What are you listening to?

[Zephro]

As it’s still summer my Manchester (or at least my memories of it) playlist has been out in full force.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine are technically from London… but yknow it’s part of that vibe.

[Herzog]

There is a new Roots Manuva album out since a few days!

Bleeds by Roots Manuva

[Anthile]

??

[yogabharathi269]

currently listening Tamil radio 1.

[The_JG_Man]

The Pretty Reckless seem to be back, utilising their standard 90’s era rock, to produce a new single that is…standard 90’s era rock. And I’m okay with that!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, when it comes to TPR, whilst there’s perhaps nothing necessarily outstanding about them, they do the genre solidly. With the added bonus of Momsen’s vocals actually being good too, you have clearly identifiable rock music that’s not afraid to use electric guitars or lyrics that whilst maybe meaningless in many cases, at least doesn’t try to pretend like it means something like a lot of the hapless wailing you can get in ‘up and coming rock bands’ that seem to fade into insignificance to be replaced with another hapless wailing lot.

God I need another QOTSA album out.

[sabrage]

I’ve long since stopped listening to music with my ears, opting for the far superior audio-receptacle that is the chest cavity. No headphones allowed.

[Anthile]

[Tevildo]

As it’s still summer my Manchester (or at least my memories of it) playlist has been out in full force.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine are technically from London… but yknow it’s part of that vibe.

Yes iit was definitively part of that vibe.

Sonic Youth, Mark Bell, madchester, etc… good start for a sunday afternoon.

@ Anthile

Daydream Nation’s cover happens to be my desktop wallpaper (haven’t change it for years).

Trying to stay in the year punk broke AND sunday feeling :

Funny, I started to like J Mascis’s ballads very recently. I’m still unable to listen to a whole dinosaur Jr album, but I saw him playing live andwas charmed by the voice and the character.

[Anthile]

Yeah, I’ve been listening to a ton of Swans and Sonic Youth recently. Also Kayo Dot and maudlin of the Well. I feel like I am finally turning into the hipster I was always meant to be.
Speaking of Swans:

[Tevildo]

Yeah, I’ve been listening to a ton of Swans and Sonic Youth recently. Also Kayo Dot and maudlin of the Well. I feel like I am finally turning into the hipster I was always meant to be.
Speaking of Swans:

You know the Swans recorded their last album here in Berlin, in Candybomber studio (the hell of a studio, it’s actually a paradise for people who are into oldschool analog sound hardware, and its all piloted by a talented technician, a true sound wizard).

About the Swans I sometimes miss this monolithic sound of theirs from the Cop period, but I like what they do since the Seer so maybe I am ready to re-listen their 90’s stuff (didn’t like it at all back then). Actually I like the one you just posted, and discogs says its from 92…

Sorry for the terrible quality of the vid but it’s still something to behold lol

I don’t know Kayo dot and Maudlin. Just heard the name Kayo Dot somewhere though, I’m curious, could you post something from them ? (I know I can probably find a song on youtube but its alway sbetter to be introduced to a band by somebody who appreciate and knows it).

[Rath]

I find this quite relaxing, the sort of thing I listen to when I find that sitting back reading a book is a little too quiet for me;

[Anthile]

Yeah, the old Swans is ridiculously heavy at times. Especially Public Castration Is A Good Idea is one of the most disturbing albums I know. Though personally I like all Swans even if the most recent era is probably my favourite.

Well, maudlin of the Well is the predecessor/sister band to Kayo Dot so they’re usually mentioned together. maudlin were overtly a metal band though an incredibly versatile one. They released three albums around 2000 before feeling too restrained by the metal genre and Kayo Dot was formed. Kayo Dot is even more difficult to describe because they sound so different from each other and there is nothing quite like it. Choirs of the Eye has a legendary reputation in certain circles and is generally considered their best work. It is essentially classical music played in the context of a metal band and the result is nothing but mesmerizing. I guess King Crimson would be a fitting reference and the old joke how any decent rock band sooner or later starts to sound like King Crimson. This goes much further than that though. The next album, Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue is generally more of the same as Choirs of the Eye. It’s quieter and perhaps more focused. Blue Lambency Downward and Coyote are darker and weirder, some would even say gothic. These two albums are by far the hardest to get into and it takes some time before it clicks.

Now it gets complicated. Inspired by Deathspell Omega and the general dissatisfaction with the black metal genre, Kayo Dot become a black metal themselves and release the monstrous double-album Hubardo to much acclaim and is considered a masterpiece. Now for something completely different: Coffins On Io and the recently released Plastic House on Base of Sky are essentially, well, 80s-inspired synth pop. I don’t think anybody really knows how to describe it. Might as well that Kayo Dot have finally created their own genre of music. I don’t even know what song to show you ebcause any one song would just describe a small part of their catalogue.

Might as well go with the most recent one:

[gordianblot]

Gotta have Hubardo for my dose of death metal opera set in space.

[Tevildo]

Anthile that’s a great review ! I don’t have that many affinities with metal but there are always bands to transcend genres and this one certainly seems to do that.

Great song, there is something special going on there, no doubts. Might be too many notes for me but I like the production. The textures reminds me of 4AD productions from early 90’s. I’ll check the album this song is from.

[Hanzel]

[Kadayi]

Season 3 of Halt and Catch fire snuck onto Amazon Prime.

[yellowstargames]

Currently Maroon 5, Adele and Eminem

[Pink_Gregory]

God I need another QOTSA album out.

Here’s a man who needs to hear Henry Blacker.

(I would, yannow, show you, but embedding videos is a goddamn futz on my phone, sooo…)

[Eight_Rooks]

God damn Kubbi is still awesome.

Featured on a free compilation from the chiptune label he co-founded, Forest, available on Bandcamp here. It’s pretty good, but… jeez, this track just blows everything else on the album into the stratosphere. Absolutely magnificent. So much of the genre doesn’t begin to compare - you cannot compete with this stuff if you’re just using ancient FM synth warbles or straight-up Gameboy sounds or whatever.

[DiamondDog]