music for distract from The Dread please

when one wishes to forget that we are being repeatedly whapped in the face by the spiked wiener of evil

JW Francis new album is solid and something up beat is probably a nice chance from… things

*change

Reggae

"Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo" by Francesco Messina and Raul Lovisoni

cannot recommend highly enough

So oddly Sugar (the Bob Mould group) is picking me up

there's a bunch of old sundays b-sides that have hit streaming recently. my first time hearing a bunch of it, so it’s kind of like hearing a new old ep by them.

sade has new material forthcoming.

new doves album valentine's day. hell yeah.💙

XTC's final two albums, Apple Venus and Wasp Star, are finally streaming on Spotify(US)

Kid Creole's classic 80's run

I was listening to Dennis Bovell when I read the question. So was thinking reggae was a 5otally different type of dread innit.

Still some of it can lift the load.

Psychedelic hard rock and krautrock.
Just reading Neu Klang and seeing the new German music of the early 70s as trying to draw a line starting again after fascism. So possibly oddly fitting.

A lot of 80s US hard-core was directed at the then level of fascism of Reagan etc which may be mild compared to now.
But may be too much of a reminder.

Maybe some lengthy excursions into prog fantasy would help one escape the mundane for a while.

& maybe you could substitute some long coat gloom and listen to post-punk stuff like Joy Division, Magazine, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen. Bung in a bit of Siouxsie too.

A lot of 80s US hard-core was directed at the then level of fascism of Reagan etc which may be mild compared to now.
But may be too much of a reminder.

Been listening to a lot of Bad Religion lately.

But in terms of distracting from the Dread, how about Dread Zeppelin?

XTC's final two albums, Apple Venus and Wasp Star, are finally streaming on Spotify(US)

hell yeah!

also some new old forgotten music: dude! the red norvo trio stuff with tal farlow and charles mingus! it's guitar/bass/vibes! legendary!

Slim Gaillard
Babs Gonzales
Dizzy Gillespie
Hep cats from earlier decades to lighten the mood.

A little Lambert, Hendricks and Ross too.

Louis Moholo Moholo Spirits Rejoice
Frank Lowe Black Beings might help exorcise some demons through sheer blast power.
Last Exit Iron Path similarly

Dadawa Peace & Love great grooves and mellow vibe.
Burning Spear similar

King Tubby heavy dub

Lots of postpunk and adjacent (i.e. New Romantic/ early new Wave stuff) is getting me thru the hellscape.
Also Andy Stott's "Too Many Voices" and ECM stuff.

Oddly can barely listen to disco/house/techno these days - reminds me too much of better times and just seems vacuous atm. Very sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0_9CUgazs

When UK ICE starts deporting the erm, likes of me in five years that's what I want to be playing on that flight!

Five years is a generous assessment of Labour's direction of travel bud

That's right

Wayne Shorter '64 - '70
Dancing is optional

Dread Zeppelin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkATAvL49U-

have been zoning out with Popol Vuh’s Hosianna Mantra and Nosferatu soundtrack a lot recently

https://www.discogs.com/master/333441-Bill-Evans-The-Bill-Evans-Album

no matter what happens to me or how much music i listen to, this album always sounds good.

I just got a copy of Sinéad O'Connor's Throw Down Your Arms and it is hitting the spot right now. Her version of "Untold Stories" is lovely.

Link Wray Slinky
Omar Khorshid Guitar el Chaq
Davie Allen & The Arrows

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

:)

John Hartford

https://media1.tenor.com/m/XCOa8-k_R7AAAAAd/stath-stath-lets-flats.gif

eyyy much thanks for all these juicy recs! excited 2 bury my head in good noise for a while

bit thoughtless of me to not consider the hairstyle connotation when titling the thread -- i'm sorry about that! i was referring primarily to The Horrors, and the overwhelming negative emotions they induce, not dreadlocks on people! except white people, kinda. oh, there's this dreadlocked white guy with an rfk sticker on his jeep down the street from me who i would very much like to forget.

anyway here's a music: i like the sound of this incel being hauled to the guillotine, and the *doonk-dink* of his head bouncing away at the end 😘👌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHupWZ-PQPk

The Horrors had great hair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVMlQtlS180

Lots of Madonna and Cyndi the past few days. And then yesterday I was rereading the bits of their bio (M) or autibio (CL) covering the late 80s and how both of them were so much a part of the LGBTQ community of the time and I just started crying a bunch because of the feeling that it's all burning down now. Which I guess is not exactly a distraction! But it's a better feeling than what I was feeling before this Madonna+Cyndi binge.

New Order as well, genuine consolation

And for some reason imperial era Uriah Heep which I never listened to in depth before and it RULES

Grateful Dead - bemused "we're all fucked" is nearly their entire vibe.

The way the compositions of Aly Eissa flow between ominous to witty to joyful has been the balm/bomb of my last few months of listening. Here a performance of the title track from his Gouda Bar album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfHqH0KmFa

"unavailable?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq3u9ceekQ"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq3u9ceekQ

the youtube algorithm lobbed this one at me and i clicked because it look spooky and it goes so damn hard + incidentally the artist is trans and this is at like 152 views so

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

more music more music more more more more

Revisiting Low’s Double Negative and Hey What

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCakk7N8Xqk

yessss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtmuaHnmi7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOsFwC8iIs

jan hammer group ― "don't you know" (1977)

say whatever you want about jan hammer (and heck, even the rest of this album) but there will be no disparaging of this unimpeachable classic. og breakdance ballad.

Grateful Dead - bemused "we're all fucked" is nearly their entire vibe.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 10 February 2025 bookmarkflaglink

The Grateful Dread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmrHo1P6ph8

sorry, that was to get me pumped up for Tesla protest today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5xroFkhlo

brandee younger ― "unswept corners (ambient mix)" (2025)

brand new harp heat!

and if you need more of that vibe in the immediate, concentrated right now, here's a super hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLVps6tTeGI

we are king ― "prélude en la mineur" (2021)

WE DON'T HAVE ANY BEATS TODAY SORRY

gracias, beautiful Austin

but anyway ROTTEN ROILING BRAINGUTS WON'T STFU? DROWN OUT THE SCREAMING W/ OLD ANIME THEME SONGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFo8BEbEdhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PMuipr2xZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMTFDMt4vc

music to stop you from clawing your face off is a spectrum

I’ve been finding tons and tons of blue oyster cult to be effective

I'll say that Little Feat's Electrif Lycanthrope is doing an admirable job of helping me try to contain the dread for me right now.

forever shoutout to blends, white labels, dub plates, fan mixes, dj+producer reedits, and all unofficial smashers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnaPKnSRT7Q

jackson 5 ― "it's great to be here (hf and k u d o remix)" (2023)

[☺lovers rock mjj kills depression☺]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZVj_xEWMQw-
otis clay ― "if i could reach out" (1973)
written by george jackson, produced by willie mitchell. hell yeah.