Easy to think of 10. Excited to check out Dogleg and some of the others I've missed!
01 Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline
02 Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
03 The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
04 Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead
05 Too Free - Love in High Demand
06 Lady Gaga - Chromatica
07 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
08 Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
09 Tame Imapala - The Slow Rush
10 The Weeknd - After Hours
Hey gum gang, my band released our new music video this week. It's story about missing music and missing your bandmates. Make sure you watch the whole thing to see how the story ends. It's been a rough week and I hope that watching this optimistic little video brightens your day just a little.
https://youtu.be/fE4V88241kA
I found out about this band from my college radio station in 2004, and I bought their album on CD. I listened to it a ton and really loved it, but got the feeling no one else liked them but me. Maybe that would have changed if they kept going and did another album. Anyways glad he's doing what he loves now. I still would love for my band to be on Polyvinyl.
Hey gum gang, wanna watch a great quarantine concert? My band, Astronaut Ice Cream, had a Southwest tour scheduled for April, which was of course cancelled. So we wanted to film a concert for YouTube as a way of still sharing that set of new songs with everyone. We filmed it in one take last Thursday and I spent the weekend editing the footage. I'm really proud of its quality for it being self-produced. If you're looking for a concert to watch, I hope you'll find this one fun and uplifting. Cheers!
https://youtu.be/kp6Qm1Cn5Fs
Hi! Here's my list
01 Sure Sure - What's It Like?
02 Sir Babygirl - Crush on Me
03 MUNA - Saves the World
04 Hot Chip - A Bath Full Of Ecstasy
05 Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster
06 Caroline Polachek - PANG
07 Friendly Fires - Inflourescent
08 Charly Bliss - Young Enough
09 No Rome - Crying In The Prettiest Places
10 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
11 The Japanese House - Good at Falling
12 Buke and Gase - Scholars
13 Choker - 3 EPs
14 Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
15 Clairo - Immunity
16 Blue Hawaii - Open Reduction Internal Fixation
17 Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
18 Ariana Grande - thank u, next
19 Charli XCX - Charli
20 Chromatics - Closer to Grey
Hi! I wrote this list a few weeks ago, moved a couple things around just now and I think I'm happy. I limited myself to 20, and nothing from this year, to keep my lists separate and for a fun challenge.
01 MUNA - About U (2017)
02 Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else (2018)
03 Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Special Edition) (2011)
04 The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018)
05 Blue Hawaii - Tenderness (2017)
06 Beat Connection - The Palace Garden (2012)
07 Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood (Deluxe) (2015)
08 Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)
09 Viet Cong - Viet Cong (2015)
10 Kisses - Kids in LA (2013)
11 Satchmode - Love Hz (2017)
12 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman (2016)
13 Lady Gaga - Artpop (2013)
14 Friendly Fires - Pala (2011)
15 The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem (2016)
16 Theives Like Us - Theives Like Us (2017)
17 Rihanna - Anti (2016)
18 Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
19 Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (2014)
20 Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace (2011)
Fellow gummers, today my band, Astronaut Ice Cream, released our debut album "Feel Every Emotion". We're the pop band you've been dreaming of. We're inspired by modern pop groups like Myzica and Dragonette, but if there's one thing we really sound like, it's early Madonna.
Here's the link to it on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4I3ASQEfPREtccTOERSs3S
It's also on Bandcamp as a free download https://astronauticecream.bandcamp.com/album/feel-every-emotion
Hope you like it!
"The Git Up" is such an obvious attempt to ride the coat-tails of Old Town Road, from the country-trap sound to the dance targeted at TikTok teens. That said, I love it
Gang, the best new album out this week is Sure Sure - What's It Like. It makes me very happy. The whole album just sounds like 4 guys having fun playing together in their living room, so, to give you an idea, here is a youtube of them doing exactly that https://youtu.be/DhwjeZSel_A
01 The Japanese House - Good at Falling
02 Sir Babygirl - Crush On Me
03 Charly Bliss - Young Enough
04 Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster
05 Choker - 3 EPs
06 Steve Lacy - Apollo XXI
07 Ariana Grande - thank u, next
08 Buke and Gase - Scholars
09 No Rome - Crying in the Prettiest Places
10 Vampire Weekend - FOTB
Easy to think of 10. Great year so far. You guys should check out this album by the Japanese House, it's really beautiful
This is an album that really benefited from coming out in the CD era. I wasn't sure I liked it at first, but I'd spent like 12.99 on it, so I gave it many more tries. Now it's probably the album of theirs I love most.
"The Sam Smith of Frank Oceans" harsh but true! A much more interesting descendant of Frank Ocean is Choker. His stuff is varied, genre-exploring and at times pyschedelic
I've got a good idea for a piece.. attend BOTH Woodstocks that are happening the same weekend. Go to them on consecutive days, or the same day if you're really ambitious. See which one gets closer to the spirit of the original, and which one is a better festival (not necessarily the same)
This album, more so than her other albums, feels like Ariana wrote it. Like, the genesis of these songs came from her, instead of Max Martin for once. I think that's great! Yeah it's not her best album, but maybe it's the start of her really developing as a songwriter and that bodes well for her career I think
I put together my top 10 last week, and it actually quite works as a playlist too, so after seeing this feature this morning, I made it into a spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6W4kyVaN280DiOGomOTIM4
01 No Rome - Narcissist ft. The 1975
02 Westerman - Easy Money
03 Sure Sure - Lie Lie Lie
04 Fickle Friends - The Moment
05 Broods - Peach
06 The 1975 - TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
07 Now, Now - AZ
08 The Japanese House - Lilo
09 G Flip - About You
10 ZHU, Tame Impala - My Life
The Album of the Year nominees must be picked by some metric other than actually listening to them, because no one has ever listened to Scorpion all the way through
Also announced today, Mark Kozelek is playing a Camp Fire benefit concert in Chico on December 16th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/butte-strong-sessions-featuring-mark-kozelek-tickets-53364509685
Hey gang! Excited to read your lists and see what great albums I've missed. Here's my list. I think any of my friends could tell you that I listened to Fickle Friends more than anything this year. So if that or anything else here interests you, I hope you enjoy!
01 Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
02 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
03 The Voidz - Virtue
04 The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
05 Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
06 Camila Cabello - Camila
07 LANY - Malibu Nights
08 The Spirit Of The Beehive - Hypnic Jerks
09 Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations
10 Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
11 Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
12 American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime Of This
13 Rae Morris - Someone Out There
14 Maps & Atlases - Lightlessness Is Nothing New
15 Ariana Grande - Sweetener
16 SSION - O
17 Hurry - Every Little Thought
18 The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
19 The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
20 Nedelle Torrisi - Only For You
Well I love it. I love how hard it tries. They are deeply committed to the album as an art form, and are truly striving to make the greatest album they possibly can. I love them at their most audacious.
Hey gang, my new album is out today! "Looking" by Kirt Lind. It is more of my trademark jangly indie-rock and synth-pop, but with an expanded palette of different types of sampling and drum breaks. I really love these new songs and I think you guys will like them too. You can stream it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/46IBtvGeBgSmmeq1VS2uL5 or download it for free on Bandcamp: https://kirtlind.bandcamp.com/album/looking
My summer is all about the new album from Fickle Friends. Awesome summer vibes and catchy songs. My personal SOTS would be something off that, Say No More, or Bite, or Brooklyn, but I'm voting for "I Like It" in the poll
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