Music - What have your ears been tasting recently?

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

kaz u r the first person ive seen to actually listen to yuck


how r they?

[Hiro]

i think it's pretty good, they're not amazing or anything and the album seems kind of short but it's pretty catchy and good
i listened to it a ton when it came out but i haven't listened to anything off it in a long time now

[Samus Aran]

what is that one with hannah montana lol

Dads - American Radass (this is important)

emo album i like a lot

i think it's pretty good, they're not amazing or anything and the album seems kind of short but it's pretty catchy and good
i listened to it a ton when it came out but i haven't listened to anything off it in a long time now

agreed, i thought it was too short, or maybe the songs were a bit undeveloped so they seemed short. nothing really had a lot of punch or anything, but it was all at least very well made and pretty fun to listen to. i'd say it's rather good, though probably needs multiple listens.

[Hiro]

Dads - American Radass (this is important)

emo album i like a lot

oh hey i've heard of that

[famy]

i didnt listen to music this week

[Socks]

Holy shit it's not famy!

[PLEASEHELP1991]

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i didnt listen to music this week

2/2 +The La's, Stereophonics

[PLEASEHELP1991]

[Hiro]

preordered the Random Access Memories vinyl

[Samus Aran]

just downloaded and am currently listening to Giles Corey's s/t

sad music

[Samus Aran]

Boris - Präparat
California X - California X

Praparat is...well, I dunno. It's probably better than a lot of Boris's recent stuff, but in general it's a pretty weak album if you ask me. It kinda sounds like a lot of random ideas thrown together, some parts seem really out of place. Some moments have the band really coming back to its older, sludgier sound though, so that's nice. It's a decent album.

California X is surprisingly good. I'd say it's nothing special or unique, but I don't think these guys were too focused on doing anything new anyway. Pretty classic sounds. People are constantly comparing them to Dinosaur Jr., which isn't too far off. Good stuff.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle\
Rough Guide to African Disco - compilation
Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to The Sea - compilation
Junip - s/t

Listening to Van Dyke Parks right now. The music is really interesting. If you took the singer from Parenthetical Girls and made her do "baroque pop". Like a precursor to Panda Bear? I think that might be an apt description. But like more all over the place than Panda Bear and VDP writes some damn good lyrics. Kind of overshadowed by Brian Wilson but VDP is phenomenal writer/composer in his own right.

Haven't listened to the two compilations yet.

Junip is Jose Gonzales with a backing band or something. It's his new (old?) band. Anyway, album is great. A perfect mix of acoustic elements and electronic music. Streamed it from Pitchfork a couple nights ago. great shit.

[Samus Aran]

i've only heard Junip's rather popular "Fields" album. it's pretty good, need to listen to it again to really get a full picture of it.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

i've only heard Junip's rather popular "Fields" album. it's pretty good, need to listen to it again to really get a full picture of it.

I didn't even know they had another album.

Also listening to this African Disco album goddamn this shit is fucking awesome

[PLEASEHELP1991]

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