LATELY LISTENING TO: i dont even know man the last thing i had here was outdated but i dont want to leave it alone even if i dont have a new answer
i like a lot of different music but im not really sure how i want to link to any of it.... for now, ill just put artist names and some notes if i have any...? know that i listen to whatever strikes me as interesting and i dont really discriminate based on whats "good" or "bad" music. up to you whether you want to take these as recommendations or not but know that i am like stupid amounts of mentally ill (and just stupid in general) and thats gonna reflect in my taste. make of it what you will
note to self later to maybe figure out how to put a 'spoiler' thing around my notes i wasnt expecting to have as much to say and its kind of clogging up the page
CRUMB - their whole discography.... my cop-out answer when someone asks me what my favorite band is goes to these guys for like the last.... 5 years? one of the first bands i found when i started to branch out on my own wrt music taste (read: got a spotify account) during freshman year of high school. i hold a major soft spot for their music for this reason. nice to sleep to
STOMACH BOOK - beginning of 2023, first few months were spent in a really shitty mental place. self-titled and the 3 eps currently released got me through it. i feel like ive been missing a harsher sound like this for a while... though i dont think thats quite the descriptor im looking for. regardless there is a reason ive had that album playlist on the front page lol. music that is good to feel emotions to and about
FEVER THE GHOST - i found their song "source" (excellent music video) at the end of middle school. i would refer back to this if anyone ever asked what "inspired" me to branch out to new music (as prior to this point i pretty much exclusively listened to video game osts and whatever music my family played). another deep soft spot, god knows what the lyrics are saying 90% of the time but i love their music. the newer stuff isnt as special to me (has kind of a different vibe, though "amaranthine" slaps) but the album "crab in honey" in particular brings back memories (positive, mostly).
THE HOTELIER - ow the emotions. but its so good man
MOTHER MOTHER - call it "edgy" if you must but. its music that makes me feel feelings and a lot of it fucks like hell cringe or not
ARTHUR - "woof woof" album. that is all
OINGO BOINGO - i fucking love the "dead mans party" album that shit gets me energised. once upon a time i used it to help me get the fuck up in the mornings.
TOE - album "the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety". also haha funny toe name
INNER WAVE - i havent actively listened to these guys in a hot second but i found them right around the same time as crumb, so they have an equal soft spot. good to sleep to as well, album "underwater pipe dreams" i prefer for this
FLEECE - "voyager" album. also used this to wake up lol
MODEST MOUSE - one time many years ago i read a post saying that the singer from this band sounds like hes being chased around with a garden hose and i cant argue against it. favorite albums "good news for people who love bad news" and "we were dead before the ship even sank"
VUNDABAR - i consider this the final entry in the trifecta of bands i found freshman year that really influenced what kind of music i would search for, for a long while. more coarse feel than the other two (crumb and inner wave). albums "gawk" and "antics", "smell smoke" is also pretty good.
later i think ill add some bands that were very influential for my taste as a kid (my mom always had pretty good taste ngl). but not now im lazy