OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 1

15th overall · Post #341 » by **15th overall** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 2:49 pm

Pacino, my doppelganger... A+++ for the AZ drop (& Gang Starr, Tribe, Planets, Nubians, Pharcyde and the rest). I used to have a line from "Never Change" as my sig on here like 8 years ago. Guy managed to fit a Larry reference within striking distance of a Guinness one, which earns major points with me:

Spoiler:

100% with you guys on the death knell of hip-hop being rung long ago. I was hanging out with a friend the other day and he put on some new stuff that he thought that I had to hear--- it was just noise being talked over, absolutely terrible. Like truth, I believe there's sure to still be some good stuff out there if you're willing to shovel through the mountains of isht to find it, but they've managed to wear me down enough where I'm not willing to put in the effort. Much rather just throw on "Reasonable Doubt" or something and save myself the trouble. Outside of the occasional Pac mixtape, I don't even bother with new stuff.

Underrated 90's album I got a soft spot for: "Street Level" by The Beatnuts. Not exactly enlightening lyrically, not feel good music really but whatever, I like it. Haven't heard it in a few years tho.

EDIT: Apparently The Beatnuts are also Guinness fans.

pfm · Post #342 » by **pfm** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:30 pm

15th overall wrote:Pacino, my doppelganger... A+++ for the AZ drop (& Gang Starr, Tribe, Planets, Nubians, Pharcyde and the rest). I used to have a line from "Never Change" as my sig on here like 8 years ago. Guy managed to fit a Larry reference within striking distance of a Guinness one, which earns major points with me:

100% with you guys on the death knell of hip-hop being rung long ago. I was hanging out with a friend the other day and he put on some new stuff that he thought that I had to hear--- it was just noise being talked over, absolutely terrible. Like truth, I believe there's sure to still be some good stuff out there if you're willing to shovel through the mountains of isht to find it, but they've managed to wear me down enough where I'm not willing to put in the effort. Much rather just throw on "Reasonable Doubt" or something and save myself the trouble. Outside of the occasional Pac mixtape, I don't even bother with new stuff.

With you on all of those groups.

Yeah, part of me thinks hip hop died a while ago, but another part of me thinks that's a bit of a thing people like to say as they cling to the classics (which really happens with fans of any genre). I don't know if I'm not as into the scene as I used to be and lacking current content/taste, clinging to classics...etc. I don't know, but for the last couple years nothing has really resonated with me.

That said, I have a couple buddies in different friend groups who I have know for a long time and we like to talk about hip hop, put on some new stuff, exchange new artist names...etc. I've seen a couple of them recently (after not seeing them for a while) and everyone was on the same "Meh, nothing that I'm particularly diggin right now". So I guess I'm not the only one. I don't know if it's me (us), it's the genre, or it's both. But yeah, it's weird and I'd like to find some new material, but nothing is sticking.

Pacino62 · Post #343 » by **Pacino62** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:11 pm

15th overall wrote:Pacino, my doppelganger... A+++ for the AZ drop (& Gang Starr, Tribe, Planets, Nubians, Pharcyde and the rest). I used to have a line from "Never Change" as my sig on here like 8 years ago. Guy managed to fit a Larry reference within striking distance of a Guinness one, which earns major points with me:
Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2rAVGBr_tU[/youtube]
In other words, I was up in clout
And from the curb I need to pull a Larry Bird 'fore I'm up and out
Without a sound, snatch my Guinness off the ground
Rose up, gave him a pound and told him, "Homie, hold it down"

100% with you guys on the death knell of hip-hop being rung long ago. I was hanging out with a friend the other day and he put on some new stuff that he thought that I had to hear--- it was just noise being talked over, absolutely terrible. Like truth, I believe there's sure to still be some good stuff out there if you're willing to shovel through the mountains of isht to find it, but they've managed to wear me down enough where I'm not willing to put in the effort. Much rather just throw on "Reasonable Doubt" or something and save myself the trouble. Outside of the occasional Pac mixtape, I don't even bother with new stuff.

Underrated 90's album I got a soft spot for: "Street Level" by The Beatnuts. Not exactly enlightening lyrically, not feel good music really but whatever, I like it. Haven't heard it in a few years tho.

EDIT: Apparently The Beatnuts are also Guinness fans.

Haha. You're too funny dude. I hadn't heard that track in a long time. Played it this morning. I was dismayed that besides the hook, I'd forgotten many of the lyrics. The line I always loved from that song was

"Cells started rocking. I answered...What's popping?
They answered and said they shot him. Now the hood got a problem."

Man. Times have changed. Ironic that we're discussing "Never Change".

Your taste in music rivals your taste in movies. Definitely could have run in the same circles if I wasn't one of the older cats on this board.

SuperDeluxe · Post #344 » by **SuperDeluxe** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:04 pm

I'd like to bring up Gemma Hayes, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her sound is a strange mix of folk and My Bloody Valentine, and her voice is a thing of beauty. She has 5 or 6 albums under her belt, and a good introduction to her stuff is "Laughter", a song from her latest (unfortunately, only a live version seems to be available on YouTube).

Spoiler:

An immense yet fairly unknown (in America) singer-songwriter with a unique voice and sharp lyrics is Thea Gilmore. Her recent music is too overproduced in my opinion, but her earlier material is for the most part first rate. Here's a favourite of mine, "Razor Valentine".

Spoiler:

There's more talent in one of these ladies' boogers than the Taylor Swifts of the world will amass throughout their lives.

Bad-Thoma · Post #345 » by **Bad-Thoma** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:04 am

SuperDeluxe wrote:I'd like to bring up Gemma Hayes, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her sound is a strange mix of folk and My Bloody Valentine, and her voice is a thing of beauty. She has 5 or 6 albums under her belt, and a good introduction to her stuff is "Laughter", a song from her latest (unfortunately, only a live version seems to be available on YouTube).

Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60dydqxEges[/youtube]

An immense yet fairly unknown (in America) singer-songwriter with a unique voice and sharp lyrics is Thea Gilmore. Her recent music is too overproduced in my opinion, but her earlier material is for the most part first rate. Here's a favourite of mine, "Razor Valentine".

Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJKjPtbCB4[/youtube]

There's more talent in one of these ladies' boogers than the Taylor Swifts of the world will amass throughout their lives.

If you like a mix of folk and pretty much anything else check out a good friend of mine, Dayna Kurtz, who has been described as having "howitzers for lungs", she is a brilliant person with a special voice.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbvDKAlQmio[/youtube]

Folk, gospel, blues.. little of it all

SuperDeluxe · Post #346 » by **SuperDeluxe** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:50 pm

Bad-Thoma wrote:If you like a mix of folk and pretty much anything else check out a good friend of mine, Dayna Kurtz, who has been described as having "howitzers for lungs", she is a brilliant person with a special voice.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbvDKAlQmio[/youtube]

Folk, gospel, blues.. little of it all

Tremendous pipes indeed!

15th overall · Post #347 » by **15th overall** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 5:38 pm

pfm wrote:
15th overall wrote:Pacino, my doppelganger... A+++ for the AZ drop (& Gang Starr, Tribe, Planets, Nubians, Pharcyde and the rest). I used to have a line from "Never Change" as my sig on here like 8 years ago. Guy managed to fit a Larry reference within striking distance of a Guinness one, which earns major points with me:

100% with you guys on the death knell of hip-hop being rung long ago. I was hanging out with a friend the other day and he put on some new stuff that he thought that I had to hear--- it was just noise being talked over, absolutely terrible. Like truth, I believe there's sure to still be some good stuff out there if you're willing to shovel through the mountains of isht to find it, but they've managed to wear me down enough where I'm not willing to put in the effort. Much rather just throw on "Reasonable Doubt" or something and save myself the trouble. Outside of the occasional Pac mixtape, I don't even bother with new stuff.

With you on all of those groups.

Yeah, part of me thinks hip hop died a while ago, but another part of me thinks that's a bit of a thing people like to say as they cling to the classics (which really happens with fans of any genre). I don't know if I'm not as into the scene as I used to be and lacking current content/taste, clinging to classics...etc. I don't know, but for the last couple years nothing has really resonated with me.

That said, I have a couple buddies in different friend groups who I have know for a long time and we like to talk about hip hop, put on some new stuff, exchange new artist names...etc. I've seen a couple of them recently (after not seeing them for a while) and everyone was on the same "Meh, nothing that I'm particularly diggin right now". So I guess I'm not the only one. I don't know if it's me (us), it's the genre, or it's both. But yeah, it's weird and I'd like to find some new material, but nothing is sticking.

FWIW, pretty much all of those acts I listed were before my time (Born in 86). So from the nostalgia POV, these guys aren't in my wheelhouse... when I was in HS 50 cent was a big deal and Eminem abruptly decided he was going to yell in EVERY mothereffin song going forward for whatever reason (as opposed to churning out gems like THIS).

I had to actively seek out acts like Gang Starr, Digable Planets, Brand Nubians, etc... like timestamping a song I heard on WERS@Night on a Friday night so I could look it up on the playlist on their website later, seeding through a movie's soundtrack listing to hunt down something that caught my ear, etc.

So I guess what I mean is, this isn't on par with a back-in-my-day comment like, "Kids today think Steven Universe is a good show. Pfffft, that ish doesn't hold a candle to Rocko's Modern Life. Now THAT was a cartoon." I've got plenty of those kinds of crotchety opinions, no doubt... but 15yo me thought that hip-hop was taking a nose dive and that The Simpsons had jumped the shark and should wrap it up by 2005/6 at the very latest. Nothing that's happened in the past decade+ makes me feel that 15yo 15th was offbase with either of those opinions.

bucknersrevenge · Post #348 » by **bucknersrevenge** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:09 pm

15th overall wrote:Pacino, my doppelganger... A+++ for the AZ drop (& Gang Starr, Tribe, Planets, Nubians, Pharcyde and the rest). I used to have a line from "Never Change" as my sig on here like 8 years ago. Guy managed to fit a Larry reference within striking distance of a Guinness one, which earns major points with me:
Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2rAVGBr_tU[/youtube]
In other words, I was up in clout
And from the curb I need to pull a Larry Bird 'fore I'm up and out
Without a sound, snatch my Guinness off the ground
Rose up, gave him a pound and told him, "Homie, hold it down"

100% with you guys on the death knell of hip-hop being rung long ago. I was hanging out with a friend the other day and he put on some new stuff that he thought that I had to hear--- it was just noise being talked over, absolutely terrible. Like truth, I believe there's sure to still be some good stuff out there if you're willing to shovel through the mountains of isht to find it, but they've managed to wear me down enough where I'm not willing to put in the effort. Much rather just throw on "Reasonable Doubt" or something and save myself the trouble. Outside of the occasional Pac mixtape, I don't even bother with new stuff.

Underrated 90's album I got a soft spot for: "Street Level" by The Beatnuts. Not exactly enlightening lyrically, not feel good music really but whatever, I like it. Haven't heard it in a few years tho.

EDIT: Apparently The Beatnuts are also Guinness fans.

I'll see your "Street Level" and I'll raise you "Off The Books"

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2O4ERoBiU[/youtube]

Seeing this I realize that I forgot how nice a flow Big Pun had in his day. Shame he left us so early.

Pacino62 · Post #349 » by **Pacino62** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:21 am

I continue to love "Fear The Walking Dead". I feel like it's going to cater to a completely different crowd than it's predecessor. For example, my wife loves it. She hates the original.

Saw "Southpaw" yesterday (better late than never). Jake Gyllenhaal remains one of my 3 favorite actors working today (Tom Hardy and Dicaprio being the others. He's is just on an awesome run. "Southpaw" was awesome. The movie did a terrible job marketing itself as some kind of hip hop sports movie with an Eminem soundtrack. When, in fact, it's a family centric sports movie about doing whatever it takes for the ones you love. His transformation was remarkable and, had the movie been marketed differently, it could have been something much more.

Speaking of Jake...check out these 10 movies from the last 10 years. Add the upcoming "Everest" to this and you've got one hell of a list. Sure...he cashed a few pay checks in between there ("Prince of Persia"). However,every role he plays is so unique.

"Nightcrawler"-Must see
"Prisoners"-We've discussed on here.
"End of Watch"-So underrated.
"Enemy"-Discussed
"Source Code"-Another one of my favorites in recent years.
"Love and Other Drugs"-Soft spot for this one
"Brothers"
"Zodiac"
"Jarhead"
"Brokeback Mountain"

peachbucket · Post #350 » by **peachbucket** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:43 pm

Pacino62 wrote:I continue to love "Fear The Walking Dead". I feel like it's going to cater to a completely different crowd than it's predecessor. For example, my wife loves it. She hates the original.

Saw "Southpaw" yesterday (better late than never). Jake Gyllenhaal remains one of my 3 favorite actors working today (Tom Hardy and Dicaprio being the others. He's is just on an awesome run. "Southpaw" was awesome. The movie did a terrible job marketing itself as some kind of hip hop sports movie with an Eminem soundtrack. When, in fact, it's a family centric sports movie about doing whatever it takes for the ones you love. His transformation was remarkable and, had the movie been marketed differently, it could have been something much more.

Speaking of Jake...check out these 10 movies from the last 10 years. Add the upcoming "Everest" to this and you've got one hell of a list. Sure...he cashed a few pay checks in between there ("Prince of Persia"). However,every role he plays is so unique.

"Nightcrawler"-Must see
"Prisoners"-We've discussed on here.
"End of Watch"-So underrated.
"Enemy"-Discussed
"Source Code"-Another one of my favorites in recent years.
"Love and Other Drugs"-Soft spot for this one
"Brothers"
"Zodiac"
"Jarhead"
"Brokeback Mountain"

+1
He's definitely one of my current favorites...reminiscent of early Depp with his diverse choice of challenging roles and great screenplays...speaking of Depp, 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993) is one of his more obscure films and is in my top 10 of all time.

Saw "The Drop" last night...what a great surprise that was...well acted and super tight screenplay. Enjoyed it much more than The Town or The Departed which are in the same genre.

Also re-watched 'Sexy Beast' which is a fantastic British gangster film with a standout performance by Ben Kingsley.

Pacino62 · Post #351 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 9:39 am

peachbucket wrote:
Pacino62 wrote:I continue to love "Fear The Walking Dead". I feel like it's going to cater to a completely different crowd than it's predecessor. For example, my wife loves it. She hates the original.

+1
He's definitely one of my current favorites...reminiscent of early Depp with his diverse choice of challenging roles and great screenplays...speaking of Depp, 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993) is one of his more obscure films and is in my top 10 of all time.

Saw "The Drop" last night...what a great surprise that was...well acted and super tight screenplay. Enjoyed it much more than The Town or The Departed which are in the same genre.

Also re-watched 'Sexy Beast' which is a fantastic British gangster film with a standout performance by Ben Kingsley.

Lots of good stuff in this post. Early Depp was phenomenal. "Blow", "Donnie Brasco", "Edward Scissorhands" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" are some of my favorite movies of all time. Young Leo was great in the latter as well. Also, one of my top 5 supporting roles in movie history was Depp's turn in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico". He was such a scene stealer. I really hold out high hopes that "Black Mass" is a return to form and norm. Dudes lost his mind. Lol

"The Drop" was great. Being a Hardy and Gandolfini (rest in peace to one of the greats) fanatic, I was one of the few who saw it in the theater. Great flick.

"Sexy Beast"!!!! Lol. Haven't watched it in years. Might blow the dust off of the DVD tonight. What a fantastic flick. Most people associate Ben Kingsley with Ghandi. Nah. He'll always be Don Logan to me. :wink:

Also love Ray Winstone (badass to the core) and Ian McShane.

Pacino62 · Post #352 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 9:47 am

Rest in peace Wes Craven. I could argue with myself that "A Nightmare on Elm street" is or isn't my favorite horror movie of all time. At the very least, it's the movie that made me love horror as a kid. I watched "The Hills Have Eyes", "The Hills Have Eyes 2" and "The Last House on the Left" more than any kid should have in the late 80's. "The Serpent and the Rainbow" remains on my top horror list of all time. "People Under the stairs" was so much better than people understood. It was way ahead of it's time with it's over the top humor.

Unfortunately, not really a fan of much since. I do appreciate "Scream" for being so revolutionary at the time. However, if I see that effing mask again, I'll snap. Only thing of his that I really enjoyed was "Red Eye" with Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy. Fun little thriller from 2005. Nothing too great. However, strong enough to get a positive review and recommendation.

jmr07019 · Post #353 » by **jmr07019** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 2:02 pm

it can strike anyone, anytime – in a cathedral or a shopping mall, at a wedding or on the Tube. You may know these physical feelings as chills or tingles – but some people feel them so powerfully, they describe the sensations as “skin orgasms”. “The aesthetic experience can be so intense that you can’t do anything else,” says Loui.

We normally only respond like this to experiences that might ensure or endanger our survival – food, reproduction, or the terrifying plummet of a rollercoaster. How can music – hardly a life-or-death pursuit – move the mind and the body as powerfully as sex? Years after her first dalliance with Rachmaninov’s concerto, Loui became a psychologist at Wesleyan University, and recently reviewed the evidence and theories explaining the phenomenon with her student Luke Harrison.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150721-when-was-the-last-time-music-gave-you-a-skin-orgasm

Fascinating article. Can't say music has ever aroused me (that'd be weird) but I certainly do get a chill down my spine, goosebumps, adrenaline rushes and shortness of breathe when a piece of music REALLY hits me. It's not something I can force to happen, it must happen naturally, and there are a lot of variables at play. If a piece of music gives me goose bumps once it may not nesecarily give me goose bumps the next time I listen to it. All depends how closely I am listening, if I have ever heard the song or jam before, my mood before starting to listen, etc. This doesn't happen often but man when it happens it is effin awesome.

My favorite part of the article is this:

One major component seems to be the way the brain monitors our expectations, says Loui. From the moment we are born (and possibly before), we begin to learn certain rules that characterise the way songs are composed. If a song follows the conventions too closely, it is bland and fails to capture our attention; if it breaks the patterns too much, it sounds like noise. But when composers straddle the boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar, playing with your expectations using unpredictable flourishes (like appoggiaturas or sweeping harmonic changes), they hit a sweet spot that pleasantly teases the brain, and this may produce a frisson.

Does this phenomenon happen to anybody else here? Mostly only happens to me listening to Phish (my favorite artist) but it has happened listening to a few other bands.

Pacino62 · Post #354 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 3:37 pm

jmr07019 wrote:
it can strike anyone, anytime – in a cathedral or a shopping mall, at a wedding or on the Tube. You may know these physical feelings as chills or tingles – but some people feel them so powerfully, they describe the sensations as “skin orgasms”. “The aesthetic experience can be so intense that you can’t do anything else,” says Loui.

We normally only respond like this to experiences that might ensure or endanger our survival – food, reproduction, or the terrifying plummet of a rollercoaster. How can music – hardly a life-or-death pursuit – move the mind and the body as powerfully as sex? Years after her first dalliance with Rachmaninov’s concerto, Loui became a psychologist at Wesleyan University, and recently reviewed the evidence and theories explaining the phenomenon with her student Luke Harrison.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150721-when-was-the-last-time-music-gave-you-a-skin-orgasm

Fascinating article. Can't say music has ever aroused me (that'd be weird) but I certainly do get a chill down my spine, goosebumps, adrenaline rushes and shortness of breathe when a piece of music REALLY hits me. It's not something I can force to happen, it must happen naturally, and there are a lot of variables at play. If a piece of music gives me goose bumps once it may not nesecarily give me goose bumps the next time I listen to it. All depends how closely I am listening, if I have ever heard the song or jam before, my mood before starting to listen, etc. This doesn't happen often but man when it happens it is effin awesome.

My favorite part of the article is this:

One major component seems to be the way the brain monitors our expectations, says Loui. From the moment we are born (and possibly before), we begin to learn certain rules that characterise the way songs are composed. If a song follows the conventions too closely, it is bland and fails to capture our attention; if it breaks the patterns too much, it sounds like noise. But when composers straddle the boundary between the familiar and unfamiliar, playing with your expectations using unpredictable flourishes (like appoggiaturas or sweeping harmonic changes), they hit a sweet spot that pleasantly teases the brain, and this may produce a frisson.

Does this phenomenon happen to anybody else here? Mostly only happens to me listening to Phish (my favorite artist) but it has happened listening to a few other bands.

Yes. To an extent some of this applies to me. More overcome with emotion that anything. Like, I immediately want to go for a run and keep a song on repeat (actually happened to me with that Gemstones rec) or I'll break down and cry. That's happened to me a half dozen times or so upon initial listening of a song depending on where I was at personally.

jmr07019 · Post #355 » by **jmr07019** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 7:24 pm

Just discovered this producer called Beat Fatigue and I absolutely love his sound. Some of the funkiest stuff I've ever heard. Write up from his facebook:

Beat Fatigue is a 25 year old producer, DJ and guitarist from Amsterdam. He was ten years old when he first picked up a guitar. Inspired by his heroes such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Scofield he just kept on making music in any form possible.

Now Beat Fatigue tries to combine all the things he has picked up through his on-going musical adventure and integrate it all into one big sandwich that includes Jazz, Blues, Glitch, Dubstep, Soul, Hiphop, Neuro and Funk as the leading theme to get you dance your ass off. Beat Fatigue's main goal is to find a new sound that keeps you more awake then your mama after taking her pills and hopefully inspire some people in the process.

Funky wobbly swinging bass-lines with jazzy chord progressions, some recorded midi layers, effects, vocal chops, punchy drums and a guitar-jam on top of it is what you can expect of Beat Fatigue's sound.

Here's a couple songs I like

Optimus Jive:

Spoiler:

Ain't That a Glitch:

Spoiler:

And then there's this:

Guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana and wife Cindy Blackman Santana are putting together a jazz fusion super group dubbed Supernova. The band will include saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboard player Herbie Hancock and guitarist John McLaughlin. Santana tells Billboard that they will "definitely" be recording in the Spring and then a possibly touring Europe and America in the Summer.

Santana goes on to say, "It's kind of like playing with, sharing music with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, 'cause Wayne and Herbie, they're at that level of genius, genius, genius, genius. I'm just grateful that they accept it and want to do it. And every time I play with Cindy, it goes viral. People go crazy. The energy between Cindy and I is very, very supernova."

Can not wait to hear this album and I will pay a pretty penny to see this group perform together.

truth18 · Post #356 » by **truth18** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 7:36 pm

Have a ton of stuff here to respond to, but I have to comment on the Santana project: John Mclaughlin!!!!! Wayne Shorter? Holy ****. Those two guys are two of my favorite music and ever. Teaming up with Hancock and Santana is sure to lead to some amazing music. Beyond excited

Pacino62 · Post #357 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 7:49 pm

Anyone on here listen to Ella Eyre? Funny story. Heard "We don't have to take our clothes off" by Jermaine Stewart on Debarge Pandora. Lmfao. I know. It gets worse. I was so excited to hear the track that I hadn't heard in years, that when I went on iTunes to buy it (yes...to buy it), I came upon a remake but Eyre. Started listening to her catalog and girl is sick.

Sounds like someone Truth may listen to...

CeltsfanSinceBirth · Post #358 » by **CeltsfanSinceBirth** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 8:49 pm

Anyone pick up Metal Gear Solid V today? Got my copy in the mail, but still grinding through Bloodborne. Need to finish that before I crack this one open.

Also, for the R&B fans in here, the new album from the Weeknd is solid.

Slartibartfast · Post #359 » by **Slartibartfast** » Wed Sep 2, 2015 8:43 pm

Wow - a thread that the arambone virus didn't infect! That deserves a bump.

exculpatory · Post #360 » by **exculpatory** » Wed Sep 2, 2015 8:54 pm

SuperDeluxe wrote:I'd like to bring up Gemma Hayes, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her sound is a strange mix of folk and My Bloody Valentine, and her voice is a thing of beauty. She has 5 or 6 albums under her belt, and a good introduction to her stuff is "Laughter", a song from her latest (unfortunately, only a live version seems to be available on YouTube).

Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60dydqxEges[/youtube]

An immense yet fairly unknown (in America) singer-songwriter with a unique voice and sharp lyrics is Thea Gilmore. Her recent music is too overproduced in my opinion, but her earlier material is for the most part first rate. Here's a favourite of mine, "Razor Valentine".

Spoiler:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJKjPtbCB4[/youtube]

There's more talent in one of these ladies' boogers than the Taylor Swifts of the world will amass throughout their lives.

Cannot hear Gemma well in that clip. But if she was 15 years older, I would let her sleep with me.