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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 November 2013 08:32:39PM 0 points [-]

Music Thread

Comment author: gwern 01 November 2013 10:06:01PM 5 points [-]

American; Explosions in the Sky released a new album/OST:

Besides that, I ran into a chiptune album 'Fake the Bitters' by 8bit Betty and liked it enough to buy. I kept, in album order:

(Each is available on YouTube if you prefer to use their player.)

Japanese:

I finished playing Umineko. The soundtrack is one of the strong points, and I wound up liking quite a few of the tracks; in alphabetical order from the game soundtracks ("Requiem" is from the anime, see the discography torrent):

Doujin:

Touhou (version 17 of the mega-torrent is out, BTW), reverse order:

Comment author: iceman 03 November 2013 07:35:09AM *  3 points [-]

Thank you for introducing me to Explosions in the Sky. I've listened to The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place all the way through multiple times today. I'm fairly partial to the final track, Your Hand In Mine.

Comment author: gwern 31 December 2013 05:49:05PM 1 point [-]

You should also check out Giants (particularly "While The Ages Steal") and El Ten Eleven.

Comment author: iDante 02 November 2013 12:38:40AM 2 points [-]

Previously people recommended me Evpatoria Report based on my liking for Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You!, and World's End Girlfriend. Any more excellent post-rock I ought to hear?

Totally unrelated: I really like metal. Here (Album art NSFW) are some of my favorites. More?

Comment author: tgb 02 November 2013 01:55:00AM 4 points [-]

Mogwai is an obvious recommend based off of that, and their new album is coming out soon: you can hear one track from it here, but it's a little more electronic than their typical.

Kashiwa Daisuke is pretty good, though about half the time it plays I can't be bothered and skip it and the other half I love it. I think Stella is their best.

God is an Astronaut has some good songs somewhat similar to some Explosions in the Sky as it's more electronic than most post-rock. All is Violent, All is Bright is a highly approachable album of theirs. These guys got me into post rock but I don't listen to them that much these days. Maybe I should.

And Mon has a number of good songs like this one.

And Sigur Ros has some great ones, like Hopipolla and Glosoli. Really a charming band. Too bad their original music video for Hopipolla is no longer on youtube apparently as it was rather endearing.

Some other bands that I haven't gotten into but that a friend keeps recommending are 65daysofstatic and Caspian. Sweek might also be worth a try.

Well, that just about exhausts the sum total of my post-rock knowledge. I think it was your recommendation of World's End Girlfriend got me onto them, so thanks! Their best songs are among my absolute favorites now.

Comment author: iDante 02 November 2013 03:21:44AM 0 points [-]

This is really great, thanks :D

Comment author: Dorikka 08 November 2013 10:14:39PM *  0 points [-]

YouTube keeps deleting or muting the full version of the PMMM ending, which I find annoying when I put it on a playlist. Here is the original song on the band's VEVO channel, which I think is less likely to get deleted.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 November 2013 06:48:30PM 0 points [-]

I've been thoroughly enjoying Portugal. The Man's new(ish) album "Evil Friends". 'Modern Jesus' is an amazing humanist anthem, and its music video is striking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8e1sSNsf44