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recommend me some new NEW music

Wild Beasts are quite interesting. Still not quite worked them out yet (which I think is a good thing).
 
dodgepot said:
who?
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Some twat with a really breathy voice who smacked himself in the face with a microphone once. And a sub-par backing band.

I quite like The Books (they make me feel like I'm edgy and artistic) although I suppose their last album is 3 years old. Same with Sigur Ros.

I'm sure there's loads of stuff out there, just can't think of any of the top of my head... :confused:
 
what's the point of listening to music just because it's new? the main thing is to listen to *good* music, imo.
 
the latest aids wolf album 'cities of glass' is superb... also death sentence: panda!'s 'insects awaken' if you dig that whole noise-rock thing.

king khan and the shrines? i know you dig garage rock, so they'd probably be up your street...
 
actually i've just invented a conceptual band called 'forcing a sale on a property' - we (i) haven't released anything yet*, because it's just me with a can of strongbow sat in front of the keyboard at the moment, smelling slightly... and i've just quietly belched, right now, sat here in front of the keyboard with a can of strongbow, smelling slightly... and a train just went past outside. :cool:


* - apart from a vague eructation of sulphuric gas from my bottom
 
MysteryGuest said:
what's the point of listening to music just because it's new? the main thing is to listen to *good* music, imo.
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Yes, but if you only stick to what you know, you will never discover anything else that is 'good' music. You could miss out on some stuff that will really flip your wig.
 
Hope Sandoval
A Place To Bury Strangers
Florence and The Machine
The Temper Trap
Yo La Tengo
Hownling Bells
Engineers
SPC ECO
Röyksopp
Jarvis
Super Furry Animals
 
Death Cab for Cutie are pretty good; Narrow Stairs is their most recent album (2008).

Listening to it now actually (haven't heard it yet), seems ok (listening on youtube, guess it's on spotify too).
 
Clint Iguana said:
Yes, but if you only stick to what you know, you will never discover anything else that is 'good' music. You could miss out on some stuff that will really flip your wig.
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what makes you think i only stick to what i know? :confused: all I've done for the whole of my life since I was about 14, ie about 30 years ago, is check out new music. but there's such a vast quantity of brilliant "old" music out there you could spend the rest of your life tracking it all down/discovering it, and when you discover something in there that makes you go "wow", it will subjectively be new music to you. this idea that there's some kind of "new" music invented in the last few months that will somehow bring something novel to your musical world that you've never heard before, is a chimera. i don't think it used to be like that - when punk, new wave or acid house came along, then there were major musical paradigm shifts, but those were a long old time ago. and it doesn't matter. pretty much all the "new" stuff i've heard for about half a dozen years now has turned out to be people trying to put a new spin on styles that were new about 20/30 years ago, and it just doesn't have the intensity of spark of the stuff they're basing it on, because the stuff they're basing it on really was new when it was discovered.

there was a thread on here a while back along the lines of "what really great new bands have you discovered recently", and I dutifully checked out various myspace pages as suggested on that thread, and all of them were ok and not bad at all, but in my musical world already done before. for me, it's been many years since something really original came along. it reminds me of the current situation in physics :cool: - where's the next big idea then?

so, to summarise, i personally just don't know about this "new" thing... :hmm:
 
MysteryGuest said:
there was a thread on here a while back along the lines of "what really great new bands have you discovered recently", and I dutifully checked out various myspace pages as suggested on that thread, and all of them were ok and not bad at all, but in my musical world already done before. for me, it's been many years since something really original came along. it reminds me of the current situation in physics :cool: - where's the next big idea then?

so, to summarise, i personally just don't know about this "new" thing... :hmm:
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Oh, I guess you missed THE FUCKING HUGE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF CREATION then... Ok, it broke, but that's the leading edge for you.

There is a lot of original new music out there, to be fair most of the stuff I like is from bands who've been going 10 years or so, but that's just because I'm a bit behind the times.
 
Cid said:
but that's just because I'm a bit behind the times.
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Well, maybe, but maybe you're not... I dunno... I'm a bit pissed tbh and my post up there ^ strikes me now as just a convoluted way of saying that despite really looking out for brilliant new music all the time, I haven't heard anything really new for years, and tbh I don't mind coz there's a bucketload of fantastic stuff I haven't checked out yet from the past. :cool:
 
MysteryGuest said:
Well, maybe, but maybe you're not... I dunno... I'm a bit pissed tbh and my post up there ^ strikes me now as just a convoluted way of saying that despite really looking out for brilliant new music all the time, I haven't heard anything really new for years, and tbh I don't mind coz there's a bucketload of fantastic stuff I haven't checked out yet from the past. :cool:
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Well, I mentioned The Books, they're certainly a pretty new sound (obviously building on psychedelia, rock and various other things, but that's what music always does). Might not like them of course, but they do show that music is by no means stagnant. There are loads of others I've been recommended and have actually listened to, but my brain is in blank mode. I enjoyed lost and safe (album).

e2a: which reminds me, they do the whole album thing properly, rather than just a selection of tracks.

Sigure Ros were also clearly pretty original.
 
right, i've had a quick run through the mimaroglu mailout, and i've decided, having listened to the audio extracts of the chris weisman 'tape walk' compact disc, the chris weisman/greg davis 'northern songs' cd, and the emeralds 'fresh air' limited 7", that the OP should get those. Orang Utan should get that gunner møller pedersren 6 LP box set. night, night!
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Frontier Ruckus are astonishingly good. Imagine Neutral Milk Hotel with more bluegrass and less anguish but similar vocals and brass. A truly gorgeous record
 
MysteryGuest said:
what makes you think i only stick to what i know? :confused: all I've done for the whole of my life since I was about 14, ie about 30 years ago, is check out new music. but there's such a vast quantity of brilliant "old" music out there you could spend the rest of your life tracking it all down/discovering it, and when you discover something in there that makes you go "wow", it will subjectively be new music to you. this idea that there's some kind of "new" music invented in the last few months that will somehow bring something novel to your musical world that you've never heard before, is a chimera. i don't think it used to be like that - when punk, new wave or acid house came along, then there were major musical paradigm shifts, but those were a long old time ago. and it doesn't matter. pretty much all the "new" stuff i've heard for about half a dozen years now has turned out to be people trying to put a new spin on styles that were new about 20/30 years ago, and it just doesn't have the intensity of spark of the stuff they're basing it on, because the stuff they're basing it on really was new when it was discovered.

there was a thread on here a while back along the lines of "what really great new bands have you discovered recently", and I dutifully checked out various myspace pages as suggested on that thread, and all of them were ok and not bad at all, but in my musical world already done before. for me, it's been many years since something really original came along. it reminds me of the current situation in physics :cool: - where's the next big idea then?

so, to summarise, i personally just don't know about this "new" thing... :hmm:
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I am constantly discovering bands from the sixties and seventies that i had never heard of who blow me away. But i have also been grabbed by new music in recent years (does not happen as much now as it used to, but it happens).

I agree, there has not been anything radical like the punk/acid house thing for eons... which means we are well overdue some sort of explosion ... but if you ignore 'new music' you might just miss it when it comes.
 
been listening to Alasdair Roberts latest album 'Spoils' a lot. It's kind of a bit Incredible String Band-y. Some of the best lyrics I've ever heard in any field of music. They're kind of like Leonard Cohen's words sort of transposed into a UK folk context. They are literally unbelievable.

Micachu's 'Jewellery' album is ace, if you like Tricky or the Slits.

I guess last contemporary album I really liked before that was by The Bug.
 
The Big Pink - Velvet



This London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals to create a soundscape that is arty yet tuneful. They are currently supporting experimental rock heroes TV On the Radio.

Milo Cordell is son of 1960s pop producer Denny and runs the Merok label, which has released cutting-edge dance acts Klaxons and Crystal Castles. Robbie Furze is a former guitarist with electro-punk singer Alec Empire.
 
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