Non Metal Now Listening

[Maggot Colony]

Went on a bit of a John Swami/Speedo Reis buzz over the weekend. The new album - "Time To Let You Down" - arrived in my postbox last Friday and it is great.

https://open.spotify.com/album/05j7NDJUKqGzGC0FIVQY7b

Works as a companion piece to the record from last year - "All Of This Awaits You".

https://open.spotify.com/album/25UYCubeHTqBtFZu7dzUNq

And for good measure I dug out the brilliant debut by The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic".

https://open.spotify.com/album/5lQXJ5CHu6QOiZQGT4QKIf



Haven't felt the pull to start a new band this much in a long time. 

I'm a big fan of RFTC and Hot Snakes. That new one is from the writing sessions for a Hot Snakes album which never came to be because of Rick passing. I must give it a listen.

[StoutAndAle]

I'm a big fan of RFTC and Hot Snakes. That new one is from the writing sessions for a Hot Snakes album which never came to be because of Rick passing. I must give it a listen.

The new album is definitely worth your time - and it clocks in at less that 30 minutes.

I'm a big fan of Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu - I'm a Swami fanboy but I never got into RFTC beyond "Scream Dracula" and the S/T after it.

I really rate his mid-2000s group The Night Marchers (especially the first record) and that Plosivs album from 2 or 3 years ago is very good too.

[Maggot Colony]

Love Drive Like Jehu, but I prefer Hot Snakes. Brilliant band. I have a soft spot for Automatic Midnight - I got into it after becoming obsessed with the Wipers and seeking similar artists. All the albums are great though. I don't think they got the acclaim they deserved. The likes of White Stripes had the music press fawning all over them, but Hot Snakes would blow those garage revival bands out of the water.

Always meant to check out Night Marchers. I'll give that first album a spin today.

[Jward]

Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule

Brilliant album

He played nearly everything on this too
Fair play to him

Always love the quick transition from 'Let Love Rule' into 'Freedom Train'

[astfgyl]

FINAL - Giving Up, One Day At A Time

New album from Justin K Broadrick's longest running project FINAL, the industrial ambient project initiated in 1983.

Continuing along the trajectory of both 'EXPECT NOTHING AND THE KINGDOM IS YOURS', and the Room40 LP' What We Don't See', comes 'giving up, one day at a time'; an ode to depression, loneliness and decay.

Well that was enough for me to throw it on

[Carnage]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/shoegaze-songs-you-should-know-to-impress-strangers/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJcouVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYkuIBkDEI3UwMBqqPZNlfRb0rey0Qh44CdPhQwccUQ1vtH4InBmDedfOA_aem_WSiDRimzfLwk2gTyJSrmNg

Threw this list together as a playlist and it flows nicely - the Scarlet House one is proper shite though, totally out of place. It's a Vice article so raise your eyebrow before going in (insisting that Deftones are a shoegaze band?), but there's a nice selection of shoegaze suggestions here, a couple of bands I wasn't familiar with and will check out properly. Surprising picks for Jesu and Deafheaven, kudos for going beyond the obvious ones.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Nothing are fucking savage. Caught them at Roadburn without knowing anything beforehand, wasn't expecting pummelling shoegaze mixed like a metal band, it was earworm after earworm for the whole set. They were playing a lot of The Great Dismal, which is well worth listening.

Some kick off this one live.

On the shoegazey buzz, big fan of this one from Ringo Deathstarr, ripping bass throughout, the chorus is nearly like some of Al Cisneros's heaviest moments.

And I think Alvvays are brilliant. More on the dream-pop side really but they do have the big guitars and the songs are just so well-written. Case in point, the key change on this is sublime. They've been through a few drummers and I think their newest is definitely the most suitable and capable going by live footage, she kind of just has this perfect smooth power.

Came across this live footage from a young Cork band recently as well and it kind of blew me away, the guitar and vocal performances in particular. Not a whole lot to it in terms of progression as a song or whatever but that kind of comes with the territory, I think the sound is fantastic.

[Ducky]

Used to play the arse out of the first Alvvays album (which is eleven years old now, sheesh) but didn't keep up with them at all. Must have a proper go at their other gear!

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

The second album is really good, bar the very last song which has that really really annoying modern pop inflection that pops up everywhere, just a kind of throwaway vocal melody imo. Weird, because they're well capable of not doing that at all, as you can tell by every single song before it 

Anyway it starts off with a bang

[Carnage]

Dead Can Dance: 1981-1998

[StoutAndAle]

Came across this live footage from a young Cork band recently as well and it kind of blew me away, the guitar and vocal performances in particular. Not a whole lot to it in terms of progression as a song or whatever but that kind of comes with the territory, I think the sound is fantastic.

Have Mossy changed their lead singer?

[Mooncat]

Saw Tommy Emmanuel live the other day and it's sent me back down a listening spree of his music, which then also led back to Danny Gatton. Their music isn't commercial enough for them to be household names, but I honestly don't think there's ever been a guitarist more talented than those two.

[Ducky]

The second album is really good, bar the very last song which has that really really annoying modern pop inflection that pops up everywhere, just a kind of throwaway vocal melody imo. Weird, because they're well capable of not doing that at all, as you can tell by every single song before it 

Anyway it starts off with a bang

This is indeed good sauce! Actually been checking out Nothing based on your post there, instantly in love with them.

[Mooncat]

Nothing are fucking savage. Caught them at Roadburn without knowing anything beforehand, wasn't expecting pummelling shoegaze mixed like a metal band, it was earworm after earworm for the whole set. They were playing a lot of The Great Dismal, which is well worth listening.

Some kick off this one live.

On the shoegazey buzz, big fan of this one from Ringo Deathstarr, ripping bass throughout, the chorus is nearly like some of Al Cisneros's heaviest moments.

And I think Alvvays are brilliant. More on the dream-pop side really but they do have the big guitars and the songs are just so well-written. Case in point, the key change on this is sublime. They've been through a few drummers and I think their newest is definitely the most suitable and capable going by live footage, she kind of just has this perfect smooth power.

Came across this live footage from a young Cork band recently as well and it kind of blew me away, the guitar and vocal performances in particular. Not a whole lot to it in terms of progression as a song or whatever but that kind of comes with the territory, I think the sound is fantastic.

Saw Ringo Deathstarr play last year and they were fucking awesome. But even better were the band they played with, Frankie and the Witchfingers. Kind of Sabbath-y post punk prog psychedelia. Amazing band. Check out their albums Data Doom, and Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters

[101_North]

Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969)

Stumbled across this earlier! Might be well known to some folks on here but completely new to me! Right up my street! Could probably have put this in the metal now listening thread to be fair.

https://youtu.be/sN1t-sPxPJM