Music - What have your ears been tasting recently?

[6M69I69B9]

been listening to jazz fusion jpop
i love round table

[ikanaide]

Scheherazade rules

Do you like Wagner?

i actually barely listened to any wagner in that entire year, i guess i didn't really feel any of his pieces that i did listen to enough to dig deeper. any recs?

been listening to jazz fusion jpop
i love round table

sounds pretty interesting, i'll give them a listen too. they haven't released anything in a while it seems.

[Mando Pandango]

Honestly I still haven't done a deep dive on Wagner because it seems like it would be fucking exhausting, but the Tristan und Isolde Prelude has always blown me away.

Also I've been listening to Butthole Surfers, King Gizzard, and Don Caballero

[ikanaide]

listened to the tristan und isolde prelude. gave me chills throughout, pretty powerful piece. will keep it for when i'm in the mood for some big emotional swells. made me think of tchaik 4th symphony for some reason idk why but that's also a sick piece

i DL'd round table's Big Wave in Korea album and had a listen to it. ngl i have a bit of an attraction towards asian bands that sing in english with an accent idk why. has like some of those indie korean vibes as well, pretty chill album. you should check out Pictured Resort and GUIRO if you haven't before.

also on the subj of don caballero i was rly big into post/math rock at one point as well, mainly listening to bands from asia. some of my favourite bands from that:
elephant gym
selfkill
sugar plum ferry
sun of morning
shuhari
aphasia
he
low-pass
choked zone

[Mando Pandango]

Nice! I only know Elephant Gym from that list. Along that vein I've also gotten into:

tricot (everyone should try tricot imo)
toe
LITE
té
Uchu Conbini

Il check out some of your list when I'm feeling it

[ikanaide]

bruh i love all of those bands, good stuff

[Samus Aran]

tricot rules

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

ive been listening to a metric butt-ton of Willie Nelson

[Hiro]

i'm not surprised

[ikanaide]

listened to the album tousaku by yorushika after watching the movie A Whisker Away and rly enjoyed it, it's prob one of the better "mainstream" j-pop albums i've heard in a while

[Samus Aran]

I'm pretty obsessed with Japanese shoegaze, dream pop, and various related noisy blends of indie rock. and that obsession only seems to grow as i find more and more. lately been really enjoying Plastic Girl in Closet, My Dead Girlfriend, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Eastern Youth...

And of course my love for Mass of the Fermenting Dregs has only grown since December of last year when I discovered they actually got back together and dropped a new album in the summer of '18, which I somehow went a year and a half without finding out about.

[ikanaide]

i've barely touched on shoegaze but i really like all the ones i've heard, will def check out some of that list. of the stuff i listened to i liked magic love, particularly this song https://magiclove.bandcamp.com/track/wait-for-rain-2 and also the korean band ZzzAam. i also had no idea that mass of the fermenting dregs have another album, will need to check that out as well now

[Hiro]

I'm pretty obsessed with Japanese shoegaze, dream pop, and various related noisy blends of indie rock. and that obsession only seems to grow as i find more and more. lately been really enjoying Plastic Girl in Closet, My Dead Girlfriend, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Eastern Youth...

And of course my love for Mass of the Fermenting Dregs has only grown since December of last year when I discovered they actually got back together and dropped a new album in the summer of '18, which I somehow went a year and a half without finding out about.

damn I'm surprised I hadn't told you about that mass of the fermenting dregs album
I'll have to check out some of those bands though since I also love all the genres mentioned

[6M69I69B9]

https://raremonk.bandcamp.com/album/never-really-over
holy hell i thought they died in 2014
guess im gonna catch up with their content

[ikanaide]

tried getting into kpop again, someone recommended me blackpink and BTS so i gave them a listen, namely blackpink's kill this love ep and BTS' new album BE. the blackpink was ok but pretty mediocre. the BTS album was a lot better than i expected considering they are the most mainstream kpop group right now, their album tracks are a lot more chill than their singles. still, i don't feel like i want to get any deeper into the genre for now...

listened to KAAN's new album Vivid Canvas and thought it was lit. i haven't listened to any rap in a while so it was pretty refreshing. first time i listened to any of his stuff, really nice instrumentals and lyricism honestly.

listened to a bunch of vocaloid music also on recommendation, namely these albums:
Utsu-P - Renaissance
Utsu-P - CD-R
R Sound Design - Quartia
maretu - SIU
Giga-P x Orebanana-P - Gigabanana the Best
NayutalieN - Nayutan Hoshi Kara no Buttai Y
Hatsune Miku Symphony Orchestra 2017

i think vocaloid music is a interesting genre because it's not really a genre but at the same time it kinda is idk it's hard to pinpoint. either way, some pretty diverse stuff. ones that stood out were renaissance, symphony orchestra, quartia but there weren't really any i disliked.

a bunch of other random albums i listened to:
sangatsu no phantasia - girl's blue, happy sad
mizuki ohira - in any way
minami - emotional water
after the rain - izanaware traveler
neko hacker - neko hacker
psyqui - your voice so...
chiaki mayumura - gisshiri haguki
chiaki mayumura - mejya mejya monjya
yuika koshimoto - kono koto, tada hitotsu

most of it didn't really stand out apart from gisshiri haguki for being just a really silly carefree album (gave me sort of polysics vibes, not the musical style but like the creative direction) and kono koto just cuz i think her voice is really nice for the style of music she sings. psyqui had some really hard electronic beats which i do jam to from time to time, but i don't think i was in the right headspace at the time of listening to really enjoy it that much.