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Time to turn it up for a Phil Spector "wall of sound" style experience and commensurate great female harmonies. Sound continues with lots of reverb through the "somesurprises" album.


Tune reminds me of this one from this band from Denmark, Ring Them Bells

 
french gentleman Timothée Régnier, I'm enjoying his whole work equally [3 albums] and what a voice!

Rover - Remember

Rover - HCYD

Rover - Let It Glow
 
Horse Lords is an experimental band of sax and rhythm section some friends played with. Very good drummer.

"The Baltimore-based experimental rock band Horse Lords use just intonation tuning, a system favored by avant-garde composers La Monte Young and James Tenney. To achieve this tuning, band member Owen Gardner modifies the band's guitars by repositioning the frets. The band says that learning to feel and hear the intervals is the most important part of playing in just intonation"

Really dig this band although I’m unable to get anything by them atm. They are sadly one of those newer hipster bands that like to release their music via LPs, tapes and digital downloads.
I thought I was old school buying cds, but when bands are starting to release tapes…I’m not so sure anymore.
Same reason I don’t own any of the newer King Gizzard & The Lizard releases. All vinyl and no cds makes Jack a dull boy. All vinyl and no cds makes Jack a dull boy. All vinyl and no cds makes Jack a dull boy. Repeat ad nauseum.
 
Mabe Fratti is a Guatemalan cellist/vocalist whose latest album Sentir Que No Sabes (Bandcamp link) has really caught my ear. Trying to describe what genre it is beyond me, but it's great singing and playing and very interesting music.

This live session from last year is also pretty good.
Saw her live last night - excellent!
 
Spotify suggested The Pack a.d. this morning after listening to a bunch of older Canadian bands, and had to check twice to make sure that Jack White hadn't started another band. (link) Highly compressed, heavily distorted, and don't care, I love it. :)
I be no reviewer but Jack White's new "No Name" album harks back to the garage/blues-rock and punk days.... but not exactly to his WhiteStripe days.
Jack White - That's How I'm Feeling (Official Video)
Jack White - No Name - Vinyl Rip - Full Album July 2024
...He wanted the world to hear and discover this record, and his label Third Man's social accounts encouraged fans to "rip it" and share.
We are talking 1970s guitar-riffs here, like the "Old Scratch Blues", with no gimmicks.
You go, Jack White!
 
If you really want to hear what autotune (v.2024) sounds like and want to see if you can detect it: Manual-tune to Charli XCX' new album "Brat"!
:(

Turned out to be (one of) the best (dance) pop album(s) of the year. I remember it starting with this:


*not only autotune, I hear some of those instruments are ... the horror ... electronic. o_O
 
I should add (because it may not be so obvious for people from different age groups) that certainly nostalgia is part of the appeal for me with that one. I recall saying to a friend "oh that so reminds me of EDM I grew up with, like the Bloody Beetroots" and they said "yes Warp !!". Not as epic as Charli's Charles de Gaulle baggage claim coda, but who doesn't enjoy a vid of models jumping up and down, then dropping dead from a mysterious virus?


There are plenty of artists recording natural voices to listen to though, instead of being annoyed by deliberately processed ones.
 
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This is a fun one. Some down-tempo Trip-hop with with 50-60s space movie dialog snippets and bits of lead guitar by a guy who truly loves Jimmi. Great background while you work or clean or trip out.

The whole album is here
 
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