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Emusic reccomendations please!
Yeah there's an exclamation mark in my thread title, wanna fight about it?
Anyhoo... my emusic thingy refreshes today and for the first time in ages I'm not certain what to get (mainly because I've been away from t'internet for ages and Plan B has folded).
So... what've you lot been getting recently? I'm open to pretty much anything good (last month I got Oneida, Khanate and Stars of the Lid if that helps).
Thanks.
Japandroids
Hatcham Social
The Wedding Present's three best albums "Bizarro" "seamonsters" and "Take Fountain"
Arnocorps - The Ballsy Ep
get these if you haven't
mount eerie and julie doiron - lost wisdom
windsor for the derby - how we lost
Let's wrestle are on there too
oh and amy blue - the fortress and the fatalist, if it's gone live yet :D
Thanks very much
'lost wisdom' is pretty much what I always say whenever I'm asked about emusic picks, it is pretty much the perfect record (if such a thing exists).
And thanks to everyone, lots there to check out.
Decent Things I've downloaded from emusic recently
Though Forms - S/T - Fuzzy, loads of delay, grungey post-rock stuff...
Magic Lantern - High Beams -A not not fun release, so you sort of know what you're going to get. Druggy, droney, weirdy beardy.
Ganglians - Monster Head Room - Poppy beach boys type stuff, but with a load of stuff happening in the background
The Drips - The Drips - The Bronx side-project. Similar but a bit more garage-y.
Bare in mind I'm terrible at describing records, but they're all reet good...
And the Blues Control album Local flavour as well
It's only 4 tracks as well, which makes it emusic gold.
I love shit like that
I sometimes download bizarre experimental audio collages (made specifically for people who think The Wire Magazine is mainstream) purely because they are an hour + music for one download.
God that is sad.
You get extra points for adding some description
it means a lot more than just listing band names (although that can be cool too for exploring). I like the sound of Magic Lantern especially, lots to check out, ta.
Thanks
If you like Magic Lantern, there are three Sun Araw albums on emusic as well, which is one of the dudes form ML solo.
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And giving back my thoughts for y'all
here's stuff I've downloaded from emusic you might like...
Oneida - 'Preteen Weaponry'
Instrumental, layers of sound, experimental but with a fantastic 'groove' (the bass sounds a bit 'wooden shijpsish' to me)
Maths/Throats - S/T
A split EP from 2 of the UK's best new hardcore bands. Amazingly good
THe Angelic Process 'Weighing souls with sand'
Aidan baker from Nadja but more subtle and varied. Amazing.
Burning Star Core 'Operator Dead'
If you like 'noise' then you need this. THe sound of an abandoned deep space station falling apart as it is sucked inexorably into a black hole.
Of Montreal 'Skeletal Lamping'
Perhaps the best album released last year. Psycho-glam sex-pop.
The Wave Pictures 'Instant Coffee Baby'
The closest this country has come to producing The Mountain Goats style songwriting.
Marnie Stern 'This is it'
Or was that the best album of last year? Best guitarist of her generation? This album says YES.
Mount Eerie / Julie Dorian/ Fred Someone ' Lost Wisdom'
Phil Everum with some quality control? Like a 'best of' of Mount Eerie given wonderful harmonies with Julie Dorion. 10/10
Oh and Circle Takes the Squares' 'As the Roots Undo' is on there I believe but... you need to get the actual CD/LP because a) the artwork is immense and b) it's the greatest album ever written.
That'll do you for now.
I might be wrong
but I'm pretty sure The Angelic Process didn't have anything to do with Aidan Baker, though Nadja probably is the closest thing to their sound.
Anyway, here are some recommendations, apologies if you already have them:
A Storm of Light/Nadja - Primitive North split.
A Storm of Light are a rather good post-doom band, sort of like a slowed down Isis with strings and stuff. They're signed to Neurot (they're sort of a Neurosis side project, well, they're Neurosis's light show guy's band) so not much of their stuff is on emusic. The Nadja tracks on this are fantastic too.
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
French Black Metal/Post Punk group. A really deft combination of New Wavey music and atmospheric black metal, with great female vocals.
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vestusta II - Dialogue With the Stars
Another French Black Metal band, epic, atmospheric stuff. Quite a lot of shoegazey textures.
Caina - Temporary Antennae
A British one man Black Metal project, although it owes as much to post-rock, post-punk, dream pop and neo-folk as black metal. His other album, Mourner, is great too.
Cobalt - Gin
Even more Black Metal, although this is considerably more metallic than the others above. Cobalt's sound owes a lot to thrash and noise rock, along with massive Neurosis style drums. One of my favourite albums of the year, just really awesome.
Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain
Current 93 is the post-industrial/neo-folk project of David Tibet. This album draws a lot from pyschedelica and OM stle doom metal though, with lots of fantastic textural guitar work and post-rocky bits and big, swirling drum rolls. You might take a while to get used to Tibet's idiosyncratic vocal style, but it's worth it, because masses of Current 93's stuff is great.
Menace Ruine - The Die Is Cast
This doesn't really sound like much else - imagine a drone/noise band using raw sounding industrial synthesizers and a drum machine, playing ritualistic, almost medieval melodies along with imperious, ice-queen vocals not unlike a french accented Nico.
Prurient - And Still, Wanting
Harsh noise, but augmented with eerie synthesizer melodies underlying all the chaos and brooding, distorted fragments of spoken work vocals.
The Thing - Bag It!
Muscular, visceral free jazz with a rock/noise angle, fronted by Mats Gustafsson on baritone saxophone. If you like Zu, you'll like this (Gustafsson also did a collabarative album with Zu which is pretty good, and on emusic)
hopefully there should be some stuff in there you haven't already got and will like.
He's right snowy!
Angelic process may sound a lot like Aidan Baker but he's not in the band.
He is however in Whisper Room who are also fab (ambienty goodness) but they aint on emusic.
that's helped me too :)
Also forgot to mention:
Kristin Hersh - The Grotto (easily as good as Hips & Makers)
and albums by Parts & Labor and Mono are on there if you haven't heard them yet
You have an awesome music taste
so awesome that I already have all those things...
I love Kristin Hersh so much that I have to get all throwing Muses/solo stuff on CD or vinyl anyway but yeah I agree about The Grotto. The first verse of Snocat has the hairs standing up on the back of my neck.
Good shout on Parts & Labor too, they have the balance between noise and melody that I love.
are you getting the
emails she sends round? she does semi-regular free mp3's on her cashmusic site, I haven't got the last one but it's a good way of getting her stuff out there methinks.
No I haven't but I will now
Thanks!