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FFO: Who knows
This probably isn't the best first recommendation I could make, but this app is about sharing your love of all things, so I'm going to. La Dispute often sounds more like a poetry project than a hardcore act. Their style is mostly, if not entirely spoken word vocals, lending itself well to intense emotional range, and highly intricate and vivid lyrical content. That said, they're very much not for everybody. While the music itself very much is, the vocals themselves are far from melodic, which might turn most people off. I get that, I really do. I just hope you'll give it a try, just to say that you did. Who knows, maybe you'll love them.
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Wow this is a great reminder! Listened to them a lot 10 years ago but they fell off my radar after Rooms of the House and Iโm very excited to dive in here.
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It can be hard to give a recommendation when it comes from such a special place (as it does in this instance) because I run the risk of the recommendation losing the meaning I applied to it (once, a friend described a similar process as "don't worry, the lamp you made is now a chair, this is ok, this is supposed to happen"). But I'm trying to open my heart up to vulnerability and get back in touch with the thrill of letting the world react to me
so, Battle Trance: 4 saxophonists, led by the inimitable Travis Laplante, explore the outer limits of both A) the relationship between musician and instrument as well as B) endurance, performance and composition. Three albums released over 8 years, that weave visceral and soulful and grating and stunning moments together.
I experienced a live performance of their second album Blade of Love, not knowing what I was in for. Sitting in the front row in the Red Barn at Hampshire College, the physical impact of the music and the performers' exertion was a physically exhausting and life-giving experience. I think it's cool to sit through the albums sequentially, each of which I try to love equally but definitely find myself enjoying Green of Winter and Blade of Love over Palace of Wind.
I know this is a little over the top of a recommendation, but just feel compelled to go overboard and hype up this quartet
Apr 28, 2024
Linked my favorite song from their recent EP. Found this artist through tiktok a few months ago and had been really looking forward to this EP. They bring this labored, midwestern emo thing to their sound that feels really comforting to me. Plus, i love a vocal flip, especially one that sounds like sad yodeling. I just think theyโre really cool :-)
Jul 26, 2024
this album is genuinely fantastic!
i would describe it as a screamy alternative rock album, definitely with influences from hardcore, emo, and indie rock. that being said, i think that it is still suuuuper palatable for people who don't tend to listen to music that's as hard as what i listen to ๐
i went to the album release show back in march on the night of its release and the show was MAGICAL! i also saw Zeta open for them and they are also actually so goated. genuinely one of the best shows i've been to in a very long time :P
ps- the rest of their discography is also insane plsss give them a listen
Nov 24, 2024
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I am quite fond of these wacky little pictographs. I feel their uses are vast and incredibly versatile.
1d ago
I had the opportunity to visit Buffalo's AKG Gallery about two weeks ago. The plan was to see the entire museum, but my time there was overwhelmingly consumed by Steina's Playback collection of video artworks- see photos attached. Keep in mind that all of what you see was created in or around the 1970s. While these sorts of images might be common and easily creatable now, Steina's works were perhaps the first of their kind- she's a true trailblazer.
I think there's something deeply disturbing about what Steina has created, especially in seeing such works in person. I do not think the goal was to create something so viscerally terrifying, but I also do not think Steina and her collaborators weren't making something they knew to be upsetting. If that makes any sense at all. My interpretation of Steina's body of work is that she is attempting to show us, the viewers, something that would otherwise be literally impossible to see outside of a digital medium. In sitting down to watch one of her works, you will constantly be trying to apply sense, and make shapes where there are none. It's pattern recognition pushed to its limits. It's the irrationality of it all that, I think, inspired such a powerful reaction in me on seeing it. Humans weren't 'supposed to' see this. We weren't brought into this world to comprehend it, and yet, we live in an age where we're asked to, and I believe that's Steina's message in showing us her work. If you're able, I'd recommend viewing some of Steina's work online. Or, if you're in the Buffalo area, visit AKG. There's even more to enjoy there behind the topic of this recommendation.
1d ago
FFO: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Kayo Dot plays with a style of music I've hardly ever seen anywhere else. It's ambient and serene a lot of the time, but it occasionally dips into jazz-fusion, prog metal or prog rock. Lyrics range anywhere from growls to spoken word poetry, and everything in between. Hell, I think the last track, in its magnificent 15 minute length, covers all of the above. Speaking of which, all songs but one are upwards of 10 minutes in length- there are only four of them, mind you, but my point stands. If you don't have that sort of attention span, Choirs of the Eye may not be for you. I'd try it out anyway, personally- my favorite track is Wayfarer. Try that out for a taste, if what ive described here interests you.
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