Electric Storm by White Noise. Included the lady who recorded the Dr Who theme.
Knower - pretty fucking sweet music with a good sense of humor.
They are definitely one of the most criminally underrated bands. But they’re all DIY, so they’re pretty popular for a DIY band. I think Genevieve’s solo stuff really deserves more attention as well. Louis seems to be doing alright for himself, though.
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Thank You Scientist
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Tesseract
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Panzerballett
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Ado
Hell yes on Thank You Scientist
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Nineteen Forty-Five
Their debut album, Together We’ll Burn Like Autumn Leaves is solid gold all the way through; the second studio album I Saw a Bright Light is almost as solid. I like them so much I tracked down all the members’ previous bands and solo projects and B-sides.
Way too many to list but I’ll throw one out. Do you like Radiohead, REM, The National, Pixies, Frank Turner, or Dinosaur Jr.? Well, they (or their lead singer) all love Mark Mulcahy’s music enough to have recorded a cover song for the tribute album when Mark’s wife passed.
Mark led the band Miracle Legion, released some solo work, and led the band Polaris (not the metal band from Australia), best known as the band from the show The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Also noteworthy: Miracle Legion toured and released an EP with The Sugarcubes, aka Bjork’s band.
Song recommendations: The Backyard, All For The Best by Miracle Legion - Hey Sandy, Saturnine by Polaris - Taking Baby Steps, The Fiddler, Hey Self Defeater by Mark Mulcahy.
Album recommendations: Drenched by Miracle Legion, Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete by Polaris, and Fathering by Mark Mulcahy.
Destiny Potato. They released one spectacular album.
They renamed to ‘Sordid Pink’ and have another album out.
David Maxim Micic is their guitarist and if you know him, then you know they are good.
Jukebox the ghost. Criminally underrated, they’d have been as big as queen or muse if they had the right publicity and timing.
The Tallest Man on Earth. Probably the best modern folk artist, but not as well known as he should be.
Aimee Mann. One of the best songwriters of the 90s and 2000s. Popular, but not as much as she should be.
Placebo.
Talk Talk. Spirit of Eden is one of the greatest albums ever made, but not many people know about it.
Just listened into Jukebox the ghost a little and their music is amazing! Thanks mr lemmy dev!
No probs!
Tallest man is really good. And if you see him live, his tallness will surprise you.
+1 on jukebox the ghost
In general, Parliament/Funkadelic has a ton of artists within its scope worth exploring. George Clinton is probably the most famous among them, but there’s also Eddie Hazel, Bootsy Collins, Gary Shider and his son Garrett Shider, Fred Wesley, and a lot more.
I also recently discovered a Japanese artist called Masaki Ueda who seems criminally unknown.
The P-Funk has been in my playlist rotation for like 15 years now
Eddie Hazel is one of the best guitarist ever. For those not familiar just give Maggot Brain a listen. It was completely improvised and record in one take.
Evade the Eye. Excellent guitar work, good songwriting. Genre: instrumental prog metal
Ozric Tentacles
There’s a really underrated band from Vancouver called Slightest Clue that just put out an album. Alternative/punk and very fun
The Revivalists are an incredible bluesy rock band, but everything of theirs on the radio is their blandest stuff. They really excel with live performances and amazing instrumentals.
“It Was a Sin” builds slow but gets really high energy by the end
“Soul Fight” has a top notch saxophone solo
Here’s a full concert at Red Rocks
They are a really good live act, better than the records, the show is great.
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Panpticon, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Chat Pile, Ashenspire, Swans, Obongjayar, Black Midi, and emancipator
Don’t know your other artists but I frickin love emancipator. I’ve listened to every album hundreds of times, not exaggerating. Have you heard Kinack? Not the same but if you like one you might like the other. I’ll have to check out your list when I can use my good speakers.
Caroline Polachek.
Just got really into her, I absolutely love what she does with her voice. I just received her second album on cassette.
She has the best vocals on the planet, I’ll say it over and over again.
I should check out her work, pretty sure the only place I’ve heard her was on a flume collab
My fave album by her is Pang, but Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is also incredible.
Her cover of “Breathless” will absolutely leave you so.
If your library has Freegal she’s on there BTW. :)
