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Rageaholic posted:Happy 10th birthday, m b v! I like Who Sees You and If I Am (tracks #3 & 5). New You (6) doesn't really sound like MBV, there's none of their trademark dissonance. Nothing Is (8) kinda reminds me of NIИ, like something from one of the remix albums. It's also got a pretty quiet mix/mastering, similar to Loveless. I bought the Domino Records CD reissue import a couple years ago. An interesting album, for sure.
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Bandcamp Friday was last week. It kinda snuck up on me and a project I've been following since, like, a year ago, finally released their LP, so I knew it was time for a new batch. However, my wishlist is such that I've forgotten what the things on it sound like, so I basically spent all day of the event listening to my wishlist and making a BUY NOW list. I literally ran out of time and checked out 2 hours before BCF was over; it was past midnight and I needed sleep. Pickups (Artist - Album): All Under Heaven - Collider Alvvays - Blue Rev (the weirdo of the bunch: pretty pop-y indie rock, although with a shoegaze twist, which is what interests me about this album) Bellweather Day Aches - Fever Dreams Distressor - Momentary (the project I've been tracking since last year, I loved the singles but I usually don't buy singles) Life On Venus - Encounters (my CC declined this one at first, maybe because the band is Russian?) Pure Hex - Still Dark (this one was the best, I thought, of the handful of albums I filed under "maybe" as I listened to my wishlist before making purchases) Ride - Going Blank Again (yes, Ride is on BC now!) Slow Crush - Aurora [trauma ray] (I listened to their whole discog and this one was the best) And an honorable mention to a very cool album that I ended up genre-ing as Post-rock, but could go either way, really: Holy Fawn - Death Spells Having finally listened to everything and done all the clerical work associated with updating a digital library (this took a few days), I'd say the standouts so far: Bellweather (incredibly gnarly fuzz/distortion with gorgeous vocal harmonies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisPd5yzCd8 Distressor (worth the wait, it is great, although they gave Bandcamp lower-quality FLACs, booooo) I don't have enough listens under my belt yet to decide on a good example to link, but this was one of the lead-in singles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKoN1gh2T8
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Ofecks posted:Ride - Going Blank Again (yes, Ride is on BC now!) Saw them live recently (third time!) with Charlatans and they still blew us away.
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Leave Them All Behind was one of the ones i would listen to driving around at night with the stereo going full blast. probably one reason i have hearing problems these days. that and One More by Medicine. Thanks for posting newish bands to listen to. i find i have less and less patience finding new things as my brain gradually turns to dust. when i was a kiddo i could sit there for hours listening to random mp3s to find the good new poo poo. since i just found this might as well post it. guy demonstrating why the bass in Pearly Dewdrops Drops is so fuckin cool. Robin Guthrie shows up in the comments to gently correct some of his misapprehensions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnBEMWkTYg uber_stoat fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Didnt realize Black Angels released an album last year Holy poo poo this is a great song https://youtu.be/wMeLWIrtznA
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In the spirit of those dense, driving album openers from Nowhere, Going Blank Again, Raise, etc I think my favourite Airiel song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiqezbc0W8Q
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ROFLBOT posted:In the spirit of those dense, driving album openers from Nowhere, Going Blank Again, Raise, etc Yeah that's a great tune. Incredible bass slides. Airiel's always had really cool vocal harmonies. Shoutout to Larry Fine on drums  I also like "Inside Out" and "You Sweet Talker" on that same album. The latter starts off as a bog-standard, major-key pop ballad, but the chorus quickly turns it on its head.
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ROFLBOT posted:In the spirit of those dense, driving album openers from Nowhere, Going Blank Again, Raise, etc The Slowdive-meets-Teenage-Wrist vibe here is monumental. Thanks for sharing! Jeherrin fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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went to their bandcamp and that record was already on my wishlist. i need to start working my way through that thing.
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Ofecks posted:
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New album from The Clientele coming in July. First track dropped today, and it is very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YpCcy05OA
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Ofecks posted:Distressor (worth the wait, it is great, although they gave Bandcamp lower-quality FLACs, booooo) Okay, so having listenened to this album several times now, I have regretfully discovered that I hate the mix job. The rhythm guitar is hard-panned left, and the lead is hard-panned right. One in each ear, since I only listen with headphones. Why would they choose to do it this way? I love everything else about the songs, but the mix loving ruined it. I'm surprised I didn't catch this when I listened to the singles on Bandcamp, or my first listen of the album proper. Maybe it would sound better in a bluetooth speaker or something. Like, I know this sort of thing is pretty common in all kinds of rock music, to simulate a "live" feel of the band members on a stage or whatever, but this album takes it to an extreme, as if the amps are 100 ft or more away from each other. I've been to a few shows and live music does not sound like that. At least the bass, drums, and vocals are dead-center. It's just woefully disconnecting and my brain has trouble parsing it all out. I learned recently that I'm on the Autism Spectrum, maybe that's part of it. The Trauma Ray EP I bought does something similar, but it doesn't seem quite as bad. I'm tempted to load the album in Audacity to just squish all the tracks into some kind of double-mono output. It would destroy any other stereo effects present but I think I'd enjoy it like that. I just have little tolerance for instruments confined to a single ear.
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Ive had Margaritas Podridas on shuffle in my car for the last two weeks. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/mexican-alt-rock-scene-mengers-margaritas-podridas-1234687626/
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Ofecks posted:Okay, so having listenened to this album several times now, I have regretfully discovered that I hate the mix job. The rhythm guitar is hard-panned left, and the lead is hard-panned right. One in each ear, since I only listen with headphones. Why would they choose to do it this way? I love everything else about the songs, but the mix loving ruined it. I'm surprised I didn't catch this when I listened to the singles on Bandcamp, or my first listen of the album proper. Maybe it would sound better in a bluetooth speaker or something. Like, I know this sort of thing is pretty common in all kinds of rock music, to simulate a "live" feel of the band members on a stage or whatever, but this album takes it to an extreme, as if the amps are 100 ft or more away from each other. I've been to a few shows and live music does not sound like that. At least the bass, drums, and vocals are dead-center. It's just woefully disconnecting and my brain has trouble parsing it all out. I learned recently that I'm on the Autism Spectrum, maybe that's part of it. Kind of a weird question: Like 15 years ago, I suddenly lost the hearing completely in one ear (acoustic neuroma tumor). One thing I really miss is stereo sound. I use mono audio to at least hear both channels with one ear. So my question, what does mono sound like in headphones with 2 good ears? Is it somehow flatter or just less satisfying overall?
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chaibat posted:So my question, what does mono sound like in headphones with 2 good ears? Is it somehow flatter or just less satisfying overall? I don't think it's flat, per se. Aside from a few minor tidbits here and there (like the bridge in Breed by Nirvana), wild stereo effects weren't very common in alternative music up through the 90s. So you wouldn't miss much with mono in each ear. In other words, I think most of the stuff I listen to would still sound pretty "normal" that way. Also, I primarily play retro video games, and NES/Famicom does not output stereo audio. On my PC via software emulation, with headphones, it sounds perfectly fine with the sound doubled to each ear. If I do end up undertaking the task of mono-izing Distressor's album, I'll try to remember to respond here to report the difference. I don't feel like messing with it at the moment.
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Whats with people thinking the Deftones are Shoegaze? I mean i dont want to get all gatekeepery but come on 
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ROFLBOT posted:Whats with people thinking the Deftones are Shoegaze? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLa0-sQg1YM
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yeah Deftones aren't shoegaze but i'd say it's fair to call them shoegaze-adjacent. i'd say a lot of modern shoegazey stuff is clearly pulling from them (that Fleshwater lp comes to mind)
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In a move I didn't see coming, the new Foo Fighters single sounds shoegaze/dream pop influenced. Dave Grohl duets with his daughter Violet and the results are fantastic. I wish they'd do this kind of thing more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idib1kDvPyM
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New album from The Telescopes is out. Less dreamy, more noisy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGIONtHeSY
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Rageaholic posted:In a move I didn't see coming, the new Foo Fighters single sounds shoegaze/dream pop influenced. Dave Grohl duets with his daughter Violet and the results are fantastic. I wish they'd do this kind of thing more often. Never in 20+ years did I imagine I'd give half a poo poo about Dave Grohl again. Also the vocals give me SPC ECO vibes... (even though Dean doesn't sing with his daughter...) But I'm coming back to this and it's pretty drat lovely.
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Rageaholic posted:In a move I didn't see coming, the new Foo Fighters single sounds shoegaze/dream pop influenced. Dave Grohl duets with his daughter Violet and the results are fantastic. I wish they'd do this kind of thing more often. Cool. I guess there's a new album out soon. Has anyone heard it in its entirety yet? I wonder if the rest of it sounds like this. You know, I think one of the reasons why I like FF's ST debut so much is because it has ever-so-slight hints of shoegaze throughout. Especially on tracks like Floaty, X-Static, Exhausted, and maybe Alone + Easy Target. Even on the more raging, upbeat songs, the guitar sound is really good, although I'm still not sure what to make of Big Me, that one is quite the oddball. Anyway, I like maybe half the tracks from the follow-up (tCatS) but nothing else from them since then. And yes, I've listened to Wasting Light. I recall it was hyped up as a "return to the early days" but I disagreed and did not find it pleasing to my ears.
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Rageaholic posted:They're not a straight up shoegaze band and a lot of their stuff doesn't sound shoegazey at all but some of their songs definitely have shoegaze elements. Hell, Minerva was a big radio single for them 20 years ago and my first exposure to them and that song has shoegaze vibes. Not hearing it. Tenuous at best
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New cut from the upcoming Clientele album. Very much different from their usual dreampop style - reminds me a lot of Within You Without You from Sgt Pepper's, actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrG7DghQby8
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V glad to find out about new Drab Majesty from this post. Also loving the guest appearance, apparently Slowdive lp5 is now finished whatever that means? I assume writing not recording.
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ROFLBOT posted:Whats with people thinking the Deftones are Shoegaze? Definitely NOT shoegaze. But there's some heavy shoegaze elements in their music.....so it's not outlandish. What would you guys consider Teenage Wrist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwveCYTgVnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2RZ_gBYdU
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RestingB1tchFace posted:What would you guys consider Teenage Wrist? Alt Rock. Maybe "90's-style Alt Rock"? I really hate using the term "grunge" for anything except actual stuff from that period. "Post-grunge" maybe? I dunno, really. Teenage Wrist's earlier stuff (up through Chrome Neon Jesus) has some slight shoegazey tinges to it, but once Kamtin left the band, they went more straight-forward. There isn't much from Earth Is A Black Hole that catches my ear and thus, I'm not interested in the forthcoming follow-up, based on what I've heard so far (it's more of the same).
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CtoDyaILmqR/ New Slowdive music coming on Tuesday 
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Rageaholic posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/CtoDyaILmqR/ i'm all tingly.
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Ofecks posted:Alt Rock. Maybe "90's-style Alt Rock"? I really hate using the term "grunge" for anything except actual stuff from that period. "Post-grunge" maybe? I dunno, really. Well, if you miss the Kamtin era of the band, you will probably dig his new project Heavenward debut album came out Friday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evp70dkaE0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OJQpHXOSrw
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Eight Is Legend posted:Well, if you miss the Kamtin era of the band, you will probably dig his new project Heavenward debut album came out Friday! I dig it indeed. Wishlisted! Thanks for the links.
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Slowdive tour announced and the new album is available for preorder. September 23: Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre September 25: Boston, MA Citizens House of Blues Boston September 27: NYC, NY Webster Hall September 28: NYC, NY Webster Hall September 29: Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer September 30: Washington, DC 9:30 Club October 2: Cleveland, OH The Roxy @ Mahalls October 3: Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre October 4: St. Paul, MN Palace Theatre October 6: Denver, CO Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom October 7: Salt Lake City, UT The Union October 9: Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom October 10: Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo October 12: San Francisco, CA The Warfield October 14: Los Angeles, CA The Bellwether Oct 30 Glasgow, UK QMU Oct 31 Manchester, UK 02 Ritz Nov 1 Bristol, UK SWX Nov 3 London, UK The Troxy Nov 5 Belfast, UK Mandela Hall Nov 6 Dublin, Eire National Stadium
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New single too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9RpHfPyEx8
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