reyes
>damn does it have some jams one summer night and put your number in my phone are the jams to end all jams
Adrian Phillips
that smiffs album won't change your mind if you don't like them already but you'll enjoy it if you do this year's model is definitely the greatest new wave album ever and maybe the greatest pop album ever so have fun with that
Robert Cook
europe 72 is such a comfy album
Zachary Gutierrez
坂本龍一 - async (2017) >ambient
Beautiful late-career record from Sakamoto. There's a tendency on this album to have tracks peter out to practically nothing by the end, which is something I don't entirely enjoy, it often kills the momentum on the otherwise beautiful tracks. The ambient here really is beautiful, the textures and tones Sakamoto uses are warm while still retaining a certain sense of dread and unease.
man finally getting around to listening to albums for a tourney, accel and crunch both rec'd really good albums still need an album from fax machina tho
don't do this to me please >dread and unease. You're damn right, was his first album since being diagnosed with cancer. Like the japanese black star but I just hope he doesn't actually die.
