https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_house

I haven’t heard UK before Grime before.

Come to think of it, my memory is that speed garage arrived before UK garage too.

This album is a bit naff lyrically but it's really taking me back to the early 90s. I'm sure Brooks will have something disparaging to say about it!

I've had a tedious day sat in work wading through insurance reports and blood results.  In attempt to maintain my sanity I've been listening to a slightly odd combination of the new St Vincent album, and The Surfing Magazines.  

The St Vincent offering is great, but unlikely to win over any previous doubters.  It's a solid pop record with art-rock trappings that elevate it to something more.  I maintain her records improved substantially after her collaboration with David Byrne, and you can still feel that influence here.



Surfing Magazines is a pretty different beast.  Garage Americana, but with lyrics about Monster Munch.  The band consists of members of Wave Pictures and Slow Club, and the album makes a fine accompaniment to a Sunday afternoon.  There's nothing here you haven't heard before, truth be told, but it's rendered damn well, and it's one of the few records where I'm happy to overlook a bit of noodling...

That David Byrne St Vincent album is unbelievable.

Listening to The Queen is Dead a lot by The Smiths.

To be sure a 7 if ever there was one.

Was pretty fun, made me think of Sonic Boom Six, but heavier and Americaner (I know not a word, but it rolled out)

Liam album is hilarious. His voice is great. Catchy enough, but the lyrics, I'm convinced were written using a "random idiom generator."

The one where she strangled a cat for five minutes?

Really been enjoying listening to the various shows on https://www.nts.live/ over the last couple of months. Right now I'm really really digging Sacred Pools which is live on Ch.2. Mad noisy industrial punk stuff I'm not normally exposed to, but I'm having a blast with this! The shows and NTS in general are super variable though so if you tune in at a later time it will be something totally different and possibly offensive to sensibilities.

Brooks wrote:

Srsly this shit is in the same bracket as swing covers.

The bad stuff's awful and gives retrowave a bad name. Most of retrowave is the bad stuff.

ZMM wrote:

US garage somewhere between garage and house, wasn't it.

Lean-to.

Does that mean she ate it after?

The Cure - Disintegration

What a slam dunk 10 out of 10 classic. Perfect in the car turned up loud

A year since the first track was out in the wild to test the water, the first album is here

https://open.spotify.com/album/7HN9oHogYUDhIJPtnHEgPP

I'll sound a hypocrite now, the amount of time I've said I've very little time for Radiohead, and that Muse just sounded like a goth/metal Radiohead. Well in many ways so do these guys. Like almost everything Steve does it's a lovely piece of production, in some past projects (Spycatcher I'm looking at you) the production has been given too much of a front seat, and whilst this sounds both expansive and expensive, it's not a self congratulatory advert for Titan Studios

So yeah, people will sell it based on the previous bands of the members, and whilst that is relevant, don't expect a mosh pit. Yes there are Gallows, Sikth and Cry For Silence, but those bands were big over 15 years ago, shit guys, we done got old. This has all the tech you'd expect from metal fans, but coupled with a really ethereal feel. My favourite tracks are the more simple ones, building a big soundscape, layer by layer, and slamming the chord changes and simple lyrics down your throat at the same time, often followed by a crunch or fuzz pedal to remind you that they were metal once, along with the drop d tuning, they really want to make that point clear. Does exactly what it says on the tin, pretty much what I'd expect Uxfest 2001 to sound like if it happened tomorrow

I guess I don't listen to enough of this music to know what to call it, nu-goth, indie-metal, mid-life-core, but I find myself drawn to it. Mikee performed fantastic vocal gymnastics in Sikth, Frank was a frontman and a half for Gallows, but maybe the musicianship got a little lost behind that. The catchy hooks of Spycatcher might also have made you forget that these guys can play. This album isn't prog by any means, they work great live, which sounds weird through my headphones, I guess I wouldn't have kept going if it was no good though

Anyway, I'm biased and slightly invested, make of it what you will

Bob wrote:

The Cure - Disintegration

What a slam dunk 10 out of 10 classic. Perfect in the car turned up loud

Great shout - love that album.

Trying to decide between just disappointment or out right hatred for the production on the new weezer.