jan music post
Jan. 31st, 2022 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tridactylok... i did it. i followed through on a half formed idea aka i finally got mad enough at myself for not actually making a 2021 media post or seriously becoming a music guy like i wanted to last year (i still have a huge notion with albums to listen to that's.... abandoned. like the dongren notion sorry sorry i didnt mean to mention them already)
i kept track of every new album i listened to this month and miraculously on the 31st i have a list of 62 albums (okay look it's 60 plus a single i really love and maybe an ep or two. it's fine!!!!) and hopefully i can continue this rate for the rest of the year...!
naturally i am still unable to actually make a numbered list or really any actual decision on a favourite so look at this like a tier list more than anything else. and even then after the first few rows it's like. just a bunch of images.
wow so many pictures... there are a few on here that i've 100% listened to before but never actually sat and listened to it in order w my full attention (NIN discography, shinee don't call me) but otherwise most of this was completely new to me. a few artists are overrepresented (cacophony, infinite frequencies) but i'm sure that will continue monthly lol. Some artists... are good. People have been saying this
anyway here are the top 10 and some standout tracks from them. the top genres as listed on RYM are in parentheses. i went with RYM because i find how pretentious that site is absolutely hilarious and despite tagging each album w a variety of different genres i am still no closer to understanding the 23897523 types of breakbeat
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (breakcore, drill and bass, modern classical)
WOWWW what a fucking album. i added this to my library ages ago but never got around to it and i'm pretty annoyed at myself because this is easily a new fave
Infinity Frequencies - Exit Simulation(broken transmission, ambient, vaporwave)
yes i know...... i really, really like vaporwave. it's one of my many character flaws. other IF albums i heard this month were Closer Than Ever, Computer Afterlife and Computer Decay but i mainly chose exit simulation for a single 57 second song, A Secret Gathering. this is just a really haunting, quiet album. honestly not their strongest, but this stuck with me the most.
okay wait i just realized i was looking at an older version where i had the WRONG VAPORWAVE ALBUM THERE so i'm just going to post the correct one
Manchac Networks - Executive Decisions(vaporwave)
no specific tracks to rec this is just very vapor very wave... i'm already fucking up my post oh well. this is like delicious fake 80s mall nostalgia shit, i highly rec this sort of music for grocery shopping it adds like this great dissociative layer to an already dissociative experience
Useless Eaters - Relaxing Death(synth punk, garage punk)
oh surprisingly this seems to be the only song on youtube? the full album is on apple music and on bandcamp. very fun punk album, i give it 4 grocery store aisles out of 5. not so disassociative this is more like "i need to do laundry after this so im just grabbing eggs and ONE monster (papillon if they have it) lets gogo"
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World(electropop, dancepop, chillwave, house)
u already know... while killshot is like a modern pop classique this entire album is perfection. heres the whole thing how am i supposed to choose. LISTEN TO THIS HIGH
Kaizo Slumber - The Kaizo Manifesto(hardcore breaks)
i love breakbeat sooo much. i listened to one album from kaizo's other project, acetantina, this month, and found it super boring!!!!!!! but this was amazing and as insane as i like my music to be. like zoom zoom music
Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music of Twin Peaks(experimental rock)
it's xiu xiu time. yes im that guy. not to be hyperbolic but this was life altering... so i listened to two other xiu xius this month (forget, which i loved, and a promise, which i Did Not love) but as im also a twin peaks guy this blew my tiny mind. if you love badalamenti's score then obviously i can't recommend this enough. falling, laura's theme, audrey's dance, all of them are incredible but i'm going to link pink room which has always been a top twin peaks song for me <3
Tricky - Maxinquaye(trip hop)
as 90s kid (tm) ive been a huge trip hop fan my entire life but even though i know massive attack and portishead's discographies backwards, i always mean to listen to tricky but never got around to it... so here i am YEAH i feel pretty damn dumb right now. this is a very sexy album
Riki - Gold(synthpop)
this was an album i found through an excellent youtube channel, vapor memory, and i think like half of this list is from there obviously lmao. extreme 80s influence
Hur - Relevation(mandopop, dancepop)
thank you to myrna for this rec (and another excellent one on the topster is hamidasystem - down but this is my list and i make the rules). while the rym tags dont include it i think this is a very hyperpop adjacent, industrial-influenced album. below is painkiller and another addition to my thesis that every song named painkiller is a hc voice BOP
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth(industrial rock, alternative rock)
i mean it's NIN what can u say. i love NIN. i listened to downward spiral and pretty hate machine as well this month and i thiiiink with teeth is a tiny bit above the other two but really all of these are phrenominal to me. below is the with teeth portion of a 2 hour live DVD which i will probably get very high and watch this weekend
Nanoray - Digimaiden(hardcore breaks)
yes more breakbeat its my choice. i also listened to Nurse2 from Nanoray who's a fave artist i found last year w their salmon cannon project. very hyper, fun yet abrasive, videogame music. like you are in a horrible side scrolling shoot-em-up. i chose meter workbench because the alternating time signatures is a very disorienting listen which is how all music should be
deaths dynamic shroud - judgement bolt
this is blatantly cheating. this is a single from one of my faves. i LOVE DDS. I LOVE THEM. THIS IS SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD
here are albums that i really enjoyed as a whole
fka twigs - caprisongs: obviously
UA - 11: very cool 90s japanese trip-hop adjacent album
flying lotus - cosmogramma: classic for a reason
alaska thunderfuck - anus: what is it with drag queens and music that FUCKING SLAPS anyway i have to note i have never seen a single episode of RPDR so if this is a queen everyone hates i'm sorry. but listen to XOXOY2K
wow... that sure was some music. there are some other little albums i want to touch on just because they were really interesting listens even if not really something i would listen to again
sparkle divison - to feel embraced: this is a project of, believe it or not, fucking william basinski?? i really enjoyed the first half and saw it recced as something almost similar to lovage's MTMLTYOLB (personal top 5 album). and maybe it is! it's a mix of, according to pitchfork, free jazz, exotica, dub-lounge and disco. which sounds fucking awesome but i found that this barely held my attention past the 1st half. maybe i'll give it another listen but a bit of a disappointment
white noise - an electric storm: the exciting thing about listening to older experimental music is realizing that this was all done manually, long before computers made production easy enough that fucking 100 gecs is a thing now. the first half is like more recognizable as experimental but listenable pop songs (i found this in a list of precursors to trip-hop) and the second half is like legitimately scary sound collages. there'ss also a very annoying song(?) that's basically just sampling people making sex noises but like it's 1969 despite the year people barely knew what sex was im pretty sure. i just watched mad men again so im essentially an expert on the era. anyway just a very cool album i'm very glad i listened to it :)
wowwwwww so what did i learn from averaging 2 new albums a day? basically nothing. i still like a mix of industrial, breakbeat, trip-hop, synthpop, and vaporwave lol i will try to branch out more especially since i will be seeing injury reserve with black midi in april (Unless, of course, everything is cancelled as i assume it will be) so i will be doing more of a dive into whatever black midi is... rym says avant-prog. Okay
i kept track of every new album i listened to this month and miraculously on the 31st i have a list of 62 albums (okay look it's 60 plus a single i really love and maybe an ep or two. it's fine!!!!) and hopefully i can continue this rate for the rest of the year...!
naturally i am still unable to actually make a numbered list or really any actual decision on a favourite so look at this like a tier list more than anything else. and even then after the first few rows it's like. just a bunch of images.
wow so many pictures... there are a few on here that i've 100% listened to before but never actually sat and listened to it in order w my full attention (NIN discography, shinee don't call me) but otherwise most of this was completely new to me. a few artists are overrepresented (cacophony, infinite frequencies) but i'm sure that will continue monthly lol. Some artists... are good. People have been saying this
anyway here are the top 10 and some standout tracks from them. the top genres as listed on RYM are in parentheses. i went with RYM because i find how pretentious that site is absolutely hilarious and despite tagging each album w a variety of different genres i am still no closer to understanding the 23897523 types of breakbeat
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (breakcore, drill and bass, modern classical)
WOWWW what a fucking album. i added this to my library ages ago but never got around to it and i'm pretty annoyed at myself because this is easily a new fave
Infinity Frequencies - Exit Simulation(broken transmission, ambient, vaporwave)
yes i know...... i really, really like vaporwave. it's one of my many character flaws. other IF albums i heard this month were Closer Than Ever, Computer Afterlife and Computer Decay but i mainly chose exit simulation for a single 57 second song, A Secret Gathering. this is just a really haunting, quiet album. honestly not their strongest, but this stuck with me the most.
okay wait i just realized i was looking at an older version where i had the WRONG VAPORWAVE ALBUM THERE so i'm just going to post the correct one
Manchac Networks - Executive Decisions(vaporwave)
no specific tracks to rec this is just very vapor very wave... i'm already fucking up my post oh well. this is like delicious fake 80s mall nostalgia shit, i highly rec this sort of music for grocery shopping it adds like this great dissociative layer to an already dissociative experience
Useless Eaters - Relaxing Death(synth punk, garage punk)
oh surprisingly this seems to be the only song on youtube? the full album is on apple music and on bandcamp. very fun punk album, i give it 4 grocery store aisles out of 5. not so disassociative this is more like "i need to do laundry after this so im just grabbing eggs and ONE monster (papillon if they have it) lets gogo"
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World(electropop, dancepop, chillwave, house)
u already know... while killshot is like a modern pop classique this entire album is perfection. heres the whole thing how am i supposed to choose. LISTEN TO THIS HIGH
Kaizo Slumber - The Kaizo Manifesto(hardcore breaks)
i love breakbeat sooo much. i listened to one album from kaizo's other project, acetantina, this month, and found it super boring!!!!!!! but this was amazing and as insane as i like my music to be. like zoom zoom music
Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music of Twin Peaks(experimental rock)
it's xiu xiu time. yes im that guy. not to be hyperbolic but this was life altering... so i listened to two other xiu xius this month (forget, which i loved, and a promise, which i Did Not love) but as im also a twin peaks guy this blew my tiny mind. if you love badalamenti's score then obviously i can't recommend this enough. falling, laura's theme, audrey's dance, all of them are incredible but i'm going to link pink room which has always been a top twin peaks song for me <3
Tricky - Maxinquaye(trip hop)
as 90s kid (tm) ive been a huge trip hop fan my entire life but even though i know massive attack and portishead's discographies backwards, i always mean to listen to tricky but never got around to it... so here i am YEAH i feel pretty damn dumb right now. this is a very sexy album
Riki - Gold(synthpop)
this was an album i found through an excellent youtube channel, vapor memory, and i think like half of this list is from there obviously lmao. extreme 80s influence
Hur - Relevation(mandopop, dancepop)
thank you to myrna for this rec (and another excellent one on the topster is hamidasystem - down but this is my list and i make the rules). while the rym tags dont include it i think this is a very hyperpop adjacent, industrial-influenced album. below is painkiller and another addition to my thesis that every song named painkiller is a hc voice BOP
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth(industrial rock, alternative rock)
i mean it's NIN what can u say. i love NIN. i listened to downward spiral and pretty hate machine as well this month and i thiiiink with teeth is a tiny bit above the other two but really all of these are phrenominal to me. below is the with teeth portion of a 2 hour live DVD which i will probably get very high and watch this weekend
Nanoray - Digimaiden(hardcore breaks)
yes more breakbeat its my choice. i also listened to Nurse2 from Nanoray who's a fave artist i found last year w their salmon cannon project. very hyper, fun yet abrasive, videogame music. like you are in a horrible side scrolling shoot-em-up. i chose meter workbench because the alternating time signatures is a very disorienting listen which is how all music should be
deaths dynamic shroud - judgement bolt
it's disgusting (a) how much this looks and sounds like Justice from an alternate universe where they remained primarily corny electronic musicians and (b) how much it ruleshttps://t.co/favjxeO6bP
— frog "Big Stupid Wife" kosaric (@yurirando) January 24, 2022
this is blatantly cheating. this is a single from one of my faves. i LOVE DDS. I LOVE THEM. THIS IS SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD
here are albums that i really enjoyed as a whole
fka twigs - caprisongs: obviously
UA - 11: very cool 90s japanese trip-hop adjacent album
flying lotus - cosmogramma: classic for a reason
alaska thunderfuck - anus: what is it with drag queens and music that FUCKING SLAPS anyway i have to note i have never seen a single episode of RPDR so if this is a queen everyone hates i'm sorry. but listen to XOXOY2K
wow... that sure was some music. there are some other little albums i want to touch on just because they were really interesting listens even if not really something i would listen to again
sparkle divison - to feel embraced: this is a project of, believe it or not, fucking william basinski?? i really enjoyed the first half and saw it recced as something almost similar to lovage's MTMLTYOLB (personal top 5 album). and maybe it is! it's a mix of, according to pitchfork, free jazz, exotica, dub-lounge and disco. which sounds fucking awesome but i found that this barely held my attention past the 1st half. maybe i'll give it another listen but a bit of a disappointment
white noise - an electric storm: the exciting thing about listening to older experimental music is realizing that this was all done manually, long before computers made production easy enough that fucking 100 gecs is a thing now. the first half is like more recognizable as experimental but listenable pop songs (i found this in a list of precursors to trip-hop) and the second half is like legitimately scary sound collages. there'ss also a very annoying song(?) that's basically just sampling people making sex noises but like it's 1969 despite the year people barely knew what sex was im pretty sure. i just watched mad men again so im essentially an expert on the era. anyway just a very cool album i'm very glad i listened to it :)
wowwwwww so what did i learn from averaging 2 new albums a day? basically nothing. i still like a mix of industrial, breakbeat, trip-hop, synthpop, and vaporwave lol i will try to branch out more especially since i will be seeing injury reserve with black midi in april (Unless, of course, everything is cancelled as i assume it will be) so i will be doing more of a dive into whatever black midi is... rym says avant-prog. Okay
