I've been vaguely aware of the existence of Dungen for some time but haven't bothered to check them out until significantly after you told me to, (sorry I'm awful), and I'm amazed it took me this long because this is essentially Tame Impala except more than just intermittently interesting. Dungen's specific brand of psych-rock feels less drenched in the reverberations and general forced quasi-trippiness of most of their contemporaries and instead goes for an unashamed pop aesthetic that pulls no punches about hitting you with one melodic hook after another, and the album never suffers because of it. A very fun brand of psychedelia that I need to explore further, as I already prefer it to Tame Impala's comparative lifelessness
@Gowi I definitely get you with the anti-comp sentiment re: greatest hits albums, seeing as those do tend to be useless in the rock-o-sphere, but being that Juan Atkins' work (and really just Detroit Techno and dance music in general) tends to be overwhelmingly singles oriented, anthologies like this tend to make a great deal of sense to me (though Atkins has had one or two stellar LPs over the years).
and @nachos I'm sorry for being such a flake on this thread but I've actually already heard that Heptones album and probably should've said so when you posted it here a couple of eternities ago 🙁
If you wanna hit me with somethin else I'm wide open
A very interesting release that I listened to twice-over this evening to get a hold of my feelings about it. I hear Miami grooves, Detroit Techno-inspired beats, and a nasally but punchy flow delivered from the MC— all of which that provide an interesting combination in the end result. Honestly, I had never heard about this record so I went in pretty blind expectation-wise which benefited my listening experience quite well I think. Some songs feel not as great as others, but when Spank is on a roll he is really really good. Thanks for throwing this my way, it’s absolutely excellent and I’m sure the 3.5 I rated it initially will jump to a 4.0 with repeated listens.
Might try this again, lost my last rec, so sorry to whoever gave me (It was a Gil scott heron record I guess... Remember being giant but kinda energetic...)
Ok, so gowi, to you, One of my favorite Brazilian Shoegaze records of this decade
As far as ‘nu-gaze’ goes this release is pretty solid, though I feel like it teeters off in the second half with the exception of a few songs (“Road to Japan”, “Mushroom”). I’m not sure why this is so for me, though, as the songs I find forgettable aren’t out of place or particularly different from the songs on the first half of the album. Maybe it’s the familiarity that these new wave of shoegaze try to cash in on rather than really expanding on their sounds in new ways. It feels like comfort food for shoegaze fans. Then again I absolutely love Fleeting Joys and they cash in on the familiarity of MBV pretty much exclusively so I don’t really know. The album was nice, I enjoyed it. I wish the whole album was more like “Mammoth Butterfly” and “Road to Japan” though.
Sometimes power metal can be so cheesy it's good. I feel like that's the stereotype of power metal, that it's way over the top and takes itself far too seriously. Serenity have moments of that on this album (stuff like "The Perfect Woman", so cheesy, but still pretty awesome) but they have reason to be taken seriously too. They have a sound pretty similar to that of Kamelot, so if you're a Kamelot fan, you might dig this. Everything is very clean, very precise, and while that is admirable in its own way, it also takes away from the intensity of the album a bit. Regardless, it's still a pretty well done album, the orchestral compositions are excellent, and while the album has moments of cheese, those moments aren't so bad that they take away from the album overall. It's relatively standard power metal, but it's good.
I am presently way too sleep deprived to be listening to anything like this 🤣 . Anyway, headaches aside, I really enjoyed the maddened quirks and just general eclectic bounciness of this whole affair. On first glance one might be tempted to drop the oft-abused "over-indulgent" label, but there's a certain self-awareness to just how over-the-top a lot of these tracks get with their frequent breaks into staccatoed theatrical chants and dissonant keyboard trills; it is very deliberately theatrical and ostentatious, but it arrives in so many unexpected directions that this very unexpected kind of pomp always lands the listener in myriad interesting places in a fashion that is honestly deceptively subtle; behind all the overall instrumental eccentricity here, these guys are not afraid to go in all sorts of weird but very deliberate (and ultimately very enjoyable) directions whilst superficially appearing to just be fucking around for the hell of it. It's a very thoughtful kind of excess (whatever that means...)
Basically there's not a hell of a lot I know that sounds quite like this, and I'm always thrilled to find albums about which I can say something like that. Thanks Gowi 😄
Probably one of the strongest ambient/modern classical releases I’ve heard, though admittedly I haven’t ever listened to Stars of the Lid who I’ve seen RYM commentators bring up as a sort of influence? I don’t know if they are the same sort of band that approaches things like this, but color me impressed for what I have heard today. By my chagrin there are two perfect songs (parts I and XI) and that doesn’t happen too often for me these days so call me very pleasantly surprised. This will most certainly become a favorite of mine and I will listen to it many times in the future; really thankful for being turned on to such a fantastic, atmospheric, and enriching album. Please recommend me things like this for me to listen to anytime.
huh clearly I need to give Atomos another listen because as a massive appreciator of many things ambient and minimal I just never found myself completely sold on that one back when it first came out. Also yeah Gowi you need to get on SOTL right away, though for some reason I get the feeling you might enjoy The Dead Texan (consisting of one half of SOTL alongside Christina Vantzau) even more
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Really cool breakcore. The whole album is so dark and beautiful at the same time. It's weird, somehow breakcore can be really beautiful in its dissonance, I don't exactly know how, but it is. The album starts off melancholic and just continues to rise and rise from there, getting more dissonant and more "broken". The composition is excellent too. It's hard to describe, but it's a really solid breakcore album.
Alright Gowi, since you haven't heard the greatest breakcore album ever:
I only really ended up really enjoying two or three tracks off this one, with the rest of it seeming like a darker expansion on the drum and bass stuff I was already familiar with. Not sure about the “greatest” hyperbole thrown out about this one and I see its reputation on RYM fine but I don’t really connect with too many of the sounds on a great level.
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