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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 11, 2022 21:19:07 GMT
Pixies There's a Moon On
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 14, 2022 18:46:11 GMT
Dry Cleaning Don't Press Me
Hipster faves who made a lot of people's most beloved new album of 2021 - a good (but not that good) album last year which I think I rated ~ 7.5 because their schtick is pretty easy to spot........on the other hand on this single they sound like a condensed, perfect example of that schtick - under 2 minutes and it's over just like that.
The lead singer - Florence Shaw - comes in right away - within 10 seconds and fades in and out between singing and talking she's noticeable in her presence and ........when she is silent. Eerily paranoid and unique.
Album in October.......highly promising off this single tbh.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 22, 2022 10:38:12 GMT
Kiwi Jr Unspeakable Things
Not as great as the first single (Night Vision) which is best of year list level and made my best of so far (um) - but firmly in their "Pavement goes commercial" sound comfort zone. Video has a clever / funny Heat reference Album #3 drops August 12
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 25, 2022 17:18:58 GMT
This. Is. So. Relaxing.
Crash is a decent album IMO, about on par with Charli's last and a few rungs down from her self-titled in 2019, but this is the track I keep coming back to. My comfort food. Reminds me of Charli's "Warm" with the steady warm & watery synth line tying it all together but slowed down to ballad tempo. Other people have compared it to Badalamenti's Twin Peaks music which has to be high praise in these parts. Production by A.G. Cook and Daniel Lopatin.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 1, 2022 7:00:17 GMT
The Steens What a Way To DieI've been called so many dumbass things on MAR over the years - a racist, a sexist a Republican ..... all of which are laughably untrue although I do think "Karen" is a (mildly) racist term (it still is, thx), I really do affectionately call every female I know irl life "baby" (I really do have to stop that), and the current Democrat Party is so unappealing to me atm I left it after 287 years for the bland vanilla pudding wasteland of being an "independent". Jesus - pick a team already pacinoyes Love me or hate me - nobody ever says my music taste is anything less than Godhead and this is a pretty righteous new song: The Steens are two young PoC black guys - playing a kind of gloriously fuzzed out Rock and Roll - their race would be meaningless except that is weirdly, surprisingly rare to find in the US in 2022 ......... and they're a family act (2 brothers) also meaningless but also very rare in the US atm...........and this is a debut single - which I almost never play if the band doesn't have an album or EP (unless you happened to be Wet Leg ) - it's quite a calling card and way to make your name which is not a great band name btw - "The Steens" - sounds like a bunch of guys who just misspelled "The Steins" ammiright?..... The song is also pretty rare.........both modern AND retro sounding. Arty and mass appeal sounding.......tight and yet divertingly wild........ace song title too.......a group to watch out for.......... purr.........haps.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jul 4, 2022 14:56:37 GMT
Halftime report. Favourite songs... +
Favourite albums... 1. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii 2. SAVAK - Human Error/Human Delight 3. Cola - Deep in View 4. Loose Fit - Social Graces 5. A Place to Bury Strangers - See Through You
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 15, 2022 14:30:31 GMT
Julien Baker Guthrie (2022)
I only say what I really mean...........When I start talking to you in my sleep
That insipid opening line here - implies this trainwreck actually NEVER shuts up and she is baaaaaaaaaaaack - your move Lucy Dacus - try to top this monstrosity......Yeah, I know it's "the BEST" new songs - but I have a reputation to maintain, so indulge me.
I have already called 2022 the best music year of the MAR era - but as Dickens would say (if he was a Rock critic) it's also been the worst at the same time - Camp Cope, Head and The Heart, The Lumineers have all been stupefyingly awful this year.
This is the "She Said" trailer set to music - nails on chalkboard stuff of jokes that are far funnier than mine - and makes the other duds of 2022 - sound like they were London Calling or This Year's Model or something.
Unspeakably evil....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 21, 2022 16:39:17 GMT
Kiwi Jr. The Extra Sees The Film
3rd good single from upcoming August album - very Pavement slacker-stoned '97 sounding - nobody keeps Pavement alive more than these guys aside from Parquet Courts.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 21, 2022 17:15:51 GMT
Robyn Hitchcock (69yo) with a pretty fun new song from upcoming album Shufflemania (out Oct 21). He had two albums make my list for the 80s poll... Black Snake Diamond Role and Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight.... I suppose I'm a fan! pacinoyes
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2022 6:55:40 GMT
The Heat Inc. Draw Blood For Proof
This band - 4 long-haired dudes from London - have made their own version of last year's best song: Like Shit I Don't Have Time For by Snakeheads (2021) - this is another absolutely ripping and rousing song - that pounds its chorus into your skull...........and it feels epic for every second of its 3 minute length. Superb Rock and Roll - one of 2022's best singles..........heck, it's so good I'm going to shout out a few MAR music peeps for it: Joaquim , Mattsby , TheAlwaysClassy ......@everybodyreally........ Let's go back to Tulsa to 1943 your birthright is the eye with which you capture everything just shy over a thousand days with Bill to route 'cause once the needle's loaded it's never coming out
YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU, MAN - LIKE I HOPE SHE LOVES ME TOO YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU, MAN - NO MATTER WHAT I SAY OR DO AND THE MOST DANGEROUS THING THAT I COULD DO IS WATCH YOU DO THESE THINGS DRAW BLOOD FOR PROOF
Let's go back to Tulsa to 1963 with ivy hair and pallid skin and sweet amphetamine still Jesus hangs just beyond that windshield spider web with a rifle and a riverbank and leaves to rest your head
Let's go back to Tulsa to 1968 dry blood comes tough from collar / cuff yet through grain it dissipates
Let's go back to Tulsa to 1971 it's an accidental gunshot wound and a brand new buried son
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jul 29, 2022 7:09:27 GMT
Florist - Florist (2022) - 7.5/10 Well, I jump on anything with a folk, country, or ambient tag with an obscure looking kinda album cover of a flower painting, and this happened to include 2 out of the 3 and some even have claimed a little country (tho I don't personally see it). A little underwhelming. It sounds like my type of thing, but it's not brash, unique, or powerful enough to have met what I originally expected from it. Feathers stand out as clearly my favorite track, but otherwise 2022 has just been mediocre. Some greatly anticipated returns or more excited albums are flopping or underwhelming. I know Beach House, Radiohead or whatever side project they have, Arcade Fire, and Beyonce are still getting their stuff in the Top 10 on lists regardless what mediocrity they pump out, but in truth there just hasn't been many other interesting things.... yet. Let's go with 7.5 for Florist... maybe it'll raise but for now 7.5
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Post by DaleCooper on Aug 3, 2022 10:51:18 GMT
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter So this is the first album this year that I feel could be album of the year once the year is wrapped. It's a very ambitious debut LP, sometimes almost to a fault, but the overall cohesion is pretty damn good here. I really dig the instrumentation and the singing is fantastic with often hitting lyrics. Some songs do drag a bit but impressively these 7 minutes songs often feels like they need to be that long to really create the proper soundscape for that particular chapter of the album. American Teenager is a proper banger, one of the best pop songs of the year, but most of the other songs are more slow burners. At least 8/10 probably will reach higher as I will listen to it more.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 5, 2022 7:37:42 GMT
The Speedways Shoulda Known & A Drop In The Ocean - Double A side single
World's best band (non-Fontaines D.C. division) - finally drops new music - the world rejoices......or at least I do anyway.
Note The Replacements wink in Shoulda Known ("Impatient hearts can hardly wait") and The Kinks "Tired of Waiting" riff in the fake start of A Drop In The Ocean.
Real in-joke music nerd kinda stuff, God Bless 'Em.....
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Post by hugobolso on Aug 5, 2022 18:30:09 GMT
Rosa Linn Snap. Despite was almost a failure at Eurovision. Is right now a sensation, thanks to tiktok, that usually takes the most boring songs of Eurovision and makes them a hit, like Arcade from Duncan Lawrence. The difference was that Duncan Lawrence won in 2019, while Rosa Linn got the 20th place last june.- I have to admit I like the song, very 90s.-
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 6, 2022 16:00:10 GMT
The Bobby Lees Monkey Mind
Well........the movies still blow but the creators of one of this years best EPs - and 2022's best cover (Be My Enemy) - announce a new album - their 3rd and first since they got really good - on October 7th and ALL 4 of the songs from that breakthrough EP will be on it.
The lead singer - the actress Sam Quartin carries an unbelievable amount of swagger in her screams and moans......she's single-handedly saving and destroying Rock and Roll......and no vocalist around can rival her in this performance art way.........unless Amyl and The Sniffers cut an album this year......
New song:
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 6, 2022 17:43:50 GMT
More Kicks AnimalWell, didn't see THAT coming: I made fun of the singer of this band - James Sullivan's solo record - when I reviewed it (a 5.5) and I only thought More Kicks debut was pretty decent and I thought they broke up........but since this is 2022 of course Sullivan goes and writes the song of his life ........like he's Pete Shelley and he writes like this all the time. Maybe he will now...... album September 16The drummer here is Kris Hood - who is the Josh Freese of modern Rock / Punk drummers - he's in 3 bands - like literally a member not a guest - and one of his other bands is The Speedways.......so he drums on 2 of the best songs of the year and both came out on the same day - yesterday.......um....... What a song.......what an ending .......what a scream .......what a music year
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 10, 2022 4:57:26 GMT
Kiwi Jr The Sound of Music
Album drops Friday - 4th song out of 10 released - all winners so far.......sounding very playful and mostly swaps guitars for synths
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 11, 2022 8:04:35 GMT
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Burning
I've said this before - of the praised new American-Canadian post-Strokes bands in the early 2000s era - The National, Interpol, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, - it's The Yeah Yeah Yeahs who most closely approximate the best elements of Rock as Pop that UK bands did (Arctic Monkeys, Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, Long Blondes) - danceable, sexual, joyous, disposable in a good or better than good way.
They never made an album as good as Boxer or Turn on the Bright Lights......but they never made a dud either, their singles were more fun, less pretentious, guilt free, they never jumped the shark and that old stuff holds up too.
A pretty marvelous comeback single that encapsulates them and inhabits all kinds of cool stuff about pop culture marginalia .....almost 20 years since their debut
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Post by DanQuixote on Aug 11, 2022 22:26:51 GMT
I’ve been alternating a lot between these three amazing albums recently.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 13, 2022 7:32:45 GMT
The Black Angels Without A Trace
Could be in the Most Terrifying songs thread with those weird bird noises and ominous lyrics.......one of their best songs and a lot of people love these guys for a long time now
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Post by DeepArcher on Aug 22, 2022 17:36:04 GMT
New The National single with Bon Iver feature. I heard this song live last month and loved it - this version I'm not so sure about. The production really overwhelms the potential intimacy of the song. I keep being into it for like the first 30 seconds until you hear the sound that I can only describe as the Bon Iver synth - threatening like an unwanted intruder infringing upon your sacred space of comfort. Maybe that's a bit extreme but his vocals add nothing to the song; and yet it still somehow feels more like The National featuring on a Bon Iver song than the other way around.
Matt's vocals and lyrics are as reliable as ever. I just preferred the version I heard last month that had, like, guitars and stuff.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 26, 2022 8:19:48 GMT
More Kicks Terminal Love
Echoes of the early The Who - or as I call it "the best Who" mixed with The Buzzcocks again - guitar plays the melody line with a separate hook. Upbeat sounding, with downbeat lyrics which is always hard to pull off but here sounds natural and right.
Follows up on their 2022 best of year level single "Animal" with another winner ....new album Sep 16.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 26, 2022 12:17:18 GMT
The Speedways A Drop In The Ocean
What a time to be alive!
A new single by More Kicks ^ and a video now by the world's best band (non-Fontaines D.C. division) - which references both Squeeze and The Ramones - off their superb, nostalgic double A-side single - so that's those 2 bands plus The Replacements, The Smiths, The Kinks and The La's and er, um, 70s KISS all referenced musically / in single artwork / 2 videos.......lots of mythologizing going on.........also making fun of the "wimpiness" of this song - but it's really not, it's just Power Pop..........
........as if that wasn't enough this video makes a visual joke about "crying" and chopping onions which is the same joke I made on MAR earlier in the week before this was even out! Coincidence? You be the judge......
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 31, 2022 7:21:50 GMT
Sprints Literary Mind
One of the best bands in Rock in 2022 - Sprints have the year's best EP - the 5 song knockout A Modern Job ......and now another strong stand-alone single to go with it. No band still without a debut album (!) is this good - or as interesting as them.
More of a traditional song - less stream of consciousness than the EP - with a pre-chorus, alternating female vocals with male supplementing a partial chorus as backing vocal - and their use of repetition, their specialty (like their Irish countrymen Fontaines D.C.)
Also with instrument separation, dissonance and negative space which are becoming their trademarks too....there's a lot going on in their songs.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 6, 2022 8:05:57 GMT
Holly Beth Vincent - Hey Boy & Smash (reissue from 2015)
Pretty awesome return to Punk / New Wave after dabbling in many other styles for years - this harkens back to her peak of 1981 / 82 ........however this was cut in 2015 (?!?) - but it got a nothing, negligible release then it seems - and it is among her catchiest work ever......and now gets a much deserved re-release. I said before that Holly Beth Vincent desperately needs a career spanning box set because she has hard to find, never widely released, demo quality material on several labels along with 3 interesting full albums - 1 of which is a sort of cult classic too - it can be hard to keep it all straight or track down. You can build a whole cult around her if you release and edit her work down to the best moments. 2 bandcamp links to the songs below: single gets a digital and vinyl re-release in October rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-boy-ramo-recordstravisraminproducer.bandcamp.com/album/hey-boy
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