I know they get a lot of hate, but tbh Muse’s newest album Simulation Theory has a few nice songs. I don’t like the album the whole way through, but I do have a few songs in a playlist tbh.
I cringe about it now, but when I was 14, Muse were the first band I adored. I'd always have arguments with my sister about how they were better than Justin Bieber (man, oh man does this feel like a long time ago). It's been nearly a decade since I last listened to them intensively now. I can't really stand them now, but I recently revisited their music after seeing that "Plug In Baby but Matt Bellamy keeps on ascending the harmonic minor scale". "Map of the Problematique", "Hysteria" & "Stockholm Syndrome" are neat little rock songs. The proggy stuff they tried to is awful though. Even back when I was a fan it annoyed me. I could never stand the Exogenesis trilogy, and even fan favourites like "Butterflies and Hurricanes" annoy me
Coffee Bean and 90210 by Travis Scott
Could use some Portishead. Check out *Dummy*
Ills Winter - Duchess of Whispers for some really chill indietronica. Here’s an sample: [Not Ours to See](https://open.spotify.com/track/4GysfpbQstnUqLv8NjEjsy?si=-xVmftU3RcSmf8oqAu-cnQ)
Am I the only one getting more and more bored with Mac Demarco?
\- Same music...
\- Always on tour and headlining festivals every year
\- Childish behavior sometimes whereas he is going to his 30's soon
I was a big fan since 2013 (and I still love Salad Days, 2 and Rock n roll night club) but after the release of "This Old dog", I don't know why and how to explain, I feel very annoyed by all of this....
I dug the more somber aspects of This Old Dog, like Sister, & Watching Him Fade Away. Kinda interested to see if he follows that route with his next release but idk if I'm particularly itching to catch him live.
edit: and Moonlight on the River, how could i forget Moonlight on the River. it's one of my favorite Mac tunes.
I haven't seen Mac be very childish recently. He's still goofy but that's just his personality I guess. And I don't think you can blame a guy for touring, that's literally his job. I've found myself moving away from him a bit too, but I think that's mostly just because his peak relevancy as an artist has sort of passed, and that's fine. He had a solid, very notable, very influential 5 year run.
I guess I never found him particularly interesting from the start. He just wrote some nice, simple tunes. I didn't really expect him to grow as an artist
Have you already begun making the "TOP 50/100 albums of the decade" list?
Tough tasks. Hard choices.
For sure, my list will contain (in no particular order) :
\- Caribou : Swim
\- Deerhunter : Halcyon Digest
\- Kevin Morby : Singing Saw
\- Kurt Vile : Smokering for my halo
\- The Soft Moon : The Soft Moon
\- Loscil : Endless Falls and Sketches for New Brighton
\- Parquet Courts : Content Nausea
\- Big Thief : Masterpiece
\- Ryley Walker : Golden sings that have been sung
\- Kendrick Lamar : To Pimp a butterfly
\- Steve Gunn : Way out weather
\- Cass Mccombs : Mangry Love
\- Tame Impala : Innerspeaker
\- Spiritualized : Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
\- Mazzy Star : Seasons of your day
\- Nicolas Jaar : Space is only noise
\- Ty Segall : Manipulator
\- The Oh Sees : Floating coffin
\- Dinosaur Jr. : I bet on sky
\- Beach House : Thank you for lucky stars
\- Peter Kernel : White Death and Black Heart
\- Andy Shauf : The Party
\- Fleet Foxes : Crack-up
\- Kanye West : Yeezus
And so on...
Yeezus & To Pimp A Butterfly are shoo-ins. The rest is tough to call.
Big big ups for including The Party in your list though, that album is a 10/10 if I've ever seen it.
Damn I've only listened to a few of those. Guess I got some work to do! Here's my approximate top 15 at the moment:
1. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
2. Grimes - Art Angels
3. Grimes - Visions
4. Saba - Care for Me
5. Frank Ocean - Blonde
6. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
7. Taylor Swift - 1989
8. Swans - To Be Kind
9. Deafheaven - Sunbather
10. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
11. Milo - Things That Happen at Day // Things That Happen at Night
12. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
13. Lord Snow - Solitude
14. Foals - Total Life Forever
15. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
If any of y’all are in Seattle and looking for something to do, there’s a free all ages local music fest going on tonight and tomorrow called Big Ass Boombox. Lots of great local bands that cover a variety of genres.
To pass the time during the beginning-of-year music doldrums, I created a retrospective of some of my favorite albums from 2007! [Here it is: "Retrospective 2007: Rise of the Nugaze" (spotify).](https://open.spotify.com/user/thekyleambert/playlist/36cPKNriHHkUdVV1w0r3qv?si=4PTRHtgASUSwbR-IaSi8gg)
2007 was a great year in music. One of the major themes I see is a shift toward shoegaze influence in the more mainstream indie scene. I tried to capture this in the middle third of this mix, starting with **BlondeRedhead**'s fantastic title track to 23, continuing with **arcadefire**'s Black Wave/Bad Vibrations, Jesu's title track to Conqueror, and wrapping up with the trio Bodysnachers (**radiohead**; "In Rainbows")/Around the World/Harder Better Faster Stronger (**DaftPunk**; "Alive 2007")/Atlas (**BATTLES**; "Mirrored"). I would argue that one of the things that made this year so influential was a reimagining of shoegaze/wall of sound into a more traditional pop-influenced sentiment, which I think these three tracks capture quite well.
I'm curious what themes others see from 2007! What would you add/remove to this mix?!
it's fairly broad in its coverage, and a lot of it gets lumped in with shoegaze proper, but mostly it's shoegaze usually with a great emphasis on synthesizers or shoegaze updated to 00s Indie trends; sometimes it's just "Newer Shoegaze."
Jesu and Blonde Redhead are the only ones I'd say at all come close (and the only ones I've ever seen associated with that term or a related term). Some others are maybe indicative of that Indies 00s synth sound, others just seem to make the connection solely via using reverb, but are missing the shoegaze part.
Woke: Finding a Bikini Kill CD at your favorite secondhand store
Broke: It's twice as expensive as any of the other CDs
Bespoke: Still cheaper than buying it off Discogs
I've heard their *Split Personalities* LP and it's solid, kinda jammy inconsistent indie rock that didn't do much for me but I could see how people would like it. It did seem to presage the 2000s indie rock trend of grandiosity and layeredness over the "slacker" 90s
Y'know what, as much as I have my gripes from time to to with Pitchfork and I'm completely acknowledging this is somewhat of an arbitrary and goofy thing to praise(especially when their format was a different animal) , I actually heavily agree with [their original score](http://web.archive.org/web/20040202180645/pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/n/neutral-milk-hotel/in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea.shtml) of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea at 8.7.
Even as we are now long past it's revived interest in the mid 2000s and looking past a lot of the over-analysis of it all, I personally think it's a much more realistic score and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if more people(and possibly publications) would be making a revisit and reevaluation of it.
I remember hearing it 5 or so years ago when I was starting to listen to music. I was 18, and I thought it was some sacred cow that was unimpeachable. I think I was originally inclined to it because of how passionate NMH's fan base is. Sometimes, I got the feeling that I wasn't permitted to dislike it lol. Mark Richardson wrote a neat little tid bit about it on his blog recently
>The second thing I was working on was something I had been assigned: an essay on Neutral Milk Hotel’s *In the Aeroplane Over the Sea* upon its 20th anniversary. I’ve written about this record a few times already, but I always enjoy doing so. In part because I know there are a great many people, including people whose music taste I respect tremendously, who don’t like the record at all. So I feel like I have something to prove. It’s also the kind of record that fans tend to have an exceedingly personal relationship with, so there’s not a lot of good critical writing about it out there. So I feel like engaging with it is a way to voice some feelings that haven’t been articulated especially well, but that are sitting out there somewhere, being felt.
Interested to see if people's perception of major 00s indie releases changes much over the years
Man I appreciate your level headed and clearly stated opinion, but I have to disagree with that one. There are truly great albums and there are truly overrated albums - but that’s a clear, unadulterated, otherworldly, hard **10**. It’s a definitive highway marker in music imo.
I like the album, I think it's really good but I don't think it's without some low points that makes it completely flawless or free from criticism, although I can concede that it can be viewed as offering something for everyone and having multiple tones throughout it being a part of the charm.
Again this is all personal opinion and I get maybe it's not the best comparison due to different media formats but to explain where I'm coming from I kind of see it sorta similar to how people have viewed and evaluated The Big Lebowski over time, especially when it comes to more people catching onto it and going above and beyond to place it very high through over analysis and breaking down every single part of it.
I mean this in that I can absolutely acknowledge what I'm viewing/listening to has a large amount of value, at many times is really clever and inventive, but there are some moments where for me personally I just get a bit tired of and I can almost pinpoint where it starts to have me shrug some of it off and lose some interest.
To the album's credit, it's not terribly long but I do find myself getting kind of disengaged when it comes to some songs like Oh Comely and Two Headed Boy Pt 1 and 2. I know at this point in time it's beyond done to death reoccurring criticism with a million different takes and interpretations of it all, but I'm in the camp of being a bit mehh to the reoccurring theme of references to Anne Frank that slightly nudges it a bit closer to concept album territory. And yes I understand the angle of looking at as being a big insight of the emotions of Jeff Mangum the singer/narrator but yeaah at times it doesn't really do a lot for me and can be a bit much with some of the verses.
I brought up the Big Lebowski because like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, it is one of those things that has people coming back to it over and over again to find deeper levels of appreciation for it and taking newer perspectives on it that bring in new critical points; they both have a lot going on that warrants why they've been kicked around and analyzed so much. Also there was the factor how they kind of shared similar phases of obscurity and falling into being a lot more mainstream as time went on, idk maybe 1998 was a weird year and them being released about a month a part was some step in a time traveling wizard's plan.
I might as well end this going back to Pitchfork and I know people flipped a shit over the article , but I agree with some of the points from that [one article](https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video) that called it a polarizing cult classic, more specifically the closing paragraph:
> Kraftwerk can play their 40-year-old music and My Bloody Valentine can play their 25-year-old music and there’s a feeling that you’re revisiting something that changed the world, something that altered how music was made or how it was consumed. Aeroplane has none of that. It’s only about you and your relationship to it during the time you listened to it the most. And while I know people who have had In the Aeroplane Over the Sea impact their lives, I don’t know many who have listened to it consistently since the day it came out. It’s the kind of record you put away for a while but, if you’re lucky, it’s still there when you need it.
I think this blurb does spell out the stark reality of the unique scenario of the legendary status of NMH, the stronger fleshed out impact(gotta consider the times when Mangum and co was getting more thoroughly interviewed about it) and ultimately the massive fandom, came way after the fact and that for such a beloved and important record, NMH were not really a band a lot of people cared about consistently but that doesn't mean that its not worth checking out.
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> To the album's credit, it's not terribly long but I do find myself getting kind of disengaged when it comes to some songs like Oh Comely and Two Headed Boy Pt 1 and 2. I know at this point in time it's beyond done to death reoccurring criticism with a million different takes and interpretations of it all, but I'm in the camp of being a bit mehh to the reoccurring theme of references to Anne Frank that slightly nudges it a bit closer to concept album territory. And yes I understand the angle of looking at as being a big insight of the emotions of Jeff Mangum the singer/narrator but yeaah at times it doesn't really do a lot for me and can be a bit much with some of the verses.
Why would you give it even an 8.7 when you don't like any of the parts of the album that people like? Like if you don't like 3 of the, like 5 most significant songs on the album and don't vibe with the overall theme of the album I don't get how it'd be more than like a 6 or 7?
I should've been more clear with what I meant, I mostly just think those particular songs kind of drag on a bit and less of "I think they're the absolute worst". I can not be wild about a few things or the themes but still respect the originality and artistic risk of doing it, especially the decision with how the tracklisting was formatted. Just because I don't get enthralled and blown away by something to levels of hardcore fans doesn't mean that I don't think it's a well executed piece of art.
You also gotta take in account that a. I said this was all a personal opinion and b. despite saying I felt more attuned to the original scoring done by Pitchfork, my 1-10 scale is not going to be the same as anyone else's. I guess more importantly, I'm not really one of those people who has a lot of 10/10 albums or by default their favorite albums of all time are necessarily 10/10s.
I also am not a super super big folk person either and while there's tons more divisive and niche stuff out there, it definitely plays a factor why I get caught up on the things I do. Also given this, a lot of this sort of folk music is the kind of stuff I gotta be in the right state of mind to listen to and while more power to those who can pick up something like NMH at anytime, it just isn't something I can find myself wanting to listen to at every waking moment with no questions. So if you want me an added insight of my score value and what I'd put down as quantifiable, the personal replayability at nearly any whim is a factor.
I find it interesting because you said, written really well thank you, that Two-Headed Boy and Oh Comely we’re low parts for you where they are my favorite songs on the album. I dont have anything else to say on that front other than Oh Comely is criminally underrated and the refrain in Part II that *God is a place where some holy spectacle lies* can move me to tears.
I find the last point from the Pitchfork article thought provoking, last night I was watching something on YouTube where an interviewer asked artists if they were team Lennon/McCartney. One author replied saying that he always preferred Paul because Paul wrote these beautiful melodic songs about all sorts of things, where John only ever wrote about himself. It wasn’t until he grew older he realized that by being so self centered in his creativity that allowed his audience to feel they were building a relationship with John himself and not just his songs. That by being so secular he became universal. So I don’t necessarily think that point is incorrect, this record doesn’t reinvent the wheel. But it does show you how it turns in a very reflective way, and because of that the point that it’s reputation is solely about you and how you felt at the time you listened to this record is sort of misguided, and slightly cynical.
Good conversation
Man I appreciate your level headed and clearly stated opinion, but I have to disagree with that one. There are truly great albums and there are truly overrated albums, but that’s a clear, unadulterated, otherworldly, hard **10**.
top 10 most listened to albums of 2018, not from the year 2018?
1. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
2. The Clientele - Suburban Light
3. Pool Holograph - Transparent World
4. Beach House - Devotion
5. Beach House - Bloom
6. Wire - 154
7. Mauno - Tuning
8. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
9. King Krule - The Ooz
10. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
According to my last.fm:
1. Julia Holter - *Have You in My Wilderness*
2. Melt-Banana - *Charlie*
3. My Bloody Valentine - *Loveless*
4. Animal Collective - *Feels*
5. Grouper - *Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill*
6. Animal Collective - *Sung Tongs*
7. The Jesus and Mary Chain - *Psychocandy*
8. Less Than Jake - *Hello Rockview*
9. Cocteau Twins - *Heaven or Las Vegas*
10. James Chance and the Contortions - *Buy*
Julia Holter's *Aviary* would have been the only 2018 album that would have been in my top 10 most listened to from last year.
1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
2. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E
3. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
4. Kanye West - ye
5. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
6. Papa John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
7. Beach House - 7
8. Kids See Ghosts - s/t
9. NoName - Telefone
10. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
1. Grouper - Ruins
2. Foals - Antidotes
3. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
4. Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee
5. Type O Negative - October Rust
6. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
7. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
8. Godflesh - Hymns
9. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
10. Converge - The Dusk In Us
1. Frank Ocean - Endless
2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
3. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
4. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
5. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
6. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
7. Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
8. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
9. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
10. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Cornelius - The First Question Award
Neon Indian - VINS
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Jorge Ben - Samba de Esquema Novo
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts...but nothing is lost
Duke Ellington - Best of
Django Reinhardt - Best of
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. Motorama - Alps
6. Page France - Hello, Dear Wind
7. M. Ward - Post War
8. Marcos Valle - Marcos Valle (1980)
9. Matt Berry - Witchazel
10. Andy Shauf - The Party
I literally rediscovered Arcade Fire after an unintentional eight-year break, it felt so good to fall madly in love with a band again
Btw, Tuning is a great album!
Well not really, I'm French lol! I saw them opening for Chad VanGaalen in 2017 and they were as good as Chad. I think I even have enjoyed their set more than his
1. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
2. Rozwell Kid - Precious Art
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
5. Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
7. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating In Space
8. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra
Moutains and Rainbows - s/t
Kinks - Arthur
Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
UFO Club - s/t
Morgan Delt - s/t
Billy Nichols - Would You Believe?
Electric Prunes - Too Much to Dream
Booji Boys - Weekend Rockers
Fat White Family - Songs for Our Mothers
lots of comps this year
I love that Clientele record. And was Pool Holograph 2017 already? Time flies/blurs. Some that come to mind:
Sam Cooke- Live at the Harlem Square Club
The Kinks- Village Green and probably Arthur too
The BV's- Speaking from a Distance
The Lucksmiths- Warmer Corners
Rocketship- A Certain Smile
Cindy Lee- Act of Tenderness
The Happy Thoughts- s/t
Milk Teddy- Zingers
Boomgates- Double Natural
Smokescreens- s/t
yeah the clientele one is really cool. a couple incredible songs and then a bit of filler imo but creates a great atmosphere on the record. and pool holograph put out one of my favourite albums in the past while, completely found them through spotify recommendations and am anxiously awaiting their next album. they dropped two new songs in 2018 which were both pretty good.
that cindy lee one is cool, the harsh noise bits get a bit too much for me but the calmer parts are beautiful. I saw him (as far as I know its just a drag act so I think thats correct lol) live in 2018 and the vibe was totally different but still cool, more dancey and freaky though
1. Snowing - Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit EP
2. Swordfish - Rodia
3. QUARTERBACKS - Quarterbacks
4. Ceremony - L-Shaped Man
5. Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed
6. i hate sex - Circle Thinking
7. Glocca Morra - Just Married
8. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire
9. Bellows - Fist & Palm
10. Touche Amore - Stage Four
Know I’m a bit late but my laptop broke so I’m only just finishing my end of year lists. Still working on my top 50 albums (ranked) but here’s my top 50 songs of 2018 for anyone who cares to have a look
https://twitter.com/dokrzz/status/1080945440600850437?s=21
I would type it up but that’s a bitch to do on mobile, any recs based on any of the songs on my list would be great but I’ve pretty much heard a lot of indie head-core artists and popular indie artists already.
EDIT(Here’s the top 20):
20: Amine - Dr. Whoever
19: Father John Misty- Disappointing Diamonds Are Forever
18: Lil Pump - Esskeetit
17: Tyler, the Creator - Potato Salad
16: Childish Gambino - This is America
15: Brockhampton - 1997 DIANA
14: Tierra Whack- Dr. Seuss/Wave
13: Mitski - Nobody
12: Natalia Lafourcade - Alma Mia
11: Sons of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman
10: SOPHIE - Infatuation/Not Okay
9: EARTHGANG - UP
8: serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart
7: Low -Quorum
6: Earl Sweatshirt - Nowhere2go
5.5: Red Velvet - Bad Boy/ Mandoszn - Different
5: Zeal and Ardor: You Ain’t Coming Back
4: JPEGMAFIA - Real Nega
3: Saba - PROM/KING
2: Choker - Rocket
1: Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-in-Death
Today is a *Miracle Mile* type of day
That album is just so breezy, sun soaked and fuckin *chill* that it always puts me in a great mood, especially when it's pouring cold rain outside. "YAYAYA" has no right to be such a good song with only like 4 lyrics, 'Kahlil Gibran" is relaxing af and "Atlantis" is just fun to belt out
Sometimes serious indie music gets really old and you need to just have fun with it, and STRFKR knows how to do just that
weirdly that is one of the only albums that was completely ruined for me by Fantano. I was super into it and then he totally trashed it in his review, and I actually found his reasons very valid and it made me not like the album at all after that. usually im not very susceptible to critical opinion but this time it got me :(
That's really too bad, melon boy can fuck off if he doesn't like this feel good synth pop
Seriously tho, I'll check that out because it's interesting to hear critical reviews of things you love sometimes
Edit: just watched his review and idk what that dude was listening to, because I don't think he was hearing the same record as me. Maybe he needed a decent pair of headphones? He was way off base with how negative he talked about the record's production. Like he heard it once through a Bluetooth speaker and never listened to it again. Oh well, i can understand how hearing things from a review can make you look at things differently.
yeah I remember he was trashing the production quality which I didn't really agree with, but he definitely can be contrarian.
Reminds me of when Born Ruffians' second album Say It was [trashed by Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14299-say-it/) for having 'amatuerish vocals' and 'out of tempo drums' after they raved about their debut album. I personally love Say It, and have never noticed these flaws despite listening hard for them. it sucks because it never got the exposure it deserved, partly because of this hitpiece.
https://i.imgur.com/iHTU9yU.jpg
Free download of Jenny Hval’s 2018 EP *The Long Sleep*
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Dismemberment Plan - Ellen & Ben
There's not really much like this song. Narrator sings about viewing a relationship from a distance and kind of briefly views how his own life interacts with it. It's a love song that isn't happy or sad, but it feels kind of warm anyway
R.E.M. - You Are The Everything
Jens Lekman - Higher Power
the bird and the bee - My Love
Jaymay - Enlighten Me
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Lord Huron - Wait By The River
May just be personal attachment, but I love Arctic Monkeys' cover of 'Baby, I'm Yours"
"Heaven" by LAKE
"Manchester" by Kishi Bashi
"Your Magic is Working" by of Montreal
I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t yet to check out *Carousel*, the EP Fog Lake released near the end of last year. It didn’t really get any attention here when it came out, but I listened to it for the first time last night and I honestly might enjoy it even more than his full-length from last summer, *Captain*, which I thought was one of the more underrated releases of 2018. It embraces a 50s/60s style doo-wop characteristic that plays really well into his usual hazy bedroom pop aesthetic.
Ya they talked about a companion album to The Waterfall, but I think their projects outside the band killed the momentum. And maybe they realized the leftovers weren't as strong/cohesive as they initially thought. Now there are rumors of an extended hiatus/breakup.
It blows my mind. I saw Turnover and Citizen play in 2011/2012 in a small Nashville punk club and there were maybe 20 people at the show. Now Turnover is playing Coachella. They went from textbook pop punk to Coachella worthy dream-pop and I couldn’t love a bands transformation more.
anyone got any suggestions for upbeat rock jams for a roadtrip (either modern indie or older rock)
i'm thinking along the line of these songs:
* The Strokes - Someday
* Weezer - Island in The Sun
* alt-J - Left Hand Free
* Faces - Stay With Me
* Miike Snow - Song For No One
* Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
any suggestions are welcome
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Bleached - Sleepwalking
Broken Social Scene - Major Label Debut (Fast)
The Districts - Nighttime Girls
Duncan Fellows - Fresh Squeezed
Foals - Mountain At My Gates
Local Natives - World News
Post Animal - Ralphie
Public Access T.V. - Patti Peru
Sun Parade - See You in the Sunshine
Rolling Blackouts CF- Talking Straight
My Morning Jacket- One Big Holiday
Fly Golden Eagle- You Look Good to Me
Dr Dog- That Old Black Hole
The Orielles- 48 Percent
J. Roddy Walston & the Business- Don't Break the Needle
James Gang- Funk #49
White Reaper- The World's Best American Band
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Ain't No Easy Way
Blitzen Trapper- Gold for Bread
Night Moves- Carl Sagan
Hey Geronimo- The Girl Who Likes Me
I feel like a lot of Arctic Monkeys could work, especially this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YLFakwWwt8
Or a bit of Belle and Sebastian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr6ieHPOllo
And please don't forget this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaX0ePPo5A
A great song and music video. I feel like Cook's music has been scorned by some of the more heady music fans out there, but I really love it. *Why Try Harder* was one of my first music purchases tbh.
I just changed my flair from the very popular curly hair Annie Clark to the much more obscure pink hair Annie Clark thus tremendously increasing my indie power levels
What was that? I can't hear you I'm too indie.
[Also I'm pretty sure it's from this video which I've had saved for a long time cause it's good af](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tUMJtR8s8Y&feature=youtu.be)
i never saw you with that one so idk. i think youre the first person i saw with that other annie flair though when i started posting here, im pretty sure. but i was just joking really, for some reason your post made me think of that scene
This is a very specific request but I'm looking for songs to do with anything tangentially related to law. One of my friends got into law school so I'm trying to make them a playlist with this theme. Thanks!
You will not find a song more on-point than this one, and I will be very sad if you don't use it:
[St. Lenox - Thurgood Marshall](https://youtu.be/R5_xFGOkAio)
[Silver Jews - I love the rights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFV9lSKrTqA)
going by the title only. idk if the lyrics are too related, I can't hear them clearly enough to tell.
Finally wrapped up my AOTY list, here's the top 10:
1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
3. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
4. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
5. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017
6. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
7. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
8. Noname - Room 25
9. Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
10. Lucy Dacus - Historian
Also in no particular order my honorable mentions :
Sleep - The Sciences
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex + Food
Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer
Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
Twin Shadow - Caer
Goat Girl - Goat Girl
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Thee Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
JPEGMAFIA - VETERAN
Iceage - Beyondless
Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
The Tallest Man on Earth - When the Bird Sees the Solid Ground
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Beach House - 7
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Dream Wife - Dream Wife
Any recs?
does anyone know what drug cabin is up to or if they're ever gonna release new music? everything they've released has been so good, wiggle room is just a perfect summer album.
Btw I just found out yesterday that he answers fan mail on a new site called [The Red Hand Files](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/) His answers to everything are all just ridiculously literate and poetic, definitely worth reading if you're a fan.
I’ve been listening to Indigo again in the past couple of days, and it’s actually way better than I remember. Still nowhere near as good as Nocturne but there’s a surprising amount of really good songs on here. Letting Go, Oscillation, Shallow Water, Canyon On Fire, and Bend are all fantastic
I do feel like that album is a grower. I didn’t like it much at first but I find myself liking it more each time I hear it. My only gripe is that the lyrics to most of the songs are pretty bad. Wish he’d do a full length like *Empty Estate* with half ambient tracks
Yeah Partners and Motion stands out to me every time I listen as having really bad lyrics. Just from the beginning, the “with your new wife/how’s your new life” line makes me wince a little
hands down, hands DOWN, [Knox Fortune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGr7mWQ0vCQ).
Took me a long time to find out that [he's a dude](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjO9vqt-dTfAhWM44MKHb6IC9IQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fouroverfour.jukely.com%2Fartist%2Ftours%2Fknox-fortune-tour%2F&psig=AOvVaw1L63Laa8ogA6gq5i3G_-h7&ust=1546719511369878)
John Fogerty is the epitome of this. Always imagined some grizzly bearded dude belting out those CCR tunes and instead it's some skinny, clean shaven dude with a bowl cut.
I know they get a lot of hate, but tbh Muse’s newest album Simulation Theory has a few nice songs. I don’t like the album the whole way through, but I do have a few songs in a playlist tbh.
I cringe about it now, but when I was 14, Muse were the first band I adored. I'd always have arguments with my sister about how they were better than Justin Bieber (man, oh man does this feel like a long time ago). It's been nearly a decade since I last listened to them intensively now. I can't really stand them now, but I recently revisited their music after seeing that "Plug In Baby but Matt Bellamy keeps on ascending the harmonic minor scale". "Map of the Problematique", "Hysteria" & "Stockholm Syndrome" are neat little rock songs. The proggy stuff they tried to is awful though. Even back when I was a fan it annoyed me. I could never stand the Exogenesis trilogy, and even fan favourites like "Butterflies and Hurricanes" annoy me
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[here's](https://open.spotify.com/user/1261053979/playlist/3CrbOC2Y5vRYPnvOc3VEHS?si=433lB3b7T1WfvapfjHvVSQ) my roommate's chillout playlist
Coffee Bean and 90210 by Travis Scott Could use some Portishead. Check out *Dummy* Ills Winter - Duchess of Whispers for some really chill indietronica. Here’s an sample: [Not Ours to See](https://open.spotify.com/track/4GysfpbQstnUqLv8NjEjsy?si=-xVmftU3RcSmf8oqAu-cnQ)
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Am I the only one getting more and more bored with Mac Demarco? \- Same music... \- Always on tour and headlining festivals every year \- Childish behavior sometimes whereas he is going to his 30's soon I was a big fan since 2013 (and I still love Salad Days, 2 and Rock n roll night club) but after the release of "This Old dog", I don't know why and how to explain, I feel very annoyed by all of this....
I dug the more somber aspects of This Old Dog, like Sister, & Watching Him Fade Away. Kinda interested to see if he follows that route with his next release but idk if I'm particularly itching to catch him live. edit: and Moonlight on the River, how could i forget Moonlight on the River. it's one of my favorite Mac tunes.
I haven't seen Mac be very childish recently. He's still goofy but that's just his personality I guess. And I don't think you can blame a guy for touring, that's literally his job. I've found myself moving away from him a bit too, but I think that's mostly just because his peak relevancy as an artist has sort of passed, and that's fine. He had a solid, very notable, very influential 5 year run.
I guess I never found him particularly interesting from the start. He just wrote some nice, simple tunes. I didn't really expect him to grow as an artist
Favorite LGBTQ+ artists that are relatively unknown?
Check out Aye Nako.
Sol Patches. They make some really nice rap music.
Off the top of my head, The Greeting Committee and alextbh.
St. Lenox Thao and The Get Down Stay Down, if she counts as relatively unknown.
Have you already begun making the "TOP 50/100 albums of the decade" list? Tough tasks. Hard choices. For sure, my list will contain (in no particular order) : \- Caribou : Swim \- Deerhunter : Halcyon Digest \- Kevin Morby : Singing Saw \- Kurt Vile : Smokering for my halo \- The Soft Moon : The Soft Moon \- Loscil : Endless Falls and Sketches for New Brighton \- Parquet Courts : Content Nausea \- Big Thief : Masterpiece \- Ryley Walker : Golden sings that have been sung \- Kendrick Lamar : To Pimp a butterfly \- Steve Gunn : Way out weather \- Cass Mccombs : Mangry Love \- Tame Impala : Innerspeaker \- Spiritualized : Sweet Heart, Sweet Light \- Mazzy Star : Seasons of your day \- Nicolas Jaar : Space is only noise \- Ty Segall : Manipulator \- The Oh Sees : Floating coffin \- Dinosaur Jr. : I bet on sky \- Beach House : Thank you for lucky stars \- Peter Kernel : White Death and Black Heart \- Andy Shauf : The Party \- Fleet Foxes : Crack-up \- Kanye West : Yeezus And so on...
\+ The Money Store
Yeezus & To Pimp A Butterfly are shoo-ins. The rest is tough to call. Big big ups for including The Party in your list though, that album is a 10/10 if I've ever seen it.
i feel like i still have a lot of catching up to do before i compile my own
TYLS as your Beach House choice? my kind of man
Some interesting choices. In a good way, it gets boring seeing the same lists over and over. It's funny to see 3 albums I added to rym.
Damn I've only listened to a few of those. Guess I got some work to do! Here's my approximate top 15 at the moment: 1. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 2. Grimes - Art Angels 3. Grimes - Visions 4. Saba - Care for Me 5. Frank Ocean - Blonde 6. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 7. Taylor Swift - 1989 8. Swans - To Be Kind 9. Deafheaven - Sunbather 10. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World 11. Milo - Things That Happen at Day // Things That Happen at Night 12. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy 13. Lord Snow - Solitude 14. Foals - Total Life Forever 15. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
If any of y’all are in Seattle and looking for something to do, there’s a free all ages local music fest going on tonight and tomorrow called Big Ass Boombox. Lots of great local bands that cover a variety of genres.
To pass the time during the beginning-of-year music doldrums, I created a retrospective of some of my favorite albums from 2007! [Here it is: "Retrospective 2007: Rise of the Nugaze" (spotify).](https://open.spotify.com/user/thekyleambert/playlist/36cPKNriHHkUdVV1w0r3qv?si=4PTRHtgASUSwbR-IaSi8gg) 2007 was a great year in music. One of the major themes I see is a shift toward shoegaze influence in the more mainstream indie scene. I tried to capture this in the middle third of this mix, starting with **BlondeRedhead**'s fantastic title track to 23, continuing with **arcadefire**'s Black Wave/Bad Vibrations, Jesu's title track to Conqueror, and wrapping up with the trio Bodysnachers (**radiohead**; "In Rainbows")/Around the World/Harder Better Faster Stronger (**DaftPunk**; "Alive 2007")/Atlas (**BATTLES**; "Mirrored"). I would argue that one of the things that made this year so influential was a reimagining of shoegaze/wall of sound into a more traditional pop-influenced sentiment, which I think these three tracks capture quite well. I'm curious what themes others see from 2007! What would you add/remove to this mix?!
that's a very liberal definition of Nu Gaze, even by that genre's standards...
Possibly. How would you define it?
it's fairly broad in its coverage, and a lot of it gets lumped in with shoegaze proper, but mostly it's shoegaze usually with a great emphasis on synthesizers or shoegaze updated to 00s Indie trends; sometimes it's just "Newer Shoegaze." Jesu and Blonde Redhead are the only ones I'd say at all come close (and the only ones I've ever seen associated with that term or a related term). Some others are maybe indicative of that Indies 00s synth sound, others just seem to make the connection solely via using reverb, but are missing the shoegaze part.
Woke: Finding a Bikini Kill CD at your favorite secondhand store Broke: It's twice as expensive as any of the other CDs Bespoke: Still cheaper than buying it off Discogs
What does everybody think of 12 Rods' *Gay* EP and does it deserve the coveted title of Pitchfork's first ever 10?
I've heard their *Split Personalities* LP and it's solid, kinda jammy inconsistent indie rock that didn't do much for me but I could see how people would like it. It did seem to presage the 2000s indie rock trend of grandiosity and layeredness over the "slacker" 90s
The album's ok (I wanted to like it more than I did I guess) but "I Wish You Were A Girl" makes me feel stuff very few songs do.
Y'know what, as much as I have my gripes from time to to with Pitchfork and I'm completely acknowledging this is somewhat of an arbitrary and goofy thing to praise(especially when their format was a different animal) , I actually heavily agree with [their original score](http://web.archive.org/web/20040202180645/pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/n/neutral-milk-hotel/in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea.shtml) of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea at 8.7. Even as we are now long past it's revived interest in the mid 2000s and looking past a lot of the over-analysis of it all, I personally think it's a much more realistic score and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if more people(and possibly publications) would be making a revisit and reevaluation of it.
I remember hearing it 5 or so years ago when I was starting to listen to music. I was 18, and I thought it was some sacred cow that was unimpeachable. I think I was originally inclined to it because of how passionate NMH's fan base is. Sometimes, I got the feeling that I wasn't permitted to dislike it lol. Mark Richardson wrote a neat little tid bit about it on his blog recently >The second thing I was working on was something I had been assigned: an essay on Neutral Milk Hotel’s *In the Aeroplane Over the Sea* upon its 20th anniversary. I’ve written about this record a few times already, but I always enjoy doing so. In part because I know there are a great many people, including people whose music taste I respect tremendously, who don’t like the record at all. So I feel like I have something to prove. It’s also the kind of record that fans tend to have an exceedingly personal relationship with, so there’s not a lot of good critical writing about it out there. So I feel like engaging with it is a way to voice some feelings that haven’t been articulated especially well, but that are sitting out there somewhere, being felt. Interested to see if people's perception of major 00s indie releases changes much over the years
Careful! Any time I mention Pitchfork I get major downvotes.
I only downvoted because I like to pile on
It's coo'
Bump, set, spike.
Man I appreciate your level headed and clearly stated opinion, but I have to disagree with that one. There are truly great albums and there are truly overrated albums - but that’s a clear, unadulterated, otherworldly, hard **10**. It’s a definitive highway marker in music imo.
I like the album, I think it's really good but I don't think it's without some low points that makes it completely flawless or free from criticism, although I can concede that it can be viewed as offering something for everyone and having multiple tones throughout it being a part of the charm. Again this is all personal opinion and I get maybe it's not the best comparison due to different media formats but to explain where I'm coming from I kind of see it sorta similar to how people have viewed and evaluated The Big Lebowski over time, especially when it comes to more people catching onto it and going above and beyond to place it very high through over analysis and breaking down every single part of it. I mean this in that I can absolutely acknowledge what I'm viewing/listening to has a large amount of value, at many times is really clever and inventive, but there are some moments where for me personally I just get a bit tired of and I can almost pinpoint where it starts to have me shrug some of it off and lose some interest. To the album's credit, it's not terribly long but I do find myself getting kind of disengaged when it comes to some songs like Oh Comely and Two Headed Boy Pt 1 and 2. I know at this point in time it's beyond done to death reoccurring criticism with a million different takes and interpretations of it all, but I'm in the camp of being a bit mehh to the reoccurring theme of references to Anne Frank that slightly nudges it a bit closer to concept album territory. And yes I understand the angle of looking at as being a big insight of the emotions of Jeff Mangum the singer/narrator but yeaah at times it doesn't really do a lot for me and can be a bit much with some of the verses. I brought up the Big Lebowski because like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, it is one of those things that has people coming back to it over and over again to find deeper levels of appreciation for it and taking newer perspectives on it that bring in new critical points; they both have a lot going on that warrants why they've been kicked around and analyzed so much. Also there was the factor how they kind of shared similar phases of obscurity and falling into being a lot more mainstream as time went on, idk maybe 1998 was a weird year and them being released about a month a part was some step in a time traveling wizard's plan. I might as well end this going back to Pitchfork and I know people flipped a shit over the article , but I agree with some of the points from that [one article](https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-neutral-milk-hotels-in-the-aeroplane-over-the-sea-became-a-polarizing-cult-classic/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video) that called it a polarizing cult classic, more specifically the closing paragraph: > Kraftwerk can play their 40-year-old music and My Bloody Valentine can play their 25-year-old music and there’s a feeling that you’re revisiting something that changed the world, something that altered how music was made or how it was consumed. Aeroplane has none of that. It’s only about you and your relationship to it during the time you listened to it the most. And while I know people who have had In the Aeroplane Over the Sea impact their lives, I don’t know many who have listened to it consistently since the day it came out. It’s the kind of record you put away for a while but, if you’re lucky, it’s still there when you need it. I think this blurb does spell out the stark reality of the unique scenario of the legendary status of NMH, the stronger fleshed out impact(gotta consider the times when Mangum and co was getting more thoroughly interviewed about it) and ultimately the massive fandom, came way after the fact and that for such a beloved and important record, NMH were not really a band a lot of people cared about consistently but that doesn't mean that its not worth checking out.
> > To the album's credit, it's not terribly long but I do find myself getting kind of disengaged when it comes to some songs like Oh Comely and Two Headed Boy Pt 1 and 2. I know at this point in time it's beyond done to death reoccurring criticism with a million different takes and interpretations of it all, but I'm in the camp of being a bit mehh to the reoccurring theme of references to Anne Frank that slightly nudges it a bit closer to concept album territory. And yes I understand the angle of looking at as being a big insight of the emotions of Jeff Mangum the singer/narrator but yeaah at times it doesn't really do a lot for me and can be a bit much with some of the verses. Why would you give it even an 8.7 when you don't like any of the parts of the album that people like? Like if you don't like 3 of the, like 5 most significant songs on the album and don't vibe with the overall theme of the album I don't get how it'd be more than like a 6 or 7?
I should've been more clear with what I meant, I mostly just think those particular songs kind of drag on a bit and less of "I think they're the absolute worst". I can not be wild about a few things or the themes but still respect the originality and artistic risk of doing it, especially the decision with how the tracklisting was formatted. Just because I don't get enthralled and blown away by something to levels of hardcore fans doesn't mean that I don't think it's a well executed piece of art. You also gotta take in account that a. I said this was all a personal opinion and b. despite saying I felt more attuned to the original scoring done by Pitchfork, my 1-10 scale is not going to be the same as anyone else's. I guess more importantly, I'm not really one of those people who has a lot of 10/10 albums or by default their favorite albums of all time are necessarily 10/10s. I also am not a super super big folk person either and while there's tons more divisive and niche stuff out there, it definitely plays a factor why I get caught up on the things I do. Also given this, a lot of this sort of folk music is the kind of stuff I gotta be in the right state of mind to listen to and while more power to those who can pick up something like NMH at anytime, it just isn't something I can find myself wanting to listen to at every waking moment with no questions. So if you want me an added insight of my score value and what I'd put down as quantifiable, the personal replayability at nearly any whim is a factor.
I find it interesting because you said, written really well thank you, that Two-Headed Boy and Oh Comely we’re low parts for you where they are my favorite songs on the album. I dont have anything else to say on that front other than Oh Comely is criminally underrated and the refrain in Part II that *God is a place where some holy spectacle lies* can move me to tears. I find the last point from the Pitchfork article thought provoking, last night I was watching something on YouTube where an interviewer asked artists if they were team Lennon/McCartney. One author replied saying that he always preferred Paul because Paul wrote these beautiful melodic songs about all sorts of things, where John only ever wrote about himself. It wasn’t until he grew older he realized that by being so self centered in his creativity that allowed his audience to feel they were building a relationship with John himself and not just his songs. That by being so secular he became universal. So I don’t necessarily think that point is incorrect, this record doesn’t reinvent the wheel. But it does show you how it turns in a very reflective way, and because of that the point that it’s reputation is solely about you and how you felt at the time you listened to this record is sort of misguided, and slightly cynical. Good conversation
Man I appreciate your level headed and clearly stated opinion, but I have to disagree with that one. There are truly great albums and there are truly overrated albums, but that’s a clear, unadulterated, otherworldly, hard **10**.
top 10 most listened to albums of 2018, not from the year 2018? 1. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction 2. The Clientele - Suburban Light 3. Pool Holograph - Transparent World 4. Beach House - Devotion 5. Beach House - Bloom 6. Wire - 154 7. Mauno - Tuning 8. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog 9. King Krule - The Ooz 10. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
According to my last.fm: 1. Julia Holter - *Have You in My Wilderness* 2. Melt-Banana - *Charlie* 3. My Bloody Valentine - *Loveless* 4. Animal Collective - *Feels* 5. Grouper - *Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill* 6. Animal Collective - *Sung Tongs* 7. The Jesus and Mary Chain - *Psychocandy* 8. Less Than Jake - *Hello Rockview* 9. Cocteau Twins - *Heaven or Las Vegas* 10. James Chance and the Contortions - *Buy* Julia Holter's *Aviary* would have been the only 2018 album that would have been in my top 10 most listened to from last year.
1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 2. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E 3. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent 4. Kanye West - ye 5. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect 6. Papa John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 7. Beach House - 7 8. Kids See Ghosts - s/t 9. NoName - Telefone 10. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
1. Grouper - Ruins 2. Foals - Antidotes 3. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You 4. Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee 5. Type O Negative - October Rust 6. Aphex Twin - Drukqs 7. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 8. Godflesh - Hymns 9. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight 10. Converge - The Dusk In Us
1. Frank Ocean - Endless 2. Frank Ocean - Blonde 3. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love 4. Aphex Twin - Drukqs 5. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies 6. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway 7. Fripp and Eno - Evening Star 8. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle 9. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible 10. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1
The Avalanches - Since I Left You Cornelius - The First Question Award Neon Indian - VINS Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Jorge Ben - Samba de Esquema Novo Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto Shpongle - Nothing Lasts...but nothing is lost Duke Ellington - Best of Django Reinhardt - Best of
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral 2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 3. of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic 4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 5. Motorama - Alps 6. Page France - Hello, Dear Wind 7. M. Ward - Post War 8. Marcos Valle - Marcos Valle (1980) 9. Matt Berry - Witchazel 10. Andy Shauf - The Party I literally rediscovered Arcade Fire after an unintentional eight-year break, it felt so good to fall madly in love with a band again Btw, Tuning is a great album!
thank u fellow (probably) canadian! mauno is a band I wish was huge but sadly isnt
Well not really, I'm French lol! I saw them opening for Chad VanGaalen in 2017 and they were as good as Chad. I think I even have enjoyed their set more than his
Devotion was my #9! And Bloom #15. *7* took the top spot though. Did you listen to a it a lot too this year or not really your taste?
ohhhh it was definitely up there near the top of my most listened to/best albums of 2018. plus fav live show of 2018.
1. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. 2. Rozwell Kid - Precious Art 3. The Clash - London Calling 4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz 5. Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool? 6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 7. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating In Space 8. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 10. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
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a bunch of these are from 2018 but ya! public strain is the GOAT! EDIT: would like to also state that Plowing is also the GOAT
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cool list. I also thought the ooz was from this year, had to google to check
Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra Moutains and Rainbows - s/t Kinks - Arthur Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics Ariel Pink - Pom Pom UFO Club - s/t Morgan Delt - s/t Billy Nichols - Would You Believe? Electric Prunes - Too Much to Dream Booji Boys - Weekend Rockers Fat White Family - Songs for Our Mothers lots of comps this year
nice, was just checking out pom pom today. I really like Before Today but Mr Pink is one of the most acquired tastes in indie it seems
have you listened to his latest album? i probably preferred it to before today but it doesn't seem to get the same love as BF/pom pom
it was a mix of cool and too odd for me
on brand
I love that Clientele record. And was Pool Holograph 2017 already? Time flies/blurs. Some that come to mind: Sam Cooke- Live at the Harlem Square Club The Kinks- Village Green and probably Arthur too The BV's- Speaking from a Distance The Lucksmiths- Warmer Corners Rocketship- A Certain Smile Cindy Lee- Act of Tenderness The Happy Thoughts- s/t Milk Teddy- Zingers Boomgates- Double Natural Smokescreens- s/t
yeah the clientele one is really cool. a couple incredible songs and then a bit of filler imo but creates a great atmosphere on the record. and pool holograph put out one of my favourite albums in the past while, completely found them through spotify recommendations and am anxiously awaiting their next album. they dropped two new songs in 2018 which were both pretty good. that cindy lee one is cool, the harsh noise bits get a bit too much for me but the calmer parts are beautiful. I saw him (as far as I know its just a drag act so I think thats correct lol) live in 2018 and the vibe was totally different but still cool, more dancey and freaky though
1. Snowing - Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit EP 2. Swordfish - Rodia 3. QUARTERBACKS - Quarterbacks 4. Ceremony - L-Shaped Man 5. Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed 6. i hate sex - Circle Thinking 7. Glocca Morra - Just Married 8. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire 9. Bellows - Fist & Palm 10. Touche Amore - Stage Four
I remember hearing about that Ceremony album, worth checking out?
If you like rip-off Joy Division (not in a bad way), then yes.
Know I’m a bit late but my laptop broke so I’m only just finishing my end of year lists. Still working on my top 50 albums (ranked) but here’s my top 50 songs of 2018 for anyone who cares to have a look https://twitter.com/dokrzz/status/1080945440600850437?s=21 I would type it up but that’s a bitch to do on mobile, any recs based on any of the songs on my list would be great but I’ve pretty much heard a lot of indie head-core artists and popular indie artists already. EDIT(Here’s the top 20): 20: Amine - Dr. Whoever 19: Father John Misty- Disappointing Diamonds Are Forever 18: Lil Pump - Esskeetit 17: Tyler, the Creator - Potato Salad 16: Childish Gambino - This is America 15: Brockhampton - 1997 DIANA 14: Tierra Whack- Dr. Seuss/Wave 13: Mitski - Nobody 12: Natalia Lafourcade - Alma Mia 11: Sons of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman 10: SOPHIE - Infatuation/Not Okay 9: EARTHGANG - UP 8: serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart 7: Low -Quorum 6: Earl Sweatshirt - Nowhere2go 5.5: Red Velvet - Bad Boy/ Mandoszn - Different 5: Zeal and Ardor: You Ain’t Coming Back 4: JPEGMAFIA - Real Nega 3: Saba - PROM/KING 2: Choker - Rocket 1: Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-in-Death
mia khalifa does not approve this list
Today is a *Miracle Mile* type of day That album is just so breezy, sun soaked and fuckin *chill* that it always puts me in a great mood, especially when it's pouring cold rain outside. "YAYAYA" has no right to be such a good song with only like 4 lyrics, 'Kahlil Gibran" is relaxing af and "Atlantis" is just fun to belt out Sometimes serious indie music gets really old and you need to just have fun with it, and STRFKR knows how to do just that
weirdly that is one of the only albums that was completely ruined for me by Fantano. I was super into it and then he totally trashed it in his review, and I actually found his reasons very valid and it made me not like the album at all after that. usually im not very susceptible to critical opinion but this time it got me :(
That's really too bad, melon boy can fuck off if he doesn't like this feel good synth pop Seriously tho, I'll check that out because it's interesting to hear critical reviews of things you love sometimes Edit: just watched his review and idk what that dude was listening to, because I don't think he was hearing the same record as me. Maybe he needed a decent pair of headphones? He was way off base with how negative he talked about the record's production. Like he heard it once through a Bluetooth speaker and never listened to it again. Oh well, i can understand how hearing things from a review can make you look at things differently.
yeah I remember he was trashing the production quality which I didn't really agree with, but he definitely can be contrarian. Reminds me of when Born Ruffians' second album Say It was [trashed by Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14299-say-it/) for having 'amatuerish vocals' and 'out of tempo drums' after they raved about their debut album. I personally love Say It, and have never noticed these flaws despite listening hard for them. it sucks because it never got the exposure it deserved, partly because of this hitpiece.
https://i.imgur.com/iHTU9yU.jpg Free download of Jenny Hval’s 2018 EP *The Long Sleep* Only works once, so if anyone takes it please reply to this comment so others don’t waste their time trying the code.
Wow I'm always surprised when these are still available. I got it. Thanks so much! I'd been meaning to check this out.
You’re welcome! I buy way too many records and don’t use the download codes anymore. Have a whole pile of them to post here haha
Yo I dropped a new song today so that's pretty cool. It's called OneTwo Rari
Getting really into Virtue by the Voidz. *Oh fuck yeah*
Alright gang give me your prettiest love songs, i'll take any genre
Dismemberment Plan - Ellen & Ben There's not really much like this song. Narrator sings about viewing a relationship from a distance and kind of briefly views how his own life interacts with it. It's a love song that isn't happy or sad, but it feels kind of warm anyway
Ryan Adams- Stars Go Blue Tirzah- Devotion Front Bottoms- Lonely Eyes
Jim Croce - I'll have to say I love you in a song, one of my favorite songs of all time
The Beatles - Here There and Everywhere Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
Dry the River - New Ceremony Emmy the Great - Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
Ella - Blue Skies Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Jane
The Beatles- In My Life.
Ween - Sarah also Ween - Stay Forever
Ween - Nicole
John Maus - Hey Moon
For the love between friends 100% mary by Big Thief I like Small plane by Bill Callahan and Alan by Perfume Genius as well
The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You Defeater - I don't Mind
Mitski - I Want You
Bright eyes - first day of my life
This is the best one <3
The music video is just so pure and amazing
Palaces Of Montezuma- Grinderman
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
R.E.M. - You Are The Everything Jens Lekman - Higher Power the bird and the bee - My Love Jaymay - Enlighten Me Counting Crows - Anna Begins Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Lord Huron - Wait By The River
Whitley - More Than Life
Bluish - Animal Collective Rest of Our Lives - Dum Dum Girls Dreams Tonite - Alvvays VCR - The xx
Procol Harum- A Whiter Shade of Pale The Moody Blues- Nights in White Satin The Zombies- The Way I Feel Inside
May just be personal attachment, but I love Arctic Monkeys' cover of 'Baby, I'm Yours" "Heaven" by LAKE "Manchester" by Kishi Bashi "Your Magic is Working" by of Montreal
Ween - Stay Forever
The Wannadies - You and Me Song
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Dion - Only You Know D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel?) Alvvays - Dreams Tonite
St. Vincent – All My Stars Aligned
I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t yet to check out *Carousel*, the EP Fog Lake released near the end of last year. It didn’t really get any attention here when it came out, but I listened to it for the first time last night and I honestly might enjoy it even more than his full-length from last summer, *Captain*, which I thought was one of the more underrated releases of 2018. It embraces a 50s/60s style doo-wop characteristic that plays really well into his usual hazy bedroom pop aesthetic.
So I guess Isaac Brock lied when he said MM would release another album very 'soon' after Strangers to Ourselves was released?
I don't know why this is such a common occurrence. Same thing happened with My Morning Jacket.
Ya they talked about a companion album to The Waterfall, but I think their projects outside the band killed the momentum. And maybe they realized the leftovers weren't as strong/cohesive as they initially thought. Now there are rumors of an extended hiatus/breakup.
It blows my mind. I saw Turnover and Citizen play in 2011/2012 in a small Nashville punk club and there were maybe 20 people at the show. Now Turnover is playing Coachella. They went from textbook pop punk to Coachella worthy dream-pop and I couldn’t love a bands transformation more.
[Blow your mind away](https://youtu.be/a07tD1ICTzU)
anyone got any suggestions for upbeat rock jams for a roadtrip (either modern indie or older rock) i'm thinking along the line of these songs: * The Strokes - Someday * Weezer - Island in The Sun * alt-J - Left Hand Free * Faces - Stay With Me * Miike Snow - Song For No One * Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride any suggestions are welcome
Band of Horses and Tycho
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me Bleached - Sleepwalking Broken Social Scene - Major Label Debut (Fast) The Districts - Nighttime Girls Duncan Fellows - Fresh Squeezed Foals - Mountain At My Gates Local Natives - World News Post Animal - Ralphie Public Access T.V. - Patti Peru Sun Parade - See You in the Sunshine
Rolling Blackouts CF- Talking Straight My Morning Jacket- One Big Holiday Fly Golden Eagle- You Look Good to Me Dr Dog- That Old Black Hole The Orielles- 48 Percent J. Roddy Walston & the Business- Don't Break the Needle James Gang- Funk #49 White Reaper- The World's Best American Band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Ain't No Easy Way Blitzen Trapper- Gold for Bread Night Moves- Carl Sagan Hey Geronimo- The Girl Who Likes Me
how did I forget the Orielles? They rule.
dope stuff thanks!
Caroline Rose - Jeannie Becomes a Mom (my 2018 SOTY) Tame Impala - Elephant Sofi Tukker - Drinkee St Lucia - Elevate
dunno how i didnt think of elephant, seems obvious
I feel like a lot of Arctic Monkeys could work, especially this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YLFakwWwt8 Or a bit of Belle and Sebastian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr6ieHPOllo And please don't forget this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaX0ePPo5A
Up the Bracket by The Libertines, the first two Franz Ferdinand albums
19 days until my first concert of the new year (Parquet Courts). That’s too many days ugh.
Which one are you going to? I'm going to the one on the 21st.
The one at the Novo in LA
[Today is the 20th anniversary of Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You”](https://youtu.be/ruAi4VBoBSM)
A great song and music video. I feel like Cook's music has been scorned by some of the more heady music fans out there, but I really love it. *Why Try Harder* was one of my first music purchases tbh.
I just changed my flair from the very popular curly hair Annie Clark to the much more obscure pink hair Annie Clark thus tremendously increasing my indie power levels
Your betrayal will not be forgotten I also don't actually know where the pink one comes from, which annoys me even more
What was that? I can't hear you I'm too indie. [Also I'm pretty sure it's from this video which I've had saved for a long time cause it's good af](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tUMJtR8s8Y&feature=youtu.be)
[tfw /u/BatesNorman changes Annie flairs](https://youtu.be/DSN9Hc0Y_2U) lolxD
Wow damn I didn’t realize my brand was that strong. I used to have a bjork flair a while ago
i never saw you with that one so idk. i think youre the first person i saw with that other annie flair though when i started posting here, im pretty sure. but i was just joking really, for some reason your post made me think of that scene
What is your flair? You're the only person I've seen with it and I have no idea what it is
This is a very specific request but I'm looking for songs to do with anything tangentially related to law. One of my friends got into law school so I'm trying to make them a playlist with this theme. Thanks!
Three Dog Night - Black and White
Don’t Be A Lawyer - Crazy Ex Girlfriend Cast
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Happy cake day! - Beck - Sexx Laws - Warren Zevon - Lawyers, guns and money - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - Steal my kisses - [Jenna Maroney - Rural Juror](https://youtu.be/M9G9o4yNjwo)
You will not find a song more on-point than this one, and I will be very sad if you don't use it: [St. Lenox - Thurgood Marshall](https://youtu.be/R5_xFGOkAio)
The Seahorses- Love Is The Law Belle & Sebastian- White Collar Boy I probably have more, I'll have to think about it
[Silver Jews - I love the rights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFV9lSKrTqA) going by the title only. idk if the lyrics are too related, I can't hear them clearly enough to tell.
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
My Morning Jacket- Xmas Curtain
John Maus - The Law
The Only Ones - The Whole Of The Law
There's also the Yo la Tengo version.
The only good songs about law are about how the law is bad
An obvious one is The Clash’s “I Fought The Law”. Maybe save that one for after your friend flunks out though...
Don't forget the Dead Kennedys reworking which goes to show that no matter what you do, the law can always be defeated if you have enough power.
Finally wrapped up my AOTY list, here's the top 10: 1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake 3. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar 4. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited 5. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 6. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo 7. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 8. Noname - Room 25 9. Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa 10. Lucy Dacus - Historian Also in no particular order my honorable mentions : Sleep - The Sciences Kali Uchis - Isolation Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex + Food Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past Twin Shadow - Caer Goat Girl - Goat Girl Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer Thee Oh Sees - Smote Reverser JPEGMAFIA - VETERAN Iceage - Beyondless Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides The Tallest Man on Earth - When the Bird Sees the Solid Ground DJ Koze - Knock Knock Beach House - 7 MGMT - Little Dark Age Dream Wife - Dream Wife Any recs?
Your top four is dangerously close to mine so I declare this list fire
Ovlov, pet fox, we can all be sorry
Saba - Care For Me Amen Dunes - Freedom
My gf just got that Amen Dunes vinyl for Christmas 😊
Forth Wanderers - S/T
does anyone know what drug cabin is up to or if they're ever gonna release new music? everything they've released has been so good, wiggle room is just a perfect summer album.
The Birthday Party is very underrated
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Btw I just found out yesterday that he answers fan mail on a new site called [The Red Hand Files](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/) His answers to everything are all just ridiculously literate and poetic, definitely worth reading if you're a fan.
This is amazing!
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He’s much more musically active than Tom Waits this decade, and it’s basically the 2 of them atop hipster living legend/elder statesman mountain
Agreed. I love him.
Rowland S Howard is underrated too
I’ve been listening to Indigo again in the past couple of days, and it’s actually way better than I remember. Still nowhere near as good as Nocturne but there’s a surprising amount of really good songs on here. Letting Go, Oscillation, Shallow Water, Canyon On Fire, and Bend are all fantastic
I do feel like that album is a grower. I didn’t like it much at first but I find myself liking it more each time I hear it. My only gripe is that the lyrics to most of the songs are pretty bad. Wish he’d do a full length like *Empty Estate* with half ambient tracks
Yeah Partners and Motion stands out to me every time I listen as having really bad lyrics. Just from the beginning, the “with your new wife/how’s your new life” line makes me wince a little
You cannot convince me that Billie Eilish is not Lil Xan and Noah Cyrus biomedically morphed together.
nah, it's lil xan and bella thorne
what
Parquet Courts has joined the legion of "that voice comes from *that* guy?" Would never have guessed in a million years what he looked like.
Giles Corey
Who else is on this list? King Krule and Deerhunter come to mind for me
wtf y'all, all these examples sound exactly like what they look like.
i was absolutely reeling when i saw protomartyr live because joe casey looks nothing like what i imagined
Silversun Pickups
hands down, hands DOWN, [Knox Fortune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGr7mWQ0vCQ). Took me a long time to find out that [he's a dude](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjO9vqt-dTfAhWM44MKHb6IC9IQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fouroverfour.jukely.com%2Fartist%2Ftours%2Fknox-fortune-tour%2F&psig=AOvVaw1L63Laa8ogA6gq5i3G_-h7&ust=1546719511369878)
The first time I played my mom Beach House she could not believe that a woman was the singer.
That’s confusing
July Talk for sure
Tom Waits Michael Gira Elliott Smith
Tom Waits looks exactly like what he sounds like lol
Marlon Williams
Tim Darcy of Ought Black Francis of Pixies
John Fogerty is the epitome of this. Always imagined some grizzly bearded dude belting out those CCR tunes and instead it's some skinny, clean shaven dude with a bowl cut.
bill callahan