I’ve been playing Yeule’s softscars over and over for a few weeks now. I’ve never really been into shoegaze, but they put a really interesting twist on it that I’ve fallen in love with. The lyrics are very dark and personal, and it’s a very heavy album - both musically and emotionally. Their videos all have really beautiful aesthetics, and I really love the late 90s/early 00s feeling in the video for dazies.
High mare - dead pirates
i don’t do albums. as a kid, we basically only had recorded-from-radio cassettes. when we got a CD player in like 1999, we mostly bought those “now that’s what i call music” collections. i didn’t really listen to music myself at all until like 18-19. i didn’t see the point. as a result i basically can’t sit through an entire album of the same genre.
is this weird?
Probably not, there’s plenty of people who mostly just listen to the radio and don’t own much music. Sounds much the same. If it doesn’t work for you then it doesn’t work for you!
That’s so interesting! As a kid I remember not liking much music until I found some individual songs that I loved, then I couldn’t get enough and albums were my thing!
I’m a bit of both on albums - some I have on end to end no matter what (R.E.M especially), but then there’s some bands I’m like you and wander off halfway through! :)
Trying to think of bands that genre-hop and might be fun for you end-to-end on one disc
that would be interesting! the few “albums” i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the “touch” of the artist has been there throughout.
If you ever get into vinyl, you will appreciate the album format a lot more.
we had a lot of vinyl when i was a child. i listened to that one ELO track a lot. i have no real nostalgia for the sound.
You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl. A good record player patched into a big 1970s cabinet console. The sound is only beat by live music.
Have you considered that maybe you don’t like music?
going from “i don’t listen to albums” to “maybe you don’t like music” is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don’t do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.
You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl
that’s just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it’s usually muddied by the environment.
You like songs. You don’t like music.
It’s what the part in that one song means when he’s singing
he’s the one who likes all our pretty songs. And he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun. But he don’t know what it means
what a weird thing to say. please explain.
You will just have to discover it yourself.
Same, it’s a great album.
Great thread idea, I’m going to listen to a batch of these as they sound excellent! :)
For me I’m utterly loving the new Kim Deal* album “Nobody Loves You More” - it came out today, and oh yes it’s good!
It’s unexpected with style, almost 60s with brass and strings at times, then there’s other songs that sound modern… and beyond making my ears happy, it’s great songwriting :)
*(Former Pixies bassist and the fronthuman for the Breeders)
Kim Deal rocks! She is one of my all time favorites. I didn’t know she was making music under her own name, I will have to check it out! Thanks!
So I went and listened to the tracks on her bandcamp page. And in a couple days I’ll have the vinyl! What a weird album! I feel like it’s bound to get many repeat listens. So much to take in!
Reminds me of listening to the Alvvays albums. Little awkward at first but clearly something unique and special!
So glad I read your post Go-on-a-steam-train
Who’s Who Ulterior Motives baby!
It’s not my favorite album, but I have been listening to Marcy Playground by Marcy Playground a lot recently. It was one of my first favorite albums and still is.
gybe - lysf
Module has always been my soundtrack through hard times, and I was fortunate enough to get a signed copy of this album.
It’s a pretty well-constructed compilation and I think it’s worth a listen, no matter what you typically like.
But uh… I might be biased:
Of all time, The Cure’s Disintegration. Lately, it’s been Kangding Ray’s Zero. Exactly what you need from a great techno record
Justice - Hyperdrama
Unleash the archers album “Demons of the AstroWaste”
One of the few albums I can groove to cover to cover.
I love Demons. Seems like most people are moving on to their more recent melodic power sound, but Demons had such a perfect mix of melodic and thrashy. Plus, Daughters of Winterstone might be my favorite song of theirs.
twisted by design - strung out
The one I’m writing! I don’t have anything released yet, but when I do, I hope it becomes your new favorite album!
$uicideboy$ - G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S.
