July is here. A busy month for many. What have you been listening to this month Escapists? Have you got some new music for us? Have you got a blockbusting classic? Or an obscure song that could use some light? Let us know. Genre and Era are wide open.
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The new Silent Planet album is amazing. Seriously the best metalcore band around right now. Also, this song has Spencer from Underoath in it.
Thew new blink-182 album just dropped. I think anybody who says it's not blink without Tom is an idiot. Matt Skiba (from Alkaline Trio) fits in perfect with blink.
Also, I See Stars put out what could possibly be album of the year.
First off, the Wild Youth EP by Daughter. Listening to the songs in order tells quite the story, a painful one about a relationship. Someone either hurt this woman badly, or she sure knows how to write like she was.
The music itself is also really good.
I didn't expect to like this song as much as I did. It's funny though, it's a song about the guy being washed up after one really popular song and overshadowed, and yet the only way this song got any major attention was because of a remix.
I didn't expect to like this song as much as I did. It's funny though, it's a song about the guy being washed up after one really popular song and overshadowed, and yet the only way this song got any major attention was because of a remix.
Went onto this after hearing how both it and other underground stuff like Shabazz Palaces were pushing hip hop into new frontiers. I've been listening to far too much familiar music (namely, Death Grips) so I decided to dip my toes back again into experimental territory. Overall, I really love the production. It's difficult on first listen, undoubtedly, and the wordplay isn't as slick as your Killer Mikes, or Joey Badasses nor as creative as your Lupe Fiascos or Aesop Rocks, but the production is really, really great. To give an example, the song Get Up is made out of a single clock alarm sample that layers as the song progresses, whilst still providing a decent beat. Summertime uses what sounds like key jangles as a background beat...the production tricks used here are astounding sometimes in how they manage to assemble a cohesive song. Definitely worth checking it out if you like stuff like The Underachievers or the more rap-heavy elements of Death Grips (No Love Deep Web, Money Store, etc.)
God I fucking love this album. It's energetic, intense, rough, psychedlic and just overall an incredibly fun album to just listen to at any time. The way that it's built makes it so that every song feeds into the next one, to the point where the very last track loops back into Robot Stop seamlessly. It's an album to be listened to endlessly, but even, the immediacy of tracks like Gamma Knife makes it so that each track can stand up by itself and still be worth listening to. Highly recommend it if you like rock in general; it is absolutely worth a listen.
A trio of Edinburgh lads that on first listen, I thought would be some sort of toothless tripe similar to Bombay Bicycle Club, but in reality, the album turned out to be a very fun and thoughtful mashup of pop, funk and some hip hop elements that's difficult to really put into words. It's not really a style that hasn't been done before, but the way that Young Fathers approach it feels very honest and engaging in contrast to the aforementioned Bicycle Club, which sounds commercial rather than experimental or progressive like White Men does. Although the name is controversial, racial politics doesn't play a massive part in the album itself, although there are nods to it in places. Even when it does feel like it could approach preachy territory, the perspectives offered are on a similar level of maturity as To Pimp A Butterfly.
It's also just a fun album in it's own right.
Anyone who has ever heard of Swans knows how intense their albums can be, and The Seer is truly proving itself difficult. At time of writing, I'm only at the title track, which is absolutely gigantic (we're talking 30+ minutes). I have made my way through To Be Kind earlier this year, and even though Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'ouverture was a very difficult track to get through, The Seer dwarfs Kind's intensity through it's immediacy. It is a very moving album so far, but I feel like I will have to put aside time especially for this album alone to be able to properly get through it. I am pretty sure that I will end up loving it once it's over, but that road is very long and difficult indeed.
They're also performing in London in November, so I might see about heading there.
Didn't really know what to expect with this album. I bought it in a CD store a few weeks back just to check it out and to try and get into more normal forms of rock. Although the opening track was rather grating, I found that once I had stuck through with it, QOTAS were a band that I badly neglected. The production is very sharp and very modern, but the lyrics and the song progression are just different enough that I can listen easily to not only their singles but entire albums without ever really being exhausted or bored, but also to the point that I wouldn't mind blasting stuff like Smooth Sailing and My God Is The Sun at parties.
Bought this yesterday and I have no idea what I'm doing. I saw that it was cheaper in store rather than online (i.e. Amazon and Discogs) and I decided to try it for the sake thereof. Haven't listened to it, but will do so in the coming days, likely whilst playing The Long Dark. It is entirely possible I hate it, but at least the artwork is nice enough so it looks good on my wall.
Another piece of essential modern music that I have neglected up to this point. I had tried to listen to Stevens in the past, but I was never really engaged by the instrumentation or the quiet singing. Although I have listened to dream-pop stuff like Have You In My Wilderness before, the basic production and folks-y style really turned me off initially. I decided to give it another go by forcing myself through it by buying the physical CD (saved about 5 quid in comparison to the online price) and actually listening to it. This time around, I do find myself warming up to it (due in no small part to hearing the lyrics properly and discovering how grim yet relatable they actually are) and I'll probably end up liking it by the end. If things end up going in this same way, I might give Father John Misty and Sufjan's other works a listen as well.
Singles
This was also new territory for me, since I usually stay clear from anything labelled 'metal' or 'emo', but I decided to give this and Houses of The Unholy a listen. Although I haven't made my way through the album, the opening track is really good. I'm not a fan of the singing, but the instrumentation is top-notch. I specifically like the groove change around the 6 minute mark and how it builds up towards the end of the song. Nothing I'd realistically go crazy about, but it's a fun track to listen to every once in a while and whilst working out.
Another band I really need to get into considering how they defined EDM during what as essentially my childhood. Them and LCD Soundsystem are absolutely phenomenal and I badly need to listen to more EDM albums from that specific part of the mid-to late 200Xs (stuff like Justice and whatnot). In regards to this track, well, it's mindblowing in some parts (like the production) and less so in other parts ('YEAAAAAAAH I'M THE SHIIIIT' x20) as to how it was made in 3 days and just to promote trainers. Fun as all hell, and definitely a party anthem, another reminder for why we need James Murphy and Gorillaz to make a comeback.
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