#~ophelia's pop ballad~

[lurinatftbn]

in a modern au what music would the characters be listening to?

Man, I'm bad at these sort of questions. I'll take a stab at it, though with the whole people-have-sides-you-never-expect motif this might not quite represent the whole truth:

Utsu: Probably a mix of slow jazz, synthwave, and video game OSTs she likes. She probably has extremely narrow tastes and listens to the same stuff she finds sentimental over and over.

Ran: Black metal and other adjacent punk stuff. Environmental soundscapes when she's reading.

Kam: A combination of classical music, extremely formulaic mainstream hip-hop, and kpop (not jpop, she'd hate the increased jazz influence).

Theo: Ballads, slowcore and folk rock. Broadly, any form of music where a girl sings about sad things while playing an acoustic guitar.

Ptolema: Electronic dance music; house, techno, etc. Synth-pop. Piano collections when she's working.

Seth: Extremely specific forms of indie and progressive rock. Math rock is his favorite. He is the most passionate about music in the class and will talk about it for hours.

Ophelia: <redacted>

Lilith: The same anime OP on loop for six hours.

Bardiya: Gothic country, trip-hop, lounge music. Enjoys watching string solos. Loosely follows modern classical scenes like New Complexity but doesn't actively listen to it away from performances.

Ezekiel: Melodic industrial and hardcore, or overly-sentimental piano music and alternative rock, depending on what he's currently feeling bitter about.

Fang: Experimental and improvisational music - fast jazz, avant-rock, vaporwave. Vocaloids. Probably used to compose when they had more free time.

Balthazar: Country music, but doesn't like religious stuff. Movie soundtracks.

that's all I have the brainpower for today, I think.

[bunbeeplays]

The Lemon Legacy: Generation 1, Chapter 13 - A Stellar Start

It's the first snow of winter!

It didn't snow a lot where Ophelia grew up, so she has some fun. She draws a heart in the snow before working up the courage to go talk to Libby.

Luckily, she finds her outside and convinces her to build a snow pal together.

Ophelia: We had a good time at the bar, huh?

Libby: Yeah, definitely.

Ophelia: I mean it, I want to hang out more. Just the two of us.

Libby: What are you... Brr! I wish the Watcher had bothered to put gloves on us.

Libby: Are you... asking me out?

Ophelia adds the last finishing touches on the snow pal.

Ophelia: That depends. Are you saying yes?

Libby: You're lucky your charisma skill is better than your snow pal making skills. Fee, your hands are freezing! Come here.

Ophelia: What do you say?

Libby: I say I have tomorrow off and I'd love to spend it with you.

Ophelia: Perfect! I know just the place! I'll pick you up at 10

Libby: Already have something planned, huh? What would you have done if I had said no?

Ophelia: Died of embarrassment.

The next day, Ophelia shows up at the BFF house, ready for her first date with Libby.

Ophelia: Hi! You ready to do this?

Libby: Hard to prepare when you won't tell me what we're doing!

Ophelia: Well, spin into your cold weather outfit, cuz we're going to the city!

The girls arrive at GeekCon!

Libby: This is a geek paradise!

Ophelia: I thought this would be right up your alley. You know all about my work but I don't know anything about your astronaut career. I thought it'd be fun for us to work on the rocket.

Libby: Are you sure? Some people think this is boring.

Ophelia: Everything is more fun with you, Lib. But if you don't want to spend all day babysitting me, we can always play video games or-

Libby: Are you kidding? I never get to infodump about rocket science! Let's do this!

Ophelia isn't exactly a natural but with Libby's guidance, they make decent progress.

Ophelia: Uh, Libby? Are you sure I'm just supposed to whack it with a hammer?

Libby: Yeah, really go for it! That's how you know it's working!

They take a well-earned break, tired from all the hammering.

Ophelia: Wow, who knew rocket science was so easy and accessible?

Libby: I know, isn't it great?

Ophelia: Honestly, I think I could do anything with you at my side.

Libby: Back at you.

Ophelia: We make a pretty good team!

Libby: Sure do! If the music thing doesn't work out, I'll put a good word in with my boss.

Ophelia: I know this isn't the most traditional date. I hope you're actually having fun and not just humoring me.

Libby: It's been wonderful.

Libby knows that shy, sweet animation all too well. Ophelia is going in for their first kiss! Luckily, she has no intention to reject her advances. This is just what she's been waiting for.

Libby: Wow. Ophelia: Sorry! You just looked really pretty and I... I hope that was okay.

Libby: We're on a date, Feefs. Of course it's okay, you queer disaster. Come on, we've done enough of my interests. Let's do something you like too.

Libby and Ophelia pop on over to Planet Honey Pop to do some karaoke to a corny ballad. Libby has never sung a day in her life and sounds... less than great, but Ophelia is so smitten, she can barely hear anything over the sound of her own heartbeat anyway.

Libby: Well that was fun! A little embarrassing, though.

Ophelia: Oh, hush. You were so cute.

Libby: Nice way of saying I'm tone-deaf. Listen, I've got to pack to go see my family for Winterfest but I had an amazing time.

Ophelia: So we're on the same page.

[star-shard]

ELVIS MUSIC TAG :)

TY so much to @powerofelvis !!

( Tagging @carnevol @venus-haze @h0unds-of-h3ll @ophelia-is-a-writer )

Last Elvis Song You Listened To: Young and Beautiful (I was watching Jailhouse Rock lol)

Current Elvis Song Stuck In Your Head: Burning Love!

Favorite Live Performance Moment: The Elvis: That's the Way It is, a lot of great comedy moments (mini guitar moment I luv u) But seeing him perform That's Alright revamped its so good.

Favorite Genre/Era You Like To Hear Elvis Sing Most: Rock, Country, and Blues. Can't pin down an era, they all got hits that get me going.

Current Favorite Elvis Song (bc how can you pick!): First thing that popped in: Crawfish. EP duets weren't too common but he does well in them.

Elvis Song You Tend To Skip: There are exceptions but I'd say most of his ballads don't grab me hard. Sorry, E.

What Kind Of Music Did You Listen To Before/Besides Elvis: Electronic, Disco, some Elton John, and honestly anything with a groove.

Are You Collecting Elvis' CD's, Cassette Tapes, 8-Tracks, or Records? I has no moneys :')

If You Could Have Been At Any Of Elvis' Live Performances, Which Would Choose: A tie between EP on the road in the 50s and EP's first Vegas show.

[groovyships]

LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN, 'CAUSE I'M GOING TO

STRAWBERRY FIELDS; NOTHING IS REAL

AND NOTHING TO GET HUNG ABOUT

STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

[meruli]

My opinions on Friends units

This is me, as an idol fan, looking at the units’ themes, songs, and coords, instead of what I think about the characters and how they’re written.

Pure Palette

I think their concept as a unit is that they have infinite possibilities, like a brand new palette. Personally, I think giving the members their own image colors defeat this point. Coord wise, they’re rather hit or miss, but their miracle dresses definitely do feel palette-esque. Song wise, they’re average. Their songs don’t really particularly stand out or go wrong.

Suggested song: 

Sayonara Stay Tuned by Sayorana Stay Tuned

Honey Cat

They are themed around cats and... fashion? (Their catchphrase is Pretty, Sexy, Honey Cat). I think they could do more with the cat theme, by wearing more cat ears and using nya in their lyrics, like Wasuta. The fashion theme was prominent in Let’s Find It’s lyrics, but You x I’s coords, despite how ugly they were, fit the cat theme more. Their songs don’t really feel “fashionable” though.

Suggested songs:

I hated you. by Niji no Conquistador (fashionable) Ultra Miracle-cle Final Ultimate Choco Beam by Wasuta (cat)

Reflect Moon

BEST UNIT. Their moon theme is clearly reflected in their songs and coords. They certainly stand out music wise, with their combination of classical music and techno pop.

Suggested song:

Ophelia by ARCANA PROJECT

Love Me Tear

What’s their theme??? Stars??? Their coords and songs are nice but their concept is just too vague. Also, with a name like that,  you’d expect them to mainly sing love songs.

Suggested song:

Sorrow Calibration by Moso Calibration

I Believe

Also vague, but I think their theme might be mythologies. This would explain the “Believe” in their unit name, as it could refer to beliefs. Their stage and coords also look myth-esque. I don’t really have a grasp on their music because they only have one song, but I think ballads would work well with them.

Suggested song:

Cradle of the Moonlit Sea by Mia REGINA

[veggietales-shitposts]

documenting Larry and Archibald’s relationship in every episode (early 2000′s)

for the 1990′s episodes click here

Episode 13: King George and the Ducky (2000) - In Silly Songs with Larry, during the Barbara Manatee song, a photo of Archibald can be seen in the background of Larry’s house 

Episode 14: Esther...the Girl who Became Queen (2000) nothing happens in this one 

Episode 15: Lyle the Kindly Viking (2001) - Larry convinces Bob to let Archibald run the show for the day. Archibald, a true Theater Gay, is delighted at the opportunity to dazzle the audience and share his British culture  - Archibald forces Mr. Lunt to appear onstage in drag as Ophelia because “in Shakespeare’s day, *all the women’s roles were played by men*”  - “Silly Songs with Larry” is replaced by “Classy Songs with Larry.” Archibald seems very excited to announce this, not just because it’s a classy song, but because it’s his boyfriend singing. In a top hat. Larry plays along willingly of course.  - also the whole episode is about socialism so that’s fun 

Episode 16: The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown (2001)  nothing happens in this one 

Episode 17: Jonah Sing Along Songs and More (2002) - At the beginning of the episode Larry says that he is “so excited and just can’t hide it” but he doesn’t really say why. I think it’s because his boyfriend is supposed to be the star of the Jonah movie. - Archibald is afraid to come out of his dressing room because he doesn’t want to be swallowed by a whale. Larry tries to convince Archibald to come out of the closet his dressing room by offering to share his popcorn and accidentally covers himself in butter. For the laughs of course. no other reason. - When that doesn’t work, Larry teases Archibald by acting like a chicken and calls it “tough love.” Which doesn’t work. - Larry tries to inspire his boyfriend to come out of the closet his dressing room by dressing up as Indiana Jones, James Bond, and of course Larryboy. Which is very cute but also doesn’t work.  - Archibald finally comes out after Larry offers to replace him in the movie.

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) - Archibald plays Jonah and Larry plays one of the Pirates who Don’t Do Anything. When Jonah asks the pirates to take him away from Ninevah, he makes some waggly eye gestures and says “money is no object.” Larry’s jaw drops and eye patch pops off.  - Larry is visibly concerned after Jonah is thrown overboard, and manages to throw him a life raft. Larry is also the first to react when Jonah is eaten by the whale anyway.

Episode 18: The Star of Christmas (2002)  Larry’s aesthetic is adorable but nothing happens

Episode 19: The Wonderful World of Auto-tainment! (2003)  Love the 60′s aesthetic, but nothing gay happens except maybe the robots? 

Episode 20: The Ballad of Little Joe (2003) Larry goes to cowboy camp (*ahem*) but nothing happens between him and Archibald here. Great episode though

Episode 21: An Easter Carol (2004)  nothing happens 

Episode 22: A Snoodle’s Tale (2004)  - Larry accidentally gets separated from Danish Immersion Camp and ends up at British Literary Camp instead. Instead of trying to get back to Danish Immersion Camp he decides to stay at British Literary Camp the whole summer. I wonder why Larry would suddenly have an interest in British literature? To impress a certain someone (who doesn’t appear in this episode) perhaps?  - episode also features body positivity, Jimmy Gourd in drag, and bi solidarity

Episode 23: Sumo of the Opera (2004) nothing happens

[aion-rsa]

New on Netflix: July 2021 Releases

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By the power of Grayskull, Netflix’s list of new releases for July 2021 is here!

As you may have been able to tell by that clever opening, July is the month that Masters of the Universe: Revelation arrives on Netflix. This animated series from Kevin Smith continues the classic stories of He-Man and his buff friends. If nostalgia not be what ye seek, Netflix has plenty other original series this month as well. The amazingly hilarious sketch series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson returns for season 2 on July 6. Also returning for a second season are Beastars, Never Have I Ever (both on July 15), and Outer Banks (July 30).

Netflix’s movie offerings are pretty thick this month since July marks the real beginning of the summer blockbuster season. The streamer is bringing not one, but three Fear Street films based on R.L. Stine’s classic book series. They arrive on July 1, July 9, and July 16 respectively. Also of note are Gundpowder Milkshake (July 14), Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (July 21), and The Last Letter From Your Lover (July 23).

And if that weren’t enough, July sees a big influx of TV properties on Netflix. The Walking Dead season 10 (July 26), Wynonna Earp season 4 (July 26), and The Flash season 7 (July 28) all arrive at month’s end. These library titles will be complemented by The Twilight Saga (July 16) and the usual bevy of July 1 releases.

New on Netflix: July 2021

Coming Soon Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin Feels Like Ishq — NETFLIX SERIES  How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast): Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES 

July 1 Audible — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY Dynasty Warriors — NETFLIX FILM  Generation 56k — NETFLIX SERIES  Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway — NETFLIX ANIME FILM  Young Royals — NETFLIX SERIES  Air Force One Austin Powers in Goldmember Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me The Best of Enemies Boogie Nights Born to Play Bureau of Magical Things: Season 1 Charlie’s Angels Congo Dennis the Menace The Game Hampstead The Karate Kid The Karate Kid Part II The Karate Kid Part III Kung Fu Panda Kung Fu Panda 2 Life as We Know It Love Actually Mary Magdalene Memoirs of a Geisha Midnight Run Mortal Kombat (1995) No Strings Attached Not Another Teen Movie Ophelia Sailor Moon Crystal: Seasons 1-3 She’s Out of My League Spanglish Star Trek The Strangers Stuart Little Supermarket Sweep: Season 1 Sword of Trust Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Terminator 2: Judgment Day Underworld Underworld: Awakening Underworld: Rise of the Lycans What Dreams May Come Why Do Fools Fall in Love ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE

July 2 The 8th Night — NETFLIX FILM  Big Timber — NETFLIX SERIES  Fear Street Part 1: 1994 — NETFLIX FILM Haseen Dillruba — NETFLIX FILM  Mortel: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES Snowpiercer

July 3 Grey’s Anatomy: Season 17

July 4 We The People — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 5 You Are My Spring — NETFLIX SERIES 

July 6 I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: Season 2 — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

July 7 Brick Mansions Cat People — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY Dogs: Season 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY The Mire: ’97 — NETFLIX SERIES  The War Next-door — NETFLIX SERIES  Major Grom: Plague Doctor — NETFLIX FILM  This Little Love of Mine

July 8 Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY  Home Again Midnight Sun RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness — NETFLIX ANIME

July 9 Atypical: Season 4 — NETFLIX SERIES Biohackers: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES  The Cook of Castamar — NETFLIX SERIES  Fear Street Part 2: 1978 — NETFLIX FILM How I Became a Superhero — NETFLIX FILM  Last Summer — NETFLIX FILM  Lee Su-geun: The Sense Coach — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL  Virgin River: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES

July 10 American Ultra

July 13 Ridley Jones — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 14 A Classic Horror Story — NETFLIX FILM  The Guide to the Perfect Family — NETFLIX FILM  Gunpowder Milkshake — NETFLIX FILM Heist — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY My Unorthodox Life — NETFLIX SERIES Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía? — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

July 15 A Perfect Fit — NETFLIX FILM  BEASTARS: Season 2 — NETFLIX ANIME  Emicida: AmarElo – Live in São Paulo — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY  My Amanda — NETFLIX FILM  Never Have I Ever: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES

July 16 The Beguiled Deep — NETFLIX FILM  Explained: Season 3 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY (NEW EPISODES WEEKLY) Fear Street Part 3: 1666 — NETFLIX FILM Johnny Test — NETFLIX FAMILY Twilight The Twilight Saga: New Moon The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2

July 17 Cosmic Sin

July 20 milkwater

July 21 Chernobyl 1986 — NETFLIX FILM  The Movies That Made Us: Season 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY One on One with Kirk Cameron: Season 1 Sexy Beasts — NETFLIX SERIES  Too Hot to Handle: Brazil — NETFLIX SERIES Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 22 Still Working 9 to 5  Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop — NETFLIX ANIME 

July 23 A Second Chance: Rivals! — NETFLIX FAMILY Bankrolled — NETFLIX FILM  Blood Red Sky — NETFLIX FILM  Kingdom: Ashin of the North — NETFLIX FILM  The Last Letter From Your Lover — NETFLIX FILM Masters of the Universe: Revelation — NETFLIX SERIES Sky Rojo: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES 

July 24 Charmed: Season 3 Django Unchained

July 26 The Walking Dead: Season 10 Wynonna Earp: Season 4

July 27 All American: Season 3 Mighty Express: Season 4 — NETFLIX FAMILY The Operative

July 28 Bartkowiak — NETFLIX FILM   Fantastic Fungi  The Flash: Season 7 The Snitch Cartel: Origins — NETFLIX SERIES  Tattoo Redo — NETFLIX SERIES Too Hot to Handle: Brazil — NETFLIX SERIES

July 29 Resort to Love — NETFLIX FILM Transformers: War for Cybertron: Kingdom — NETFLIX ANIME

July 30 Centaurworld — NETFLIX FAMILY Glow Up: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES  The Last Mercenary — NETFLIX FILM Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY Outer Banks: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES

July 31 The Vault

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Leaving Netflix: July 2021

July 5 The Iron Lady

July 7 The Invitation

July 14 Holidays

July 15 The Princess and the Frog

July 19 Love Sick: The Series: Season 1

July 22 Oh My Ghost Oh My Ghost 2 Oh My Ghost 3 Oh My Ghost 4

July 28 The Croods

July 30 Spotlight

July 31 A Clockwork Orange  Bride of Chucky Child’s Play 2 Child’s Play 3  Eat Pray Love  Four Christmases  Freak Show  Fred Claus  Friends with Benefits G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Grand Designs: Season 10  Grand Designs: Season 15  Hardcore Henry  Hinterland: Seasons 1-3 Hook Horns Jupiter Ascending King Arthur  Little Baby Bum: Nursery Rhyme Friends: S1 The Little Rascals Mad Max My Best Friend’s Wedding Nacho Libre  Nights in Rodanthe The Patriot  Remember Me Seed of Chucky Step Up: Revolution Your Highness  Zombieland 

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[1albumaday]

2020

2020

The Chats - The Clap

Easy-peasy punk rock album 

Loving - If I am only my thoughts

Charming sun-dappled folk-pop, clean, gentle melodies

Steve Spacek - Houses 

iPhone/iPad recorded, latino and jazz accented dance/house beats

Ghali - DNA 

Total Flop and failed expectations. Mishmash of bland and frivolous lyrics and arrangements.

King Krule - Man Alive!

Alienating, violent, romantic, anguishing, doomed, noir / jazz, post-punk, soul, dubstep, electronic, garage rock, hip-hop

Justin Bieber - Changes

Disappointing comeback - boring r&b with zero sex appeal and cheesy lyrics and all-the-same songs

Guided by voices - Surrender your poppy field

Unusual time signatures, song lengths, and baroque-prog structures - mature rock and sometimes pixie / 80s dreamy

Corrections - Simply Activities

80s new wave and post punk nostalgia - cheesy vocals at times - first half more solid than second

Swim Mountain- If

A lovely mix of indie and funktronica, synth pop, r&b

Caribou - Suddenly

Sly and sofishticated sound design flits between uk garage disco and more - some tracks way less strong than others

Grimes - Miss Anthropocene 

Mix “Ethereal nu metal”, ambient, dance, electronic, drum’n’bass, country - is violent and dark but sexy, delicate and dreamy

Porridge Radio - Every Bad 

A dissonant lush indie rock sometimes dreamy sometimes dark and ironic with mantra-litany dusky lyrics from peaceful to desperate

Four Tet - Sixteen oceans

Wind instruments, synths and drum patterns gradually fade to calming ambient sounds, intense and meditative but also danceable and powerful

Kamaiyah - Got it made

Short, stripped-down, bubbling keyboards and drum-machine handclaps. NO current rap trends. windows-down bass-rattle record of one person’s confidence in her own sound and charisma

Poolside - Low season

Funk percussions, retro synths, pop and disco influences + indie vocals

Morioh Sonder - Is this psychedelia?

Surf pop and psych rock, dreamy post punk influences, danceable and whimsical 

KEYAH/BLU - Sorry, I forgot you were coming 

Perfect blend of rap, rnb, experimental pop, dark rhythms textured electronics, intimate tales 

TOPS - I feel alive

Pop, radiant and 80s romantic with a contemporary experimental palette

The Chats - High risk behaviour 

Classic old-school pure punk / cheerily undemanding fun

NIN - Ghosts V: Together

Buzzy ambient, melodic hooks, emotional palette of sounds 

NIN - Ghosts VI: Locusts

Together’s opposite, anxiety-inducing, despairing horns, breathing and devouring sounds.

Roger and Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

Feels like a balm for these anxious times

Fiona Apple - Fetch the bolt cutters

Handclaps, chants, makeshift percussion, echoes, whispers, screams, breathing, jokes, dog barks, rattling blues. Contains no conventional pop forms. freeing and powerful. 

The Weeknd - After Hours

Satisfying collision of new wave, dream pop, R&B, synth-pop nostalgia

BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff 

Jazzy eighties rock with some icy funk and electronic pop, painfully personal and uneasy but so self-deprecating it speaks like your best friend

Rone - Room with a view 

Deft splicing of beats-based electronics and dance music with classical influences. 21st century baroque chords, snatches of conversations, speeches, children’s voices

Other Lives - For their love

Bluesy acid-rock, dreamy meditation sounds, eerie string-crescendos, music for the afterlife

Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 

Drill-influenced rapping, melodic crooning, trends-aware hip-hop beats, untouchable pop sound production

Squarepusher - Be up a hello

Frantic breakbeats littered with echoes of classic jungle, hardcore, and drum’n’bass, ’90s drill’n’bass, glitchy 8-bit chaos

The Orielles - Disco Volador

Cosmic, playful, funky dreamy indie pop, shuffling organs, woozy guitar, shimmy-shimmy hand percussion

Portico Quartet - We welcome tomorrow

Perfect dreamy sequel of ‘Memory streams’

Charlie XCX - how i’m feeling now

Quarantine creation / 2020 romance manifesto of club-pop, trap, k-pop, video game sounds, fuzzy synths and crackling bass

Holy Fuck - Deleter

Trippy, psychedelic tapestry of euphoric escapism, ‘90s dance, glitchy beats, airy vocals, experimental electronics 

Luge - Luge

Energetic and playful avant-garde and quirky math rock, zolo? 

Good With Parents, Triple Stephens - Comments & Reflection

Playful indietronica synth pop + classical instruments 

Wishing - None of this was your fault 

Lo-fi indie, ambient, slowcore w/ fragile lyrics 

Bibio - Sleep on the wing 

Indie folk treated like ambient / a gorgeous soundscape of strings, guitars and flutes, feelings of loss, hope and escape. Perfect picture of tranquil countryside memories

Piotr Kurek - A Sacrifice Shall Be Made / All The Wicked Scenes

Electroacoustic experimental, meditative-ritualistic atmospheric music / conceived for theatrical performances 

Military Genius - Deep Web

Meditative ambient, retro-futurist soundscapes / hypnagogic pop, dark, abstract and mysterious / early ‘70s folk interjecting jazz-brass sections 

Jockstrap - Wicked City

Melancholy waltz and winsome ballads, fluttering strings, soft piano glissandi mixed with gnarly and distorted hip-hop beats, buzzing guitars and synths / cherubic vocals, pcmusic-style manipulated at times

Georgia - String Token 

Experimental ambient electronic, minimal, melodic, futuristic, hypnotic and grim

EVOL - Madball Manners

Lingering experimental rave electronic, hardcore, techno 

Upsammy - Zoom

Playful, sampling, abstract IDM, ambient techno, melodic and rhythmic, surreal, futuristic, sparkling synths and billowing pads

Tomasz Kunicki - Muzyka dla Świątyń

Playful and abstract IDM, glittering synths, obscure pads, glitchy and bleepy

Tomasz Kunicki - The sound is gone, where did it go, I have no idea

Very bassy and very dubby IDM, atmospheric ambient and loopy electronics

Kate NV - Room for the moon

80s new wave, progressive electronic, synth pop, cornucopia of melodies and genres. Wriggling synths, chirping flutes, warm baselines, jazzy sax, woodwinds, marimba. Russian girly vocals cartoon theme-song-like.

Khruangbin - Mordechai 

Psychedelic / funk rock with some soul, dub, lounge, poolside disco - exotic and atmospheric 

Dalai Lama - Inner world

Chanted mantras rhythmically woven into wafting new-age flutes, chimes, strings and free-form guitar picking. 

K-Lone - Cape Cira

Tropical ambient house, warm, lush, soft. Zen yet bouncy rhythms. Digital and analogue recordings, at times feels like you’re underwater. 

Arca - KiCk i

Experimental industrial club rhythms with reggaeton and folk influences

The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

Sleek and personal indie rock, romantic ballads, more sentimental and slow than the previous album

J Lloyd - Kosmos

Tasteful soul and funk pop in 25 tiny tracks, charming low-key, rich textures, good vibes

Julek Polsk - Tesco

Dissonant, ominous, dense, post industrial ambient, noise, sound collage, deconstructed club music

Taylor Swift - folklore

Folk/chamber pop, indie folk, bittersweet, mellow, melancholic ballads

Bill Callahan - Gold Record 

Contemporary folk, warm and deep vocals, pastoral, peaceful and melancholic 

Mura Masa - R.Y.C. 

Indietronica, post-punk revival, catchy indie/synth pop, early 2000 EMO, lots of hip collabs

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death 

Post-punk, indie rock, art punk, gothic rock, raw deadpan male vocals, darkish and melodic

RAMzi - cocon 

Tribal House, ambient dub, balearic beats, downtempo, hypnotic and tropical 

Auguste - Indust 

Experimental ambient electronic + field recordings, glistening and splintered sounds 

Paul Blackford - Betamax

Dreamy and hypnotic trip hop, downtempo, synth wave

A.G.Cook - 7G

49-track archival collection of sketches, cover versions, volatile lab experiments, divided into 7 discs. a glimpse at the whirring cogs beneath hyperpop’s pristine casing.

Clap clap - Liquid Portraits 

Experimental musical tapestry and collage / high-energy concoction of unpredictable and wavy rhythms, exotic vocals and heavy, relentless bass and drums / UK Bass, ambient dub, footwork + far-flung field recordings

E.M.M.A. - Indigo Dream 

Progressive electronic, ambient house / 80s melodic atmospheres, goosebump-inducing synths, whimsical melodies and classical leanings

Leif - Music for screen tests 

Performed live @ Barbican as a 54min session ambient / drone film soundtrack (Andy Warhol's Screen Tests)

Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics

Post/art/dance punk, experimental rock - energetic, anxious, apocalyptic, dark, male vocals

Document - A Camera Wanders All Night 

Post-punk, noise rock, past-hardcore, distorted and raw male vocals

Keisuke Matsuda - Clumsily Back Up

Experimental electronic with playful hummed vocals, lo-fi beats, melodic, youthful, dreamlike

Coi Leray - Now or Never

Gen-Z superstar, melodic flows, bouncy trap, energetic killer lyrics 

The Ophelias - For Luck

Artful, string-laden indie-pop EP, grungy dream-pop, a quarantine remake and a Joni Mitchell cover

Romare - Home

Deep house, UK Bass, groovy and detailed sonic palette + soul and funk influences - dancefloor highs and after party wind-downs

Mulatu Astatke, Black Jesus Experience - To Know Without Knowing 

Ethio-Jazz, Cuban, funk, reggae workout + rapid-fire rap or Afrobeat drums 

Good Doom - Spider Temple Valley

Experimental psych-wave, gentle and peaceful lo-fi, dreamy and oozy with flute, sax and field recordings

Ralph Kinsella - Abstraction

Dark ambient experimental / instrumental electronic

IDLES - Ultra Mono

Post-punk, garage punk, hardcore, noise rock, raw male vocals, dense, energetic, angry, political

Mild Orange - Mild Orange 

Alternative, Indie rock, dream pop, 

Skinshape - Umoja

Experimental psychedelic rock - afro beats - afroswinig - funky - world music

Vulfpeck - The Joy of Music, The Job of Real Estate

Mixed bag of funk, jazz, soul, self-indulgent? classical reworks, progressive electronic, melodic and uplifting, groovy drums and bass lines 

OPN - Magic OPN 

Manipulated and sequenced archive radio and sounds collages as interludes, uncanny processed voices, poppish trope ballads, art pop, sentimental and surreal, dense, progressive hypnagogic electronic and more

Pa Salieu - Send them to coventry

Combined dancehall, Afrobeats, hip-hop and grime. Scattered drums, stop-start energy, handpicked words and rhymes. skips from trap trills to baile breakdowns.

Mama Ode - Tales & Patterns of the Maroons

Classic hip-hop album with jazz, funk, blues and reggae influences. Creole Sega Rap Roots music, afro-drum patterns and grooves

Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela - Rejoice

Live sessions of unique fusion of afrobeat and swing-jazz with lyrics in English, Yoruba and Zulu 

Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

Pop rock, 80s synth-rock, grit and freewheeling sense of fun, rough-hewn panache of vocal performance, bittersweet eclectic and sentimental / collabs with rock idols

2019 

LCD Soundsystem - Electric lady sessions 

Live recording with some new wavy covers 

Harry Styles - Fine line 

Not catchy / mediocre pop 

Boothe - 8 or 9 Walled Room

10 minutes of playful electronic and soft vocals

Good with parents - Good with parents 

Clever indietronica synth pop, fun + ironic + millennial + sax 

Taylor Skye - Kode fine & sons 

Synth, beats and pop vocals 

Famous - England 

Wonky pop punk mixed to electronic sounds and raw spoken vocals

Orville Peck - Pony 

Simple pop rock Johnny Cash style ballads and 80s

Sassy 009 - Kill Sassy 009

Distorted electro pop with strong vocals + post-punk notes

J-Walk - Mediterranean Winds 

Jazzy electronica with glassy synth pads cheesy and chilled out

Mattiel - Satis Factory 

Punky garage rock strong female vocals

Ross Backenkeller - Come Around

Country dreamy and melancholy guitar and vocals 

Legss - Writing Comedy 

Art rock and a dark underbelly of post-punk + topnotch spoken track and electronic sounds

BEA1991 - The Lost Demo EP

Trip-hop with Bjork-style vocals

BEA1991 - Brand New Adult 

Chamber folk and yacht rock meld with R&B and trip-hop

Matt Maltese - Krystal

Lo-fi flowy bedroom pop breakup album

Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club

Folk-pop, mellow and melancholy soul with an r&b tinge

Infinite Bisous- Period 

Soothing and warm bedroom night album 

Achille Lauro - 1969

Trap changed into rock with romanticised lyrics 

Jerkcurb - Air Con Eden 

Indie-psych and retro Americana, atmospheric, sensitive, wobbly

Octo Octa - Resonant Body

Breakbeats and house bangers

ALASKALASKA - The Dots 

Jazz fusion, disco rhythms and high-gloss art rock

Orphan - Yijoda

Glitchy and sharp electronics + ambient-atmospheric sounds

Honeymoan - Body

Avant-garde pop tapestry of beats and synths with playful vocal

U-Bahn - U-Bahn

Traditional new wave DEVO-moulded, Hypnagogic pop, art-punk, some vaporwave synth sounds

Hail Conjurer - Erotic Hell

Obscure and raw Finnish black metal 

Ride for revenge - Chapter of alchemy 

Quality black metal with long and short tracks pretty smooth 

Boys Age - Neverchanging, Neverending 

Lo-fi, slow-tempo, soul, r&b, mellow tracks with sad very low vocals

MorMor - Some place else 

Indie-pop with sweet synths and delicate vocals 

Felicita - hej!

Overproduced pop dance hits broken down into harsh and jarring staccato melodies, hissing ambient and screams

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

Endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief, scored by synths, pianos, and electronics

Portico Quartet - Memory Streams

Ethereal keyboards, hypnotic grooves, layered post-rock textures mixed with electronic, ambient and magnetic jazz build-ups

Charles Rumback + Ryley Walker - Little common twist 

Mellow and pastoral folksy guitar melodies and soft drums + ambient tones, drone electronic

Shadowax - Nikolai Reptile

Effervescent techno and mutant bass jams

The Rhythm Method - How do you know I was lonely?

Ostensibly witty and warm pop songs from hip hop to indie and electronic about romance and millennial youth

Martin Dupont - Accident of Stars

80s kinda goth new wave full of electronics, guitars synths and clarinets

Raime - Planted

Latin American and Chicago footwork influences merged with alien sounds, half-heard voices, dark and rhythmic bass and percussions

Sunn 0))) - Pyroclasts

Sunn 0))) - Life Metal

Slow-motion drone feels like a religious ritual / pipe organ and cello, guitars webbing together the space between notes

Special Request - Vortex 

Breakbeat barnstormers and house epics, with room for bleep, electro and gabber

Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation

Oscillating sequencers, rhythmic pulsations, cascades of synthesiser melodies echoing dance music/new age

Battles - Juice B Crypts 

Playful electronic wizardry, dense array of beats, bleeps and squelches, loopy keyboards and guitars, ecstatic vocals

Haruomi Hosono - HOCHONO HOUSE

Home-recorded aesthetic, funk shaped into minimalist space-age lounge music 

Florist - Emily Alone 

Thoughtful, calming and melancholic, full of hushed, enveloping guitar sounds and gentle vocals

Spencer Radcliffe - Hot Spring 

Alt-country, indie falk americana, very relaxed,pastoral and wry poetics

Ciamkam - Play-doh Dog 

Noise ambient / screeching, dissonant, surreal, ominous 

Equiknoxx - Eternal Children 

UK soundsystem style, reggae groundings, earthy dancehall with a vast range of puzzling vocalists

Eh hahah - Fissure

Experimental deconstructed electronic, sound collage, glitches and post-club music

Upsammy - Wild Chamber 

Lucid shades of IDM, bleep techno, perky synths and frazzling hi-hats, polyrhythmic drum patterns

Otik - Blasphemy

Fresh, vibrant, dark experimental club music, techno + dance + electronic 

Shanti Celeste - Tangerine

Tech / ambient / deep house, breakbeat, rhythmic and mechanical yet dreamy 

Bez - Banki Mydlane

Dream pop, shoegaze, noise pop, space rock, reverberated female vocals + spoken word

Yu Su - Roll with the punches 

Ambient dub, downtempo, tribal ambient, sampling, mellow, atmospheric with female vocals

Drive45 - Dried up 

Bitpop, Artpop, indietronica, quirky and playful, androgynous vocals 

Lala &ce - Le son d’apres 

French hip hop, trap, cloud rap, alternative b&b, dancehall / sparse dark and ominous, warm female vocals

Leif - Loom Dream

Tribal ambient / ambient techno + field recordings / pastoral, ethereal, atmospheric 

deathcrash - Sundown (a collection of home recordings)

Slowcore, drone ambient, post-punk, fragile male vocals

FEET - What’s inside is more than just ham

Post-punk, indie-rock, dance-punk, sarcastic, playful, technical, male vocals

Coi Leray - EC2

Trap, hyphy, pop rap

Ariwo- Quasi 

Dub techno, afro-cuban jazz, ambient techno, chants, programmed beats, pulsating relentless rhythms and percussions, loud sax

Floating Points - Crush

Strikingly melodic and elegant, cinematic, frantic and distorted rhythms, shuddered synths, vibrant breakbeats, sampling, UK garage nodding

Jacques Greene - Dawn Chorus

Bittersweet, sad but triumphant, mix of experimental electronic and lightweight techno + field recordings, hazy sampled textures, distorted drones + disco house + percussions + spoken word

Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz

Indie electronic, minimal, chillout downtempo, dreamy female vocals, jazzy

Raveena - Lucid 

R&B, soul, experimental, pop, groovy, jazzy and dreamy, with some field and spoken words recordings

2018

Shit and Shine - Very high 

Lazy hippie funk with slowed rnb vocals 

Saloli - The deep end

New Age-inspired delicate only-synth music 

Adrianne Lenker - abysskis 

Guitar and sweet and warm vocals 

Ever ending kicks - Ideas relayed 

Sweet lo-fi similar to the previous two 

Negative Gemini - Bad Baby 

Solid synth pop with dreamy intimate vocals

Okay Kaya - Both

melancholy bedroom-pop sarcastic and harsh lyrics

Trust Fund - Bringing the Backline

Witty yet melancholy self-aware pop-rock

Jockstrap - Love is the key to the city 

A fusion of Bossa Nova, 1930s Disney-esque orchestra, and coarse electronica

Noah Cyrus - Good Cry

Pop and rnb debut album with a bit of gospel and melancholy

Carla dal Forno - Top of the pops

Alternative indie electronic, subtle instrumental backdrops with plaintive vocals

Lala Lala - The lamb 

Alternative/Indie rock with grunge tones and personal and warm vocals

Diamond Thug - Apastron

Progressive but dreamy pop, graceful vocals

Denh Izen - Storage Solutions 

Dark and charming sounds with warm and distorted vocals, desperate but calm

Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 

New York Jazz mixed with top-notch black metal great for a sci-fi dystopian movie - especially Cosmopolis

Oliver Coates - Shelley’s on Zenn-La

Beat-oriented electronic music, sublime cello and synths

Dylan Carlson - Conquistador

drone-metal imaginary Western mostly solo electric guitar

Project Pablo - Come to Canada you will like it 

Dozy laid back deep house with  jazzy chords and subtly swinging drums

Ryley Walker - The Lillywhite Sessions 

Dave Matthews Band tribute with proggy folk, primitive guitar, free improv, Chicago jazz-rock on darker tones 

Grouper - Grid of Points

Empty room, piano and voice slip through your fingers like water

Kali malone - Cast of Mind

Glacial synth tones mapped to acoustic woodwind and brass 

Likes - New Pedal

Short tracks of fun glitch / hypnagogic pop

Jake Tobin - Fifth Thought

Fun and whimsical take on classical sax sounds and guitars

Jake Tobin - 135

Avant-prog / jazz fusion / romanticism / off-kilter melodies / psychedelic chords with the emotion and aesthetic of bedroom pop

Twig Twig - Darkworld Gleaming

Experimental pop, whimsical instrumentation, lo-fi uplift, beats and loops

George Clanton - Slide

Cult 2020s electronic born from vaporware influences mixed with whispery chillwave and downtempo R&B, feels like a 90s rave in an open field, no irony

Good Doom - Mood Life

Unique, very chill, dreamy sound, incorporates world music, trip hop beats, lo fi bedroom pop, krautrock and noise

Ex:Re - Ex:Re

Husky and mellow ambient pop, dream pop? Lethargic and melancholic 

Zaumne - Emo Dub

Minimalistic ominous and repetitive ambient house with ASMR-like spoken words

Ehh hahah - And the weather so breezy, man, why can’t life always be this easy?

Progressive experimental electronic, deconstructed club music, EDM, bubblegum bass, playful yet dark

Kate NV - для FOR

Progressive electronic, ambient, new age, minimalist, surreal, otherworldly and playful. wet, fleshy bleeps; bubbly, liquid noise

Leon Chang - re:treat

Mellow lo-fi hip hop, downtempo, electronic, future bass, sampling 

Coi Leray - Everythingcoz

Pop rap, trap, hyphy tunes, powerful + well produced 

Domenique Dumont - Miniatures de auto rhythm 

Sophist-pop, balearic beat, chillwave, dreampopish, soft female vocals, lush, summery and rhythmic

Big Joanie - Sistahs 

Pretty standard textbook indie-rock, post-punk with female vocals 

Darto - Fundamental Slime 

Haunting and spacious, deep male vocals, intriguing eerie melodies, dream state lullabies + sax and spoken word bit

Old Maybe - Piggity Pink 

Chaotic post-punk, unusual time signatures, strong shouted female vocals

Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution! 

Elegant and melodic modal jazz - post-bop album, fragmented but coherent, ever changing time signature and tempo

2017

Ross Backenkeller - Bardo

Folk indie guitar melodies with honest and gentle vocals

Maruego - Tra Zenith e Nadir

Italian trap with disillusioned and ironic lyrics + cool collabs

Nervous Condition - Untitled 

Forceful drums, wails of sax and commanding vocals - mix of experimental rock, post-punk, no wave, jazz

Powerplant - Dogs Sees Ghosts

Synth punk, garage punk fast and fun

Wool & The Pants - Wool & The Pants

Experimental r&b / soul / hiphop vibez pretty smooth and lo-fi

TOPS - Sugar at the gate 

Soft rock tunes, vintage atmosphere, fuzzy, honey-dipped songs 

Slothrust - Show me how you want it to be 

Covers album with grungy sounds and good arrangements 

Rone - Mirapolis

Misty synths and heavy bass lines, dreary and melancholic industrial electronics, packed with doomed vocals of all sorts of guests. 

Ada Babar & Kasra Kurt - Nino Tomorrow

Weird pop and experimental DIY with MIDI keyboards and guitar, playful lyrics, video game menu music

Good Doom - New Shapes for you

Evocative, dreamy and atmospheric melodies, warm at times, chilly, spooky, grungy, dark at others, synth buzzes, glitchy drums

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the alps

Atmospheric ballads for sad times, deeply personal stories of heartbreak and loss 

Florist - If Blue Could Be Happiness

Indie folk, soft and atmospheric, pure gentle quiet and soft female vocals about understanding light and darkness. Swooping guitar, dots of piano notes, gentle beats that recall Simon and Garfunkel

Wishing - Heat Death 

Ambient pop, lo-fi indie beats w/ soft vocals that make you feel things you haven’t felt in a while

Martyn Heyne - Electric Intervals

Ambient in the broadest sense, calm instrumental downtempo guitar-centric with electronic flourishes

Equiknoxx - Colón Man

Vivid and tactile masterful sound design, syncopated loops, wonky and scintillating rhythms 

American Pleasure Club - I blew a dandelion and the whole world disappeared 

Lo-fi acoustic guitar with raw male vocals

Andrea Laszlo De Simone - Uomo Donna 

Progressive pop, baroque/psychedelic pop + field recordings / bittersweet and pastoral 

Drive45 - Have you seen me? 

Bitpop indietronic, glitch pop, sequencer, dance pop

Drive45 - System Format

Bitpop indietronic, playful video game sounds

Leon Chang - bird world 

Bitpop electronic, sequencer, videogame music, future bass / uplifting mellow and playful 

dynastic - SPACE/SUMMER 

Glitch hop, electronic bubblegum, kawaii future bass, mellow and uptempo, cheesy sax, chaotic sounds + dance floor dnb

Darto - Human Giving 

Spacey experimental electronic mixed with post-punk, warm tones, 80s synths, soft melodic vocals + spoken bits

Pregnant - Duct Tape

Indie/art/soft rock, electronic, brilliant pop tunes, dreamy yet rhythmic

2016

Ever Ending Kicks - Music World

DIY colourful dreamy hazy songs 

Mild Eye Club - Skiptracing 

Low-key folk dreamy with 60s 70s vintage links

Loving - Loving 

Easy and dreamy pop melodies, wavy, warm and mellow

Lala Lala- Sleepyhead 

Alternative/Indie rock with grunge tones and personal and warm vocals

Gruff Rhys - Set fire to the stars

Soundtrack to the homonym 2014 film set in the 50s - soft romance rock, jazz-inspired, elegant and familiar

Oliver Coates - Upstepping

Deep house, techno, footwork blended with sharp and experimental classical strings 

Garden Center - Garden Center

Erratic pop music, fun and playful electronic sounds, silly vocals

Raime - Tooth

Ominus and gloomy sound of dub, electronic and post-rock / stripped down to the flesh 

Amiina - Fantomas 

Violin, cello, drums, percussion, metallophone, harp, ukulele and electronics fused in a contemporary classical post-rock gentle melody-focused experimentation

Jake Tobin - Sorta Upset

Short tracks of experimental rock, avant-prog - eclectic and dissonant, technical and manic

Jake Tobin - Accidentally on Purpose

Post-modern experimental pop, jazz influenced sounds, off-kilter saxophone, silly humour 

Vanishing Twin - Choose your own adventure

Swathes of percussion, exotic drum beats and funky guitars merge into a cosmic blend of reverberating bleeps with jazz skits / heady voyage across sound influences

Good Doom - Hug

Good Doom - Naps

Both off-beat lo-fi with a rock twists, spacey, fuzzy, grainy sounds

Zeal & Ardor - Devil is fine

Top notch black metal merges African-American spiritual slave music and some electronic beats and sounds

Shield Patterns - Mirror Breathing

Haunting vocals and sensual cello, clarinet and piano, all wrapped up in ethereal synths

Ashley Henry - Ashley Henry’s 5ive

Complex and uplifting post-bop jazz, imaginative flare, delicate and soothing piano

Florist - The Birds Outside Sang 

Lo-fi indie, ambient-dream pop,sparse, minimalist keyboard leads bordering on chilly drones + intimate and personal songwriting

CBMC - OOR

Acustic lo-fi bedroom pop with an airy tone and somber feel but still feels fresh and lighthearted 

Told Slant - Going By

Slowcore indie pop/folksy emo, ‘intimate spaces in which small town kids write memories of touch, togetherness, loss, love, depersonalisation’

Kate NV - Binasu

Art pop, progressive electronic, sequencer, joyful grooves but also atmospheric and ethereal sounds, eclectic and dense, melodic female vocals

Zaumne - Przezycia

Minimal ambient techno with a couple of spoken word bits 

Mauno - Rough Master

Enticingly and eclectic indie rock, smooth vocals, strings and moody guitars, delicate piano, powerful drums

Susso - Keira

Tribal house, tribal ambient, folktronica, Mande music, rhythmic and powerful chants

Phern - Cool Coma  

Psychedelic pop, lo-fi, mellow and playful 

Hellier Ulysses - Ulysses Hellier 

Experimental rock, math rock, jangle pop mixed with post-punk, technical, lo-fi, uncommon time signatures

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads 

Deceptively sweet-sounding jazz album, songs are played with variations and every phrase is a cliffhanger - gracefully executed + bonus of my fav song <3

2015

Adeodat Warfield - Pacific, Missouri 

Synth pop with electronic beats, vaporware notes

Ross Backenkeller - Rare Please

Folk indie guitar melodies with honest and gentle vocals

Grimes - Art Angels

Immaculate and authentic, synthetic and unreal but also super pop, folk, and dance / POST-art pop?

Jake Tobin - Third and Fourth Thoughts

Short tracks of weird avant-prog where the vocals follow the melodies all the time

Florist - Holdly

Vocals move slowly and sweetly through gentle meditation sound and soft guitars

Starry Cat - Starry Cat

Indie pop, lo-fi indie, wavy and shaky, bitter-sweet and personal male vocals 

CBMC - FOOTWEAR

Acustic lo-fi bedroom pop with a somber feel but still feels fresh and lighthearted nearly asmr-like vocals 

Wishing - To Forget

Lo-fi indie slowcore, fuzzy synths + acoustic sounds mixed with short electronic tracks / lyrics are whispered and very intimate 

Oren Ambarchi - Live Knots 

Two very long live recorded tracks of propulsive drumming full of tensions and releases + droning notes, plucked strings and mournful guitar 

Juxta Phona - we will not be silence 

Ambient, electronic, minimal melodies over crisp, tactile beats

Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You

Psychedelic / Funk rock, rhythmic and jazzy, tropical warm and peaceful

Red Sea - In The Salon 

Indie experimental rock, psychedelic pop, math rock, melodic yet uncommon time signatures 

Eyeliner - Buy Now 

Synth-pop/funk - vaporwave / instrumental, melodic, uplifting, lush, futuristic / great bass lines! 

2014

Ricky Eat Acid - Three love songs

First half found sounds, experimental electronics, fuzzy piano loops. Second half IDM beats and keys, choir-like vocals / “might be the sound of music having a dream within a dream about music”

Jake Tobin - Torment 

Jake Tobin - Life as a Clerical Error

Weird dissonant mix of avant-prog, art punk and jazz fusion but in an amazing way

Richard Dawson - Nothing Important 

Brittle, crudely amplified nylon-string acoustic guitar, experimental drones, folk sketches, imitation field cries, and free jazz diversions

2013

Ever Ending Kicks - Weird priorities

Sentimental chill instrumental and colourful with gentle vocals

Gruff Rhys - American Interior

John Evans-themes concept album - witty folk oriented retro-futurist music 

Michael Andrews - Spilling a rainbow

Well-crafted pop tunes, nostalgic and lighthearted memories of folk rock with a dash of avant-garde electronic haze

Pill Friends - Blessed Suffering

Lo-fi indie/emo noisy and raw with existential and stark male vocals 

2012

Told Slant - Still Water

Lo-fi/bedroom-punk with folksy guitars and delicate vocals as if they could break down in tears at any moment

2010

Hype Williams - Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start gettin reel

Ypnagogic vortex of incredibly canny hard to pinpoint music with distorted spoken vocals

Zach Hill - FACE TAT

Constant restless drumming, squiggly melodic instrumental hooks, mosaics of disconnected noises, fuzzy sounds and vocals

2008

Amplifier Machine - her mouth is an outlaw

Half-improvised ambient - drone - experimental - electronic - post-rock

E. Bandel, Victory & Good Hunting - s/t

Classical, piano, folk, melancholic, haunting

2007

Seabear - The ghost that carried us away

Indie/folk multi-instrumental dynamic floating sound, warm melodies, calm and gentle vocals

HEALTH - HEALTH 

A masterful noise/experimental rock with elements of post-punk, drone and electronic - disorienting rhythms, tempo-shifting, noisy outbursts

2005

The Darkness - One way ticket to hell

Hard / glam rock ballads and pop tunes 

2004

The Emperor Machine - Aimee Tallulah is hypnotised 

Mix of electro euro disco, post-punk, krautrock, sci-fi scores, jazz-funk. Thick dance rhythms and mind-altering synths

2002

ESG - Step Off 

Sweet soul with a punk attitude, jazzy sassy vocals

Hella - Hold your horse is 

Non-stop, indie-audio assault / Nintendo music / midi and electronic beats / head-spinning leading drums, very fast guitars

1998

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

elegantly sad grief and death themed album, deeply personal, yet brilliant pop tunes, post-grunge, jazzy arrangement, archive sounds, electronics

Duster - Stratosphere

Bashful slowcore lo-fi experimental space/indie rock

1975

Bobbi Humphrey- Fancy Dancer 

Funky jazz with forms of world music, soul, club music and pop

1973

Kevin Ayers - Bananamour

Progressive pop, art rock with mix of soul, r&b, reggae - choirs and country type ballads

1972

Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing

Experimental new age prog rock, semisweet tunes, lighthearted, skewed sounds

1970

Kevin Ayers - Shooting at the moon

Experimental, progressive, avant-garde, rock with jazz influences, sound recordings, excellent songwriting

[trespeak]

What's your favorite house album?

Wow, that’s a toughie. Might just have to give you a list instead.

This ended up being pretty long so I’ve put all the big descriptions I wrote for each of ‘em under the cut, but here’s the gist:

Daft Punk, Discovery (2001)

Kaskade, Fire and Ice (2011)

deadmau5, For Lack of a Better Name (2009) and 4x4=12 (2010)

Phantoms, Phantoms (2017)

Justice, † (2007) 

Lazy Rich’s singles

Porter Robinson/Virtual Self – Spitfire (2011) and Virtual Self (2017)

I like a lot of deep house and electro house, so most of my picks here are within either or both of those subgenres (as well as progressive house, in deadmau5′s case).

For more of my thoughts (and there are many!), see below.

Daft Punk, Discovery (2001)

Accept no substitutes. For Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter, making quality tunes seems to just be second nature. Their second album replaces the underground, city-street feel of Homework with a shiny, discotheque-ready sound that stands on the shoulders of giants but does so as a means of updating and widening the reach of their own influences (with “Harder Better Faster Stronger”’s use of “Cola Bottle Baby” as a perfect example thereof). My favorite track on the record, “Digital Love,” perhaps only barely qualifies as house, but between the earnestness of the vocoded lyrics and the heart-stopper of a guitar solo, I don’t even mind – who cares about genre conventions when you’re a smitten robot? It’s utterly brilliant and its era exists as the gold standard for many DP fans, myself included among them.

Kaskade, Fire and Ice (2011)

Ryan Raddon’s seventh album and the one I hold the most nostalgia for. An ambitious effort on Kaskade’s part, Fire and Ice is a double album, with original tracks on one side and remixed, chilled-out versions of the same songs on the other (geddit?). The ICE mixes are something of a mixed bag, with some having more reason to exist than others, but the Fire side of the album earns it a place here on its own, with Skrillex and Raddon giving us their own brilliant take on a classic track from Guy Manuel de Homem Christo on “Lick It,” as well as the smooth vibes of Ryan’s collaboration with his band Late Night Alumni and Inpetto on “How Long.” Another standout track: “ICE,” a big, bumping jam Ryan made with Dan Black and Dada Life.

deadmau5, For Lack of a Better Name (2009) and 4x4=12 (2010)

Oh, Joel. These days he’s earned a controversial status as full-time internet troll alongside his career as a musician, but he’s still had a palpable impact on the industry at large (pop juggernaut Marshmello more or less owes his entire career to the allure of the man in the cute mask, and while Daft Punk did it first, Mello’s own interpretation is particularly and explicitly influenced by the way deadmau5 did it). These two albums dropped when I was twelve/thirteen and still opening my eyes to the wide world of electronica, and I think they’re particularly significant as the point where I went from being a casual fan of it to a devotee, sparking an investment in the Scene® that I still have to this day. The degree of control Joel flexes over his work at its peak was unprecedented for the time and still holds up now – “Strobe,” the album closer on For Lack Of, is particularly notable in how it makes ten minutes feel like no time at all in how it builds and shifts with just a few simple, powerful elements in play at a time. “Ghosts ‘n Stuff” earned Joel and vocalist Rob Swire a crossover hit, and “Raise Your Weapon” stands as an early illustration of what the North American take on dubstep would sound like in the years to come. 

Phantoms, Phantoms (2017)

Kyle Kaplan and Vinnie Pergola’s debut record is a clever mission statement for their work. Their deep house tunes are infused with pop sensibilities, placing them in company with contemporaries like Jamie xx and Disclosure as house DJs making an effort to bridge the gap between the radio airwaves and the dance floor. My favorites include “Just a Feeling” with Verite, a modody track called “Downtown,” and the utterly brilliant “Need You Closer,” a collab with Hayley Kiyoko that easily converted me into the Church of Lesbian Jesus. (Their recent work is also worth a nod as well – they’ve been building up singles to drum up interest in a new EP, including one of their best tracks to date, a driving progressive house tune called “Designs for You.”)

Justice, † (2007)

Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay’s debut record remains their best. There’s so many iconic tracks on this one: The slick vibes of “Genesis” and “Newjack,” the ever crowd-pleasing “D.A.N.C.E.,” the pumping “Phantom” and its sequel, the nu-disco sleaze of “DVNO”, and the ear-splitting delight of “Waters of Nazareth.” The record earned them a positive, if daunting, comparison to fellow French house pioneers Daft Punk, and while their work on it shares an obsession with taking diverse samples and reconfiguring them into their own image, Justice’s fascination with the macabre aesthetic of 70′s horror films and the rock ‘n roll ethos of T. Rex earned them a distinct spot in the pantheon of electronic acts with this record (as well as its followup, the different-but-still-great Audio, Video, Disco).

Feed Me - Feed Me’s Big Adventure (2011) and Calamari Tuesday (2013)

Jon Gooch was one of the earliest musicians to emerge under deadmau5′s mau5trap label, and still shines as one of its leading acts today (High Street Creeps, released earlier this year, has jams for days). While he started his career making drum ‘n bass tracks as Spor, the bulk of his work since 2009 has been under the Feed Me alias, where he’s dabbled in all manner of electronic but mostly hews close to the realm of electro house. Gooch’s experience in making complex tunes meant that Feed Me came out swinging, with tracks like “Grand Theft Ecstasy” and “Muscle Rollers” exhibiting a confidence and technical skill from the outset that most producers would kill for on their first record. By the time his first proper full length released two years later, he’d developed a consistent feel that made collaborations with indie bands (”Love Is All I Got,” with Crystal Fighters) and soulful singers (”Last Requests,” with Jenna G) feel as natural as hard-hitting bangers (”No Grip” and “Death by Robot”). Mix in a little bit of both and you get “Ophelia,” a anthemic ballad made with YADi – my favorite song from the record, and a earworm that still sticks with me six years on. Love, don’t let me drown…

and some honorable mentions!

Lazy Rich’s singles! Richard Billis is a Canadian DJ who retired from producing tunes in 2017, but for the decade or so he was releasing music, the electro house singles he released were nothing short of iconic. Songs like “Blast Off” (with Hirshee and Lizzie Curious) and “Flash” (with Hot Mouth) are energetic, breezy and danceable. There’s nothing quite like a good Lazy Rich drop; his beats hit the dance floor with the weight of a truck, and have a sonic diversity among them that would predict the electronic scene’s shift toward the dynamism of future bass. It makes me sad that we won’t get any more of them, but Billis left behind such an evergreen catalog of singles that it’s hard to be down for very long. (I used to use his remix of Zedd’s “Stars Come Out” as a theme song of sorts on an old website where you could be a DJ with your friends. The fond memories are strong with this one.)

Porter Robinson/Virtual Self – Spitfire (2011) and Virtual Self (2017) – Leave it to Porter Robinson to carve out a completely separate musical persona just to hearken back to his halcyon days as a young producer. My initial introduction to him was just after he’d emerged from the hands-up scene, while he had his eyes set on stardom through what he called “complextro,” and it was surprising to find that his work not only lived up to its genre classification but actively carved out a market for its sound, even before Porter had dropped an album. If the dubstep and house feel of Spitfire was a revelation, the DDR vibes of the Virtual Self EP are a revitalization; similar in ethos, but with an owned, Serial Experiments Lain-styled technological aesthetic. Porter does a lot of work to keep the two projects separate (even going as far as to delineate live shows between the aliases), but rather than fragmenting his work the distinction only ends up strengthening his catalog, in much the same way Jon Gooch’s work as Feed Me complements his earlier collection as Spor.

JOYRYDE’s singles and upcoming album - John Ford Jr. is an English DJ who knows what he likes: fast cars, bumping house beats, mean-muggin’ rap jams, and making tunes that blend all of the above in one way or another. His JOYRYDE project is only a few years old, emerging in 2016, but it’s very much the culmination of years of diggin’ in the crates and building a sound that blends the hip-hop influences of trap with the boogie-bounce sensibility of house. No sooner is this evident than the “parental discretion is advised” warning (and subsequent punchy opening bars) that welcomes you into “HOT DRUM,” though his other tracks (including “MAXIMUM KING” and the Rick Ross-assisted “WINDOWS”) share that kinetic energy. He’s one to watch!

Also worth your time:

Oliver’s Mechanical EP and their album Full Circle

Mord Fustang’s All Eyes On… compilations

Botnek’s singles from 2016 onward

Chris Lake’s releases with his label Black Book Records

Self Help by Walker and Royce

pretty much everything by Ellie Herring and Chrissy (Murderbot)

Fantasmas by Zavala

anything Wolfgang Gartner has made (particularly his early 2010s singles)

That’s all I got for now. If you made it this far, you’re an angel. Thanks for indulging me :)

[vexdrolo]

MY BABIES, INCLUDING TWO COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.

please give me all the plots, just hmu and we can talk things. (especially for the two new ones bc i don’t know what i’m doing with them yet.) if you click on their names i added links to their pinterests because that’s where i do most of my character development. 

LUELLA MAE “LUE” NASH. 22. artist. creek.

a plain white tee shirt covered in dried paint, honeysuckle, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, skipping rocks, the sound of leaves rustling in the breeze, stargazing, messy blonde hair catching sun rays, lemon and honey, love letters spritzed with perfume, floral sundresses and floppy hats, power ballads, holding a butterfly on an outstretched finger, accidental bruises and band-aid covered knees, blowin’ big pink bubblegum bubbles until they pop, pinky promises, hushed bedtime prayers.

Literal god damn ray of sunshine. Painting is her drug of choice, thank you very much. And wine. Her tolerance is non-existent though. Likes trashy romance novels, pretty things, and people liking her. Sheltered and naive and extremely unworldly. A burnout, but like, a classy burnout. Also an orphan. The apple of her brother’s eye and he will protect her at all costs. Has been in slaughter for the last four years and was really angry about it at first but like it’s not the worst. Teaches beginners painting classes at Vino and Van Gogh and cries a lot for various reasons.

ANGELINA OPHELIA “ANGEL” BOOKER. 24. tour guide. bone.

angelic ○ shimmery eye shadow and highlighter dusted cheekbones ○ cocoa butter ○ spearmint gum ○ velvet scrunchies ○ eyes that roll back in her head so far all you can see is the whites ○ theatrical hand gestures ○ bong hits and acid trips ○ ripped jeans and silky camisoles ○ cheap costume jewelry ○ poetry about flowers and the burden of existence ○ the worn down spine and dog eared pages of a beloved book ○ sun kissed skin ○ wishbones snapped in half ○ a smile that never reaches the eyes

[ tw: drugs]

Angel, doesn’t the name say it all? Grew up on the old Booker Salvage Yard, the youngest of a large brood who word hand-me-downs until she left for college. Majored in English Lit at ASU, now gives enjoyably theatrical tours through old town Slaughter. Seems nice, but is she really though? Seems chill, but is really dramatic as fuck. Seems like she isn’t really what she seems. Just wants to get high, trip balls, and write about her own existential dread. Extremely articulate and well read, but still calls everyone “bro”, “dude” and “my guy”, (regardless of gender).

IMOGEN MATILDA “GINNY” BEAUFORT. 27. guidance counselor. mist.

wrinkled button down’s with the sleeves rolled up ○ perfume covering up cigarette smoke ○ the creak of an old floorboard in an empty house ○ a screeching forgotten tea kettle ○ wilting bluebells ○ scratched out words in a journal ○ dark red lipstick feathering at the edges ○ photoalbums collecting dust on a shelf ○ color coded sticky notes on a wall calendar ○ worn brown leather ○ fingerprints on a fog covered mirror ○ night terrors and cold sweats ○ the evenly paced clicking of a flat heel ○ a thousand yard-stare ○ cut-out obituaries held together with an alligator clip ○ broken porcelain dining plates ○ the flickering light of a candle you swear you blew out .

[ tw: death ]

Que Yoav’s cover of Where Is My Mind playing in the background. Haunting and a bit peculiar - with a deep love of button down shirts dark wash and brown leather shoes. May or may not be convinced that she sees ghosts, and that’s really none of your damn business. Smokes like a teenager worried her parents are gonna catch her doing it - but they can’t, because they’re dead. Depressed, afraid, and emotionally constipated. But she’s mostly a good person, and has a really cute dog named sable to make up for it. Came back to Slaughter about a year ago (and some change), currently trying to deal with the newest in a long string of deaths in her family. 

NADINE MARIE “NADS” BERNARD. 22. fashion student. iron. 

double-breast trechcoat; cat-eye sunglasses; a passport with too many stamps / monogrammed paper shopping bags hanging from each arm / bleach-stained washcloths; lysol wipes / pencil skirts with thick white stockings / a piano scale / milk & honey; champagne kisses / words of ice; temper of fire / tennis bracelets and silk blouses / the cut of skates across fresh ice / pale lips; pale skin; dark eyes / a silent scream.

nadine is one of my unfinished babes so i don’t have her entirely fleshed out. but she’s a little carrie bradshaw and a little miranda priestly, and a pinch of serena van der woodsen. she’s taking a break from fashion school to look for her half-sister, manon, which is why she’s in slaughter.

DARLA JANE  “DJ” AUERBACH. 26. cam girl. rot. 

oops don’t have an aesthetic thing written for her yet, please see pinboard. 

darla is also unfinished and yet again i do not have her entirely fleshed out. but idk she’s fiona gallagher meets effy stonem with a super tragic backstory. she’s one of a set of co-dependent triplets. an actual train wreck. yes she’s a cam girl but is she a successful one? not really, she doesn’t enjoy men telling her what to do. :/

[youcantfiremebecauseiquit]

theguitardiary said: I love finding new music! Especially when you’re not expecting it. We seem to have similar tastes in music! Who do you listen to now in this modern age? There’s only a handful of bands I like but I’m convinced there’s more out there. They’re just not as well known.

Yes, it seems so!  :)

Hmm, i don’t like that much of modern bands, if saying modern we mean completely new bands with young people being around for a couple of years. I’m aware that i probably don’t search enough, but these days i don’t even know where to look for bands, 2000-2009 days were much easier in this case.  Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes i look at new trendy bands and just can’t treat them seriously, for example i take one look at this Youngblud guy and i don’t have to listen to him to know he’s just another variation of 5 seconds of summer or 21 pilots or Imagine Dragons shit. “New British rock poet” lol, i just can’t. Or Pale Waves, they dress like tumblr goths so you expect goth music, but they play watery pop and the girl says she wants to be like Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne. I listened to Avril Lavigne in elementary school, but ever since i found lots of actual punk/rock artists and it’s not like it’s the best thing under the earth (anyone remembers times when Avril Lavigne was the biggest faux pas in rock circles?). It’s just some weird trend with people my age/younger becoming some “punk rock/indie queens” with edgy mall goth looks, and of course press falls all over itself in praises and calling them new punk rock princesses and whatnot, and it turns out they don’t listen to classic stuff, they all actually listened to Taylor Swift and want to be Avril Lavigne, each and everyone. This or hair metal bands.  I’m not saying it’s neccesarily a crime, but it’s such a common thing, you can see how they compile clothes or videos or even straight up stylize their own songs after “Let Go” or “Under My Skin”. I’m all for nostalgia, but “imitation is the highest form of flattery” saying isn’t an explanation, all that flattery mostly ends up as clowning and copying rather than a wink to your influences. What’s with all that recent acceptance for copying and ripping off older artists? We reached the point where the world is obsessing over old cringe tumblr aesthetics sold as “new wave”, with skinwalking this rock star or another. Everybody claps and grins as if they haven’t seen it all somewhere else before. And then we have horrors like Starcrawler ripping off Katie Jane Garside look and everyone being fine with it. Develop some sort of personality, make up a new one if you dont’ have it, stop ripping off your teenagehood idols, ffs.

*End of a massive modern bands rant*  

For the record, I’m sure there are some good independent bands, but i honestly don’t know where to find them and i admit i’m very picky. 

Forever Still - at first they may look like a “throwaway Arch Enemy opera metal lady + a bunch of black-wearing random guys” type of band, but thankfully it’s not the case. Maja Shining has an actual personality and a pretty voice. They’re from Denmark, they play alt rock with melodic vocals, mainly a cross between calmer ballads and more metal songs, people compared them to Evanescence because of a trained vocals singer and emotional lyrics, but to me they’ve developed a thing of their own. They use elements of metal, but they actually have memorable riffs and melodies. There’s also a lot of piano in their music and on “Breathe In Colors” (and live shows) they use theremin, which is rarely used instrument in rock. 

 This band is very impressive, i followed them since their independent days, they eventually were signed by Nuclear Blast but they literally did everything themselves, from cover art to music videos to producing their music. The bass player  was apparently an apprentice of Metallica producer/engineer, don’t remember which one though, and you can hear it, i believe they were recording stuff at home but their early songs were top notch in production. It’s funny how their first EPs and first album were self released and sold through internet and yet they sounded like a major label band! And they could literally go on without signing anyone cause they got fans and were selling CDs and merch themselves, but Nuclear Blast got interested in them and they got signed. For a modern day band, they’re doing pretty well which is impressive especially considering everything they achieved, they did it themselves. I think 15 years ago they would be bigger, blame rock’s role in mainstream, or lack thereof. If it was 2003, they would be MTV’s favourites probably. They take care about even small things and i’d say a part of the success is how they’re all in contact with fans instead of playing big rock stars. They toured with Lacuna Coil, Children of Bodom, etc. 

Also CONCEPT ALBUMS! They do concept albums. First album “Tied Down” was more emotion driven with ups and downs of a sort, calm and aggressive points, the newest one is much heavier and electronic. “Tied Down” is about depressed person going through some shit and then idk letting go of toxic stuff, “Breathe In Colors” album is much cooler to me, cause it’s darker and heavier and has that electronic cathastrophic decay feeling, i’d say it’s their “Blade Runner” record (i’d say the cover and “Breathe In Colors” video are direct references), especially since they said they were inspired by “Blade Runner” and “Akira”. It’s been released in 2019 and it’s cool, cause i really missed that sort of element in music, the “social fear of the future”/”digital era emptiness” kind of cyberpunk stuff that was in before turn of the century.

I’d say to listen/watch  Miss Madness ,  Scars , Break The Glass   Rewind  Breathe In Colors

Bandcamp: https://foreverstill.bandcamp.com/

Destructive Daisy - that’s an all-girl grunge band from my country, Poland. Unfortunaly they no longer exist i think, they stopped posting/playing apparently... They were a big hype awhile back, cause they were the only grunge girl band in Poland (at least that we knew of), they’ve got some attention after they released EP and they even supported Mudhoney at their Poland show in 2013 or so. Then they recorded Ophelia’s Dreams album in 2016 and vanished. That’s a shame, cause althought i wasn’t so crazy about them at the time, they’ve got some nice songs and they had those L7 / 7 Year Bitch kinda grunge girl vibes and people looked up to them expecting some next move, but i guess everyone expected too much from them and they played for fun without big plans, idk.  

I’d recommend Destructive Daisy EP. Haven’t listen to their stuff in a few years tbh.

Bandcamp: https://destructivedaisy.bandcamp.com/

Hmm, i only listened to select songs from Le Butcherettes and never cared enough to follow their new records, I like this video:

But I like that weird crossover the chick (Teri Gender Bender? I think that was her name) did with... Melvins. I’m a simple man, I see Melvins, i click.  The band’s Crystal Fairy and it’s been a bit of surprise to me. I don’t know if they tour/plan anything more, i suppose it’s a one-off project from 2017. But the album is dope. It’s very Melvins though, don’t know how much of guitar work is done by Teri, to me it’s 100% Melvins and she probably wrote lyrics and melodies, but i don’t know. “Crystal Fairy”, “Sweet Self” however sounds to me like Teri composition. Hard to tell, cause to me both bands have some “twisted blues” quality, it’s just Melvins are heavier. It’s basically Melvins led by a female. If anyone ever wondered how it’s like to have female-fronted Melvins, this is it. 

https://crystalfairy.bandcamp.com/ 

I like Evanescence and Linkin Park, but that’s not exactly “modern” anymore, haha. When you know for example “In The End” song is 20 years old... crazy. Most surprising band i listen to is maybe Sum 41. All the older bands and punks hated them a lot before and call it pop punk, and yes, they had a few irritating happy boys songs, but they’ve got some darker “punk-metal” albums. They had the best guitar skills of those pop punk bands from 00′s, added a good deal of metal (”Chuck”) and piano (”Screaming Bloody Murder”) at some point, but they’re totally fine if someone likes that fast melodic punk like Green Day or NOFX. 

Maybe also White Lung, i don’t know all of their albums and listen to it more casually, but it’s female fronted and they’ve got that various layered guitars sound. 

Ok that’s it, if i were to tell you in person, i’d probably say 3 words, but in writing i always end up writing long essays :p 

If anyone else following this blog has any recommendations of new bands, of course you can send me in ask!

[mianmimi]

Emilie Autumn anon here. Haha, yeah, I know her music’s not for everyone. If you only liked Castle Down and weren’t too keen on Liar, then it’s likely you won’t enjoy her Opheliac or Fight Like a Girl eras, FLaG characterized by harsher sounds compared to her Opheliac era, though ironically the lyrics are focused on recovery and not as rage-filled as in her Opheliac era (her Opheliac era can be triggering for survivors of sexual assault, btw, as she is explicit about her own experience and suffering and doesn’t mince words when she calls rapists out, Liar is from this era). However, you might like stuff from her Enchant era, when she was pop baroque-ish and indie and sang about fairies and knights and Shakespeare characters. Maybe you’d enjoy songs like:

  Chambermaid: That moment when she sings “Tell me what I have to do to make you understand it’s a lost cause, lover” / “Hold me close when you were thinking of her” / “I don’t want to hear you say you love me” / “You’ve been gone such a long time won’t you tell where” / “Before I have to see this face I once adored” KILLS me with strordo feels. And it fits what you did with Misery Loves Company. Less a character’s thoughts and more like a dialogue between Mordo and Stephen. I also love the potential drama found in Stephen and Mordo fucking during Stephen’s time in KT, with Mordo knowing that Christine means something to Stephen yet not knowing exactly what, and thinking that Stephen is not attracted to him and just using him as a port in a storm while thinking of Christine. But Stephen’s just thinking of Mordo, probably in an incoherent inner monologue that’s pretty much Why is the world’s most beautiful man taking my dick??? *gives self a mental high-five*

  How Strange: Or as I like to call it, Emilie Autumn’s first and last foray into the uncharted lands of R&B lol

  Juliet: A song about *drum roll* Romeo and Juliet. She manages to make it sweet yet at the same there’s an undercurrent of “oh shit something’s about to happen” because... you know. Spoilers for all five people that don’t know but Romeo and Juliet die at the end. I love it mostly for the violin solo at the end. Emilie is quite the accomplished violinist and when she throws those violin solos it’s fucking awesome.

  Let the Record Show: You won’t enjoy this one, probably lol But for anyone interested in both Emilie and those songs I was going to use for that Karl Mordo Can’t Stop Falling for Problematic Men mix, this is one of them. It’s prime post-DS Mordo. “If I’m going down then I’m going down good” / “If I’m going down then I’m going down clean” / “If I’m going down then I’m going” / “The prettiest wretched whore you’ll ever see”

  Opheliac: Same as above lol this song is the one that gives the name to an era. Same as above, this was part of the fanmix. “I’ve been so disillusioned” / “I know you’d take me back, but still I feign confusion” / “I couldn’t be your friend, my world was too unstable” / “I’m open to attack, but I don’t wanna hurt you” / “How could you possibly think you had the power to know how to keep me breathing?” / “You know the games play and the words I say when I want my own way” / “You know the lies I tell when you’ve gone through hell and they say I can’t stay” / “You know how hard it can be to keep believing in me when everything and everyone becomes my enemy” / “And when there’s nothing more you can do, I’m gonna blame it on you” / “It’s not the way I wanna be” / “I only hope that in the end you will see”

  Mad Girl: Back to songs you might enjoy! lol This one is from the Opheliac era, actually, back when Emilie was obsessed with tragic women from fiction (mostly Shakespeare and Brit Lit) like Ophelia. For an Opheliac era song, its instrumentation is different and softly melancholic. Quick confession, this song always makes me cry. This one is also one of the songs for the aforementioned fanmix, because I will die before I stop referring to Karl Mordo as the classic-tragic-maiden-but-as-a-gay-man character that he is. “In all your fairytales, how did the prince say he loved you?” / “How did your father die?” / “Was he a good man?” / “My melancholy state, folly, fear, and hate, I know” / “My friend in this world is a bottle of nothing” / “Still I try, still I fall”

  Rapunzel: And we have arrived to the Enchant era! This song gives me sweet young Mordo staring out his window dreaming of his prince while stuck in Bavaria vibes. “If you sing loud and clear, someone passing by will surely hear you” / “No, you can’t be afraid”

  Rose Red: Another from Enchant. As you can tell, it’s vaguely related to Rose Red the fairytale. “Tell me no stories and I’ll tell you no lies” / “No one wants to hurt me but everybody tries” / “For this freedom I have given all I had” / “For this darkness I gave my light” / “For this wisdom I have lost my innocence” / “Take my petals and cover me with night”

  What If: This is peak Enchant era, imo. “I am far too tried to stay here” / “And I don’t care what you think of me” / “’Cause I think you were wrong about me” / “And what if you were?” / “What if I’m the kindest demon, something you may not believe in?” / “What if I’m a siren, singing gentlemen to sleep?” / “What if I’m a weeping willow, laughing tears upon my pillow?” / “What if I’m a socialite, who wants to be alone?” / “What if I’m an angel, without wings to take me home?” / “What if I’m a crowded desert, too much pain with little pleasure?” / “What if I don’t know who I am, will that keep us both from trying?”

  Special mention goes to Shalott, which I believe I already mentioned in the original post I made (or how I like to call it, Anon’s Evangelizing for Emilie Autumn lol), but I never added the lyrics that make go Mordo-bby-ilu-get-urself-a-good-man-ok. “She looks up the mirrored glass” / “She sees a handsome horse and rider pass” / “She says, ‘That man’s gonna be my death ‘cause he’s all I ever wanted in my life’” / “I know he doesn’t my name and that all the girls are all the same to him” / “So I’ll meet my death” / “But with my last breath I’ll sing to him my love and he’ll see my face in another place”

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Heya Nonny!

Oh wowowow! I’m listening to the song recommendations again right now. You hit the nail on the head with the songs I’d like more. I ended up listening to the Enchant album twice while the Opheliac album was very hard to get through, more so because of the subject matter though. It’s very raw and there’s a lot of pain and anger there. I don’t know much about the artist but I hope she’s recovering and is doing well now. Rape is a brutal experience and for her to share the emotions and thoughts she went through is extremely powerful and heartbreaking.

I actually really enjoyed “Shalott” and the acoustic version of “Mad Girl.” Her voice is super emotive and lively, raw with emotions. I can see why people can hear stordo, and more specifically Mordo in the songs.

“Juliet” has a gorgeous violin number at the start and throughout and it makes me think of Mordo playing the violin in his family castle, just thinking of the romances he used to read and how life is more tragic than romantic. T____T

“Chambermaid” really does give off the vibe that Christine’s still in the background of Mordo’s mind when he’s with Stephen. I also really enjoyed the fortune telling and card reading motifs of the song. It really needs to the magic aspect of strordo, as well as the ‘fated to meet’ aspect of their pairing.

“Rose Red” and “Rapunzel” give me youthful Mordo vibes. When he’s still hopefully and longing for the love found hia fairytales.

And okay.....I really, really fucking liked “How Strange.” Especially this part...

You know I think it's strange

Just a little bit deranged

That you think I'm gonna change to make you happy

If you can tell me why

I should wait around then I

May be coming down

But until then this means

You can see me in your dreams

Oh man that entire part makes me think of Mordo looking back at the night he walked away. He’s not gonna change just to make Stephen feel happy, and he’s asking why he should stay and wait. It’s so sad and I love it.

My favorite one amongst these songs though is....

“What If.” It’s honestly such a gorgeous song! Also a very vulnerable one.

And I'm far too tired to stay here anymore

And I don't care what you think anyway

'Cause I think you were wrong about me

Yeah what if you were, what if you were

And what if I'm a snowstorm burning

What if I'm a world unturning

What if I'm an ocean

Far too shallow, much too deep

What if I'm the kindest demon

Something you may not believe in

What if I'm a siren

Singing gentlemen to sleep

Ummmm....excuse me. That’s all Mordo to me. It’s heartbreaking, full of turmoil, full of brimming heartache and upheaval, like Mordo doesn’t even know who he is or where he belongs anymore. It makes me think of those months he spent away trying to figure it all out alone. Baby just....just please go home. Stephen’s waiting for you. Let him explain and make up for it baby ;____; Please

Thank you so much for sharing these recommendations Nonny! I’m not much of a rock or folk person. I’m actually realllly vanilla with my music taste, namely old power ballads and musical showstoppers hehehe. But that’s why I really appreciate it when people share different types of music with me! I enjoy discovering new things. And now I’m currently replying “What if” pretty much endlessly. I wouldn’t have discovered it if not for you. So thank you for sharing these Nonny!

[allaboutmusicpl]

W trzecim odcinku kolejne osoby przedstawiają Wam swoje podsumowanie roku. Mamy dużą różnorodność od Rihanny, poprzez Toma Odella i Lady Gagę, a kończąc na jednym z członków zespołu Bee Gees. Dzisiaj swoje Best ofy prezentują Łukasz Tworzewski, Dominika Mrówczyńska, Dorota Kutnik, Kasia Turowicz i Marta Muśko.

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Rihanna – Anti

OneRepublic – Oh My My

Tom Odell – Wrong Crowd

BeMy – Grizllin’

Zayn – Mind Of Mine

Piotr Zioła – Revolving Door

Organek – Czarna Madonna

Lady Gaga – Joanne

Green Day – Revolution Radio

Brodka – Clashes

Beyonce – Lemonade

Bastille – Wild World

Panic! At The Disco – Death of a Bachelor

Julia Marcell – Proxy

Lukas Graham – Lukas Graham

Sylwia Grzeszczak – Tamta Dziewczyna

James Arthur – Back from the Edge

Hey – Błysk

Robbie Williams – The Heavy Entertaiment Show

Shawn Mendes – Illuminate

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Rok 2016 przeszedł już do historii. Jedno jest pewne. To był bardzo dobry rok w muzyce. Na półkach sklepowych zagościło wiele wartych uwagi albumów. Wybrałem najlepszą 20, która towarzyszyła mi najczęściej. Minione 12 miesięcy zapamiętam  następująco:

BeMy, Zayn, Piotr Zioła, Lukas Graham  oraz Shawn Mendes  jako muzyczni debiutanci stworzyli swój niepowtarzalny styl, postawili poprzeczkę bardzo wysoko oraz zagwarantowali sobie sukces, a także bardzo udany muzyczny start.

Lady Gaga, Brodka, Julia Marcell, Beyonce czy Robbie Williams nie boją się eksperymentów z muzyką. Każdy z nich pokazał zupełnie nową , jakże doskonałą odsłonę.

Green Day, Panic At The Disco, James Arthur, Sylwia Grzeszczak, Hey, Bastille oraz Organek nagrali dobre albumy, których słucha się z ciekawością od początku do końca.

Trzecie miejsce na podium przypadło Tomowi Odellowi. Artysta pomieszał pop, jazz, soul i trochę rocka i zaprezentował doskonały album. Oprócz robiących wrażenie ballad, możemy posłuchać choćby szybkich i przebojowych kawałków, które wprowadzają świeżość na rynek muzyczny.

Najlepszy krążek w karierze w tym roku zaprezentowali również OneRepublic. To płyta przepełniona przebojowością i dobrą produkcją. Zabawa z elektroniką zaowocowała doskonałymi chwytliwymi kompozycjami z szybko wpadającymi w ucho refrenami.

Nie mogło być inaczej w przypadku miejsca pierwszego. Rihanna i jej album Anti to najlepszy krążek w dyskografii artystki i najczęściej słuchana przeze mnie płyta  minionego roku. Wydana niespodziewanie, zawierająca genialny, dobrze wyprodukowany materiał. Dla mnie Rihanna zostawiła konkurencję daleko w tyle, udowadniając, że nadal jest w formie i jeszcze nie raz zaskoczy. Powróciła w wielkim stylu.

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Rihanna – Love On The Brain

Tom Odell – Sillhouette

BeMy – Oxygen

OneRepublic – Better

Beyonce feat. Kendrick Lamar – Freedom

Zayn – Rear View

Julia Marcell – Tarantino

Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons with Logic & Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – Sucker For Pain

Sia – The Greatest

Organek – Ki Czort

Lady Gaga – Milion Reasons

Piotr Zioła – W Ciemno

Brodka – Horses

Bastille – Warmth

Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling

Panic! At The Disco – Emperor’s New Clothes

Lukas Graham – 7 Years

James Arthur – Back from The Edge

Margaret – Cool Me Down

Shawn Mendes – Treat You Better

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Chłopaki z BeMy zagwarantowali sobie dobry start, a piosenka Oxygen idealnie reprezentuje materiał z debiutanckiego albumu. Muzycznie nagrali barwną, różnorodną opowieść, gdzie głównym bohaterem jest indie-rock, który w ich wykonaniu brzmi bardzo dobrze . Teledysk do Oxygen jest również jednym z lepszych klipów tego roku.

Drugie miejsce zdecydowanie zasłużone. Taneczna wersja Toma odpowiada mi najbardziej. Piosenka Sillhouette zapadła mi w pamięci od pierwszego jej usłyszenia. Mam nadzieję, że w przyszłości artysta będzie miał w swoim dorobku więcej tego typu  utworów.

Numerem jeden spośród wszystkich piosenek wydanych w zeszłym roku jest zdecydowanie Love On The Brain. Odkąd  usłyszałem ten utwór  w styczniu nie mogę przestać go słuchać. Wiedziałem, że w przyszłości zostanie kolejnym singlem , który spodoba się słuchaczom.  Takiej piosenki Rihanna w swoim reper turze dotąd nie miała. Za jej sprawą zaskoczyła kolejnym muzycznym, doskonałym obliczem. Choć wersja studyjna jest bardzo dobra, to jej idealne wykonanie na żywo utwierdza tylko w przekonaniu, że Rihanna jest świetną piosenkarką, która uczciwie zapracowała na sukces.

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Tom Odell – Wrong Crowd

David Bowie – Blackstar

The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect

Metallica – Hardwired… To Self Destruct

Jack Garratt – Phase

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

Bon Iver – 22, A Million

The lumineers – Cleopatra

Bastille – Wild World

Korn – The Serenity of Suffering

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Tom Odell – Wrong Crowd

David Bowie – Lazarus

The Last Shadow Puppets – Bad Habits

Rihanna – Love On The Brain

Metallica – Atlas, Rise!

Jack Garratt – Surprise Yourself

Iggy Pop – Gardenia

Bon Iver – 33 “GOD”

Radiohead – Daydreaming

The Lumineers – Ophelia

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Rok 2016 był na tyle obfity w dobre albumy, że ciężko było wybrać te kilka, które utkwiły w głowie najbardziej. Jednak zdecydowanym numerem 1, zapętlonym do tej pory w moich głośnikach jest Tom Odell. Po debiutanckim krążku nikt nie wiedział, czego spodziewać się po młodym muzyku. Płytą Wrong Crowd udowodnił, że idzie w dobrym kierunku, a przede wszystkim rozwija swój nieprzeciętny talent. W pierwszej trójce nie mogło zabraknąć oczywiście Blackstar, które (na szczęście!) David Bowie zdążył wydać przed swoją śmiercią. TOP 3 zamyka powracający po 8 latach skład The Last Shadow Puppets z wyjątkowością Alexa Turnera na czelę. Mimo tego że moje TOP 10, opiera się głównie na rockowych brzmieniach to warto wspomnieć o bardziej elektronicznej, ale niezwykle dobrej debiutanckiej płycie Phase Jacka Garratta. Na pewno jeszcze nie raz o nim usłyszymy.

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Lista najlepszych utworów 2016 roku jest zbliżona do TOP 10 albumów wydanych w tym roku. Dokładnie tak samo ma się tutaj pierwsza trójka, Zaczynając od Toma Odella, przez zapamiętanego przez wielu Bowiego, aż do charyzmatycznych The Last Shadow Puppets. Pomimo, że każdy z tych utworów jest singlem promującym płytę to są one największymi smaczkami, które się na nich znajdują. Poza ramy porównań do najlepszej dziesiątki albumów wykracza Rihanna i jej delikatne Love On The Brain oraz nieśmiertelny Iggy Pop z singlową Gardenią.

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Lady Gaga – Joanne

Michael Buble – Nobody but Me

Rihanna – Anti

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – This Unruly Mess I’ve Made

Bastille – Wild World

Solange – A Seat at the Table

Alicia Keys – Here

David Bowie – Blackstar

Birdy – Beautiful Lies

OneRepublic – Oh My My

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Rihanna – Love On The Brain

Bastille – Good Grief

Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling

Michael Buble – Nobody But Me

Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Dark Necessities

Emeli Sande – Breathing Underwater

Kings of Leon – Walls

Lady Gaga & Florence Welch – Hey Girl

Sting – I Can’t Stop Thinking About You

Kodaline & Kygo – Raging

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W tym roku na pierwszym miejscu umieściłam najnowszy krążek Lady Gagi, czyli Joanne. Może kogoś zdziwi ten wybór, jednak według mnie ta muzyczna zmiana wyszła wokalistce na dobre. Joanne to: mniej kontrowersji, a więcej muzyki, dobre piosenki takie jak Hey Girl, Million Reasons czy Angel Down i przede wszystkim duże zaskoczenie. W moim rankingu srebro przypadło Michaelowi Bublé i jego krążkowi Nobody But Me. Album tego przeuroczego wokalisty zdecydowanie zasługuje na docenienie. Trzecie miejsce przyznałam Rihannie i genialnemu Anti. Jest to chyba moja ulubiona płyta wokalistki. Cieszę się, że na tym albumie znalazło się miejsce dla Love On The Brain, Needed Me czy Same Ol’ Mistakes, bo pokazują one lepsze oblicze piosenkarki. Moje podium to krążki, od których oczekiwałam dużo i się nie rozczarowałam.

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Love On The Brain to bez wątpienia jeden z najlepszych utworów jakie Rihanna w ogóle wydała. Spokojniejsze brzmienia naprawdę pasują do wokalistki i mam nadzieję, że sukces tej piosenki sprawi, że będzie ona wydawała więcej tak dobrych kompozycji. Warto docenić też powrót Bastille. Good Grief to piosenka, która szybko opanowała radiowe rozgłośnie, a mi wyjątkowo wpadła do ucha. Miałam okazję usłyszeć ją na żywo na Open’erze i od tej pory chętnie wracam do tego kawałka z Wild World. Na podium postanowiłam umieścić również bardzo energiczną i pozytywną piosenkę Justina Timberlake’a. Can’t Stop The Feeling to niekwestionowany hit tego lata, a dla mnie wyróżnia się również spośród piosenek, jakie wydano w 2016 roku.

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PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Kate Bush – Before the Dawn

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

Warpaint – Heads Up

David Bowie – Blackstar

The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect

Bat For Lashes – The Bride

Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene 3

The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome

The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis EP

Jean Michel Jarre – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise

Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depresion

Placebo – Life’s What You Make It EP

Passenger – Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea

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Muzyka może być dobra lub zła. Muzyka to emocje, to wolność. To coś, dzięki czemu czujemy intensywniej, chłoniemy bardziej, żyjemy mocniej. Ten klucz zadecydował o kolejności mojego zestawienia albumów wydanych w 2016 roku. Właśnie dlatego w tym rankingu nie mogło zabraknąć artystów i zespołów, którzy swoimi kolejnymi, wyjątkowymi wydawnictwami wciąż dostarczają nam od wielu lat tego, czego w muzyce szukamy najbardziej.

Mowa oczywiście o takich muzykach jak The Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Jean Michel Jarre czy Placebo. Rok 2016 przyniósł nam także świetne albumy młodszej generacji muzyków – The Last Shadow Puppets, Bat For Lashes czy Warpaint nie zawiedli moich oczekiwań, choć pozostawili po sobie pewien niedosyt.

Tuż poza podium uplasowali się wraz ze swoimi najnowszymi płytami David Bowie oraz grupa Radiohead. Miejsce trzecie to zjawiskowy, niezwykle wyczekany przez mnie album równie fantastycznej Kate Bush.

Nieco wyżej uplasowała się formacja Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, która dźwignęła brzemię tragedii, jaka spadła na lidera zespołu, czego dowodem jest niesłychanie poruszający album, jeden z najlepszych w ich dorobku.

Ona nie musi niczego udowadniać, nikomu nie musi się podobać. PJ Harvey i jej kapitalna płyta The Hope Six Demolition Project zawładnęły mną i moim fonograficznym zestawieniem roku 2016.

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PJ Harvey – The Wheel

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jesus Alone

PJ Harvey – The Ministry of Social Affairs

Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Warpaint – New Song

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Rings of Saturn

Bat For Lashes – In God’s Home

PJ Harvey – The Ministry of Defence

Radiohead – Burn the Witch

David Bowie – Girl Loves Me

Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene, Pt. 17

The Last Shadow Puppets – Totally Wired

Bat For Lashes – Sunday Love

Warpaint – Whiteout

The Last Shadow Puppets – Aviation

Jean Michel Jarre feat. Pet Shop Boys – Brick England

The Rolling Stones – Rid ‘Em On Down

Iggy Pop – Sunday

David Bowie – I Can’t Give Everything Away

The Last Shadow Puppets – Les Cactus

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Wielkie albumy tego roku to także niesamowite utwory wypełniające ich tracklisty. Pełen wachlarz emocji, niewypłukane z treści słowa, mieniący się kontrastami kalejdoskop dźwięków. To zestawienie jest pod każdym względem niejednorodne. Wielkie powroty i równie wielkie bezpowrotne odejścia. Radość i smutek.

Muzycznie jest to z kolei konglomerat przeróżnych brzmień – od bluesowych dźwięków w Rid ‘Em On Down Stonesów, przez baroque pop nowego albumu Bat For Lashes, po skrajnie elektroniczne odcienie słyszalne w Oxygene, Pt. 17 czy Brick England Jarre’a. Od art rocka w postaci Warpaint, przez psychodelię reprezentowaną przez The Last Shadow Puppets, kończąc na albumach Blackstar i Skeleton Tree łączących w sobie eksperymentalnego rocka. Podobnie jak w przypadku płyt, tak też zestawienie utworów zdominowała niezastąpiona Polly Jean Harvey.

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Barry Gibb – In The Now

Thalia – Latina

Black – Any Colour You Like

Bon Jovi – This House Is Not for Sale

Elvis Presley – The Wonder Of You

Céline Dion – Encore Un Soir

Ani Lorak – Разве ты любил

SEREBRO – Сила трёх

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker

Britney Spears – Glory

Beyonce – Lemonade

Lady Gaga – Joanne

Polina Gagarina – 9

Cristian Castro – Dicen

LP – Lost On You

Metallica – Hardwired… To Self Destruct

Meat Loaf – Braver Than We Are

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OneRepublic – Oh My My

David Bowie – Blackstar

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Po 15-letnim “antrakcie”, Barry Gibb przeszedł ciężką próbę odnalezienia się w skomercjalizowanym świecie – teraz, w teraźniejszości, jako solista bez wyboru. In The Now jest niczym ekscytujące spotkanie po wielu latach z przyjacielem, który wzruszył dawnymi wspomnieniami, zaskoczył nowymi pomysłami, otoczył spokojem oraz rodzinnym ciepłem. Dla/od duszy i serca, warto wspomnieć o symfonicznym The Wonder Of You Elvisa Presleya i poruszającym monologu Encore Un Soir od Céline Dion.

Ostatnio w zatrważającej częstotliwości, towarzysząca twórcom, bądź dotykająca ich najbliższych – śmierć, związane z nią cierpienie i tęsknota, wielokrotnie stają się inspiracją i twórczym podłożem dla wielu wspaniałych dzieł. Nieustannie wzbogacając się o kolejne przeżycia, co raz częściej sięgamy po tytuły nostalgiczne, momentami mroczne, lecz często nieodłącznie piękne. Paradoksalnie takie jest muzyczne, wspaniałe życie Colina Vearncombe znanego jako Black, zawarte w dwóch częściach Any Colour You Like.

W poszukiwaniach radosnych treści, pozytywne wibracje dotarły aż ze słonecznego Meksyku i roztańczonej płyty Latina w wykonaniu Thalii. Artystka wyruszyła w podróż w czasie o dwie dekady wstecz, nagrywając muzykę, jej rytm i porywające do tańca dźwięki, jakie dyktuje jej latynoska dusza.

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Barry Gibb – Grand Illusion

Ani Lorak – Разве ты любил

Bon Jovi – This House Is Not For Sale

Thalía – Vuélveme a Querer

LP – Lost On You

Paul Stanley & Ace Frehley – Fire & Water

Ani Lorak & Grigoriy Leps – Уходи по-англйски

Bon Jovi – Born Again Tomorrow

Beyonce – Daddy Lessons

Serebro – Storm

Ani Lorak & EMIN – Я не могу сказать

Beyonce  & Kendrick Lamar – Freedom

Britney Spears – Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)

Thalía & Silvestre Dangond – De TI

Valeriy Meladze – Прощаться нужно легко

Rihanna – Love On The Brain

Sergey Lazarev – You’re the Only One

Lady Gaga – Million Reasons

Lady Gaga – Come To Mama

Cristian Castro – Perdonar

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Kompozycje poruszające lirycznie i przekazujące dobrą energię – to one stały się towarzyszem dnia codziennego i zasiliły moje zestawienie najlepszych utworów. Od pojawienia się In The Now Barry’ego Gibba nieustępliwą dominację wiódł numer Grand Illusion. Odnalazłam w nim wszystkie składowe, których podświadomie szukałam w muzyce od długiego czasu – rock’n’rollową moc, intrygujący wokal. Wszystko za co darzę twórczość Bee Gees niesłabnącym uwielbieniem.

Królowa jest tylko jedna – przynajmniej w moim zestawieniu. Ani Lorak by umilić jesienną chandrę, wydała nowy album i rozpieściła fanów kompozycjami o miłości, ukazując jej różne oblicza. W Разве ты любил ukraińska wokalistka dzieli się poruszającą opowieścią o miłosnym rozczarowaniu, okraszoną cudowną melodią.

Muszę przyznać, że o ile wiele tegorocznych propozycji pop się obroniła, o tyle rockowa scena stoi w twórczym bezruchu. Z pomocą urozmaicenia playlisty przyszli muzycy Bon Jovi z ich 13. studyjną płytą i tytułowym singlem. Panowie zregenerowali siły i stworzyli naprawdę przyzwoity krążek z potencjalnymi kandydatami na wieloletni przebój.

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