New Music Sunday
Jul. 12th, 2021 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunTried to get this put together as I was listening to things through the week, which seems the best way for me to put some immediate thoughts together. Couldn't make it for Friday, but we're getting closer together. Most of this is actually from this past week. So that's something!
I had a pleasant Sunday with my bestie who came to hang around for a few hours and catch up after so many months. I haven't been able to spend real time with her since October when we had a COVID safe weekend away. I saw her briefly a few weeks back, but not long enough to catch up with her or talk of anything of substance. She came over just to hang out and have dinner and spend some nice quality time together. Matt went over to spend time with his family over dinner too, so it was a nice to just be able to hang out together awhile.
It was so, so nice to be able to be able to hang out and talk with her for a few hours. I've been in like three restaurants at all since having the vaccine, but we went early, right after our favorite sushi place opened for dinner so it was perfect time to have plenty of space to ourselves while we waited for food. We got out early and I was able to settle in a little bit on my own between her leaving, Matt coming home and my regularly scheduled Sunday night Bad Movie Night.
Bad movie night this week was... truly horrible. We finished a three part movie series based on the Left Behind movies from the early aughts' Perfect bad movie night movie fodder and eighteen-ish years distance from the first movie, we felt like it was far enough away to watch them and not feel bad about the potential pennies anyone might get for our Amazon Prime streamed movies. If people want to talk about them, I'm happy to write something up about them. They're wild.
But that's not for this post. Now, we're here for the music. I haven't seen a ton of new stuff album-wish, but there's been some great NPR tiny desk (home) concerts and some great new singles. I hope you like what I've picked out.
Jambinai is a South Korean band using a mix of modern and traditional instruments that Bob Bollins from NPR says play a mix of "metal, noise and Korean tradition". Which… yes. They also filmed this Tiny Desk (Home) Concert in an interactive museum so, the immersiveness of their show is really cool. I think if you're a metal fan, you might find them contemporaries with bands like Animals as Leaders or Tool, mostly instrumentals with some very airy vocals. I hadn't heard of them before this, but I'm definitely going to listen to more of their stuff.
Another NPR Tiny (Home) Concert that I've enjoyed recently of a very different pop/rock vibe is Raine Stern who feels a bit like a mix of Maggie Rogers, LP and King Princess.
Similarly Nytt Land, a Scandinavian band living in Siberia with again a mix of traditional instruments and language perform this song "U-Gra" as a dedication to an ancient Siberian legend. If you've been a fan of The Hu with their mix of metal, traditional instruments and throat singing, you'll probably like this too.
I feel like this song is familiar, but I've never heard this version before. But I am FOR IT. Techno song in a big band format? Yes, please and thank you. Has a very Brass Against feel if you've watched anything I've recommended from them before.
Not sure if I've ever recommended the covers from Sershen&Zaritskaya, but Daria Zaritskaya has the most modern 80s rock aesthetic and a voice that is 100% built for songs like this cover of Heart's Barracuda.
I saw this via author Cassandra Khaw's twitter because she helped write some of the lyrics, but this song for the game Naraka: Bladepoint by Chen Xueran is EXCELLENT. You can listen to it on twitter here.
Let me know what you've been listening to this recently, I'd love to hear about it.
I had a pleasant Sunday with my bestie who came to hang around for a few hours and catch up after so many months. I haven't been able to spend real time with her since October when we had a COVID safe weekend away. I saw her briefly a few weeks back, but not long enough to catch up with her or talk of anything of substance. She came over just to hang out and have dinner and spend some nice quality time together. Matt went over to spend time with his family over dinner too, so it was a nice to just be able to hang out together awhile.
It was so, so nice to be able to be able to hang out and talk with her for a few hours. I've been in like three restaurants at all since having the vaccine, but we went early, right after our favorite sushi place opened for dinner so it was perfect time to have plenty of space to ourselves while we waited for food. We got out early and I was able to settle in a little bit on my own between her leaving, Matt coming home and my regularly scheduled Sunday night Bad Movie Night.
Bad movie night this week was... truly horrible. We finished a three part movie series based on the Left Behind movies from the early aughts' Perfect bad movie night movie fodder and eighteen-ish years distance from the first movie, we felt like it was far enough away to watch them and not feel bad about the potential pennies anyone might get for our Amazon Prime streamed movies. If people want to talk about them, I'm happy to write something up about them. They're wild.
But that's not for this post. Now, we're here for the music. I haven't seen a ton of new stuff album-wish, but there's been some great NPR tiny desk (home) concerts and some great new singles. I hope you like what I've picked out.
Jambinai is a South Korean band using a mix of modern and traditional instruments that Bob Bollins from NPR says play a mix of "metal, noise and Korean tradition". Which… yes. They also filmed this Tiny Desk (Home) Concert in an interactive museum so, the immersiveness of their show is really cool. I think if you're a metal fan, you might find them contemporaries with bands like Animals as Leaders or Tool, mostly instrumentals with some very airy vocals. I hadn't heard of them before this, but I'm definitely going to listen to more of their stuff.
Another NPR Tiny (Home) Concert that I've enjoyed recently of a very different pop/rock vibe is Raine Stern who feels a bit like a mix of Maggie Rogers, LP and King Princess.
Similarly Nytt Land, a Scandinavian band living in Siberia with again a mix of traditional instruments and language perform this song "U-Gra" as a dedication to an ancient Siberian legend. If you've been a fan of The Hu with their mix of metal, traditional instruments and throat singing, you'll probably like this too.
I feel like this song is familiar, but I've never heard this version before. But I am FOR IT. Techno song in a big band format? Yes, please and thank you. Has a very Brass Against feel if you've watched anything I've recommended from them before.
Not sure if I've ever recommended the covers from Sershen&Zaritskaya, but Daria Zaritskaya has the most modern 80s rock aesthetic and a voice that is 100% built for songs like this cover of Heart's Barracuda.
I saw this via author Cassandra Khaw's twitter because she helped write some of the lyrics, but this song for the game Naraka: Bladepoint by Chen Xueran is EXCELLENT. You can listen to it on twitter here.
Let me know what you've been listening to this recently, I'd love to hear about it.
