#Ramblings

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indigo gulch
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to start

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Madonna - Ray of Light

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this shit's like, "what if trip hop but heavily influenced by pop and disco"

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and while the prospect may sound unappealing,

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it was done surprisingly well

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the first track is pretty forgettable and more pop leaning

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but the rest hits the vibes perfectly while still being more palatable and less "boring" for people who aren't fans of trip hop

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good ole 7.5/10, I'd rather listen to portishead or massive attack most of the time, but this satisfies a niche in the genre that they don't, so I still go back to it every once in a while

minor pagoda
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Huge!

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The ramblings grow louder

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Will they ever subside? Only time can tell

indigo gulch
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never

indigo gulch
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đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„

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this shit's fire, i love it so much that I backflipped off a cliff while listening and survive

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it takes incredibly awesome aspects of electro swing and combines it with intense rapping about the harsh struggles of a middle class white woman growing up in the texan suburbs

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DEMONDICE inspired me to broaden my horizons and seek new music from unfamiliar cultures, leading me to incredible journeys through places like these, truly touching cultural milestones

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the intro I think could even rival many tracks from Nas' Illmatic, while taking clear inspiration from his songs, but still introducing a new refreshing twist to the same old formula Nas still operates on. I think he could learn one or two things from this album

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also something that is so obvious that it doesn't really need to be mentioned but i will anyway, DEMONDICE's creativity is out on full display here, no dumb gunshots are in the beat to cheaply say that you're "real" and "hard", just listening to her bars is enough to convince me that she's the realest in the business

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in conclusion, I think we can safely say that DEMONDICE may be one of the greatest rappers of our generation, maybe even of all time

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with such ranging influences such as Nas, Eminem, Eminem, France, Eminem, FAKE TYPE and Eminem, this album was a beautiful mix of cultures and musical conventions that have now been easily shattered and surpassed

minor pagoda
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Is this real chat

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Or is this April fools

indigo gulch
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@thorny glen new ramblings just dropped đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„

thorny glen
thorny glen
indigo gulch
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Forreal!!!

minor pagoda
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electro swing as a genre is forever connected to 2014 tumblr for me

indigo gulch
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so like, imagine hard early 90s gangsta rap with somewhat rapey undertones sometimes and the display of a life of decadence

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but a woman is rapping

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and this woman is very good at rapping

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the production is very early 90s sounding but I enjoy it and it gets the job done

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you know how there's some rappers where you can just listen for a bit and go "fuck this guy is cool as shit, id love to speak to him"

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this is one of them

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also the first solo woman to release a rap album

indigo gulch
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but also

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Lil Paul is a wild ass song

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in not a good way

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well, looking at the lyrics, I cant tell if lil paul is supposed to be someone's boyfriend or someone's younger sibling

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so maybe not in a bad way?

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its certainly a catchy song though

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overall, I feel like she's at the level of other greats of her era in levels of charisma, somewhat lyricism, chill ass beats, really great delivery and a general vibe that I enjoy a lot

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but y'know, got hit by the unfortunate reality of being a woman in the 90s

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i guess it goes to show how great she was by being the first to release an album

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oh I haven't talked about Missy Elliott yet

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wild

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i guess I'm doing the woman's month special right after it ended

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i'll talk about missy e tomorrow though

thorny glen
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crazy that the moment you stopped posting in the other thread you started posting about a ton of stuffs i never heard of before 😭 thanks for the reviews tho

minor pagoda
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i havent heard much of MC Lyte, maybe the industry succeeded...

indigo gulch
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she does late 90s early 2000s club vibes hip hop

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50 cent if he was a woman and didnt release just 1 good album

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I think this is the best one out of the ones I listened to

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very energetic, she both sings and raps, the features are insane

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got god damn Method Man, Ludacris, Jay-Z, Beyonce and 50 cent on it

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despite being club music, it has some cool messaging here and there

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some spoken word bits where she talks about her love for music

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and some bits going "yo, its not just men that want to listen to music talking about how cool you are and partying and having sex"

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and yeah it's true

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this mf was hella successful

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there was in fact a market for that

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this one has more standard early 90s east coast vibes

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relistening now I think this is the one i enjoyed the most actually

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also busta's intro and outros are great

indigo gulch
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it sounds

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EXTREMELY 90s

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like

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it also has some verses that I feel like I've heard in other songs

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which makes me think that this is a more "fuck it, lets just say shit and see what sticks" type thing

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but it's still interesting

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I wouldn't recommend this unless you're a big fan of the boom bap 90s NY style aesthetic

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also diddy is mentioned once or twice which, lmao

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god his spotify description is kinda vile

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mf is literally the devil in his spotify pfp

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i think the album could be better if there was more biggie in it

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but that's most albums

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so like

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yeah

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everyone else is solid

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kim is great

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but biggie does kinda steal the show in the verses he has

indigo gulch
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when I first started listening to it, the name Mike Shinoda popped up in my head

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and I couldn't quite figure out why

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the album starts very 90s sounding and gets progressively more modern sounding until I suddenly connected the dots and went "wait this is Linkin Park"

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and Mike Shinoda IS the Linkin Park rapper/piano/synith/beat guy

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and he is the main guy behind Fort Minor

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which after googling and finding it out

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makes a LOT of sense

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a phrase that I heard when someone was talking about rappers was that some rappers are lyricists and others are storytellers, real great ones are both

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Mike Shinoda I'm sorry, your rhymes are cool and all, but your ass can't tell a story

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another thing that carried over from Linkin Park is that the meaning of the lyrics in the Shinoda parts are very heavy handed and blunt

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which very much fits the Linkin Park rock aesthetic

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and it's not necessarily a bad thing

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but this style resulted in very funny bars like the legendary

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This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name

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the songs that stood out to me the most were Right Now, which is very solid and has a great Black Thought feature

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Cigarettes which make a dubious analogy of hip hop with cigarettes but still gets the point across that even if the stories are fake and the "street life" of certain rappers are very exaggerated, he doesn't care because he's here for the showmanship and feeling of coolness

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and Kenji, which is about his ancestors being sent to internment camps in ww2 and american racism against the japanese

minor pagoda
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Another RABLING

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YOORAY

indigo gulch
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yuhhhhhhh

indigo gulch
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Collapse and Appear is literally me

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this shit's fucked in a good way

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sometimes it slightly reminds me of clipping. the way that the sounds are fucked up and loud, and sometimes i'm just floating across the sky with a beatles sounding ass beat and fun vocals

indigo gulch
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i don't know what kind of experience

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it doesn't fit well into any defined genre except for maybe psychodelia?

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it doesn't feel jarring whenever Lil Ugly Mane changes from rapping on a trap beat to hitting me with a drugged out instrumental for me to zone out to

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also lmao

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indigo gulch
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this was WILD

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a lot of the songs here kinda feel like proto-Carti

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but more chill

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there's also some early 2000s sounding club songs that I wasn't really a fan of

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but overall I really enjoyed this one

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would re-listen to

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I really enjoy Lil B's vibe

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very

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free

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yeah he just sounds free

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and I think that the freedom that he allows himself to have makes for a really fun experience

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it's not pushing any musical boundaries

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although it does sound ahead of its time

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i don't know how to really describe the feeling

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the music isn't midblowing or hype or calming or any kind of concrete emotion

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if it was released today, I probably wouldn't bat an eye

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just listen to it i guess is what i'm saying

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rambling complete?

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as an addon, people say that people like him and spaceghostpurpp are the precursors to soundclud rap and I'm not familiar with soundclud rap so i dunno what to say about that

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it also feels important to mention that the popularization of the word "based" as a positive thing came from Lil B

indigo gulch
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it's based

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in all of the meanings of the word

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the BasedGod is just too good

indigo gulch
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BIGASS rambling coming soonâ„ąïž

minor pagoda
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HUGE

indigo gulch
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WORKS VOLUME 1

This album is awesome on a conceptual level if you’re an ELP fan or a classical music lover, nothing special besides a couple of cool songs here and there otherwise. This shit is 2 entire vinyl discs long, each member getting one side of the disc and the final side being a collaboration by the three of them

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Keith Emerson side:
Piano Concerto No. 1. The album starts with an 18 minute and 24 second classical music piece that is the entirety of the Keith Emerson side of the disc. It’s not entirely piano, but the piano in it is definitely the centrepiece that ties the sounds of all the instruments together across this work. I’m not really a classical music guy, so I don’t have much to say except for “This shit is kinda cool” and “Is this what Mozart would’ve made if he had a prog rock band on the side?” Because while it is classical music, you can definitely hear the prog influence, which feels a bit silly to say because I feel like there’s a lot of crossover already between prog rock and classical, even without Keith Emerson doing what he’s doing. Also as semi important thing to note, this man truly loved the piano, he killed himself because he got arthritis and then a botched surgery to try cure that arthritis prevented him from playing the piano again, soooooo a bit dark but probably worth noting

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Greg Lake side: This guy was in King Crimson (like a bajillion people were in king crimson though), which is probably my favourite prog rock band, so I was surprised and kinda disappointed when his side was filled with ballads, I thought that genre died in the 60s after the Beatles showed people that good (popular) music can exist.

Lend Your Love To Me Tonight has some good moments, but I’m not the biggest fan, it starts with just a guitar and Greg Lake singing and it slowly ramps up to a big orchestral thing throughout 6 minutes, it’s neat but I wouldn’t go back to it.

C’est La Vie is (I think) a cover of another song that I cannot find because there’s like 50 songs with this name, but I swear that I’ve heard a song with the same melody that says “C’est la vie.” nvm i talked to a real ELPhead and it’s not a cover. I like this song, it’s very calming and emotional, the instrumental hits the perfect spot where it’s not boring enough to make me sleep, but it also leaves a lot of room for the emotional singing to be an equal part of the song.

Hallowed Be Thy Name I think would be more aptly described as prog blues, the main backing instrumentals are very swingy, and it reminds me of very famous songs, but then it has some really fucked up sounding brass and string instrument sections that kill all and any commercial appeal. Overall pretty neat.

Nobody Loves You Like I Do kinda fucking sucks, it’s a boring soft rock bluesy song that just zzzzzz
 It is pretty funny to pause the song when he says “nobody loves you” though. In an alternate timeline, this song definitely would’ve been an iconic romantic song that your parents would sing.

Closer To Believing is a disney princess theme song, this also makes me fall asleep.

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Carl Palmer side: orchestral experimentation boogaloo, feels like a collection of ideas and bits
 Works Volume 1 you could call them. Even though the entire album is meant to be that, this side feels like it more so than the others, and it’s also my favourite individual member’s side.

The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits is an orchestral piece that definitely sounds very 70s, it feels militaristic and ominous in a way that the very much fits the title, I’m not really a fan of orchestras so I don’t really find myself coming back to this, but I like just how much the title fits the ambiance of the instruments being played.

L.A. Nights is a fun jazzy song with some synths sprinkled in and rock/bluesy guitars stringing the song together as the centrepiece, very enjoyable overall, though there’s not much to say about it besides that.

New Orleans is awesome, more jazzy prog rock instrumentals, very fun, I think it’s my favourite from the solo projects of this record, it’s simple and catchy, my brain goes “oooohhh me likey.” Because if that, its also pretty short and doesn’t overstay its welcome, which is nice, I probably would’ve gotten sick of it if it was any longer than 4 minutes.

Bach Two Part Invention In D Minor is nursery ryme background music and no one can tell me otherwise, also very short thankfully.

Food For Your Soul is an orchestral prog rock club banger (lol) with a couple of drum solos which, also lol, but I still really enjoyed this one. It feels the most orthodoxically prog rock (lol) with all the different instruments and changes in melody that are in there, though once again, no vocals, which I dont really know if it makes it more or less prog rock, lots of question marks with this one, but the song makes sense

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Tank is actually the most prog rock, i lied last time, this is a remake of an ELP song from their first, self titled album with way more pervasive synths and trumpets rather than having a guitar as the main star of the show like in the original. I like the original more but this is still neat. They both sound like Tank, but whereas the original sounds like a singular big tank with a skull on it (think Blitztank from ABK but if it looked more like an actual tank), the Palmer version sounds like a field full of individual tanks from an evil empire about to demolish a small town filled with only defenceless civilians.

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The full ELP side is my favourite for sure. It only has 2 songs on it but in prog rock fashion, one is 9:43 minutes long and the other one is 13:23 minutes long, god bless this band

Fanfare For The Common man is an arrangement of a modern classical piece by Aaron Copland that is pretty integral to ELP’s “mission statement” if it was a company: the sentiment that more complex instrumental music should be enjoyed by everyone and doesn’t have to be intimidating or for only the higher class. The first few minutes are a pretty faithful adaptation to the original, then a groovy guitar appears and then a fucked up wind instrument sounding synth comes in and yeah it’s very prog rock, awesome song, still leans towards the orchestral side because of course, it’s a classical music adaptation which I find a bit corny but it’s not their fault that superhero movies coopted that type of sound.

Pirates is a song that was originally an instrumental made for a movie about mercenaries that got cancelled, so it got repurposed and changed to fit a more “pirate” vibe. I honestly don’t get necessarily a pirate vibe, more of a general adventure vibe, but I can definitely see how this was changed from war and mercenaries to pirates. This song is too long to actually dive into and changes minor vibes so many times but still keeps on a general adventure vibe. Oh, also, there’s vocals here, they work very well and are probably the main part of the song that sells the “pirate” aspect of it. Otherwise, I feel like it could’ve just been called “adventure at sea.” I wasn’t a huge fan at first, but I’ve grown to really enjoy it, especially the middle parts that feel more prog rock than movie soundtrack and then tying into the more soundtrack sounding part to end it.

Rambling over!

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@thorny glen @minor pagoda bigass rambling just dropped!

minor pagoda
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hOY SHIT

thorny glen
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Holy heck! Just as I was looking for some piano concertos too! Nice!

indigo gulch
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Ballin

indigo gulch
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this is pretty standard badun badun badum badun dudun badun dudun badun bass playing plus light cymbals and a brass instrument and maybe a piano sometimes

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but it's neat

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it feels like one long continuous song even though it's not

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because all of the songs follow the same theme I described

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but they go at different paces

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or have different structures

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this was very early into John Coltrane's career and it shows

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it feels like Bags and Coltrane found a sound that they liked, played with it for a few hours, chopped off the bad parts and shipped it as an album

indigo gulch
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i dont know what to say about this

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just

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fuck

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this is how it feels to listen to this album, not because it's happy like Kero Kero Bonito stuff, but because it's just awesome

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minor pagoda
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Hell yeah

indigo gulch
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the return of the benzo beaner soonâ„ąïž

indigo gulch
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Start of the month modern cloud trap adjacent music lightning round:

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gundeityxlestabed: SPARE INHALER https://open.spotify.com/album/6ninRKScOBQCqsgjnJ8PSl?si=55NoSmYaTz2fI7o1E3ycnA, TRANS TRAP https://open.spotify.com/album/1GdOMgiX1UOb4v8ILZ55x5?si=x5_nw9cHR0i1dRLDdNMHAA, medicine cabinet https://open.spotify.com/album/1TBzf6QVk9HfWzylKR88oZ?si=1JlVaTwXQPaBL4aJk1Hv-w.

All short 10-20 minute incoherent wall of noise “””experimental””” trap EPs that are nice for blocking out the outside world, but also pretty enjoyable outside of that once you get used to it. Also god bless that interlude that explains a lot of shit

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SPARE INHALER

Album · gundeityxlestabed · 2024 · 9 songs

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TRANS TRAP

Album · gundeityxlestabed · 2024 · 7 songs

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medicine cabinet

Album · gundeityxlestabed · 2024 · 10 songs

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Mitaya: Falling https://open.spotify.com/album/7i87SQuySS6J3yQ1O387oH?si=Z_JY5xPaR36kWRMhccHKRQ

Gives me mild Yeule vibes but way more trap leaning, I like their very soft voice, something about it works well with the trap beats that are sometimes chill, sometimes going hard. Though it feels like some songs want to seriously talk about something and have a point, they don’t feel “professional” enough to evoke big feelings in me. I expect a lot from this project in the future!!!!

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Falling

Album · Mitaya · 2023 · 11 songs

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sniper2004: i wanna be a sniperrrrr https://open.spotify.com/album/0CmzOQGge1zb0rmoZPI6Ft?si=vO1RxnYbTcmaGZEl3z7E7w
8 minute EP about you guessed it, being a sniper, this project is probably the least experimental so far, being mostly coherent and comprehensible with more rage sounding beats that don’t completely invade your eardrums. This feels based in the lil B sense of the word, truly free, fucking around and being kinda cringe but in a based (modern usage) way.

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i wanna be a sniperrrrr

Ep · sniper2004 · 2024 · 5 songs

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And last but not least, RXKNephew: Slitherman For President https://open.spotify.com/album/3Tu2HORPsXTvQ154R7k9X6?si=H39y5ZCARUezXpQvg0NYJw

Another classic Neph banger, I really love how he delivers his bars, it’s like the entire world has stopped when he ends one bar and it continues whenever he goes into the next. Production was also good, they play an annoying sample every now and then but it’s enjoyable overall

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Slitherman For President

Album · RXKNephew · 2024 · 12 songs

minor pagoda
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I am listening to the Life of Pablo. This is, so far, Kanye's greatest album. How do people not like this??

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His best bars and diverse tracks have all been fantastic, no bad songs on the whole album

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Feature-rich as well

minor pagoda
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Damn I suck at writing shit

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Pablo was a good album, especially considering what came after it

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I think every song has its own flair that makes it fun to listen to, however the overarching female (gospel-ish?) backing vocals were really nice and cemented a God/faith theme for the album.

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There are no skips, he has multiple songs for multiple beefs he had, and also No More Parties in LA

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A lot of songs had some big names tied to it, which was cool! Kanye usually has a lot of features, but high-tier names were attached here (like Rhianna and Metro Boomin)

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And best verse of all, Kendrick

indigo gulch
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amen

indigo gulch
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@thorny glen your turn

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Hmmm

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How about Yabujin's Flash Desire and the singles run from 2020 to 2022

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The first impression is that "this is some meme ass internet shit" but actually it's not. The artist's just that tripped out brain-wrecked. This is the type of music that's probably only doable by someone under sooooo much weed and shrooms, but no that's a good thing

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There's something about the angelic synth, melody lines that lingers and doesn't really resolve, hard cranked 808s, weird sample insertions that would literally overpower the entire beat, soft cloud-rap-soft-boy vocals

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The most "cloud" cloud rap out there. Years of internet poisoning combined with a pop sensibility, what's catchy, what works, led to this dreamy, vibey collection of tracks that's kind of like unlike much other

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idk what the fuck they are doing now though but this run can't be beat

indigo gulch
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oh shit i listened to the album yesterday

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haven't gone through the singles

thorny glen
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the singles are also awesome

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just listen to the top 10 most popular tracks on spotify and that's a good sampler

indigo gulch
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i got called "yabujincore" a bit ago and that made me want to kill the person that said it

thorny glen
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With that pfp i can kinda see it Frieren3

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see i don't want to kill you because I kinda take it as a compliment guess?

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but calling anything yabujincore is awful

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i don't claim to know anything about him or even be a particularly big fan

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and I know I'm being pretentious

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but it just FEELS yucky

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the music feels like an attempt to escape any and all labels

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to say fuck you to the preestablished notions of what music and trends are

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and to have that style become a label in of itself to slap onto anything even vaguely similar feels antithetical to everything it stands for

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if it even stands for anything

thorny glen
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That goes hard though, as a descriptor

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But granted that's what people do with any new noble ideas in the field

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Granted Yabujin is just that section of weirdcore high-internet-aesthetics realm with deep nostalgia for the early 2000s or so

indigo gulch
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also that yeah

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it ignores literally everything else in the field

thorny glen
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but I think for an artist that kind of package all that notion in such a neat package, and being the most popular of it all. i guess it's the "vibe"

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that came before and likely inspired yabujin

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I just call it Cloud Rap cause well it's just Cloud Rap

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real n real

thorny glen
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The kids are forgetting about Yung Lean 😔

indigo gulch
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mf has been on a yung lean listening streak

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but idk i never got into yung lean

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me neither Frieren3

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I only listen to the popular tracks

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lmao

thorny glen
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i only really know ginseng strip 2002 and that's because it has a funny name

thorny glen
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it is funny

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idk i listen to bladee more

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i don't like bladee

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his music annoys me

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also the type of people who swear on their life that bladee is the greatest thing to hit the earth are...

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yung lean and bladee for me are the flirting vs sexual harassment meme for me

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even though they're in the same lane, have collaborated a lot and are white boys that feel separated from the rest of the rap culture, my perception of yung lean is "creative silly white boy who sometimes has moments of genius and makes some really interesting hits" while my perception of bladee is "annoying ass tryhard white boy that uses the internet aesthetic (whatever that means) to rap about how sad he is with his millions of dollars and somehow gets an audience that identifies with what he says"

minor pagoda
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i have lavender on my ipod

thorny glen
thorny glen
minor pagoda
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i dont really listen to draingang/cloud rap though

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deeper into prog rock

thorny glen
indigo gulch
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now actually

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sosa clears i fear

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the real answer is that I was working while listening so I didn't really pay attention to it and it made me want to listen to chief keef for some reason

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young thug is truly a generational artist

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i have come around

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i cannot stop listening to JEFFERY and Barter 6

indigo gulch
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and sometimes slime season 3 and sometimes so much fun

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indigo gulch
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ramblers rise up đŸ”„

indigo gulch
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bjork is so fucking good

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rambling soonâ„ąïž

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ok so

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i've had a brain blast

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i like bjork for the same line of reasoning why I like young thug so much

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now hear me out

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this idea hasn't completely been workshopped yet it literally just popped up in my brain

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both bjork and young thug perform in an industry where the bare minimum bottom of the barrel shit often is what makes the big bucks

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and they manage to make music that is extremely palatable to a wider audience

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however their music isn't disposable

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(young thug does make disposable music but we'll ignore those moments)

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just as you can go back and listen to old bjork albums again and again and feel the emotion in her singing

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even as her background instrumentation isn't super ground breaking or revolutionary, it does it's job perfectly

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ok actually my thesis just boils down to

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bjork sings weird in a pleasing way

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and so does young thug

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but they do it in different genres

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and the feeling I get transmitted when I hear their voices do the weird shit that they do is very similar

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i'd actually put the instrumentals for Warping by Death Grips in the same category of sounds that make me feel that way also

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but bjork and young thug are very commercially successful

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obviously one more than the other

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but still

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I think that the palatability of their music is really incredible because it's interesting even while music nerding

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because their funky way of singing doesn't come off as just a gimmick

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if they did that and that only, I wouldn't like them as much

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but since they show that they have more

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that funky warpy "experimental" singing activates the same part of my brain when they both do it

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ok that's the end of my ted talk

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actually i'm adding a bit more

indigo gulch
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if everything is goofy and weird, nothing is

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and those types of instrumentals help highlight what's so great about these two

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and it ironically helps their songs not feel tiring and repetitive

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stupid ass spotify embeds

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the song is There's More to Life Than This (recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets)

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also clarifying that I'm talking about old bjork here, I haven't listened to her recent stuff

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ok yeah that's the end

indigo gulch
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Wait i have one more thing to add

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Both bjork and young thug have those looks that straight people can’t pull off easily but they do it immaculately

indigo gulch
minor pagoda
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Time to listen to Bjork...

indigo gulch
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Bigass Weezy rambling soonâ„ąïž

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Going through the carter series and then a few more

indigo gulch
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Actually it’s PinkPantheress time

indigo gulch
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nevermind actually

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Joey Valence & Brae time

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white boys got swag

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their rapping is very reminiscent of the Beastie Boys

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the album cover displays exactly the type of energy that they bring to their music

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a lot of their bars are corny as fuck and honestly nostalgia bait

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but they play it off in a way that is charming

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their delivery is over the top and silly

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these bars suck ass and make me want to kill myself in a vacuum but they're aware of their campyness and don't take themselves very seriously

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a lot of their songs evoke a feeling of nostalgic idle chatter with friends

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good vibes

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and i have to reiterate

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it is VERY beastie boys

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however

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it feels insulting to just reduce them to "beastie boys but 2020s"

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it really does feel like if beastie boys happened today, this is the music that they would make

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I like them because unlike most modern "underground" hip hop/jazz rap, it doesn't feel like they get restrained into one type of song that only samples pre 2000s music and ends up sounding the same

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they take up a modern breakcore/dnb aesthetic/soundfont along with the nostalgic boom bap sounds

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and that modern breakcore/dnb aesthetic is already kind of associated with nostalgia which is crazy

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it's a super unique experience

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also this is fire lmfao https://youtu.be/gGqaReptgaQ?si=_h6p61NCgnms2JFp

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it's literally just 365 but they're singing

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ok I'm having a revelation

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they're doing boom bap

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but also hyperpop kinda at the same time

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but it's like 80% boom bap

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and the hints of hyperpop are very delicious and not overpowering

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god

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it's so early 90s sounding but also so 2020s sounding at the same time

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it's insane

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i'm not even nostalgic for the same era or things that they are

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but they still have this crazy vibe

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it's just a good ass vibe

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like everything is good

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and it's so goofy and corny and eye rolly

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but in a fun way

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anyway im repeating myself

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that's the rambling

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amen

minor pagoda
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Joey Valence has been in my reels a lot and he’s always given me the same vibe from his music

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A nostalgic video game-esque rap

indigo gulch
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yeah

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it's great because the pop culture thing isn't like

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their gimmick entirely

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and I hate reference humour

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but they do it so goofily that it's forgivable

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amazing video

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ngl I just assumed that it was a beastie boys song that I hadn't heard before

indigo gulch
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rambling about it soonâ„ąïž

indigo gulch
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nevermind i'll do that later

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soonâ„ąïž is actually a place I've never dived into before

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a very large place with a very large community

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next rambling is gonna be on Folklore

indigo gulch
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Nevermind i didnt find anything interesting about it to share

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I think it’s time to greep out next

warm storm
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i love greeping it

warm storm
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(i have purchased the vinyl)

indigo gulch
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SO true

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I lied again btw

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It’s time for The Ecstatic

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Such an incredible album

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I enjoy everything about it

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Criminal that it isnt more well known

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(Probably due to it not being on spotify)

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Mos Def went “FUCK the record labels FUCK spotify I’m gonna drop this incredible album and make you listen to it through ways that don’t make them money”

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The album has a very strong afrocentric/revolutionary theme

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Even more so than Black On Both Sides

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Which focuses more on the experience, good and bad of being a black man in America

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The Ecstatic is a lot more energetic and commercial/easily palatable which is ironic considering the circumstances of its release to spite streaming services

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It has a 90s boom bap feel even though it was released in ‘09, but not in an outdated crusty sounding way, the production on this album is really creative and kinda makes me think of a mix between Madlib on the doom projects and the few kanye songs I’ve listened to. Which isnt entirely unexpected, since Madlib is listed as a producer here, but it doesn’t entirely sound like the madlib production that you may be used to

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That comparison probably makes no sense

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But yeah the production is super unique

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And Mos Def’s bars are consistently fire

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The features are great

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The point of the album is quite apparent and concise while also not feeling like Mos Def is spelling it out for the audience like we’re 7 year olds with little understanding of anything

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Overall

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VERY worth listening to

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Very wide appeal

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I like this a lot

warm storm
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https://open.spotify.com/album/475CtqaU2OY24xBvIekWV6?si=cjKESpmRQuOvcE4ilSCO_A

Geese - 3D Country (8.5/10)

This showed up on my Discovery on Spotify a few weeks back, specifically the song 3D Country, and I was instantly hooked. I've digested the album and have given the album in its entirety a few listens to from start to end a few times in the last month. While on it's cover they seem like a rock band they're fronted with a singer who has an incredible voice that has a fantastic range, jumping between a country rasp to a full bodied soulful voice and then to an acid fuelled screaming the songs as you go through are a ride. There's a lot to love in this album with the tracks jumping from genre to genre it's a ride to be sure. Definitely worth a listen if you're looking for a break from greeping it.

Favourite Track: 3D Country (or 4D Country, which is an elongated form of the track).

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https://open.spotify.com/album/21xp7NdU1ajmO1CX0w2Egd?si=_dByhSxYS4qFlWDmddaxdQ

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (9.5/10)

Yes yes a popular album from 2022 to be sure, but surprisingly this was my first foray into the band and appeared on the same Discovery as Geese when I was in my Greeping era in late October/early November. I was interested at first due to the alternative jazz feel of the band and was sucked in by the lyricism and emotion that drives even some strange lyricism that leaves you heavy and distressed by the end of some of the songs in this album. This album deserves all the attention it gets, if you haven't given it a listen and enjoy alt jazz that mixes in a bit of indie rock at times then you'll love this album.

Favourite Track: The Place Where He Inserted The Blade

EDIT: I later found out the rawness of the last 3 songs might have been for real since the singer left during the making of the fucking album. Holy moly, even more of a reason to give it a listen.

minor pagoda
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Ants from Up There was really good, although it’s been a couple years since I listened to it

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Thanks for the reminder

indigo gulch
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Is fucked up that ive never heard of this band

warm storm
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So you enjoyed it?

indigo gulch
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So awesome

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I usually dont like indie rock sounding stuff

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The amount of indie rock vibes that this had is just correct

indigo gulch
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i am suffering from a grave problem

midnight ferry
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What's wrong honey đŸ„ș

indigo gulch
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and it's unfortunate because I'm promoting anime music

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and it's also interesting

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which is unfortunate because I'm an indie rock hater

indigo gulch
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cause it's like

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the album is a mix of downtempo which I really enjoy and indie rock but also kinda downtempo

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which kinda sounds like shoegaze but not really

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it's fucked up

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I love how the vocalists sing

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I really like that there is no moment where my ears aren't hearing like 3 different instruments seemingly doing different things but working together at the same pace

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they also mix up acoustic and electric guitars a lot

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which isn't super common

indigo gulch
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indigo gulch
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I'm not really a fan of this

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but it's interesting

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I like the aesthetic

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I feel like it wanted to be a grandiose thing

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but it just didn't happen

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it popped too softly

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was too afraid but too ambitious at the same time

indigo gulch
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also it's synthpop

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and I think it just does too little

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the guy has some interesting lyrics and vocal intonations that show signs of greatness

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but the production feels afraid to match that grandiose tone that the vocals bring

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hell

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a lot of the time even the vocals feel afraid to match the grandiose tone that it somehow exudes the feeling of wanting to have

indigo gulch
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imogen heap dive coming at some point in the future

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her shit is cinema

indigo gulch
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nevermind actually

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it's rosalĂ­a time

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her shit is so cinema

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like on GOD

warm storm
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5FjaEW3Hi8vD2aoJNWln4t?si=0X6OYDulSzacGFwJRCvCKA

Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (7/10)

BCNR's first proper new album since their Live at Bush Hall release just post Isaac's departure, certainly leaving large boots to fill with the last full length album they put out. I was hooked by the three singles they put out, definitely a different feel to their past work but definitely didn't hate it. When looking at the album however I feel it lacks the heaviness that first drew me to the band and the new direction this album went in for the band unfortunately couldn't scratch that itch I was looking for. While the emotion was lacking the instrumentalism from the band is still there and especially towards the back end the album becomes pretty stacked with good tracks. The album is packed with harmonies that unfortunately become a bit disjointed at times, regardless worth a listen and maybe its more suited to your taste in music than it is to mine.

Favourite Track: Nancy Tries to Take the Night

indigo gulch
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I liked the airplane album a lot more

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It was a lot heavier instrumentally

indigo gulch
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This one was a lot more pop sounding

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And I didn’t particularly love the sound of the vocalist

indigo gulch
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And the vocals felt more integrated with the sound

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Rather than being a popout focus

midnight ferry
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I like sunglasses

warm storm
warm storm
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7mOrnQqDad3RgYQsJGaaqk?si=DZXT5WhRR5SBVFGBLEUwxQ

Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal (9/10)

I got into the band Geese mid last year thanks to the singer. When I heard from a friend the other week that he had released a debut album late last year I went into it expecting something similar to what Geese had to offer. Instead I got better story telling with Cameron's voice being more of the focal point of the music, it feels soulful and folky and I cant help but to get lost in it. There are still a few tracks that come through with a Geese tinge to them, such as NausicaÀ, but others like Drinking Age show this vulnerability in his voice which showed through at times in his work with Geese. I'd recommend it to anyone who is willing to give it a listen.

Favourite Tracks: Drinking Age and Cancer of the Skull

indigo gulch
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$0 is godlike

indigo gulch
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this typa country type shit is interesting

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reminds me of midwest emo but even more minimalist and more raw vocals

indigo gulch
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$0 is awesome in an awesome way

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Idk i generally dont care for this kind of music though

indigo gulch
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holy ffuck

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pharrell i kneel

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i was not familiar with your game

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pusha t and his brother and the neptune's goofiest prodction

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in 2006

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this shit is

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fucking psychoticaly awesome

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like

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I'm literally stunlocked listening to this

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pusha and malice's verses go so fucking hard

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there is no dull moment

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the goofy ass beats perfectly fit in with their delivery somehow

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this shit sounds like what if a 5 year old playing with synths and a sampling machine sounded really fucking awesome and the hardest verses ever landed on the audio tape

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this shit sounds like freedom

indigo gulch
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thoughts later

minor pagoda
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I forgot this channel existed. Listened to Shoso Strip by Ringo Sheena and it was really good. Great jpop album and her other stuff is really good too