Daddyopolis

So much good music

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Here's a striking deep cut on the latest album from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog. There's a wonderful thick guitar tone and furious chug to the rhythm section going on here. Love it! Don't let the jazz tag on the Bandcamp page fool you - these old dudes can still rock out.

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Just saw Colin Stetson at the NAC, part of the Ottawa Jazz Fest.

My god this man can make a glorious racket on his horn. He played some new songs that sounded awesome - the epic closer from his set, played on that giant bass saxophone of his, was especially a stunner. Can't wait to hear the next album!

Anyhow here's a classic example of his style - "Spindrift" from his 2017 LP All This I Do For Glory:

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One-off pandemic-era single by hushed folkie Julie Byrne and ambient shoegazer Jefe Cantu-Ledesma... it's a skywards reaching slice of epic dream pop. I would love to hear an album's worth of this!

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Huh I wasn't expecting this - I was looking for the Halifax/Montreal power pop band but stumbled across this groovy Dutch space rock outfit instead. Long unfurling tracks that build to an epic finish. If this isn't your thing try Monomyth.

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Heavy Meddo - Yearning Yupple Honor Roll

Blast offs like this are a good start to my day. Loud, noisy, and weird. A glory sound bath that you wish you could linger for another few minutes before ‘real life’ returns.  

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groovy psychedelic drone-rock!

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Wowza, far out man! Very cool psychedelic kosmische space drone from a dude in Kansas City... ... that somehow got reissued on CD by a label in Poland. I mean, what are the odds?

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YT//ST are back with another bonkers slab of progtallic hard rock candy pop heaviosity... Hells to the yeah!

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still overpowering after all these years

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Super-catchy power-poppin' punk from Sudbury. Features guy from Statues. Unfortunately looks like a one-and-done proposition - this single came out in 2015 and nothing from this duo since.

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So hey this is neat. Burial Songs consists of four long unfurling tracks of skywards-reaching shoegaze melodies over a bedrock throb of doom riffage. Sez one bandcamp listener: "I've finally found a band that sounds like what I hear in my head when I read the word doomgaze." I have to agree. DYK that this record was voted as the #1 album of 2017 by Echoes and Dust?

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I think I've found my new favourite band. Meat Wave does noisy post punk, on this track showing off their Chicago heritage (LP produced by Steve Albini BTW), and also manages to sneak in a little Buzzcocks influence at the end with that one-note piano solo. Great stuff!

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RIP Mark E. Smith. One-of-a-kind curmudgeon.

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An old fave from when these Scots preferred a massive wall of sound to their current dour postpunk vibe.

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You know you're getting old when ... you get introduced to a cool garage rock band via a current affairs show on the radio. Yup, I was listening to CBC's "As It Happens" while driving home from the grocery store, and they played this tune during their closing segment. I had to pull over and whip out my phone so I could look up the song. Turns out this band is from Montreal and according to their Bandcamp page, they have been releasing records since 2013. Who knew? Not this fogey.

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Fantastic album by Wacław Zimpel and Kuba Ziołek. A review in The Quietus describes this pretty well:

"Where the two sounds of Zimpel and Ziołek end up meeting actually sounds something like Mike Oldfield in his 70s heyday. The four tracks on Zimpel/Ziołek are mostly long, breaking the ten minute mark, segueing between sections of multitracked acoustic guitars and a bobbing ocean of interlocked organ notes, interspersed with Zimpel’s clarinets and the odd bit of drum programming."

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wowza! galloping mathy postpunk from Beijing!

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Planning for Burial generally rocks, but this specifically is their pop song.