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Are you taking recs at the moment? If so then my choice is...

*Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo (post-rock, amospheric sludge, just really beautiful stuff)

And if that has already been picked then...

2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生 (ambient, soundscape, vaporwave)

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ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

Trollheart

Yes, see the OP graphic.
That first one is ok (thank god: imagine looking for those symbols on Spotify!)

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Machine

Alright I'm excited to see what you think of it.

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ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

Trollheart

Title: A Love Supreme
Artiste: John Coltrane
Genre: Jazz
Familiarity: Zero; obviously I know he's a jazz giant, but I'm not a fan of jazz (quelle surprise!)

1. A love supreme, part 1 --- Acknowledgement: Obviously I can see where Clarence Clemmons got his inspiration, as this opening sounds very much like something the E Street Band might do. Great piano, and the horn doesn't annoy me as it usually does. Yet. OH, here come some vocals. Well, the title basically repeated. Not sure that was necessary; doesn't add anything to the track.
2. A love supreme, part II --- Resolution: Kind of flowed in from track one without me realising it. It's fine but like most jazz I'm just pretty bored with it. Probably unlikely ever to change. I know this is supposed to be his greatest ever album and I can see why. It just doesn't move me.
3. A love supreme, part III --- Pursuance: Oh no! A drum solo! This could really finish me off! This track is ten minutes long! Say the solo doesn't run for the whole thing.... No, there's the piano and sax coming back in now, thank god. Only two minutes in. Nice piano runs. Horn is beginning to get on my nerves now. Okay, nice bass solo in about the eighth minute. Pretty sweet. Goes right to the end of the track.
4. A love supreme, part IV--- Psalm: Nice rolling drums, kind of cinematic, and the sax is more laidback and relaxed, some lovely cymbals whispering. That was probably the best track on it. Quite enjoyed that.

End result: I'm certainly not going to trash such a loved album, and I know sod-all about jazz anyway, but this is kind of the reason it never resonates with me. Mostly it just seems to go on in pretty much the same vein. I'm sure it doesn't, and is all very technically well played and composed, but it just as ever leaves me disinterested and cold. I just can't get excited about this the way a lot of people do, and it was a relief when it was over.

So, Love or Hate? So all I can do is shrug and give it a very cautious Like. Sorry.

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Plainview

But is it A Like Supreme?

Sorry, I'll see myself out.

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YorkeDaddy

Boooo

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Title: Remission
Artiste: Skinny Puppy
Genre: Industrial
Familiarity: Zero

1. Smothered hope: I don't know much about industrial music, so this could go either way. Nice kind of boppy, electronic opening. Vocals are maybe synthesised, through a vocoder? Very eighties new wave thing about the synths. Dark but not cold. Vocal's a bit manic.
2. Glass houses: I say very eighties, and then notice it was released in 1984! But it's very representative of a lot of the more experimental electronic music that was happening then that I looked down my nose at. This is not bad, though to be fair I don't see anything that terribly different about it from all the other new wave bands that were clogging up my metal airwaves at the time...
3. Incision: This sounds very Bone Machine, so I wonder if Waits is/was a Skinny Puppy fan? The taped voices at the end don't do anything for me though.
4. Far too frail: This sounds very OMD, or Echo and the Bunnymen, or something I've heard anyway. Bops along nicely. Human League, that's it: “Sound of the crowd”.
5. Film: Meh, interesting but relying a little too much on the taped effects. Tune was okay.
6. Manwhole: Same complaint really. Good rhythm set up later.
7. Icebreaker: I can certainly hear the industrial here. Not sure I really like it that much though.
8. Solvent: Has a nice kind of boppy beat to it which sort of belies the snarly vocal. Good synthwork.
9. Sleeping beast: Faster, with some effects. Otherwise not terribly interesting really. Far too long for what it is.
10. Glass out: Yeah it's all right but it's just not grabbing me really.
11. Brap...: And a short one to end. And we're out.

End result: Really not the kind of thing I'd listen to out of preference. Not the worst I've ever heard certainly, and I'm sure these guys are great for what they do, but just not my sort of thing at all.

So, Love or Hate? Have to be a Meh really.

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TechnicLePanther

Cool. Pretty much what I should have expected.

Got another suggestion:

Charles Manson - Lie: The Love and Terror Cult


And yes, it is actually by Charles Manson.

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SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.

Plainview

I actually like this album, he has talent... It's a bit like, you know, say what you will about the Nazis, but they were sharp dressers.

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Title: Almanac
Artiste: The Deaf Aids
Genre: Electronic
Familiarity: I've heard I think two of Plainview's albums before...

1. Inertia: Nice, very nice sax opening then some feedback or something. Weird guitar stuff? This is why I don't like Plainview's music and Frownland probably does: he starts off with a good melody and then starts messing and experimenting. I'm sure it's very clever but it's not something I like to listen to personally. One more reason why I intend to stop accepting recs for people's personal albums. This isn't too bad to be fair.
2. Let's be lonely together: This has some nice synthwork; something phasing? Sounds pretty good when it falls back to just that sound. Then other synths come in. Still quite pleasant. Some sampled sounds now? Voices? Gaining in intensity. This all works quite well. Peppy synth coming back in and the beat is picking up. Yeah, like this one.
3. Packed in: Big kind of roaring wind sound, then either heavy steps or breathing, and what sounds like milk bottles being tapped. Vocoder? Heavy (looped?) piano, very bassy. Few samples coming together. Milk bottles are back. Kind of a honking synth taking the tune mostly. More bassy piano as it ends. Badly, I'm afraid.
4. You are not awake: Shark in the water! Get out of the water! And he's playing a solo on a guitar too! Samply synth added in now and I think that may be digital piano now? That's quite nice, then there's something like a spaceship flying to and fro, unless it's whalesong. Guitar is back now. Same solo so assume that's a sample. Gone now. Piano only. Bippy synth on the edges. Went into something of a dirge, which was annoying, then ended on that piano again.
5. Perfect plastic replica: Has a little more of a cohesive feel of tuneful melody about it but still not really the kind of thing I want to listen to I'm afraid. Bit plodding too.
6. Erase me: Nice sort of Supertramp-y sax with a kind of industrial vibe. That could have been harmonica just now. Or possibly not. Nice combination of synth and piano there at the end.
7. Alienation: Making a cup of coffee? Then climbing the stairs? Yeah, this one is a little too weird. Nice funky bass, but again for me the tune doesn't go anywhere or do anything. I know it doesn't have to, but I prefer it to. Some nice interesting samples change it up, but they just kind of add to the overall weirdness. But then again, I suppose it is called “Alienation”. Did he just use the Windows start sound?
8. Fog: Has that Floyd “On the run” sound about it. Is that sampled? No, he wouldn't do that! Nice peppy horns or synth. Pretty cool really.
9. Reheated: Kind of sounds like a pig got loose in the studio! And a guy walking around with a tuba chasing it, trying to catch it. Put the tuba down man! You'll have a much better chance that way! Gone into a slower, more laidback groove now and it sounds like the pig has been replaced by a dog. That's definitely harmonica though. Nice sort of strings keys at the end. I'll actually change this from White to Orange.
10. I don't want any trouble: This has a nice sort of slow, orchestral feel to it, then something like glass harp, though I'm sure it's not. Nice melody throughout mostly. One of my favourites here. Like the way it speeds up almost techno-lite at the end.
11. Kids in glass cages: Nice mix of a sort of industrial feel merging with an older lounge music/jazz thing. Pretty cool closer really.

End result: Well of all Plainview's music I've listened to this is the first I've actually been able to pick out some tracks on which I liked. Which is not to say his music is bad, not at all, just usually not my kind of thing. This still isn't, not really, but it's definitely the best of his I've listened to.

So, Love or Hate? One step up then. Not a Love but a good strong Like.

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