Weekly Music Club

[hatkirby]

Time to look at the favorites playlist on my old (pre 2013) last.fm account!

• In My Eyes - Body Talk Pt. 2 - Robyn
  • I was really into this EP, and this song in particular, back in high school. Haven't really thought of Robyn very much since then, apart from when she was a guest judge on Drag Race. I think this is really catchy and hopeful though. Side note I love when songs shout out like a record label or a producer at the beginning of the track. "Red One, Konvict, Gaga" at the beginning of Lady Gaga's Just Dance is so iconic.
• I'd Like - Nomvula - Freshlyground
  • I only just learned right now somehow that there's a music video for this, but I linked to the full song instead because the video cuts it up in a way that I think diminishes the emotional buildup. It's such a beautiful song. I first heard it as a dubstep remix.
• Don't Let It Go To Your Head - Sunday Love - Fefe Dobson
  • This is way more rock and edgy than anything else I listen to but I still love it. It's a really good album overall. I got into her because Jordin Sparks covered this song on her second album, which was the first album I ever bought. Selena Gomez also covered a different song on the album lol. Sunday Love went unreleased for a number of years but it got released digitally at some point.
• Love Is Dead - Love Is Dead - Kerli
  • Okay this fucks. Why am I not listening to this every day. Intense but also beautiful. I actually wrote a review of this album on my blog 14 years ago lol.

[hatkirby]

• Breathe In - Terra Lumina - Terra Lumina
  • Fucking loved this album when I was in highschool and my first go at college when being a STEM major was a significant part of my identity. It's still pretty good! Nerdy as fuck but it has a nice sound.

This is a very pretty song! Those plants sound cool I hope they're doing alright.

• Dawn of Man - Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido - Michael Guy Bowman
  • This album is the first bandcamp purchase on my account! At least, the since removed version that was on the official homestuck bandcamp was. I still greatly enjoy Bowman's sound. I really should get his independent work.

Is this the guy that did I Don't Want to Miss a Thing for homestuck??? I recognize the voice omg. THIS GUY MADE SBURBAN JUNGLE??????

https://www.fourisland.com/quotes/699

• Stellar Alchemist - The Sky is Calling - Kim Boekbinder
  • Another science themed song and album that I loved in highschool. This one one of the first non-homestuck albums I bought independent of my dad's music, and frankly, I was right, this fucks. I should listen to it more.

This song samples a recording taken by NASA . It's pretty bopping though!

• Keep Breathing - Be Okay - Ingrid Michaelson
  • This was music that I inherited from my dad back in middle school, and one of my favorite songs by this artist. There's no way I had an undiagnosed anxiety disorder what are you talking about.

This sounds like something I'd listen to in high school. It's sweet. The only other Ingrid song I know is Boys Chase Girls.

• Sedna - The Road To Santiago - Heather Dale
  • Another middle school favorite. Possibly even elementary? Heather Dale was one of the first artists I found on my own as a small. This song has the honor of being what I named my first fic after! Why I decided a ship named Sedna would be going to Mars when there's a fucking dwarf planet named Sedna is beyond present me, but I was in a pretty fucking weird brainspace when I started that fic so who knows.

Yessss I recognized the name! I like it, it's got a bassline, it's got that folk Irish singing inflection. Heck yeah.

[qwint]

I recently went back through my bandcamp account and checked out a ton of songs and albums I missed,
including some:
Femtanyl (their whole discography pretty much but their opening song ACT RIGHT from the album CHASER is a fun taster of their style)
A couple of Blue Stones albums i missed, a stand-out imo being What's it take to be happy with the killer of a lyric, "What's it take to be happy, cause I'll just quit and do that"
A fun two-sided release by 2mello that I just loop the two together, but the drop on the dark side track is probably what I'd highlight as my favorite part of them as a whole

but most of all I've been looping Jamie Paige's Constant Companions. A fun exploration of using vocal synths to duet and multi-layer lines,
with some of my favorites being Liaison, the singles that drew me to the album (ROT FOR CLOUT, Machine Love, BIRDBRAIN),

and Object of Affection
which has consumed my brain and ears for a couple days now,
there's something unexplainable about how much this song scratches the back of my brain in such a satisfying way,

it even got me to search up more about the song - something i rarely do unprompted, leaning more towards individual interpretation as the more important side of music and art as a whole than creator intent - and thankfully Jamie Paige dropped what seems like a tumblr post describing every song's making-of on the album, with Object of Affection's post just absolutely deepening my obsession with with the piece

But at the end of the day I just love the non-gendered, irrespective of "type", "level", or "deepness" (a la split attraction and just the variety of how individuals express), term of endearment that is both the title and reenforced through the story painted within: "Object of Affection"

[BeelieveinBees]

...
but most of all I've been looping Jamie Paige's Constant Companions. A fun exploration of using vocal synths to duet and multi-layer lines,
with some of my favorites being Liaison, the singles that drew me to the album (ROT FOR CLOUT, Machine Love, BIRDBRAIN),

and Object of Affection
which has consumed my brain and ears for a couple days now,
there's something unexplainable about how much this song scratches the back of my brain in such a satisfying way,

it even got me to search up more about the song - something i rarely do unprompted, leaning more towards individual interpretation as the more important side of music and art as a whole than creator intent - and thankfully Jamie Paige dropped what seems like a tumblr post describing every song's making-of on the album, with Object of Affection's post just absolutely deepening my obsession with with the piece

But at the end of the day I just love the non-gendered, irrespective of "type", "level", or "deepness" (a la split attraction and just the variety of how individuals express), term of endearment that is both the title and reenforced through the story painted within: "Object of Affection"

I'm laughing, I saw the music club notif and was like! Oh! New tunes! And I paused the music I was listening to, which happened to be Jamie Paige's Constant Companions, to go check it out.

Well, Femtanyl was fun and new. And I cannot argue that Constant Companion ain't great.

[qwint]

sounds like you have good taste then!

I really have to go through and listen to all the other songs yall have recommended and talked about in this thread, but I just really needed to write down some of my thoughts on the Object of Affection and thought now's as good a time as any to contribute :p

But Femtanyl is a mess (affectionate) and I'm really glad I found them

Some other eclectic recommendations from my Bandcamp collection for your enjoyment (but not necessarily what i'm listening to this week, scandalous):
Feng Suave's self titled album a very smooth listen and one of my all time favs (I literally have a discord note for a friend that is only mentioning they also like this album lol)
Neon Impasse one of the many instrumental albums from City Girl opening with another of my all-time favorite songs Ji-eun's Sunset
Stillness in Wonderland, a hiphop album which, while i'm a sucker for alice in wonderland imagery, also just stands on its own merits of beautiful music
And yet another self titled album this time from Moon Hooch which is a wonderful capsule of their style of in-your-face drums, and absolutely blasted out saxophones carrying just as much a rhythm on their own. Also some extra notes, the album has a wonderfully coherent tracklist, and if you check out the music you should also watch one of their life shows (i personally recommend the tiny desk concert) to see the entire energy they bring

[BeelieveinBees]

Hey! I am so not ready to start up the proper weekly prompts again, but I did find a website that seems topical!

chosic is a website that suggests songs to you based on inputted songs / artists! I'm finding some interesting stuff this way. There's also a bunch of other music tools at the home website, but a decent portion of those are directly tied to spotify so I'm not as interested.

Also if anyone else wants to come up with some prompts for the weekly music share pile, feel free!