rolling twenty-something RYM/internet stuff like hyperpop, hypnagogic pop, hexD, vaporwave, dungeon synth, cloud rap, nightcore, black midi, future funk, dariacore, seapunk, blown out anime voices, br

but also prog, psych, techno, art-rock, digital hardcore, metal-adjacent stuff and basically anything that brings OVERWHELMING BANGERS and is EXTREMELY NOT AMBIENT and has a few of the titular ingredients in the mix

leave all the serious moody spiritual-hat experimental/weird to the other thread. in here we are silly, and we are all over the fucking place

some patron saints who have already blessed 2022:

https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/radioactive-boss-baby (stabscotch sideproject while we wait for Prison Jar; is a BLAST)
https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/gloria (wax under wolcnum also good)
https://blackdresses.bandcamp.com/album/forget-your-own-face (the usual death-industrial-pop slaying)
https://dismissyourself.bandcamp.com/track/super-ultra-megaballad-x (possibly the greatest mashup of all time idk)
https://katiedey.bandcamp.com/album/forever-music (not such a fan of this myself but you might be, and she IS a patron saint)
tempted to yoink Tanya Tagaq from that other thread too. maybe she would prefer to make home here. join us Tanya

So you went there.

<3

i will still post to your thread whiney, when someone channels Sunn O))) properly, or matana roberts does something, or etc

also this has happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVq_uQQAAdA

rolling imago thread

literally anyone can join the fun, and i already put something in the opening post i said i wasn't crazy about!

Get in here herks and jerks

Encompassing comic strips, collage and sound art, York-based illustrator and musician Adam Higton's work documents the daily goings-on of the forest folk within the realm of the Cosmic Neighbourhood. This new collection sees Higton turn his attention to longform composition, with four meditative, refreshingly percussive jams occupying 40 minutes of tape.

Sonically, Higton's work straddles new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids' TV programme. Higton's benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind Daphne Oram's early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of Tom Cameron. Radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future.

Recommended if you like Silver Apples, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, The Moomins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPji6NIWMaQ

Cosmic Neighborhood - Weird Beard

no wave clusterfuck tension headache supernova straight from the land of Pere Ubu & JD Vance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzZqcafd8U

Stella Research Committee - Nails

DEDICATED TO BROOD DRIVES DOWN US-52.

"A first run through A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness by the Cincinnati / Columbus based no-wave / noise-rock trio Stella Research Committee speaks to the enduring legacy of the convulsive spasm of unregulated expression of the garroted power trio set-up. In it we hear a weaponized insurgency against form implanted into the concussive blasts of nerve-shredded guitars and electronics, hoarse shouts into the void and pummeling percussion undergirding the compositions with carpet-bombing intensity. Like all good noise-rock, the agitated output is an audible channeling of the absurd horror and malaise of life in a dying empire. There is no mythologizing of expression here. Disgraced Mets center fielder Lenny Dykstra steroid-fueled rants and Brainbombs death-threats are given to the same type of exegesis. A recognition that we are defined by our most naked and unhinged moments. Spiritual clarity while blasting Throbbing Gristle while screaming through the Midwestern dead space of I-71 between Columbus and Cincinnati.

Stella’s subversion of the power-trio is on full display with their fifth full length. Comprised of Kevin Hall (guitar / vocals), Tony Squeri (electronics / keyboards) and Lauri Reponen (Drums) Determining Sanding Fitness channels all of the skronk and fury of AmRep noise-rock bands like Cherubs and Steel Pole Bath Tub. The inherent rawk-ness of a low end is replaced with a blast cabinet of pounded synths (“The Blast Cabinet Conference”), arpeggios with threatening auras (“Murdurd”), four-on-the-floor hard techno suggestions (“Nails”) and atonal drones (“River Rd.”) that seethe and loom in and through Hall’s percussive guitar work and Reponen’s free-jazz influenced percussion.

The realization of this potent guitar / electronics / percussion format is given full expression on Determining Sanding Fitness. There is a tempering smolder of restraint between the sell-all noise assaults and the clever exploration of melody through simmering electronic passages. These passages explore the relationship between Squeri and Reponen’s trading relationships between anchoring the track’s tempo to the expressive and improvisatory space they are able to take up. It’s fascinating to hear this tension between scene setting set-up and crescendo after crescendo of percussive blasts.

Fostered in Cincinnati’s feral noise scene, Stella Research Committee - along with bands like Hissing Tiles, Fruit LoOops and Daumier - have internalized the excesses of noise-rock and no-wave forefathers and have given birth to a sound that is universal in its barely contained primal yelp, but somehow quintessentially Midwestern in its austerity and directness."

-Ryan Hall (Tome to the Weather Machine)

ty for ur contributions

this thread will from 2023 onwards be 'rolling hypergarbage', let it be written

https://nobells.blog/soundcloud-microgenres/

Kieran Press-Reynolds piece on microgenres on soundcloud

Sorry but this is the superior Weird Beard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzmWY2PBzHw

Oh shit

Wish you guys would just call these”whineys thread” and “ljs thread” or whatever. Easier to search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdW1vr5_Pcg

I admit to being a bit disappointed to learn why Dariacore is called that

why is hypnagogic pop in this thread title? everything else is consistent with a contemporary vibe ... that one is the outlier

iANO - Dispossession (depressive hexD electrogaze type beat, produced by a teenage rymer)

is it worth going down the hexD rabbithole? a lot of this stuff seems to be 'unremarkable cloud rap beats + bitcrushed fuckery', 'unremarkable trance beats + bitcrushed fuckery', etc., but I'm sure there are at least a handful of gems out there

love that iANO record

really enjoyed the new more eaze lp with claire rousay
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/never-stop-texting-me

new dds track is p fun
https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-bolt

wanna talk abt something

here is j0rdan s on the wet leg thread discussing the music of audiobooks

crying at how bad this song is. like, there actually would've been no better choice to illustrate the taste divide in this thread. just a pitch perfect punchline

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 March 2022 18:14 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

and here is an incomplete list of audiobooks' professed influences (from 2018, before one of them was rightly cancelled)

Bauhaus, Aphrodite’s Child, Marilyn Manson, Michael Jackson, Flower Travellin Band, the Fall, Faust, Tropicáalia and Dory Previn

...to which subsequent interviews have added Black Sabbath and The Human League among others

what's my point? that yeah there's a fuckin taste divide of course

anyway here's the new audiobooks single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQ978ZhT_4

I don't mind that, but I wouldn't listen to it voluntarily. It's not 'bad,' tho. I mean, J0rdan and I agree about virtually nothing, music-wise, though.

I kind of like the big farty synth bass sound

it's kinda british Dirty Beaches sounding ... or, something from that Ariel Pink diaspora ... agree with table ... it's pleasant enough but doesn't really grab me

then again i'm almost 50 lol

honestly tbrr this thread is more interesting to me than Whiney's thread, because on that thread is all stuff that my IRL friends post about / like whereas this is like stuff i would not be exposed to otherwise (some for good reason lol but still)

why is hypnagogic pop in this thread title? everything else is consistent with a contemporary vibe ... that one is the outlier

― sarahell, Wednesday, February 16, 2022 9:33 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

cloud rap, seapunk are at most a year after hypnagogic pop. vaporwave is at least a decade old too

first mention of hypnagogic pop on ilx is this thread by pfunkyboy in july 2009 about a wire cover story

first mention of cloud rap on ilx is me in the 2012 rolling rap thread in feb 2011. however, Lil B - I'm God produced by Clams Casino came out in 2009 and noz had a piece about it around 2010

first mention of sea punk on ilx is this thread from jan 2012 https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=3197497&boardid=52&threadid=90812 which declares it "old news" in the first post

first mention of vaporwave on ilx is this thread from november 2012 vaporwave and deriative products

i agree that hypnagogic pop sounds more dated, though. maybe because no one aside from music critics ever used it? or 2009-10 is a cultural inflection point where microgenres on either side even if separated by months or a year can much more contemporary/dated?

hey flopson! ... could be some point in my personal timeline when i stopped paying attention or my relationship to contemporary music changed? ... before I turned 35 ... which reminds me of that haunting post by Lamp about hipsters and how if you are a hipster and 35+ you have to have serious substance abuse issues

but hey, sorry for text, keep posting music

one of the last shows i booked before i took a break from that work was Lil B fwiw

oh hello flopson, your presence here reminds me that Blanche Blanche Blanche have a new one out too (albeit a live album where their existing content is reworked)

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/fiscal-remote-distilled

haven't heard yet but will listen later

hi guys :)

that haunting post by Lamp about hipsters and how if you are a hipster and 35+ you have to have serious substance abuse issues

lmao

my contribution to this thread is that the first 3 tonstartssbandht lps are being reissued. one of the formative bands of that era for me. new vid for the 2009 classic '5 FT 7'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIgcVbs-S8

very good cat ... also DIY venue building interiors ... really my two favorite things rn

new dds track is p fun
https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-bolt

― nxd, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 4:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hell yeah, really looking forward to this album. They also stand out among the vaporwave milieu for doing really spectacular live sets. I saw them at Electronicon in 2019 and I remember their set feeling a notch above most of the other acts that day, or at least more pro/polished in comparison.

oh hello flopson, your presence here reminds me that Blanche Blanche Blanche have a new one out too (albeit a live album where their existing content is reworked)

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/fiscal-remote-distilled

― imago, Monday, March 14, 2022 2:08 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Amazing. It actually looks like a situation where the live arrangements of older songs were recorded "live in the studio" rather than in concert.

Speaking of, I'm still wrapping my head around all the 2021 releases by Zach Phillips-helmed projects, each one an avant-prog-pop masterpiece of a different flavor:

Zach Phillips - Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat (imaginary radio revue with a different guest vocalist on each song)
Blanche Blanche Blanche - Seashells (great, super-overlooked "comeback" from these legends. Musically probably their mellowest, but still absolutely unhinged with some of the funniest lyrics I've ever heard)
Fievel Is Glauque - God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess (ZP + vocalist Ma Clément and a rotating cast of backup players, addictive proggy jazz-pop miniatures. Seems to be the most popular of these albums by far--currently 1,880 ratings on RYM vs. less than 500 combined for the other three)
Perfect Angels - Exit From the Ultra-World (ZP + Olia Eichenbaum on vox, bossanova/easy-listening aesthetic so probably the most accessible of the bunch, but the writing is still in how-many-chords-and-time-changes-can-I-fit-in-a-two-minute-pop-song mode. Beautiful cover of Karin Krog's "The Meaning of Love")

Anyone else dig these? I just think it's a stunning achievement to have dropped all four of these albums in a single year. It's weird, complex yet hooky ADHD pop that I find endlessly replayable.

I've been wondering what Utopian Virtual is, but not curious enough to check it out
I just assume all those genres justify people who can't write a song that can be played in public but are good with names for bedroom sonic experimentation
It's like a parallel industry at this point: "outsider house", stuff marketed for 2.0 Internet, with limited to no crossover or legacy
I remember early PC Music, Maint Attrakionz, Lil B, and the insane efforts at making them idols and canonizing, I guess it worked to some extent

utopian virtual is making sure you check out whatever fire-toolz is up to

had no idea zach phillips was so prolific last year, have only heard the FIG album! a lot to visit...

Yeah I think Nonlocal Forecast (Fire-Toolz/Angel Marcloid project) is like the ultimate realization of whatever "Utopian Virtual" is (basically Ferraro Far Side Virtual-core)

Re: Zach Phillips If you like the Fievel album you're sure to appreciate the other three from 2021. I'd start with the solo album, which covers the most stylistic ground.

https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/radioactive-boss-baby (stabscotch sideproject while we wait for Prison Jar; is a BLAST)

This is rad but i believe i was promised pokemon itt

having fun listening to 'Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat' this morning, cheers for the recs

new release from the authorship of my favourite album of 2017

https://haord.bandcamp.com/album/real-gems-for-little-jewels

some recent stuff i've enjoyed (apols if linked elsewhere)

https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/armed-to-the-teeth-l-m-o-m-m
not your usual hausu release, but to the same high quality

https://fennecsound.com/album/a-couple-of-good-days
a really strange party album

can't find it on bandcamp but this is a little wiggly delight: https://www.discogs.com/release/21891046-Silicon-Scally-Field-Lines

New Fievel Is Glauque EP, sounding mighty fine four songs in. Higher-fi than the full-length + Wings cover!

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/a-rodynes-ep

^^ liking that a lot

not sure which genre in the thread title this fits in, maybe dariacore?

the submissives - chirp like a bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3MsXF9D7G

Any thoughts on the new Bladee/Ecco2k album Crest? I'm loving it--ethereal electro-dream-pop sprinkled with a truckload of aural fairy dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUatbsdnDYA

I feel like I've seen Bladee/Drain Gang get some hate around these parts, but I've been pretty deep into the stuff for a minute. For me the weakest part of their music is the limited-range singsong nature of the melodies, but there's something I find really moving and engaging about the aesthetic in general. Bladee's EXETER is a good place to start if you're unfamiliar--gorgeous minimal production, super concise.

bladee is a guy whose creativity i respect but whose, for lack of a better term, wimpy-ass vocals make it hard for me to listen for extended periods. i did dig 2020's 333 album a bit, and i'm a massive fan of drain gang producer gud's output in general.

the above song isn't really speaking to me, i'm afraid.

Yeah I feel you, his vocals are definitely love-it-or-hate-it. EXETER is an all-Gud production, which might be why it stands out above most of his other stuff for me.

enjoyed it but much prefer the ecco stuff I've heard before

i really liked gud's collab ep with rx papi from last year and wish he'd work outside the drain gang a bit more often

Hadn't heard that Rx Papi/Gud ep, checking it out now. Contrast of aggro bars + chill ethereal beats is amazing. Thanks for the rec

Fievel shows: 3/31 Brooklyn // 4/1 Brattleboro VT pic.twitter.com/HSfkArbEJf

— zach phillips (@fievelisglauque) March 25, 2022

Very glad I noticed Fievel Is Glauque playing tomorrow night 3/31 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The venue address is by request, was able to get it from Zach Phillips. If you're around and want to go you can webmail me for it or reach out to Zach directly

Sorry to clog up the thread with so much ZP content, just think he's doing great things these days lol

Ohhh the new Fievel Is Glauque EP is indeed a delight!!

any chat about the vitesse x album?
90s beat x ethereal vocals

ZP is also a poet, this was just released: https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/678701135391014912/gpdf298gpdfe055-zach-phillips-human-light

^HIS MIND

New Death's Dynamic Shroud is very pop. Not sure if it's James or Tech singing, but it's pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUUF9kyztI

Aaaaahhh they're moving onto PHASE TWO

ooh that's pretty good, looking forward to more where that came from

yeh really dig this

love this new Brainwaltzera album

https://brainwaltzera.bandcamp.com/album/itsame

https://soundcloud.com/dranon_23/day-break-prod-e5

This is interesting to moi, maybe the rest of you here:
https://kahomatsui.bandcamp.com/album/boywife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzF2VHaFKg0

hey flopson! ... could be some point in my personal timeline when i stopped paying attention or my relationship to contemporary music changed? ... before I turned 35 ... which reminds me of that haunting post by Lamp about hipsters and how if you are a hipster and 35+ you have to have serious substance abuse issues

― sarahell

for the record it doesn't _have_ to be serious substance abuse issues, it just has to be something that fucks you up really really bad for a very long period of time.

beep beep

beep beep https://t.co/CouXfqMgVq

— neggy gemmy (@NeggyGemmy) May 25, 2022

That's fun, but mostly in the late-90s nostalgia sense— I understand the appeal, obviously, but it's not doing enough that's different to really stand out for me.

any chat about the vitesse x album?
90s beat x ethereal vocals

― nxd, Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:13 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

been listening to this all morning, tremendous record imo, lovely dreamy vapourrave

It's kind of what I wanted from the last CFCF album

https://underwater-computing.bandcamp.com/album/phantasm

Underwater calm, sunlight streaming in from above

New Neggy Gemmy is fun but not on the level of her best stuff (e.g. "Bad Baby," "You Never Knew," "You Weren't There Anymore"... Still have high hopes for the album tho

the Vitesse X album is pretty dope, maybe it doesn't quite live up to its best moments (especially the first track which is just a total dream) but I think it does a great job capturing the vibe of a certain era without sounding like a straight throwback

re: Neggy Gemmy, I really do not like the name change but she's on a similar level. a bit darker and edgier perhaps. I'll always love her for sampling Tim & Eric's "Raz" on "No Rum"

speaking of Death's Dynamic Shroud I just started listening to their live album and it's super good. kinda distills everything great about them. been enjoying some of the recent stuff too (Faith in Persona & Transcendence Bot), I think the new one is gonna rule

Oh yeah Live From Japan is amazing. Especially track 5, the one that samples/vaporizes Taeko Ohnuki

This was a cool dds live set too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysptCu15Itg

damn, that's great too. very cool how the live versions of their studio tracks are very different, a lotta vaporwave artists don't do that

https://databurst.bandcamp.com/track/d-e-e-p-t-i-s-s-u-e

surprised to see no discussion of dazegxd on here. his new album vkiss is a blissed-out mix of hyperpop and plugg, with a prevailing aesthetic that borrows a good deal from the best parts of cheesy 90s eurodance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfiOuOBZWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXKCiUMRlc

sounding intriguing, will give the album a bash, even if all of that kind of makes it magdalena bay lite

there's no rock in there, so i'd say it's pretty distinct from mag bay even if they do draw from similar aesthetic inspirations

Yet another hit from DDS. Getting more of a prog vibe from this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azB_8kjIUuw

wow that's incredible, hope there's an album on the way that'll include all of the singles from this year

omg go off dds

this feels like the lansing-dreiden software update we didn't know we needed, so sick

this is good as hell

now that is how you drop a beat

I've been so impressed with these guys lately. not just the new stuff but exploring the back catalogue as well. my local shop had one of their 2014 albums called Virtual Utopia Experience and I found it to be very nice and completely unclassifiable. like total spacey dreamland music but there's a lot of acoustic guitar picking in it?? idk if the people here will dig it but it hit me in such a strange way

anyway, new album is gonna rule and I hope it sells a ton

my favourite from their back catalogue is heavy black heart which is probably the peak of vaporwave as a genre, though they put out a ridiculous amount of material exclusively via their mixtape club which i haven't kept up with at all

yea it's great and I hope it gets a reissue soon

idk how many people can really keep up with the mixtape stuff but Faith in Persona is particularly good. I mean really it's just Keith Rankin solo and spiritually it should be considered the next Giant Claw album but I think they just do everything through the dds umbrella now. whatever. it's great. Transcendence Bot is also great if you like head-in-the-clouds dds

faith in persona is one that actually did get a wider release but i need to go back to it because it didn't stick with me at the time

Hm, this doesn't do it for me at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Eyi-zWQZo

https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/this-time

Would be remiss of me to not mention the new Stabscotch here too, given it'll likely be my aoty

https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/prison-jar

Hey all, I have a semi-urgent matter that needs mod attention. If a mod sees this, would you please email me? Or alternatively, does anyone know how to get in touch with a mod?

Mod request

^^reply here, u will be dealt with and bladee will call off the solicitors

lol thanks!

wow at that dds track

enjoying p much everything posted recently but especially the stabscotch

https://eljenvaporworks.bandcamp.com/album/--70

for those that enjoyed ran cap duoi last year, this was a good read

https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/vietnamese-experimental-scene-report

basically all the new music i hear these days comes from rym's "featured reviews"

it's kinda weird... maybe worth considering? like i don't want to start another thread on 4chan, i've never been on 4chan and i wouldn't touch it with a pole even if i still had one, but at the same time a lot of rym culture does feed from /mu/. it's a secondary source, a _filter_ for /mu/. and what it filters out of course is a huge chunk of the toxicity. i don't, i guess, i don't _get_ wet leg.

RYM is cool, v much worth using it to discover new music (as I do). Don't go for featured reviews though, go for yearly charts, which you can customise in all sorts of ways

Toxicity tends to meet with resistance on RYM

oh when i was in my peak music binge era, circa 2018, i lived off rym's charts and lists. the lists are a great resource - i find an obscure weird album, see what lists it's on, and go see what else is on those lists. i just literally haven't had time for music. there was _one_ message board, too, where people just posted new albums that had very few reviews - that was my go-to thread. the rest of the boards, though, them i didn't click with.

and yeah the mods there, they're good mods, they don't put up with any 4chan shit there. you can still see it in the way that the hyped transfem records... like, folks there don't dig on 100 gecs or tami t or nothing like that. it's all dysphoria gang over there as far as i can tell.

Oh of course, you do all those reviews lol. When nobody else rode for that Dissociatives album, one alone stood to represent

most of my rym reviews are from my/rym's shitpost era, one of the things i _really_ love is that they've gone through the effort to unpublish my crappy meme reviews that don't meet their current review standards so that nobody has to see that crap anymore. writing shitty record reviews in the late '00s definitely helped me a lot as far as becoming a better writer.

i do love the dissociatives record, but then again i'm a sucker for anything with mellotron on it :)

Oh I love it too lol, it has some of the greatest cod-psych excess ever recorded. Second and second-last tracks especially never leave my head.

RYM DOES unpublish pretty readily, doesn't it? I've had a few of my own one-liners zapped. The fact they have any standards at all is a great positive, even if they let some fairly dubious stuff survive (probably because people don't care enough to flag it up)

lol those are my best reviews

Always curious about their unpublishing policy. Still far too many joke one-line reviews with +35 likes at the top for my liking :((

that wu-lu is quite something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2T963FYU0

announce the album already!

so excited for this album

this is so good!

https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife-cd-pre-order

it is announced

it gives me a sense of ENORMOUS well-being

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX--cgEWQAAlE3r?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

It’s been a while since I’ve had that surefire “this’ll be AOTY” feeling

yeah i’m with map, really don’t get the enthusiasm for this.

ftr i wasn't commenting on any music specifically, it was just a badly considered general meme shitpost

honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997

Okay I listened to Neon Memories on my studio monitors and it’s pretty great, not exactly my cuppa but I was into it! sorry for doubting, I just didn’t remember liking any of the stuff from the new one

just sounds like "Life in a Northern Town" with glitch to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xlUgAalQ7I

loving this album

Oh, that's cool! She seems to be getting more bonkers every time I dip into her stuff.

the whole 4s4ki album (killer in neverland) is great, i think it's her best yet

oooh, this opening track is supremely promising

gr8 album

new fievel is glaque ("go down softly" is new, i'm pretty sure i've heard "the river" already). more like fievel is yacht, amirite?

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/go-down-softly-the-river

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNcSUqM9Cw

Math rock/YouTube shred guys collab w Asian-American pop/R&B singer - bizarro-world Autotuned English-Japanese shred-pop. Over 2M views in 12 days. Imago not a fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd24QIBJ5Y

dds album is pretty good but definitely longer than it needs to be & not every track really works

counterpoint: this is an overwhelming but fantastic first listen, suspect it will only deepen with more. clearly a major achievement

it's almost there but "fade persona" is a dud for one

noooooooo

i will have my kitsch glitch-goth

RYM going gaga over this at the moment. glad to hear it's living up to expectations but I'm gonna be a doofus and wait until the record arrives

counterpoint: this is an overwhelming but fantastic first listen, suspect it will only deepen with more. clearly a major achievement

― imago, Friday, September 23, 2022 6:39 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My thoughts as well. Though most of it is ultra-maximalist and hyperactive, after one listen the more ballad-like songs made the deepest impression on me ("Missing Person", "Before I Cool Off", "Where Does It Come From?"). Tech and James are both fantastic singers

a bit shorter and aoty contender for me

love this

https://xquisitereleasess.bandcamp.com/album/the-fertile-crescent-strategy-of-two-heavens-xqu022

did imago start a black dresses thread or does this go here? anyway they got a new tune. i still don't like their music but the video is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7XG15XIzg

this is great

and there is OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

that's the one i was thinking of, well i'm not gonna repost it here anwyay

Darklife is fantastic. Thank you all for talking up Neon Memories, without which I never would have checked out the album. AOTY contender for me. I even like Fade Persona!

honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997

So otm.

Yes. Messe de E-102 is the one for me though, it is just the most spectacular thing

Messe is a real highlight.

I've been stimming on Light Left the Garden a lot today too. The second verse where it drops down to pretty much just the synth slap bass and vocals is soooo good.

weekend highlight was this reissue

https://foamonawave.bandcamp.com/album/trance-balance

Will have a listen! New Fire-Toolz is occupying me for the moment. It's sounding absolutely wonderful 3 tracks in. Soda Lake With Game Genie especially really quite something

https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-not-use-the-bodys-eyes-today

yep this has been my morning too, delightful stuff

I really love the dds record, and while it's obviously doing different things than the Fire-Toolz record, one of the things that appeals about dds and some Orange Milk associated products is that the vocals are heavily processed but pleasant to listen to. Once the black metal vocals come in with Fire-Toolz, I nope out— totally ruins it for me.

p sure Fire-Toolz knows her vocals are an aesthetic choice that will alienate a lot of otherwise receptive listeners, but I can only commend her boldness in not compromising the vision. glad to have you on one of the shipboards at least!

oh i know, and at first with FT i sort of liked it, but there's a reason i don't listen to a lot of black metal— i just don't like the scratchy incomprehensible vocals. if FT utilized the low, cookie-monter demon growl, I might be more receptive.

the new EP from ---__--___ is quite good https://sethgraham.bandcamp.com/album/divine-berth

Mindspring Memories > Fire Toolz

*Nonlocal Forecast > Mindspring Memories > Fire Toolz

All good though. She's a true visionary

From the void births the underground.

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Darklife really seems like the kind of album that ought to have its own thread on here but it would just be like the 4 of us

That’s because it’s not very good

i think i did an orange milk one but dds as an individual thread sounds good

interesting what the next step is

what didn't u enjoy about darklife calstars?

Just not a dds fan is all. Except for the last song on Try Living Like This. But generally find their stuff too kinetic for my taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvaAM-8vlc

ooh this album is great fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVLGvFMzjIs

don't know what thread this belongs in but I discovered it yesterday and it's one of the few times in recent years I've been able to say "holy shit, I've never heard anything that sounds like this". maybe like if No Now by Clarence Clarity was remixed by Max Tundra and produced by James Ferraro. dunno if it's "good" exactly but it seems to be popular in certain corners of the internet and there's a lot of mystery behind it. I mean whoever these people are it doesn't seem like they did anything else yet

absolutely the right thread for that

big fan of the new umlauts ep, especially "the commuter"
https://theumlauts.bandcamp.com/

fun fact: my friend's sister is dating one of them. enjoyed their prior output, will check...

another fact: typed that even before seeing the EP's name lol

It's fine. A bit dry for my tastes

(dare I suggest that last year's Audiobooks album was this sort of thing but better?) (also dare I suggest that The Chap are working on a new one)

hadn't heard audiobooks before, great stuff cheers

Aero by very productive Danish artist Tettix Hexer is pretty good. Very OPN hypnagogic to me.
https://tettixhexer.bandcamp.com/album/aero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLM7xB3UDKc

new track from jane remover (fka dltzk)

whoa, quite the change of pace! but it works. RYM gaga over it I see ofc haha

there were two earlier singles from this year that were also more in this vein. it's quite a good wall of sound but not as exciting as frailty was

well no, there's far less there even if the atmosphere is the focus, but bring back frailty's writing with these sonics...

how are you choosing to begin Imago Day at Australian midnight btw lol

it's not midnight my time but elsewhere in the country it is, so i'm very very tempted to give the ruby cord a listen immediately but it'll have to wait until the morning

neglecting duties! nah fair enough tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfwbugIRsQA

the whole amane uyama album is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEKPI_BKCec

pas tasta - "turtle thief"

doing a little digging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TssreZGLlOo

"peanut phenomenon" also rules

I’m not big into chiptune or future funk but this seems related to the above and is a good album in its own right :

https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/virtual-girls-band-a-k-a-sparkle

https://skylinetapes.bandcamp.com/album/magical-realism

New mindspring is quite loverly

been loving this b.michaael record

https://bmichaael.bandcamp.com/album/built2crawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSsmKkFSZnA

the brakence album is a pretty good emo/rap/idm blend. surprised to find out he's on a major label

who knew NIN's legacy would be in hyper-hop eh, good stuff, great resolution

hang on what is this Pas Tasta stuff omg

pas tasta is some sort of japanese soundcloud weirdo supergroup i think? amane uyama is one of its members (which is how i stumbled across them). "peanuts phenomenon" is a song they did with the vtuber/"peanuts-kun" who is the very nasally guy who raps a bit in the middle

will have to check out all relevant material

Amane Uyama mini album v good!

brakence is a serious artist, god. will def get his own thread v soon

brakence album is v good

i posted this album by sexual jeremy on "music that rocks in 2022" bc it does rock but i think the weirdo art-noise skronkiness of it might possibly appeal to people on this thread as well: https://sexyjerry.bandcamp.com/album/the-real-sexual-jeremy

ooh, this is cool

'came' is quite something eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BerqreQ3KU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZrDDbiZzOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kamcepV3g

wasn't sure whether to post these here or in the afropop thread but jim legxacy is really onto something & i love that he's making the emo/afrobeats guitar connection

representing my borough of origin too. uniting all the rollings

wow, that is dope

these are cool and it really is good-weird to see all the locations from my suburban childhood cropping up

afropop x post-rockish midwest emo idk x modish chillwave x pure Lewisham vibes, a brew considerably more intriguing than a lot of adjacent fare

this Jim Legxacy stuff is amazing

LJ/Tangenttangent: "Freight Yard" by The Garden is stone cold fucking great. Are their albums along the same line?

answering my own question: Horseshit on Route 66 is almost entirely a jam

oh hello! haha yeah it's a good album, tt even more into it than I am. Freight Yard is massive!!

i don't think i like anything quite as much as "Freight Yard" but most of the album is very good!
Other faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFHxSNIMMGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDXmIa5XVE

(perhaps not entirely on the same page, but i greatly prefer this to what gecs is putting out these days)

gecs seems to have fallen off a bit idk, let's see

I’m not big into chiptune or future funk but this seems related to the above and is a good album in its own right :

https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/virtual-girls-band-a-k-a-sparkle🕸

yeah that's dope

both these are so fun

was gonna nom the former but its 2021

yeah digging the Virtual Girls Band as well, I remember searching pretty hard for this sort of sound like 15 years ago

Can I plug my Chaka khan vaporwave album here?
https://ncxkd.bandcamp.com/album/chakawave-ep

link isn't working

the Vitesse X album is quite a bit stranger than I remembered. kinda has this music from the other side of the wall vibe to it. 100% Electronica is putting out a lot of really cool records like this, where they're 90s throwbacks but in a "this is what music in 2023 might've sounded like in an alternate timeline" kind of way.

IDK what hyperpop is anymore, but enjoying Trust Fund Ozu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFs_F7hk5L8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtZTtSD06M

Three new Death’s Dynamic Shroud albums released today. I can’t keep up with all this, but I’ll try.

you'll try.......living like this?

two of them are remakes of previous fanclub-only albums apparently. i'm seeing people on rym compare one to the blue nile (???) so i will check that one out at least

it sounds like Midnight Tangerine and Keys to the Gate were both essentially remade from scratch, though I haven't heard the originals. I have heard Transcendence Bot though and it's great. I think that one is just being released as-is.

i finally got around to listening to a Rebzyyx comp a friend made, it's good stuff but there's also a lot of weird drama regarding impersonators and stuff and damn the Internet is fucked up, you know?

OK so WTF is this "Denpa" shit, anyway? Like hikikomori hyperpop that's obsessed with moe... like 4chan people but cisgender? Or something? It seems, like... adjacent to this thread. Somehow.

Anyway it sounds good but it also sounds like the dialectic is maybe kind of fucked? I don't know.

why does the new death's dynamic shroud sound like Muse?

Specifically talking about Keys To The Gate. I didn't even realize they had several other new ones out until I looked at this thread.

They released three LPs on the same day a few weeks ago

pretty nice they're still keeping up the insane release schedule despite their music becoming less sample-based

that said they've kind of got a weird dynamic going on where "death's dynamic shroud" is more an umbrella term for anything the three members do, in fact I think of their 50+ albums only maybe 3 or 4 of them have actually been actively worked on by all three. it would be like if everything the members of YMO did was released under the name "Yellow Magic Orchestra". still pretty amazing consistency from them, I don't think there's a single dds release I've actually disliked

why does the new death's dynamic shroud sound like Muse?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:50 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg sick, I will hear it tomorrow

listening to it and i don't really hear the muse

so I guess discussion of the new Claire Rousay belongs in this thread? I don't know where else I could post about it

finding it rather underwhelming

i guess she hasn’t changed much about her strategy then

claire rousay album sounds like lil peep

it's pretty bad imo

https://nightcoverage.bandcamp.com/track/--197

Deep in the slush

you can buy that entire label's discography— 109 releases— for 50 cents. insane.

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-lost-promises-of-hyperpoptimism/

The Lost promises of hyperpop by Kieran Press-Reynolds

claire rousay album sounds like lil peep

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, May 27, 2024 2:47 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's pretty bad imo

― imago, Monday, May 27, 2024 4:10 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i disagree even though when i listen to it i feel like i shouldn't be

Anyone heard DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ

enjoying this from aja ireland

https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/cryptid

"rym/internet stuff"
I still have to find interesting things in that regard. Most of that music is self promoted?

"rym/internet stuff"
I still have to find interesting things in that regard. Most of that music is self promoted?

the Vitesse X album from last year is incredible. I liked her debut but this is way better. to me its like what someone in the 90s who was obsessed with Saint Etienne and Orbital might've hoped pop music of the future sounded like. its even got like a Britpop thing going on in some tracks. my rating: "cool"

Yo frog have you heard psicadence tho

nay

Ok, I'll bite. What's the deal with this Quadeca album?

It's not very good. Listen to this which came out today instead. It's like if a Frenchman made Pop Tatari in 2040

https://23wa.bandcamp.com/album/az

loving the new Giant Claw record

yes, it's great