incredibly happy to see Bruce Haack's Haackula finally on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5z3JPsBjGXaIUzerAjQSEW
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 25 September 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link
coooooooool
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-09-25https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2ElXzv54F1LqgTrUp35cJM
Oh, did you know there's a new album by this Scottish synth-pop band called CHVRCHES? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsKaylee Johnston combining basically every mainstream genre into one glossy pop song - https://open.spotify.com/track/6ISorijSFZLyMrGtR0zFXBStrutting Italian rock from Negrita - http://open.spotify.com/album/1b6sHCqa0HfVeiT1u4Xj8wSwoony Swedish electropop from Lissi Dancefloor Disaster - https://open.spotify.com/track/5zk52kWBKlU7PpDGmhrDcmI hope this fantastic Turkish hip-hop from Joker and Defkhan isn't using its mesmerizing warp-speed flow to espouse something horrific - https://open.spotify.com/track/7jR0FZBWOFadzp5rdeOxa3Warm, string-lined German pop-rock from Robert Redweik - http://open.spotify.com/album/2VrSNBtxvos8e3HHMVFcfcThe way Lauren's small, clear voice, swoops vp out of the beepy textvres - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsPretenders + UFO = Christian Mistress - http://open.spotify.com/album/5RS2o6xXi2yebUrDPRET2CHoarse black-occult mania from Dark Sermon - http://open.spotify.com/album/4w8weBmUL1vqK82aMrVwx6Ryan Adams remakes 1989 as if it were Nebraska and it's kind of amazing - http://open.spotify.com/album/0MVK1j7wrUkBZ09ZuMURJASparkling arena-piano-pop by MY RED + BLUE - https://open.spotify.com/track/2xAVxKWCsB5v0m55pWBnCkShattered, relentless textural electronica from Tenebre - http://open.spotify.com/album/1yWv07oGPvklKYn4QbL5StI'm not svre hvmanity has fvlly vnderstood the transposition of drvm-heads into controller-bvttons before now - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsHeroic Dutch gothic symphonic metal from End of the Dream - http://open.spotify.com/album/2mnQoOtTOkpz6vyuSY8X1vAiry big-German-sky arena-rock by Captain Disko - https://open.spotify.com/track/0MSQBkdFX7V3Ta8WaJiaxcAmbient waves from Bruised Skies - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Gx6B0Ul77dlw3V3gACQsHCrushing pop-punk-core by The Haunting - http://open.spotify.com/album/7sIuNJ1oXztPWncsMn1jUJPost-punk goth-gaze by Cold Showers - http://open.spotify.com/album/5o86NPsgX7lMA8KvY8x4h6Part of it is to have absolvtely no fear of pop - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsA beepy, reticent song called "Shake It Off" that is not a Taylor Swift cover by Navelin - http://open.spotify.com/album/1p6xJ8GWzRZY9e73DDaHtpFluttery, epic modern-classical ensemble puzzle-boxes by Bryce Dessner and eighth blackbird - http://open.spotify.com/album/0UpwD6FzrgfFwvgFK0XVqbEmm Gryner steps back out of her new-Scandal costume to just play and sing - http://open.spotify.com/album/1e0Cf5E2PLsnPeTsz4CC2zActivate all production systems for a new song by Sia - https://open.spotify.com/track/05cXQMJcrM9msUYu11mOrsLittle Mix channel the Supremes and pull it off - https://open.spotify.com/track/2fykwqa2RQzI6nBCwhTfqDOr maybe it's the way these songs seem to be svbmerged in some translvcent svbstance that gradvally tvrns out to be air - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsIf this weren't CHVRCHES week, my album of the week would be the return of post-world electropop oracle V V Brown - http://open.spotify.com/album/1CVz0OisrktotrVAEZBC8rThere are too many artists called "Willow", but one of them is a German folk-metal-hip-hop-ish thing - https://open.spotify.com/track/6HwsVfCbnJIJEOvHXpahttIf you don't have time for a whole-album remake of 1989, Peter Hollens does it in a cappella in 4 minutes - https://open.spotify.com/track/6cnEM8ovJ3fsURvCPn7KrLMy prediction of wild commercial stardom for LP hasn't come true yet, but I've lost no confidence in it - https://open.spotify.com/track/2omkYkDtepbdy0XnSwgqhiRock-solid uplifting trance by BT, Ilan Bluestone and Stef Lang - http://open.spotify.com/album/3Xcj96AJgFqf1qiYjtfflEEvery once in a while they let their love of New Wave show throvgh vnrefractedly - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 27 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
(part 2)
Rey Pila launches the Mexican electro-pop invasion in earnest - http://open.spotify.com/album/3ww0rgAjZcjS43i7I9lZIaWiley packs grime full of words - https://open.spotify.com/track/1DiiqCzEiNPP1qHBvXXWxwPensive atmospheric post-rock by Caspian - http://open.spotify.com/album/1aZqgTPYSxx2ISuigQkgjDGleefully menacing Finnish industrial rock by Turmion Kätilöt - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KdDMlS0XJxbSog1JvbGPLDarksunny synth-sludge fog-gaze from Anakin - http://open.spotify.com/album/5MUDfvzNqUMcmTF9duZZ0xThis is like my six Scottish favorite-band-in-the-world, and maybe possibility's gift to anybody who likes covnting - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsFinnish gothic symphonic metal with a twirly emphasis on the theatrical-floridity sense of "gothic" from Amberian Dawn - https://open.spotify.com/track/5BVxTkpAVFDGNL2x5YQ4QpWarlock + Megadeth = Huntress - http://open.spotify.com/album/1BUy1djZOQKqWJi2mxDtjdWet Nurse, who are not Wetnurse, play sharp-ragged-edge garage power-pop - http://open.spotify.com/album/6S0hPPzKDn7sibUZDVzn2sThe brothers of the sisters of mercy are Still Patient? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6EhhQDUlwv3dXUrCX7cn5kCradle of Filth recombined with the March Violets might get you Exit To Eden - http://open.spotify.com/album/6UQhafwxi1MNDAjkAjNESGI svspect the thing I have always responded to most strongly in electronic pop is the way mechanism emphasizes the hvmanity of any bit that deviates from the grid - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsAnother beepic from my personal electro-theme producer June 1974 - https://open.spotify.com/track/4yGUh8RM6AEUVbLEcf75n7Gloryhammer are almost certainly the best power-metal band to ever include at least one song about Inverness on every album - http://open.spotify.com/album/3fpspMTkc6HAF9flYAiFJZBlack thrash-death-rock from Black Breath - http://open.spotify.com/album/19Rb9gNBaDwS8A0k5C3STVThere's this pop-production thing that sounds like bombs wrapped in superballs set into bounce-patterns in anti-gravity cathedrals, and Carla Morrison's is in Mexico somewhere - https://open.spotify.com/track/7LTJ3FlcB9PPh4P7v2xYBeReyno suggest that you can make soaring alt-rock in Mexican cathedrals, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Dj3RsVvxpyh9V1yQv9fhSPart of the magic, I think, is that they are willing to set the machines on covrses and stand back and let the patterns emerge and convvlse - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlssund4ra Karma take the Vegas out of the Killers - https://open.spotify.com/track/00S3KATTdqNryOTSk1Wc0IBreathy jangle-gaze from Night Flowers - http://open.spotify.com/album/1O3aULJUqZubmqr3xp3JoLThe Colombian Roxette is called Siam, which I'm just going to take as an obscure Rush joke - http://open.spotify.com/album/3iIlmKtYyRf9bYFCBT5YhjDense, blurry Spanish electro-punk from Hungry Butterfly - http://open.spotify.com/album/2djzxiTUGW4d3ivaxKm3soBlaring Italian alt-rock by Il corso delle cose - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SGrZpLdHVQhZU64ZaJUZFPart of me thinks that, honestly, Lauren covld sing over appliance hvm and I wovld still melt, but another part of me also believes that they have infiltrated the power grid and tvned the hvm to my heart - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUlsI swore off Robert Pollard in 2001. I probably had good reasons, and I probably wrote them down, and thus I could probably look them up. And whatever they were, 14 years is probably far more than they were ever worth. His new band, Ricked Wicky, sounds more like Tommy Keene rehearsals than Guided by Voices outtakes - http://open.spotify.com/album/1ci9r4BGxTYTjcgOJSh043Burbling New Order restraint erupting fitfully into brit-guitar-rock expansiveness by The Crookes - http://open.spotify.com/album/4rPDyVFyjZqKo0HpdAzHdkThere is enough bass in this pounding German hip-hop album by Olexesh to blast out of car windows and disperse emissions fumes, if that happens to be a thing you suddenly find you need - http://open.spotify.com/album/4OFnzgTLpP6THvTpVtKNpSPerfect-formula uplifting trance by Lush & Simon - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ceRA3dEpo2lAaVywJ1CiqI would like a joint tour from Agent Fresco and British prog-math-power-trio Arcane Roots - https://open.spotify.com/track/0lLdbZMhk6sH8pTJgMl7fJThe drvm machines even have an Off switch. But my love does not. - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
New Particles, 2015-10-02https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3uCRb7tFnAKlomZDW2T090
Somehow I missed or forgot about an Envy album a while back - http://open.spotify.com/album/7lINgT6Z15Y1QQQLKcZkbCEpic cryptic black metal from Mephorash - http://open.spotify.com/album/0re6nodMKgLhXEA2GYrj7gDark electronic ambient post-rock by Master Musicians Of Bukkake - http://open.spotify.com/album/4vksbxIS4j5szmqALBSMPvSparkly Taiwanese indie rock by 小男孩樂團 (Men.Envy.Children) - http://open.spotify.com/album/5QvOcQXGOQOtftNeU3niz5Mutedly anthemic Italian indie pop by Paola Turci - https://open.spotify.com/track/2LYBGQZOO56UdvBAePJ6poUnmutedly anthetmic Italian arena-pop-rock by Gianluca Capozzi - https://open.spotify.com/track/6kS54a6UDcr7qNLLNFo7QcProgressive comedy-rock in a language that allows me to ignore the comedy by Elio E Le Storie Tese - https://open.spotify.com/track/650MdkmeEP7igIaH5ebP34Twittery trap-pop by Ada Reina - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Nwl2z0j5s2QuCE2OXRL6gRinging, Kent-esque Norwegian post-post-punk by Hanne Kolstø - https://open.spotify.com/track/2kSD9ibQMc7ryUf9TYHsRTMelodic djent by TesseracT - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MCDAc15cQpsRPoBaHRXQNAnother Jagged Little Pill outtake by Alanis Morissette - https://open.spotify.com/track/6FGUBhNLfPlPSvCV8gLyF6Fractured chaotic-ambient solipsynthm by The A.M. Experiment - http://open.spotify.com/album/6yGFN4u5U6GUwh84T3sBQATruanslucid gauze-pop by Christine and the Queens - https://open.spotify.com/track/0kB8ajGpkm1VZU8tgqo1lNThe album that makes me start to wonder if Editors have a Talk Talk in them - http://open.spotify.com/album/5cpnh6jaDulg2Yk3BkR0CRNerdgrime by the king of nerdgrime, Dan Bull - https://open.spotify.com/track/24foMOtNXARWdJ3Y8Jgf5xJoe Jackson takes a stand for adulthood as a musical concept - http://open.spotify.com/album/4NuFs6VmNx2r11RArurD3wKilling Joke takes a stand for sounding like you always did - https://open.spotify.com/track/1OwJiaRNkWmsVRjU21dDdBI'm not sure the "stoner" in stoner metal still means what it used to mean, and there's a new Kylesa album - http://open.spotify.com/album/5FLIlg8fdg6BU0BHrN1bqBSyncopated dessert drone by Tinariwen - https://open.spotify.com/track/4pAjhe0ziaLX41MsG7nHOGPrecision-blasting death metal by Revocation - https://open.spotify.com/track/7dynddYcmuLrYzLBy5M6ajSoaring Spanish folk-metal by Saurom - http://open.spotify.com/album/7wFxbQOlWExcVzpDbWySd7Pinkshinyultrablast extrapolate a dreamgaze future the Smashing Pumpkins never quite had - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qi5CnFwU7XfaQcq76SHTRThere is a brutal death-metal band called Recursion, but this Recursion is a careful Austrian jazz-pop band - http://open.spotify.com/album/12LHXuKp0rbu5RY7PgzUORDeafheaven are still a metal band - http://open.spotify.com/album/2e4xOasRFhJn4x2MBM5pduCfit are like a messy cross between the Frames and Xiu Xiu - http://open.spotify.com/album/2vTlwH4Q0IgI1EQOR4UBipStentorian Hungarian throwback synth-rock from Ákos - http://open.spotify.com/album/3yQQuNAptFjdwiIrOAvfMqBlaring Hungarian hard rock by Mátyás Attila - http://open.spotify.com/album/5tQkKJjkUeGRErgI372R7kGloriously massive new gothic metal by Draconian - https://open.spotify.com/track/3VXfcs76zHFsIh1wCNDQCT
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
And similarly textbook non-symphonic gothic metal by Entwine - http://open.spotify.com/album/57G6MMphlhFV8C2KdGDV5lSeptember Mourning take more of an In This Moment-ish view of gothic metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4a4MdZuJo0d0pmcEGxg8lSWarmly dissonant Basque post-punk by Zura - http://open.spotify.com/album/3NweL7XVDu1N9dmGrOa8tzMelodic Basque punk/rock by Larregi - http://open.spotify.com/album/1nx4TuQCdRfKyQjEXCvxKuBubbly indie guitar-rock by Secret Someones - http://open.spotify.com/album/2qEwpgL6fkvO6YpSRYpMV1Pooh remake their 1971 Italian proto-prog hit "Pensiero" - https://open.spotify.com/track/0MUoeqQwtAwczApC45ISzZSpringy progressive uplifting trance by Inukshuk - https://open.spotify.com/track/7Hz4WGtoUfXemzSUA1Jh6CNoisy post-rock by A Violet Pine - http://open.spotify.com/album/6rYuVCTgAs3lgOK6Lxt10dEchoey para-retro French electro-industrial post-punk by Balladur - http://open.spotify.com/album/2nEOO4ubCq09TUikaFSku6If Ben Folds were young again (and from Northern Ireland), he might sound like Best Boy Grip - http://open.spotify.com/album/3JRjtP9d2alAvmCArS2m5yIf REM were young again (and from Ohio via LA), they might sound like Line & Circle - http://open.spotify.com/album/5FNKo6LK2zA0I0XwNHprYXGuantlet-dropping instrumental-grime FABRICLIVE DJ set by Logan Sama - http://open.spotify.com/album/5RdKusmbHzWIYlNl3pgL79Aube-esque noise rituals from Tuonela - http://open.spotify.com/album/1dWfN2cycEc0pzjtYcP0vAWarm ambient drone by Wolf Maps - http://open.spotify.com/album/2c2D83YZnhwKzwE3x2FeL3Shimmery vaporwave by 회사AUTO - http://open.spotify.com/album/7jgZa5fQDyQDapiATlzACGJangly Norwegian folk-rock by Plumbo - https://open.spotify.com/track/2aBk6d5VLOZGQSueMAkGMhSoaring experimental progressive post-metal ambition from Digression Assassins - http://open.spotify.com/album/2ozWKAzYRaVfuwFLyFsZYwI've been waiting for the wave of bands inspired by Kvelertak and Man The Machetes could be the beginning of it - http://open.spotify.com/album/23YcRwKAWNvcyXKo8aKDBfBlistering female-fronted (but I only know that from reading about them) power-metalcore from For I Am King - https://open.spotify.com/track/39ERl23Ngthd0ukzZhPIslEarnest pop-djent upliftingcore from Liam Espinosa - http://open.spotify.com/album/4bFZz9qvPVCSxi3XNlXw4mTicks and sighs, but less energy-drink sugariness, by SOPHIE - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Jdg6ScqHUFc4QYY9O6kUkShiny epicstep by Fractal and Syrin - https://open.spotify.com/track/3zlZDnMdFsRaCjuPgS6anuQuick, catchy d&b by SICKorWELL - https://open.spotify.com/track/32E90z0ZvbtyiIYJogVVfoAiry trance-hop by Day One and Isabel Higuero - http://open.spotify.com/album/7hxLCSUC4HCH1r3DSThG2vRagged indie noise-pop by Pity Sex - https://open.spotify.com/track/70LtnsMfmRdTV1IpGXLI2mIf OneRepublic is the Empire, Marianas Trench are the rebels - https://open.spotify.com/track/4DffOGuyj2xXB5Jj6ToLb2Harrowing Grand Rapids post-hardcore band La Dispute remind me of what it felt like to hear the Pixies or Fugazi for the first time - http://open.spotify.com/album/19NRrJFEhkCC1tbFPDMkzA
But my song of the week is this astounding thing called "Pain of Dancers" by Daisy Victoria, which might be the dark neo-New Wave pop that Charli XCX feinted towards with "Nuclear Seasons" - https://open.spotify.com/track/5aFP9eUIQKaQboADbusdGE
new allison weiss album :D http://open.spotify.com/album/65xojYRYNfapGmRo4uut40
glenn that tinariwen link u posted doesn't work
― Mordy, Monday, 5 October 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
Weird, Tinariwen links works for me. What happens for you?
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 October 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
i just clicked on it and it worked. i think earlier i copy/pasted it into the spotify search bar (which i thought normally works?) and what happens in that case it says Your search did not match anything in our catalogue.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
That usually works, too. But clicking is easier and less error-prone...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-10-09https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/01dqxU0wQxSK9lkp0zQZb8
Somber-joyous Finnish pop from Kristiina Wheeler - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Bv8WiUO8eBjZgfBd3AGLQCrashing black-metal catharsis from Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - http://open.spotify.com/album/48SVgcHGfBn91vAsPWwboXBanda + disco + street-band jump = Kinky and Banda Furioza - http://open.spotify.com/album/2cpkNhSpPQDUBdKA2VO3NTGrand Italian pop-melancholy from Bianca Atzei - https://open.spotify.com/track/1nTAqH9uk2zF7xwP7skbCU... and yearningly more from Anna Tatangelo - https://open.spotify.com/track/4jvzwVSNGlpapJ3YsR08umFast, shouty Norwegian melodic punk from Ondt Blod - https://open.spotify.com/track/7HWi2MvitgGsJlJv8MiulyA Christmas-carol-sounding muted anthem about Stockholm by Adam Chiapponi & Fabriken - https://open.spotify.com/track/3BshhvY42v50O21xIgH23NChirpy Swedish synth-pop from Ida Redig - https://open.spotify.com/track/2sbnTwl4R9WAEUBOBEXNf9Erratic French progressive screamo-core by Novelists - http://open.spotify.com/album/2285H9tmYGEYXntiVvriyTBoingy funk-new-wave gated-drum retro-synth from The Black Queen - https://open.spotify.com/track/4WMHzLnrZ5Jf6ViAbE6T19Trad-minded female-vocal heavy metal by A Sound of Thunder - http://open.spotify.com/album/6TzR0apN3Favj4KrPOSNlxRaw black speed metal from Tsjuder - http://open.spotify.com/album/7vZHusdNTUxwFRr2ISEdmPand rawer, blastier black metal from Horna - http://open.spotify.com/album/78OyrT7gqedKx0iBN5N1OfBeauty-and-the-beast gothic metal from Elarmir - http://open.spotify.com/album/64XxeOnmspikKtQlsTxek0Elegant adventurous Dublin abstract-synth-emo-pop by Codes - http://open.spotify.com/album/0IPPWmKHIsbXSTkpAjEvxnGauzy evasive electro-space-pop by Midday Veil - http://open.spotify.com/album/63MMf66TcCy0Z3Nx30EhdxExperimental, bird-call-like violin/recorder instrumentals by Laura Cannell - http://open.spotify.com/album/0gMe7NCQr2HLwzgvQA8j0mDark minimalist electro-noise by Senking - http://open.spotify.com/album/4cGXgYPjMXZftMTBGuXDbAPastoral depressive black metal by Grift - http://open.spotify.com/album/7odpZfZWmVmCqKPborPfjoRitualistic Norwegian dark progressive metal by Mantric - http://open.spotify.com/album/1ENQrmwD6QZovURZ1RjFQfToronto hyperfuzzpop by Shmu - https://open.spotify.com/track/4rJxaxPF4gMVzgSlhLlmZYAlexi Lalas keeps making earnest pop-rock records - https://open.spotify.com/track/1eEsYu7q8VsPDpvoBzSDxERemember when it seemed like all indie rock was going to sound like Pavement forever? Wild Moth make it seem like that might have been less horrible than I feared - http://open.spotify.com/album/0vgsZzFM9I4OIFW68yY8aKDense pagan black metal by Trials - http://open.spotify.com/album/6jgC8EG8mvqK5ZMKc7gXIHAiry LA sibling-duo synth-rock by Blondfire - https://open.spotify.com/track/6wn7JRaWU2yfX7wUDjnRvFLate-80s-style dance-pop way more Wendy-and-Lisa than anachronistic Max Martin from Brooklynn - http://open.spotify.com/album/0TVWBNfrhvOkdth3TTu9mwAustralian X-Factor ex-winner Reece Mastin does Hunter Hayes without the Nashville - http://open.spotify.com/album/20FoHpQ8k10yg3XfyEcWFwAppealingly scruffy Veracruz alt-rock by Mark Horton - http://open.spotify.com/album/74Qlf9M9DFHkfYmtJLGpOFSwoony Mexican synth-rock by Elviaje - https://open.spotify.com/track/3VO8VJQE0cEir2A02WtmluEpic raw black metal by Heimdalls Wacht - http://open.spotify.com/album/7xIgp7nqy6mPgkRhG20DUvGoofy (non-metal) noise-rock by Evil Blizzard - http://open.spotify.com/album/7LoEXNmuwThtAAtjCp6gbNPost-CHVRCHES disco by Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/1zHW5fzog024qJa6K2U7KAThe less-ambient of two more albums of sound-collage electronica by The A.M. Experiment - http://open.spotify.com/album/75v6coSeHNLSEIbAGOvMZN
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
Spiky, clattering indietronic pop by Love X Stereo - https://open.spotify.com/track/1jkWmCaa4HoSoIElYPx6bKCiara makes "Paint It, Black" sound like a Hunger Games track - https://open.spotify.com/track/2VP6E3tkWSbD2uHBioBDLpSnarling, swirling cabaret-punk by alone together - https://open.spotify.com/track/4JafuHCJR0mlK3ccltluDSDreamy studio-tricked soul-pop by Luciana Abreu - https://open.spotify.com/track/0LoKUPDraDh7MMGUqFIu9HOpen-hearted twee orgcore by Laura Stevenson - https://open.spotify.com/track/23acKNrJS64oXsBdJPUMyRHead-crushing experimental metal by O - http://open.spotify.com/album/1jArsZXwOXbBGbYlrRHfHVChurning gothic metal by Derange - http://open.spotify.com/album/41V4OKsK8P1j5VychtiSqpSoaring c-pop duet by 孫子涵 and 李佳薇 - https://open.spotify.com/track/1cky5qvwfS9j9jiwRqN6p1Power-noise electronica by Necro Deathmort - http://open.spotify.com/album/33JHU7q5BMGauuxcmdzKkcSoundtracky drum-and-bass from London Elektricity - https://open.spotify.com/track/0NDqNXyimpHjZYLGmdMTZ6A new Penetration album, really - http://open.spotify.com/album/2VHHMmdGYJPTrYUQca2sW9Argentine stadium pop from Diego Torres - http://open.spotify.com/album/39PTxqAXGNBVb3ktd268hPSpanish neo-mellow by Maldita Nerea - https://open.spotify.com/track/74TRv53x2mkTv74A8lGcqeSpanish pop-punk by Pignoise - http://open.spotify.com/album/2FBf2t6AOwhU7cIODqM7VLOblique, squalling Swedish synth-rock by Nina Natri - https://open.spotify.com/track/0HoKeT6R88jGPixHaIwMXKUnderstated Swedish alt-rock by Deportees - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Y2qb76jDvZTN16WhuKubCRebecca & Fiona continue the legacy of Shampoo and t.A.T.u. - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xes1lWnwdrpGnyjNIugVgSwedish singer-songwriter-synth-pop from Mankku - https://open.spotify.com/track/3L31kMy6ycUfhydPo5Fz3RClangy electro-twitch by Antagonist - http://open.spotify.com/album/4hKSvT3Z4RAgyA7hlb2zkdProgressive metal extravagance by Teramaze - https://open.spotify.com/track/7zi6lxTaoM0K8xo80nQkMeFinnish former-Idol Anna Puu's sunny new album - https://open.spotify.com/album/7uKqd0KDgEfTywgrqJ8bNSEpicore massivity by Erik Ekholm - https://open.spotify.com/track/0CksKSnDB0o3SJ9BFyh86QA new Enya song that sounds like old Enya songs - https://open.spotify.com/track/0YdJ9sgBxjqK74oFLOx64cSpringsteen as indie-rock by The People The Poet - https://open.spotify.com/track/4TPTXgbNJta98hwDuSkRwtExtreme polka-metal by Varg - http://open.spotify.com/album/0ErzTh3Rxwcxu8DQSV8l0NJana Kramer declines to drop the country from her country-pop - http://open.spotify.com/album/7zD1Xp405071FTXmxySeD9The new Emma Hewitt song is musicked with cheerful beepiness by Mark Sixma - http://open.spotify.com/album/6kacv0xopXAjlhLmS14N6qFrantic grimestep Meridian Dan remix by Calx & TeeBee - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ikCIByPVpaF7Xik1DHoP9Old-fashioned punk churn by Taisho - http://open.spotify.com/album/5eh4UOIHctPHOTSvIk1TD2French aggrotechnical cybermetal by Medusa In My Knickers - http://open.spotify.com/album/7C4zel7bUR6F7BiFAO9Q9wSleeping At Last lullafying Kelly Clarkson's "Already Gone" - https://open.spotify.com/track/7fkXzzIVo98CgjOkpd9H0VEcstatic shimmery synth-punk from Gatomidi - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Kjy3OZSRYmro1Y0OViiKIBig-beat indie-r&b drama by Holiday Friends - https://open.spotify.com/track/7j2sjhuK4eak3yaoC8fQ1s
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-10-16https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6UpwmRJLWPHc5lDE7AipPg
3 versions each of 2 new goth-industrial stomps by Helalyn Flowers - http://open.spotify.com/album/30Jc7fCnFuQvXJIvg7Kc3HTeraBrite crunching through their version of Demi Lovato's "Confident" - https://open.spotify.com/track/0VUySyhGkxTp8PrNbCTQKjStill a tragic lack of Aube records on Spotify, but we did get another one - https://open.spotify.com/track/30gTc6JhJ888VX3DBHZ9YUNew album by wild one-man Hungarian avant-garde post-black metal band Thy Catafalque - http://open.spotify.com/album/23xJTVLJwQyO0aOfFhTISREpic melodic symphonic progressive black metal by So Hideous - http://open.spotify.com/album/698Mc1Dm1NhbP0qg9pr3inClicky, yearning indietronica from Small Black - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qSL3uKJ4x10OxoFpjgLQ5Quick, tense, swoopy indie-pop by White Sea - https://open.spotify.com/track/739AaKJwVBRn5VSu4YkXNJChairlift seem to have been listening to tUnE-yArDs - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Aavvmvuc36w25vxNG4VE7Crisp pure-arena-pop relentlessness by One Direction - https://open.spotify.com/track/3DnzEB8Ffnp5sjnCbOugUXHyperquantized robotfunk by SOPHIE - https://open.spotify.com/track/2cGvUvoFSpczQL25DerV7TCheerfully ragged Norwegian riot-grrrl-esque punk-pop by Slutface - http://open.spotify.com/album/0y5Gll91J2Ni3cwAvgeTERRoiling, shrieking, atmospherically cacophanous pagan black metal by Cosmic Church - http://open.spotify.com/album/2fi3XhYKLsHoJXdJtiHTsuFast Mexican half-pop throwback punk from De Uno En Uno - http://open.spotify.com/album/0jtYbeZUnUhNaC84aOn3BaNew album by German gothic-rock masters ASP - http://open.spotify.com/album/6A3yr3FLXPkI9KfJK4jmbWCrackling Finnish hard rock from Raaka-Aine - https://open.spotify.com/track/5qqpEBH9nZhhiy9S3ZW8evLumbering, evasive Glasgow post-rock by Thula Borah - http://open.spotify.com/album/6g8eQAKSqRLr7xvUzU2VUULanda and Meg Birch turn Yaz's "Only You" into a spare piano duet - https://open.spotify.com/track/16knpiCAwBvhPyZltlWivOPost-world arena-trap by Kwabs and Fetty Wap - http://open.spotify.com/album/5NugmMxKj8jXNOZRu2yq9GSpringy instrumental electro-post-rock by Lymbyc Systym - http://open.spotify.com/album/3w1fCVdSU1ILmRcZm31faHRadiant pop-punk overdrive by State Champs - http://open.spotify.com/album/6e7qQNNJSaez58YoKRiBCnPortentious, shredding epicore by Erik Ekholm - http://open.spotify.com/album/2QUMAOTEsy9AQBfBLUreUdGalloping power-pop-punk from Gothenburg by Terra - https://open.spotify.com/track/38dPakXK7H2XyF23YAkN41Dan Bull and Cammie Robinson try a nerd-grime version of "Read All About It" or "Written in the Stars" - https://open.spotify.com/track/2LE2q4MZz6UWWAXfRHz867Varien and Laura Brehm take morning trance into epicore sunrise - https://open.spotify.com/track/0CSgDcTX6Q0uznUHt7mokFSlot Machine push exuberant Thai indie-rock to the brink of visual kei - http://open.spotify.com/album/4JRl4YqeQrbyKVClX1uVg4Sumptuous atmospheric indietronic reticence from Christine and the Queens - http://open.spotify.com/album/6icxSA6dVp16bBXaeAMSYGKaleidoscopic static by Cheatahs - https://open.spotify.com/track/09OXnDEtGUin9RabIQLJrZBubbly synth-goth by Alice In Videoland - https://open.spotify.com/track/6buc62sIpaxyb7ViyBPsAwThe surging, twee punk band the Go-Go's never were are called Muncie Girls - http://open.spotify.com/album/04I3QhKCdD2afedJxxcGHY朱俐靜 giving some Taiwanese TV show a glorious Garnet-Crow-ish theme song - https://open.spotify.com/track/6EHfrQUVeFQ7mpkSyyN3c8The continuing adventures of Chilean twice-re-formed New Wave legends Electrodomésticos - http://open.spotify.com/album/7KDRLIq5YhbN3P3M1nkxvfHead-crushing black SLC splatter-thrash from Cult Leader - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Oie3ShowFen1OGbfNkuFMFrench electro-pop with occasional guitar squalls by Xavier Boscher - http://open.spotify.com/album/1rA3uEnyDFFejpIQ7y7DSCMoody LA synthpop by MUNA - https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKbBE3RwBZQtsnkzBIxIRBlaring, Hole-esque noise-pop by Skinny Girl Diet - http://open.spotify.com/album/64VLdTWO2iuGWDT9S6KPFzFlorid Austrian gothic circus metal by Lolita KompleX - http://open.spotify.com/album/1g6Dhiorimu9rxMgQL8BJURousing Swedish pop-rock by Jonathan Fröberg - https://open.spotify.com/track/69ZT6WQ0UZgc5kuiC4EMjiMeasured indietronic sparkle by Pr0files - https://open.spotify.com/track/6SSKR7x2un743k1L31c5bkShouty pop metalcore by Arcane Roots - http://open.spotify.com/album/3PAwu68vSqH7TQ0ssP1l0fAnd oh, just a new album by Jean-Michel Jarre - http://open.spotify.com/album/2TeBcXsF6f0A6v0oxACUX5
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 19 October 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
So I guess it's just me, now?
New Particles, 2015-10-23https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6VCuUaMtYFiI2Za868fuVm
If Low can get with drum machines, Shearwater can go beepy - https://open.spotify.com/track/23UuoXMLnB5t7qm5oiXN62Ominous substep rumble by Horizon - http://open.spotify.com/album/4C6bNpgYfV177kisMXyVm0Gently bouncy uplift-pop by Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/7kD0Y5jtaX8zIsYHyxRNKWIndie-er indietronic translucence by The Japanese House - http://open.spotify.com/album/4pi0uxZhvg9PuST6tqKeqQRemastered editions of 3 early a-ha albums, including the great Memorial Beach - http://open.spotify.com/album/6jeJqq4sspy54tXoeLwJNIKilling Joke have done their venomous industrial-punk thing long enough that the industrial part now sounds nostalgic - http://open.spotify.com/album/3v5HVJCL7fDYQkiokMYpbAJazz-metal convolutions by Shining - http://open.spotify.com/album/426j1oU7HSWiUalEUDOYafPost-Cascadian avant-thrash metal by VHÖL - http://open.spotify.com/album/1VLJmlv618MDmw1fw9CqPpRelentless aggrotech by Corrections House - http://open.spotify.com/album/7bxRU2cF45G3QCG4ZM0n1BCrunching melodic anime-death metal by Halo - http://open.spotify.com/album/4yPhIyij3ZgnyGECW0es4mRestless jumpcut geekstep by Pegboard Nerds - http://open.spotify.com/album/6RvVDpaJqXmKJPSTZtB8ODKeith Urban reminds us that country can do melancholy - https://open.spotify.com/track/3W5GXbS3ugsYjx1X0xBNbLCeltic-infused way-post-disco stomp-and-fiddle from Rod Stewart - http://open.spotify.com/album/09Yadl464p9NgLDXSrEDCxChirpy neo-synth-pop from St. Lucia - https://open.spotify.com/track/2khqMJ0UmmTCgiIjr8RhL3Thickly atmospheric indie guitar rock by Racing Glaciers - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Qlw6thsSD1IqE6fNse2dnHypermelodic gothic symphonic metal by Amberian Dawn - http://open.spotify.com/album/0soguZBI4nR4VI3aFWtBMSVisual sprint-kei by Matenrou Opera - http://open.spotify.com/album/1UlhNde7AYsDouAn8vPuLkAlternately angelic and sludged epic hard-doom-rock by Avatarium - http://open.spotify.com/album/5874V0GDIm054Z6fOtwtN1Near-subsonic d&b wobble by ARtroniks - http://open.spotify.com/album/3QCp2akCJpN6HAYpIqVFHlSpectral-wash ambient noiseshaping by Philip Jeck - http://open.spotify.com/album/0jfqeNOKZzeG6BtMGbZ0qiA one-song folk-death-metal primer by Månegarm - https://open.spotify.com/track/1AZPmRf04fprBNwkWD09yFInto the Taylor Swift pop-country vaccuum with Leah Daniels - http://open.spotify.com/album/45OR4vxlWyBdgbZl8THuTaIf One Direction had been listening to Sparks albums while watching Beatles movies with the sound off, they might have came out sounding more like Marianas Trench. Can you have an experimental pop boyband? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6bHlJBmCWgRT8cOrpuXgaFShouty-fluttery Japanese post-hardcore rage by coldrain - http://open.spotify.com/album/0ipLiiXsOdeIrXdc0hfpr8Obsessive noise-rock blur by Savages - https://open.spotify.com/track/3EkqGwaDQg4vkMHtcNZvpCCroaky symphonic black cryptic-spasmodic metal from Upon Shadows - http://open.spotify.com/album/37ZmjDUjyFQ8j9hqkJrv4i
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 23 October 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
i have honestly set myself up with enough music for the next two years!plus i'm managing the ilx lists and listening to those. it's a full full world.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 October 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Should I be ashamed for really enjoying that Marianas Trench album?
― MarkoP, Friday, 23 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
Lol tell me about it, my "to listen" playlist is perpetually hovering around 9000 songs
― brimstead, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
it's kinda crazy how you take things for granted so quickly
but i've spent the last 2 work days listening to a playlist that is every Beethovan symphony performed by the London Symphony, all in chronological order
that's kinda fucking crazy to be able to dial up cultural knowledge like that
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-10-30https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/75vpr77mdtCwwgf2JN2Aii
One-man Polish experimental ambient/acoustic/noise-metal style-shifting chaos from Stara Rzeka - http://open.spotify.com/album/2afS20wqthqm8hsr6054MxCoy but only ultrafaintly vaporwavy neo-synthpop by Computer Magic - http://open.spotify.com/album/0lGTK4Lp4fhli24PlzufdKAnother irrepressible advance single from the upcoming Little Mix album - https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZZyqF6CrepMTKAr0PlK9SGeographer make Paul Simon's "I Know What I Know" into glittering metro-arena-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/5jO2PJ9CRmEg7VRYa06FUaA streamlined, pulsing, chirpy indietronic gem from Grimes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1JYtlIFdYms6nZNf2K7YysBlistering death/black/heavy/folk everything-metal from Savonian Finns Verjnuarmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/3XnscZPWmtMoZNEmS1vjhjGritty, croaky-voiced death-metal from Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/6IorLrgnanjkghkhlc4aauSimmery, measured, not-really-for-dancing slow-build pop from Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/19HURubNqIbV3VKqLcQp4ySparkly high-gloss r&b-pop from Pia Mia - https://open.spotify.com/track/26nqNagc6dINfNM2ZKmoa0I've been lobbying Royal Teeth and Cut Ribbons to tour together, and if The Sam Willows can afford to get from Singapore to wherever the tour is, they should - http://open.spotify.com/album/0FEM3h1Bo8QHEb7V91EurbSwirly gauze-pop from GEMS - http://open.spotify.com/album/3l5Ao1wM83DeLAX20zqX00Dua Lipa - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ixphys4A3NEXp6MDScfihTaiwanese once-folk-singer 韋禮安 wanders into shred-rock - https://open.spotify.com/track/61myeQaClSPNzyRxKxeulICHVRCHES + Fun. gets you somewhere near TeamMate - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xj266LmCjN81UkbfcTgdfShiny French gothic symphonic metal from Kerion (whose name, in French, presumably means something other than a fungal abscess) - http://open.spotify.com/album/0J0aUn0STm7wlqv0qsgLEpSurging techno-post-metal from Maserati - http://open.spotify.com/album/0CuJtTXWt5wYzTGCVBkc2EGlorious Spanish pop-rock by Amaral - http://open.spotify.com/album/0gY2l4ZTW39oBoS7y85T3vTwangy Latin-pop destined for TV themes from Tamara - http://open.spotify.com/album/6hMS5FR5KPp65zr9gXjMkIAtmospheric post-metal from With Our Arms to the Sun - http://open.spotify.com/album/5wnD92WsGpGjyz9YsRuv2tBlistering very-hard rock from Kobra And The Lotus - http://open.spotify.com/album/33orcRPjBjeuVtdrXLmvWyOblique, meditative Latin alt-pop by Carla Morrison - https://open.spotify.com/track/1B7nJpjCgL9dKOwPQIK4tIUnprecious Texas-country revialism from the Josh Abbott Band - https://open.spotify.com/track/2dryb9mq04iP7zHLwTwUdDSlow, obsessive, Crowded-House-ish serentity from Bright Light Bright Light - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Wnbk0cm2x1QqkZf5PxGFKMethodical gothic grandeur from Draconian - http://open.spotify.com/album/5lRRVJBHyQQa3vXfU3IhcpGlorious Basque pop-rock by Ken Zazpi - https://open.spotify.com/track/0JC0GRznwM7iXsS3SdTt7nScritchy twee-punk by the Ohio one of the various bands called Sports - http://open.spotify.com/album/3wTUgU8DhAh32313L3WfPDNew neo-shoegaze album by Cheatahs - http://open.spotify.com/album/7KDSjt2oYx6cYJ0OGkW9L7Chattering mechano-techno by Kangding Ray - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Z1tzDVZayP1BGceNPYAUkFuzz-shrouded power-noise-pop by Shmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/78wXoICuFNL8ImY8r1kMyoAbstracted post-math-rock by Ahleuchatistas - http://open.spotify.com/album/18fG22f3c3OVdbBWy7G63K
And my two picks of the week, both long-awaited:
The emphatically, empathically ragged new indie-country-rock album by Laura Stevenson - http://open.spotify.com/album/4y28GYK4zDNqMkuN6k7AueThe sweeping kudzu-gothic black-epic new album by the great Appalachian-metal band Panopticon - http://open.spotify.com/album/32lW13bcC2gaiS7Zke8rVw
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 2 November 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link
http://i68.tinypic.com/zj8e48.png
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 November 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
deep. Also, 540 tracks on that Eugene Mirman thing!
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 November 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
12 are from his comedy special8 are from a meditation tape198 of them are his sound effects library4 are of him crying for 40 minutes195 are various sounds of orgasm98 are ringtones (I am considering switching mine out to him chanting "SPICY FISH SPICY FISH SPICY FISH"5 are weird extended MIDI funk sex jams9 tracks are a nonsensical Russian audio phrasebook11 are "digital drugs to administer via audio"
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link
Is that some way to boost play counts?
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 6 November 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
like, 100 people listen to Mirman's album and he gets paid for 54,000 tracks played?
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 6 November 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Under current rules, a track only counts as played if the user plays at least :30 of it, so tracks shorter than that can't generate royalties on Spotify at all.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Wow is this a week.
New Particles, 2015-11-06https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/0YwwymILE0jnJ5ROtPpLb0
Justin Bieber can keep writing all the songs he wants as long as TeraBrite covers them - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bE6738llYcdOQevTQhqu9My co-worker Brendan made a great ambient electronica album about Iceland as Toss Power Traps - http://open.spotify.com/album/5saW45zhQBcMmUWuShmYE3Little Mix are (even) better than One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/4bzVI1FElc13HQagFR7S1WGrimes finds her indietronic-pop calling - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hB4jVN4ZHpubyiMmW81K1Spanish hard-rock power-metal by Dark Moor - http://open.spotify.com/album/5KE2gFbT6e0uqX6boKxiIYEldritch remind us that we used to call it Heavy Metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1PvP3bQYyFtXvBlpoAkJeEReverence didn't need to be reminded - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SL2KSSzrmIabTILlmQr4rBrittle meditations from The Japanese House - http://open.spotify.com/album/4T1o6BUMpITeK7DfE5qZqpSplintery electro-chatter EP from Blanck Mass - http://open.spotify.com/album/34AMu7NIASbp6DY2xqqjAnFinally finally, a whole album of metropercussive Kate Boy songs - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KaggIGXRqmK4YiHlCBp1rCacophonic black thrash-rasp by Vastum - http://open.spotify.com/album/1TUhE6KUL6DPjlGbJU5jigExperimental (Latin-alternative) pop in the wandering tradition of Kate Bush and St. Vincent by Carla Morrison - http://open.spotify.com/album/0KmjN7MinQwCNGRkwjAAj2Gloriously unglorified red-dirt Texas country from the Josh Abbott Band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6CHcH6BB0SRRXrOGUuJ0kjShimmery big-synth-pop flutters from Chelsea Lankes - https://open.spotify.com/track/77MMfd2H8x9HZcy41KRJFOThe new Ellie Goulding album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2GcDjXQtCguM4PHtgO7gxASia is halfway between Ellie Goulding and Adele, more or less - https://open.spotify.com/track/5ocP1cIe1dOc9A0q1MDNl2Malrun is the Danish Queensrÿche (and I think the legal situation with Queensrÿche is that every country gets their own...) - https://open.spotify.com/track/5WVcW1BcUHBQ14uQ5LQHNdEbullient, mechano-organic sonic texturalism from Murlo - http://open.spotify.com/album/0WyqnCbZUotDywRlnoQtNhWarm, crunchy indie guitar-rock by sund4ra Karma - http://open.spotify.com/album/0Jwb23esTxQb81vFHJPOVySizzy Rocket imagines what PC Music might sound like if it weren't coy or conceptual - https://open.spotify.com/track/50edCDIGEUxm8OF4T1e2sUChiming Chilean indie rock from We Are The Grand - https://open.spotify.com/track/2wCGtmgtrhZOOoYnXjJKmqThey have their own Bieber in Spain, and he is called Abraham Mateo, and he's pretty good - https://open.spotify.com/track/0NTmF861UoX8IykWrEbSxWRobo-symphonics, as sharp as Murlo is sinuous but similarly inventive, by Giant Claw - http://open.spotify.com/album/7rb8NLl9lWCXazllkLA4apBig Hungarian dance-pop by Radics Gigi - https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKUwEVUIctTsSM4lB5JBSOPHIE takes the PC Music thing into weirdly Zoolook-ish machine-whine - https://open.spotify.com/track/2GEgwCw7AUdCPoS6soCl9qNew EP by German synth-pop purists CLAIRE - http://open.spotify.com/album/7GDltVDEKO58M7GFtl7yvFThoughtfully bitter folk-pop by Maria Mena - https://open.spotify.com/track/1gs1wX1reGRMb775gtQNCsEpic post-goth neo-post-punk from City Calm Down - http://open.spotify.com/album/4RyD9v28fo16YPs3GhHgJT
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 8 November 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-11-13https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2K0chEhwXbtZsW9X2v2elA
Icelandic 15-woman electro-hop from Reykjavíkurdætur - http://open.spotify.com/album/0peYLBYriQSDRGEKPP2VGnHeavy metal traditionalism in all senses from Satan - http://open.spotify.com/album/6vpVIhWYctSWLSnfIj1TErHyper-earnest new-emo-pop by SayWeCanFly - http://open.spotify.com/album/5VzIMyaJ0yFCpKqaHXL95EGlistening epicstep by Brainstorm - https://open.spotify.com/track/3h1tWruiXaKX2SLAJT71lSSchool Of Seven Bells continues - https://open.spotify.com/track/5hB7qpilDSr2TG33ghsETXSpare, spiky twee-along by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v5mtHXcxydzbVCqBqOFuiSwoony star-aspirant electro-pop by Rilan - http://open.spotify.com/album/2JDMnm3JYoxdan3lxp7o8BGrimly epic pagan black metal by Kampfar - http://open.spotify.com/album/6TqJQVo8fGTPYS0FG2iskrBerzerk, distended panic-metal by Revenge - http://open.spotify.com/album/3zcRhYS75gb63PPz4VEwyMA collaboration between Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues that is exactly as terrifying as that sounds - http://open.spotify.com/album/4V7MGxRSLtzXRk9q9UfZV1Bright new-wave-throwback pop by Scavenger Hunt - https://open.spotify.com/track/3lIL5udx9hATCkPTv48FvaEdie Brickell crossed with Ellie Goulding gets you somewhere near Noonie Bao - http://open.spotify.com/album/4dFair7dAR9Ns3KhxTPU6NSnarly old-old-school punk by Dolores Haze - http://open.spotify.com/album/3JW4ihM4CDx5ksY0XfqxKVAvant-garde ambient drone-metal art music by Anna Von Hausswolff - http://open.spotify.com/album/5mDdfu5xrHAvikuJlbv0OtA cappella "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", really - https://open.spotify.com/track/42YcnM5VcjYBwfQCOWRPCaFuture bass from the future where we ponder our natures and mechanisms but don't dance, by Rustie - http://open.spotify.com/album/49Iya42dgyQlHiImgCcvJtFuture bass from the future that's like that but more colorful, by Arca - https://open.spotify.com/track/0i9FKvfUJYYEtKRHR9f0LZGenial, bouncy latin pop from Jesse & Joy - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ANWiP2P5UPxMEbh5fAsBtAbraham Mateo is the Justin Bieber you might like if you like One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/57WzHBJGngVVWhd1V3pXMMOne Direction is the One Direction you might like even if you don't think you do - http://open.spotify.com/album/1gMxiQQSg5zeu4htBosASYHeadchewing thrash-metal by Revocation - http://open.spotify.com/album/1hyMYUfzJAWXAOAVKGpB1aA new Giorgio Moroder pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2rfzwF4EGbNdzOcRzbcVl1Brash, bashing indie guitar-rock by Gnarwolves - http://open.spotify.com/album/65D2N2uFy2xH3pykOm4omIGlassy trancestep from Au5 and Fractal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1IMyH8n9nu9IwwKJI9nW3WThroaty, battering Bavarian melodic metalcore from Memento - http://open.spotify.com/album/6i6PMtkpGBcrPvVA1kdxc4Joyously unsteady Melbourne electroconfessional indieventurousness from Owen Rabbit - https://open.spotify.com/track/3FfpzdGI438McH0Q5Lum1dDear new epic British powergaze band Rain, your lives will be better if you change your name (and not to Rain Sounds or Rain Noises for Sleep) - https://open.spotify.com/track/1d3OMJKwwaKiPivsHC0zr4Redemptive Casiotronic yearning from Astropol - https://open.spotify.com/track/23bjEgBAbxC3E2vJxDIYjYSineuous Serbian turbo-folk from Cvija - https://open.spotify.com/track/588NcGOxwv4d18TfCtzIFYTranquil German indie-pop-rock from Silbermond - https://open.spotify.com/track/29OsTlhuQCSNnFSXy2WeC9Expansive German arena-pop from LaFee - https://open.spotify.com/track/2HK0PB6wxj0GcoKoNgpksRMuted gauzegazy tenacity from Racing Glaciers - https://open.spotify.com/track/3v45hpNw9MXk9U0oBQlZDbAnthemic Greek pop-rock from Despina Vandi - https://open.spotify.com/track/44uRRnbB3IEjNuV9GlxLSQThe majestic new single from the greatest-ever band from Skye, Runrig - https://open.spotify.com/track/29f4KE80Km2mhJCzHASxuSGiant-hearted piano-rock from A Great Big World - http://open.spotify.com/album/6SQWwNCTTPmS1DaXQNRDOyThe hiptronics-redefining debut album by Le1f - http://open.spotify.com/album/3NkP3FZHkJktEhMIf4DKycA new chance to listen to the underrated 2004 farewell album by Scottish indie-pop band Astrid - http://open.spotify.com/album/1A0M5i4z6qj8TBk1slPqOSAmbient-epicore world-fusion serenity from Saint Of Sin - https://open.spotify.com/track/1D6iVKEltmttMjqUEYWQzUAnother melancholy piano-and-duet deconstruction of Yaz's "Only You"? Yes, that will be just fine. - https://open.spotify.com/track/1eftIypOTzVCDPv9xLZPDN
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 14 November 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Weather Report · The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981Arca · Mutant
― Mordy, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
love these updates Glenn - this Rain band is good...borderline ungoogleable as Studio - West Coast was
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
thx for the heads up on Arca, mordy
― brimstead, Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-11-20https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/43Qye3F3z2CbX83GLhHj1X
Punch goth-metal collaboration between Apocalyptica and Vamps (the Japanese one) - https://open.spotify.com/track/2qBKTu8XwQ0DqJO2523bm1Shimmery power-metal from Signum Regis - http://open.spotify.com/album/0xikBYlMdfmR6VrQ0TYKmPShreddy old-school heavy metal by Primal Fear - https://open.spotify.com/track/0H8P0MaXm7abSzhrXXTcFgTense, muted grandeur from my favorite Chilean modern-rock band, Lucybell - https://open.spotify.com/track/5pMvhrDnJs9nOkgGY9XHx6Epic shout-along metal anthem by Baroness - https://open.spotify.com/track/6YNR1Traxs7kbEdYYkhxV7Sophisto-evasive productioneering by Arca - http://open.spotify.com/album/0l9EkgUMcOw15cPnoNajeGDense, swirling multi-voiced etherpop by Kyla La Grange - https://open.spotify.com/track/4tjnpPW1LOjMbMuswzvd8fSplattery technical death metal from Obscura - https://open.spotify.com/track/331C4VbwqhsK0RkinB4hGwKeening Russian djent from The Korea - https://open.spotify.com/track/1jZZUKtcwzrUaTSxVAVJqhStern, recitative noise-opera from John Cale - https://open.spotify.com/track/3FZvcvCpp5fhVgrLbZuxU1Glassy ambientstep by Varien and Mr Fijiwiji - https://open.spotify.com/track/2OgAlPzPvMTATMrKlNGT6FThrowback speed metal from Manimal - http://open.spotify.com/album/0pmASVeI15WOwn6Y3nsieZEarnest Big Pop by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - http://open.spotify.com/album/4gDZDBTJRu9EFHcaac4duiThe whole Odinic pagan-metal Månegarm album is like the single - http://open.spotify.com/album/251sMcvk1xJ4gMdFYsjJ46Lightly galloping Swedish indie-pop by Marit Bergman - https://open.spotify.com/track/67r3pkok0ATO0IACSaNdixFrenetic Turkish hip-hop from Joker - http://open.spotify.com/album/1oI70sEnI5Z8tV8XiRpR6NBleepy Basque indie-rock by Ken Zazpi - http://open.spotify.com/album/6WHAQEWM7G0fZUbwBKAffUCorruscating astral soul by Crywolf - http://open.spotify.com/album/49S22NeCVuggVUg4hM0EqgBright ambient mood-drone by T-cophony - http://open.spotify.com/album/7vunnOTHsTgdZPvIxprL96Burbling synth-pop by Dræmings - https://open.spotify.com/track/1a0reORZMtLNJJXGuVGoCxA whole new album of arco voices and plucked harpstrings from Enya - http://open.spotify.com/album/4FStw70Tk1spCN8V1o11oWBrash, blaring, faintly mechano-Killers-ish dance-rock by Battle Tapes - http://open.spotify.com/album/5iZnEfyTnKPKMkbtpHMCaL
And my two picks of the week:
Yes! The new album by the great great Japanese rock/metal band Head Phones President is availabe in the US! - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ylxGESsBLNTmwtpkSkHafThe return of one of my very favorite melodic gothic symphonic metal bands, Imperia - http://open.spotify.com/album/09uCod9N8BZn3nWlXAMcUO
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
The release-year is winding down, but not without a few thousand extra releases, just in case.
New Particles, 2015-11-27https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3tWv9wMyjV3RAEq6YJqlGK
Contrarian are not going to win over many death-doom skeptics with this raspy croaking. I'm not sure "win over many death-doom skeptics" is actually a thing, anyway, but this is a really interesting death-doom record. - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SW0iOzvjTGpL1hs5sC4VjKompakt Records has a "Pop Ambient" compilation with Stephan Mathieu and 11 other artists (none of them "pop") - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SHcMuMQdtPhOGdPnG9kx3Bersarin Quartett is not a quartet, but this is another really good atmospheric-ambient non-pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/4UvoN0FYp3HOg5qiKP33ugExtravagant faux-string flourishes from Foxes - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bcUGhhI0f0Fhre7O5JwR7Big, blustery Taiwanese arena-pop from 黃鴻升 - http://open.spotify.com/album/33Fvum3OzoJj4IzyUWTOIjThundering death-crush by Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MS5KRYloZtsxuJ77ObXPaSwoopy, Spanish pop-rock by Malú - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MTbVUt5nBj7Gmm6j1OaazTense, j-rock-like Thai indie-rock by Bedroom Audio - https://open.spotify.com/track/0hxnqPN6lTQdx3nP6FdC9vMuted German indie-pop by the great Silbermond - http://open.spotify.com/album/36DXaVV4UtydMVTAGYmZXgSqualling punk melancholy by Muncie Girls - https://open.spotify.com/track/1uAU00GOjbUMk9S2qU27ejFuture-trance epicore from TitanSlayer - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hNdAvC1xbHFvsgg6Vglyv
and my pick for the week, the new album by j-rock guitar-goddess Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - http://open.spotify.com/album/2KcYuJ2URvqGwyvxrSgZ1p
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
I'm mostly just repeating myself, but those three Malú, Silbermond and Rie a.k.a. Suzaku records are all stupendous in totally non-stupendous ways.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
love the new look
― Mordy, Friday, 4 December 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
"Announced" here: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=443
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 4 December 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-12-04https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4LysCu9R2Qw1A8GEvBda1c
I've come to appreciate increasingly abstruse and obscure metal, but I haven't lost the visceral reaction of excitement to unapologetic joyful bombast, exemplified by the goofywonderful new Primal Fear song - https://open.spotify.com/track/0kah4G2d1mmocI8JOXWcdJArguably the opposite extreme of metal is this sensuous, often near-ambient folk-post-metal meditation by Kauan - http://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOdBombast without machismo was a pretty good innovation in metal, I think. German gothic operatic metal mainstays Coronatus change members but somehow keep the same sound and the same logo font - http://open.spotify.com/album/6drePay3XRsVG8vLBle9p1Oh god, for a moment I thought "The Gift of Music" was going to be a Christmas song, but it's actually Dream Theater's answer to "Magic Power" - https://open.spotify.com/track/3QwqRd3vM8ya0PD5GYnwRAAmoral make throaty progcore - https://open.spotify.com/track/12LlrN4kX4tAUXdpdeJZymMaria Mena makes me think of Alanis Morissette with more Joni Mitchell, or Natalie Imbruglia with more Patty Larkin - http://open.spotify.com/album/72aZVqqvsyeUqm60hhVRZkThe new Geographer EP has a lavishly spare "Cloudbusting" cover - http://open.spotify.com/album/0UzRXveMru1ilDF5dsfoMFThe new Sunn 0))) noise-drone album is sadly not called "Cloudgrinder" - http://open.spotify.com/album/3RTGY3G7yQgsOiwOC6rC7SI'm definitely warming to these springy, melodic new Baroness songs - https://open.spotify.com/track/3SeQQAbbkZ7e8Kt1pkxmstHegemon screetch, blast and swallow your head - http://open.spotify.com/album/71iBkE4FkaSs7ZWxuqIBIcLa Rappresentante di Lista sound to me like Shakira has joined Chairlift - http://open.spotify.com/album/6LYIQHEvh9Ch7BxjwAunBtPastilla make warm, surging Mexican/American alt-rock - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MRWu7VEiJD7atxkjtDdVGAntonio Ferrari steps out of a time-machine from the 80s into an Italian piazza and everybody starts dancing - http://open.spotify.com/album/3qyl182kWPXUPS9AHOachmRoxette once made the most Swedish-sounding Spanish album ever. Jesse & Joy are what this could have sounded like as a native idea - http://open.spotify.com/album/6pmTwCb5SeTjV9wdnkbDo3Monica Naranjo has become a classical-crossover artist by crossing over from pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/00xRi2RcPki2OP7nAEuDr2Astropol does lo-fi Swedish drum-machine pop like I imagine I would do if I could sing and play and write and produce better - http://open.spotify.com/album/0NltRSa1T253jVyNmimx4CThe Crookes blare and twangle - https://open.spotify.com/track/10lJS0rZgSZaUlLWq6QnqZKi:Theory is like the indie version of AWOLNATION - http://open.spotify.com/album/7HHfj7Isj5DfE1F6ifE2BGNateWantsToBattle does cheerful pop-punk anime covers - https://open.spotify.com/track/4cKPzfOUIZWXhu3GDnESjLTroye Sivan would like to be an Australian Justin Bieber, please - http://open.spotify.com/album/5ouTDazE4LF9bVJPx1nlgWKill the Thrill do experimental atmospheric post-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Avk207fmBW2WTcDZW0o1mfakuta makes elegantly uncluttered Chilean indie gauze-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/1lBrbMGrctZ92WpHPxyBbvLCMDF are the Finnish Shampoo, and the Finnish Shampoo are sick of Finnish metal dudes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1pLfuwK5I7lGtQC1969X1kSomos make pingy sigh-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/00uCBJzIKZNNaH21VAMxzqPunchline do jerky electro-emo - http://open.spotify.com/album/4okCZ13b9R931aCjP9EnpaSikTh help indjent djent - http://open.spotify.com/album/00sWfXQ7GHMno4qrcgn8Y9Page sound nostalgic for all past and future synthpop at once - https://open.spotify.com/track/2okZvnlNmIAvRjC5NUwAleMatias Puumala will do your next apocalyptic cinemastep movie trailer - https://open.spotify.com/track/6fYSuTLBDGDsXXes8AeS7A
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 4 December 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Royal Pirates are my new favorite Korean-American indie-rock band - http://open.spotify.com/album/58yNxLCSLY6qZXmh5s1e04Tkay Maidza suggests there should be a Zimbabwean/Australian version of grime - http://open.spotify.com/album/17P57CX6VfbjD0zmJ7MypQMr Traumatik is already grime in Portsmouth - http://open.spotify.com/album/04Y9x121a5IBAS6AAWjTibVästerbron is a bridge in Stockholm and a yearningly ragged Swedish post-punk band - https://open.spotify.com/track/0HWzP5M2EeziQef1RnYAQiTHCF does Serbian trap - https://open.spotify.com/track/6YDgnJPerKwoC5CRPSzKH6Toygar Işıklı composed the excellent spaghetti-western/pan-celtic/epicore score for a Turkish TV show I don't know anything about and never expect to see - http://open.spotify.com/album/4g4jsUq6IsRUQM6kPBjucuFUNKTIONSLUST show that FKA twigs is starting to have influence - http://open.spotify.com/album/0rgGU7VF58sbk44gdRRUwQZero Call make a whole band out of the interstitial bits of M83 and Kraftwerk records - http://open.spotify.com/album/1GEMlpUqWFoT6uGuK4cbkkUltima Thule do Viking Oi, which is 90% electrifying and 10% like maybe you're being invited into a worryingly well-organized riot - http://open.spotify.com/album/5sqOfAZav87UXkKavP891VMalrun are a Danish epic melodic hard-metalcore-rock band I keep forgetting aren't Spanish - http://open.spotify.com/album/6LcQrF5MJl8CgVhyqpTeCAIntervals do calculated math-jazz prog-post-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MYLm8Uxayy4UyqFHPHfBBMY RED + BLUE dances into arena-pop spotlights - http://open.spotify.com/album/2eFDz0kTnueXYY5D8dU53ALucius snaps crisply amidst circus-wild kaleidoscopic chaos - https://open.spotify.com/track/7hLRO5yZXsQEXHN40f8pLCApparently the last two albums by The Cult were part of a thematic trilogy - https://open.spotify.com/track/36Tex5XGXQSE3ktUqNNWjEVorna make maniacally raspy Finnish blast-pagan prog-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4J3AWqcGI0z0xp3KuOCQvaI'm a sucker for the combination of rock power and near-Eastern warble, and this is Lena Papadopoulou's mesmerizing Greek version of this synthesis - https://open.spotify.com/track/15m2glm7Bnqwn3QUcUyHjKBelako are a Basque indie-pop band going a bit trance-jam - https://open.spotify.com/track/6dVrwyB97laOY71gMYHlZ3Odio París are actually a shimmery Catalan nu-gaze band - https://open.spotify.com/track/1SII3XITH31aBokESm8Vx8Khymera are a majestically anachronistic melodic AOR glam-metal band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6FgAtE9RLGWomKxdwhYcP9Middlepicker place Minneapolis–St. Paul somewhere in between Archers of Loaf and Tullycraft - http://open.spotify.com/album/3KhHa3R4HmCeit8LbasgveAlpha Consumer are also from Minneapolis, and remind me of Polara, who were also also from Minneapolis, but apparently they're different people - https://open.spotify.com/track/7tcFLYcrn2axoOVq6FNkCBBNLX's most recent EP is from last year, but they are Ed Ackerson's post-Polara band, which I totally didn't know and maybe you didn't either so let's catch up - spotify:album:2JsHagfQCCbHbSvGhnjodMI think Heloisa Rosa is historically a Portuguese CCM singer, but I don't speak Portuguese and so don't have to care, and this is a wildly magnificent Iberian-pop/arena-rock song - https://open.spotify.com/track/4j59xpRgNZafrlyZK8QuaFIf you only listen to American hip hop, you're missing a lot of astonishing stuff, like this cinematically menacing rant by Iranian-German rapper Kianush - https://open.spotify.com/track/1nIIghJZL1YKC7xOgGm13LGjan is Lithuania's answer to Kerli, and now I feel like I should know who I think is Latvia's - https://open.spotify.com/track/7mF3EDc1Npu13GLTZKZygfJames Tw does a brittle indie-r&b cover of "Torn" - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Uu8nwa9xA9bxCur5g3oJUShishamo are a female j-punk band somewhere on the path from Shonen Knife to Tricot - http://open.spotify.com/album/2fTYETl9PBoj4nrOmc7CyRDer Dicke Polizist is a cheerfully snarly old-school German punk band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6exN53GNb43OkGnm40lIQNAnother of my countless weaknesses is indie gothic symphonic metal bands like Colorado Springs' Neverlight who, whether by choice or necessity, cast their epic musical ambitions in dry, un-epic production treatments - http://open.spotify.com/album/2FWdSsIkr0K4PEjBPf5m5kAedliga is me, and this is my new song, composed by both choice and logistical necessity in my usual studio aboard an Icelandair flight a few days ago, and sung in a stranger's apartment in Stockholm in a race to get usable tracks in few enough takes that the neighbors I don't know don't come over to introduce themselves and tell me what Max Martin would have done - https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bgr4XBEeAWNIHEcyA1TNg
New Particles, 2015-12-11https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1HCugJ9toYbQFQRIJ7U2Ed
This was the week I suddenly and way-belatedly discovered that Ed Ackerson of Polara has been in a new band called BNLX for years - http://open.spotify.com/album/2JsHagfQCCbHbSvGhnjodMAvantasia is what it's like to eat a giant slice of meat loaf without taking the aluminum foil off first - https://open.spotify.com/track/3xCX5PhMNHjubGkK1lLX4dIf Low's Christmas EP was too earnest for you, A Sunny Day In Glasgow have an alterative - http://open.spotify.com/album/6o2OMmmmNIoJin0LZAR2AEGive me a few more bands like White Sea and I will declare Astral Soul's independence from Indie R&B - https://open.spotify.com/track/5cTw48zYsmOw496Slwb6opDry the River could be part of it, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/49TWgB9tGFH3Gm733kkivPRaventale make gothic symphonic black metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1m4J2c5YRikNyOFhsxJNF0This is the part of the year when people indignantly demand to know what the hell "metropopolis" is, and this song by Cappa is some of it - https://open.spotify.com/track/6ipl7Aq0bA2Q8768FZRZo8Grabbitz is kind of metrostep - http://open.spotify.com/album/2QdSSeakmxFA7e0QO5XfFAIf Black Sabbath started over today, they might sound like Bloodiest - https://open.spotify.com/track/248mXCu0401Xc1lQDBUgXKVessels do deep indietronic post-focus music - http://open.spotify.com/album/0XDMwXF5OHpK9IG2n3lEXGThe American Dollar do it more post-, less -tronic - http://open.spotify.com/album/2ytkZoVgs5yKkFEP9oZiutFarewell Dear Ghost make soft-spoken, soft-shoed stomp-and-holler - https://open.spotify.com/track/2oFwrwH2Wu0UrmAJI0RBUWOf course there is progressive djentcore, what else would a band called Lithium Dawn be? - http://open.spotify.com/album/52IFkHbpCWWJZURBHtpkQvIn Estonia, even a "pop-rock" band like HND sounds a little folk-metal - https://open.spotify.com/track/2g5GFXk7xg0f7gsYtcs6q8Epicore is movie music that dispenses with the constraint of having a movie attached, although if Michael Maas makes a movie to go with this new album, I'd watch it - http://open.spotify.com/album/2h1zP186J907CFotmasvRnThere are too many artists called Said, but one of them is a great J-rock band, and I don't know anything else about them because you their EP is just called "Blue" and you try googling that - http://open.spotify.com/album/5gcYLebyRDHferNYoLUmaiDimension could use a better name for their dark uplifting trancestep, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/3J9vurfJnDeKPPsvZ5EPsKFinnish electro-rock band Sara have been recording since 1999, so I guess I should stop complaining about names - http://open.spotify.com/album/0MSxEoQJJkBCLLdf6sxzCCChelsea Grin do brutal symphonic technical headcrushcore - https://open.spotify.com/track/0IsUP9w5qgx4fPt9l11d8uGraveshadow do beauty-and-the-beast mixed-vocal gothic symphonic metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/2s8G1PeaiiHA8JKZRDib3sEscalane swap the symphonic middle of gothic symphonic metal out for some pop-punk surge - http://open.spotify.com/album/2Hdp7Sy10y551pSLK1rv1hAnd Camaron Marvel Ochs is a perfectly tremendous name for what happened when a freak nuclear accident during the recording sessions for the Jewel/Dolly Parton duet resulted in them fusing into one, so if we all pretend she didn't decide to go by just Cam, maybe she won't - http://open.spotify.com/album/5KlzsMAsw5NujrJVQtjQAB
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
hey glenn, Purple is on spotify but for some reason not listed on the crow's nest. any idea why?
― Mordy, Friday, 18 December 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
For some reason we have it as having been first available in August, so it got filtered out. This is obviously wrong, and I can't figure out where the date even came from. Will get it fixed.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 18 December 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-12-18https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2eDKCXKrH2BTOfBad824Wa
Tau Cross - In which Rob Miller demonstrates that he's ready to carry on Lemmy's metal-vocal legacy.June 1974 - Robot euphoria.MOTHXR - Drifty, synthpoppy astral soul.Kelsea Ballerini - Taylor? Doesn't ring any bells in this town, no.TeraBrite - Hello from the pop-punk side.楊凱琳 - Big Pop is thriving in Taiwan.Secrets Of The Moon - Throaty, non-shrieky black doom.Martriden - Gruff, soaring progressive death metal.Cloak of Altering - Experimental scary metal noises and choking sounds.Stielas Storhett - Russian experimental atmospheric black metal.Sanzu - Perth Australian blast-grind.Diiv - Chiming Brooklyn indie post-punk.Primal Fear - Remember when metal sounded like Quiet Riot?Serenity - Galloping prog-metal.Cryonic Temple - Anthemic, mildly-cyber power-metal.Ihsahn - Sprawling progressive-atmospheric-black-death-thrash-everything metal.朱俐靜 - Taiwanese idol-pop with extra guitars? OK.Modeselektor - Menacing atmospheric dance-proof post-step.Laura Bono - Grand Italian arena-pop-rock.Finley - Italian pop-rock Lego theme-music.Elliphant - Hesitant, muttery indietronica.Bucovina - Surging non-twiddly Romanian folk-metal.Grimner - Surging non-non-twiddly Sweden viking folk-metal.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 18 December 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Carina Dahl - Mesmerizing Norwegian techno-dance-pop.Baroness - This is the new state of the art in Hard Rock.Rick Springfield - Still, in my opinion, one of the best pure pop songwriters alive.Obscura - Technical death metal.Exmortus - Shreddy-not-"technical" power/death metal.Dan Bull - Languid non-Christmas Christmas grime.NateWantsToBattle - Bouncy antiviral-pop-punk sort-of-Christmas anti-Christmas anthem.CHVRCHES - Twitchy, plausible Goldroom remix of a song that didn't exactly have to be remixed.East India Youth - Can Blanck Mass please handle all mixing of East India Youth songs from now on?Dark The Suns - Propulsive, raspy gothic metal.Leah Turner - Pealing country-pop power-balladry.The Starting Line - Sturdy modern uplift.Bocuma - 20-track "remix" album so mood-coherent that I suspect the remixers are imaginary. Middlepicker - One of their several yearning old Minneapolis indie-punk records happily brought into the streaming era.YOHIO - Sweden's best j-rock singer's 2014 album finally available elsewhere.Opera Magna - Spanish symphonic hyper-power-metal.The Dunwells - Quiet, emotive Leeds indie-folk-pop.Varg - Epic pagan blast-metal.vad fruttik - Dark, dense Hungarian rock.Natasa Bekvalac - Portentous Servian turbo pop.Modernistit - Jumpy Finnish indie rock.Aikapommi - Ragged Finnish pop punk.Rautalintu - Shouty Finnish punk rock.Nelver - Russian ambient epicstep.Rookiez Is Punkd - Terribly-named but fairly-great anthemic j-rock.
and my pick of the week:
Fesway - Elegant, intricate, arrestingly self-posessed Mexican atmospheric experimental indie-pop.
Beatles seem kinda noteworthy.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 27 December 2015 06:01 (eight years ago) link
and new
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 27 December 2015 06:16 (eight years ago) link
i like the new linkable look glenn!
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 December 2015 07:20 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2015-12-25https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2EaEgYFRl1THPs0KwpOlw8
FARRO - Springy, heroic arena-pop.Bear Mountain - Fluttery Vancouver indie stomp-and-blip pop.NateWantsToBattle - Minecraft-emo-core "Hello" cover.TeraBrite - Crushcrunch pop-screamo Bieber cover.Clare Dunn - Blaring country-rock shredding.Samantha Crain - Heartbreaking, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"-grade indie-folk storytelling.ANOHNI - Clattery chamber-indie r&b-step collaboration between Antony Hegarty, Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never.廖文強 - Expansive, earnest, guitar-lashed Taiwanese pop-rock.Marnero - Italian progressive blackened punk.Cotton Mather - Hyper-neo-trad power-pop.Tokami - Soaring visual-kei dramatics.Future World Music - The epicore musical-equivalent of a coffee-table book of stock landscape photography.Ed Kuepper - Atmospheric haunted-folk abstract-poetic hymns.
Aedliga - And my own last frayed song for the year.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 28 December 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
The images on the sorting hat and general cleanup is EXCELLENT!
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Thanks!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-01-01https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5c4Nv5XyD6VDEDBEiSGPgM
Rooxx - Swirling miniature electro-opera.The Agonist - Churning/soaring progressive melodic death metal.Oscar - Bastille with more of a Morrissey thing.Ra Ra Riot - Bouyant, chirpy metropop.Foxes - Halting, ethereal, fractured astral soul.Yusuke Tsutsumi - Scorecore snap-crescendo.Dioramic - Sharpened German alt-rock alt-post-metal.Bright Light Bright Light - Stripped-down piano-voice versions of a lot of BLBL songs and Kate Bush's "Love and Anger".Fabiola - Massive arena-pop-rock from a Guatemalan reality-show survivor.Ephyra - Shimmery Russian synth-rock.Wontolla - Progressive uplifting wobbletrancestep.Sweetfire - Ringing hard-rock pop-punk.Autumn Creatures - Twitchy, coruscating post-rock.Ghosts of Pandora - Speed-bludgeoning thrashmetalcore.We Have Castles - Grandly fluttery indietronic ping-pop.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 4 January 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-01-08https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/0cnRE1FBgUDPBLk77xLpWi
Some new, some catch-up...
Anaria - Punchy gothic rockish gothic metal.Axxis - Bounding heavy power metal.Lyriel - Gothic folk metal.Weeping Silence - Gothic symphonic black metal.Divine Ascension - Solid, crunchy progressive power metal.Beach Slang - Glorious warmhearted old-Replacements-style punk rock.Darlene Love - Jubillant neo-Motown pop-rock-soul.Laura - I am now rooting for Estonia to win Eurovision.The Sun - I mean, they did win it once before.Cartoon - So it's not the craziest idea.HOLYCHILD - Brash synth-rock dance-punk.Hope Drone - Epicore post-rock black-post-metal.Eight Bells - Splattery post-rock math-doom.Dan Croll - Spiky satellite-transmission indie-pop.Vaults - Twinkling, humming art-indie.White Sea - Ambient-metropopolian actual-indie-movie soundtrack music.Beseech - Dense, breathy, heavy shoegazecore.Cloudscape - Epic power metalcore.Shakira - If your idiotic animated-wisecracking-rodent movie comes with a new Shakira song, that's at least something.Inverloch - Australian not-quite-funerial death-doom.The Lion's Daughter - Howling St. Louis black-sludge misanthropy.Sizzy Rocket - High-gloss dance-synth-pop.Ylvis - A cappella a cappella parody (called "a capella").Marit Larsen - Ringing Norwegian folk-pop.Monica Naranjo - Epic, Spanish opera-crossover pop.The Thermals - Thrashed, ragged, braying lo-fi catharsis.Sunflower Bean - Airily twee NY nu-gaze indie-pop.Cam - Spotify Session from my favorite new country singer.Evans Blue - Menacing Canadian alt-rock.Passion - Masterful, if evangelical, Christian progressive arena-rock.Mayonnaise - Apparently I'd like the Foo Fighters more if they were Pinoy.Danny Cocke - Relentlessly portentous epicore trailer music not (yet) from actual movies.Exmortus - Cheerfully twiddly neo-thrash/power metal.
and my pick of the week, which I would have swapped in for Nightwish in my 2015 top 10 if I'd heard it in time:
Phantasma - Fantabulous hypermelodic neo-progressive concept-metal by Delain+Everon+Serenity members.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link