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Priori - This But More (dubbed out ambient techno)
Full Bloom - Time Zones (kinda trip-hop, acid jazz even)
David Torn - Cloud About Mercury (some of the guitars on the above album are Torn-y and sparked a revisit)
White Ward - False Light (Ukrainian black metal with interesting prog-ish tendencies)
Omni - Souvenir (Strokes-y herky jerky rock)
Cola - Deep in View (Similar, but better ^^^)
Pugilist - Banoffee Pies Beats 04 (more 90s-y trip-hoppiness)
Sneaks - Gymnastics (No-wave-y dance-y shit)
Sonic Youth - Murray St (duh)
The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore (still can’t put it down)
Arooj Aftab - Night Reign (insanely beautiful, just listen)
Au Suisse - Au Suisse (80s-worshipping goodness)
Pile - All Fiction (def a very fave rock release over the past couple years)

Edit: adding audiobooks...

Listened to Jonathan Heidt's The Happiness Hypothesis recently and really enjoyed it. Also Thurston Moore's Sonic Life ruled, and I'm currently listening to a book called The Courage to Be Disliked, which explores Adlerian psychology in an interesting way. Some of it's a little corny in the delivery (the premise of the book is a conversation between a young student and an old philosopher) but I've found a lot of it nonetheless very interesting and useful. Also lately I've read Babel by R.F. Kuang, finished the last book of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, and am about halfway through The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, all of which would probably be great to listen to. Outside the sort of sci-fi/alternate history realm, I read Martyr by Kaveh Akbar and North Woods by Daniel Mason, both of which I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed.

GraemeE

Thanks again everyone.

Sorry to temporarily hijack this thread for personal gain but having a bunch of new music is such a nice get well present and almost as great as having narcotics on demand at the touch of a button .

goosehd

@GraemeE Don’t know if you can watch movies (might be a good break) but was thinking either the Wall or clockwork orange.

Matt

@popvulture just listened to the new Cola this week.

Matt

@GraemeE I need to get me one of those.

J-IV

@GraemeE
I got you. Random tunes but should keep you busy. Hope all is well and you're on the fast track to getting home and listening to some wax again.

Babe Rainbow (Today)
Kenny Dorham (Afro-Cuban)
Raveena (Where The Butterflies Go in the Rain)
Parcels (Live Vol. 1)
Lou Donaldson (Swing and Soul)
NxWorries (Why Lawd?)

GraemeE

@Matt you have to climb to the mountain top of all potential human pain and look the devil straight in his eyes
(Once you descend from Mt doom they give you popsicles)

Also decent health insurance coverage

popvulture

@Matt ahh shit I knew a new one was coming but didn’t realize it’d actually dropped. Hell yes! Did you listen to Ought?

Matt

@popvulture I haven’t. I’ll check that out tomorrow, thank you.

popvulture

@Matt they’re definitely good. I’d heard of them years ago and listened a little — liked it but didn’t really spend any more time with them until I got into Cola and went backwards. Cool to see the guy’s chops developing.

GraemeE

@J-IV said in Music:

NxWorries (Why Lawd?)

This is amazing - holy shit

GraemeE

FUUUUCK....easily the best new hip hop album I have heard in years
https://open.spotify.com/album/0LlzHi8Erl8zpTumqt88Qe?si=d232aHhcSKy0HYirrcBvQg

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