Music - What have your ears been tasting recently?

[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.

[ikanaide]

listened to some david bowie for the first time. a friend was talking about how much he likes the album Outside so i gave it a listen. don't know how i feel about it really, might need to listen to more of his stuff to properly decide if i like it or not. when i first listen to a new artist with a unique voice i normally need a few listens just to get used to hearing their voice

also listened to this experimental/electronic compilation album https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/seit-in-the-beginning-woman-was-the-sun, basically just various sound textures for 40-ish minutes. honestly wasn't bad at all, some really interesting soundscapes in there and also one track that's just a legit house beat. can definitely think of times where i'd feel like listening to this kinda stuff

[Mando Pandango]

oingo boingo

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

i downloaded the weirdest mix of remain in light. it's so bizarre, it's like they turned the main band down but turned up all the auxiliary sounds/players. diggin it tho B)

[YPrrrr]

Does anyone else listen to Stan Rogers? Because he's pretty great