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[newforever]

https://ift.tt/HXUkCsL This Line You Drew XArDX

[liomdog]

↠ ✦ BASSLINE5000ANTHEMIC

A musicagender/songgender described best by feeling that BASSLINE 5000 by Android52 is one’s anthem. A BASSLINE 5000 musicagender.

More personal genders! BASSLINE 5000 represents a lot of my personal growth as a transmasc dude and my ambitions for my transition into becoming myself. I hope other people can connect with it, and if it's popular enough I'll make a general BASSLINE 5000 musicagender :0]

ID: a flag with 6 circles inside of one another. the central circle has a band of pink around the outside, and there are three circles of pink dots emanating from it. The colours from inner circle to outer circle besides the pink are: black, dark purple, cyan, ocean blue, dark grey, black. the flag has a white music note in the central circle. ID OVER.

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[thesunlounge]

Reviews 328: Steady Income Band

Having just visited the musical world of the mysterious Prince Ozay, I’d like to now turn my attention to another project celebrating secretive identities and transportive balearica known as Steady Income Band, who’ve just released an untitled 7” on Pond Life. As in my Prince Ozay review, I won’t spoil the secret, though here it is less well kept and the inclusion of the letters “MG” and “GA” on the artwork alongside even a cursory search will reveal the project’s origins. But regardless of the source, the sounds are what matter, and across two spiritual sonics immersions, Steady Income Band carry the mind to seaside jungle paradises and forbidden temple rituals, wherein minimalist machine rhythms, island hand percussions, and slap bass funk romantics sit beneath pan-pipe mysticisms; stoner riffs anchor molten glam-psych climaxes while fuzz leads set the air flame; mallet instruments fall like rain against a drunken tom-tom ritual; and layers of free jazz esoterica are manipulated via outer-dimensional dub transformations.

Steady Income Band - Untitled (Pond Life, 2020) The A-side beings with cosmic crystals generating soothing currents of resonance while waves of some intergalactic ocean crash far in the distance. New age melodies colored in hues of teal and sapphire are buried in the ethereal murk, drones waver like a mirage as cymbals and tambourines work into the mix, and eventually, a rainforest groove develops around these sexual slap bass licks...the vibe slow, low, and methodical…like tropical funk reduced to its skeletal essence. Congas and bongos induce further body hypnosis and mystical pan-pipe melodies cycle through the sky as warming waves of synthesis billow in, hover in place, then mysteriously fade away. There are subdued instrumental choruses wherein quivering pads bathe the mix in hues of a noir sunset and ambient chord stabs push through the tropical fog…as if dream house pianos are being rendered through a balearic blur. The mix eventually reduces to exotica percussion accents, birdsong lasers, and cymbal taps, which then sets up a molten climax of psychedelic power, as proto-doom riffing crunches beneath anthemic fuzz shred sorcery. After this riffadelic freak out, we settle into lounge jazz smolder, with the guitar still shredding...only now the tones are clean, liquid, and buried under layers of smoke. And as the track ends, the slip slappy basslines slowly fade away, leaving behind a Floyd-ian rhythm pulse, heavenly string orchestrations, and spiraling blues leads.

On the flip, marimbas splash and splatter through a spring reverb haze while tribal tom-toms flub and flob into a drunken processional. The fall of idiophonic rain is crazed and asymmetrical, with tones pitch-shifting and bending in ways that defy logic, and rainforest whistles commune with sci fi laser zaps, swooshes of resonant feedback, and insectoid oscillations. The robot-tribal ceremonial never relents, though it sometimes seems to malfunction, with beats clattering over themselves and sounding as if they might fall apart, only to snap back to the ritualistic temple groove. Tapped cymbal accents break free from the rhythmic flow only to disperse into a fractal glow and abstracted feedback melodies evoke the songs of some sickly bird while pools of primordial liquid bubble and boil. Subtle dub fx add an additional layer of alien psychedelia and as the track continues to lurch and lumber, my mind drifts to the earliest free jazz vision quest of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, though here everything’s been chained to a cyborg pulse and slowed to the speed of a delirium dream.

(images from my personal copy)

[iheartmoosiq]

By now, I’m sure many of you have been enjoying new Of Monsters and Men with much relish for days. But just in case you’ve been hiding out under a rock, the beloved Icelandic band has made their long awaited return with Alligator, an anthemic sweeping first taste of their next album. It’s been four long years since Beneath The Skin, and news of a fresh OMaM record is music to our ears! The band goes bigger than they’ve ever gone on the bold soaring, vibrantly empowering song. Rambunctious beats and lavish synths abound as OMaM leave their mountain folk roots far behind on Alligator with a high flying alt rock meets synthpop sound that feels like a cross between MS MR and Silversun Pickups. New music also means a return to the stage as Of Monsters and Men prepare to play Life Is Beautiful in September. Their tour for new album Fever Dream, which drops July 26th via Republic, takes them clear across North America this fall, with a headlining slot at the massive Bill Graham Civic Auditorium here in San Francisco on September 24th. 

[liomdog]

↠ ✦ STILLHEREANTHEMIC

A musicagender/songgender described best by feeling that I'm Still Here by John Rzeznik from Treasure Planet (2003) is one's anthem. An I'm Still Here musicagender.

This is a very personal gender to me, so here are some qualities I associate with it: resilience, transmasculinity, coming of age, the euphoria of being oneself, finding chosen family, and determination to be happy.

ID: a flag with 6 circles inside of one another. The colours from inner circle to outer circle are: deep blue, pastel yellow, pale brown, dark turquoise, turquoise, deep blue. the flag has a red music note in the central circle. ID OVER.

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[thesunlounge]

Eleventeen Eston - Two Stroke Vertical Climb (from Delta Horizon, Not Not Fun 2014 / Growing Bin 2019)

[iheartmoosiq]

Badflower is a rising Southern California rock quartet who’s just signed to newly formed imprints Big Machine/John Varvatos Records. In fact, they’re their inaugural signing and quite the striking statement from the newly minted partnership. Exuding some of the 90s angst of Nirvana alongside their emphatic modern rock, Badflower delivers an emotive anthem in their single Ghost, currently featured on many top playlists on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon. Badflower will be taking their charged momentum to the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 22nd in Las Vegas. It’s not hard to picture how intensely scintillating Badflower is going to be on stage after taking in the raw burning passion and guitar wailing energy of Ghost. The single is available now via all digital retailers and streaming services, here.