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Neogaf Rock/Indie/Alt Music Thread (RockGAF?)
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Artist To Watch: Spencer Radcliffe + “Mia” (Stereogum Premiere)
Radcliffe's one of the best guys doing warped pop right now. Brown Horse (split LP with R.L. Kelly on Orchid Tapes) was one of the best releases last year. excited for his proper debut LP.
Battles are streaming a live performance of four songs from La Di Da Di on a loop for 24 hours (well, only 20 hours left now). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Quvj95CFnI
Edit: New Parquet Courts EP Monastic Living comin November as well. http://shopusa.roughtraderecords.com/monastic-living-ep
I didn't listen to HANL until The Unnatural World (when they swiftly became one of my favorite acts going) but this plus having the backlog of Giles Corey and Navuhar or whatever to catch up on, not to mention collections of HANL demos sitting on my computer, is too much haha. i'll have to have a goth day or something.
Radcliffe's one of the best guys doing warped pop right now. Brown Horse (split LP with R.L. Kelly on Orchid Tapes) was one of the best releases last year. excited for his proper debut LP.
Battles are streaming a live performance of four songs from La Di Da Di on a loop for 24 hours (well, only 20 hours left now). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Quvj95CFnI
Edit: New Parquet Courts EP Monastic Living comin November as well. http://shopusa.roughtraderecords.com/monastic-living-ep
I didn't listen to HANL until The Unnatural World (when they swiftly became one of my favorite acts going) but this plus having the backlog of Giles Corey and Navuhar or whatever to catch up on, not to mention collections of HANL demos sitting on my computer, is too much haha. i'll have to have a goth day or something.
Matt Beringer form the National has a side project called El Vy with Brent Knopf. First song is released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=198&v=LUAOwceIzRM
Albums is called Return to the Moon and is out October 30th.
Sounds very happy.
Albums is called Return to the Moon and is out October 30th.
Sounds very happy.
I guess, but if we're counting minutes they'll have released like 2 hours worth in two years. better than a lot of other outfits.
True. They have released a lot of records during their short career as a band.
Speaking of that, The Wytches have also announced that they are releasing and EP in November, coincidentally, I have been re-listening to their Debut Annabel Dream Reader and I really like it, even more than I was when they first released it.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Oddly, I'm only familiar with these guys because of a couple of mixes they did: one for i-D Magazine and this cool one from around Halloween last year.
Sounds like Menomena fronted by Matt Berninger. I like it.
chris121580
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I'm totally ok with this. 2 of my favorite bands...great song
New Girl Band single up at NPR. It's predictably wonderful/barmy.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/429770729/first-watch-girl-band-paul
I hope these don't implode or something, they could end up being pretty special.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/429770729/first-watch-girl-band-paul
I hope these don't implode or something, they could end up being pretty special.
New single by Pinkshinyultrablast ''Kiddy Pool Dreams'' and its amazing. very blooby with synths jumping up and down in addition to their shoegaze sounding melodies
http://www.stereogum.com/1821107/pinkshinyultrablast-kiddy-pool-dreams-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
That is so them. The album actually pretty much handles about graves, witches, dark rituals and other darkly, ''Halloween-ey'' stuff and seeing them doing a Hollywood playlist is not surprising in the slightest.
Apparently the EP is being produced by MJ (who won the best producer of the year from multiple websites last year)
http://www.stereogum.com/1821107/pinkshinyultrablast-kiddy-pool-dreams-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
That is so them. The album actually pretty much handles about graves, witches, dark rituals and other darkly, ''Halloween-ey'' stuff and seeing them doing a Hollywood playlist is not surprising in the slightest.
Apparently the EP is being produced by MJ (who won the best producer of the year from multiple websites last year)
forgeforsaken
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First song off the new Potty Mouth EP.
http://www.thefader.com/2015/08/06/potty-mouth-cherry-picking
http://www.thefader.com/2015/08/06/potty-mouth-cherry-picking
fun jam from Pinkshinyultrablast. really like this section about 4:30 in.
definite new direction for Potty Mouth. their songs were already catchy so I'm not sure how I feel about switching out their sound for something sunnier. this is kinda No Joy or Yuck-ish but a little too clean. still a tune.
Girl Band album is going to melt faces.
definite new direction for Potty Mouth. their songs were already catchy so I'm not sure how I feel about switching out their sound for something sunnier. this is kinda No Joy or Yuck-ish but a little too clean. still a tune.
Girl Band album is going to melt faces.
forgeforsaken
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I wouldn't say it's sunnier, it's more pollished and produced for sure, and I think migrating from 90s pop-punk to 90s alternative in sound. Reminds me a bit of Veruca Salt I think. Interested to hear the rest of the album. I like the single but also really liked their sound on Hell Bent, so in that regard I have mixed feelings about it.
Hell Bent I never saw as pop punk, much as it got lumped in with albums that definitely were pop punk. It was surfy and catchy but also full of post-punk influence. and the vocals were deadpan, not as emotive.
forgeforsaken
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New Silversun Pickups dropped as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4IDM3ltTYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4IDM3ltTYo
Ought and Girl Band
new Ought's not as good as MTAOD, I was a bit distracted so perhaps songs that didn't grab me ("Passionate Turn", "On The Line", most of "Never Better" though I love the finale) will improve later. I'm glad I didn't overplay "Beautiful Blue Sky" pre-release/before seeing them live, it'll stay awesome for a while now. "Men For Miles" and "Sun's Coming Down" are reliable Ought tunes. curveballs were "Celebration" and "The Combo", some new sounds from these guys. Former is killer.
new Ought's not as good as MTAOD, I was a bit distracted so perhaps songs that didn't grab me ("Passionate Turn", "On The Line", most of "Never Better" though I love the finale) will improve later. I'm glad I didn't overplay "Beautiful Blue Sky" pre-release/before seeing them live, it'll stay awesome for a while now. "Men For Miles" and "Sun's Coming Down" are reliable Ought tunes. curveballs were "Celebration" and "The Combo", some new sounds from these guys. Former is killer.
Sorry to hear about that, I'd be extremely pissed off.
It's pretty dumb, seeing as they do trains to Northampton, where I am, up until about 1am and it's on the same line.
Trains get in the way of my gig plans every now and then as well. Belle and Sebastian are playing in a venue over here that I need to leave at 9:45pm to catch the last train. So that would mean skipping 30 to 45 minutes of the gig. So in those cases I just decide to stay home 
Le Guess Who? festival is also a tough one. I have to choose between leaving around midnight and miss the last two/three bands. Or stay till the end at around 3am and then wait at the station for the first morning train. So last year I sat my ass down at the station and waited for like 2,5 hours.
Le Guess Who? festival is also a tough one. I have to choose between leaving around midnight and miss the last two/three bands. Or stay till the end at around 3am and then wait at the station for the first morning train. So last year I sat my ass down at the station and waited for like 2,5 hours.
Cosmic Bus
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chris121580
Member
This Health album is just fantastic. Absolutely love it
definitely Wand
edit: oh i was getting them mixed up with Wooden Wand, lol
even so, Wand
this is great
edit: oh i was getting them mixed up with Wooden Wand, lol
even so, Wand
this is great
I like The Horrors best actually and there's quite a few others on the list.
Recently discovered this cool catchy austere minimalist post-punk-ish group with detached overdubbed polyphonic female vocals. Shame they only released two EPs.
https://household.bandcamp.com/
https://household.bandcamp.com/
For their recent work, yes. And a few other bands as well. Overall Whirr has put out some amazing stuff, but I wasn't crazy about Sway.
Pinkshiny's album and that new single are both incredible, though.
Damn, what a great looking venue.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
New Royal Headache album is darn nice (and frustratingly short, of course).
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/05/429329500/first-listen-royal-headache-high
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/05/429329500/first-listen-royal-headache-high
Oh nice, gotta check out the new Soft Kill as well.
If anyone listens to Eisley, sounds like they'll be changing up a bit according to this video posted by Sherri. Stacy is apparently focusing more on her solo project Sucre, so Sherri is doing most/all of the writing for their next album. I think I'm ok with that, although I like Stacy's work with the group better than the Sucre stuff so far. Either way glad to hear more stuff is coming, I really liked "Currents."
chris121580
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2 really consistent albums. Love these guys!
Deerhunter have mysteriously created a new website at http://www.deerhuntermusic.com. It just leads to a very bizarre gif at the moment, but i'm guessing a new album announcement is imminent.
There's a timer as well.
Guess it's a new album http://www.musicdirect.com/p-353271-deerhunter-fading-frontier-vinyl-lp.aspx
alex g has a new album this year and he's with Domino now. pretty huge. the lead single is predictably great. http://diymag.com/2015/08/13/alex-g-shares-bug-announces-new-album-beach-music
household are soooooooo good. Items is technically an LP I think but their output is still far too meager. hopefully they keep coming out with a random release every two years or so, at the very least.
Oh fuck yes. Hopefully that date is accurate too. And hopefully it's better than Monomania.
Agreed.