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The Duke of Avon posted:

Can anyone recommend some bands with male/female vocal harmony? I'll take pretty much anything although I tend to prefer pop/rock/indie-ish stuff. Ones I already know and like, off the top of my head: The Forecast, The New Pornographers, Jenny & Johnny, Mates of State, The Narrative, The Morning Of. It seems way less common than it ought to be.

Carissa's Wierd are great for this if you're into sad sad indie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-lVtebOkyA&t=25s

(ignore the anime, this was the best quality clip of the song I could find)

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:53

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looking for more 60s music like Lorraine Ellison's Stay With Me or Long John Baldry's Let The Heartaches Begin - pop songs with huge, powerful choruses from around that era. Strings/prominent backing vocals a plus!

# ¿ Jan 13, 2012 21:26

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Saeku posted:

I've been really into Astronautalis lately. Is there any more rap/indie pop fusion out there?

you might like Subtle and/or 13 & God, same vocalist in both bands. Also Why?. And check out the anticon label

# ¿ Feb 6, 2012 03:53

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Conduit for Sale! posted:

I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs?

as someone else said, depends how wide your definition of pop is. Janelle Monae writes her own songs (with help on the massive production) and has a crazy amount of vision and creativity for her music. So far she has released an EP and double album which are part of the same concept piece about a messianic time travelling android :v:

# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 03:03

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het posted:

Again, why is that important?

To avoid beating around the bush, there's a weird idea amongst a lot of people that a talented performer composing their own music makes it somehow more valid and therefore good, but that seems sort of silly to me given the wealth of pop (and other kinds of) music that has existed for decades that obviously defies this idea. Not to put too fine a point on it, but who gives a poo poo?

edit: I guess that should be "why should anyone give a poo poo?"

I know what you're saying, there is a ton of great music that was written by someone other than the performers, but it's also a bit silly to not see the merit in a person/group writing and performing their own good music.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2012 03:53

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Nigel Tufnel posted:

I really like Burial but since 'dubstep' changed its definition and became all about the WUBWUBWUB I don't know what to search for. What else should I be listening to?

Holy Other is pretty close to Burial. You may also like Actress and Balam Acab, which are less similar but I think have a lot of the same qualities

# ¿ Apr 2, 2012 19:07

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Popcorn posted:

I need energetic Japanese non-anime rock music with female vocals. Hurry.

Shiina Ringo. Specifically her first two albums are more kind of grungey rock, then she basically went on to make the Japanese OK Computer before doing big band and jazzy stuff. So I'd say check some of the albums Shouso Strip and Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana and see if you like any of that

also maybe Clams

# ¿ Apr 3, 2012 11:46

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I'm looking for a good introduction to gospel music, or maybe just some of what's considered the best in gospel music. Thanks!!!!!!

# ¿ Apr 8, 2012 03:34

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Abel Wingnut posted:

I am in need of evil music. I want music that instills fear into its listeners. Not like metal or hard rock, which bash you over the head with its death and power. I'm more looking for the subtly evil bands out there that give a sense of haunt and unease. Underlying creepiness, I guess.

Ideally it would have classical sensibilities and well structured, but I'm open to whatever.

Echo and the Bunnymen, My Blood Valentine, the Zombies in certain songs, Wire in certain songs, Velvet Underground; they all have some of this.

So yea, I know that's a weird description. Hopefully someone understands it and can help.

Thanks in advance.

Oneiroid Psychosis are sort of Halloweeny creepy, not sure if that's what you're after but it's purposefully dark and scary

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 10:43

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Just started to love Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, where do I go next? I have a couple of songs from a motown collection (My Cherie Amour and Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday) which I also really like, so something in that vein would be as good as anything like Innervisions.

# ¿ May 11, 2012 00:33

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I'm looking for some stuff and I don't really know what the specific genre is. Things like Jerry Butler, The Ronettes, The Chantels and Darlene Love

I'm not really sure what this sound is but I need more of it. Kind of old timey R&B, maybe motown or doo-wop or something like that. idk, help

# ¿ May 26, 2012 18:25

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thanks m8 I'll check all these out

# ¿ May 26, 2012 23:38

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I want more stuff like Julianna Barwick and the end section of this Glasser song. Basically really pretty, dreamy and ethereal music with lovely reverby female vocal harmonies and stuff. thank

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 05:28

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hah, I already really like Julia Holter and even nearly put her in that post because I thought somebody might mention her. You're right, she is excellent. More like her and the other two! also Grouper if anyone thinks to mention her

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 18:47

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Kaubocks posted:

I'm fairly into chiptunes but they can get a bit bland when it's nothing but bleeps and bloops. I like it when artists incorporate more than just gameboy noises into songs-- namely vocals and other instruments. I'm really digging bands like The Depreciation Guild, The J. Arthur Keenes Band, and I Fight Dragons. Is there any other bands like this I should know about?

Not sure if it's quite what you're after but a couple of chiptuney bands I really like are You Love Her Coz She's Dead and YMCK. The former are sort of Crystal Castles-y and YMCK are cutesy jpop girls who drank too much fizzy pop singing over gameboys. I like them, they're not everybody's thing though

# ¿ Nov 16, 2012 20:07

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I'm looking for stuff that could be called similar to John Frusciante - Running Away Into You

I really like how it's a fairly traditional stripped down acoustic guitar + vocals but there's all this crazy, trippy manipulation going on that turns it into something very unusual and strange. So kind of anything that fits that description, even if you think it's only a little bit I'd be interested to hear it.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 17:19

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Octorok posted:

All good suggestions, thanks!

I never knew about Tom Waits's earlier stuff, I'll definitely check that out.

I'm liking everything I'm hearing so far, although specifically I am looking for songs that are a bit more low-tempo. Something in the vein of Elliot Smith.

Another thing, I tend to stay away from songs about relationships/women and prefer something a little more universal (e.g. drug abuse and depression). That's like a niche inside of a niche.

I'm not too sure if this will be stuff you're after but I thought I might as well post a few things you might enjoy, I really like all of these

Richard and Linda Thompson
Vashti Bunyan
Bridget St. John
Linda Perhacs
Sibylle Baier

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# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 20:12

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I've been getting into what I think is called french house or maybe nu-disco, but it's hard to find what I'm really after using these terms. I like most of what I find in this vein, but my favourite stuff is the stuff that isn't too chill, has groovy and prominent bass, and vocal samples. Here are a few examples of what I mean

so pretty much cool groovy contemporary disco sounds, I want more of it

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 03:20

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Lampsacus posted:

^^ sorry can't help you.

I've been heavily into Sigur Ros, Grouper, mum, etc for the past year. Ambient/postrock/feelings/sleepy music. Could anybody recommend where to go from here? I feel like I'm stuck on an island of sleepy folk and want to find more of it.

Grouper always goes hand in hand with Julianna Barwick, for me.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2016 00:01

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black.lion posted:

Looking for something like Burial; chill, simple, dark, melodic, ambient, and bass-y.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hBUL9kk1Y

Any ideas?

Holy Other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfewQI95kzA

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 14:59

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the culminator posted:

Can I get a reccomend for some good trip hop? Either dark boom bap type beats or something more upbeat, but Im just looking for some ambient instrumentals, female voice samoling and voice sampling in general

I dunno if I'd call it trip hop exactly but "dark boom bap/ambient/female voice sampling" immediately put me in mind of S. Maharba

http://youtu.be/oe3-bDXwZ4U

https://youtu.be/jdJ3jJFZxMU

# ¿ Nov 22, 2016 16:38

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mary had a little clam posted:

Switching gears, my hip hop tastes lie with RTJ(especially 2) and Death Grips, although recently i'm all about Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7fpqaX3K9M new track from Your Old Droog. Specifically, I like the weird production behind the (good) lyrics. I like the interesting samples and how bizarre a lot of the music is. Danny Brown specifically has these like middle eastern cymbals and weird lilting vocal samples and it's very spooky and interesting. So who else is doing weird poo poo behind the vocals like DB and YOD?

For noisy hip hop that's kinda like Death Grips you should give Dalek a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i789TMw49rE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1jeKoJXvU

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 18:10

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Gaspy Conana posted:

Not sure if anything is going to exist for this, but here goes. About 80% of the time when I listen to a Vaporwave (or related subgenre) album it sounds like a baby's-first-sampling experiment that someone did some cool album art for and slapped up on bandcamp. It sounds like they grabbed a free DAW and downpitched a song and sprinkled the worst reverb plugin ever on top and that's it. I do enjoy sample-centric Vaporwave (like Death's Dynamic Shroud) when they've actually put some time into arranging the bits together, adding some texture/layers on top, and making them flow.

I'm wondering, though, is there anything with the same aesthetic that is actually composed from scratch? It's fine if it still uses samples, but it'd be neat to have song structures. My dream genre would be prog rock or shoegaze + that. I'm more into the bright windows 95/mall music thing than the late 80s kung fury synthwave thing.

There is a lot of vaporwave that is primarily composed rather than sampled/mashed up, but I've generally found that it tends to be more on the ambient side than like any of the death's dynamic shroud.wmv stuff. Actually the closest thing that I know of to your "dream genre" is Flight by HCMJ, who is one of the guys in DDS. It has some of that mashed together weirdness from samples but the actual songs behind that are all original, often guitar based and I'd say it has a little prog and shoegaze in there as well as original vocals. It's one of my favourite albums of the year so far, though I don't know if I'd really call it vaporwave at all

# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 12:16

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alansmithee posted:

7/10. Would've been better if you mentioned how all rap is bitches, blunts, and bling. Also nobody who listens to hip hop actually considers dalek hip hop. But otherwise that's a pretty good fake post.

How are they not hip hop? It's literally rapping over beats

# ¿ Jul 15, 2017 22:10

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I really really like the song My Funny Valentine and want to know what I should listen to to hear more of that kind of thing. I have little interest in jazz that's improvised and free form, I'm looking more for the stuff that's essentially pop music with jazz chord progressions and instrumentation. I'm guessing there might be some good compilations out there of that kind of thing?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2017 14:56

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Ras Het posted:

Pop albums are never good all the way through, but fwiw I like Charli XCX's two albums.

I would argue that True Romance is good all the way through. Sucker isn't, but still has some great tracks. Her recent mixtape Number 1 Angel is also very nice and pretty consistent.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 23:03

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I appreciate that this is a really vague request but I guess it's worth a go

I've been listening to Asa-Chang and Junray, and I doubt there's anything similar to them but I'm looking for something else that might scratch the same itch. More specifically, I like how their best stuff is really beautiful and pretty and melodic, and also experimental and really quite weird in the way that they play around with choppy spoken word/percussion and really unpredictable and strange rhythm and timing changes. Again, I don't expect to find anything particularly similar, but I always appreciate music that is classically beautiful but also in some way completely out of the ordinary. If that makes you think of something, I'm interested to know what. Specifically not really interested in improv stuff though

# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 22:06

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funkybottoms posted:

The Books for sure, maybe Gastr del Sol, Battles, and The Red Krayola

i wanna say Nikaido Kazumi, too, but that's mostly because she's Japanese and this is a really lovely album with lots of cool and weird multi-tracked vocals.

Thanks, I'll check em all out

# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 00:40

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Robokomodo posted:

Anyone have any good recommendations in the chill Trip-hop vein? Looking for some music to fall asleep to. Right now I listen to Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Zero 7. Looking for something new.

quadrophrenic posted:

Weird request: (non-classical) (non-dance) songs with prominent tempo changes throughout the song

examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8EdrcGDzow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_y_DVoPy3Y

Asa-Chang and Junray do this quite a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VNzZ_FBIB0

# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 16:20

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Abel Wingnut posted:

i am looking for songs that drive. pretty upbeat tempo, and the bass is just chugging along. some examples

zeppelin - achilles last stand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Rf1I9htJk
seger - hollywood nights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKcJEeV3Mo
stereolab - silver sands (emperor sands mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrPpsGGddEw

yea, i know a lot of krautrock has this feel, and i know that genre pretty well, so still post 'em if you got 'em. also not looking for super fast punk even though that could kind of fit here.

maybe these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVSnbGXikYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdIXrcH7QLU

# ¿ Apr 1, 2019 06:35

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I had a similar thing with negative xp, stumbled upon him without knowing anything about him and enjoyed some stuff before I realised what the gently caress he was singing about. Haven't listened since

anyway, the reason I initially liked it was because it reminded me of Teen Suicide, who are similar but better and not incel garbage. Try dc snuff film/waste yrself

# ¿ Jul 3, 2021 20:01

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Izzhov posted:

Another request: Does anyone know any good Chinese albums?

i only know a few and here they are

Faye Wong - Fuzao
Faye Wong - Zhǐ �i m�shēng r�n

pop / art pop / alternative / dreampop. Faye Wong has released lots of albums and more of them are probably good, those are just the 2 I know best

Aristophanes - No Rush To Leave Dreams
潘PAN - Humans Become Machines

These are by the same person. Taiwanese hip hop

Pairs - Pairs

punk / garage rock / lofi

# ¿ Sep 25, 2021 06:20

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actionjackson posted:

that 2 8 1 4 album is cool, thank you. Definitely mainly focused on more of an ambient vibe

I noticed a lot of the same spacing, is that some vaporwave thing?

like 2 8 1 4

same thing on the hallmark '87 album

https://hallmark87.bandcamp.com/album/a-t-r-i-u-m

yeah it's a common vaporwave aesthetic thing, if you get more into the genre you'll see it all the time

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:53

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actionjackson posted:

drat onyx was cool as hell

I really like jazzy and instrumental hip-hop stuff, anything I should look at besides tribe, j dilla, nujabes, dj shadow?

I really love this album, but I think it's extremely rare, there's only one copy of it in any format on discogs. But this is the closest to what I'm looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHrYNZqWLk

Ta-ku has done quite a lot of explicitly Dilla aping stuff that is also good

# ¿ Apr 2, 2022 05:32

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