Aaron D’Angiolillo
Project Hail Mary Score - Daniel Pemberton (Orchestral/synth)
This album is so cool and is great study music. The mix of cool orchestra parts and intricate spacey sounds make for a great listening experience.
I found this while looking for music to listen to while reading the book.
Bleeds - Wednesday (Southern Gothic)
While I don’t usually go for albums with country sound, Wednesday manages to find a perfect balance between southern sounds and intense screamy vocals. A hit for me on this album was Elderberry wine, it’s deceptively happy tone gives a great contrast to the somber post breakup reflection lyrics
After my friend told me to checkout Wednesday’s previous album “Rat Saw God” I wanted to check out some of their other music.
Rae Nawrocki
Miyazaki - Paris Paloma
really like what Paloma is doing with her music and presence online and this song has really
resonated with me as a designer and creator.
Exit Music for a film - Radiohead
Radiohead is there because I’ve been stressed ya know, gotta make it worse somehow ya feel.
Phthisis - sleepytime gorilla museum
Phthisis’s sound has just interested me.
All found from the horrors of the doomscrolling
Douglas Frederick
Warfare - Metal Anarchy
Metal Anarchy by Warfare is a raw, chaotic, punky take on speed metal from 1985. Produced by Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, the album is an overlooked gem from the NWOBHM. For fans of: Motörhead, Venom, Tank
The Rezillos - Can’t Stand the Rezillos
Can’t Stand the Rezillos is an early pop-punk album from Scotland with excellent vocal performances. All the songs are very catchy without sacrificing the aggression of the early punk movement. For fans of: The Ramones, The Replacements, Iggy and the Stooges
All found online
Eli Standard
Good lies – Overmono (electronic album)
I’ve been really into this deep, bass-driven sound with a lot of the electronic music I’ve been listening to recently, but I’ve also been into super densely-textured IDM music, and this album feels like a perfect in-between. Between the dreamlike vocals and borderline lo-fi production, Good Lies has an incredibly unique sound that you can easily lose yourself in.
HiTech (ghettotech duo)
While I love a good festival banger, today’s mainstream EDM can get to be too much. So, it’s refreshing to hear artists like HiTech bring something to the table that simultaneously relaxes you and makes you want to shake your ass. Ghettotech, along with all of the dance music genres that have come out of Detroit, is so fun - albeit silly at times - to listen to. This duo has brought a modern take on the genre that I find addictive, and I would kill to be at one of their sets.
I found both through dj sets where I heard their tracks being played, and then I went and dug into both discographies.
Parker Causey
Jonathan Fire*Eater - Wolf Songs for Lambs
I enjoyed WSFL because of the unique drum sound and organ that drives most of the songs, giving off an eerie esque sound in the late 90’s transition to post rock. I think people should check it out because it has the sound (especially vocally with Stewart Lupton) that I think inspired some Modest Mouse or Julian Casablancas and The Strokes - they just saw more commercial praise for it as JFE’s sound was critically acclaimed and had labels fighting over signing them, but was a bit ahead of their time sound wise.
I found JFE through Third Man Records, my local record store in Nashville
The Innocence Mission – Glow
I enjoyed The Innocence Mission because of the connection I feel it has to The Sundays or Cocteau Twins vocally. The sonics, especially with the reverbed vocals with chamber type vocals and effects that drive this album before they switched to more of a folk sound. I think that’s why it’s worth checking out, especially for fans of Mazzy Star, Slowdive, or The Cranberries.
I found The Innocence Mission album through a friend.
