I need new music, pt ii
June 25, 2015 3:27 AM Subscribe
Can you pretty please recommend me some music you think that I would like based on the stuff I've linked below the fold that I'm really into at the moment?
You can assume that I'm not familiar with any more of the artist's back catalogue than the albums which include the songs I'm linking. (Apart from The Go! Team and The Radio Dept.)
Yo La Tengo – Our Way to Fall and Is That Enough
My Bloody Valentine – Off Your Face
The Go-Betweens – Streets of Your Town
The Go! Team – Waking the Jetstream, Catch Me On the Rebound, Buy Nothing Day and Secretary Song
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Radio Dept. – Heaven's On Fire and David
Ariel Pink / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Put Your Number In My Phone and Round and Round
The Sweethearts – Burnin' Through the Nite
Belle and Sebastian – Nobody's Empire, Funny Little Frog and If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing and Let's Get Out of This Country
The common threads running through most (not all) of these are that they do interesting things production-wise, they have pretty dense instrumentation, there aren't tonnes of synths, and they're upbeat sounding (even if the lyrics are a bit downcast). If a song satisfies most of those criteria, I'll probably like it!
You can assume that I'm not familiar with any more of the artist's back catalogue than the albums which include the songs I'm linking. (Apart from The Go! Team and The Radio Dept.)
Yo La Tengo – Our Way to Fall and Is That Enough
My Bloody Valentine – Off Your Face
The Go-Betweens – Streets of Your Town
The Go! Team – Waking the Jetstream, Catch Me On the Rebound, Buy Nothing Day and Secretary Song
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Radio Dept. – Heaven's On Fire and David
Ariel Pink / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Put Your Number In My Phone and Round and Round
The Sweethearts – Burnin' Through the Nite
Belle and Sebastian – Nobody's Empire, Funny Little Frog and If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing and Let's Get Out of This Country
The common threads running through most (not all) of these are that they do interesting things production-wise, they have pretty dense instrumentation, there aren't tonnes of synths, and they're upbeat sounding (even if the lyrics are a bit downcast). If a song satisfies most of those criteria, I'll probably like it!
I would type your bands into last.fm, and click "similar artists".
Also check out Brad Sucks.
posted by JLovebomb at 3:40 AM on June 25, 2015
Also check out Brad Sucks.
posted by JLovebomb at 3:40 AM on June 25, 2015
If you're not familiar with My Bloody Valentine's second album, it's generally considered a masterpiece.
On the shoegaze (and 4AD) front, you might also like some stuff by Lush.
posted by teponaztli at 3:58 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
On the shoegaze (and 4AD) front, you might also like some stuff by Lush.
posted by teponaztli at 3:58 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Try this out: A Tout L'Heure by Bibio - interesting production, and it's impossible not to feel cheery and jig along whilst listening to it!
posted by greenish at 4:11 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by greenish at 4:11 AM on June 25, 2015
Response by poster: Heck yes, À tout à l'heure is definitely something I should've put on my list.
posted by Quilford at 4:13 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by Quilford at 4:13 AM on June 25, 2015
Speaking of 4AD, I think you'd like Mojave 3 (especially the early albums "Ask Me Tomorrow" and "Out of Tune"). The bands Beirut and Slowdive might also appeal.
posted by katie at 4:14 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by katie at 4:14 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
It may be worth looking for playlists referencing John Peel, as a lot of the music in your list was the kind of thing he was playing on his BBC radio show back in the 90s.
posted by crocomancer at 4:18 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by crocomancer at 4:18 AM on June 25, 2015
Well, you clearly like Belle & Sebastian. Most of their oeuvre is probably going to be up your street. I'd especially listen to their first few albums: Tigermilk, If You're Feeling Sinister, and The Boy with the Arab Strap, alongside their EPs Dog on Wheels, Lazy Line Painter Jane, 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light and This Is Just a Modern Rock Song.
Sounds like you might also like some shoegaze stuff - My Bloody Valentine's sublime Loveless is an essential album, if a little heavier and denser than what you've linked to. I'd also check out Slowdive - Souvlaki.
There's a lot of 80s stuff that would be up your street. Lots of stuff by The Smiths would slot in quite comfortably. Look into some of the artists from the seminal C81 and C86 compilations too, I think some of the janglier things would be up your street.
I think you might like a lot of the stuff on the (absolutely amazing) 1981 compilations albums put together by the Musicophilia blog. They chronicle a particularly fruitful year in music where you've got this delicious crossover between post-punk, pop and electronic music.
Other albums to listen to:
posted by Magnakai at 4:23 AM on June 25, 2015 [4 favorites]
Sounds like you might also like some shoegaze stuff - My Bloody Valentine's sublime Loveless is an essential album, if a little heavier and denser than what you've linked to. I'd also check out Slowdive - Souvlaki.
There's a lot of 80s stuff that would be up your street. Lots of stuff by The Smiths would slot in quite comfortably. Look into some of the artists from the seminal C81 and C86 compilations too, I think some of the janglier things would be up your street.
I think you might like a lot of the stuff on the (absolutely amazing) 1981 compilations albums put together by the Musicophilia blog. They chronicle a particularly fruitful year in music where you've got this delicious crossover between post-punk, pop and electronic music.
Other albums to listen to:
- Pulp - His & Hers
- The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
- Mount Eerie - Seven New Songs
- The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
- Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
- Nico - Chelsea Girl
- Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- Atlas Sound - Parallax
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
posted by Magnakai at 4:23 AM on June 25, 2015 [4 favorites]
Streets of Your Town is such a great song!
Lucius - Go Home and Don't Just Sit There
Robyn Hitchcock - his entire catalog is huge and diverse, but I would start with the album Jewels for Sophia. Here's Nasa Clapping
All Apples in Stereo. Just all of them, everything. But here's Same Old Drag
Jens Lekman - Postcard to Nina
Jill Sobule - Rainy Day Parade
Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
I will definitely think of more, but these are some off the top of my head...
posted by prewar lemonade at 4:35 AM on June 25, 2015
Lucius - Go Home and Don't Just Sit There
Robyn Hitchcock - his entire catalog is huge and diverse, but I would start with the album Jewels for Sophia. Here's Nasa Clapping
All Apples in Stereo. Just all of them, everything. But here's Same Old Drag
Jens Lekman - Postcard to Nina
Jill Sobule - Rainy Day Parade
Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
I will definitely think of more, but these are some off the top of my head...
posted by prewar lemonade at 4:35 AM on June 25, 2015
I like a lot of what you mentioned. I'd suggest giving Catherine Wheel a listen. The album "Adam and Eve" in particular.
posted by backwards guitar at 4:57 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by backwards guitar at 4:57 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
On the 4AD tip, check out Broken Records
(Caveat - I know the drummer :)
posted by Chairboy at 5:12 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
(Caveat - I know the drummer :)
posted by Chairboy at 5:12 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
I think you would love anything on Sweet Trip's You Will Never Know Why. One of my favorite albums that never got due attention.
posted by activitystory at 5:44 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by activitystory at 5:44 AM on June 25, 2015
Hmmm...that general sound reminds me a bit of Smashing Pumpkins (e.g., Today from Siamese Dreams or Tonight, Tonight from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness).
And if you want to go even more retro, another group with a similar feeling is Love and Rockets. One example is All in your mind (from the excellent album Kundalini Express).
posted by Halo in reverse at 5:53 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
And if you want to go even more retro, another group with a similar feeling is Love and Rockets. One example is All in your mind (from the excellent album Kundalini Express).
posted by Halo in reverse at 5:53 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Jinx!
posted by Halo in reverse at 5:54 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Halo in reverse at 5:54 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Expanding out a bit, try Tullycraft (bouncy, bratty, lowfi) and The Beautiful South (pop with anti-pop lyrics).
posted by Leon at 6:21 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by Leon at 6:21 AM on June 25, 2015
A few things that immediately came to mind based on your list...
Low, Try to Sleep
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Even in Dreams
Cocteau Twins, Fotzepolitic
Washed Out, All I Know
posted by aparrish at 6:44 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Low, Try to Sleep
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Even in Dreams
Cocteau Twins, Fotzepolitic
Washed Out, All I Know
posted by aparrish at 6:44 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Some of these coming off a bit too driving / strident.
posted by Quilford at 7:02 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by Quilford at 7:02 AM on June 25, 2015
Less strident, towards the folky, especially British folk:
North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison
H. Hawkline and Cate Le Bon
The Wharves
A new band that's got more of the C86/jangle: Desperate Journalist
posted by bendybendy at 7:12 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison
H. Hawkline and Cate Le Bon
The Wharves
A new band that's got more of the C86/jangle: Desperate Journalist
posted by bendybendy at 7:12 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
A couple that come to mind:
Los Campesinos!
The Raveonettes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
posted by Gilbert at 7:21 AM on June 25, 2015
Los Campesinos!
The Raveonettes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
posted by Gilbert at 7:21 AM on June 25, 2015
If there's one more Yo La Tengo album you should check out, it would be I can hear the heart beating as one
posted by cotterpin at 7:26 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by cotterpin at 7:26 AM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
How about something by M.Ward, such as Vincent O'Brien.
posted by GeneticFreek at 11:16 AM on June 25, 2015
posted by GeneticFreek at 11:16 AM on June 25, 2015
Pale Saints - Kinky Love
Bowery Electric - Empty Words
Pixies - Havalina
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
posted by thebots at 11:38 AM on June 25, 2015
Bowery Electric - Empty Words
Pixies - Havalina
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
posted by thebots at 11:38 AM on June 25, 2015
Fleet Foxes have gorgeous production and instrumentation. Seconding Belle and Sebastian's early stuff. Maybe also Nick Drake, who was a big influence on them. Sufjan Stevens.
posted by lunasol at 5:38 PM on June 25, 2015
posted by lunasol at 5:38 PM on June 25, 2015
Oh also:
Early Rilo Kiley (1, 2)
Belly - Star (whole album)
The National, though may be too "driving" for your taste
posted by lunasol at 5:45 PM on June 25, 2015
Early Rilo Kiley (1, 2)
Belly - Star (whole album)
The National, though may be too "driving" for your taste
posted by lunasol at 5:45 PM on June 25, 2015
Best answer: I like pretty much all the music that's been recommended here (as well as the bands you linked), so this is my recommendation from a band that is semi-local to me: sleepwalkers. The rest of the album is pretty good too, but this is the song that drew me into downloading it.
posted by pandalicious at 11:42 PM on June 25, 2015
posted by pandalicious at 11:42 PM on June 25, 2015
I'm going to interpret the "new" in your title as literally as I can, and recommend stuff along the lines of the songs you linked released in 2014 and 2015. Hope some of these fit the bill:
Hooton Tennis Club, Jasper.
Flyying Colours, Not Today, Like You Said.
The History of Apple Pie, Jamais Vu.
Desperate Journalist, Cristina, Happening.
Telegram, Follow.
The Proper Ornaments, Magazine.
Ultimate Painting, Ultimate Painting.
Cheatahs, Mission Creep.
Happyness, Anything I Do Is Alright, Montreal Rock Band Somewhere.
posted by Sonny Jim at 9:49 AM on June 26, 2015
Hooton Tennis Club, Jasper.
Flyying Colours, Not Today, Like You Said.
The History of Apple Pie, Jamais Vu.
Desperate Journalist, Cristina, Happening.
Telegram, Follow.
The Proper Ornaments, Magazine.
Ultimate Painting, Ultimate Painting.
Cheatahs, Mission Creep.
Happyness, Anything I Do Is Alright, Montreal Rock Band Somewhere.
posted by Sonny Jim at 9:49 AM on June 26, 2015
We sound like we have similar taste; I love Camera Obscura and Belle & Sebastian to bits.
Maybe you'd like some Allo Darlin' Capricornia or Camerawalls Gentle Persuasion. I also super love The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Kelly.
From Camera Obscura, their most recent album is awesome. Check out Troublemaker and Do It Again (though that second might be too "driving"). Honey in the Sun is maybe my favourite song of theirs (though it's hard to choose just one).
If you like Belle and Sebastian, you might enjoy the lead singer Stuart Murdoch's side project (or really, film with soundtrack, I guess), God Help the Girl. There's a cover of B&S's Act of the Apostle on the soundtrack, but I also like the titular song God Help the Girl and Come Monday Night.
posted by urbanlenny at 6:48 PM on June 26, 2015
Maybe you'd like some Allo Darlin' Capricornia or Camerawalls Gentle Persuasion. I also super love The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Kelly.
From Camera Obscura, their most recent album is awesome. Check out Troublemaker and Do It Again (though that second might be too "driving"). Honey in the Sun is maybe my favourite song of theirs (though it's hard to choose just one).
If you like Belle and Sebastian, you might enjoy the lead singer Stuart Murdoch's side project (or really, film with soundtrack, I guess), God Help the Girl. There's a cover of B&S's Act of the Apostle on the soundtrack, but I also like the titular song God Help the Girl and Come Monday Night.
posted by urbanlenny at 6:48 PM on June 26, 2015
I'll third the recommendation of MBV's Loveless. Another good shoegaze band is Autolux
I think Magnakai's other suggestions are good, too, especially The Microphones and Animal Collective. My favorite Animal-Collective-related album is Person Pitch
posted by Fishkins at 6:12 PM on June 28, 2015
I think Magnakai's other suggestions are good, too, especially The Microphones and Animal Collective. My favorite Animal-Collective-related album is Person Pitch
posted by Fishkins at 6:12 PM on June 28, 2015
Back again. There's a good chance you'll like Imperial Teen. That drumming. So louche.
posted by Leon at 3:46 PM on June 30, 2015
posted by Leon at 3:46 PM on June 30, 2015
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posted by Leon at 3:30 AM on June 25, 2015 [4 favorites]