I have recently settled on my sugar, spice, and everything nice albums. These are the albums that if you mix together and add chemical X will cause me to emerge from a cauldron like a rag doll powepuff girl.
These albums are Cut by The Slits, LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem, and The Idler Wheel by Fiona Apple.
The thing these albums have in common is their whimsy despite content. There is whimsy in playing with every instrument possible. In experimenting with form, defying genre, and making me want to dance at the lobotomy farm.
Jan 4, 2025
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Witch House (kind of a diluted/ill-defined genre IMO but all good music regardless of label)
Salem - Fires in Heaven
SADWRIST - - 1 EP
Elusin - SYNFUELS
IC3PEAK - Сладкая Жизнь
Noisy/Guitary/Post-Punky
Jane Remover - Census Designated
loveliescrushing - bloweyelashwish
Total Wife - In/Out
Bizarre - Beautica
Anxious - Little Green House
Seefeel - Quique
Bowery Electric - Beat
Scala - To You in Alpha
Mar 18, 2024
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A few hours of scrolling on here today has done more for my taste in music than years and years of Sp*tify algorithms. Highly recommend turning to the PI.FYI community for something fresh.
That in mind here's a couple of bands I really like that I have had to introduce to like 90% of people, I've tried to make sure all of these artists have under 100k monthly listeners on Spoofy:
- Blue Deputy: indie dream rock who will absolutely become my favourite band the moment they release their first EP (they keep promising it's in the works!!!!) favourite tracks: Cypress, New Jersey, Lucky Star (that one's not on streaming yet!)
- Lesbian Bed Death: Gothic Hard Rock/Metal that packs a hell of a punch, they're so much fun. Favourite tracks: Maria, Your Love Makes Everything Worse, She Loves Lilith
- Sean Solomon: He has that one song on tiktok where he plays along to VCR recording of the music video (that I believe he drew and animated himself)/backing track. That one song is Car Crash and it's just quite lovely, really
- The Man the Myth the Meatslab: more acoustic midwest emo I found on TikTok lmao. effortlessly, i feel everything is eerily similar to Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl but imo not in a way that feels like a ripoff, it actually elevates the song for me. It's like a spin on a similar theme from a different perspective
- Chloe Slater: working class, indie, feminist indie rock anthems for disenfranchised people who just wanna dance. favourite songs: Fig Tree, Sucker, Thomas Street
- Life to Experience: this is kind of a memey one bc their album The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads appears on a tonne of people's cringe/bad album covers lists, but guys. Please. I promise you it is genuinely one of the best Prog Rock albums of all time it rules so hard. Please try it. this is not an original take but it IS a correct take.
- Wax Fang: this band had one song appear in an episode of American Dad of all places, and whoever put it there should have immediately been given a raise and creative control of the entire show. The song they used is called Majestic, and the album it's from, La La Land, is an incredible rock album.
Feb 14, 2025
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There’s this kind of liminal genre of music girls are making that I’m obsessed with where the vocals most of the time aren’t super clear and it’s like washy and fluid vibes (think Highway - Elusin, halo3 - 8485, anything Grouper.) This is music for hot esoteric baddies to walk around drug stores to and I am obsessed with it. I kind of feel like I live in this space terminally of like feminine joy and anxiety simultaneously, and I feel like that line between those two things is where I write music from (although it doesn’t sound the same as I have an addiction to pop culture)
Sep 6, 2023
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This toxic green pastry glaze makes me want to live in a cartoon version of the gowanus canal. dang nabbit I’ll die trying
Jan 4, 2025
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Crafting is BACK people. Don't get me wrong crafting has been my end all be all for a while now but more than ever I find that people want to bedazzle. This is huge for me. The amount of friends I have made by saying I own a hot glue gun is innumerable. The "let shit go" part of my resolution is largely in part to my enemy's list which therapists have insist I get rid of but that I find as a personal motivator. Fine, I'll listen to this advice because to quote Don Draper "That's what the money is for." Fuck shit up? Girls, gays, everyone in between, it's time to read radical leftist literature and get engaged in our communities. It's always the time for this but political apathy is not something we can bring into the New Year. Drugs? Yes, I wanna be well informed but I'd also like to wake and bake to get past my agonizing job and have good time. Sue me.
Jan 4, 2025