ILM 2024 Listening Club

Shannon and the Clams — “The Moon Is in the Wrong Place”

Drums & drones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKxj5jctiI

NYC flutist on New Amsterdam records releases nifty pop song with fun arrangement featuring loads of, well, flutes:

Alex Sopp, "The Hem & the Haw"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkI39XuNrwI

fun title, fun song:

Allie X - "Off With Her Tits"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigWc6mtBBY

that Alex Sopp track is great

I like the theater kid energy of the last two, so allow me to keep it going. This single came out last year but the album just came out last week. Glammy art-pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFsJuYb42hw

Playlist updated!

Haha the tune on that Allie X feels like a kind of homage to "Don't Go" by Yaz(oo)! And even shares a bit about getting/calling the doctor.

Changing my Mk.gee song to Alesis. Album released yesterday and that song is even better

“I want” is also gorgeous… listen to the whole thing.

yeah mk.gee album is really good. i think the singles ("are you looking up?," "dream police," "candy") are the strongest, but not by much. really like the two you've highlighted, moka.

I've only been lurking/listening in these threads so far, but I finally have a song to contribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyD2NVgRN8Y
Julia Sabaté - Dalia

That chorus, man.

Wow, that was intense, me gusta.

This is an album I'm really looking forward to - new Clarissa Connelly coming in April on Warp Records. She's a Danish musician and perhaps is something like a medievalist version of ML Buch. Her last album (The Voyager, 2020) is well worth checking back on if you missed that, but this is the latest track to drop from the new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_dcXr6u64

the end of that is quite interesting, i will need to remember to check out the album when it's out

Loving this one too - think they're an Australian producer, this is kind of somewhere between underworld and Saint etienne, so in the Real Lies ballpark I guess? Anyway, dreamy vocal dance stuff, bodes well for her album....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnnJNGJKz6s
Pina Tesla - Above The Clouds

Am late to where I'm going because I had to walk around the block to listen to it one more time

There’s no Mk.gee thread and I think this is the only thread were there has been any discussion of the 2024 album so I’ll use this thread to suggest listening to his performance at the Jil Sander fashion show in Milan. It’s lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4CHtRLfNEU

I love how much of the music in this thread is Danish, so let me add one more. My favourite Danish indie-pop band Kindsight has a new album on the way. Recommended to fans of Alvvays and all that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj6yRUeGCYo

Posted this in the Tinashe thread and loving it now so think it deserves to be added to the playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlV8zVUgdLM

― groovypanda, miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 09:45 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Agreed!

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 02:12 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also this one suggested by groovypanda on the other thread is great:

Open Space x Laura Groves - Tied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpQ3hbhERI

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), miércoles 6 de marzo de 2024 02:19 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bolis Pupul album just came out and this was the lead single...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwaWx-3fGiA
Bolis Pupul - Ma Tau Wai Road (with Salah Pupul)

very knife-ish that song

really loving that Bolis Pupul record, i might like the song that plays before that one ("Spicy Crab") even more but it's all pretty great really

this album is totally owning my shit right now.

Thanks for the Mk.gee song on this list. That leapt out at me the other night and I went and listened to the album, it's good! Solid songwriting and really inventive sonics and musical settings, talented guy.

Moka, you might like this new single from the Marias, a group from LA maybe best known for featuring on Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOlqJHvAZo

Previous releases have had a woozy sound reminiscent of Men I Trust and other Gorilla vs Bear shambhala but this song is a little more direct (it reminds me somewhat of the French discopop band L'Impératrice, who incidentally also released a new song last week)

Funny you mention it, I follow your “2024” playlist and I was just listening to it a few hours ago while driving and that one caught my attention.

I do know about them… been very loosely following their work since the Superclean EP back in 2017 and even had a couple of their songs on one of my bar’s playlists.

Liked their first album too, had no idea a new one was coming out this month, so thanks fir the heads up!

Oh wait not this month, in May.

Also yeah agree on the love for the Bolis Pupul record. Mau Tau Wai Road and Cantonese the ones I liked the most.

Austin posted this on King Krule - i love this hipster shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0use0rJR-DU
Mount Kimbie - Empty And Silent (feat. King Krule)

very enjoyable krauty vibe with signature krule vox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqSWVqC_i4g

Happy Friday

hi ty for the shout. catching up in here. can i big up dina ögon over here too? or is that too much?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2-wGcpx4zc

dina ögon - "det läcker"

it's my current favorite anything. hits better than water some days.

oh sry, no description re:dina ögon-
erm, the pertinent 10,000 maniacs revival i've been clamoring for, except it's swedish?

(pleasing for you to be making a bassface at 2mins45sec to maximize overall enjoyment)

trip hop revival hots up and once again it's aussies - this time roza terenzi and pals under the name step ball chain...

https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/pillow-talk

ugh sorry - step ball chain is obviously the label, the band is trickpony

(it's been a long day)

Anyhow, sneaker pimps vibes

/\/\i look forward to that whole thing!

i know someone else here has heard chanel beads because i heard their wonderful "police scanner" single on the 2023 tracks noms. they've got a couple other new tracks + are gearing up for an albun in april. here's "embarrassed dog"-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIff2wH24H4

i'm intrigued. def go back to "police scanner" icymi.

Updated! Trickpony not on spotify

Liking this one a whole lot - makes me think of Tirzah and Insides but it's very much its own thing: warm, intimate, a furtive sort of beauty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obGXbRYnCc0
deep heavy fear - doorway

Two I liked released today:

R. Missing - Get Careful Darker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzjVQbOi0BQ
Darkwave in the style of "Italians do it better". I'll always be a sucker for this kind of vibe.

Nourished By Time - Had Ya Called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTootvsdLDM
The whole EP is great, Romance in Me also a highlight for me but this is the one that I liked the most on first listen.

deep heavy fear - doorway

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB)

Dig this!

i'm intrigued. def go back to "police scanner" icymi.

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin)

Liking this too

really like the new album from anysia kym. soulful glitch-hop with some 2-step mixed in.

"#71 (again and again)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ai-AYViKT4

"pool of life" (produced by 454)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzJ-jfua_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkSy1nEbdpY

apparently this is AI generated - Guys what is wrong with my cat? It's on spotify as well, with the artist credited as AnotherLaughingMan. I think a lot of the AI generated art that I like takes as its subject matter limitations in understanding or an unbridgeable gap between different ways of perceiving the world, makes the fact that it always sounds slightly 'off' into a virtue?

If it’s full AI it’s seriously good

Adding Teilz - Type of Girl which has been stuck on repeat

was skeptical when pitchfork gave the new empress of album best new music, since i had heard literally nothing about it until then, but yeah, it hits. faves are "cura" and "facil," warped, ethereal club anthems both, with "cura" borrowing a bit from jersey and "facil" with stuttering, chopped up dembow drums

"cura"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsdDwNkiVz0

"facil"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKHUAxLxUU

catching up+that "pool of life" is some pretty ethereal business. not quite sure what to make of it, but it's a fascinating listen every time.

can the 'Guys what is wrong with my cat?' song be added to the playlist? it is on spotify, credited to AnotherLaughingMan.

Does it not appear? i added it yesterday

Oh wait I just checked and it wasn’t there… I magbhave added it to a different playlist by mistake! Thanks for the heads up.

thanks Moka!

Empress of record is seriously good

thanks y'all for mentioning that^. I'd never listened to her before and I really like what I've tried so far

i've liked some of her music in the past, but the new one is much more surprising and fleshed out than anything she's released before

Yeah, I’d liked a few of her previous singles before but this feels like a significant step up

Good to see James Massiah making tunes again after a bit of a quiet period, this one's killer imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEUSBuq1Rw
James Massiah - Charlie

Most accessible Little Snake track yet! Cyriak needs to be the one to make the music video for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagwoD3PtaY

Thanks to Rob Harvilla for allowing me to recognize the opening sample

is it funk flex? loved the tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DLrhb-078

фрози & joyful - bounce (I just wanna dance)

Lol what is this I like it

welp imo they put the best tracks out as pre-release songs, but it doesn't matter because the chanel beads album still delivers. very hazy, pleasantly druggy vibe. weird songs... they'll have these huge choruses, but it'll only hit once during the song's runtime. kind of that wire pink flag ethos of "you get the idea so we'll just stop here." short album too; 9 songs, 28 mins. very solid 4 mics.

Fluke are back with new single Insanely Beautiful and this is the pick of the mixes for me, adding vocals from Leah Clever and bringing a more menacing, trip hop vibe to proceedings

Fluke - Insanely Beautiful (Leah's Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuU_wjY_QYY

Added.

Also adding Brittany Howard - prove it to you. Very simple but loved running to it yesterday. Love the house beat on real (?) drums.

Really digging the new Maruja EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfR_l7c5MHk

that maruja stuff is wild. i'm being... yelled at???... but it's like a lost ecm session again or... ???

huh. ya. very hypey.

seb wildblood+kali mija have a 2 song ep out. i really like the synthy space bass groove on "never look down." kind of reminiscent of the vitesse x/george clanton thing from a bit ago-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijfOnOYQjo

idk where else to post -and it's too early for me to suss out a highlight- but the fabiana palladino album is damn good.

digging the 'heart racers' ep by kanii, riovaz, and nimstarr. they're all producers and vocalists so idk who is responsible for what, but the ep is a great bit of late night pop. feels very anti-trend in the underground, but i can't get enough of the keyboard sounds.

"tell me" is my fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IConY8MK8ZM

"heart racers" is the hit (42 million spotify streams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiPY1kqs9A

Oh good ones! Both songs sound cool.

“Tell me” is reminding me of a 70s? song that I can’t quite place.

it's reminding me of mj "leave me alone"

Oh yeah that’s definitely it!

yeah that's the clear inspo

Maybe also a bit of Stevie Wonder in there. But yeah, good discovery! Love it.

Amery - Hotwire the Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlq1dO35r3c

One half of the band Born at Midnite. Album still not out but dig both singles released so far.

And Peggy Gou continuing on the 90’s nostalgia path with Lobster Telephone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOdnqOOd2ZI

Super chill Kenyan r&b

Maya Amolo - let it flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1uaSnOQQw

first listen love on that one. i did not anticipate the "drop" at all!

as for me, i had some other stuff i wanted to share in here but lol okay kaya-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRPFlR9ozY
"the groke"

now i haven't kept up with her since the second album so i am entirely unsure if this is an intentional joke or what.

but guys, lol this jams.

90s revival continues and okay kaya has wandered into that 120 minutes-curated sound of allegorical triphop-soundtracked worlds originally pointed+laughed at by heroes like luscious jackson or the "my woman" bloke. i intentionally did not post the proper music video for two reasons: it's full of, uhm, weird imagery and it's possibly nsfw. so yeah.

whatever the hell it is, it's been on repeat for the past 20 minutes.

Oh I love this one, very groovy and the video is cool too.

i was really hoping to hear more from ms ray very soon+this does _not_ disappoint. oh my!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ytbjPzhTxs
ms ray - "signs"

ms ray is actually cooking up a serious potion, i'm convinced. this song is incredible. i made a playlist of her entire output so far.

it came out a little while ago, but short of making a separate thread for her I'm not sure where else to post this - Elyanna is a Palestinian-Chilean singer whose album WOLEDTO I've been enjoying, and "Ganeni" is a highlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMN1zILdLTs

James Massiah ep out today, so fucking great! Somewhere between grime, the emotional heft of Real Lies, and the outsider vibes of Nourished By Time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGSxQD1tGOc

https://jamesmassiah.bandcamp.com/album/true-romance-ep-2

Somewhere between grime, the emotional heft of Real Lies, and the outsider vibes of Nourished By Time...

If ILM was a witches’ brew, this would be the recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHU6-jqEowo

Kontravoid - Losing Game feat. Chelsey Crowley

kontravoid with chelsey crowley of nuovo testamento doing ebm/freestyle/italo. i think it's catchy enough to cross over to non-goth club heads