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howwearestories · 6 months

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Friday, December 8th we photographed Meshuggah and Inflames at The Paramount in Huntington, NY.

View the full photo gallery on our Facebook page here.

All photos © Andy Jimenez/How We Are 2023

#how we are #andy jimenez #music #live music #music photography #concert photography #music fans #meshuggah #inflames #metal #heavy metal #the paramount #huntington #long island #new york

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apfsds · 11 months

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You come home to find me laying on the couch blasting the last 2 min of this track on repeat sleeping soundly. You cannot wake me. I am happy. You'll have to figure something out yourself.

#really do love this song #might even be my favorite song #find it so relaxing #meshuggah #demiurge #PLUS SEEING IT LIVE #fuck man not a person on this earth could fuck me better than this song did #Spotify

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a-soft-invitation-to-madness · 1 year

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Mannnn I wanna see them 😭😭😭

#jackie #me #mine #meshuggah #metalhead #live #concerts #Spotify

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thephotopitmagazine · 2 years

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FROM THE PIT TO THE CROWD: MESHUGGAH WITH IN FLAMES AND TORCHE - HARD ROCK LIVE - ORLANDO FL - OCTOBER 15, 2022

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#concert review #FL #Hard Rock Live #In Flames #Meshuggah #Orlando #reviews #Talon Kane Photography #The Photo Pit #Torche

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sleepanonymous · 2 months

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REVELATIONS NEWS ❖ COMMENT ❖ HEAVY FUCKING METAL HOT NEW BAND

Sleep is not just for the weak, according to Vessel and co

STAY TOKE The gimmick may be goofy, but Sleep Token’s music is no laughing matter

“My favourite 90s album is Fantastic Planet by Failure. It’s devastatingly bleak in a way that resonates into our deepest self.” – VESSEL (VOCALS)

SOUNDS LIKE an intriguing and shadowy blend of atmospheric post-rock and tech FOR FANS OF Meshuggah, Bon Iver, Explosions in the Sky LISTEN TO Calcutta

Over the years Metal Hammer has heard all manner of bizarre sonic coalitions and watched bands emerge from the deepest, weirdest corners of our scene, yet mysterious collective Sleep Token are up there among the most unique and ‘WTF?’ propositions so far. Not only is their music a fairly unclassifiable fusion of brutal tech-metal and atmospheric post-rock, but the band, driven by masked and cloaked frontman Vessel, claim to live in thrall to an ancient deity called Sleep. OK…

Much like Ghost’s Nameless Ghouls, the remaining members of Sleep Token have chosen to remain anonymous in order to retain their shadowy presence— only agreeing to answer our questions via email.

“They go hand in hand,” explains Vessel when we ask if the band’s sound and image are simply an exercise in gimmickry. “Sleep Token serves to add a visual dimension to our journey. A world without texture isn’t a world at all.” The story goes that Vessel first encountered Sleep in a dream where he was promised glory and magnificence in return for his worship. “He is the oldest God, a primal majesty that has endured the ages unperturbed by the morality of a flawed and chaotic human race,” says the frontman helpfully. “He is everyone. He is you. There’s a power in music that binds us all, every note relates to another. He showed me a vision of a world filled with depth and texture.”

OK, so their ‘backstory’ is silly. But as far as the music’s concerned, Sleep Token are an undeniably intriguing prospect, inhibiting a sparse world of heart-breaking beauty and intense heaviness where start, and sometimes sinister skeletal soundscapes build to throbbing climaxes with mesmerising effect. Recent single Calcutta, which premiered on Hammer’s website, builds like a storm: violent, djent-tinged destruction erupting amid Vessel’s ethereal and vulnerable Bon Iver-esque vocals.

“We sculpt, build and craft these sounds with an aim to deliver the emotional magnitude of His words,” says Vessel. “Destroy and rebuild over and over until what is left is what His followers shall hear. The influences come from the physical and emotionally charged world at large. Dreams are textural, so is music and much like life; they bring both darkness and life, beauty and ugliness— it’s our job to translate and convey those complexities as best we can. Each of these songs is an experience, but to find the real details you’ll have to explore them yourself. The music will ring out and people will continue to follow, for that’s what people do best. Follow. Stay with us and we’ll show you the whole world through His eyes. What a magnificent sight that is.”

“WE WORSHIP THE OLDEST GOD, A PRIMAL MAJESTY”

SLEEP TOKEN’S NEW EP, TWO, IS OUT NOW VIA BASICK

METALHAMMER.COM

(This is in my Google Drive also, here.)

#sleep token #vessel sleep token #vessel #vessel interview #metal hammer #lost media #circa 2017 #wake up sleepy babes #new vessel/sleep lore just dropped #(and by just dropped i mean has been around for 7 years)#metalhammer let me read the full emails i beg

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amygdalae · 8 months

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metal recs? if you fuck w that :)c

I'm a bit less versed in metal recs but I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of Alice in Chains (ik they're more grunge but they still count lol), Opeth, Dress the Dead, Arch Enemy, Meshuggah, Revocation, Green Lung, Lacuna Coil, Type O Negative, Combichrist, King Woman, Rob Zombie

Also if you want a fun silly time try Alestorm, they're ridiculous (pirate metal with a strong comedic lean). I went to one of their shows for my birthday last year, they're really fun live

#i know there are more bands im just not thinking of at the moment. my brain is full of holes #music

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charlottan · 11 months

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ok final lineup for 90s bracket under the cut (128 bands)

311

4 Non Blondes

Air

Alice in Chains

Aphex Twin

Backstreet Boys

Barenaked Ladies

Beck

Ben Folds Five

Bikini Kill

Björk

Blind Melon

Blink-182

Blues Traveler

Blur

Boards of Canada

Bowling For Soup

Boyz II Men

Built To Spill

Burzum

Butthole Surfers

Cake

Cibo Matto

Counting Crows

Crash Test Dummies

Dave Matthews Band

Deftones

Destiny's Child

Dinosaur Jr.

Dismemberment Plan

Dixie Chicks

Eels

Elliott Smith

Failure

Faith No More

Fiona Apple

Fishmans

Foo Fighters

Fountains Of Wayne

Fu Manchu

Fugazi

Gin Blossoms

Goldfinger

Grandaddy

Green Day

Guided By Voices

Hole

Hootie & The Blowfish

Incubus

Jamiroquai

Jane's Addiction

Jeff Buckley

Jimmy Eat World

Korn

Kyuss

Lenny Kravitz

Limp Bizkit

Living Colour

Manic Street Preachers

Marilyn Manson

Massive Attack

Matchbox Twenty

Melvins

Mercury Rev

Meshuggah

Moby

Modest Mouse

Mogwai

Morphine

Mr. Bungle

My Bloody Valentine

Neurosis

Neutral Milk Hotel

Nine Inch Nails

Nirvana

No Doubt

NSYNC

Oasis

Opeth

Pavement

Pearl Jam

Phish

Pixies

PJ Harvey

Placebo

Porcupine Tree

Portishead

Primus

Pulp

Queens of the Stone Age

R.E.M.

Radiohead

Rage Against the Machine

Rammstein

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Rob Zombie

Sleater-Kinney

Sleep

Slint

Slowdive

Smash Mouth

Sonic Youth

Soul Coughing

Soundgarden

Spice Girls

Spiritualized

Stereolab

Stone Temple Pilots

Sublime

Swirlies

Teenage Fanclub

Temple Of The Dog

The Cranberries

The Flaming Lips

The Goo Goo Dolls

The Jesus Lizard

The Magnetic Fields

The Presidents of the United States of America

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Verve

They Might Be Giants

Third Eye Blind

Toad The Wet Sprocket

Tool

Ween

Weezer

Wilco

Yo La Tengo

#now i just need to seeeeeeed

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jgthirlwell · 1 year

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2022 Year In Review

This year once again I invited some friends and colleagues to reflect on 2022

JG Thirlwell

Composer Foetus Xordox Manorexia Steroid Maximus Venture Bros Archer www.foetus.org

2022 was a marathon year. I took on too much work, but somehow got through it. It challenged me. I played some excellent shows in Woodstock, Los Angeles, Orlando and NYC. Reconnected with Soft Cell at the Beacon. Reconnected with Sarah Lipstate. Wrote a ton of new music for Archer and a Venture Bros movie. Taught a class on film scoring at the New School. I still woke up 5am in a panic on too many occasions. And I saw some great concerts.It was difficult to whittle down this list but here are a lot of albums I enjoyed in 2022, in no particular order.

Tyondai Braxton Telekinesis (Nonesuch) Zeal & Ardor Zeal & Ardor (MVKA) Papangu Holoceno (Bandcamp) Extra Life Secular Works Vol 2 (Bandcamp) Carl Stone Wat Dong Moon Lek (Unseen Worlds) / Gall Tones (Unseen Worlds) / We Jazz Reworks Vol 2 (We Jazz Records) Louis Cole Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder) Ben Frost 1899 OST (Invada Records) Loraine James Building Something Beautiful For Me (Phantom Limb) Persher Man With The Magic Soap (Thrill Jockey) Anna Meredith Bumps Per Minute (Moshi Moshi) Sault Air (Forever Living Originals) The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention (XL) Shamblemaths Shamblemaths 2 (Apollon Prog) Julia Wolfe Oxygen (Cantelope) Heiner Schmitz’s Symprophonicum Sins & Blessings (Big Band Records) Burial Antidawn EP / Streetlands EP (Hyperdub) Gotho Mindbowling (Controcanti Produzioni) Oliver Coates The Stranger OST Gilla Band Most Normal (Rough Trade Records Ltd) Blanck Mass Ted K OST (Sacred Bones) Arcade Fire WE (Interscope) Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down (Secretly) Catarine Barbieri Spirit Exit (light-years) Felicia Atkinson Image Language (Shelter Press) Netherlands Kali Corvette (Three One G) Kemper Norton estrenyon (Zona Watusa) Elysian Fields Once Beautiful Twice Removed (Ojet) Simon Hanes Hurricane Salad Two Fingers Red Bass DJ Mix 22 (NoMark) Backxwash His Happiness Shall Come…(Ugly Hag) Bob Vylan The Price of Life (Ghost Theater) John Elmquist’s Hard Art Groop Stars and Bells / Zero Rest Mass / Trip Up reissues (Bandcamp) Dan Deacon Hustle OST (Netflix Music) Bent Knee Frosting (TTTH) Boris Heavy Rocks 2022 (Relapse) Wet Leg Wet Leg (Domino) Author and Punisher Kruller (Relapse)

Honorable mentions Hudson Mohawke Cry Sugar / Rival Consoles Now is / Haunted Horses The Worst Has Finally Happened / Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Tak:Til)/ Meshuggah Immutable / Ani Klang Ani Klang / Pimpon Pozdrawiam (Pointless Geometry)

Shows

The Smile at Kings Theater Julia Wolfe Steel Hammer Carnegie Hall The Protomen LPR Tristan Perich St Thomas ChurchSparks Town Hall Anna Meredith Elsewhere Lingua Ignota LPR Royal Blood Terminal 5 Kraftwerk Radio City Hiro Kone Pioneer Works RATM / RTJ MSG Matmos LPR Rammstein MetLife Stadium Yeah Yeah Yeahs Forest Hills Stadium Melvins Irving Plaza Roxy Music MSG Sean Lennon Stone Elysian Fields The Owl The Comet Is Coming Bowery Ballroom Child Abuse TV Eye Fennesz Pioneer Works Helm Elsewhere

Film / TV

The Stranger All Quiet In The Western Front Dont Worry Darling Moonage Daydream The Velvet Underground Elvis Men Northman Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent White Lotus

Books

I read a ton of memoirs this year. Standouts were

Kid Congo Powers Some New Kind Of Kick Danny Sugerman Wonderland Ave

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Kemper Norton

LISTENING

My favourite album of the year was the dayglo psychedelic joy of Panda Bear/ Sonic Boom’s Reset , with honourable mentions for the amazing Aethiopes by billy woods and Alison Cotton’s beautiful The Portrait You Painted of Me. Also, must mention the massive , varied and crucial Rental Yields compilations on Front and Follow /Gated Canal Community in aid of homeless charities in the UK.

GIGS

Didn’t get out much this year but live events I loved this year here in Brighton, UK included the blasted joy of deafkids at The Hope, the final gig of the mighty Slum of Legs at The Green Door Store, and playing alongside Alexander Tucker’s Microcorps and Opal X at The Wire’s 40th anniversary shows at The Rosehill as part of the reanimated Outer Church.

In terms of radio, as well as Elizabeth Alker’s essential breakfast and Unclassified shows on Radio 3 there were loads of great shows on the fantastic Repeater Radio ( many previously on the mighty Neon Hospice) including Afternoon Delight by Ix Tab and the best of Eastern Europe showcased on Slav to the Rhythm by Catherine and Iris.

READING

Apart from the works of nonconformist Cornish poet Jack Clemo and American novelist Pete Dexter ( Deadwood and Paris, Trout ), new discoveries were thin on the ground this year. I read and reread a lot of old favourites ( Ray Bradbury, Cormac McCarthy, Pat Barker , Elmore Leonard ) and finally fell in love with Jane Austen.

WATCHING

My film and TV viewing in 2022 was largely informed / enforced by my 5 year old daughter, and the essential texts we rewatched repeatedly were the lively and proactive Gaby’s Dollhouse, multi-species global explorers the Octonauts , surreal UK gem Sarah and Duck and of course, the inspirational Aussie masterpiece Bluey. I did manage to catch a few films either new or new to me in 2022…

Wake in Fright ( 1971) : another Australian key text ( although less adorable than Bluey ). The horrors of closed environments, toxic masculinity and continuous drinking.

Enys Men (2022) : Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s spooky and minimalistic follow-up to his incredible Bait (2019) , a wonderful drama of local economic realities and identities. Would love to score one of his films but unfortunately he does an excellent job of this himself.

Stalker (1979) : As good as everyone said it would be.

EATING

Chorizo with honey Chinese black fungus

DRINKING

Everything by Burning Sky brewery ( Sussex, UK)

CREATING

I managed to churn out two tape releases in 2022 in between all the watching, listening, eating, drinking etc.

Estrenyon was released on tape and download with the Barcelona label zonawatusa and was inspired by historical UFO sightings throughout Cornwall from 1888 to 2021. Rife is the story of a Sussex Spring day and was released via Woodford Halse, who have released loads of great electronic and folky music by the likes of Xylitol and Sairie. On top of that , our first volume of download-only pay-what-you-like winter tunes Montol Melodies is available on our bandcamp until the traditional English old ‘ twelfth night ‘ ( January 12 2023).

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Lee Ranaldo

2022 LIST

I’m terrible at lists like this, and usually don’t keep track towards such a year-end summary. Pardon the self-focus, this is my year-in-review accounting, mostly just remembering to myself.

August in Vienna Leah and I spent the month of August in Vienna, creating a public artwork, sound+image, called Fermata. I discovered the world of small-body, near century-old, German + Austrian guitars. I wrote the main melodic material one one of these tiny, wonderful instruments,. At one point we had 3 of them in the apartment down in the MuseumQuartier. A whole new world of sound to explore. Side trips to Berlin and Prague. (https://tonspur.at/soundworks/lee-ranaldo-leah-singer/?lang=en) Exhibitions in Berlin and Eupen, Chile Media Arts Biennial, Covid Flowers online Exhibitions of my Black Noise record print editions in Berlin, Lost Highway road drawings in Belgium, and watercolor covid-flowers online. In Chile Leah and I created an outdoor sound/art work, Do You Read Me?, in a field of trees surrounding an observatory above Santiago. Sounds were generated from signals collected from deep space by another observatory in the Atacama desert. A sound displacement work.

Medicine Singers in Brasilia, Montreal, NYC Had fruitful wanderings this year with Yonatan Gat, working with indigineous players from the USA, Brasil and Canada. Recording sessions in Montreal at fabulous Hotel2Tango studio, and in a splendid house set on the edge of the city in Brasilia, one of my favorite places. Happy to have been invited along for this most interesting ride.

Touring resumes Mostly in Europe, mostly quite wonderful. After 2 years at home it felt good to stand up in front of audiences again. Lots of solo acoustic shows playing In Virus Times and singing songs, but also interesting collaborations with Yuri Landman; My Cat Is An Alien, Jean-Marc Montera and Sophie Gonthier, and a special ‘Velvets Suite’ with French legend Pascal Comelade in Banyoles, Spain. Also the beginnings of a new collaboration with Chicago guitarist Michael Vallera, in a great new space in NYC for experimental music, 411 Kent (aka Shift). Leah and I premiered the new version of our Contre Jour performance with suspended guitar and films, in A Coruna, Spain and at the Three-Lobed Fest in Durham, North Carolina – which was an amazing three days of music. Also a short NorthEast tour with Jeff Parker in May.

London/Paris/Leah/ Catpower My touring year ended with a month split between Europe and the UK. A friend-lent apartment in Paris as base, with shows and lectures in Nantes, and Brittany. Five shows in the UK, the most I’ve played in some time there, including a free-ranging set with the Pop Group’s Mark Stewart and an eclectic band. Wild night! Leah flew over to celebrate her birthday, with CatPower at Royal Albert Hall (first time there for us both) recreating Bob Dylan’s legendary show there – both acoustic and electric sets – from 1966. What a great night, and our time together, in London, Paris and Brittany, was splendid.

Hurricane Transcriptions This year I played solo keyboard shows for the first time ever – the solo-for-Fender-Rhodes performance of my Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions, first at Karma Gallery in NYC, accompanied by films from LA Artist Mungo Thomson, and also at a Xenakis celebration in Vienna and at the opening of my exhibition of Lost Highway drawings, ‘The Road Is Like The River, Constantly Changing Yet Ever The Same’ – at IKOB Museum in Eupen, Belgium. (ikob.be)

Circuit des Yeux at Green-Wood Cemetery I think my favorite gig of the year was Circuit des Yeux in Green-Wood Cemetery on a rainy night in June. The weather threatened the show all evening, which made this incredible performance – just Haley and Whitney Johnson (Matchess). Just a magical, powerful night.

Godard’s King Lear In late August I committed to introduce Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, which I’d never seen, at TriBeCa’s Roxy Cinema, which has been doing terrific programs organized by Illyse Singer. I love Godard’s films, they are an important touchstone for me, and I took this as an opportunity to discover both the film and Shakespeare’s play; my Shakespeare knowledge is terrible, so I boned up on the play. Four days before the screening, the great master died, which cast the whole night in a new light. The film has been described by Richard Brody of the NY’er as ‘one of the best films of all time’ – wow. Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer, Julie Delpy, Leos Carax, and Godard himself center-stage and the plugged/unplugged oracle Professor Pluggy. What a film. As usual with a Godard film: what a sound mix!. See it in 35mm.

Broken Circle / Spiral Hill I have had a long fascination with the work of Robert Smithson, since discovering the book of his writings in the 70s. In the early 80s on the first few SY tours, I ‘coaxed’ the band into visiting one of his 3 still existing artworks – Broken Circle/Spiral Hill – in the countryside of northern Holland. Back then it was like a treasure hunt trying to find it, in the dark, late on the way to Club Vera in Groningen. In 2020 I visited it for a third time w friend Carlos, in the week before the world shut down. It had been totally restored and ready for it’s moment – just at it’s 50-year mark. In 2022 the site-an old, long-unused quarry – was opened to the public for the first time in ages, across 8 weekends. This year I narrated a podcast for the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the Netherland’s Land Art Contemporary, about Smithson and the work, which went live in November. (brokencircle.nl)

Birdsong Project I worked on this project, as both producer and performer, to raise money to benefit the Audobon Society for the preservation of avian habitats. Over 200 musicians contributed to this 20-LP set, as well as writers, poets and artists. Uplifting and surprising. (https://www.audubon.org/birdsong-project)

James Jackson Toth In the early 2000s I produced an album – James and the Quiet – with Mr. Wooden Wand, who’s music I love. This year a group of friends organized a birthday tribute to James, with 33 of us recording versions of songs from his vast catalog. I recorded ‘Wired to the Sky’, a favorite from the album we made together, recorded in our Viennese apartment in August, which closes this Birthday Blues collection. (https://aquariumdrunkard.com/category/jamesjackson-toth/)

Some Music/Art/Books etc:

Lou Reed – Words + Music, 1971 RCA Demos David Bowie – Divine Symmetry Catherine Christer Hennix – Selected Early Keyboard Works (https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/selected-early-keyboard-works) Plus Instruments, Februari-April ’81 (first record I was ever on) on Domani Records, NYC. In/Out/In, Sonic Youth. So cool to see this release welcomed so warmly! Cecilia Vicuña, Tate Modern Turbine Hall Venus of Willendorf, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna Matisse: The Red Studio, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Claude Monet – Joan Mitchell, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Marco Fusinato, Desastres, Venice Biennale Family Affair, a 20-minute short film included in the Criterion Collection edition of Josh & Benny Safdie’s 2009 Daddy Longlegs, outlining our two families intertwined involvement in the making of the film. The most glorious home movie ever. The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, Clinton Heylin. First of a 2-part bio of the (other) Bard, making first use of all the new material out from Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center archive. Loved: Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep mini series. He’d used SY’s ‘Tunic’ in his original 1995 film, and we became friends and occasional collaborators. The new limited series mines the story anew, meta-mixing in his 1995 film and Louis Feuillade’s 1915 original, Les Vampires. The most contemporary piece of ‘television’ I’ve seen in ages, just wonderful, with fantastic cast including a spot-on stand-in portrayal by Vincent Macaigne as the director, Alicia Vikander as Irma Vep, and Lars Eidinger as Gottfried. Also Devon Ross, Carrie Brownstein, many other great performances. Loved it. Still watching: Westworld, Handmaid’s Tale. Hal Willner Memorial, St. Anne’s, April. Miss Hal all the time…

---LR, Winnipeg, December 2022

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Brian Chase

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Brian chose to write about one album that impacted him in 2022

This write-up is in no way meant to be a formal review - I don’t deem myself qualified for that task here - rather, this is meant to share personal enthusiasm and bring an album to light - like, "Have you heard this, it's really really amazing and inspiring and why isn't there more talking about it, and…" As a musician working within a greater community, I am acutely aware of the creative drive to continually uncover new modes, methodologies, practices etc. of expressing our chosen art form - each performance and each album serving as an instance of discovery and offering new perspectives on old conundrums. Whether the genre is rock, jazz, noise, free-improvisation, modern classical etc. the relationship of discourse and dialogue is still the same. At the forefront of this dialogue is John Zorn, as he has been for decades, and a major contribution to the conversation is the 2022 album Incerto - Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncertainty Principle. Here, Zorn is the composer and the performing ensemble consists of some of Zorn's tightest in recent years: Brian Marsella on piano, Julian Lage on guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass and Ches Smith on drums. As Zorn says in the liner notes, "Incerto is about possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities and improbabilities." Formal logic for musical structure is considerably expanded with these compositions and never before have I heard such new forms for improvisation. In these pieces, unexpected juxtapositions and superimpositions abound, as foremost examples of its many distinct features. The syntax of this music is beyond the scope of any previous way that I've conceived of music existing. Not only are harmonic and rhythmic conventions regularly reconstructed - often replaced with adjacent compliments and aggressive contradictions - but entire paradigms of improvisatory behavior are game as well. Shifts in genre/mood/tempo/texture/harmonic character/melodic personality place the improvisor in varying contexts - often in a short amount of time - and each context requires its own set of responses. The whole scope of musical history+trends+possibilities takes on a dynamic relational co-existence, in ways that I've never previously heard or thought possible - like when angular atonal lead lines enter on top of a serene ostinato, or impressionistic chords alternate between stillness and motion, or genre styles and idiomatic references collide, or gravelly density and noise build tension culminating into a placid release. Plus, so much of the composed material is really just so cool. Paramount to it all is the music’s immense depth of feeling. The moods on this album are evocative, romantic and ecstatic as much as they are revolutionary, kaleidoscopic and mystifying. As the music winds through its structural twists and turns, the key that holds it all together is sincerity of spirit - the performance of this music, as well as listening to it, is a literal experience. And within each singular track is the remarkable performance of the individual musicians themselves - each a respective master at the craft. Additionally, the album as a collective whole, being comprised of eleven very different tracks, functions as a macro-structure in itself which expands on the themes present in each individual track. So many new modes of music making are presented here - integrating them into current music making will take a while as more people discover its brilliance and begin to absorb the concepts and ideas it conveys. It is uniquely Zorn and there for us musicians to process and in turn produce that which is uniquely ours. Incerto is a gem in the conversation - we can listen and run with it how we like - but we have to hear it first.

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David T. Little

composer www.davidtlittle.com

MUSIC (new, revisited, & in rotation)

Vile Creature – Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm! Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer tryphème – Aluminia Louis Cole – Quality Over Opinion KANGA – You and I Will Never Die DELANILA – Overloaded Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort To Me Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer – Josquin, the Undead: Laments, Deplorations & Dances of Death Run The Jewels – 1, 2, 3, 4 The Cure – Disintegration, Wish, Show, Pornography Tenderheart Bitches – High Kicks George Walker – Piano Sonatas (Steven Beck) Rammstein – Herzeleid, Mutter, Sehnsucht, Untitled (in heavy rotation after the MetLife Stadium show) Living Colour – Vivid Utah Phillips – We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years Tom Morello – Hold The Line (track, feat. grandson) ACRONYM – Oddities & Trifles: the Very Peculiar Instrumental Music of Giovanni Valentini Late Stravinsky (various) Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once (ost) Harrison Birtwistle – The Moth Requiem Christopher Tin – The Lost Birds Karim Sulayman, Apollo’s Fire – Songs of Orpheus Hermann Nitsch – Symphony No. 9 “The Egyptian” Jay Wadley – Swan Song (ost) Herem – Pulsa diNura Danny Elfman – Big Mess / Bigger. Messier. (Deluxe.) Scott Walker – The Drift

FILMS & SERIES (new & rewatched) Hellraiser (Clive Barker) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) Private Life (Tamara Jenkins) Double Take (Johan Grimonprez) After Life (Ricky Gervais) One Big Bag (Every Ocean Hughes) The Village Detective (Bill Morrison) Polia & Blastema (E. Elias Merhige) Sibyl (William Kentridge)

The Copper Queen (Crystal Manich) Wishes (Amy Jenkins) The Once and Future Smash (Sophia Cacciola & Michael J. Epstein) End Zone 2 (August Kane) All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger) Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels) Russian Doll (multiple directors) Piggy (short) (Carlota Pereda) The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe) WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch) The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) Pig (Michael Sarnoski) The Green Knight (David Lowery) The Northman (Robert Eggers) Muriel’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan) BoJack Horseman (multiple directors) Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

BOOKS (some) Body Horror - Anne Elizabeth Moore Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf a ghost in the throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa Cleanness – Garth Greenwell A Saint from Texas – Edmund White Out Loud – Mark Morris The Gastronomical Me – M.F.K. Fisher Agamemnon – Aeschylus (trans. Robert Fagles)

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Jonnine

HTRK

2022 good vibes - Hackedepicciotto tour photos such #couplegoals, kicking off the HTRK tour in Atlanta was exhilarating! Big hangs with my overseas buds Nathan Corbin and Yasmina Dexter, writing new songs with Nigel and keeping THE dream alive, my puppy Pali growing up into mumma’s good boy, instagram follows @the.holistic.psychologist (self healing) @cracked.bolos (cakes), DJ Sundae, Amir Shoat, ‘Crush’ by Richard Siken (borrow from Nigel) writing bonkers dreams down again, Jonathan Richmond lyrics, tik tok #stayathomegirlfriend, jamming with Brother May in London and playing cafe OTO, second season Euphoria, White Lotus, Heartbreak High, rewatching Curb, Julia Fox’s eye makeup tutorial, films The Weekend and 45 Years by director Andrew Haigh, Charlotte Rampling interviews, fam long drives with Conrad and Pali finding songs for NTS <3 <3 Conrad got me into the Kinks!

Some music i liked Actress — Dummy Corporation (Ninja Tune) Autumn Fair - Autumn Fair DALE CORNISH — Traditional Music of South London (The Death Of Rave) Delphine Dora — A Stream Of Consciousness II (for piano solo) Coby Sey — Conduit (AD 93) CS + Kreme — Orange (The Trilogy Tapes) Harry Howard - Slight Pavilions Various / Kashual Plastik — Field of Progress Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Goes Country Julia Reidy - World in World Kitchen Cynics — Strange Acrobats Liz Durette - A Christmas Gift To You Malvern Brume — Body Traffic (MAL) Taylor E. Burch — The Best of Taylor E. Burch (Downwards) The Incredible String Band — Wee Tam and the Big Huge The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Thomas Bush — Preludes Warm Currency — Returns (Horn Of Plenty)

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Lawrence English

(Room 40 Records)

This year was the first time I had travelled internationally since 2019. The thing I realised I've truly missed is seeing people. The opportunity to share ideas, to be curious with others and to just be in the world was, well, magical. I think if anything the past few years has reminded me (us?) not to take things for granted…especially each other. This year was also the first time I returned to making solo electronic works. It had been about six years since I had completed Cruel Optimism and, if I am honest, I wasn’t sure if I still had an appetite for making solo electronic works. Approach however proved, to me at least, I can still derive great pleasure from working alone. Unexpectedly, I found the whole process of the album very satisfying, like it was new all over again, not something I always feel.

There’s been a tonne of great input into the system this year. Ergo Proxy totally got me thinking. I was late to the party, but it was a party I am glad I did make it to. Puce Mary made some tapes back in April, both of them were totally ace, filled with an acute sense of heaviness. I very much enjoyed Boy Harsher’s work this year too, outside my usual orbit in some ways, but they are really onto something of late. I caught up with my old and dear friend Kate Crawford, and had a chance to read over he excellent Atlas Of AI book, she is a tower of radiance. Annea Lockwood’s, work occupied a great deal of my thoughts this year, realising her Piano Transplants all at once was quite simply a delight. Adam Curtis’s TraumaZone left an indelible mark in more ways than one. I returned to Vancouver to photograph the crows that started off my homage to Masahisa Fukase, perhaps that tract of work is done? Oh and thanks to a dinner with Atsuo from Boris, and the encouragement of my small humans, we all started down the pathway of the epic saga of Gundam too. I missed that when I was younger, so it’s a long road to catch up on….but I started.

Oh and on a purely personal note I was able to commission a shikishi from Yoshihisa Tagami. Seriously, my 12 year old self was reborn when it arrived. The world is so much bigger, and smaller, than that little human could ever have imagined!

Love to you all and here’s hoping 2023 is full of curious surprises and wonder.

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John Tottenham

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A LISTLESS LIST

Best Books: Woodcutters Concrete Extinction| Wittgenstein’s Nephew Old Masters

Thomas Bernhard

A Father and his Fate More Women than Men Manservant and Maidservant A Family and a Fortune - Ivy Compton Burnett Hawkwind: Days of the Underground - Joe Banks

Best Songs: Eunice Collins – At the Hotel Gloria Barnes - Old Before My Time Sonia Ross - Every Now and Then Rozetta Johnson - A Woman’s Way Debbie Taylor - I Don’t Wanna Leave You Denise LaSalle - Trapped by a Thing Called Love Barbara Stant - Unsatisfied Woman Ann Alford - If It Ain’t One Thing Big Martha - Your Magic Touch Helene Smith - Sure Thing Best Shows By Octogenarians And Nonagenarians:

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Zebulon, LA / Bob Dylan - Pantages, LA / Marshall Allen (Arkestra) - Zebulon, LA / Swamp Dogg - Teragram, LA / Doug Kershaw - Zebulon, LA / Sonny Green - Barnyard & La Louisianne, LA / Tommy McClain - Stowaway, LA

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Brian Carpenter

Composer / Ghost Train Orchestra

My favorite recordings of 2022, in no particular order…also the most frequently played albums on my long-running radio show Free Association on WZBC in Boston. As I'm writing this I'm reminded that a lot of great records came out of bands from South London this year, across genres.

The Comet is Coming - CODE Caroline - caroline Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork William Orbit - The Painter Akusmi - Fleeting Future

Electric Youth, David Sylvian, et al - A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back Portico Quartet - Next Stop The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention Zola Jesus - Into the Wild Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena - West Kensington Lucrecia Dalt - Ay! Bjork - Fossora Tindersticks - Stars at Noon Original Soundtrack Kamikaze Palm Tree - The Hit Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators Bill Callahan - YTILAER Thurston Moore - Screen Time Bill Orcutt - Music for Four Guitars Horse Lords - Comradely Objects Curha - Curha III

Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong Aldous Harding - Warm Chris Weyes Blood - Hearts Aglow Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You Oneida - Success Brandon Seabrook - In the Swarm Jacob Garchik - Assembly Oren Ambarchi - Shebang The Lord and Petra Haden - Devotional Roedelius & Tim Story - 4 Hands Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore Steve Reich - Runner Moor Mother - Jazz Codes Makaya McCraven - Dream Another Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Identical Deaths A Far Cry - The Blue Hour Nils Frahm - Music for Animals Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis Kronos Quartet, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Rinde Eckert - My Lai Attacca Quartet - Caroline Shaw: Evergreen

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DJ Food

Music: Clocolan - Empathy Alpha LP (Redpan) Brian Eno - The Lighthouse (Sonos HD) King Gizzard &The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum LP (Flightless) Twilight Sequence - Trees in General: and the Larch 12" (Castles In Space) WTCHCRFT - Drugs Here 12" (Balkan Vinyl) Ghost Power - Ghost Power LP (Duophonic Super 45s) Dexorcist - Night Watch 12" (Yellow Machines) The Advisory Circle - Full Circle LP (Ghost Box) Fenella - The Metallic Index (Fire Records) S'Express & Daddy Squad - Music 4 The Mind (DL)

Podcasts: The Bureau of Lost Culture We Buy Records Oh God, What Now?

Gigs / Events: The Orb play U.F.Orb @ The Fox & Firkin, London Staying in a restored Futuro House, Somerset Fogfest @ Iklectik, London Funki Porcini's Lasarium @ Iklectik, London The Trunk Groovy Record Fayre @ Mildmay Club, London

Books / Comics: 99 Balls Pond Road - Jill Drower (Scrudge Books) Radio Spaceman - Mike Mignola & Greg Hinkle (Dark Horse) A-Z of Record Shop Bags - Jonny Trunk (Fuel) Mud Sharks - Dave Barbarossa Good Pop, Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker (Vintage) House Music - Andy Votel (The Modernist) Defying Gravity - Jordan Mooney w. Cathi Unsworth 69 Exhibition Road - Dorothy Max Prior (Strange Attractor) Judge Dredd - Mike McMahon (Apex Edition) It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Universe - Zoe Thorogood (Image Comics) The Black Locomotive - Rian Hughes (Picador)

Films: Get Back (Disney+) Who Killed The KLF? (Chris Atkins) In The Court of the Crimson King (Toby Aimes)

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severalpossiblemusiks · 1 year

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I have an issue with prog rock/metal

To start: I love prog, and have a pretty extensive collection of prog albums, but I also find prog kinda… bland. Which seems antithetical to what prog is supposed to be.

When prog got started in the 70s, it was a child of psychedelic music, which took elements of rock, folk, world, classical, jazz, avant-garde, and early electronica to make the weirdest and most unusual music possible. It had a close cousin in space rock, though it has to be noted that space rock was more heavily improvised, while prog was carefully composed with no sound out of place. Bands like King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Camel, Gentle Giant, Kansas, Rush, and Genesis were part of this early prog scene, and are some of the best bands: they combine and utilize a wide variety of musical inspirations and methods to make some incredible songs.

Fast forward and prog was dead in the 80s, with a few bands like Rush and Genesis surviving the shift, while new bands like Asia and Marillion made “pop-prog” in the 80s.

Enter prog metal. Dream Theater took the Rush style of progressive hard rock and made it heavier, with some next-level musicianship, and led into the 90s with a full head of steam. Several other prog metal bands also got started, but none quite held the same grip on defining the genre as Dream Theater.

And this is where I think things get bland for me. As I said, 70s prog was a cornucopia of musical influences and styles. The 80s forced a stripped-down prog that focused on uncommon time signatures and synths. By the time prog metal comes around in the 90s, and especially in the 2010s with the djent subgenre, it really hits the point of “weird time signatures, and that’s about it”. Bands like tool, Polyphia, Tesseract, Meshuggah, and a lot of solo YouTubers, do incredibly virtuosic stuff that to me sounds like empty posturing, if that makes sense. All this musicianship, and not a single song that sounds like a song. What I mean by that is a song is a story, even an instrumental. It has rising and falling, ebb and flow, a start and an end, and by the end it feels like you went somewhere.

Take for example the Rush song YYZ. All instrumental, an iconic Morse code opening rhythm, which leads into an equally iconic and catchy guitar line, so catchy in fact that live performances often had crowd singing along to an instrumental! It’s not terribly easy to get those results. The song gets louder and quieter, the song has discernible sections, and it ends on that same Morse code rhythm. It’s a story and it takes you somewhere. A fair amount of contemporary prog I’ve heard doesn’t seem to do that.

Now I have to be aware that musical trends change and styles evolve and develop into new things, and tastes are different from person to person, band to band, genre to genre, decade to decade, etc. but my big thing is that prog was conceived as a sort of fusion genre: it would fuse multiple different styles and musical traditions and instruments. Now it’s just math with a guitar. I miss when prog had violins and spacey synths and could devolve into a polka rhythm before rising again to a 5-against-3 polyrhythm or something like that.

One prog band that I think still follows the spirit of the 70s prog bands is Ayreon. He mixes analogue synths with classical, jazz, folk, metal, electronica, and even opera to achieve his sounds. And each album is an epic rock opera telling the epic tale of humanity as an experiment by the godlike Alphans, and the “pulling back of the curtain” to see what all goes down in this weird universe.

Anyways I should stop ranting. Modern prog is good, but it lacks the progginess of old prog.

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metalcorrosion · 1 year

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Raging Power Zine’s Best Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums of 2022

Another year and another Best of list for Raging Power. With the Pandemic leaving many bands with so much time off, many of them had more time to write and record new albums since 2019. Sometimes down time can be a good thing. 2022, gave us a lot of great albums. So far, this is one of the best years for Heavy Metal albums in a while, and this is why my usual top 60 list for 22’ it the top 75 list. It could have easily have been 100 or more album. But, I really need it to keep it shorter. This is an epic year to metal, as I predicted. This time, I have included E.Ps instead of putting them on a serpent list. Exclude as always, any albums that are reissues, live and remixes. My friends, enjoy my list, and please, check out all of the bands that I have listed. I want to thank my friend Brad for keeping me loaded with music this year and suggesting some great albums for me to listen to.

1. Abbath – ‘Dread Reaver’

2. Amorphis – ‘Halo’

3. Arch Enemy – ‘Deceivers’

4. Autopsy –‘ Morbidity Triumphant’

5. Behemoth – ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’

6. Belphegor – ‘The Devils’

7. BlackBraid – ‘Blackbraid I’

8. Blind Guardian – ‘The God Machine’

9. Blind Illusion – ‘Wrath of the Gods’

10. Bloody Hammer – ‘Washed in Blood’

11. Graham Bonnet – ‘Band Day Out in Nowhere’

12. Corpsegrinder – ‘Corpsegrinder’

13. Candlemass – ‘Sweet Evil Sun’

14. Clutch – ‘Sunrise on Slaughter Beach’

15. Cult of Luna – ‘The Long Road North’

16. Dark Funeral – ‘We Are the Apocalypse’

17. Darkthrone – ‘Astral Fortress’

18. Decapitated – ‘Cancer Culture’

19. Destruction – ‘Diabolical’

20. Destroyer666 – ‘Never Surrender’

21. Devil Master - ‘Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night’

22. Eight Bells – ‘Legacy Of Ruin’

23. Fit for an Autopsy – ‘Oh What the Future Holds’

24. Friends of Hell – ‘Friends of Hell’

25. Ghost – ‘Impera’

26. Goatwhore – ‘Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven’

27. Grave Digger Symbol of Eternity’

28. Gwar – ‘The New Dark Ages’

29. Imha Tarikat – ‘Hearts Unchained: At War With A Passionless World’

30. Immolation – ‘Acts of God’

31. Imperial Triumphant – ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’

32. Jesters of Destiny – ‘Distorting Everything’

33. Jungle Rot – ‘A Call To Arms’

34. Killing Joke – ‘Lord Of Chaos’

35. Kreator – ‘Hate Über Alles’

36. Lovell's Blade –‘ Deadly Nightshade’ ‎

37. Machine Head – ‘ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN’

38. Tony Marti n –‘ Thorns’

39. Mastodon - 'Hushed and Grim'

40. Megadeth – ‘The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!’

41. Meshuggah – ‘Immutable’

42. Messa – ‘Close’

43. Midnight - ‘Let There Be Witchery’

44. The Michael Schenker Group – ‘Universal’

45. Napalm Death – ‘Resentment Is Always Seismic : A Final Throw Of Throes’

46. Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon’

47. Parkway Drive – Darker Still

48. Rammstein – ‘Zeit’

49. Sabaton – ‘The War To End All Wars’

50. Satan – ‘Earth Infernal’

51. SHAG –‘ Born Demon’

52. Sakis Tolis – ‘Among the Fires of Hell’

53. Saxon – ‘Carpe Diem’

54. Scorpios –‘ Rock Believer’

55. SepticFlesh –‘ Modern Primitive’

56. Sigh – ‘Shiki’

57. Spirit Adrift – ‘20 Centuries Gone’

58. Spiritworld –‘ DEATHWESTERN’

59. Soulfly –‘ Totem’

60. Stryper –‘ The Final Battle’

61. Tad Morose – ‘March Of The Obsequious’

62. Telekinetic Yeti – ‘Primordial’

63. Therion – ‘Leviathain II’

64. Tokyo Blade – ‘Fury’

65. Joe Lynn Turner – ‘Belly of The Beast’

66. Undeath- ‘ It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave’

67. Voivod – ‘Synchro Anarchy’

68. Venom Prison - 'Erebos'

69. Vio-lence – ‘Let the World Burn

70. Watain – ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain’

71. Witchery - Nightside

72. Wo Fat –‘The Singularity’

73. Vante –‘ Vante’

74. Yatra – ‘Born Into Chaos’

75. Zeal & Ardor – ‘Zeal & Ardor’

In Memory of:

Eric Wagner: In The Lonely Light of Mourning

Best cover album

Udo Dirkschneider My Way.

Best name for a band that I have heard in 2022

Telekinetic Yeti

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baglsasha · 10 months

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The amount of times I've seen ppl online seeing something and saying "we could be using AI to do that can't wait to see how AI will change that in 5 years!" And like the thing they're talking abt would just make no sense.

Saw someone saying AI is totally gonna change how they trigger lights for concerts and like. No? No it isn't? Why would you ever use AI for that. Bands with big light shows either have them fully pre programmed and play to a click track so they stay synced with the visuals or they have the lights being triggered by triggers (mics) on the drums so everything stays synced with the band and then the like layout/coloring of lights being used gets changed by the light guy or is automated w/ software. Some bands even just have a really cracked light guy who manually triggers everything in time with the band (Meshuggah is the notable example).

How would LLM/AI tech do anything to "improve" that. What are you gonna train the AI on all of the band's recorded live shows so it tries to predict what the band will do at any given point and hits lights for it?? That seems why more failure prone than just playing to the visuals or syncing the visuals with the band???

AI ppl just know absolutely nothing abt the industries they want to disrupt they just think they're tech is the magic thing that'll disrupt everything.

#music #live music #music tech #ai #tech bros

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riseofthecommonwoodpile · 2 years

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Another round down, and hoo boy! Look at all those fucking 9's and 9.5's! On the one hand, I think it was a uniquely strong selection (and there were just *so many* albums this time), but on the other, I think I'm probably just becoming more lenient with my scoring as I go on, and we come closer to approaching the end of this. Oh well! Who cares!

Alice and John Coltrane- Cosmic Music (8.0/10)

Arthur Russell- World of Echo (8.5/10)

Bedhead- Beheaded (8.0/10)

Black Tape for a Blue Girl- Remnants of a Deeper Purity (8.5/10)

The Body- Master, We Perish (7.5/10)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre- Methodrone (10/10)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre- Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (8.5/10)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Illuminations (10/10)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band- Mirror Man (7.5/10)

Caroliner Rainbow Susans and Bruisins- The Cooking Stove Beast (9.0/10)

Cecil Taylor- Unit Structures (8.5/10)

CHIHIRO (チヒロ)- BEST 2007-2013 (6.5/10, deleted from library)

Chris Corsano- Another Dull Dawn (7.5/10)

Clams Casino- Instrumentals (8.0/10)

Codeine- The White Birch (8.5/10)

Craig Finn- I Need a New War (8.0/10)

Crass- Christ: The Album (8.5/10)

D/P/I- redneks 2013 (8.5/10)

Dean Blunt- Skin Fade (7.5/10)

Destroyer- We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge (8.0/10)

Digable Planets- Blowout Comb (9.0/10)

DNA- DNA on DNA (8.5/10)

Dusty Springfield- A Girl Called Dusty (8.0/10)

Enya- Dark Sky Island (8.5/10)

Enya- The Memory of Trees (8.0/10)

esc 不在- midi dungeon (7.0/10, deleted from library because i just have too much vaporwave)

The Ex- Joggers and Smoggers (9.5/10)

Ferry Corsten- Blueprint (9.0/10)

Fuji Grid TV- Prism Genesis (8.5/10)

The Fun Years- Baby It's Cold Inside (8.5/10)

Germs- (GI) (8.5/10)

Harry Pussy- What Was Music? (8.0/10)

The Haxan Cloak- Excavation (9.0/10)

Heatmiser- Dead Air (7.0/10)

Hijokaidan- Noise from Trading Cards (8.0/10)

Hiroshi Sato- Super Market (7.5/10)

Hüsker Dü- Warehouse: Songs and Stories (8.5/10)

Hype Williams / Paradise Sisters- Crowned Regional Sadat X Awareness Project (8.5/10)

Iannis Xenakis- Orchestral Works Vol. I (9.5/10)

James Ferraro- Skid Row (8.5/10)

Jeph Jerman and Tony Whitehead- Placed (7.0/10)

The Jesus Lizard- Liar (8.5/10)

Julee Cruise- Floating Into the Night (7.5/10)

Leatherface- Mush (9.5/10)

Lemon Demon- View-Monster (8.0/10)

Leonard Cohen- Various Positions (9.0/10)

LiLiPUT- Kleenex / LiLiPUT (8.0/10)

Lolina- Live in Paris (8.5/10)

M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (8.0/10)

Madonna- Madonna (8.0/10)

Man is the Bastard- Thoughtless (7.5/10)

Marvin Gaye- Let's Get it On (7.5/10)

Mater Suspiria Vision- Inverted Triangle II (7.0/10)

The Mekons- The Edge of the World (8.0/10)

Melvins- Gluey Porch Treatments (9.0/10)

Menomena- I Am the Fun Blame Monster (8.5/10)

Merzbow- Rainbow Electronics 2 (7.0/10)

Meshuggah- Selfcaged (7.5/10)

Miles Davis- A Tribute to Jack Johnson (8.0/10)

Minutemen- What Makes a Man Start Fires? (9.0/10)

Miranda Lambert- Four the Record (8.5/10)

Morton Feldman- Rothko Chapel + Why Patterns? (9.0/10)

Naked City- Radio (7.0/10)

Neu!- Neu! 2 (9.0/10)

Nine Inch Nails- The Slip (8.0/10)

Philip Jeck- Stoke (8.5/10)

Whitehouse- Birthdeath Experience (4.5/10, deleted from library)

#music project

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closeted-goth · 1 year

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not to think out loud or be overly sentimental on main, but i am thinking about the reaction i have been having to these Virtute the cat songs (weakerthans, mr weakerthan) over the last couple days.

i am thinking about why my phone background has never changed from the photograph i took of Jasmine coming up on five years ago.

i am thinking about, when i was young and impressionable, reading that one thing that one asshole wrote about "actually u die twice. once when the life physically leaves u; again, and finally, the last time someone says ur name/remembers u."

i am thinking about why i am always saying that there should be more art about pets/animals who lowkey, or highkey, change our lives.

i am thinking about how John K Samson saw that little dude and said yeah u impacted my life in such a way that i want the world to know about u.

i am thinking about how art endures generations.

i am thinking about Mighty Mouse and Fatty Patch and Erik and Bundy and Jasmine and Mow Mow and Larry and Tara and Morshi and Willow and Sage and Bagel and Porcini and Enzo and Mindy and Tyrone and The Big K and Sarge and Major and Meshuggah and Bathory and Turtle and Dusty and Tyson and Mowgli and BP and Thorne and Amelie and all of the animals i have formed bonds with over my life.

#thank u to mutual extraordinaire hapticsight for setting me off on this cat song journey

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