Lloyd Cole- The Young Idealists “Raging through the forests and the streams/Breaking into your laboratories/Still supposing we could make a difference”
The Owls-Air Another Minnesota band. They’re a bit reminscent of Belle and Sebastian. “There is only air, where i used to care”
Richard Buckner-“A Chance Counsel” -To be honest, I have no idea what this song is about and I’ve listened over and over to it. The melody with the beat always hypnotize me into just enjoying it.
Great thread idea, and finally an opportunity to post my favorite “unknown” song. It’s a rather obscure single by the Everly Brothers from 1969 that went nowhere in its time, recorded with Clarence White and Gene Parsons. I discovered it about two years ago and think that it’s one of the best Country Rock songs ever recorded, two and a half minutes of sheer perfection:
My husband and I saw Circa Paleo at the Muskogee Ren Faire last month. They are excellent live! Here’s a youtube video with one of the songs we saw them perform. (The person who made the video took the album version of the song and put it over footage from the Ren Faire the live performance of this song was WAY better!)
I’ve only been been kinda randomly picking & choosing, but this is what has stood out to me:
Low
Here Come the Mummies
Tuung (maybe I just love the idea of folktronica, but “Out the Window With the Window” was great).
But I haven’t heard anything I’ve not really liked.
And the next time someone posts about no one making good music nowadays deserves to be punched in the nuts. Hard. If anything, there’s too much good music around. It’s impossible to know all the good stuff. So much good stuff in so many great genres. This might be a golden age of music. Yeah, lots of great stuff doesn’t quite have a huge impact on pop culture, but it’s not that hard to find in this age of modern communication.
A few more things I like:
Marina and the Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
Reminds me of Lene Lovich and Kate Bush.
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
I get a bit of an Arcade Fire vibe.
Azam Ali - Endless Reverie
Middle Easter/Indian with modern influence. Gorgeous voice. If you like this, check out her other projects, Vas & Niyaz.
Gaia (Armin van Buuren) - Tuvan
Dance music. Trance, kind of pop-ish.
