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Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:03 pm
by Vibracobra




This record from '92 is a perennial fave.

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:17 am
by Dovira
Alvvays - Adult Diversion

Dumb band name, but great song.

Sounded New Zealand to me, but they're Canadian.



Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:56 pm
by Dovira
Placebo - The Bitter End

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:35 pm
by Dovira
Frou Frou - A New Kind of Love

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:26 pm
by losthighway
The Weakerthans- Left and Leaving

Every daylight savings change.

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:22 am
by Dovira
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 (1985) + Provision (1988) + others

David Gamson from this band is chief producer of the Hannah Diamond album, so I must have a look.

In comparison, the songcraft here is pretty tame. It's like we have a group of accomplished musicians who can't decide what they want to play, but are good at picking up the elements that "make" a certain sound, so the catalogue is a collection of mostly superficial characteristics from whatever is in rotation at the moment, all the way from mid 80s glossy, brass-heavy funk-disco to late 90s hiphop-infused alt-rock.

No problem with this approach if the result is compositionally interesting - here it isn't so much. With this many recognizable gimmicks the music has to be a little crazier for me to stay. The earliest post-punkish stuff is different but not very compelling either.

"Absolute" is decent tho, with that twinkly playing. Some parts of "Oh Patti" are nice too - you can recognize some instrumentation and melody lines in HD.

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:17 pm
by Krev
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:56 pm
by Dovira

Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:05 pm
by Dovira
Another kind of piano thing:



Re: What are you listening to right now?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 9:31 am
by jimmy spako