New Particles hand-snatched from the tube of the Large Genre Collider for the week ending 2015-09-11. This is what I am listening to in the universe where I have time to listen to all of this and still everything else.
| 1 |
Vreid |
"Haust" |
single |
Grim, infernal Norwegian blast by Vreid. |
| 2 |
Vidar Vang |
"Æ og du (her og nu)" |
single |
Warm, galloping Norwegian pop by Vidar Vang. |
| 3 |
Jadudah |
"Dandelions" |
single |
Shimmery, open-toed Norwegian shoegaze from Jadudah. |
| 4 |
Siam |
"Un Año Después" |
single |
Chiming Colombian arena-pop duet by Siam. |
| 5 |
Kwamie Liv |
"Pleasure This Pain" |
single |
Kwamie Liv and Angel Haze demonstrate the opposite of Taylor Swift relationship song. |
| 6 |
Vita Bergen |
"In the City" |
single |
Spiky, nervous post-punk by Vita Bergen. |
| 7 |
Joker |
"Microphone Show" |
single |
Joker and Ayben showing how to lay it down in Turkish. |
| 8 |
Black Tongue |
"Plague Worship" |
The Unconquerable Dark |
The kind of metal where it sounds like the guitars are solid blocks of iron that you play by bending them with overwhelming force, by Black Tongue. |
| 9 |
Better Off |
"Empty Handed" |
Milk |
Nashville pop emo by Better Off. |
| 10 |
I Was Totally Destroying It |
"Yours Truly" |
single |
Chapel Hill's I Was Totally Destroying It channeling 90s Boston alt-rock. |
| 11 |
RABBII |
"Hang Us High" |
single |
Springy electropop by RABBII (which is nominally an acronym, but sadly they don't sound anything like JEW). |
| 12 |
PASSEPIED |
"トキノワ" |
トキノワ +2 |
Squeaky, kaleidoscopic J-pop by passepied. |
| 13 |
BiSH |
"OTNK" |
OTNK +2 |
Crashing J-pop-folk-metal by BiSH (and I'll be perfectly happy if we eventually get hybrids of J-pop and every other metal subgenre). |
| 14 |
Lethe |
"Forever" |
single |
Ambient/avant-garde post-post-metal by Lethe. |
| 15 |
Lilly Wolf |
"Violence" |
single |
Not that many indietronicists get CHVRCHES' combination of airy pingingness and simmering drive, but Lilly Wolf does. |
| 16 |
Remember Sports |
"Reality TV" |
single |
Twee-punk-pop by Sports. |
| 17 |
Erland Dahlen |
"Snake" |
Blossom Bells |
The sounds of slow monsters sniffing at self-tuning instruments by Erland Dahlen. |
| 18 |
The Kickback |
"Sting's Teacher Years" |
single |
Snarly lo-fi power-pop by The Kickback. |
| 19 |
Fake Palms |
"Fever Dreams" |
Fake Palms |
Clattering, blurring post-punk stomp by Fake Palms. |
| 20 |
Kacy Hill |
"Foreign Fields" |
single |
Abstracted indie r&b by Kacy Hill. |
| 21 |
Mereki |
"Jenny (feat. Kitten)" |
single |
Blaring anti-social cheerleader-punk by Mereki and Kitten. |
| 22 |
AUTOBAHN |
"Immaterial Man" |
Dissemble |
AUTOBAHN remember what Bauhaus and the Sound sounded like. |
| 23 |
Lowtide |
"Julia" |
Julia / Spring 2 |
So, dreamily, do Lowtide. |
| 24 |
Static Daydream |
"More Than Today" |
Static Daydream |
Static Daydream may have The Three Johns more in mind. |
| 25 |
The Tempers |
"Undoing" |
single |
Tempers are closer to Lush and Curve. |
| 26 |
Wombbath |
"Under Apokalypsens Svarta Vingar" |
Downfall Rising |
Decidedly unnurturing punishment by Wombbath. |
| 27 |
P!nk |
"Today's The Day" |
single |
If I ever get a comforting, well-lit daytime talk show, P!nk can do my theme, too. |
| 28 |
Brooke Hogan |
"Avalanche" |
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend 5 |
If you miss Taylor Swift's country songs, maybe you'd like to listen to Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke. |
| 29 |
Small Black |
"Back at Belle's" |
single |
Sunny, beepy blur by Small Black. |
| 30 |
Slayer |
"Repentless" |
Repentless |
Slayer. |
| 31 |
Christine and the Queens |
"No Harm Is Done (feat. Tunji Ige)" |
single |
Methodical ticking and soft humming by Christine and the Queens. |
| 32 |
Pure Bathing Culture |
"Palest Pearl" |
single |
Synth-pop effervescence by Pure Bathing Culture. |
| 33 |
Synk;yet |
"自責ノ園" |
自責ノ園 5 |
J-goth-thrash-metal by Synk;yet. |
| 34 |
Petite Noir |
"Just Breathe" |
La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful |
Post-world indie-rock by Petite Noir. |
| 35 |
Empress Of |
"Everything Is You" |
Me |
Ethereal machinery by Empress Of. |
| 36 |
Calyx |
"Where We Go" |
Where We Go / Ghostwriter 2 |
Robo-reggae by Calyx, Teebee and Doctor. |
| 37 |
Killing Joke |
"I Am The Virus" |
single |
Cacophonous driving menace by Killing Joke. |
| 38 |
Cazadores |
"Fortunate Ones" |
single |
Anthemic stadium indie-rock by Cazadores. |
| 39 |
Venom One |
"Serenity - Radio Edit" |
Serenity 2 |
Uplifting hypertrance by Venom One. |
| 40 |
Tyrävyö |
"Niin kuin sä" |
Elämänpaneeli |
Finnish glam-punk from Tyrävyö. |
| 41 |
Iiris |
"Iridescent Love" |
single |
Etherpop smoke-filigree by Iiris. |
| 42 |
NMR - Norwegian Metal Resistance |
"The Only One" |
single |
One-woman (?), maybe-Christian maybe-Norwegian repatriation (rematriation?) of Japanese reintrepretation of Norwegian metal. I don't really understand what's going on here, but it's called Norwegian Metal Resistance. |
| 43 |
Fucking Werewolf Asso |
"My New Sneakers Could Never Replace My Multi-Colored Bangalores" |
Why Do You Love Me Satan? |
Berzerker noise-punk by Fucking Werewolf Asso. |
| 44 |
Metavari |
"Oh Diane" |
Oh Diane +1 |
Murmuring vocoder electronica by Metavari. |
| 45 |
June 1974 |
"Alone" |
single |
Laptop Vangelisisms from June 1974. |
| 46 |
LEVV |
"Darkness" |
Strange Fire 5 |
Dark metropopolis from LEVV. |
| 47 |
Wonderlick |
"Little Sweet Things" |
Super |
The closest thing to a new Too Much Joy album from Wonderlick. |
| 48 |
Skies Collide |
"Hollow Heart" |
Skies Collide 5 |
Glorious pop-punk-core from Skies Collide. |
| 49 |
Slow Riot |
"City of Culture" |
single |
What if The National were way noisier and called Slow Riot. |
| 50 |
Bendik |
"Siste gang" |
single |
Norwegian indie-rock by Bendik. |
| 51 |
Gabriella |
"E Timpul Meu Sa Zbor" |
single |
High-gloss Romanian Europop by Gabriella. |
| 52 |
Timmy Trumpet |
"Hipsta - Radio Edit" |
single |
Maniccomic grimestep by Timmy Trumpet that you may not need to listen to more than once, but. |
| 53 |
Red Velvet |
"Huff n Puff" |
The Red - The 1st Album |
Sugarproduction everything-overloaded first-full-album K-pop histrionics by Red Velvet. |
| 54 |
Charanpal |
"With You Now (I Am Thine)" |
Aeons |
Meditative world-fusion sinuosity from Charanpal. |
| 55 |
Superhumanoids |
"Anxious In Venice" |
Do You Feel OK? |
Superhumanoids are like CHVRCHES but a bit darker and sparer. |
| 56 |
The Japanese House |
"Clean" |
single |
Fumewave is what little is left of vaporwave, and there's a band called The Japanese House. |
| 57 |
GEMS |
"Tangled Memories" |
single |
GEMS also kind of sound like CHVRCHES, but the CHVRCHES album isn't out yet. |
| 58 |
Silversun Pickups |
"Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)" |
single |
Silversun Pickups don't sound as much like Smashing Pumpkins as they once did, which for me is good. |
| 59 |
Allison Weiss |
"Back to Me" |
single |
Youtube acoustic-cover-version star Allison Weiss goes electro-original. |
| 60 |
Angel Haze |
"Moonrise Kingdom" |
single |
Indie r&b of the r&b-going-indie kind from Angel Haze. |
| 61 |
Ohlayindigo |
"Heartbeat" |
single |
Jumpy indie-dance-pop by Ohlayindigo. |
| 62 |
Saintseneca |
"River" |
single |
Saintseneca keep the stomp in stomp and holler. |
| 63 |
Celldweller |
"Lost Treasures" |
single |
Celldweller go muted-soundtrack-gloom. |
| 64 |
Pjrox |
"No More Communication" |
single |
Cheerfully understated punk-power-pop from Pjrox. |
| 65 |
She's A Tease |
"Ven A Soñar" |
single |
Pulsing latintronic rock by She's A Tease. |
| 66 |
Alanis Morissette |
"Superstar Wonderful Weirdos" |
single |
Maybe a new single by Alanis Morissette or maybe an illicit recording of her singing in a hallway somewhere over a leftover backing loop, it's hard to tell exactly. |
| 67 |
Jewel |
"Love Used To Be" |
Picking Up The Pieces |
This new Jewel album seems subdued nearly to the point of collapse as I skim though it, but maybe when I listen to it all the way through it'll make more sense. |
| 68 |
Brannon |
"Fly Away (feat. MC Fox)" |
The Rocker, the Rappers & the Lyricist |
If I had 98 more artists like Brannon (and Dappy) I'd have a new genre of heedlessly rock-positive hip hop. |
| 69 |
Helios |
"Every Passing Hour" |
Yume |
Post-rock focus ambience by Helios. |
| 70 |
Engelsglut |
"Dunkle Mächte" |
Dunkle Mächte |
The kind of folk-rock where the folk is the folk from folk-metal, by Engelsglut. |
| 71 |
NERO |
"Circles" |
Between II Worlds |
The new album by my favorite whateverstep producer, because the sonics are reliably attached to songs, NERO. |
| 72 |
Dalriada |
"Amit ad az ég (Álmos búcsúja)" |
Áldás |
The new album by my favorite exuberantly florid Hungarian folk-metal band, Dalriada. |
| 73 |
Low |
"Gentle" |
Ones and Sixes |
The new Low album, which finds them discovering that studio equipment can be used to do other things than strictly amplifying terrifying near-silence. |
| 74 |
CHVRCHES |
"Clearest Blue" |
single |
And, to commemorate the not-released-yet-ness of the new CHVRCHES album, a new CHVRCHES song, which if you play it 12 times in a row is like a new CHVRCHES album. |
