Recommended Non Metal Albums

[astfgyl]

More of a question than a recommendation exactly, but where does Pharaoh Overlord - 6 fit in the scheme of things? It's sort of retro synthwacve but has the full furnace of Aaron Turner all over it. The music is not even slightly related to metal but the vocals are proper. A great album by the way, who has heard it?

[Blackout]

Listening to some Rebel Music specifically The Irish Brigade and its catchy as fuck.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Listening to some Rebel Music specifically The Irish Brigade and its catchy as fuck.

Can't bate it lad. 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Møster! - Dust Breathing (2020)

Stoner jazz at it's finest....  Amazing track this...

https://youtu.be/bTMF926ng08

[101_North]

Møster! - Dust Breathing (2020)

Stoner jazz at it's finest....  Amazing track this...

Oh here.... this is right up my street. Spinning the album now. That track you posted is like Ozric Tentacles does jazz! Brilliant!

The album is a little hit and miss but some of it sounds like Gong in places - Tentactility for example! The last track is Great!

[Kurt Cocaine]

Møster! - Dust Breathing (2020)

Stoner jazz at it's finest....  Amazing track this...

Oh here.... this is right up my street. Spinning the album now. That track you posted is like Ozric Tentacles does jazz! Brilliant!

The album is a little hit and miss but some of it sounds like Gong in places - Tentactility for example!

Myself and a colleague were bopping around the place to Waistful Tendensities earlier when I was playing it on the old Bluetooth speaker here at work.
Wonderful stuff.... 

https://youtu.be/j192IeTrnmw

[astfgyl]

Brother gave me a Lankum album - The Livelong Day and it's oddly great. Not the sort of thing I'd usually be listening to.

Also listening to John Hopkins' Immunity and it's class.

[Nazgûl]

Lankum are savage! Highly recommended getting the other albums (including their first one as Lynched) if you're into it.

The Jon Hopkins album is also another cracker. Saw him live a couple years ago and those distorted, choppy beats coming through a festival size PA system is something else!

[Kurt Cocaine]

I'll second the Lankum recommendation. Class group and have been lucky enough to catch them live too.

[Nazgûl]

Caught them live myself a few times. The drone aspects translate really well to that setting. Only folk/traditional band ive ever seen using Orange amps  I feel like a fair amount of heads who were into metal and the heavier side of music probably had been aware of them before they broke into the more mainstream Irish scene. I remember their debut being reviewed on Metal Ireland and them playing the Siege of Limerick.

[Pedrito]

They're not bad. It's trad/Irish/folk for the stony faced/unsmiling generation. An updated version as such, including elements from the metal and punk worlds to capture that crossover crowd. I enjoyed the first release they did but they're somewhat overrated imho.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I love them, but they certainly are a little over-rated by (honestly not referring to anyone here) a crowd who don't really know the folk canon that well. Folk is really about a collection of songs rather than a collection of recorded performances though, and unfortunately a phenomenon like Lankum in the modern music landscape can't really escape raising awareness primarily of Lankum rather than of the folk music tradition (i.e. live communal local performing of the music of one's own "folk"/people). But sure, we won't be seeing them days again outside of a collapse of all technology. Grab your baliset their Pedro 

[open face surgery]

The insleeve of The Livelong Day has brief explanations of where the songs came from and they also released a booklet type yoke in a more detailed capacity. If people don't pursue that it's hardly on the band.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The insleeve of The Livelong Day has brief explanations of where the songs came from and they also released a booklet type yoke in a more detailed capacity. If people don't pursue that it's hardly on the band.

No, not at all. The members of the band are definitely doing everything the best way possible in terms of making it about the real folk tradition, and they're each absolutely steeped in it. It's just "the machine" of modern entertainment inevitably makes it mainly about the specific recordings and performers, because that's the thing that can be sold. End result is that "the band" end up a bit over-rated, because the industry is designed for that to happen. The genuine folk tradition is more incompatible with the recorded music industry than any other style of music, since strictly speaking - again, more than any other type of music - it should only exist as a live and lived experience shared between players, singers, and foot tappers, all fused together as "folk" by the music itself. That's all just shooting the breeze though; I love me Lankum records, since I've fuck all chance of trad sessions here!

[Blackout]

Honey Claws self titled album with the Banger Digital Animals.