MUSIC ADDICTIONS
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I have no idea who this collection would be for and intrinsically fear anyone who’d like all of these things.
Also, I guess I’ve been listening to a lot of “moody synthpop” and “art school metal.” In other words, there’s not enough wax in the world for this fucking moustache.
Prince Rama - Two sisters who grew up in a Hare Krishna cult in Florida and decided to start a Kate Bush-inspired Electro band. Sadly broke up nowadays but there’s no way you can sustain that level of mad fuckery forever.
Ulver - I push these guys way too hard and they’re only semi-definable in terms of “moody synthpop.” But ask yourself what kind of nerd would do a double-album adaptation of William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell? These fucking nerds.
Mint Field - 90s-style fuzz/shoegaze that just sounds better in Spanish to me. I saw them play up here when their drummer got stuck in Mexico. They managed to improvise without a drummer at all and made it look easy.
Mothlite/Miracle/Anything involving Daniel O’Sullivan — Again, not even sure this is “moody synthpop” because he gets real weird with it.
The new Dreadnought album — A kinda-unique and unexpected mutant blend of death metal, prog, and jazz. I saw them as a festival opener and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with that much live energy in 20 years.
Bog Wizard and Froglord — Yeah so, apparently there is a Bog Wizard and an amphibious deity known as the Froglord. They apparently are beefing over swamp territory. When they told me heavy metal would rot my brain when I was a kid, they had no idea.
I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
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@SpaceKhomeini I love Dreadnought!
I also love Bog Wizard, totally up my alley! Thank you for the heads up!
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@SpaceKhomeini
huh whatI hear frog deity and I wake up
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Whether we wanted it or not, here is a covid lockdown-era metal cover of Running Up That Hill , really only posting this because Emma’s a force of fucking nature even though she’s kinda just chilling out here.
I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
I’ll get onto it when I give a shit -
Currently my musical obsessions, according to tidal, are Orville Peck, remixes/collaborations/covers with/of Elton John, Gorillaz, VNV Nation and the City of Prauge Philharmonic
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The Hadestown Soundtrack. I’m dragging husband with me tomorrow and I’m very excited
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@junipersky The soundtrack was A+.
The live show elevates it to a level I didn’t even know was possible. You’re going to have a blast.
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Literally my favorite musical ever. I got the CD set after I saw the show but played the songs on Youtube before I saw it (which is what decided me to see it). I have no doubt you’re going to love it.
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The new Pianos Become The Teeth album is really good. Reminds me of my late twenties/early thirties ten years ago when everyone I knew was listening to like Hotelier and such, but if that genre had also matured. If you’re a PbtT fan, in my opinion it’s the album that should have followed Keep You. The new ep by the Front Bottoms kind of makes me feel this way too. Like, wow, it’s great to have made it out of 2014, haha.
Lately when I’m writing clinical notes or cleaning, I seem to grove along better when listening to stuff by Sonic Area or Bohren & Der Club of Gore. If you haven’t listened to either, they’re very spare, a little sad, a little lo-fi, and sometimes a bit eerie. From Sonic Area, I recommend Ki, which sounds like a companion album to a Japanese ghost story. From B&DCoG, I suggest Black Earth, which is just extremely atmospheric smoky jazz.
Appreciate the other recommendations in this thread!
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Can’t recommend Der Club of Gore hard enough.
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I know replying to yourself is some kind of tacky faux-pas but I figured I’d post a clip of Emma actually wrecking shit.
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The song right before the intermission had my mouth gapped open and my hand was over it. I didn’t dare blink less I miss even a second.
This musical was FUCKING amazing.
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@junipersky Truly. I’m sure everyone in it was wonderful but I wish the original cast had just stayed forever because they were absolutely fantastic, Amber Gray especially. I love her voice.
edited to add a link to her singing Our Lady of the Underground
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The Real Tuesday Weld has been one of my favorites for many years. Sadly they are ending, they are making just one more album. But here is a new song of theirs, with a lovely October appropriate music video. I think this would make a good themesong for a lot of different characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uorVQp5F30
You dress like it’s the 1970s
Reading R. D. Laing in Brompton cemetery
You’re still in love with Susan Pevensie
You wander through life
Books and songs kept you in line
I dream you sometimes, sometimesWhose that girl you met in A+E?
Shared your bag then stole all your cutlery?
I heard that she died
Just seventeen and so alive
All those London lives
Some surrender , some survive
I miss you my dear, dear…Love Bone Dreams Blood
Love Bone Dreams BloodYou wandered through life
Drugs and blood could not suffice
All those London lives
Some surrendered, some survived
I miss you my dear, my…Love Bone Dreams Blood
Love Bone Dreams BloodYou dressed like in the 1970s
You were dreaming of Jackie Kennedy
But it all worked out the way it was meant to be
Your life and love safe in my memory
My dear, my dear, my dear. -
I’m never exhausted rooting for the anti-hero.
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Looks like 1/2 of the sisters who made up the defunct Prince Rama is still active.
It’s the especially chaotic sister
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NEW BAND! I can’t stop! Dalton Deschain and the traveling Show!
Circus horror punk! With an overreaching plot album to album!
I bought the novel, it’s also good!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0FoaMIjTqV7caVQdwM03OG?si=YVs4vx4yS5ibe87P4rl-mw
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Kaelyn Neal — A House with the Fairies (demo)
Live version here, IMO even prettier.
This song was made by a friend of mine in the MU* community.
I’d support her art even if I didn’t really love this, but I truly do; I replayed the live version several times over after hearing it for the first time, as it genuinely moved me.
I believe it should be on Spotify in the near future as well.
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@Kestrel
That is really beautiful, and personally relevant in a lot of ways these days.Taming The Dragon - Brad Mehldau - this one came up randomly in my Spotify discovery and it was a really cool bit of synchronicity because it’s about a lot of thoughts and feelings that have been slowly occurring to me as well over the last year especially.
Wolf Totem - The HU - sure some people remember this one, lol, it was everywhere a few years ago. But I have been really happy how it shows up in my life again at random sometimes, and my niece and nephews have always loooooved having crazy dance parties to it with me and my kiddo, haha.
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@Kestrel I LOVED IT! Thank you!
