ok this echelon the seeker ep is incredible, its basic set of sounds is very '80s but they're recombined into these unwieldy rhomboid compositions https://echelontheseeker.bandcamp.com/
accompanying bandcamp interview https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/21/echelon-the-seeker-interview/
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Sevdaliza's (rather extraordinary) album ISON, released a few weeks ago, seems like it belongs here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znV9KDsNtXY
― monotony, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 04:48 (seven years ago) link
holy shit harriet brown
loads of you have surely freaked upon hearing this?
― imago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
well here you go anyway https://harrietbrown.bandcamp.com/album/contact
― imago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
hmmmmm
In L.A.'s revivified funk scene, the 26-year-old Bay Area native is emerging as a potential torchbearer. On his debut full-length, Contact, Brown triangulates early Prince, a grown, sexy Janet Jackson and Mr. Contact himself—Carl Sagan, if you're nasty—connecting the corporeal, the spiritual and the extraterrestrial through vintage synths, bangin' drum machines and the occasional ripping guitar solo. And he does it while rocking a look best described as Lloyd Christmas-meets-new jack swing.
http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/07/05/harriet-brown-is-the-l-a-funk-scenes-new-resident-alien/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 July 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Wow, can't believe how much he sounds like Prince vocally.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
enjoying the MHYSA record from the quietus' year-end
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
oh my god L'Rain
oh my god
this album is like a sort of sad amazing dream
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
i'd post like 5 pages of trademark imago hype but rly i shdnt need to, just listen to it
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
listening to the new DoNormaal album again too, it's rly great
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
i really like both donormaal records
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Sad amazing dream otm, L'Rain is great. We can send it up the EOY poll.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6cuCfML98
― the late great, Monday, 10 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
was only able to find one mention of DAVON BRYANT aka DREAMCAST on ILM (buried in a dj mix)
he is really good
― the late great, Monday, 10 September 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
yes he is, "Floral Place" is also lovely
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 07:24 (five years ago) link
that is one fabulous 7"
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
dreamcast only has the two 7"s out, right?
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
three 7”s and an LP
all available at earcave
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
the new Jai Paul release has shot straight to the top of the RYM 2019 chart. listening now I can't really hear what's so special and his stop-start production trick got stale very quickly but...why does RYM love it so much?
obviously ilx hates him, or at least did back when the lex posted
― imago, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
it's not exactly new since it first leaked 6 years ago but i haven't really given it much thought since then. i think it's just the whole cult of mystery thing - him releasing two promising and distinctive (though still fairly overrated) demos before all these other demos leaked and he disappeared for ages. it seems like a shame they did leak because hearing more polished versions of some of those songs would have been cool, instead of what happened which is that the leak freaked him out and frustrated him enough to not release anything until now. skimming through the 'album' again i still really like 'str8 outta mumbai' and some of the rest shows some promise but it's not too special and i don't get why people are so enamoured with it.
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
anyone here listen to black grapefruit? think they fit this thread and are also pretty wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOBRAcV99c
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
They fit the thread, but that’s kinda the problem. They’re not doing much new with this approach. Not bad . Just ok imho
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Maybe you don’t always have to do something “new,” but there’s something missing from the Black Grapefruit song that keeps me from being wowed.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
reread this whole thread the other night. really miss this meta-genre lane in my ilx reading
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
curmudgeon was otm about black grapefruit i think, i am easily mesmerized by aesthetic
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 1 February 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
https://terence.bandcamp.com/album/v-o-r-t-e-x
really liking this! debut from someone more famous as a filmmaker
― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
listening to J*Davey the beauty in distortion for the first time in 10+ years. Sounds f’in great. Love all the warm distortion.
― brimstead, Monday, 16 October 2023 16:34 (six months ago) link
The Niecy Blues record is really really good (sorta minimal, 'lo fi', spacey r&b)
https://niecyblues.bandcamp.com/album/exit-simulation
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:53 (five months ago) link
https://jouskajouska.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly-my-mind-is-blank-2
i liked this jouska album a fair bit
― ufo, Monday, 27 November 2023 21:15 (five months ago) link
yo niecy blues is dope af. just gave the whole spotify availabilities a marathon run. got DAMN. from gothy ethereal sounds to ambient drones to straight up modern r+b... really thorough stuff.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 21:27 (four weeks ago) link
also she kinda sounds like amber from we are king.♡
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 21:32 (four weeks ago) link