Give me a new artist or album that sounds NOTHING like what's popular right now

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I swear, if I hear one more new band that sounds like a pathetic Gang of Four rip-off, I'm giving up on music all together.

Reccommend me a great album (released sometime in the last 3 years, particularly this year) that sounds nothing like the Bloc Party's/Franz Ferdinand's of today.

― Mikeal, Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand are not particularly popular right now. Ask an average 12 year-old kid and he/she probably hasn't even heard of them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

the 'Felt Tip E.p' by Love Is All is really nice.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Geir Hongro,

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Golden Ocean by 50 Foot Wave

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Electrelane - Axes

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

hari otm re: love is all

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

also: the frenchmen (album on clairecords)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Argh, on no account listen to the Frenchmen. They are possibly the most annoying band I have ever seen in my life. Though I suppose very bad indiepop is not very popular right now.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

i really liked their single. since there is no chance of me seeing them live i doubt i'll ever know what you're talking about

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - it was a bit of an arseholish thing to say. I just found the lead singer very irritating and they pressed all the wrong buttons for me and made me realise what indiepop must sound like to people who hate it all.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

x post to The Geirmeister

I can't find any 12 year olds at the moment but I'm sure most of them would know who Franz Ferdinand are, in Britain at least Take Me Out is still inescapable I think I have heard it three times this week on telly and in shops. Not that this mean sthat 12 year old will have heard of them but kid these days with there hipin' and hoppin' etc etc...

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

oh no worries. i feel the same way about architecture in helsinki whenever i see them live

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Safor & Swing

― feminazi (feminazi), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know if Love Is All have a full length on the way or anything?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Charalambides "Joy Shapes" (drone mantra smothering)
Jack Rose "Opium Musick" (faheyesque guitar/tambura action)
Ghost "Hypnotic Underworld" (psychedelic rock)
Ghostface "Pretty Toney Album" (tokenism)
Born Heller s/t (sparse mope-folk)

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Hal's new album is commercial yet not very popular sounding. It is no doubt the sound of things to come once the whole post-punk thing fades away.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

The Books!

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

oh he said NEW artist...

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know if Love Is All have a full length on the way or anything?

apparently they are working on one, but i don't know how long it'll take for it to appear..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm.. Let's see.

- No rap
- no syncopated beats
- no gospel influenced vocals
- no loud guitars
- no screaming or grinding singers

Maybe Franz Ferdinand or Bloc Party?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Anthony, & The Johnsons

― Good, But Not For Everyone, Friday, 10 June 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Oneida- the wedding

― chad (chad), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

I believe there's an obscure artist called M.I.A. who doesn't sound like Franz Ferdinand.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Also, Van der Graaf Generator.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Roisin Murphy's Ruby Blue sounds nothing like Franz Bloc. Neither does Paul Anka's Rock Swings.

― brittle-lemon, Friday, 10 June 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Continuous Electric Now (S/T)

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

OMG Geir I kiss you

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Loscil - Submers (drone/dub)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (soul/electro)
Efterklan - Tripper (operatic electronica)

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

'Efterklang'

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection (heater-on-sleeve, acerbic laptop pop-rock, forthcoming)
Gustav - Rettet Die Wale (glitchy, operatic, chamber-pop)
Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece (Possibly the strangest fun a man can have with multi-instruments at his disposal)

That's Jamie Lidell's second album btw.

― BARMS, Friday, 10 June 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and YMCK - Family Music (Japanese 8-bit pop)

― BARMS, Friday, 10 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

The Go-Betweens, "Oceans Apart"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

The Hank Collective
Jonathan Coulter

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Superaquello, "Bien Gorgeous"
Arthur Hanlon, "La Gorda Linda"
Lura, "Di Korpu Ku Alma"
The Klezmatics f/ Joshua Nelson, "Brother Moses Smote the Water"
Yes, "The Yes Album"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

max richter - the blue notebooks / memoryhouse

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

OTM, firstworldman. Also Eluvium - Talk Amongs The Trees.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Amongst

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Someone tell me what Love Is All sound like and direct me to a website or something.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Mikeal: Frog Eyes! Also, I'll second Shugo Tokumaru.

― a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Oneida seconded!

― a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm just now realizing that GEIR IS DUMB.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Everything is popular right now.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

The Top 40 was considerably more musically varied 25 years ago than what is the case right now.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Quasimodo Jones' "Robots & Rebels"

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

the fiery furnaces

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Continuous Electric Now (S/T)

jez otm with his self-promotion, it's wonderful.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

The Top 40 was considerably more musically varied 25 years ago than what is the case right now.
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), June 10th, 2005. (GeirHong) (later)

also doesn't really reflect what's popular anymore.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

...and what's popular is much more varied.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Someone tell me what Love Is All sound like and direct me to a website or something.

their website doesn't exist anymore, but they have the brilliant "spinning and scratching" on the rough trade shops indiepop 1 comp. off the top of my head they're like a classier early comet gain.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Animal Collective don't sound like anyone I've ever heard.....despite the inexplicable Beach Boys references you read about them all the time.

― PB, Saturday, 11 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Love Is All are the continuation of Girlfrendo, right? Or am I thinking of someone else.

I'm still not sure why Bullette is such a dud on ILM, but apparently she is. Regardless, she sounds very little like much of anything going on these days.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 11 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Paris Combo - the Attracion album. Doesn't sound like anything popular. It's not *brand* new, but I've been turning to it for a break.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 11 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

jez otm with his self-promotion, it's wonderful.

Tee-hee ... thanks Keith! I really thought nobody had heard of it.

― Jez (Jez), Saturday, 11 June 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

their website doesn't exist anymore,

sorry, this was nonsense. try http://www.loveisall.tk

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Saturday, 11 June 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
Lemon Jelly - '64-'95

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Saturday, 11 June 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Annie

― Sami (Sami), Saturday, 11 June 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Excepter

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Animal Collective don't sound like anyone I've ever heard.....despite the inexplicable Beach Boys references you read about them all the time.

I always imagine Animal Collective are where His Name is Alive could have ended up if they had children with the electric bear and the electric giraffe.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Nathan Michel "The Beast"
Hypo "Random Veneziano"
Momus "Otto Spooky"
Konki Duet "Il Fait Tout Gris"
Ekkehard Ehlers / Various "Childish Music"
Devendra Banhart "I Am A Neo-Hippy And Sound Nothing Like Gang of Four"

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

geir: what have the romans ever done for us?

mc: well they built the aqueducts...

geir: that does not count, aqueducts are not melodic.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Theme from Ming Mang Mong by Ming Mang Mong

― minger, Monday, 13 June 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Thanks for the Nathan Michel recc, Momus. Two songs in and this sounds great. I'll second your Momus suggestion.

If we're going to stick within the realm of rock music, I'd like to add The Joggers - 'With a Cape and a Cane'. Not completely original, but they've got quite interesting elements. The guitar style is really intricate, and they play some sitar on a few tracks. The tracks are upredictable and never boring as well.

And let me also recommend:

Foetus - 'Love'
Nine Horses - 'Snow Borne Sorrow'
Coloma - 'Dovetail'
Jeans Team - 'Musik von Oben'
Matthew Herbert - 'Plat du Jour'
Ikue Mori - 'Myninerest'
Cagedbaby - 'Will See You Now'
Camille - 'Le Fil'
Hess is More - 'Tip Top Dynamo'
Kosma - 'New Aspects'

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if anyone said this yet, I scrolled down too fast.

ANTONY and the JOHNSONS

― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 2 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

someone DID say THAT and I AGREE

also: Gang Gang Dance, I mean c'mon.

― harshaw (jube), Sunday, 2 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

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