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| ripquill's end of summer jams
making this quick little list because a friend asked me to. these here are what I'v been spinning here lately. give recs or tell what you like from the list if you want, sput dudes.
listed in order of how much i'm jamming it | | 1 |  | Pinback
Summer in Abaddon
genre: indie rock
Favorite tracks: Sender, Syracuse, Fortress, Soaked, The Yellow Ones
gorgeous and creative instrumentation throughout. as well as very inventive songwriting. lyrics are interesting | | 2 |  | Thursday
No Devolucion
Genre: post hardcore, alternative rock
Favorite tracks: No Answers, Sparks Against The Sun, Open Quotes, Past and Future Ruins, Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart, A Gun in the First Act, Millimeter, Turnpike Divides (felt bad leaving out any one of these, love them all equally)
This album. whoah. Where to even start. This is probably one of the most haunting, gorgeous, cold, engrossing, fascinating, and unique albums I have ever heard. Each song is unique yet fits in perfectly within the album. I'll go ahead and cease blowing smoke up this album's ass for now, but just know this album is soo soo amazing imo.
Also, sorry Stay True fans, but imo that song is probably my least liked on the album, just feels overt and out of place. | | 3 |  | Built To Spill
Perfect from Now On
Genre: indie rock
Favorite tracks: Made-Up Dreams, Out Of Site, Kicked It In The Sun
This whole album is a unique, immersive, and very very dynamic experience. Songs kind of have to be pretty dynamic to stay interesting for six or seven minutes, well unless the song is a song off of Jimmy Eat World's Clarity. But unlike Clarity, the shortest song on this is a little under five minutes.
Also been jamming There's Nothing Wrong with Love a whole lot as well | | 4 |  | Modest Mouse
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Genre: indie rock, pop rock,
Favorite tracks: The World At Large, The View, Black Cadillacs, One Chance, The Good Times are Killing Me
I like this album better than The Lonesome Crowded West. Maybe that's blasphemy. But neither compare to Moon & Antartica imo. All three are good though. Modest Mouse hasn't ever made a bad or even average album imo. Some may not feel that way about Strangers To Ourselves but I like it. pop Modest Mouse =/= bad Modest Mouse | | 5 |  | As Cities Burn
Come Now Sleep
Genre: indie rock, post hardcore, post rock
Favorite tracks: Empire, The Hoard, This Is It, This Is It, New Sun, Tides, Wrong Body
I remember reading that this album sold half as many copies as Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest.These guys really shot their career in the foot with this album. It makes sense if you think about it; the scene they were in at the time this came out was looking for exactly what Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest was, and not nearly something that takes time, patience, and dedication like this album does. It sucks that their career went downhill because of this album but I'm glad that if their career had to go downhill, this was the album to do it. I'm glad they made this and not another SILYAYD | | 6 |  | Cursive
Domestica
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Favorite tracks: The Matyr, Making Friends and Acquaintances, The Lament of Pretty Baby, The Game of Who Needs Who the Worst,
I want to start off by saying that that album art is very late 90's. Tim Kasher's vocals here are pleasantly unpleasant. It's very much a love hate kind of thing. Same as with Chris Simpson of Mineral.
The songwriting on this album is just superb as well as this is a perfect example of a concept album done right. I think about this album a lot as grouped with No Devolution thematically in a strange way. No Devolucion is an album about devotion, purity, and trust, whereas Domestica is a very spiteful, cynical, somber, and volatile album. Thursday's performances and production, particularly Geoff Rickly's (as well as his lyrics), are very composed and pristine, whereas Domestica's performances and production, particularly Tim Kasher's are very unpolished and at times sporadic. I think the albums are two different approaches to similar life situations. | | 7 |  | Petal
Shame
Genre: indie rock
Favorite tracks: Tommy, Chandelier Thief, Sooner, The Fire, Photobooth
This album is just a solid indie rock album. Been jamming it off and on since release. As well as, its always a nice mixup when there's a female vocalist in a band like this. My biggest issue with this album is that its far too formulaic as well as Nature is just horrible. | | 8 |  | The National
Trouble Will Find Me
Genre: indie rock
Favorite tracks: Demons, Don't Swallow The Cap, Fireproof, Heavenfaced, This Is The Last Time, Graceless, Pink Rabbits
"Is it weird to be back in the South?"
Yes, yes it is. Arkansas is exactly how I remember it
I really really love this album. My eyes well up when I listen to it. This album was around whenever things went to shit with a girl I really really really wanted to work things out with. It basically was the bandage to cover the wound while I worked on moving on. It really gave me the motivation to handle that shitty situation with an amount of grace and composure. Sob story aside, this album is by far my favorite National album. It's really just gorgeous.
"Everything I love is on the table.
Everything I love is out to sea." | | 9 |  | Ling Tosite Sigure
Inspiration Is DEAD
Genre: post hardcore
Favorite tracks: Cool J, Disco Flight, Knife Vacation, AM 3:45, 1/f no Kanshoku
imo this album is tied with Envy's All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead for best Japanese post hardcore album. I will say that this album is a whole lot more fun. Also I was really caught off guard when I heard this album in Tokyo Ghoul. I remember reading that other anime have used songs from this album as well. | | 10 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
Genre: alternative rock
Favorite tracks: 15 Step, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, Reckoner, House of Cards, Jigsaw Falling Into Place
I'v been revisiting this album a good bit lately. This is probably my favorite Radiohead LP, with Kid A and Hail to the Thief being tied for second. I have yet to check out A Moon Shaped Pool, just haven't gotten around to it.
This is probably the most overt Thom Yorke has been on a Radiohead record, as well as theres a lot less synthesized instrumentation such as on like Kid A, which I think pairs well with the overt nature of the lyrics.
Was going to put a Hawthorne Heights record here, you decide if I should of or not. | |
Drifter
08.16.17 | Domestica is goat nice | verdant
08.16.17 | good list | ripquill
08.16.17 | th8nks m8 and yeah domestica is such a damn good album |
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