My hyper fixation for the last 4 years has been the band Lawrence. Eight-piece Soul Funk group with a brass section and two lead vocalists.

The musicianship is incredible. Saw them live last month and you could tell there was no click track as the band members improvised off each other and the crowd. They were having a genuinely good time on stage messing around and the energy was infectious. Genuinely the most fun I've had in years.

Also co-vocalist Gracie's voice! I've heard their albums so many times and there's still moments I find myself muttering blasphemy as she fucking belts it out.

As I get older my music tastes have definitely broadened from my relatively narrow range of Seattle Grunge and metal. Still with this band, my partner doesn't quite know what's happened to me.

Anyway, I recommend this live recording of Hip Replacement from last month.

A reminder that Grimes is the Great Value version of Janelle Monáe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFK6k-pvXmI

Fellow weeaboos (I know you're out there), All That Jazz is a great album with jazz covers of songs from Ghibli movies.

I've stopped listening to music because I realised it made me dissociate too easily. If I were getting back into it all, I'd probably start by playing this on repeat.

A couple songs I’ve been obsessing over, in no particular order:

• The Crane Wives – Nobody
• Infinity Song – Lotus
• Joywave – Hate To Be A Bother
• Paula Carolina – Trophäe
• Hozier – Nobody’s Soldier

Don't judge me, I'm sensitive uwu Some tracks i've been bumping lately~

Jon Batiste - The Very Thought of You

Chet Baker - Almost Blue

Gillian Welch/David Rawlings - Elvis Presley Blues

Sam Cooke - Mean Old World

Kendrick Lamar - FEAR.

Ray LaMontagne - Hold You In My Arms

Hippo Campus - Listerine

Felix by Nim Sadot

this is a late follow-up from the topic in the last stubsack, but I do like the idea of a music sub. for now though, I think doing a variety of casual off-topic music threads in other subs is the right move, until we’ve got a good volume of posts and a cross-section of the types of threads we might want to post in a new sub.

(I’ll post some music recommendations in this thread when I get the chance later)

I recently got The Secret Public on CD and spent yesterday evening listening to it. Plenty of interesting LGBT+ history and there are some really great songs on there - the 60s songs really appeal to me, especially the girl groups, but there's also some good tough 70s funk and disco.

I don't know if I've been listening to anything that's relevant to Sneer Club.

So first off I want to share the playlist that's been stuck in my head for the last few weeks since I remembered it exists. Baby Got Back Talk, a punk outfit out of NYC, were outraged that an article in Rolling Stone or somewhere about the "philosophers of rock" didn't include any women or non-white people, so they assembled a bunch who they felt should have been featured.

If you prefer your music so-fresh-it's-undercooked, you may also enjoy the podcast Jam Mechanics . Bug from Bug Hunter and Matt from The Narcissist's Cookbook , two aggressively indie singer/songwriters, are prompted to make a song about something and then share the resulting demos ~4 hours later. A few of the songs from the first season have been actually finished into full tracks, but I like hearing the rough cuts and initial reactions because I'm that obnoxious guy.

Most of the time, if I'm listening to anything, it's a playlist of Boards of Canada on shuffle - usually while I work.

Otherwise, my music taste is pretty stalled these days wrt new music. Unwound got back together and I saw a couple of their shows, one in LA and another in Austin. The Blood Brothers also reunited and I have a ticket to see them in Dec. Melt-Banana just released a new album I haven't listened to yet.

My friend's band, Yuppie Killer, released their discography on streaming sites. They're a hardcore punk band of expats in South Korea from 2012-2017.

I play in a band, Constellation, and we're sending our first album to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90's post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.

The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens, sorta related to sneerclub as it is about sci-fi eschatology, but has a lot of personal elements. Found this because it is his first album that is almost entirely electronic.

I don't wanna be a wet blanket but one thing that struck me back in the Last.fm days was how little music taste correlated with how I got along with people (online and off). That said I'll give these a fair shake but I'm an old man set in my ways when it comes to music.

FWIW I usually find what JWZ recommends/promotes to be ok.

@blakestacey Shaun Martin was incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcKiizWQVI

He died a couple of weeks ago :(

been juggling yaks the last few days, but finally a contribution!

among today’s musical discoveries, Euphonic Entropy by Diabulus In Musica

it’s a banger

found it via track 4

bc link: https://diabulusinmusica.bandcamp.com/album/euphonic-entropy

Got an extended edit of 'meet the grahams' that hits even damn harder than the original

new(er) shit:

• Clara Cuve - Control (2020)
• In Verruf - Frei (2023)
• X-Dream - March EP (2008) (they did psytrance before, broke up, then made something else decade later)

old(er) shit:

• Tim Schult - Animatronic, Ohm Shiva (2000)
• Man with no Name - Possessed (1998)
• Man with no Name - Moment of Truth, Cairo (1996)
• X-Dream - The Frog (1998)

I've sorely neglected responding to this thread on account of life yaks, and the irony is not lost on me

that said, presently jamming out to this mix: https://soundcloud.com/juelz114/julius-unnamed-road-festival-2024