Hi Everyone, pleased to meet you. This is my first hubski post, and I'm not incredibly familiar with the interface yet, (even though I viewed the tutorial) so I apologize if I'm doing this wrong, but as far as what "I've been into lately" is concerned... There's a group out of the UK that goes by the name of Tesseract. http://tesseractband.co.uk/ I've been a fan for about a year now, but their newest release, Altered State is something that my ears enjoy quite a bit.
FYI I've been sorta kinda adding the songs in all the weekly music threads to this spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/insomniasexx/playlist/2P9GgsMOW... Obviously, not all artists or songs are available so I just throw what's there in there. Perfect for me at work when I don't have time to decide what to listen to
1. broken social scene - anthems for a seventeen year old girl used to be one of the rotten ones, and i liked you for that... 2. lorde - ribs the intro is fucking ace. listen to it in your car and let it envelope you in amazingness. thank you, lorde's producer, for utilizing binaural/360 technology. THANK YOU. it makes so much of a difference. also, she references broken social scene. 3. arcade fire - neon bible i love the instrumentals in this, holy crap. i'm not so big on the lyrics/vocals - they're alright. 4. panic! at the disco - but it's better if you do & i write sins not tragedies they transition effortlessly into one another. don't roll your eyes at me and act like you're too good for p!atd. everyone can admit to praying for love in a lap dance.
BSS may be my favorite band. Top 5 for sure. Their self-titled album also is probably in my top 2 or 3 albums of all time. I've heard a couple Lorde songs, and they didn't really do much for me, but I'll have to delve a bit deeper into their stuff, considering the BSS reference and your recommendation.
Von Thord has really gotten me these past few days. Swedish cellists. Here are two tracks to start off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNllvQpnDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_37iotbxLU
Ah Uhm, Charles Mingus. I first heard about him through an Archer reference (Specifically Woodhouse shooting heroin and asking for it specifically) and looked him up, I've been hooked, and this album has honestly brought back my passion for jazz.
Scale The Summit- this was also in my playlist in the Hubski music swap thread.
Elbow - Ribcage. 2003, V2 Records. To pull my ribs apart, and let the sun inside.....
Iron and Wine - Carousel: I'm still finding new tunes I like from him. Great musician. The Rubens - Lay It Down: Just a good song. Big Black Delta - Money Rain Down: Still on my list from last week, energetic / powerful sax pop. The Strokes - Welcome to Japan: In love with that guitar riff. And for the good ol' tunes: When The Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong
Went to two shows this weekend: Bonobo on Sunday and Ra Ra Riot on Friday. Bonobo is great as always, Ra Ra Riot's new stuff is garbage, and I'm finding I'm not so much into their old stuff but the two opening bands for Ra Ra Riot both blew me away: Cayucas is one. Some nice laid back folksy beach rock. Definitely some good vibes coming out of it and I really like the guitar work. They only have one album, and the label posted it all here in one video: Cayucas - Bigfoot The other was Caveman. It reminds me of a more upbeat and rock-centered Fleet Foxes, but keeping the folk aspect. I definitely get an idea they're influenced by Animal Collective. Extremely good guitar, keyboard, and percussion work. I can't quite place what's so great about it, but it harmonizes really well, and it you put it through a tube amp, it sounds wonderous. Here's their entire first album, Coco Beware, and there are definitely at least parts of their newer album on youtube as well.
Bottesini's Concerto no. 2 For Double Bass as played here by Rinat Ibragimov. i'm into it lately because 1.) I'm going to be using the first movement to compete in my school's concerto competition 2.) I'll be playing the whole thing in March of next year with a string orchestra back where I did my undergrad 3.) I'm currently transcribing a version with string orchestra accompaniment from a pdf of the autograph manuscript.
Recently we put our house up on zillow's "make me move" listing. We've had two people come and look at it. While they are walking around I put on a record because we have speakers throughout the house. I thought about what would be the best album to make people feel comfortable and a bit exotic. Trying to sell a "lifestyle" and not just a home. I chose Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz. I've listened to this album twice all the way through this past week. Great listen. Soothing.
This is upsetting, because the stuff I've been listening to isn't entirely out yet. Wait, scratch that, turns out that even though it's not officially released, it's up on bandcamp. They're a duo I interviewed for an article about a month back, some interesting electro-pop sort of stuff with great vocals. Ophelia Other than that, some really cool experimental/alt/post-rock sorta stuff from Aidan Baker.
I think you should listen to it. They haven't lost it after 17 years of not releasing a record, I've listened to the new album a few times since it's came out and I like it a lot.
Hey guys, I haven't seen much talk about trap music on here, but that's what I've been digging, here's some good listening right here: http://www.themixfeed.com/mixes/diplo-diplo-and-friends-10-0.../
The entire Vampire Weekend discography. The first album I always loved but I wanted to get into their other two.
1. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication This is a total beast of an album. I keep revisiting, and am amazed at how great it sounds every, single, time I put it back on. I've had a really tough week, both at work and personally, and listening to this album has made my life a bit easier (along with browsing hubski, of course). It's an amazing, amazing album. In addition to how good The Beastie Boys are on this record, Q-Tip is great on Get It Together. No number of superlatives is enough for this album. Picks: Sure Shot, Sabotage, Get It Together, Flute Loop. 2. Patton Oswalt - Feelin' Kinda Patton Top shelf comedy album from a top shelf stand-up comic. I love it. 3. L'Orange - Old Soul From the musician's facebook page: "Dedicated to originality, L’Orange imbues his smoky, soul-soaked tracks with lush texture through inventive mixing and psychedelic cuts from classic radio recordings." Nice album. Not great. It certainly has a few tracks that stand out for me. Picks: Lost Souls, The Heroine 4. Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds The highly experimental duo may have overshot with this one, I believe. The trouble is while interesting and experimental are great if the output sounds good, they're not enough. I'm not sure if the whole album sounds good really. I was not at all comfortable listening to Ross Transcript, for instance. Picks: You, Very Large Green Triangles, ESP
I recently found Nano, and have been hooked ever since. Some particularly good tracks: Nevereverland, No pain, No game, Silence, and Black Board. Unfortunately it seems that all the versions of youtube for several songs seem to be horrible quality and don't sound quite right. Nano hasn't topped by favorite artist (Yousei Teikoku) yet, but she made some damn good music.