wonderful!
written on my ipad while traveling with my daughter Saydi.
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[New Music Friday] New releases for September 29, 2023 - Wilco, Animal Collective, Blonde Redhead, Slow Pulp and more!
(lemmy.world)
Full massive Consequence of Sound list: https://consequence.net/upcoming-releases/
Metacritic highlight list - https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date
- Andrew Cushin - Waiting For The Rain
- Animal Collective - Isn’t It Now?
- Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
- Black Stone Cherry - Screamin' At The Sky
- Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
- Cherry Glazerr - I Don't Want You Anymore
- Code Orange - The Above
- Del Water Gap - I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet
- Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations
- Jorja Smith - falling or flying
- La Force - XO Skeleton
- LP - Love Lines
- Molly Burch - Daydreamer
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
- Slow Pulp - Yard
- Wilco - Cousin
Absolutely love this album. Not even sure how to describe it. It's "Americana" but much more layered and textured. Old school and modern. Also - she's Canadian lol.
https://songwhip.com/allison-russell/thereturner
https://allisonrussell.bandcamp.com/album/the-returner
No Depression: "Allison Russell’s jubilant follow-up to her award-winning solo debut dwells deep in the recesses of the soul. It’s imbued with a radiant spirituality that illumines the liminal spaces of human existence, and it exudes a joy that rides her transcendent vocals and the musical fabric created by her glorious collaborators."
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https://songwhip.com/mitski/the-land-is-inhospitable-and-so-are-we
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https://mitski.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-is-inhospitable-and-so-are-we
Mitski's latest album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We is our Weekly Album Club discussion!!!
BUT - instead of doing 2 threads, let's just make this THE thread. Your job this week is to listen to her new album and share your thought here in this thread!
You have 1 week! Put yer good headphones on!
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Another week of amazing & eclectic posting! Thank you everyone.
here we go! Here are our Top ~~10~~ 14 Voted Songs for the week!!! Four ties!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29udpr0DH32c7BeBdmRwYN?si=6fabff9fb6554670
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73 Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice
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53 Ratatat - Seventeen Years
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46 Joy Division - Disorder
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32 Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
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29 (tie) They Might Be Giants - I Palindrome I
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29 (tie) Rage Against the Machine - Freedom
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26 Local H - Bound For The Floor
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25 (tie) Foo Fighters - The Pretender
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25 (tie) Tom Waits - Clap Hands
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23 (tie) MGMT - Little Dark Age
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23 (tie) Garbage - Girls Talk feat. Brody Dalle
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19 And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
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18 (tie) Bad Brains - I Against I
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18 (tie) of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
Thank you everyone for posting songs & helping to build the community!!! Your posts & votes matter!
Available New Alternative 40 playlists:
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlSBzMcrtkMCVtuXEIz5BXpPfycTwsS5
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6i0kOJ1KWahQIRSwWr3mOo?si=56baa0fd7bcf4572
APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/new-alternative-40/pl.u-Z60jTzlR6Xj
The 80s had some really amazing music - the addition of synths really took experimentation out there (not to mention all the hip hop development then). Really was a great decade for all kinds of work. And noted on the mod stuff, will update it!
So this came out when I was 8. My dad had cable back then and this thing called MTV was playing music videos. This one in particular caught my eye and ears. I think about those early 80s weirdo bands making their way on MTV and how much that shaped my music taste for the decades to come.
The Human League - Don't You Want Me - https://youtu.be/uPudE8nDog0?si=E4JFzWGkbjh12MLW
God this is such a good song.
Any song for sure but Zombie woo! When she belted out that shit!!!
I’ll never forget hearing Epic for the first time.
awesome picks!
it's not about good or better or any of that, imo. It's about the voice matching the music. Welch has an AMAZING voice and it fits her bombastic music absolutely perfectly.
I love unique voices. From Michael Stipes mumbling slight twang to the nasally whines of Gordon Gano from the Femmes, Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk, and Colin Meloy of Decemberists. The voice is the glue that makes or breaks bands for me.
But if I can indulge and push the envelope of what is "alternative" a smidge, one of my very favorite voices of all time loves to sing of love and fantastical environments, who feels almost genderless and ethereal, and whose music rarely dipped into the mainstream (just once or twice). Is prog alternative? Probably not, but it ain't mainstream.
So many songs to choose from that I love so much, but I'll narrow it to 3.
A beautiful song with one of the best bass drops in history from what's considered one of their best albums Close To The Edge: "And You And I" - https://youtu.be/IwpB6b6mhUM?si=rUuD9jr7hr7e7ovu
A massive sprawling epic overshadowed by the song "Close To The Edge" called "Awaken" - https://youtu.be/59feSG8U5EQ?si=snZJT9xbatKJBt32
And finally, a much later epic from Keystudio, a song called "Mind Drive" which dips toes into almost-jazz fusion jam - https://youtu.be/zvBknHFa8PQ?si=ocB4VViT1RH71sjS
lord took her awaaay from meee...
great song, GREAT album!!! My only complaint was the album was a tad too long to do in one sitting - but then again, can you ever have too much Apple?
such a pretty song. Extremely chill yet very Beirut.
I guess it shouldn't be super weird to say one of my own songs that is about me would be a song that "reminds me of me", right?
Fairy Eyelashes - "Better And Better"
https://songwhip.com/fairy-eyelashes/better-and-better
https://youtu.be/H0AD4vHsVs0?si=Yiq8IUbHlnmGSmAk