Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

[Kekeb]

rEnArD should have a trunkless elephant persona

[GammaBlaster]

I have over 500 berdsonas

[L.B.D.D]

grosE

[choof]

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

So I'm guessing people at /mu/ are overly unsensible of others' tastes, and it's an endless dickfight of music conoisseurship? And all this snobism is imbued in a Pitchfork-esque kind of phenomenon? ("let's praise Arcade Fire and downrate everything")
Same as everywhere really.

Well now at least I know I shouldn't put King Crimson and Neutral Milk Hotel in the same sentence. :P (but seriously you'd need a slap not to recognize the importance of their works...)

EDIT: @Noname this project now needs a balance of quality distortion. I'd suggest Los Sounds de Krauts by Colour Haze and Static Tensions by Kylesa pretty please?

pretty much, altho the tailend of a lot of sharethreads/general artist and genre threads are pretty tame and collected

but as for "importance," I wouldn't say nmh has done anything spectacular or influenced a genre. p. mediocre and forgetable imo (except for jesuuuuuus chriiiiiissttt)

[choof]

oh and listening to renard outside of his tqbf alias is literally time wasted, you'd be listening to cookie cutter examples of respective genres

that's why the dude is so prolific, none of his music is worth listening to.

[L.B.D.D]

Originally Posted by choof

oh and listening to renard outside of his tqbf alias is literally time wasted, you'd be listening to cookie cutter examples of respective genres

that's why the dude is so prolific, none of his music is worth listening to.

B a M

[Coolboyrulez0]

yo renard goes hard u guys just dont look far enough

besides tqbf i think eugene, bandetto and truxton are all really nice (rq is weird but has potential imo)

eugene

bandetto (yo this is like sampling masters MEGA i swear)

truxton

but TO EaAcH theIR own??

[Xayphon]

dose albums are real astro yo

TOKiMONSTA - Midnight Menu
Metrosound - Rhodes
JIM - Samouraï soul (probably cant find it via google search, download here for free)
TEK.LUN - Shine EP
Brock Berrigan - Daily Routine
Brock Berrigan - Good Company (if you want more)
Monster Rally & RUMTUM - MR&RT
Monster Rally - EP
Madwreck - Instrumentals Vol.1
Mononome - The Secret Melody
Mononome - Come Close
Prof.Logik - For You All

....listen and u will find a whole different level of musiq....

ps, most of these should be on bandcamp

[choof]

yes thank you eric for only confirming that renard makes really bland and lukewarm tracks of any given genre

[Coolboyrulez0]

at least he didnt do 9/11 unlike william "drop the" bassinski (who was bored of canada, at the time being)

[choof]

i don't renard could ever make something outside of fl studio

let alone something, ya know, as good as disintegration loops

[Coolboyrulez0]

i could smack my dick with a microphone, record that for 50 minutes, add fx and some tape compression and you'd love the shit out of it lmfao

also i guess daws matter now (ps he uses trackers i reckon)

[Arkuski]

C418 - Circle
Joe Hisaishi - Ponyo OST
Mort Garrison - Plantasia
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Death Grips - Government Plates
Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe
Chuck Person - Eccojams vol 1
YMCK - Family Music
Melt Banana - Fetch

[choof]

you'd have to put it on magnetic tapes and release it twenty years from now

[Coolboyrulez0]

sounds like a fun challenge, im sure i can find some cheap magnetic tapes online lmfao

[choof]

Originally Posted by Arkuski

C418 - Circle
Joe Hisaishi - Ponyo OST
Mort Garrison - Plantasia
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Death Grips - Government Plates
Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe
Chuck Person - Eccojams vol 1
YMCK - Family Music
Melt Banana - Fetch

browsin da moo I see

[Arkuski]

Originally Posted by choof

browsin da moo I see

jeez dude I specifically removed In The Cock and It Oats just so you wouldn't make fun of me

I didn't even like GP that much I just wanted to see what somebody else thinks. The other /mu/ albums were just off the top of my head. Fetch and Madvillainy are excellent, and I really like the two vaporwave albums I posted although I would expect newcomers to the genre to be extremely confused.

[L.B.D.D]

uwl zity

[noname219]

Added all the recommendations to the spreadsheet. If you have over 10 recommendations and you want me to switch albums between the "shortlist" and the "waitlist", just tell me. -looking at you crazyjayde-

I still don't know Arkuski or t-rogdor birthday, if you want me to review something for that date.

[noname219]

Day Four - December 4th, 2013
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Entites by Pomegranate Tiger (recommended by Fission)

1. Gift of Tongues
2. Maxims
3. Stars
4. Drifting
5. New Breed
6. Mountains in the Sky
7. Not to See the Sun
8. Ocean - I. White Ship
9. Ocean - II. Maelstrom
10. Ocean - III. The Golden Portal
11. Sign of Ruin
12. Regenesis

Lots of noise in my room today so I had to put my headphones to listen to this album (contrary to the first three albums). I may have missed some subtilities on those past albums, I'll try to keep that in mind for my next reviews.

Pomegranate Tiger is a new formation from Canada formed by multi-instrumentalist Martin Andres. The name Pomegranate Tiger comes from a Salvador Dali painting. Entities is their first full-length album and becoming #1 best selling in the metal category on Bandcamp.

Production is alright, it sometimes feels a bit dry, maybe the music is lacking a bit of soul at parts. At moments, the drumming, rhythm, lead guitar and bass feel a bit distant to each other; it's lacking cohesion. And it's more evident when there's no other instrument playing. They do achieve a better cohesion live. And I really have to give credit to the bass player, he has some of the most complicated sections and he can pull them off very well. In fact, all of the members know their instrument, but the bass is quite stellar.

The songwriting is a bit confusing. They throw a lot of epic solos with barely no progression to it. It gave me the impression they tried to squeeze the maximum of ideas on that album. It suffers of having no recurring parts, as that would help distinguishing the songs. And as far as I can tell, they have a very similar sound to a lot of these new djent bands such as Scale the Summit or Periphery. It's very representative of the current progressive metal scene at the moment for sure.

Drifting isn't necessary. It's an overly complicated piano solo. Similar to Silhouette by Opeth but lacking a human presence. New Breed is one of the two longest songs, and features, at 4:35, an awesome short guitar solo followed by a Dream Theater-esque moment. One of the highlights. The small electronic-influenced parts in Mountains in the Sky are interesting and well incorporated in the music. The songwriting of the later half of the song is a bit lazy and would beneficiate of a clean up. Ocean - II. Maelstrom ends too abruptly. In fact the whole Ocean suite could work as one song. And the violins in Regenesis are absolutely gorgeous.

While reading myself again, I'm really nitpicky on the parts they can improve. After all it's their first LPs, it can't be perfect. Truth is, it was a very good listen overall. It's fast paced from start to finish and there's no boring parts. If they could clarify their sound, give a meaning to their music and forge their own personnality, they could produce a very good second release. I'm just hoping.

My rating : ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

(very very close to 8 stars)