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Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory And Injury ...I feel like @markm would appreciate the artsy synth/industrial post-BM vibe of this album. Great on the big speakers.

Hey man, welcome, glad you're enjoying it here.

Rush - Hemispheres

Tigran Hamasyan + Yerevan State Chamber Choir - Luys i Luso

His Hero Is Gone - Monument To Thieves

Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab

I couldn't do that. I can't even listen to most of the stuff I have in the car because it's got so much road noise it's impossible to make things out, and then all the albums have different volume levels. But I've always been one to put on one album front to back. It looks like I have just over 1100 albums on the phone right now, almost 94gb. The playlists are just albums I wind up grouping together a lot, like Nordic folk music, fusion, favorite albums by certain bands that I don't mind on shuffle.

I'll only do shuffle if it's off a playlist I make from albums I like together. Pretty much only for longer drives these days. Shuffling everything on my phone is a non-starter, way too jarring.

Al Di Meola - Casino Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

I agree. I warmed up to it more after I saw them live, too, whatever it feels like it's "missing" on the recording came through well onstage.

Frustratingly it's less than 3 hours from where I live and yet I know in advance that I will never have the time to go. But if you're in the region maybe we could meet up. My friend the bass player loved it this past year, I think she said Dødheimsgard was in her top ten shows ever.

Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

Ustalost - Before The Glinting Spell Unvests ...sorta not in the mood for this. Afterbirth - In But Not Of

Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness

My true battle is against Cocomelon.

Weird day for listening, I can't settle on a damn thing. NP Voivod - Nothingface.

Wrath? Me? Never! It's a good illustration. Nobody is handing out points for good anatomy and perspective in a piece like this. The unrefined "naive" treatment has a folk art character that makes it feel more urgent, more like a document of something somebody actually experienced, which is a feeling that a more polished approach could easily fail to convey. Palette. Palette. The palate is part of your mouth. You wanna see wrath? "Color palate". With love, your pal the art snob

whew, I thought I was going to have to read that

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime ...the young lad opened his big mouth about "80s rock" and "opera" and here we are

Soundtrack for a Jack Johnson documentary. The album was initially just called Jack Johnson (like the doc) but my CD is "A Tribute", so a tribute it is.

Self titled debut is cool too. I haven't checked out anything since the original vocalist died. NP: Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson I could fucking wish the drums weren't smushed over to the right side, given what a triumph of production this is in other ways, but the trumpet hangs in front of me like Macbeth's dagger. Big speakers for the win.

I haven't heard anything else quite like it either. It's been years since I put myself through it. The voice recordings are really unsettling. I remember reading somewhere that they combed through a lot of secondhand tapes from pawn shops and so forth, but I don't actually know the backstory for those. As far as the later stuff goes... kudos to them, and I like it. I really got into the immersive soundscape of To Be Kind. But none of it is as compelling to me as the pre-breakup material. Maybe that's just because I listened to it so much when I was younger. Maybe part of it is also what Jarboe added. I don't get into her solo stuff, but she brought so much depth and weirdness to the band.

No issue, no need to defend. I'm surprised that you love it. Knowing how demanding and analytical you are in your listening, it seems incongruous to me. I feel like if you heard the musical equivalent of something this derivative and poorly executed, you'd have a scathing review ready to go before the end of the first song. I do think there's a very broad spectrum of "good art", and something doesn't need to be technically impressive to be impactful and meaningful, and being a good illustration is outside of both of those considerations. But even with that in mind I think this cover art sucks. It flaunts a lack of effort. So many other images in the genre are just way cooler and better done. I don't really put a lot of stock in cover art either way but this makes me a bit less likely to want to listen to the music. So yeah, I'm a little surprised to see your high standards for music juxtaposed with genuine enjoyment of this piece. But I'm also not telling you what to enjoy... if this works for you, then great. You are the target audience. Love wins.

Really? Unironically?

Those two and Non Serviam are the ones I go for. I haven't warmed up to anything past that yet.