You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power by Henry Flynt
I'm in the (neverending) process of listening to important avant-garde pieces, and I have to say this is one of the best ones I've encountered. It's 2 45-ish minute pieces. Mix of avant-garde and minimalistic Western classical elements and loops of pieces of Hindustani ragas and Appalachian folk songs make this a very unique experience. I guess you could call it avant folk and free folk (those are 2 of 4 primary genres on RYM). At its core it's 2 huge free improv violin solos over loops. Does it get stagnant? Sure. Is it too long and too repetitive? Probably. But it doesn't make it any less entrancing or interesting. It's much more psychedelic and "human" than any other drone composition(s) I've heard.
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Yoth Iria is an easy rec if you like melodic black metal
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Leftovers list + some 2021
Meridian Brothers - Desesperanza
Still Corners - The Last Exit
Lawrence - The Absence of Blight
Bismuth - The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef
Faceless Burial - Speciation
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
John Talabot - Fin
The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau
Soda Stereo - Dynamo
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
This was quite the mesmerizing and beautiful record. at about 20 minutes into the first track I started thinking, while this is beautiful it's kinda samey, but then 2 minutes later it gone dun switched up. Even if it hadn't, this is a fantastic find for me - thanks Luigii! I also listened to about 4-5 more albums off this chart I've been meaning to listen to anyway, hehe, so thanks for the "excuse" to do so now :).
Also BayState, I jammed Aretha's Fillmore live record and hot damn was Dr. Feelgood possibly top 10 live moments in all of recorded history.
2. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
3. Luigii Top 100 (1 Pick Left)
6. Chiastic Slide by Autechre
7. The Velocity Of Love by Suzanne Ciani
10. Breezin' by George Benson
14. Older by George Michael
19. 木洩陽通りにて [At Komorebi St.] by Lamp
23. Returnal by Oneohtrix Point Never
31. Eardrum by Talib Kweli
33. The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada
36. Casiopea by Casiopea
40. Hejira by Joni Mitchell
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
Copied directly from chart and album comment - with the additional note of "thanks, LedZep. This was great and I am glad I finally got around to listening to it. Been meaning to since you mentioned it that first time and shortly after saw it high on your chart. It's great!" Okay, now onto the long and unfocused write up of my thoughts:
"(No expert on Black Metal or Melodic Black Metal, but I think this is a really cool album. That's it, that's all I'll say parenthetically).
This has everything I was hoping from a Black Metal album: a certain menace, a swirling darkness, excellent staccato riffs, gnarled vocals that sound torturous, some really epic medieval sounding choir parts that lead into towering metal riffing, and a nice variety and integration of all those elements into one cool, cohesive Black Metal journey.
Listening to this conjured images of warfare and Satan, yes, but also somewhat quiet and anguished contemplation and dread. It was a great experience start to finish, but especially loved "The Mantis" - such a great build and pay off. The track "Yoth Iria" is 1. Badass and spooky and 2. also gets bonus points for the classic track and artist matching thing (too bad this isn't the rare hat trick of nameX3). Perhaps the most badass and "catchy" and most-likely-to-make-your-head-go-bangbang track here is I think the fabulous onslaught of "The Red Crown Turns Black". And it doesn't get a whole lot better or more solid ending an album than the one-two punch of "Tyrants", machine sounds, straight into "The Luciferian" - what a cool percussive pulse that closer has. And with the bell-like sounds or whatever keys those are that dominate the last track and was also on earlier tracks, this reminded me of the glorious first track of Burzum's "Filosofem". (Could it be more obvious I'm not very familiar with the genre when the only reference-point I have is the most famous artist or at least most acclaimed artist in the genre? It's like if I reviewed an instrumental hip hop album and could only consistently relate it to Endtroducing... . lol)
Can I also say that that album cover is fucking badass. Okay, that said, I can move on.
It's weird to me that just a couple years ago I felt Black Metal was the least accessible broad subgenre of metal. Not Death metal, didn't really know much about Grindcore, certainly not thrash, not doom, or other such genres, but Black Metal. That was the one that if I saw the genre tag there on an album on RYM with Black Metal I would sigh and skip ahead to something else (quite tough considering the massive amount of love BM gets on that inferior site to BEA 😉 ). Yet now as I listen to this album on repeat, I think that is absurd. This is right up my alley. Maybe not my fave genre, but certainly there are qualities and feelings and atmosphere's I get with BM that I don't get anywhere else. Granted, I know that this may be a more accessible form of Black Metal than say old school or mid 90s straight up black metal (the extra word "Melodic" gives that away), and maybe if I went and tried to listen newly to say some old classic albums by Mayhem or Darkthrone I would still be mildly repulsed. But I SERIOUSLY doubt it.
Not to go on too hard a tangent (as I go ahead and do just that) but I think for some reason a year and a half ago or so I remembered how much I loved Pig Destroyer, and decided to explore LOTS Grindcore. Grind is abrasive and inaccessible enough that I think it successfully stripped away all the barriers I had put up to enjoying and even loving other forms of extreme metal - most notably Black Metal, but also recently have adored many Death Metal and classic Heavy Metal and who knows maybe soon Power Metal won't sound absurdly corny. Anyway, Still, as I listen to this Yoth Iria album I get the feeling this is not only a great gateway album for me but could be for many many people who may love thrash and old Judas Priest and the like and want to get into BM. It's that sound and complete as an album.
Okay, digressions out of the way, I'll close by saying this is really really, good stuff and I think it may have opened my eyes a bit to so many classic and great black metal and black metal subgenres."
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@RoundTheBend, this one is great (even if some of the smooth jazzy bits sound VERY dated to mid 70s and even if not in my top 5 Joni):
top 10 2021 albums that I want to hear. They are the top albums on my self-made list of albums I’ve been circling - I made this into a spreadsheet and its getting fucking out of hand, guys!
1. The Art of Losing by The Anchoress
2. Music City Joke by Mac Leaphart
3. Fishmonger by Underscores
4. I Became Birds by Home is Where
5. Etemen Ænka by Dvne
6. Methods of Human Disposal by Gravesend
7. Songs for the Enamel Queen by Black Sheep Wall
8. If This Is The End by Project Blackbird
9. Paradigmes by La Femme
10. Solar Paroxysm by Mare Cognitum _________________ -Ryan
This is the third Erykah Badu album I have listened to, and after the opening track on the album with it's funky touches I thought maybe this is the one I will like. But after that it was all too smooth and sophisticated for me. The album flowed really nicely, especially in the first half of the album where some of those transitions were so smooth that I hardly even noticed it was the next song. In the end it was nice background music but apart from the vocals there was not a lot going on to keep my interest, and it was making me drift away, and feel too sleepy for first thing on a Saturday morning. 6.5/10, and 45/50 for 2000.
I found The Campfire Headphase quite good and worth a listen. I would come back to it again.
Top 45 Music Albums of 2000 by Luigii (4 picks left)
1. Vocalcity by Luomo
3. Sunset Mission by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
4. SMPTe by Transatlantic
8. 勝訴ストリップ [Shōso Strip] by 椎名 林檎 [Shiina Ringo]
9. Faith And Courage by Sinéad O'Connor
10. Lovers Rock by Sade
11. Aijuswanaseing by Musiq Soulchild
12. Programmed To Love by Bent
14. Suzuki by Tosca
16. Like Water For Chocolate by Common
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Looks like I posted whilst you wrote. Pick whichever of my list looks coolest (if you haven’t heard of the artists...although you very well may have, I’m not trying to say you haven’t heard of those artists, take no offense. And don’t feel like I’m telling you what to feel cuz I’m not ... I mean be offended if you wanna be, not saying it’s an active choice, but yeah anyway... jk with all of this) _________________ -Ryan
I was going to give you Jane Weaver if and when I chose for you next Mercury but it's gone now..so let's go with Paradigmes by La Femme....that looks coolest.
I was going to give you Jane Weaver if and when I chose for you next Mercury but it's gone now..so let's go with Paradigmes by La Femme....that looks coolest.
Merc did I mention how much I like your reviews? Cause I really do. And also completely agree that Yoth Iria is a very good introduction to modern black metal for anyone given the melodic nature, high production quality and just the fact that all of these guys are legends of Greek bm scene. I thought black metal was the most extreme metal subgenre too, and there was a time when I was repelled by the lyrics and couldn't stand the vocals. Glad that I dived into the subgenre eventually, it's been one of the most diverse and interesting scenes since the 90s (or collection of multiple scenes around the world). Often controversial and morally dubious, which is something that I still find problematic, but in terms of music it's incredible. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Merc did I mention how much I like your reviews? Cause I really do. And also completely agree that Yoth Iria is a very good introduction to modern black metal for anyone given the melodic nature, high production quality and just the fact that all of these guys are legends of Greek bm scene. I thought black metal was the most extreme metal subgenre too, and there was a time when I was repelled by the lyrics and couldn't stand the vocals. Glad that I dived into the subgenre eventually, it's been one of the most diverse and interesting scenes since the 90s (or collection of multiple scenes around the world). Often controversial and morally dubious, which is something that I still find problematic, but in terms of music it's incredible.
Hey thanks a lot, LedZep! I had off work a good portion of yesterday, so I got my album listening juices going and popped off a few album “reviews”. Yoth Iria was a standout.
And yeah agreed on your general points regarding black metal. With some of their scenes’ history of burning down churches, I was a bit morally repulsed as well tbh. And the fact that Burzum’s main
Dude (forget name) is a murderer doesn’t help. It’s a strange relationship I have with the morality of the music. But I’m finding the music more and more interesting as time goes on.
Had no idea the members of Yoth Iria were already legends of Greek bm: that’s cool and make sense.
And not to derail this thread, but I highly recommend the Cryptosis album Bionic Swarm next time you’re hankerin for some badass thrash. One of my faves this year and so far it’s my number 2 metal album of 21. (Behind ad Nauseam, and I guess Knoll - although they are just in a different level in my grind-addled-mind.) _________________ -Ryan
This is a pretty good grunge album, a genre that I can appreciate but is far from one of my favorites. Song-for-song, it's not at the level of their more acclaimed debut in quality or intensity (which I think correlate in grunge). That said, the highlight for me is actually one of the mellower songs, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town. Vedder's vocals are divisive, and I am not a fan, although they also don't ruin things for me. A pleasant enough listen, but I'm in no rush to hear it again. 3/5.
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2. This is a great album that I was recently assigned in this game:
195. AM - Arctic Monkeys
224. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
236. Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & The Dominos
260. Hotel California - Eagles
267. Machine Head - Deep Purple
270. Room On Fire - The Strokes
274. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
280. Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
282. The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
303. Screamadelica - Primal Scream _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
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