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Assorted Albums you might like

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

@royallmonarch

Mar 18, 2024

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chelsea wolfe

her music also has that gothic folk vibe that ethel plays with

@dart

Apr 19, 2024

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Shoegaze Anti-Hits of Today

I can't stand music discourse—particularly of the "rock is dead" or "rock is back" variety—because I find that nobody has decent taste, and often they're not even aware of the best bands making music now. I feel like most adults have a period of their life when they discover a lot of music and then they give up searching. I'm relentless when it comes to discovering new favorite bands. I don't think there has ever been a time with as much incredible and timeless guitar-driven music as right now. Nothing, Teenage Wrist, Soft Kill, Ruby Haunt, Ski Lodge, cursetheknife, Jorge Elbrecht, Narrow Head, Sports Coach, Gold Star, Choir Boy, Better Person, Private World, Peel Dream Magazine, Salem, Heavenward, Broken Head, Sweet Trip, Valleyheart, Sculpture Club, Winter, Deafheaven, No Joy, Sheer Mag, Day Wave, Roseville, Kitten, Glare, Amusement Parks On Fire, Soft Blue Shimmer, Black Marble, Provoker, Anonymous Club, Holiday Sidewinder, House of Harm, Superbloom, Softcult, Tigers Jaw, Second Skin, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, NewDad, Failure, Beachy Head, The Chain Gang of 1974, Cindy, Seer Believer, Fearing, and VR Sex are the names of some current bands you should probably be listening to that come to mind. And Drab Majesty's The Demonstration, a melodramatic tragedy pageant in honor of the Heaven's Gate suicides, remains the best album of the last decade. If you want something more electro, go for Real Lies, these two Islington dudes who make the most tasteful club pop since the Pet Shop Boys. Their recent single "Late Arcades" was written as an ode to their old schoolmate, Richard Spencer, who vanished years ago. That shit makes me cry.  (Especially in the car.)

@patrik-sandberg

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Mar 3, 2022

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Not discarding school/university projects

My efforts now reduced to basically nothing but numbers on a transcript (I did not retain the knowledge in my head oops)

@sleazeborg

Jan 18, 2025

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Intentional engagement

Possibly if you were on a stricter, parent-controlled and technology-restricted diet, you might have to replicate that by forcing breaks between episodes, only playing the album at home (no portables). Just a hypothesis I have, not tested. Otherwise, acknowledging that now you are more keenly developed, you need more acute stimuli. I suppose as a kid, stories were far more foreign and therefore wondrous, but having grown up, it's all been seen and so the stories have lost some lustre? In that case, best to seek more complex, nuanced stories and engage with them more purposefully to really extract inspiration ("meaning"). On my end, I've been writing on Goodreads and rym. Is this "cheating" by "forcing" a sense of wonder? Only to the extent that you don't see it as something you'd like to do. Otherwise, it's just an adult version of doodling your favourite heroes fighting their nemeses, play acting, etc. Analysis of this kind is only cold and incompatible with the warmth of imagination if conducted with academic rigidity (in fact even then, I might disagree ... haven't fully settled my thoughts on that).

@sleazeborg

Feb 10, 2025

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Serene - Be No One

Test / pilot post. Emo, screamo. Only 1,336 plays on last.fm and I'm a big chunk of that... surely deserves more.

@sleazeborg

Jan 17, 2025