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Two really good things that have come out of this weird experiment: (1) a new appreciation for instrumental/non-traditional vocal music and (2) a lot more exposure to and love for soul/neo soul.
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I've found it a similar journey, Joe. There are 20-30 albums that have had multiple listens and that I'm really familiar with. The difference for me is it's not passive listening (sorry if that sounds dismissive). I listen mainly while driving/commuting as opposed to playing whilst reading or hanging out it the house. The difference that I feel (and it may just be me) is that an album like Sufjan's Ascension or Adrianne Lenker's songs can't grow or wash over me (like it could if I was reading or cooking). Whilst driving I feel the need for more immediate music.
For me music has certainly become more disposable. Years ago if I had spent $30 on an album I would give it serious listens whereas now I can dismiss an album after 1 or 2 listens. There are albums that are dear to me that wouldn't survive my current listening conditions.
I've found it a similar journey, Joe. There are 20-30 albums that have had multiple listens and that I'm really familiar with. The difference for me is it's not passive listening (sorry if that sounds dismissive). I listen mainly while driving/commuting as opposed to playing whilst reading or hanging out it the house. The difference that I feel (and it may just be me) is that an album like Sufjan's Ascension or Adrianne Lenker's songs can't grow or wash over me (like it could if I was reading or cooking). Whilst driving I feel the need for more immediate music.
For me music has certainly become more disposable. Years ago if I had spent $30 on an album I would give it serious listens whereas now I can dismiss an album after 1 or 2 listens. There are albums that are dear to me that wouldn't survive my current listening conditions.
Not dismissive or offense at all! I totally know what you mean. Usually, I'm writing while listening. But to be fair, usually the first listen has the majority of my attention. Unless the record isn't gripping me. And anything that really grips me gets more attentive listens. But your point still stands. And I think you're right. I wish I still had a commute so I could really take in some of the albums that need more attention/multiple listens.
Years ago if I had spent $30 on an album I would give it serious listens whereas now I can dismiss an album after 1 or 2 listens.
I get this. In my mid-teens if I dropped $30 I earned from washing dishes in some restaurant on an album, you better believe I listened to that fucker until something clicked. Now if I like one or two songs from an album I'll consider it a win, add them to favorites, and move on.
Years ago if I had spent $30 on an album I would give it serious listens whereas now I can dismiss an album after 1 or 2 listens.
I get this. In my mid-teens if I dropped $30 I earned from washing dishes in some restaurant on an album, you better believe I listened to that fucker until something clicked. Now if I like one or two songs from an album I'll consider it a win, add them to favorites, and move on.
yeah, me too. I listened and read the booklet and super knew whatever i bought.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Sat August 24, 2013 2:33 pm Posts: 3083 Location: Baltic Sea, Germany
I think I still listen to about 30 new albums a year at least 2-3x times with about 10 or so becoming albums in my regular rotation. Falling in love with new albums is a great source of enjoyment for me and I hope this will never stop. It never feels like work. That would depress me. I understand how adult life could make it harder to get to know new music, though. It only works for me because I can listen to music at least 50% of the time at work.
Kevin Davis wrote:
Mickey wrote:
chewm wrote:
i have zero interest in listening to the new album but of montreal has some good stuff
Society has progressed past the need for Of Montreal, just as we have with Michel Gondry films and ironic flat-billed caps.
I remember being blown away a few years ago by how, seemingly all at once, the stuff I listened to in the early 2000's began sounding like "early 2000's music." All of a sudden the Shins, the Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, etc., sounded as date-stamped as the Carpenters or Steely Dan. I've experienced this multiple times in my life, but for some reason I am continually surprised by it.
I'm not sure if other people experience this but throughout my entire life I have listened to music that is current and been utterly oblivious to the things that are "dating" it. I'm guessing it's, at least in part, because the things happening around it to form that context are happening in real time as well, all while your brain draws connections you don't realize it's drawing, but still -- it's a phenomenon I've always found interesting.
I totally feel the same. Funny thing is that I'm still somehow convinced it won't happen to the current new music I'm listening to. I can't identify a sound for this era. I bet I will still go "Oh that's so 2020" in 15 years though when revisiting current albums. Maybe I'm just not listening to music that one would say that about right now. There is a lot of Hip Hop right now that I could see being the sound of 2020.
Track number 7 in Constellation's Corona Borealis series is "New Biology" by Joyfultalk, and, at nearly 29 minutes, it's the longest piece in the series thus far and just a few minutes shorter than the Joyfultalk full-length, A Separation of Being, that came out earlier this year. Jay Crocker, the man behind the moniker, also made the video for this whacked-out improvised electronic jam, so you can watch and listen here:
And, as always, it's pay what you can for 1 week on Bandcamp:
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Unless there are some surprises in the next ~45 days:
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2. Adrianne Lenker - songs 3. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown 4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 5. Destroyer - Have We Met 6. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
I've listened to a bunch more albums but I don't see the point in ranking them because they're all variously forgettable. These are the only ones I've had any real desire to return to.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
I think I still listen to about 30 new albums a year at least 2-3x times with about 10 or so becoming albums in my regular rotation. Falling in love with new albums is a great source of enjoyment for me and I hope this will never stop. It never feels like work. That would depress me. I understand how adult life could make it harder to get to know new music, though. It only works for me because I can listen to music at least 50% of the time at work.
Kevin Davis wrote:
Mickey wrote:
chewm wrote:
i have zero interest in listening to the new album but of montreal has some good stuff
Society has progressed past the need for Of Montreal, just as we have with Michel Gondry films and ironic flat-billed caps.
I remember being blown away a few years ago by how, seemingly all at once, the stuff I listened to in the early 2000's began sounding like "early 2000's music." All of a sudden the Shins, the Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, etc., sounded as date-stamped as the Carpenters or Steely Dan. I've experienced this multiple times in my life, but for some reason I am continually surprised by it.
I'm not sure if other people experience this but throughout my entire life I have listened to music that is current and been utterly oblivious to the things that are "dating" it. I'm guessing it's, at least in part, because the things happening around it to form that context are happening in real time as well, all while your brain draws connections you don't realize it's drawing, but still -- it's a phenomenon I've always found interesting.
I totally feel the same. Funny thing is that I'm still somehow convinced it won't happen to the current new music I'm listening to. I can't identify a sound for this era. I bet I will still go "Oh that's so 2020" in 15 years though when revisiting current albums. Maybe I'm just not listening to music that one would say that about right now. There is a lot of Hip Hop right now that I could see being the sound of 2020.
I don't really really listen to much stuff as it comes out. There's too much good music out there for me to really do this. I just listen to what I find that I like, regardless of when it came out. So this doesn't seem to happen to me much.
I've somehow managed to listen to 101 albums released in 2020 so far. Just bonkers. I've been having so much fun on this journey. I'm excited to keep it going and to see what I continue to discover from these works.
Here's my current ranking of the 2020 albums I've heard so far:
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple Gigaton - Pearl Jam RTJ4 - Run The Jewels Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas Kitchen Sink - Nadine Shah Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morissette On My Own - Lera Lynn That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price It Is What It Is - Thundercat Bad Vacation - Liza Anne
LP2 - Lo Tom Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee Dias Raros - Melenas Gaslighter - The Chicks Far From Home - Aubrie Sellers Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was - Bright Eyes Asterist the Universe - John Craigie Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions) - Sturgill Simpson Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
The Waterfall II - My Morning Jacket My Love is a Hurricane - David Ramirez Moral Panic - Nothing But Thieves Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Anderews Impossible Weight - Deep Sea Diver AUGUST - Lewis Del Mar World On the Ground - Sarah Jarosz grae - Moses Sumney Source - Nubya Garcia
songs - Adrianne Lenker Ascension - Sufjan Stevens Wake UP! - Hazel English Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers Homegrown - Neil Young On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM Amazones Power - Les Amazones d'Afrique folklore - Taylor Swift For Their Love - Other Lives
Summerlong -Rose City Band Angular Blues - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade After Hours - The Weeknd The Universal Want - Doves Modern Dead - Denai Moore Old Time Feeling - S.G. Goodman SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama Old Wow - Sam Lee UR FUN - Of Montreal Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line
The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen Song For Our Daughter - Laura Marling Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens Transmigration Blues - The Dead Tongues Getting Into Knives - The Mountain Goats Earth - EOB Logan Ledger - Logan Ledger What's New Tomboy? - Damien Jurado
Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol how i'm feeling now - Charli XCX Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman Total Freedom - Kathleen Edwards Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer Sugaegg - Bully Expectations - Katie Pruitt Folk N' Roll, Vol 1: Tales of Isolation - J.S. Ondara Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters
A Hero's Death - Fontaines D.C. Whole New Mess - Angel Olsen TO LOVE IS TO LIVE - Jehnny Beth Muzz - Muzz Thank You Ancestor Finger - Harper's Jar The New Abnormal - The Strokes American Death Squad (EP) - Jeff Ament Straight Songs of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan Notes On a Conditional Form - The 1975 The Unraveling - Drive-By Truckers
Likewise - Frances Quinlan Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep - Ghostpoet It Was Good Until It Wasn't - Kehlani Aporia - Sufjan Stevens Hannah - Lomelda Eclipse - Addy I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of There Is No Other... - Isobel Campbell Neon Cross - Jaime Wyatt
Beginners - Christian Lee Hutson color theory - Soccer Mommy Heavy Light - U.S. Girls Cold Water - Medhane From Liberty Street - Mapache Invisible People - Chicano Batman 3.15.20 - Childish Gambino Music To Be Murdered By - Eminem Roisin Machine - Roisin Murphy Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Colter Wall
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