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Media General Music Discussion Thread
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Anyone else here listen to black midi/Geordie Greep? Finally got into them recently and this song specifically has been my go to so far
why have the masses not discovered j-core yet
i especially love the oldskool stuff with the completely unabashed sampling
i especially love the oldskool stuff with the completely unabashed sampling
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came here to say something like this. seeing masayoshi takanaka live in a few months :)
also coming here for any jazz recommendations, i listen to a lot of jazz but ive been listening to a jazz album a day for all of 2026 and i'm not sure i'm gonna be able to discover new stuff that fast
you're probably already familiar because they're pretty popular but in case you or anyone reading isn't please please please listen to Snarky Puppy's "We Like It Here" album
we like it here is so unbelievably fire i went through a phase of listening to lingus daily for like a month last year. curious what did you or anyone else familiar with them think of somni? (latest album)
A Portal To Here by Work Money Death comes out feb 13, something i’ve been keeping an eye on, u can check that soon too
Over the last year or so I started listening to some Japanese bands. Here's my tier list of my experience.
S-Tier
SCANDAL: Single-handedly revived my interest in rock music. Not a single bad album. They basically rocketed to international popularity and it's easy to see why.
BAND-MAID: Everything said about SCANDAL applies here too, just replace "rock" with "hard rock".
A-Tier
T-Square: Love these guys, but the problem with jazz fusion (and jazz, for that matter) is that it can be so improvisational that it gets lost in the sauce. Their choice of lead instrument is refreshingly unique and sounds amazing. I'll put them on at work all the time. I suspect that YouTube Music is missing at least half of their stuff.
Yapoos / Jun Togawa: Jun Togawa kicks the shit out of any other "avent garde" artist globally. Just incredible. Like any avant garde artist, kind of difficult for me to describe. Give her work a listen.
B-Tier
Silent Siren: They're catchy and all, but I'm not as much a fan of this kind of pop music. I'm not too dialed in to the Japanese cultural zeitgeist but I get the impression that they and SCANDAL formed something of an influential pair among young girls and really boosted the popularity of all-female bands in the country. Which, hell yeah! It's stupid that bands were by default male outside of idols and idol-adjacent things like multimedia projects.
Casiopea: To me they are T-Square but less interesting. Still technically good. Still sounds good. Just not as interesting to me.
C-Tier
Otoboke Beaver: There's nothing wrong with them, they're fine. I just don't really like this style of punk music.
BABYMETAL: Sorry, but I have a strict two-singer limit when it comes to metal bands. I don't really like the whole idol thing either. I respect what they're doing, but it isn't for me. I'd like it a lot more if it felt like a full band with full band emphasis, rather than three singers and some backing guys you never see or hear from.
D-Tier
Any of those multimedia project bands (except for one-offs like when the K-On voice actors did a single tour in-character that wasn't really planned for at the beginning). They are basically just capitalistic cash grabs and not honest artistic projects. So basically any of those idol band anime things. Drops to E-Tier if a gacha game is involved, disgusting.
S-Tier
SCANDAL: Single-handedly revived my interest in rock music. Not a single bad album. They basically rocketed to international popularity and it's easy to see why.
BAND-MAID: Everything said about SCANDAL applies here too, just replace "rock" with "hard rock".
A-Tier
T-Square: Love these guys, but the problem with jazz fusion (and jazz, for that matter) is that it can be so improvisational that it gets lost in the sauce. Their choice of lead instrument is refreshingly unique and sounds amazing. I'll put them on at work all the time. I suspect that YouTube Music is missing at least half of their stuff.
Yapoos / Jun Togawa: Jun Togawa kicks the shit out of any other "avent garde" artist globally. Just incredible. Like any avant garde artist, kind of difficult for me to describe. Give her work a listen.
B-Tier
Silent Siren: They're catchy and all, but I'm not as much a fan of this kind of pop music. I'm not too dialed in to the Japanese cultural zeitgeist but I get the impression that they and SCANDAL formed something of an influential pair among young girls and really boosted the popularity of all-female bands in the country. Which, hell yeah! It's stupid that bands were by default male outside of idols and idol-adjacent things like multimedia projects.
Casiopea: To me they are T-Square but less interesting. Still technically good. Still sounds good. Just not as interesting to me.
C-Tier
Otoboke Beaver: There's nothing wrong with them, they're fine. I just don't really like this style of punk music.
BABYMETAL: Sorry, but I have a strict two-singer limit when it comes to metal bands. I don't really like the whole idol thing either. I respect what they're doing, but it isn't for me. I'd like it a lot more if it felt like a full band with full band emphasis, rather than three singers and some backing guys you never see or hear from.
D-Tier
Any of those multimedia project bands (except for one-offs like when the K-On voice actors did a single tour in-character that wasn't really planned for at the beginning). They are basically just capitalistic cash grabs and not honest artistic projects. So basically any of those idol band anime things. Drops to E-Tier if a gacha game is involved, disgusting.
my current topster because i want to post in this thread but idk what to post so yeah
why is hyperpop so flippin good... ts tickles every bit of dopamine it's insane. i cant wait to go see more concerts like the one with femtanyl/underscores/danny brown
i stopped looking for new music around 2023 (that's when the unc-hood crept up on me), but here are some almost-recent rippers
ASCENDENT VIERGE - INFLUENCEUR
a cute girl linked up with the guy from casual gabberz, need it or keep it? i really appreciate her voice, and the wry frenchness of this track makes me feel sophisticated even when i'm dancing
SUNSET RUBDOWN - I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING YOU'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
spencer kreug of wolf parade decides to cover his own song from 15 years ago and also decides to make the synth a lot more confrontational and grating, i am not sure if it's better but the ending is unquestionably more compelling than the original's
LIL UGLY MANE - RICOCHET
lil ugly man pivots from nerd-rap to sludge-folk and i am very enthusiastic about it
'the cat was dying, so it crawled under the house
let me be, let me be where i belong'
DJ SABRINA THE TEENAGE DJ - DOWN WITH LOVE
i have no idea who this person is nor why they are responsible for something so emotional
CLUB EAT - CRAZY GIRL
weak hook but still anthemic as they come, the verses make me regret being a guy
IZE - THIS IS NOT A DRILL
i was obsessed with this when it dropped, i had been listening to ize (erstwhile izy) and acemo for years and loved the frenetic cruelty of their rippers
DJ SPEEDSICK - TALKING TO GHOSTS
grim and greyscale, this whole album is a complete nightmare. the track is pure invective as music, if you can even call it that
SALEM - STAY DOWN
the group that defined the 2010s for me were reanimated by the collective fear wrought by the pandemic and chose to define my 2020s thus far as well. i used to listen to this mixtape while walking through the forests nearby my group home in a nameless village, to say it got me through some tough times would be an understatement. it's got 80s russian synthpop courtesy of alyans, it's got murderous dancehall from tommy lee sparta, it's even got funny-bad rapping segments to take your mind off of things
edit: oh i do not know how to make things thumbnails OOPS
ASCENDENT VIERGE - INFLUENCEUR
a cute girl linked up with the guy from casual gabberz, need it or keep it? i really appreciate her voice, and the wry frenchness of this track makes me feel sophisticated even when i'm dancing
SUNSET RUBDOWN - I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING YOU'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
spencer kreug of wolf parade decides to cover his own song from 15 years ago and also decides to make the synth a lot more confrontational and grating, i am not sure if it's better but the ending is unquestionably more compelling than the original's
LIL UGLY MANE - RICOCHET
lil ugly man pivots from nerd-rap to sludge-folk and i am very enthusiastic about it
'the cat was dying, so it crawled under the house
let me be, let me be where i belong'
DJ SABRINA THE TEENAGE DJ - DOWN WITH LOVE
i have no idea who this person is nor why they are responsible for something so emotional
CLUB EAT - CRAZY GIRL
weak hook but still anthemic as they come, the verses make me regret being a guy
IZE - THIS IS NOT A DRILL
i was obsessed with this when it dropped, i had been listening to ize (erstwhile izy) and acemo for years and loved the frenetic cruelty of their rippers
DJ SPEEDSICK - TALKING TO GHOSTS
grim and greyscale, this whole album is a complete nightmare. the track is pure invective as music, if you can even call it that
SALEM - STAY DOWN
the group that defined the 2010s for me were reanimated by the collective fear wrought by the pandemic and chose to define my 2020s thus far as well. i used to listen to this mixtape while walking through the forests nearby my group home in a nameless village, to say it got me through some tough times would be an understatement. it's got 80s russian synthpop courtesy of alyans, it's got murderous dancehall from tommy lee sparta, it's even got funny-bad rapping segments to take your mind off of things
edit: oh i do not know how to make things thumbnails OOPS
Super underrated hyperflip producer...