New Music Friday!

Second Opinion: Caribou - Honey šŸ‘āž”ļøšŸ‘Ž [after perusing at the Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread! around two weeks ago, I ended up staring at a wall for close to an hour, questioning my life decisions. For the week after, food lacked flavor, activities outside of music were dull, and my days were void of meaning]
How I feel knowing a post I made led to @Rip_City's week being ruined
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TL;DR: I'm motivated to check out what I like and I don't waste my time with what I don't like. Pretty simple. And I'll peep something getting a lot of hubbub just to be sure.
This is me this year. I just have no time. I think itā€™s the whole 5 kids thing.
ADHD and probable autism. ;)
One of us! One of us!
 
Scratch that; there is one more release that dropped today for my listening list. MFM has one last album for this year.
  • Suso Saiz - Distorted Clamor
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The 22min title track opener is a wave of emotions...with a noisy buildup akin to a Yellow Swans composition, followed by segments of sweeping waves of ambience rippling through the fibers torn from the deconstructed calamity. The back half of the record is my headspace of immersion into the album artwork, like painting a rolodex rich with memories from fragments of days gone by. Radiant (for an ambient record) from the beginning, but steady dormancy sets in during the album's closing moments, perhaps a metaphor for a time lapse of age.
Another beautiful record from SƔiz.

TL;DR: reel gĆ¼d, but you probably could have predicted that given my MFM adulation

EDIT: rewording and grammar
 
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Just had an incredibly interesting/awesome afternoon.

After lunch with my wife we were walking home and decided to take a stop in this very small and hidden and potentially illegal neighborhood book store to browse their classic fiction. While we were there I noticed the clerk and their friend were huddled over an old record player listening to a white label record on it.

I went over and was like ā€œwhatā€™s going on over here?ā€ and one of the guys, who introduced himself as John, said ā€œweā€™re listening to a test pressing of my new record, but this player is really old and it sounds like shit. Iā€™m trying to figure out if I can put an order in with this plant but this isnā€™t really helpful because I canā€™t tell whatā€™s the record or just a 50 year record player.ā€

I liked what I heard coming through the built in speakers, so much so that in a moment of rare spontaneity I said ā€œWhy donā€™t you just come down to mine and we can listen on my system? I live two blocks away.ā€

He was kind of taken back but after seeing a video of my system he asked if he could come around later in the day. I said sure thing!

Flash forward a few hours and he walks through the door with his record. I put it through the Humminguru and threw it on and we sat on the couch and listened to the full project. Yā€™allā€¦. his music was stunning and made me an instant fan and I wanted to share here because it deserves your guys ears. He actually seems to be pretty popular with 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and has done a world tour and stuff.

He was blown away by how good his record sounded on my system and was overjoyed at hearing it this way. After we listened we spent a bit chatting and when he left I handed him back his test pressing and he refused to take it and told me to keep it šŸ˜§.

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Anyways hereā€™s his latest album (the one we listened to) ā€¦ I think a lot of yā€™all will enjoy it. Itā€™s very sunny indie/folk with beautiful guitar playing and bossa nova like elements. It reminded me a lot of Bruno Berle but not Brazilian.

 
Just had an incredibly interesting/awesome afternoon.

After lunch with my wife we were walking home and decided to take a stop in this very small and hidden and potentially illegal neighborhood book store to browse their classic fiction. While we were there I noticed the clerk and their friend were huddled over an old record player listening to a white label record on it.

I went over and was like ā€œwhatā€™s going on over here?ā€ and one of the guys, who introduced himself as John, said ā€œweā€™re listening to a test pressing of my new record, but this player is really old and it sounds like shit. Iā€™m trying to figure out if I can put an order in with this plant but this isnā€™t really helpful because I canā€™t tell whatā€™s the record or just a 50 year record player.ā€

I liked what I heard coming through the built in speakers, so much so that in a moment of rare spontaneity I said ā€œWhy donā€™t you just come down to mine and we can listen on my system? I live two blocks away.ā€

He was kind of taken back but after seeing a video of my system he asked if he could come around later in the day. I said sure thing!

Flash forward a few hours and he walks through the door with his record. I put it through the Humminguru and threw it on and we sat on the couch and listened to the full project. Yā€™allā€¦. his music was stunning and made me an instant fan and I wanted to share here because it deserves your guys ears. He actually seems to be pretty popular with 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and has done a world tour and stuff.

He was blown away by how good his record sounded on my system and was overjoyed at hearing it this way. After we listened we spent a bit chatting and when he left I handed him back his test pressing and he refused to take it and told me to keep it šŸ˜§.

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Anyways hereā€™s his latest album (the one we listened to) ā€¦ I think a lot of yā€™all will enjoy it. Itā€™s very sunny indie/folk with beautiful guitar playing and bossa nova like elements. It reminded me a lot of Bruno Berle but not Brazilian.

Yep, this dude opened for Luna Li two months ago in Portland. Fun performance. He wore an Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru long sleeve.

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Just had an incredibly interesting/awesome afternoon.

After lunch with my wife we were walking home and decided to take a stop in this very small and hidden and potentially illegal neighborhood book store to browse their classic fiction. While we were there I noticed the clerk and their friend were huddled over an old record player listening to a white label record on it.

I went over and was like ā€œwhatā€™s going on over here?ā€ and one of the guys, who introduced himself as John, said ā€œweā€™re listening to a test pressing of my new record, but this player is really old and it sounds like shit. Iā€™m trying to figure out if I can put an order in with this plant but this isnā€™t really helpful because I canā€™t tell whatā€™s the record or just a 50 year record player.ā€

I liked what I heard coming through the built in speakers, so much so that in a moment of rare spontaneity I said ā€œWhy donā€™t you just come down to mine and we can listen on my system? I live two blocks away.ā€

He was kind of taken back but after seeing a video of my system he asked if he could come around later in the day. I said sure thing!

Flash forward a few hours and he walks through the door with his record. I put it through the Humminguru and threw it on and we sat on the couch and listened to the full project. Yā€™allā€¦. his music was stunning and made me an instant fan and I wanted to share here because it deserves your guys ears. He actually seems to be pretty popular with 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and has done a world tour and stuff.

He was blown away by how good his record sounded on my system and was overjoyed at hearing it this way. After we listened we spent a bit chatting and when he left I handed him back his test pressing and he refused to take it and told me to keep it šŸ˜§.

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Anyways hereā€™s his latest album (the one we listened to) ā€¦ I think a lot of yā€™all will enjoy it. Itā€™s very sunny indie/folk with beautiful guitar playing and bossa nova like elements. It reminded me a lot of Bruno Berle but not Brazilian.

Dude, thanks this is fantastic!
 
Looks like this will be my last one for 2024...

Radar List for 12.13.24


Blue Ɩyster Cult ā€“ 50th Anniversary - Live In NYC - Third Night
Saint Etienne ā€“ The Night
Snoop Dogg ā€“ Missionary
The Cure ā€“ Songs of a Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV
Salvator Dragatto ā€“ Thoughts of You
Spencer Zahn ā€“ Statues Live
DMX ā€“ Let Us Pray: Chapter X
Orbiter ā€“ Distorted Folklore
Darko the Super & Steel Tipped Dove ā€“ Darko Cheats Death
Electric Wizard ā€“ Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1
 
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Looks like this will be my last one for 2024...

Radar List for 12.13.24


Blue Ɩyster Cult ā€“ 50th Anniversary - Live In NYC - Third Night
Saint Etienne ā€“ The Night
Snoop Dogg ā€“ Missionary
The Cure ā€“ Songs of a Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV
Spencer Zahn ā€“ Statues Live
DMX ā€“ Let Us Pray: Chapter X
Orbiter ā€“ Distorted Folklore
Darko the Super & Steel Tipped Dove ā€“ Darko Cheats Death
Electric Wizard ā€“ Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1
Any idea what your total number of albums checked out for the year will be??
 
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