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1 hour ago, navybsn said:

Deine Lakaien - Dark Star & 2nd Star - definitely weird @FatherAlabaster, but I dig it. Thanks for the rec!

They are a bit weird. Their lyrics get downright silly sometimes. Germans, huh?

I really dig all their 90s stuff - Forest Enter Exit, Winter Fish Testosterone, Kasmodiah, all good. 

NP: Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage   ...a real love letter to the industry and life and everything

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Spirit World-Deathwestern

Misþyrming-Með hamri-Pretty good for a first run through

Worm Rot/Hiss-not feeling this

Non metal 2022 streams:

The Beths/Experts in a Dying Field

Wet Leg S/T

Kurt Vile/Watch My Moves-been listening to this guy for a few years now-dig his new one-super melo old school laconic rocker

 

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4 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

They are a bit weird. Their lyrics get downright silly sometimes. Germans, huh?

I really dig all their 90s stuff - Forest Enter Exit, Winter Fish Testosterone, Kasmodiah, all good. 

NP: Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage   ...a real love letter to the industry and life and everything

Yeah, silly for sure. I'll check out some more of their discography. Germans are a certainly weird bunch. Maybe it's too much bratwurst in the diet.

I passed on a mint first press of Joe's Garage this weekend that the guy wanted $125 for. He had We're only in it for the Money for the same price. As great as those 2 albums are, they're not worth $250.

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On to more weird shit. I haven't come close to putting together my EOTY list yet, but I guarantee that CoO will top the list. Just need to figure out which of the 3 will take the cake.

Circle of Ouroborus - Thurisa (2022)

CoO - Autala (2022)

CoO - Aavikon varjo (2022)

CoO - Kotiinpaluu (2016)

CoO - Alttarimyllyt (2015)

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6 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I have a few of his albums and enjoy them but I have been resisting his new one as I thought to would be more of the same. I'll check it out.

It's really not a departure, but something about it really works for me.

Kevin Morby/Photograph- indie folk blues rocker I've been following for a few years put out his best album in 2022. Beautiful Dylanesque album. 

Black Country New Road/Ants from Up there-just discovering from from AOTY rock reviews-making quite the impression on the big platforms-challenging post punk/post rock, experimental, almost avant garde....lot to dig into to say the least. Gonna spend some time with this one. 

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Kevin Morby - This is a Photograph. Well alrighty then, let's have a look at what a modern day indie folk blues rocker's latest Dylanesque 2022 album sounds like. Dude definitely sounds like a throwback to the late 70's. A modern but very minimal take on Dylan meets Neil Young meets Tom Petty - but smoother than any of them. Banjos and strings notwithstanding, I get why you might dig this. It's pleasant enough I guess, I don't really mind it, but it's probably a bit too milquetoasty for me. Each song seems to have a bt of a different feel to it, I was expecting to hear some more up front acoustic guitar strumming, but it seems to be missing and instead they went in favor of strings and harps and a pedal steel guitar and a sax and some other decidedly less rock & rolly instrumentation and what sounds like some kids doing backing vocals on some tracks and a woman on some others. Not really my thing so I guess I'll just have to keep looking for the next Bob Dylan. I'm sure it has a very high WAF though. 

 

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