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Cool thread, let's get loving weird. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum  A band who created a fictitious backstory about a Dadaist art exhibit in 1916 to name themselves after. The story goes that said art exhibit was "anti-artifact, non-historical, and closed," and featured an open fire as its sole exhibit. Their music lies somewhere between classical, art rock, and industrial metal. They performed their very first concert for a single banana slug. Would you like to hear a song whose lyrics are direct quotes from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake? Of course you would! How about a song written from the perspective of the Unabomber? Who wouldn't, right? For fans of: Mike Patton, Swans, Igor Stravinsky, Meshuggah. Not for fans of: music that can be easily summed up or explained when it rotates onto your iPod mix.
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Melt-Banana A Japanese experimental band that sounds like grindcore, post-rock, and J-pop thrown into a blender and chucked out of a jet fighter going Mach 1. The band currently comprises a female vocalist that takes on the qualities of a rapping chihuahua, and a guitarist who uses tons of pedals and effects to create dense, explosive soundscapes of pure chaos; previously they had a bassist and a drummer, but because it was cheaper for only two band members to tour with all their gear, they now play as a duet and synthesize the rest. Became popular in the West due to writing the theme song for the Adult Swim show Perfect Hair Forever, and for touring as Tool's opening act in 2007. In the later stages of the band they've become slightly more accessible, though in their early days they were not afraid of writing tracks that clock in under a minute. Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold Candy Gun For fans of: cocaine, PCP, and other stimulants. Not for fans of: people who can't bang their heads due to a medical brace.
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caligulamprey posted:They've reformed as Free Salamander Exhibit and are in the recording studio right now! Oh my god I'm gonna explode with joy, first you tell me SGM is back and then you give a recommendation that I haven't heard but sounds like it's going to be a complete loving blast
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Tommychu posted:Nihilist Spasm Band Glad you dig it! Will be checking your link in return later tonight
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caligulamprey posted:Next year's gonna be super rad, actually: the new Free Salamander Exhibit album, the entire SGM catalog is getting issued on vinyl for the first time and if those sell well, the record company will reissue all the old Idiot Flesh records, too! I don't even own a turntable and I might buy them just to help on the Idiot Flesh front, I cannot get enough of these guys. I realized I hosed up and never listened to To Pimp a Butterfly so I'm correcting that and then giving the Frogs record a spin. In the meantime ... clipping.  I'm almost positive these guys have received coverage on these forums in some capacity since they're a pretty good crossover for people who enjoy rap, but want something more challenging than what popular rap has to offer. Death Grips would fit in well on a tour ticket with these guys, since they share similar attitudes but different approaches. Basically, clipping. goes minimal and puts its harsh production and borderline aural noise assault front and center, replacing "angry black guy screaming about drugs and paranoia" with "smooth black guy rapping about all of the other stuff rap raps about, but with sharply-written lyrics and self-awareness bordering on parody." So basically you get club bangers you can't dance to, hustle tracks with shrill screeching and bell chimes, and songs about a hot woman who likes to kill and eat people who think she's DTF. Body & Blood. I'm linking the uncensored version for full effect. The song where people get eaten. Get Up. A song with a beat constructed entirely from an alarm clock looped and pitch-shifted. Oh, and the main MC also does stage theatre in his spare time.
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Dec 5, 2015 03:12
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stay depressed posted:exactly how smooth is the black guy in this band? Smoother than the angry black guy in the other band, hth
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A human heart posted:he's waxed He moved all of his body hair up to his afro with a series of Bosley treatments, and takes baths in coconut oil 3x daily
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