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Post by pacinoyes on May 7, 2020 22:20:12 GMT
The mighty Sleaford Mods with a new song from their forthcoming best of/retrospective and a very funny video but you have to know the guys history to get the joke in the video.
A hard band to like over a whole album maybe - but makers of several of the best singles of the 2010s.....
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Post by pacinoyes on May 9, 2020 22:15:35 GMT
The ExBats - KwarenkweenWe're in May now - still my album of the year - and this is the THIRD time I've posted new songs by them in this thread - one from that album, then a Record Store Day single and now this Quarantine ditty about the lead singer extraordinaire celebrating her 21st birthday (thought she was younger!) at home - she's got her records and tapes dontchaknow. If this makes it to Youtube I'll update the thread.........for Mattsby who couldn't believe how much he likes this band either Can play it at the bottom of the page: hypem.com/track/2xy9k/The+Exbats+-+Kwarenkween
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Post by pacinoyes on May 15, 2020 18:36:11 GMT
pacinoyes 2019 faves Fontaines D.C. are back with their Fall schtick sounding direct and bigger and like they'd maybe like to be bigger - marvelous stuff....... new album coming:
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Post by pacinoyes on May 16, 2020 23:55:55 GMT
Chuck Prophet - Nixonland
Minor, small-time legendary-ish figure but he still has a record deal deep in his 50s with a loyal cult and he knows everybody in the music business which allows him to act like he's much more important than he actually really is.....but he's maybe the very best songwriter nobody's ever heard of much at all..........which is really something for a guy who's been around this long with a record deal for his whole career and who knows everybody in music From a new album out as of yesterday:
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Post by DeepArcher on May 20, 2020 19:12:27 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on May 22, 2020 19:44:19 GMT
Neil Young from his never released 1970s album finally coming June 19th - same day as Dylan's new one! Very rustic and countryish and playful - Harvest sounding .......nothing like his mid-70s guitar freak-out masterpiece Tonight's The Night - this is gentle Neil and it's new and 45 years old.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 25, 2020 21:31:12 GMT
2020 single from board faves The Growlers sounding like they are using the same keyboard effect as their influences and leaving the guitar in the background ..........for now at least:
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Post by pacinoyes on May 26, 2020 6:21:12 GMT
Nation of Language owe whatever fame they get - and they may get a lot of it once Pitchfork hears it - to the virus. They play (very) New Order-ish synth-pop a genre that leads to some great singles and almost like 0 great albums. But this whole album plays like a lush romantic dream as songs fade in and out in a mesmerizing way that loses track of time but seems specific and right now and doesn't play like it's trying to revive a genre......though they totally want that. I mean I play it all the time in the background and it's hardly my kind of thing is it?.......and you can play this whole record and its always 1986 in your apartment ......or 1985.....who can tell nowadays anyway.
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Post by DeepArcher on May 26, 2020 17:44:04 GMT
Nation of Language owe whatever fame they get - and they may get a lot of it once Pitchfork hears it - to the virus. They play (very) New Order-ish synth-pop a genre that leads to some great singles and almost like 0 great albums. But this whole album plays like a lush romantic dream as songs fade in and out in a mesmerizing way that loses track of time but seems specific and right now and doesn't play like it's trying to revive a genre......though they totally want that. I mean I play it all the time in the background and it's hardly my kind of thing is it?.......and you can play this whole record and its always 1986 in your apartment ......or 1985.....who can tell nowadays anyway. Thanks for the rec Pac -- this is my kind of thing and I'm digging this album so far.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 26, 2020 19:46:40 GMT
Well.........Alllllllllllllllright - Jeff Rosenstock who made the pacinoyes top 25 of the 2010s (for his LP Worry, FYC!) - or as I like to call that - THE REAL top 25 of the 2010s (oh shutup!) - drops a new album out of nowhere.
If you already know his music you probably love him a whole lot - basically he sounds like Weezer around Pinkerton - and you hear his sound a lot in my beloved 2019 fave record Mike Krol's Power Chords.
No one mixes profanity, desperation and politics like this guy - must listen to the whole record now - have very high hopes:
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Post by pacinoyes on May 30, 2020 6:10:10 GMT
This is not a new Fugazi record (no surprise!) BUT.........this is 1/2 OF Fugazi including Ian Mackaye so to many people it is a must listen for that alone and his pounding guitar is very evident............... album imminent......... Archie who's a fan of the man......
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Post by pacinoyes on May 30, 2020 23:39:58 GMT
Second single from The Reflectors debut - 2nd song in this thread too - this is so close to really being something - first of all who plays power-pop in this style in 2020 - bonus points gentlemen! You can tell they have an extraordinary knowledge of this style/form note the "Boo...Hoo" chant before the break - pretty slick.....they have this Exploding Hearts/The Nerves/The Shoes thing down pat. .......but you can also tell that it's too much pop and not enough "power" but they have the total right idea and the album is quite good too.......get a better producer and maybe a drug habit and pacinoyes may have you on the best of 2021 .....this is a start......pacinoyes doesn't support your drug habit
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 4, 2020 10:44:22 GMT
Bob Mould - The legendary singer/writer/guitarist behind at least 4 masterpiece albums (Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig, Copper Blue) returns at nearly 60 (!) with an up to the minute screed that is at once: pissed off, virtue signaling & eye-brow raising, defensive ..........and gloriously LOUD.
You could say he did this better when he was a young man, but so did you ......
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Post by DaleCooper on Jun 4, 2020 20:07:50 GMT
Lately I've been listening a lot to Carly Rae Jepsen's Deticated Side B and Charlie XCX' how i'm feeling now. Both really good albums. Favorite track from the albums would be Heartbeat and Forever.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 4, 2020 20:50:08 GMT
Ok, now it gets weird......the THIRD song I've posted in this thread and the 4th already released from one of the years big pacinoyes anticipated albums of 2020 - Australia's hit making machine (um) Royal Blackouts Coastal Fever from their 2nd album - out this Friday. I've hyped this band an awful lot going back to their 2018 early-REM/Go-Betweens-y debut and some marvelous singles/EPs.......well now with 40% of the album released ......I can already tell this is a total Summer album like The Police could have made - and they're going for big 80s money and possibly for your girlfriend too and they are taking their f'n time and being very chill and languid about it. I'm still on board and it's REALLY rare to find a band this in control of their sound......I'm impressed and......see you Friday but mess it up a little for album 3.....that's the one when you are all disillusioned with that cash and with my girlfriend
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 6, 2020 7:29:43 GMT
been listening to a lot of music these last few days. some of my favorite new finds: I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of. Really catchy electronic/synth-pop with a Latin flavor. Almost all of the tracks are bops. Fav track: "Bit of Rain"Before Love Came to Kill Us - Jessie Reyez. Latin-flavored hip-hop/trap/R&B, super catchy/hooky, has some nasty attitude. Fav track: "DEAF", although the line "But I ain't a killa I'll let you breathe" stands out suddenly... Song for Our Daughter - Laura Marling. Familiar with Marling's work, haven't been able to latch onto her sleepy folk/acoustic strummings before, but this album has more going on instrumentally than I'm used to from her without losing her soft touch. Some sweet melodies and striking lyrics. Fav track: "Fortune"Warnings - I Break Horses. Never heard of this band before but this album was a lovely bunch of catchy shoegazey synth-rock out of Sweden. Very lush, warm instrumentation that envelopes you. Fav track: "Silence"
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 6, 2020 7:31:28 GMT
oh yeah, also the new Fiona Apple fuckin slaps, but it hardly needs my plug
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 6, 2020 7:41:26 GMT
Lately I've been listening a lot to Carly Rae Jepsen's Deticated Side B and Charlie XCX' how i'm feeling now. Both really good albums. Favorite track from the albums would be Heartbeat and Forever. Her 2019 album is better but Charli's newest is still really solid. My favorite is Claws but Forever is great too, incredible noise/glitch mixing on both. Gotta check out that Carly because I lowkey preferred Emotion Side B to the actual album and I'm wondering if that'll happen again, because I only liked a couple tracks off Dedicated.
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Post by DaleCooper on Jun 6, 2020 9:33:47 GMT
Her 2019 album is better but Charli's newest is still really solid. My favorite is Claws but Forever is great too, incredible noise/glitch mixing on both. Gotta check out that Carly because I lowkey preferred Emotion Side B to the actual album and I'm wondering if that'll happen again, because I only liked a couple tracks off Dedicated. Didn't really get into her Charli last year, but I'm gonna give it another spin now after really liking the new album. About Carly, I think I prefer Side B of Dedicated but I enjoyed Side A a great deal as well. But definitely give it a listen - some really good songs on there.
I saw that you mentioned I Break Horses, agreed that it is a good album (never heard of them before either). Loving the dreamy quality of it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 10, 2020 14:57:29 GMT
Bob Dylan dropped his 17 minute corona-masterpiece and Ben Weasel/Screeching Weasel - not his real name either btw out of the blue drops his own 2 minute version of one - his first release in ages (also like Dylan!) - but especially one that sounds like THIS - like the pop-punk music he invented, and what many, many lesser bands copied and made fortunes from. Snide, sarcastic, loud, offensive, endlessly catchy in the way he could have written a million of these in his 90s genius era - he even is so loose on this - he let's out a "whoooo" here (twice!) which he never, ever does - but that's how hot this is....and if you're trapped at home, you could play this like what?........ a million times in a 24 hour day? Quarantinessential.... This is the 2nd song I've posted from this album and it's nearly as good as the first - "She Ain't Your Baby" - a flat out instant classic (rest of the album is good too). One day Ben Weasel/Joe Queer/Frank Portman are going to die (they are in their 50s now) and their contribution to Rock music will be forgotten or hopefully rethought .....listen to how sophisticated and complex this short song is: from light keyboards fills that come in, to stop/start drum patterns, to multiple tempo changes, to the bridge which is entirely off in a great tuneful way like it's from a different song........sly use of backing vocals......... to the change in the singing at the very last line............ heck to glibly offensive (quite funny) male-centric subject matter look at how tight and focused it is - it stays in your head because it's so thought out and executed to the last detail. It often gets lumped in with Ramones/Green Day or the genres Pop/Punk or Power Pop and it is all of those things......but these 3 guys have written tons of great idiosyncratic songs that are almost interchangeable between them and not really like anyone else either. Weasel/Portman hanging out and being smart-ass brats in their 90s peak .......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 11, 2020 18:57:23 GMT
Fontaines D.C. - I Don't Belong
2nd song in this thread from this forthcoming album........sounding far less like The Fall than usual and now sounding here at least like......... Joy Division........one of the worlds most interesting bands.....album #2 imminent in July......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 13, 2020 10:15:30 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 13, 2020 15:08:50 GMT
Neil Young - Vacancy
New song from the mid-70s unreleased album due in a week - takes the music from Ohio and World On A String and mixes them sort of - already sounds like a classic Young song.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 13, 2020 18:35:50 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 15, 2020 19:32:39 GMT
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