Imago Listening Club

cool, will check these out

been playing the weyes blood album on repeat all morning. it is so so so so so good

You vote yet?

http://sturgillsimpson.bandcamp.com/track/it-aint-all-flowers

eh that's ok, got some surprisingly beautiful moments but probably not gonna disturb my ballot even if ilx is voting en masse ;)

esben and the witch song was nice

um

eyvind kang! oh god so much music though! been ploughing thru the list, so hard to know what to vote for now

one that got nowhere in the poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TW49X2G_Ss

you should listen to the jlin album, it is excellent

rad ok

yeah this is great

yep

imago, do you like Punishment of Luxury? they sometimes make me think of early Cardiacs covering John Foxx era Ultravox, or maybe vice versa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTQNmNJHuM

I meant to post that to the vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop thread, but what's done is ddone

hey this is cool

it doesn't quite have the cardiacs melodic sensibility & hence the sublimity, but it is p wired in a good way

progge-poppe-landfill interzone bubbler seems relevant to your interests

(I love this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGAwp5syXyE

Will get on that later

Is the Carly Rae Jepsen album something I might appreciate?

Do you like Carly Rae Jepsen?

ahem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmdci-fGLk

can scarcely believe i'm saying this but that FFS is almost TOO progge - the bit that kicks in after the intro and returns at the end is awesome but there's a but too much (arch and intentional) noodling for me. might well investigate further

this TFUL album is the fucken nuts :D

star trek -> tell me = XDDDDD

oh fuck, this has turned into the most intense fever dream

'tuning notes' is where it leaps off the cliff and becomes a classic album maybe

haven't listened to tful since college, happy to rediscover (& enjoying yr take)

I was thinking a little bit more today about those "difficult" pieces on MOAS. Although I appreciate the pared-down song-oriented tracklist someone posted in this (or the other) thread, the spacing of those tracks really helps with the sequencing and overall epic flow of the record.. I think that at the time there was some criticism of teh "practice room" pieces in the press but it was also kind of a statement of purpose by the band. At any rate, "Tuning Notes" has perversely become one of my fave tracks from that record as the years have gone by. It's just such a perfect window into their world, a distillation of the practice room experience.

― sleeve, Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:40 AM (4 years ago)

imago, has anyone made you listen to 'mud' off the GABI album entitled 'sympathy' yet and if not, why not?

i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis. the fact it's choral is making me plain envious if anything

this is cool, like if someone decided to make slowdive's 'pygmalion' into an opera

i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis

oof, maybe not the time for creeping queasiness then. good luck!

do you like this shit? I feel like maybe you'd like this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMj8Y56WmfU

yes that sounded quite promising thank you

weird art rock usually a fruitful line of enquiry

I don't wonder if you might dig Japan's Vampillia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4

apologies my man but that doesn't quite do it for me…a bit lol random w/o much in the way of memorable songwriting or sonic intrigue…but you are encouraged to keep chucking 'em down

Vampillia are frustrating because they can be brilliant but can also be sort of irritating. I like that they're kind of multifaceted but their mix of sincerity and wanton goofball tendencies don't really gel. I have to say that personally I think Ice Fist is a great track though.

They remind me a lot of another band from Japan, Mutyumu, who came a bit before. They're less polished but more refined if that makes sense.

One of their "pop" songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOGv14hLys&index=4&list=PL18F216634676A0D5

Epic post-rock blowout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoegQvn7Ak

They had/have some more black metal-tinged material as well. It might be worth pointing out that I despise opera but for some reason I like the voice in this context.

OK I fucked up that first video

Thanks UUG, never heard of those guys. A couple of friends and I have just started a little radio show playing non mainstream music from Japan, from the last few decades, it's been fun researching lot's of different crazy bands to play.

XXXP - wildo LJ, no worries :)

Homeboy Sandman

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvztXgGzYSHHac4VPLofaPc7cZmVLKYU

(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)

chris weisman - the sweetest flags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWiEJaRyNA

chris weisman - hand sign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxufwTBtGak

(but two...)

oops those weren't meant to embed

I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k

Yes indeed! Well, I might check out some of your solo votes. Everyone else, check out Re-TROS, a band only denied a place in this poll because they had the ghastly temerity to release more than one excellent song last year

xp

― imago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 22:58 (yesterday)

Just so I'm not cluttering up the singles ballots thread - not sure if any of my other singles votes are particularly LJ-aligned apart from "The Doctrines Of Swedenborg" & "Que Du Bon", but there's a few bits & pieces you might find interesting:

i.e. crazy - non compos mentis (hysterical industrial folk)

https://muzai.bandcamp.com/album/non-compos-mentis

Some vaguely recent Chinese stuff that I'd cluster w/Re-TROS:

Beijing's Chui Wan:

https://chui-wan.bandcamp.com/album/chui-wan

Chengdu's STOLEN:
https://site.douban.com/stolen/
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLuT0Pmg_qaL1-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJ
https://mimixingdong.bandcamp.com/

Shanghai's Mirrors:
https://separatemirrors.bandcamp.com/album/separate-reality

& if you squint a bunch you can vaguely compare this to Jute Gyte...

Shandong black metal band Zuriaake:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/lake-of-buried-corpses-chinese-metal-band-digs-out-ancient-9872674
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album

Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.

whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...

ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful

yeah that was really amazing. wish i'd discovered it before the albums poll deadline! ah well. really strong songwriting all the way through and a wickedly delirious atmosphere.

chui wan closing track 'beijing is sinking' was wonderful

mirrors seem fun, loved the 3rd track. they're one to watch. is there a thread for chinese psych?

diving into the zuriaake now...

It was very pleasant!

But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it

Funnily enough, I'd been half-thinking of recommending you Baby Zionov's Henrietta but I unexpectedly stumbled across you repping it on Twitter! There's a nice out-of-flux-y scene in Auckland at the moment with lots of side projects (including their dungeon synth project Gayblade).

There's new i.e. crazy singles trickling out, and you might like Grecco Romank - acid-friend bogan industrial:

https://greccoromank.bandcamp.com/album/red-tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEu__Cf-JM