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If I had to distill my musical tastes, I'd say I gravitate towards fresh, underground music that hybridizes genre, mostly pop, rock, metal, hardcore, but especially the "post-" versions of all aforementioned genres. My kryptonite is math-rock. I lose all sense of objectivity.
My jukebox will thusly often stick within the past 5 years, unless I'm feeling nostalgic. If you wanna get down with what all the cool kids are currently trying to hide from the mainstream, this thread's for you.
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1. 4/20 smoke Strawberry Girls everyday -- "Negro Spiritual (feat. Shane Smit)"
Mostly instrumental, lightly technical guitar rock.
2. Chukchi wants to play some long songs? Have a 17-minute post-rock epic from Yndi Halda -- "Illuminate My Heart, My Darling!"
A beautifully sad instrumental track. The first huge crescendo starts simmering around 3 minutes. Take a moment out of your day and let the music crush you.
3. let's pop a xanax and enjoy some Paramore -- "Ain't It Fun"
Female-fronted pop-rock with a heavy Michael Jackson influence? Yes please.
4. get grungy with Daylight -- "Life in a Jar"
Seriously. This is a new album but it's like a time portal back to the early 90s.
5. my first nod to math-rock, This Town Needs Guns -- "Baboon"
TTNG subscribe to the Chill School of Math-Rockery. Guitar work is intricate, time signatures vary, but you can still snooze to this.
6. choo-choo! all aboard the math-rock train! Invalids -- "Diastole"
This is the fancy, fast, dancy version of math-rock. Tons of fingertapping. The guitarist didn't use a single pick during the recording of this album.
7. Nostalgia time! Life in Your Way -- "Making Waves"
Some of my favorite melodic hardcore. Great cleans with awesome harmonies, purty guitar lines. Smart lyricism.
8. Indie rock veterans The Appleseed Cast -- "Cathedral Rings"
These dudes have been around since 97, fusing post-rock, emo, and indie into the chillest damn hammock music you done ever heard. Drumming on this track is spectacular.
9. Speaking of emo/indie, have Their / They're / There's entire self-titled EP.
10. Suddenly, hip hop! Opera vox on the beat is instant awesome. Talib Kweli -- "Turnt Up"
11. One of my favorite new bands, Night Verses sound absolutely ferocious on "Antidepressants"
Definitely a lot of Deftones influence, which is never bad.
12. Rx Bandits -- "Prophetic"
The Bandits blossomed from ska into a progressive sort of punk with horns and never looked back.
13. TesseracT -- their entire new album, Altered State.
Fucking pretty prog metal with a gentle djent edge.
14. South Dakota's Amos Slade is a nifty alt rock/Americana hyrid. Their slow burning album closer "Orphans" is gorgeous.
15. Eisley's new album Currents is GORGEOUS. Female-fronted indie rock. Please listen to "Drink the Water" immediately.
16. "Four Letter Words," catchy tunes from I the Mighty, featuring Colleen D'Agostino from The Material.
17. Vela Ceras are a spectacular proggy-rockish band whose vocalist sounds like a combo of Adam Levine and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Have some "When We Fold."
18. I need to play a game with Sky Sanctuary as the soundtrack RIGHT NOW. He just released "Special Stage" and it's grand.
19. Australia is a hotbed for awesome prog-rock. Here's "Lodestar," new stuff from Dead Letter Circus. Karnivool are also set to drop something soon. Excite.
20. Holy god damn this band. Fantastic guitar work and the most annoying vocals ever. Just listen to "MONSTER".
21. Subscribe are my favorite Hungarian band ever. They play every music. All the musics. Their new album is going to shred. "Gazing" is like a faux-djent rager with a lot of fantastic cleans throughout the choruses and bridges.
Edited by deep, 06 February 2014 - 11:14 AM.
