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Last Active 03-22-22 8:07 pm
Joined 03-19-20
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| Find the pattern
Can't tell if my musical taste is expanding, contracting, or stagnating these days. Working from home has shifted the center of gravity of my music listening much earlier into the day, and given that I live by myself and have incredibly understanding neighbors, I can pretty much blast whatever I feel like.
I figure putting pen to paper will enable me to make some sense of my music listening lately. Am I seeking comfort in artists I've followed for years, or am I taking this opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and/or finally give a deserving artist the close-listening spin I've been meaning to do? Have others been thinking about this? | | 1 |  | The Motion Mosaic
Avant-Garbage
This album continues to impress me with each listen. It's surprisingly engaging, a pleasant aural assault, and represents a lot of where my music taste is right now. Also loving the fact that pink is definitively In as far as album covers go (e.g. Invent Animate)
Fave tracks: Nirvana, DMT Daydream, Cancer and Cure | | 2 |  | Icarus the Owl
Pilot Waves
My recent plunge into post-hardcore combined with my abiding taste for fairly standard mathy prog led me to these fellas and I'm quite pleased with the results. I think it's a sign of my maturity/realizing how much of a dilettante I truly am that I can appreciate a catchy hook at long last.
Fave tracks: The Mad Machine; Prague, 1842; Pearls and Blue | | 3 |  | Aesmah
Walking Off The Horizon
Though new to me, my listening to Aesmah is certainly a legacy of my time-tested, stubborn love affair with MDM. I can't tell if this counts as a guilty pleasure for that reason, but whatever.
Fave tracks: Quartz pt II, Emerald Visions, Ocean of Veinings | | 4 |  | Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind
Oh my god. My poorly informed, sure-to-catch-hate hot take - this is my personal favorite Converge. I can't say this around my barber or he'll shave "dumbass" into my taper. I don't know much about hardcore, so sue me.
Fave tracks: Trespasses, Sparrow's Fall, Predatory Glow | | 5 |  | Joliette
Luz Devora
Is it still cool to like these dudes? I'm late to the party but this bumps hella hard so idc. That production is just eerily, hauntingly beautiful.
Fave tracks: Muletilla Japonesa, Pudre Infante, Strathos | | 6 |  | The Human Abstract
Digital Veil
If anything signifies my musical taste hasn't progressed in truth, it's the fact that I've been listening to BTBAM for 10+ years and sorta kinda am grappling with the fact that I might like THA better. Yikes, and this is after seeing a BTBAM show a few months ago and getting my brains positively blown out.
Fave tracks: Complex Terms, Antebellum, Patterns | | 7 |  | Car Bomb
Meta
This chugs and bangs and makes me feel like a chump for not giving Meshuggah more listens years ago. Amazing album art, too.
Fave tracks: From the Dust of This Planet, The Oppressor, Infinite Sun | | 8 |  | Envy
The Fallen Crimson
Does this album truly exist outside of Sputnik? Anyway, I can't say anything that hasn't already been said about Envy's latest effort. It might not be my AOTY(sf) but it's up there.
Fave tracks: Swaying leaves and scattering breath, Fingerprint mark, Dawn and gaze | | 9 |  | Brutus (BE)
Nest
Good god, Stefanie Mannaerts is unbelievable. How many times has some sap played "Horde V" for his friends sporting a smug grin, pausing halfway through to inform everyone that the drummer's a chick?
Fave tracks: Cemetery, Horde V, Techno | | 10 |  | Gospel
The Moon Is a Dead World
Gorgeous, gorgeous album. The world just had to experience the lovechild of King Crimson, Converge, and the entire back catalog of Yes and Genesis rolled into this mythical, ethereal, record. I try to stray from referring to albums in this way, but I firmly believe TMIaDW is a spiritual experience in the way that AWLWLB (scroll it) is a viscerally physical one.
Fave tracks: Opium, Paper Tigon, Yr Electric Surge is So Sweet | |
Bedex
04.15.20 | Expanding taste is very much an active process at least for me, having more time these days gives a good opportunity to do so while still keeping time for known favourites! Also I like this list | parksungjoon
04.15.20 | > Find the pattern
all are bands whose sound can be classified as some sort of child subgenre ultimately rooted in punk? |
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