What Are You Listening To?

[Sycophant]

"Mouth Sounds"

http://www.neilcic.com/mouthsounds/

Mixed by the endlessly amazing Neil Cicierega.

[D_Davis]

http://youtu.be/b46zX4js0-c

[Our Aurora]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGxZvqxTkpk

[Our Aurora]

Sharon Van Etten -- "Your Love is Killing Me"

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'm listening to this superb playlist: It's OK to Like Jazz (http://www.udiscovermusic.com/its-ok-to-like-jazz). Pretty great way to get through the work day.

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU

[Russ]

I know I'm not up on a lot of recent stuff, but how the heck did I miss the 2012 release, Unlimited Dubs by The Breadwinners? People, this is a FANTASTIC album. If I had a 2012 list, this would have been at or near the top.

[Sven]

http://youtu.be/Lj6lFN9YHW4

[Yxklyx]

The best tribute album I've ever listened to...New Tales To Tell - A Tribute To Love And Rockets

current track: Love Me by War Tapes

it's telling that nearly every track from Express is on this

P.S. Oddly the last track called No Words No More is by Snowden and this was released in 2009.

[Russ]

Who does Yin and Yang The Flowerpot Man? Hard to imagine anything bettering the original.

[Ezee E]

New Bassnectar!

[Yxklyx]

Who does Yin and Yang The Flowerpot Man? Hard to imagine anything bettering the original.


Funny you bring that one up - because I believe that's the only track not covered.

[Ezee E]

Quite disappointed in the new deadmau5.

[Gittes]

Radiohead has such a wonderful reserve of music that has yet to be formally released as part of an album or as separate downloadable tracks (the masterful "Staircase," "The Daily Mail," "The Butcher," and "Supercollider" were all made available for download following the release of The King of Limbs). I find myself returning to these YouTube videos quite frequently (here's hoping that many of these songs make their way onto LP9; it seems likely that we'll get a studio version of "The Present Tense"):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chfq0g1iN4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6zOVumLCY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sRWQ5BhYcE

Other examples: Ful Stop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qau0irqY3GU), Follow Me Around (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Laewtil7k), Open Floodgates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPTuartURE), Honey Pot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPTuartURE), Skirting on the Surface (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBwTQntjhqQ), among others.

"Cut A Hole" is mesmerizing. The ache of being distanced from a loved one is rendered magical and mellifluous. I admire it as a song of gentle, melancholic whimsy and keenly felt longing: a romantic reverie where time and space yield to the exigencies of the heart.

[Yxklyx]

I really like this site:

http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/

especially Power+Light

[DSNT]

Can't stop listening to this song ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgsdblVq8wo

And lately been on a Spoon kick, 'specially Girls Can Tell.

[Vipper VI]

http://youtu.be/z9nkzaOPP6g

[D_Davis]

Really nice drone/atmospheric ambient.

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1888952237_2.jpg (http://misleadingstructures.bandcamp. com/album/thorns-upon-the-summit)

[EyesWideOpen]

Been listening to albums on Amazon Prime Music:

El-P & Killer Mike / Run the Jewels
Billy Joel / Greatest Hits
Marina and the Diamonds / Electra Heart
Com Truise / Galactic Melt

[Ezee E]

Yellow Claw - Amsterdam Trap Music Vol. 2

[Lucky]

Beck's latest--Morning Phase. A laid-back, unwinding kind of record. Folky bliss.


http://youtu.be/WIWbgR4vYiw

[Gittes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMclqWLPsM8

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-KvgS5rjE

Been listening to a ton of Steve Hillage lately. This dude is mind blowing.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjC59cNnPFA&feature=yo utu.be

[transmogrifier]

Can, The Lost Tapes.

*swoon*

Even pissing around they were brilliant.

[Dukefrukem]

Anyone want to see the most pretentious video you'll ever see in your entire life?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLzgFkouSmc

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2--6wZGFH0

[D_Davis]

Holy shit.

https://soundcloud.com/warp-records/aphex-twin-minipops-67-1202source-field-mix

[D_Davis]

It's been a rather dull year for new ambient releases.

Glad I discovered this guy today.

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0375109308_2.jpg
(https://kryshe.bandcamp.com/album/growing)

And, the second part of Harold Budd's Jane comes out in two weeks. Maybe the last few months of 2014 will show some promise.

[Idioteque Stalker]

Eno/Hyde album High Life on heavy rotation now that it's on spotify.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnxypgED6s

Time to Waste It is probably my favorite, but the whole album is pretty awesome. All the polyrhythms remind me of early 80s Eno like My Life In the Bush of Ghosts and Remain In Light.

[quido8_5]

Rustie's latest is pretty much the shit. While somewhat inconsistent, I'm finding myself return to it as a whole. Up Down is more than likely playing at my house at any given point in time.

[quido8_5]

Discreet Music, (Eno, 1975)

[Philip J. Fry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mb0xL2Y2b8

[Yxklyx]

Transona Five from Mars Audiac Quintet by Stereolab - one of my favorites

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYfcRc1pKM

One of the few Rock en Espanhol albums you must listen.

[Idioteque Stalker]

This new Jens Lekman mixtape takes me right back to that perfect sublimity that was Night Falls Over Kortedala. The lovely instrumentation and peppiness of the whole thing benefits from that omnipresent feeling of "this too shall pass"--in the end just as pessimistic a sentiment as it is optimistic--so that the heart-wrenching theme from Contempt, stuck right in the middle, feels right at home and takes the whole thing up a notch.

https://soundcloud.com/jens-lekman/wwjd-mixtape

Seriously, between this, Grouper's FACT mix from last year, and Erland Oye's contribution to DJ Kicks, these "mixtapes" can in a way be some of my favorite releases of any given year. And I don't know what to do about it.

[Russ]

Just got in the mail: People Like Us's ultra-rare 1994 mini-CD on Staalplaat, Guide To Broadcasting.

It's fantabulous.

[Philip J. Fry]

http://vimeo.com/32960677
Arrietty's Song by Cecile Corbel.

[Philip J. Fry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQ-yBEfNc8
Yellow Eyes by The Gun Club.

[Derek]

Mark Kozalek is such an asshole, but "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock (http://pitchfork.com/news/56989-here-it-is-mark-kozeleks-song-called-war-on-drugs-suck-my-cock/)" is pretty hysterical.

[D_Davis]

Mark Kozalek is such an asshole, but "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock (http://pitchfork.com/news/56989-here-it-is-mark-kozeleks-song-called-war-on-drugs-suck-my-cock/)" is pretty hysterical.

I'm all for artists growing and changing, but good lord do I hate his new vocal style.

His last great album was Lost Verses.

[quido8_5]

Friend of mine showed this to me and I thought it was pretty hot:
http://youtu.be/0Kd3ST0-fjQ.

[transmogrifier]

The Saints - Eternally Yours

Fantastic

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1_kqcXOsA

[D_Davis]

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3982880963_2.jpg (https://bedroomcassettemasters.bandcam p.com/album/bedroom-cassette-masters-1990-99-volume-seven)

[D_Davis]

Think Ween liked this song a little bit?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQY8dQawm5I



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxzI3TImVI



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQY8dQawm5I

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-oQkRNO4YM

[Idioteque Stalker]

Just when I thought my top 10 was finished:

D'Angelo.

[Russ]

One little x-mas present to myself was the 2013 release, Don't Think Right, It's All Twice, by People Like Us. I'll say it again: Vickie Bennett is a genius. I've loved her work (sound collage stuff, usually filed under 'Experimental') for almost 20 years, and I'm still amazed at how she continually reinvents herself as an artist.

This release seems like your standard mash-up album, but she's much too crafty and subversive for that. There's always a method to her madness (or as I'm sure she would say, a madness to her method). On paper, a pairing as eclectic as that of 60's Moog pioneers Perrey and Kingsley with Stravinsky's Night on Bald Mountain should never work. Here, it not only works, it's an integral part of a cohesive, thematic whole. There are too many highlights to mention, but I would be remiss if I didn't single out her new Christmas masterpiece, I'm Dreaming.

Since I'm about the only fan 'round here, here's my consensus of her "released" recordings (virtually all her work is available for free at her site or at UBUWEB. I purchased these since I like to support her endeavors.

A Guide To Broadcasting - 7.5
Beware The Whim Reaper - 7
Hate People Like You - 8
People Like Us Meet The Jet Black Hair People...In Concert! (with Wobbly) - 8.5
Hate People Like Us (remixes by various artists) - 7
Thermos Explorer - 7.5
Lassie House / Jumble Massive (reissue) - 8
A Fistful of Knuckles - 10
People Like Us and Friends - live, Vol. 1 - 7.5
Recyclopaedia Brittanica (greatest "hits") - 9
Wide Open Spaces (with Matmos and Wobbly) - 10
Nothing Special (with Kenny G) - 8.5
Music For The Fire (with Wobbly) - 8.5
Welcome Abroad - 6.5
Don't Think Right, It's All Twice - 9

[D_Davis]

The only album I have and have heard is A Fistful of Knuckles, and it is awesome.

I'll listen to more of her music in 2015.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/People_Like_Us/

[Russ]

The only album I have and have heard is A Fistful of Knuckles, and it is awesome.

Your next purchase should be Wide Open Spaces. With it's country/western theme, it's cut from the same cloth as Knuckles, but with the addition of the live instrumentation, courtesy of Matmos, it's more melodic (in places) and thus a bit more accessible. As great as FoK is, I give a slight nod to Spaces. There's a track, entitled "Morning", that is probably my favorite thing by her ever.

[EyesWideOpen]

Run the Jewels 2 (This album is amazing)
The Roots - ...and then you shoot your cousin (I appreciate this album more than I actually enjoy listening to it. They have probably more name recognition then in any other time in their career due to being on Fallon and they release their most challenging album yet that's some real artistry.)

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-yGcpaY_4

[Russ]

Just got in the mail: an Australian CD by The Fleshtones, containing their debut EP, Up-Front, plus selections from their Live in Paris release, Speed Connection II, and the complete Roman Gods album!

Me = very, very happy. 😊

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4gcHV9MEX0

[D_Davis]

Jeff Bridges - Sleeping Tapes

Jeff Bridges making some very weird, outsider ambient stuff. Very cool.

http://www.dreamingwithjeff.com/#music-section

[D_Davis]

Absolutely humbling.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLts2-B6I

[SirNewt]

Lot of country and folk lately.


http://youtu.be/yqDVObM1kxc

Scott's original version was an instant classic but this Loveless cover is transcendent.

[D_Davis]

Talk to the Sea, by Gigi Masin

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2832128648_2.jpg
(https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/talk-to-the-sea)
An absolutely beautiful compilation spanning 30 years of music from this unknown Italian ambient composer.

In a word, stunning.

This is the kind of discovery that makes me realize that no matter how many amazing albums I've heard, there are still thousands out there that are just waiting to be discovered. One of those serendipitous moments in which a few clicks of a mouse led me to a new place in which I discovered a future classic and favorite.

[D_Davis]

For fans of the Lullatones.

Take a Walk, by Madoka Ogitani (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Madoka_Ogitani/Take_a_Walk/)

[dreamdead]

Mark Kozelek, what are you doing to your voice (http://pitchfork.com/news/58752-sun-kil-moon-goes-electric-on-alispinks-2/)? Benji's stylings were fine, but this sounds, offpitch or something...

[D_Davis]

He basically just talks now.

Oh well.

I'll always have his old music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_3PYEjFBgo

[D_Davis]

Now I'll be listening to RHP all day. Thanks!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHxyy7bvH6w

[MadMan]

I find it depressing that this is the last active thread in this forum currently. Makes me wish I had never posted it.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oitoYbTDaUE&feature=yo utu.be

[D_Davis]

New ambient compilation, with an old Carl Sagan's Ghost track.

https://weareinvisiblenow.bandcamp.com/releases

[Ezee E]

Major Lazer, "Lean On." Been loving it.

[D_Davis]

Further listening to Gigi Masin. The album, The Last DJ, has solidified my opinion that Mr. Masin is easily on par with any of the greats in ambient music.

A masterful artist that deserves great recognition.

So glad to have discovered him this month.

http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav22.html


http://www.laverna.net/artists/gigi%20masin.jpg

GIGI MASIN was born in Venice on 24 October 1955. He has been a part of the music scene since the early 70’s. He worked with the most important national and local radio stations.
From 1978, he has been establishing a fertile collaboration with the poet and writer Massimo Palladino. This venture had been permitting to carry out many and important pieces, for theatre and for radio broadcasting, places where music and voices walk hand in hand, challenging and provoking themselves as well.
Sounds, tapes, turntables, live electronics are the ground where scene music moves. As a Musician and director , he has had a lot of theatrical and musical collaborations , from short films to staging and act designs.
The first solo album, (WIND) has been published in 1986. Many others will follow; some of those are “LES NOUVELLES MUSIQUES DU CHAMBRE” for the Belgian Label SUB ROSA (1989) with Charles Hayward, “WIND COLLECTOR” (1991) with Alessandro Monti. Most recent cds include “LONTANO” (2001) and “MOLTITUDINE IN LABIRINTO” (2003) with Giuseppe Caprioli, both produced by Giovanni Antognozzi for ANTS/SILENZIO DISTRIBUZIONE.
Many authors covered his mìusic, among the others The famous BJORK (the tracks that closes t her concerts it’s an homage to GIGI MASIN’s music), german bad TOROCOCOROT and pianist Luca MITI

[Russ]

Hmmm. Consider my interest piqued.

[D_Davis]

Hmmm. Consider my interest piqued.

Check this one out first.

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/talk-to-the-sea

[Dead & Messed Up]

The new AwolNation album, Run.

Given it a few spins, mostly like it, but it's more melancholic than Megalithic Symphony, with moodier production - synths borrowed from "Another One of My Turns" here, soft guitar bits that recall Pet Sounds there. Not on the same level of ambition as those records, but singular in its own way. The lyrics come off like "automatic writing," fun to sing along with but impenetrable at times. A little too reliant on repetitive drumbeats. Single "Hollow Moon" is a standout. Also enjoying "Kooks Everywhere," "JailBreak," and "Woman Woman." Megalithic was more dynamic in terms of the tone and attitude, but it was also more hit-or-miss on a song-by-song basis.

[Ezee E]

Kendrick Lamar's new album is everything I liked about hip hop in the early 2000's, except that there's really no standout tracks from the already released singles.

[D_Davis]

New Failure track! Wow. It's been like 15 years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfKGx38alcA

[Pop Trash]

Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret are amazing fucking swirls of guitar psych eargasms. That is all.

[Dukefrukem]

Ever hear a song live and then buy the album only to hear the song sound completely different?

These guys played this song on the Howard Stern show. Sounded awesome. I bought the CD today and my ears are bleeding.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU

[Pop Trash]

Ugh. Fuck that band.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ROci22f_o

[D_Davis]

New track I made last night.

https://soundcloud.com/davisjdaniel/microcce

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vTk122Guw

[D_Davis]

Christian new wave from 1982.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2v5Wt4o3h0

[D_Davis]

Kamasi Washington's The Epic.

Mind. Fucking. Blown.

http://www.brainfeedersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BFDNL050_The_Epic_HIGHRES.jpeg

[D_Davis]

There will not be a better album this year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-75-tUHIrQ


The word "epic" sits cheerily amid the most overused hyperbole of our age. Teenage bros proclaim their recent "pretty epic" mild successes; sports commentators call anything which ends dramatically an "epic game"; the Internet-literate are quick to point out an "epic FAIL." But what else do you call a three-CD, nearly three-hour album anchored by a 10-piece jazz band, featuring a 32-piece orchestra and 20-member choir, and driven by the daydream of an imaginary martial arts grandmaster?

The Epic is the title of the new recording from 34-year-old saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington, a musician you may have heard but not heard of. That's his horn all over the newest releases by fellow Southern Californians Kendrick Lamar (http://www.npr.org/2015/04/09/398521315/there-is-a-rich-world-in-kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly) and Flying Lotus (http://www.npr.org/2014/10/12/354599863/music-from-deaths-doorstep-a-conversation-with-flying-lotus). (The Epic is being issued by Brainfeeder, the record label Lotus co-founded.) Washington has toured with Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq and Chaka Khan; his jazz credentials include work with elders like Gerald Wilson, Stanley Clarke and Kenny Burrell. The singing electric bassist Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) and his brother, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., are lifelong friends; in fact, Washington has known most of his bandmates since high school in in South Central Los Angeles.


http://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402027691/first-listen-kamasi-washington-the-epic

[Gittes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMxXmW1pqeU

[D_Davis]

I listened to The Epic in its entirety last night.

Not only will it be the best album of the year, it is simply one of the best albums I've ever heard.

A monumental artistic achievement of which I know of very few equals.

[Gittes]

Hey, has anyone here around heard of this album called The Epic, by Kamasi Washington?


:)

[D_Davis]

If you're not listening to it, you're in idiot who hates art.

;)

[D_Davis]

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Euclid.

Music composed for and performed with the Buchla music easel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhtar8FlgzU

[Pop Trash]

I just saw that Kamasi Washington record listed really high on rateyourmusic.com. It's rare to see a new jazz album on those lists so it piqued my interests.

[Pop Trash]

So is the new Sufjan Stevens the album Benji should have been? Discuss.

[dreamdead]

If you're not listening to it, you're in idiot who hates art.

;)

Grabbed up the Washington album a few days ago when you brought it to my attention, and then I started seeing notices of it all over the interwebs. Looking forward to spending some time with it today.

The Clair de Lune interpretation is gorgeous.

[D_Davis]

Holy shit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbGz2KmKY0

New album out today.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkwpX9wwSw

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wV1gvhzr0

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_ucdCE07A

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNnTJZ1VZJY&feature=yo utu.be

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zabacisfuKI

[D_Davis]

In memorial.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1uu3lYQVnw

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFchugk6ytg

[D_Davis]

This might be the best synthesizer album of all time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqkdCA_9DA&list=PLFMi BdFqJU49iYnWt0CTHhfhxnzzvjlTk

[dreamdead]

Definitely need to find time for the new Marconi Union, but I think I'm in love with this from Dreadnought:


https://soundcloud.com/southerncrosspr/dreadnought-bridging-realms

[Russ]

This is pretty great:

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff324/astrojester/tigercover1_zpsw87gyd0m.gif_ht tp://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff324/astrojester/tiger_back_zpsveepqb2x.gif



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoDf9zJIiDQ

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxgQcFkq7Q

[Ivan Drago]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPyWA-IhoDI

I freakin' love this album.

[EyesWideOpen]

I've been getting a ton of use out of my Spotify Premium account. So far this week I've listened to:

Pharoahe Monch - PTSD
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kanye West - GOOD Music
Kanye West/Jay-Z - Watch the Throne
Kanye West - Yeezus
Knife Party - Abandon Ship
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
The Bird and the Bee - Recreational Love
Son Lux - Bones

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQZ13jobIY

[Russ]

The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

Really love this...it's like haunted ambient music, ala the Overlook Hotel, circa The Shining.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtfTwqBfxgo

[D_Davis]

That's a cool track, Russ.

[Russ]

Right now I am listening to the Far East Family Band's song Nagare from Tenkujin (Kitaro was long gone and this was their final album). Many comparisons to Pink Floyd and German Krautrock.

This is my favorite song by them.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiz2MTo4k8

[Russ]

This is from Leyland Kirby's massive 4-hour, 3-CD debut solo effort, Sadly the Future Is No Longer What It Was. As one of the primary figures in the (apparently recent) musical genre of "Hauntology" (mainly thru his guise as The Caretaker), his tracks on this 2009 Box Set release run the gamut, sometimes caustic, sometimes beautiful, but always fleeting and introspective. I listen to this release and I hear echoes of Harold Budd, Angelo Badalamenti and Brian Eno. This is the soundtrack for a film David Lynch has yet to make.

And this track, Tonight Is the Last Night of the World is simply exquisite.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB2VRsLIhw

[D_Davis]

New Order is fucking back!

Music Complete is the best thing they've done since their masterpiece, Technique.

What a total surprise.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqGJgqiXFk

[D_Davis]

Not only is Music Complete good, but it's possible one of New Order's best albums. It strikes the perfect balance between bangin' dance tracks and rock numbers, it is perfectly mixed (but mastered too hot - want to get it on vinyl), and totally infectious. My girlfriend, who listens to a lot of top 40 club music, as well as alt-stuff, said that the modern dance/club acts out there could learn a lot from this New Order album. And I agree. In addition to the music being dancey as fuck, it's also super melodic, and expertly crafted. The more rock-like songs are also top-notch, perfectly capturing all of the elements that made the band so fresh in the 80s, while also looking forward to what is to come.

Peter Hook leaving was the best thing to ever happen to New Order. While he is obsessed with the past, touring around playing all old Joy Division and New Order songs, the band themselves, bolstered by two new members bringing a fresh pair of ears to the table, has taken a firm and bold stance on the now and the future.

Music Complete is an absolute triumph. Easily the best album I've heard this year. Every single track is at least good, with more than half being outstanding, and the opening 5-track sequence is the strongest sequence of tracks New Order has ever put on a studio album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4ohy9a-_s

[D_Davis]

It's easy to forget how awesome Lenny Kravitz used to be. Been listening to Mama Said this week - man, what an album. So many amazing tracks, so well produced.

[Russ]

Daniel, I know I've been going on about the stuff I've been listening to from Leyland Kirby, but I purchased Eager to Tear Apart the Stars, and it is wonderful; check out the track My Dream Contained a Star. It's available on Bandcamp (https://leylandkirby.bandcamp.com/album/eager-to-tear-apart-the-stars).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bka-ly0rTQE

[D_Davis]

That's really pretty. Need to get the album.

[D_Davis]

D'Angelo meets Radiohead

https://soundcloud.com/roman-gianarthur/sets/ok-lady

[Russ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlU7kDMlJ44

[Russ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-W7Rla9u3g

[Russ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygv1CKzAk

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIHBehzE5l8

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBZxakFny4&feature=yo utu.be&t=2m57s

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQRfhYEMqk

[Russ]

"A Fender Telecaster is a much more dangerous weapon than an AK47, its got better penetration, it's a killer. And it's got better communication. You see, the trouble with an AK47, is they're all dead. But if you've got a Fender Telecaster, and you play Peggy Sue like Buddy Holly did, how many people you going to get with that? And they're going to live, and it's going to live forever. i guess thats what i like about rock and roll..." - Alex Harvey 1975



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3VQgIr7S8A

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2bcS9shuY

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGOna3OYXg

[Russ]

Too cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc

[D_Davis]

Russ - the new Orb single/EP, Alpine, is fantastic.

I think it's safe to say that they're back in a major way.

[Yxklyx]

Too cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc

Awesome!

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhE1ujm47LE

[Ivan Drago]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2UmlUmDQI

[Ivan Drago]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bimd2nZirT4

[Gittes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfZooPrmfo

[Gittes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryh9rkIRGUs

[Gittes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMjH2HMOkfk

[Dukefrukem]

Don't know if they are known for doing this or if this was planned... but Green Day let a fan come up on stage and play lead guitar.... and he slayed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=249&v=bAO5GBQV2Sg

[number8]

That dude got infinity laid that night.

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17M-WqPZYc

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrCYOk_WaCc

[origami_mustache]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ODQDJ-lDE

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltHGUDHhi8



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGI22_lp6U

[D_Davis]

The two new Magna Carta Cartel EPs are fantastic. Take only the good parts of Blue Oyster Cult and the Moody Blues, filtered through a serious version of Ween at their most psychedelic.




ex-Ghost BC guy.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtaxjK3-70

[BiankyF]

Awesome hippie song with hypnotizing vibes. I absolutely like this (http://funky-fruits-slot.com/) pretty chill sounds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uruM5-VYo

[Russ]

Awesome hippie song with hypnotizing vibes. I absolutely like this (http://funky-fruits-slot.com/) pretty chill sounds

I love this too. Thanks.

[D_Davis]

I love this too. Thanks.

Yeah - great track. Full on '90s style '70s pastiche.

Eldar. Fans of stoner rock, prog and psych.

This is awesome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqMfWwnLtKg

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWjf4MddKA

[Dead & Messed Up]

Kate Bush - "Hounds of Love" (album)

Heard it for the first time two days ago. Currently on repeat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZUo_hps9w

[Russ]

D, I've been listening to a lot of John Prine recently. Never was familiar with his stuff, but the dude's a songwriting genius.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

[D_Davis]

He's a fucking national treasure! That whole live performance you posted is great.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/john-prine-at-70-inside-his-wild-past-grounded-present-w458832

His latest album of duets, For Better or Worse, is fantastic.

We used this as our walking-out song in our wedding:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4BvI2cr8Q

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRVNjsuycQ

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew

[D_Davis]

Song for song, Prine brings me near-to-tears more than any other artist.

[Russ]

You know, he's not blessed with the finest voice, but I actually think that "flaw" endears me more to his work. I look forward to building on my meager collection (I have the duets album you mention -- it's fantastic).

[D_Davis]

You know, he's not blessed with the finest voice, but I actually think that "flaw" endears me more to his work.

Totally. It's earnest.

[Russ]

Totally. It's earnest.
D, if your description of earnestness was in reference to the Sam Stone-era, or any of his early, groundbreaking work (with which I am sadly unfamiliar), I would totally agree.

The little bit of his later work that I am familiar with (seemingly more playful, complete with scruffy vocals and all) strikes me more as "I'm having a good time and my body of work speaks for itself, so fuck off". That's what I was referring to. I love that attitude. I just really get the feeling he's having the time of his life because (a) he survived the early years, and (b) he totally earned it.

I want to get his Great Days anthology.

[D_Davis]

Russ, I totally agree. Maybe earnest was the wrong word to use to describe his singing.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G487EDeXadA

[D_Davis]

I think Bruised Orange might be my favorite of his earlier albums.

[Idioteque Stalker]

I'm such a sucker for this shit. I was scared he had called it quits.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kF2-Cr6yX4

[D_Davis]

Pretty cool synth-wave stuff.

Getting a little tired of the sound, but he does it well.

I recently discovered this: Electronic System - Skylab (1974)

This is pretty much ground zero for all of this post-Air, retro-throwback synth stuff. Only, it was done in 1974.

It's basically all of Air's entire discography reduced to a single 10 minute track.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwDLN2X6Rs&list=PLcFu Xjp73cLqKTskSd8YaA6TurC8FV8IW& index=30


This is totally bad ass as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao5uiWUzMx4

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuQmgdvkHc

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwDLN2X6Rs&list=PLcFu Xjp73cLqKTskSd8YaA6TurC8FV8IW& index=30
Heavenly!

[D_Davis]

https://youtu.be/p875E_kk50o

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFVqltOXRg

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnSr6Svxb1M&t=211s

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=nrnRASbqWww

[D_Davis]

Snog- now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. Cool track.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHV7xTW1P8g

[bac0n]

Loved that Snog track. David Thrusell has never failed to interest.

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWnFPNB-Zc

[dreamdead]

in the midst of everything else, this has been a good year for concerts. We saw Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, Wye Oak, and Hum, and have Japandroids, Kamasi Washington, and Devin Townsend Project lined up for the next two months (Kamasi and Devin back-to-back here in Athens).

That said, perhaps one of this year's best finds comes from Luke Temple, who opened for Wye Oak. This song is killer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCi6KD1PDaw

[D_Davis]

Nice. I saw Devin Townsend Project last year. Incredible. He's such a great performer. Total old school showman, and his band is so good.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grf38QzDoAU

[D_Davis]

New Quicksand album! Yes. It's great.

[Russ]

Daniel, the 4 seasons collection is the best purchase I've made in ages. Truly wonderful music. I ordered the custom CD-Rs from Shawn (w/original artwork). Massively recommended.


https://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/168131764/4_cd_set_small.jpg

[D_Davis]

Oh wow! Will definitely order that. Looks great. Love that music. :)

[Russ]

Oh wow! Will definitely order that. Looks great. Love that music. :)

link (http://lullatone.bigcartel.com/product/seaonal-ep-series-cd-rs)

I just downloaded their year-long project, Thinking About Thursdays. They recorded a new song every Thursday in 2016. 52 songs, 2 hrs, 19 minutes. I think it's the best thing they've ever done (and last week I said the same thing about the 4 seasons EPs).

And you turned me on to them.

What does it say about me that my current favorite musical artists (Lullatone, The Caretaker) make music that could classify as lullabies for infants and ghostly, 20's big band tunes for onset dementia patients?

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgeSScjSU7U

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xRUQWvQn6M

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4getBk1onkY

[Russ]

He's a fucking national treasure! That whole live performance you posted is great.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/john-prine-at-70-inside-his-wild-past-grounded-present-w458832

His latest album of duets, For Better or Worse, is fantastic.

We used this as our walking-out song in our wedding:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4BvI2cr8Q

Thank you, D.

The more I listen to this, the more I think it's one of the greatest songs ever written.

Bravo!!!

[D_Davis]

It's pretty great! My wife and I felt really luck to have discovered it right before our wedding.

[Russ]

Daniel, the 4 seasons collection is the best purchase I've made in ages. Truly wonderful music. I ordered the custom CD-Rs from Shawn (w/original artwork). Massively recommended.
Just ordered these as a gift for some dear friends, Shawn is going to do a customized Christmas message to go with it. How cool is that?

[D_Davis]

Going to order one for myself for xmas. :)

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEBpH0CnfWY

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGD9xz40FI

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llb7g_rGMoI

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEBpH0CnfWY

This might be the tweeist thing ever. :)

Reminds me of Marine Girls a bit.

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llb7g_rGMoI

This is great.

[D_Davis]

Whole album worth checking out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssqOVVqAeg

[Russ]

"Classic Christmas songs in the style of Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks score."

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3428447859_10.jpg

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire Walk With Me (https://jherekbischoff.bandcamp.com/album/chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open-fire-walk-with-me)

Have a Twin Peak-sy Christmas, ya'll.

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7WMlFrEug

[Russ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIQrIXlrNw

[Russ]

I think this may be the finest release of 2017.

Guess I need to get Daniel to weigh in on this one. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFE0B75ZVr8

[D_Davis]

I think this may be the finest release of 2017.

Guess I need to get Daniel to weigh in on this one. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFE0B75ZVr8

Haven't heard it! Will listen this week.

[Russ]

I love The Sound Defects. Can't wait 'til he finally comes out with something new.

NSFW? (the following video contains some mildy disturbing footage)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJasYSeaSM

[D_Davis]

This chick's voice is fantastic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wnS92b5uyU

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3m7HXeiHpg

[Dead & Messed Up]

New Andrew WK.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdW3UJ7lQvU

[bac0n]

Listening to it now. It's the most amazingly partiest song I've heard in ages.

[Russ]

Earl Scruggs Revue - Bleeker Street Rag


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-luAv5G4P0

[D_Davis]

:O


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10q1ZJyLXFk

[D_Davis]

Fuck yeah it's good to have Jack Dangers back.

That bass line.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpHAvvlBNo

[bac0n]

Love it!

[Dukefrukem]

New Andrew WK.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdW3UJ7lQvU

Do you think he owns only 1 white shirt?

[bac0n]

I’m loving this new MBM. I’m not one for hyperbole, but this might be Jack’s best effort since Sityricon.


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[D_Davis]

I’m loving this new MBM. I’m not one for hyperbole, but this might be Jack’s best effort since Sityricon.


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It's good, but its no Subliminal Sandwich.

[D_Davis]

So glad that Laraaji's music is getting reissued.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYKiApaz1MM

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2whzIXkAH0&list=PLVV0 YZjha84jjr3jA4tUyzQkVJbD-8h44&index=6

[Dukefrukem]

I'm probably in the minority here, but there's a station on SiriusXM that puts me in a Nirvana like state. It's called Chill. And it chills me the fuck out.

[bac0n]

It's good, but its no Subliminal Sandwich.

Ya know what else is no subliminal sandwich?

YOUR FACE.

#micdrop


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[D_Davis]

That hurts, man.

[bac0n]

That hurts, man.

Sorry. My fury overtook me. It’s my face, not yours.


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[D_Davis]

Can't even count how many times I've listened to this.

One of the all-time great musical performances.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLts2-B6I

[Sycophant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVncHR3ms0Q

[D_Davis]

That's great! I've been listening to a ton of old Japanese new age and funk stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhvqX1zaUo&list=PLcFu Xjp73cLqKTskSd8YaA6TurC8FV8IW& index=48


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnD0t4EdMuE

[Morris Schæffer]

Drunk on Jim beam and right now it's Basil Poledouris Robocop theme. Where have all the great composers gone to?

[Sycophant]

That's great! I've been listening to a ton of old Japanese new age and funk stuff.

YES. That Matsushita Makoto album is awesome. Haven't heard him before. Had a region-locking issue with the Yabuki Shiho album, but I'll try to track it down.

I've been listening to Japanese funk and such lately. It's my go-to when I'm programming or playing games or reading. Here's one of my all-time favorites, Monochrome by Yoshida Minako. Can never get enough of it:


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4rqt0n

[Idioteque Stalker]

I didn't expect to love this, but I did:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8P2maWmcU


I expected to love this, and I did:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzMPxIchA80

[Idioteque Stalker]

I also expected to love this, was initially put off, but now can't stop listening:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYXM3uz1bjM

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vb6JqVKSd8

[Dead & Messed Up]

The Used - The Canyon

Shocked by how good this album is. Easily the best thing The Used have released, lapping their promising debut and intermittently enjoyable follow-up In Love and Death. It's an hour-long ode to missing friends and suicide and political (but not too political) anger. The variability of the album is fantastic, as this intensely catchy uptempo pop-rocker gives no indication of the melancholy of "Upper Falls" or the embittered arena rocker "The Nexus," which is a more elevating version of the dissonant rage of "The Bird and the Worm."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHDJ4EAnLgk

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

[D_Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_frG5kV4hjw

[Dead & Messed Up]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORaln6aPqUk

Been a fan of Myers for years (since 2011 or so), she's still working for me.

[Dukefrukem]

That feels super 90s.

My music taste is bizarre lately.

[Morris Schæffer]

Shaun Davey's The Parting Glass from 'Waking Ned'. I love the movie and Davey's rendition is just fucking awesome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDB87o-njFQ

[SpaceUO]

I like AC/DC. It's the coolest Australian band ever

[transmogrifier]

I like AC/DC. It's the coolest Australian band ever

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, friendo.

[bac0n]

I like AC/DC. It's the coolest band ever

fixed

[transmogrifier]

Jesus, Tindersticks.....where you been all my life? The National spliced with Nick Cave in his crooning stage...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXW0WS_M7E

[dreamdead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4dIzPmtmxM

Kathryn Joseph. Scottish piano and voice. Listen if you dig Newsom, Bjork, or other "odd" voices. Saw her in Glasgow in the cold during an outdoor fest in December and have been taking to the quietness she brings.

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DfQMPmJRI

[transmogrifier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVZo30M8Lc

[BuffaloWilder]

I've been jamming consistantly to El-P, Run The Jewels and My Bloody Valentine for the last three weeks.

[transmogrifier]

I've been in a phase of crunchy riffs by rock girls. Asked for recommendations over at Rate Your Music and found the following awesome bands: Bettie Serveert, Thee Headcoatees, Heron Oblivion, Team Dresch, Fastbacks, Dog Faced Hermans, The Geraldine Fibbers, The Stone Coyotes, Oh Sees, Chatmonchy, Scrawl, Acid King, Screaming Females

[bac0n]

I've been taking a shine recently to Dawes. Was kind of meh on them for a long time, TBH, until I saw them live at an outdoor festival, and these days I am finding that they're great to listen to on a saturday afternoon while grilling.

[Skitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6xymmKHM

[TGM]

New music from Sia:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9_jfzFr0g

[Skitch]

I am not a fan of AC/DC.

Is that Sia in the picture?

[TGM]

I am not a fan of AC/DC.

Is that Sia in the picture?

Not sure the relevancy of AC/DC, but yes, that’s a very old picture of her, she’s probably ~20 years younger in that.

[dreamdead]

90's Indie rock band Hum dropped a surprise release Inlet on their bandcamp yesterday (https://humband.bandcamp.com/releases). The guitar tone is absolutely a delightful throwback, sludgy and punishing in spots and dreamy and atmospheric in others; I wish the drum rhythms had a bit more in the way of fills and personality, but it's a nice throwback. Recommended to those oldies on here.

Still need to listen to the new Perfume Genius a bit more; haven't found my way into that release yet.

[Yxklyx]

A Secret Wish by Propaganda.

[Mal]

Cigarettes after Sex, horny sadcore that usually hits. I can't listen to a full album through at once however- too mopey.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QCL9AGbO0

[Yxklyx]

A Secret Wish by Propaganda.

Oh yeah this is the video...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKm4mLTLs8

[bac0n]

Really digging this song, "Letter to Madeline" from Ian Noe. Feels like playing Red Dead Redemption.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgmvIuue7o

[Ivan Drago]

Cigarettes after Sex, horny sadcore that usually hits. I can't listen to a full album through at once however- too mopey.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QCL9AGbO0

They come up in my YouTube playlist often. I like them a lot even if their songs blur together.

What I'm listening to:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8E5KnNPt4g

[bac0n]

I do love me up some Cigarettes After Sex, even if their band name is kinda dumb. Always a sucker for drums played with a brush and some slow slidey guitar sounds.

Heavenly is the kind of song I would want to play at my wedding for a first dance.