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Neko Case is high up on my list

Not going to include bands like Hot Snakes or Bottomless Pit that I see as having strong connections/ties to prior 90s bands, or friend/PRF bands:

Nina Nastasia
Helms Alee
Pile
FACS
Beauty Pill
Constantines
Run The Jewels

Willow Smith. 21st century and forever.

Others: Warpaint, Oh Land, Kali Uchis, María Isabel, Jorja Smith, AGF, Britta Persson, Sia, Poppy, Murcof

kmc wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:02 pm Neko Case is high up on my list

+1. Thought of her immediately after hitting submit.

biscuitdough wrote: Not saying you can't like it. It kills the appeal for me, though.

Understandable, for sure. As I wrote over in the "Artist's Behavior" thread, I tend to draw the line when the assholery manifests in the music in a way that requires the listener to buy in, or vitiates what would otherwise be ideologically appealing content. With DsO, it's also the fact that I'd been a fan for years before there was any publicly available info about the members whatsoever. Approaching an unfamiliar band armed with that kind of knowledge is perhaps a bit different.

biscuitdough wrote: Edit: man, that interview is a blast from the past. Nachtmystium's orchestra of delay pedals... album of the year?!

Now there's a band I never could get into. Dude's assholery just reinforced it.

Isadore Nabi wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:52 pm

kmc wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:02 pm Neko Case is high up on my list

+1. Thought of her immediately after hitting submit.

As with Nina Nastasia and Ludicra, somehow I mentally assumed they all had records in the 90s and were disqualified, but look who feels like a chump now.
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Magnolia Electric CO, Sumac, Liars, My Disco, MONO, Daughters, Earth, SUNN, The New Year, Superwolf, Boris….

Some of the 90’s holdovers still making great records though - Sleep, Low, Neurosis, Breeders, Stereolab…Lots of others.

And if you never listened to Unwound or Bedhead, you can get the Numero reissues last I checked.

Matador is re-releasing Bailter Space’s Wammo, a criminally under-appreciated band in their time and now.

Juana Molina, Nik Bartsch, Gareth Liddiard. That’s all I need for this century.

Isadore Nabi wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:52 pm

kmc wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:02 pm Neko Case is high up on my list

+1. Thought of her immediately after hitting submit.

Me three. For some reason I thought she released one of her early alt-country records in the 90's, but she's done so many major albums post Y2K.

brephophagist wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:50 pm As with Nina Nastasia and Ludicra, somehow I mentally assumed they all had records in the 90s and were disqualified, but look who feels like a chump now.

It's technically true in the Neko (uh) case -- The Virginian was 1997 -- but I took the "started to become known after the year 2000" liberally. Still a little uncomfortable to realize how many of my 21st-century faves somehow feel to me like they're really from the '90s.

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