Anything that features this much mellotron has to be good. 😁 I really did enjoy this though, and I will add it to my skimpy 2020's chart. Sounds like an artist with promise and something I will be listening to again soon. Seems to have a lot of trappings from 70s as influences which is always a good thing. "Libra" was a real surprise to me with how much more direct it was than the other dreamy songs on the album.
Alright, I'll send something back your way Gowi. A new favorite of mine.
I think I remember you mentioning that you enjoyed Blu & Exile's Below The Heavens (apologies if that wasn't you), so I'm going to recommend another soulful West Coast hip-hop album you may enjoy. The production - courtesy of the ever amazing Madlib - is some of the best of the last few years, and it's a great album for learning to admire rappers as vocalists and not just lyricists.
Recently I am in love with one song. It is Love&Hate by Kiwanuka singer. I can listen to it all day long. The music is great, and I like the voice a lot. It makes me motivated, inspired. So I feel really fine listening to it. I am sure most people will love it too. I am from Edinburg https://postcodefinder.net/scotland/edinburgh Tell me where you are from.
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Best reccomendation I’ve gotten in a long time. I might have to put it on my BEAutiful People chart/list because, just, wow. This might be one of the best progressive pop albums ever put to tape. Jazzy crescendos, beautiful progressive electronic-like synths that takes me immediately to 1970s Germany, and just a breathtaking record. I’m tempted to put this in my Top 15 of 1978 on impulse alone.
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Since nobody actually gave you something to listen to, I've got to break the chain and get this game working correctly again. So here's another album, my man. You might like it. IDK.
This was a good album. It's frontloaded, and my interest was waning by the last few tracks, but I enjoyed the dreamy/vaporwavish production and such. I've neglected to listen to anything from 2020 over the last few months, so thanks for giving me another one to add to the chart. When did Poland get ironic BTW?
Glad you liked the last one. "The Next Time Might Be Your Time" is a perfect song.
This is completely different, but I want to know more opinions on this album, because I can't figure it out.
I’ve listened to a moderate amount of neoclassical darkwave, but my ears aren’t super trained in the realm of neoclassical movements. RoundtheBend might have more to say about this on a technical level because he’s more educated than I am in this particular sphere so take my feelings with a grain of salt.
This seems more neoclassical than darkwave to me, at least compared to the likes of Dead Can Dance, Anna von Hausswolff, and Diamanda Galas which are the three artists who form my primary understanding of the genre. There’s some dark ambient stuff going on in the background of these sounds as well and sort of harshness and theatric darkness that I expect from a black metal or dungeon synth record. The theatric embodiment of sorrow and rage has always been something I have found fascinating and musically interesting. At times it’s almost like a black metal opera without the tremolo picking and distortion. The traditional, more melodic female vocals (Nathalie Barbary? Eve Siskind?) help with the mood here as well, being the driving force of most of the songs.
I think the record is pieced together by mood and texture, and it almost feels to me like it has this Wagner-esque energy that has always been to my palate.
By the end of it I can say I liked it, but my inexperience of the genre contributes to my difficulty in processing it. It might take a few listens for me to really let the operatic mood click.
I guess Poland has been having a crisis artistically and socially for over a decade now, but Polish millennials and zoomers have sort of always had this knack for translating their own anxieties and humors into alternative art. Myslovitz was basically Polish Radiohead and they rose to prominence in the mid-90s. Coals is in the tradition of this new wave of art pop, I’d say. Julia Marcel has been doing similar things since 2008 and I only became aware of her personally around 2016 in her own brand of commentary-spiced art pop.
I think I gravitate towards it because I want to know (and be informed of) what's going on in the fatherland both politically, socially, and musically.
A melancholy folk-thing that's long on atmosphere and short on running time. Which are both positive things for me. It's not exactly anything I would seek out on my own, but it has some decent qualities to it's production, and while I think the vocal delivery is pretty good, I would say the performance is lacking. Still happy to put this on my lacklustre 2020 chart.
Alright Gowi, it seems as though we'll try and keep this going. 🕺
speaking of criminally underrated*, this is one of my favorite "jazz" records of the past decade. leila martial's voice is on par with the liz frasers of the world, but she uses it more as an instrument of manic chaos than a soothing angelic force. it's a lot to unpack, but she's a unique force that's flown under the radar for too long now. _________________ follow me on the bandcamp.
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There are a good deal of things to appreciate about this album, but I'm not a fan after the first listen. I think she is undoubtedly talented, but the production and instrumentation backing her is decidedly sterile. It's what I would call "conservatory Jazz" something that sounds good in whatever music school the musicians most likely studied and recorded this at, but as an album, it doesn't sound like anything that was organically created, but written and performed. (Her vocal performance withstanding.) I think she'd be better off like a Diamanda Galas type with limited instrumentation which would make her vocalizations the star of the show.
So, the short review is I like her a great deal, but not the rest of the presentation.
BTW, I just had a look at your overall chart, which I hadn't seen since you updated it, and it's killer.
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