Epic, lush, melancholy - recommendations please

[upsidedownwalrus]

I particularly like track 4.

It's definitely the sort of thing you're after, as it sounds a zillion times better on headphones than on speakers, so it's perfect for lying back on the sofa and attempting to forget where you are...

 

[May Kasahara]

What about Bark Psychosis - hex.

Or Codename: Dustsucker, which is also fantastic.

In fact, Groke, I'm going to take this opportunity to pimp Mice Parade to you even though they're not perhaps quite what you were looking for. They're still fucking great and everyone should have a listen. Get yourself a copy of their self-titled album and see what I mean.

 

[The Groke]

Well I like Wolf Parade and Modest Mouse...so logic dictates I must therefore like Mice Parade.



Seeking them out now.

 

[ohmyliver]

I like Loveless, but didn't get Isn't Anything at all.

it's the more angry masculine side of 'em... rocky and libidinal, rather than being all fey and spacey... I just like the way that the voices work with the noise, oh and the fact that it harmonises with hoovers.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Or Codename: Dustsucker, which is also fantastic.

Yes, and there's also a much more obscure odds and sods compilation which has a couple of astonishingly beautiful songs on.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Oh, Grokey:

Labradford
Black Heart Procession
Whisper in the Noise

 

[Funky_monks]

On a folksy vibe, try:

June Tabor - 'Anthology'
Kate Rusby - 'Little Lights'
Karine Polwart - 'Fairest Floo'er'
Elliott Smith - 'From a Basement on the Hill'
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'How I Long to Feel That Summer in my Heart'


On a non-folksy vibe try Schuberts 'Nocturnes'

 

[quimcunx]

Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo.

 

[braindancer]

Flotter by Machinefabriek is one of my favourite lie on a sofa and let it wash over me pieces of music.

I got hold of this over the weekend - fuck me it's good....

Straight into the top half of my ambient hit parade - nice one

 

[chico enrico]

the wonderful Tindersticks

also the absolutely stunning dvid Sylvian LP "Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow" (check out 'the librarian' on youtube)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Tindersticks - that's a band I always meant to get into and never got round to.

 

[chico enrico]

Tindersticks - that's a band I always meant to get into and never got round to.

i only discovered them a few years ago. up to then i always had it in my head they were some wet-arsed indie band for some reason.

they are AMAZING.

 

[Orang Utan]

i love that scene in the sopranos with tony losing it to the tindersticks

 

[chico enrico]

i love that scene in the sopranos with tony losing it to the tindersticks

I love that scene in the Sopranos with Adrianna Laserva playing tennis

 

[May Kasahara]

Groke, here's a tip for you: download this free album made by a 19 year old http://www.archive.org/details/Chuter-LeavingHere It's fucking great, I think you will like it

(And no, I don't know him, I just think his music is ace.)

 

[El Jefe]

i only discovered them a few years ago. up to then i always had it in my head they were some wet-arsed indie band for some reason.

they are AMAZING.

can't get past Staples' 'pub singer' voice.

 

[Sunspots]

can't get past Staples' 'pub singer' voice.

Me neither.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The other band I've always wanted to get into but didn't was Gallon Drunk. They always struck me as being the English Jesus Lizard.

Now all their albums are on Spotify so I must discover them belatedly.

 

[El Jefe]

The other band I've always wanted to get into but didn't was Gallon Drunk. They always struck me as being the English Jesus Lizard.

Now all their albums are on Spotify so I must discover them belatedly.

an amazing band, did some work for them for a while. Not sure the JL comparison is that close, more a Birthday Party / Bad Seeds / James Chance sorta thing

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Hey Jefe did you ever listen to that Whisper In the Noise thing I uploaded a while back? I thought you might like it as I thought it was a bit like Low, but then again, I never can really tell. Go on, you are entitled to say it was shit

 

[May Kasahara]

Hey walrus, you definitely want to dl that Chuter album I linked to back there. Jesu-style epicness.

 

[matt m]

I recommend "Summer Make Good" by Múm

A bit Ennio Moriccone, a bit Portishead, a bit Bjork, even a bit Miles Davis in places. That makes it sound like tasteful, record-collector-bloke, side-project music, or yet another one of those professed "soundtrack to an imaginary film" things, and it is a bit like that, only very very very well executed. Definitely epic, definitely lush, definitely melancholy.

 

[hermitical]

try and track down some Half Makeshift

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Hey walrus, you definitely want to dl that Chuter album I linked to back there. Jesu-style epicness.

OK cool. Oi! Did you ever listen to Battle Of Mice?

Now that was fucking awesome. Heavy AND deep.

TBH I find Jesu and Isis and stuff, well they're OK, but they just think about atmosphere and in the end it goes on a bit. I mean their combination of heavy and deep is novel, but ultimately it gets repetive and just depends on that trick.

But Battle of Mice is one of the few things I might put up with the God Machine - it's atmospheric and heavy and also has so much structure and stuff going on.

That's a great great great album.

But I keep telling you to listen to it and you keep refusing even though it's only upstairs

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

an amazing band, did some work for them for a while. Not sure the JL comparison is that close, more a Birthday Party / Bad Seeds / James Chance sorta thing

Yeah - but then JL and BP were quite similar too.

TBH as a teenager I really hated Nick Cave's later stuff, and then after I heard BP and thought 'That's more like it!' cos it was like JL, but now Nick Cave's (own stuff) someone I really ought to properly get into as well.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

passenger of shit, natch.

 

[May Kasahara]

I do occasionally listen to BOM actually, and quite like it. Made Out Of Babies' latest album is better though.

 

[The Groke]

Ok - so of the CDs I ordered:

Really enjoying Bohren und der Club of Gore - thanks May. I really like the quietness - it's like they are all trying really hard not to wake the baby.

Really enjoying the Morten Valence album, though it doesn't quite fit in with this thread IMO - Thanks isitme & Jeffversion

Undecided on Thomas Feiner, but I think there is definitely something in there to like, so will keep it on rotation. Thanks...um...was it The Button? I forget - sorry.

Really liking Blonde Redhead - cheers Walrus.

Definitely liking the Arvo Part - ta killerb

Undecided on Fennesz so far - I like the idea, but is perhaps a little too formless in places for me. That said, I think it is worth persevering with, so I will do so.

 

[Bakunin]

Some Gheorghe Zamfir should be on your list, IMHO.

I recommend 'The Lonely Shepherd':

 

[miniGMgoit]

How about Stars of the Lid and thier many side projects including Dead Texan, Brian McBride, xiu xiu.
Actually come to think of it you need an album by Grouper called Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.
It ticks all the boxes.