What album are you listening to right now?

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the wonder years - no closer to heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpJkJ3duYo&list=PLKAm0swRNckvzyG-CdD6cy5cwiVmlusAn

i have a bit to sit with this and its so moving and honest that it brings me to tears

the allmusic review

"Daniel "Soupy" Campbell, the lead singer and lyricist of the Wonder Years, has never been a guy hesitant to wear his heart on his sleeve, which, of course, is part of the point of being in what is generally thought of as an emo band. But while Campbell has always had plenty to say about the stories of fellow kids from Philly trying to make sense of an often unforgiving world, he's chosen to take on bigger themes on the Wonder Years' fifth album. Released in 2015, No Closer to Heaven is a song cycle Campbell has written from the perspective of a man struggling to come to terms with the death of a loved one (( * from drugs)), and Campbell doesn't hold back a bit of the guilt, grief, anger, confusion, and hopelessness that roars through his psyche every time his thoughts turn to the departed. While Campbell takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride on No Closer to Heaven, the surprise is that as broad as he plays this material, he never seems to go overboard; Campbell digs deep as both a lyricist and a performer on this album, yet the songs still feel honest and real, as if the big hurt was plenty enough to justify the rage and agony that punctuate the songs. And the clean, widescreen production (by Steve Evetts) and hard, expressive performances from the band (especially guitarists Matthew Brasch and Casey Cavaliere and drummer Michael Kennedy) brilliantly reinforce the songs, delivering a passion and ferocity that's just as strong as what the frontman brings to the sessions. With No Closer to Heaven, Campbell and the Wonder Years have made an album that's more mature and thoughtful than before, but no less passionate and direct, and it ranks with their finest work to date as well as suggesting this band has an interesting and exciting future ahead."
 
have mercy - a place of our own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMcjMFEtMWc


-to convey

"i remember your hands at my throat, a sweet reminder how youll never let go, to convey is this the best way you know, theres nothing better than ever stoop this low, if ever get my hands on you"

-two years

"[Verse 1]
Two years now and I'm alone again
Close your eyes and count to ten and tell me
How the hell you've been?
"I'll be okay: I promise and I swear.”
As they open up I ask abruptly
“When? and Why? and Where?”
I found the shoulder
I found the closest one
Confessed my fears and that it's done
I can't stare at the ceiling anymore
As the story goes, we always know that when it rains it pours…

[Chorus]
I had a life and I had friends
I miss all of them

[Verse 2]
I stare at the picture on my sill from Opening Day
The times that were a thril
Coughing heavy from the habit I should've quit
I wonder if I did if it would've helped a little bit

[Chorus]

i had a life and i had friends and i miss all of them
[
Bridge]

I paced the places and the hallways where we'd meet
Hoping one day you'd come my way and sweep me off my feet
But, two years now and I'm alone again
Close your eyes and count to ten and tell me
How the hell you've been?

[Chorus]

i had a life and i had friends and i miss all of them"
 
the hotelier - home, like no place there is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSIM8TMErY


the words an introduction to the album

"Open the curtains.
Singing birds tell me "tear the buildings down."
You felt blessed to receive their pleasant sound.
Of things that break make you cringe inside yourself.
There's a child counting stars in their time-out of their day.
In the corners of their frame they are encased
in the losing of a grain of themselves
pushed against the ebb and flow.
Wave good-bye and watch it go.

Well show me the honest/proper way
to disarm predatory gaze
that's sucking dry and never satiated.
You've been misused
been rewired.
You're short-circuiting now.
Just remember when you'd call me to come,
take a deep breath, and then jump.
So fragile are bodies,
so concave, work in self-destructive ways.

You shot from the hip and missed.
Detaching from all of this.
In physical pictures you remain,
spiral 'round yourself in figure-eight.
I recoil at every new beginning.

I searched for a way out.
Don't we all?
An existentialist recall:
turn in all dichotomies and truths that I gave.
I felt wrong in many ways.
It didn't heal.
It just got harder everyday to be still,
to be passing through the throes
in a daze,
feeling heavy,
feeling cold in my skin,
in my hand-me-downs.
I'm wearing everything thin.
And the pills that you gave didn't do anything.
I just slept for years on end.

So if I call,
should I beg?
Because I'm desperate here;
a couple steps from the edge.
I can't seem to burn bright enough.
I'm cold and I'm left alone.
We're all alone.
Grab a hold.
I know I said to not. What the f*** do I know?
I had a chance to construct something beautiful and I choked"
 
The Creatures - Boomerang.
Exotica, sensual. Siouxsie is fantastic on it..
It has influenced Bjork on Debut although she has never recognized it.

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A bit if exotica:
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=n3uYOlqpA80[/video]

and sensuality
[video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5e2sx3OZFk[/video]
 
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Anybody here get the two new Beach House albums that came out the last few months. Both are really good and different from each other. It was nice to get so much music from them after so many years since their last album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5MiOqarYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQyiZiwklgw

Also, been listening Metz a lot lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNoIKQCVfyY

Both bands are on Sub Pop. I am really liking what the label has been doing the last several years.

Don't care for beach house or that style of music but I do like Metz and subpop in general. They've always put out cool stuff though
 
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