The Chorus Music Club Society • Page 42

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this. I spent ages last night trying to find my match.
who still hasn't gotten back to me :/

 

this week I've given @EmmanuelSCastle Liars - Mess and Young Thug - JEFFERY

I await his picks

 

If he doesn't get back to you or your tired of waitting, I can partner with you. Me and my current are only trading 1 album each so I can handle a second partner if need be.

 

Thanks for the offer but he seems to be very active so I’m sure he’ll come around to it!

 

Fair enough, the offer stand either way!

 

Look kid, this ain’t my first rodeo. There is only one place this leads to. Me, a bottle of whiskey, a shitty radio rip of Wolves and tears in my eyes.

 

Have you heard Story of the year-Wolves yet?

 

I have been paired with @Fuck You Aurora for session 3.

They will be listening to...
- Captain We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled
- Noah Gundersen - Carry the Ghost

I will be listening to...
- Alkaline Trio - My Shame is True
- Dan Adriano In The Emergency Room - Party Adjacent

 

it was hard not to haha

 

Did you love it as much as @WolvesAreCircling182 and myself?

 

Makes sense

 

Still waiting on your review!

 

you know the old adage, if you can't say anything nice...

 

Man, it's hard to keep up with everything in here, haha.

Anyway, here's my reviews of the albums that @carrytheweird had me listen to:

Seahaven - Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only
Right now, the sun is melting the freshly fallen snow, and I am all bundled up listening to this album in my headphones while walking around downtown Salt Lake City. This album is the perfect soundtrack for days like this.

The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You
Punk rock with synths. This is SO 2006, and I love it.

 

@nickyeatworld is listening to

1. Mae - Destination: Beautiful
2. Relient K - Forget and not slow down

I'm listening to
1. Falling Up - Captiva
2. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

 

@nickyeatworld how did you feel about A Giant Dog?

 

I'm gonna re-listen to this record one more time and will post my thoughts today

 

Still waiting to hear back from my partner, I don't want to mess up the flow of this not sure what I'm supposed to do

Edit: it's all cool now

 

My bad. Sorry was dealing with a stomach flu all weekend. Throw any record at me!

 

A Giant Dog - Toy - recommended by @JRGComedy

I never heard about this band before, so when I pressed play I couldn’t predict anything. And this record really surprised me and grabbed my attention from the get-go. First of all it has this perfect male/female vocals that can sound aggressive and punky, sweet and melodic. Misically “Toy” sounds like a grandchild of Weezer’s “Pinkerton” with it’s loud dirty guitars and powerpop moments but it also has a lot of different sounds from 70-s rock to post-punk to modern dancy indie-pop.

As a whole this record is fun and moving. I think this is how perfect punk record of 2017 should sound like - with some nods to classic but with band’s own face. I really enjoyed it, even though it lacks big poppy choruses I usually prefer.

Standout tracks: Bendover, Lucky Ponderosa

 

Descendents - hypercaffium spazzinate
Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels

For Week 2, @Erwin89 recommended me The Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate and Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels. Both were welcome recommendations, I've always enjoyed Milo Goes To College but never bothered to check out more of The Descendents. Hearing Hypercaffium Spazzinate makes me want to check back on the rest of their discography and see what else I missed out on. Love how happy go-lucky and irreverent their music is. Super catchy and super fun.

I liked the Marina & The Dimaonds record too. Its weird I vaguely recall seeing an ad for her music on YouTube years ago but never bothered to check it out. I liked how electic the record was, I was impressed at how many different sounds she played with but always felt like she was in command. I didn't get to listen to this record as much as I wanted to, but this is my kind of pop. Daring and insanely catchy.

 

Bendover is the shit! Was lucky enough to see the band live last month and can confirm that they destroyed some of my hearing.

 

@mattfreaksmeout recommended some great records for me this week:

Bleachers - Gone Now

Bleachers is always an artist that I’ve enjoyed dipping my toe in and listening to a song here and there but never really delving much further...whilst having every intention of doing so at “some point”. I enjoyed the last record but never really come back to it bar the lead single but following Jack Antonoff’s meteoric rise in terms of his place in the modern pop world, I was really keen to check this out. Suffice to say I ended up really really enjoying it.

Everything felt so drenched in nostalgia whilst boasting these modern, motivational anthems. Gone Now was filled with moments that felt like they could soundtrack an 80s John Cusack movie or be the background to a rom-com movie montage from decades past and I loved the way that it evoked that imagery in my head throughout. I understand the self-referencing he has for Springsteen and the one that listeners pick out in his own music too, but it also felt like it was dripping in transatlantic influence. There’s real drama and exaggeration to the instrumentation, structuring and production which feels very “American” but there’s real Brit influence too. Jangly, reverberated guitars peek out of the all-American components and they recall a sound of The Smiths or Echo and The Bunnymen. Jack himself has those slight Springsteen-esque vocals but I also hear Bowie (“Goodmorning”, “All My Heroes”) in there and even a conversational approach at times akin to Jarvis Cocker (Pulp). I also felt Bruce Hornsby’s “The Way It Is” influence on “Goodbye” and loved the mix of that, a 90s R&B radio hit and Antonoff’s own touch. This felt like more of an intermission, and worked for me as such.

I did find my attention waning at a few points though, most noticeably with “Let’s Get Married”. I think by this point it felt like he had tapped into a formula and sound (and nailed it) but just rested on it a little rather than elevating it to be something more.

Overall, this was great listen and a great way to start the day. I loved how nostalgic it was in theme and sound whilst being something so well produced and modern too. As a throwaway point: it’s probably because of the time of year and this being my first time hearing it rather than when it was released in the summer, but “I Miss Those Days” sounded so festive and “Christmassy”. The horns, bells, keys all play into that as well as the fact it is December, of course. But I loved it. Was like a Christmas parade for nostalgia in song.

Favourites: “Goodmorning”, “Don’t Take The Money”, “I Miss Those Days”

Bleached - Welcome The Worms

I had no idea what to expect before hitting play on this and suffice to say, when I did, I was more than pleasantly surprised. With no context or even hearing a snippet of their music before (to my knowledge) I wanted to go in blind so only Googled them once the first song started playing and quickly learned they’re on Dead Oceans, who I love.

Firstly, I heard a real Shirley Manson/Garbage influence - that real powerful rock sound with effortless cool. But as I listened more and let everything play out, there were so many more layers. 70s fuzz tones, big and loose sounding instrumentation/production, cool California vibes and relentless, driving guitars. There’s a lot of Joan Jett in there too, particularly on “Keep On Keepin’ On” and “Trying To Lose Myself Again”. The latter also managed to conjure up an image of leather jackets in the California sun: all Ray Bans, cigarettes, beaches and not giving a shit.

The whole sound felt like it was just at home in a sweat-box of a venue with beer stained ceilings as it was being the soundtrack to vast skies and sandy beaches in summer. “Wednesday Night Melody” and “Wasted On Air” reinforced this with a Best Coast/Wavves feel which I also loved.

I feel like this is a record I’ll return to, particularly once the sun peeks out in England again. Loved going into this not knowing what to expect and coming out with a record I could easily pick songs from to soundtrack summers moving forward.

Favourites: “Trying To Lose Myself Again”, “Wasted On You”