My April playlist is finished! Please allow me to take you on a journey from the heaven of THP Orche

My April playlist is finished! Please allow me to take you on a journey from the heaven of THP Orchestra to the hell of Inter Arma over three action packed hours. Specially sequenced for maximum enjoyment, there’ll be at least one thing in here you’ll love - I guarantee it. Listen here.Good To Me - THP Orchestra: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the number one way to find good songs is to go through the whosampled page for Duck Sauce’s 2013 album Quack because every single thing they put into that album is a bonafide classic.I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band: I saw Jungle last week and they were absolutely amazing, and the venue started playing this song as soon as the house lights went up after the show which is an extremely good way to get people to not leave your venue and boogie instead. My favourite part of this is near the end of the second verse where he gets even lazier than normal with the lyrics and just says “I want to love you.. ah.. from sundown.. sunup”.Work It Out - A-Trak: I love this new A-Trak song that sounds like a secret lost bonus track from Discovery right down to that specific wah sound on the guitar.Starlight - The Supermen Lovers: There was all this news last year that Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust was getting remastered and rereleased for its 20th anniversary and was going to finally be on streaming services that seems to have just.. not happened. It never materialized so now I’m stuck listening to the 2nd rate but still extremely good Music Sounds Better With You knockoff, Starlight by the worst named band ever The Supermen Lovers. The songs aren’t even that similar particularly but that’s just my personal feelings.Girlsrock - Siriusmo: A friend of mine is a sort of expert on the whole Ed Banger mid-late 2000s electro scene and it’s extremely good because he’ll just send me songs like this every now and then that are totally sick and make it feel like there was somehow thousands of hours of this kind of music produced at that time and only the tip of the iceberg made it to public consumption.11:17 - Danger: Somehow I didn’t even notice that Danger had a new album in January but I’m finally listening now and it’s a proper return to form and really, really good. This song sounds like if the haunted VHS tape from the The Ring was taped over an 80s workout video.Ultrasonic Sound - Hive: I went to a 20th anniversary screening of The Matrix at The Astor and great news: that movie still kicks ass and rocks completely and has possibly gotten better in the two decades since its release. Someone had curated a really good mix that they were playing in the foyer after the movie and this song was in it. A heady mix of drum and bass and nu-metal guitar crunch that feels like a 1999 calendar picked up by a strong wind and slapping you in the face.Homo Deus VII - Deantoni Parks: STILL loving and finding new things to love about this Deantoni Parks album for the third month in a row. I’m repeating myself but this music is just so good and feels so completely original to me. It’s a great mix of complete technical mastery and the self imposed limitations of a restricted sample palette. Forcing himself to do absolutely everything he can with the sound and fairly well exhausting it over the course of 9 minutes.Catacomb Kids - Aesop Rock: There’s a good line to trace between this and Acid King by Malibu Ken where Aesop Rock’s been thinking about Ricky Kasso for like ten years now which is interesting. There’s lots of just very nice sounding lines in this like “Crispy the godsender who thunk over a quarter plunk to local Mortal Kom vendor”. Just good weird word combos painting a very impressionistic picture of growing up. “deplanting cadavers” “zoo-keeper facelift”. Very nice.Mask Off - Future: I’ve never listened to Future much which is weird because he’s very good but this is a song that just comes into my head pretty often. Metro Boomin’s brain is huge and the vibe he created on this is just amazing. Wringing this sort of atmosphere out of the sample without sacrificing any of the trap beat at the center of it is such an achievement.Old Town Road (Remix) - Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus: Everything that could ever be said about Old Town Road has probably already been written by now but my favourite part is finding out that the sample is from Ghosts by Nine Inch Nails which means it’s also Trent Reznor’s first writing credit on a #1 song. Absolutely praying for Trent and Atticus to join Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus on stage at the Grammys to perform this.Claudia Lewis - M83: Every so often I remember just how good Hurry Up We’re Dreaming is and listen to it on repeat for a while. It’s absolutely amazing. Start to finish (except for Raconte-Moi Une Historie which SUCKS) it’s just fantastic. I looked up why this song is called Claudia Lewis and it turns out that has an extremely good answer “I was surfing the web & found this website with space poems – Claudia Lewis had 3-4 space poems on this site. They were pretty bad space poems but I found it super moving, there was something very innocent about it. She’s probably super young like 12 or 14 but I don’t know her or how she looks or anything about her. I just know that she writes cheesy space poems.”OK Pal - M83: Every single musical element of this song is just perfect. I love the huge broad chords, the synth bends, the massive drums, the inverted Dead Flag Blues monologue. It’s just beautiful.Little Secrets - Passion Pit: Passion Pit is currently on a 10th anniversary tour for Manners and I feel age 100 which is no good. But this song is good and it contains in my opinion one of the all time greatest drum fills after the first chorus. Huge, super air-drummable, and very functional: perfect.Blood - City Calm Down: I think “I’m the one who wants your blood” is just such a great an evocative refrain and I wish he said it one million times more in this song.Television - City Calm Down: Absolutely love the idea of writing a song about how bloody TV is the bloody opiate of the masses that sounds like a Clash cover in 2019 and sounding so deliberately out of the zeitgeist and doing it so well and with such conviction that it’s absolutely great.I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses: We went to Andrew McLelland’s Finishing School and he played this as his last song in honour of Easter Sunday and described it as the greatest piece of acoustic dance music he’s ever heard which is honestly not a bad description - it’s an absolute jam.Daisy - Pond: It’s very cool that there’s like an evil, mirror version of Tame Impala that exists in Pond. I think every band should have that.Crying Lighting - Arctic Monkeys: Basically the reason this song is on this list is because I got stuck in a loop of saying “your pastimes, consisted of the strange and twisted and deranged and I hate that little game you had called "crying lightning” in a Werner Herzog voice to myself and I thought it was funny.Keeping Time - Angie McMahon: Angie McMahon is so damn good at songs and I cannot believe it! She’s only got like 5 and they’re all incredible. She’s gonna be huge!The House That Heaven Built - Japandroids: Sterogum had a really good writeup the other day about Post-Nothing turning 10 years old that turned into a wrap up of why Japandroids are such a good band and why Celebration Rock is a perfect album and it really crystallized a lot of my feelings about them. They’re number one on my list of Bands That Make You Want To Start A Band for a good reason and this article really nails the whole young men figuring it all out feeling of Japandroids’ music. I really think both Japandroids albums should be called Youth And Young Manhood but Kings Of Leon already took that name. I remember when my friend first turned me on to Post-Nothing he said he didn’t want to tell anyone else except me because it was so good and it was Best Friends Music and I really believe that. It’s best friends music through and through. When I saw them a couple of years ago it was as part of a sort of impromptu road trip with my best friend and I think that was the best context I could have given it. It’s absolutely one of the best shows I’ve been to in my life and also Osher Gunsberg was in the crowd behind me but that’s not part of the story. https://www.stereogum.com/2041439/japandroids-post-nothing-turns-10/franchises/the-anniversary/Motor Runnin - Pist Idiots: The pub rock revival just keeps getting better and better. At the minute it’s basically just Bad//Dreems, West Thebarton and these guys but I’m sure there’s a million other bands bubbling under that are just about to break as well. I love this song, it’s just straight up old fashioned pissed off rock and roll that somehow doesn’t feel old fashioned at all.Chains - As Cities Burn: As Cities Burn have reunited and have a new album coming out and I’m extremely wary of it because they’re potentially ruining their previously discussed perfect streak. This is the first single and it’s.. good I guess. It’s kind of just normal and sort of outdated, a little bit of a step backward into safety for a band that was always changing and moving forward. I think I have a worm living in my brain though because I keep listening to it just because I really love the drum sound. They’re very nicely mixed. Some very nice sounding drums.Whacko Jacko Steals The Elephant Man’s Bones - The Fall Of Troy: I was talking with some friends about young musicians because of Billie Eilish, and so we were talking about how Alanis Morrisette won a grammy when she was 21 and Taylor Swift won a grammy when she was 20 and Lorde made Royals when she was 17 and all that but what people don’t realise is Thomas Erak wrote Doppelganger when he was 20 and it was his second album. He’s 34 now and his music sucks badly. That’s insane. What will happen to me when I’m 34? Chilling to think about. A New Uniform / Patagonia - Tera Melos: I think Patagonian Rats is still my favourite Tera Melos album. Toss up between that and Untitled actually. But I love this one for how cohesive it feels. For a band whose whole ethos is chaos it’s amazing how well it all comes together as a complete work tied up with a bow by the Skin Surf reprise near the end. I love this song because it’s two sketches of songs tied together into one little chaotic lump and the big Primary! Secondary! finale is just so satisfying.Talking Heads - Black Midi: Black Midi finally have actually proper recorded songs on spotify! The way Black Midi is getting talked about at the moment really feels like the days of blog buzz are back, it’s crazy. If you haven’t seen it yet here’s the KEXP session that’s rightfully getting them so much attention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMn1UuEIVvA I’ve watched it so many times and it’s really something. The best part is the comments are full of music dudes just naming every band ever. “this sounds like if slint, polvo and hella did crack and had a gangbang” yuck “imagine them opening for Swans and/or Daughters” yuck “they’re like if Minute Men and Frank Zappa had a baby and that baby dated the child of Talking Heads and Can but then got dumped for their best friend who was adopted and raised by their single parent Voivod but they were cool and stayed friends and listened to Tortoise and Thelonious Monk and got stoned and started a band and conquered the world.” yuck “Slint meets Sonic youth meets Pere Ubu meets drive like jehu meets Beefheart…these guys took all that is deranged and twisted in rock and made one big soup of it!” yuck. Anyway the point is they rock completely and here’s my addition to the band names: the way he sings sounds like Sting lol.Walking On The Moon - The Police: This song makes you dumb I think. It’s like the dumbest song in the world and listening to it makes your brain mushier, which makes you dumb and stupid. It’s very good.Rubber Bullies - Tropical Fuck Storm: I saw Tropical Fuck Storm opening for Kurt Vile the other day and it was absolutely incredible. My first time seeing them properly, not counting the live soundtrack they did for No Country For Old Men which was was a whole different kind of amazing. It feels like Gaz has finally put together a band that can keep up with is ferocious energy and the result is scary - they basically tore the place apart which makes them a funny opener for Kurt Vile who was as chilled out, relaxed and fun as you’d expect. They played this song near the end of their set and somehow I hadn’t really noticed it when I listened to the album but now I can’t stop listening to it. It’s so good. I love the increasing paranoia of the backing vocals, especially in the last verse as it builds and builds.Taman Shud - The Drones: This might be the best Drones song. It’s a list that’s constantly being revised in my head but it’s top 5 definitely. It’s nice listening to Feeling Kinda Free now knowing what he was going to do with Tropical Fuck Storm because it’s all here. Fighting against the constraints of his regular sound and regular songwriting and eventually finding the solution in forming a whole new band. I love this song for a million reasons but the escalation of the disregard is very good. “I don’t care about Andrew Bolt or Ned Kelly or the southern cross or the union jack” and you’re nodding and then he says ‘I don’t really care if you’re a pedophile’ and you’re nodding but slower. I get what he means in terms of media hype and whatever but it’s still a very funny line. Anyway “why’d I give a rats about your tribal tats? You came here on a boat you fucking cunt” is grade A.Dawn Patrol - Megadeth: The best thing about Megadeth is the sort of half baked politics. Dave Mustaine is the best kind of moron, he engages with everything at a gut level but believes he’s being very cerebral about it at the same time. This little intro song about a nuclear post-apocalypse is so good because it’s a legitimate warning and a response to legitimate worries but it’s also like.. wouldn’t that be sick if we had to wear gas masks and carry assault rifles around because all the nukes exploded and everyone was dead. What if there was zombies.Rust In Peace… Polaris - Megadeth: The story behind Holy Wars… The Punishment Due is so good. “Mustaine has said that at a show in Antrim, Northern Ireland, he discovered bootlegged Megadeth T-shirts were on sale. He was dissuaded from taking action to have them removed on the basis that they were part of fund raising activities for "The Cause”, explained as something to bring equality to Catholics and Protestants in the region. Liking how “The Cause” sounded as was explained to him, Mustaine dedicated a performance of “Anarchy In The UK” to it, causing the audience to riot. The band were forced to travel in a bulletproof bus after the show" I just love him. I’d like to share a Dave Mustain quotes about this song also. “I was driving home from Lake Elsanon. I was tailgating somebody, racing down the freeway, and I saw this bumper sticker on their car and it said, you know, this tongue in cheek stuff like, ‘One nuclear bomb could ruin your whole day,’ and then I looked on the other side and it said, ‘May all your nuclear weapons rust in peace,’ and I’m going, ‘'Rust in Peace.’ Damn, that’s a good title.‘ And I’m thinking like, ‘What do they mean, rust in peace?’ I could just see it now – all these warheads sitting there, stockpiled somewhere like seal beach, you know, all covered with rust and stuff with kids out there spray-painting the stuff, you know.” Goes ahead and writes a kick ass song from the perspective of a nuclear warhead containing the line “rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils”.Planet B - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: King Gizz are Megadeth now and I love it! The cold war is global warming now and we desperately need new thrash metal about it to save us!Primodial Wound - Inter Arma: If you can’t tell by me including three of their songs on this playlist I’m still having an absolute time with Inter Arma. Something I really love about this band is their ability to sit in a vibe for so long and expand on it. They’re not songs with narrative arcs and multiple contrasting sections, they’re songs that just kind of dig deeper on themselves. This one starts deep and then by thinning out entirely at around 6 minutes in only gets darker.Howling Lands - Inter Arma: This song made me dream of a Dark Souls game where Inter Arma does the soundtrack. It’s a peabrained thought but it’s one that really got me thinking. This is boss music of the highest order: a song seemingly about itself and the hellbound denizens cursed to perform it in the arena of hell.Sulphur English - Inter Arma: It’s extremely funny to listen to this song a bunch of times and be completely blown away by the total power and ethereal majesty of it and then look up the lyrics to find out that it’s about Trump in that very good way of putting normal thoughts through a metal lyrics filter “The charlatan sets his eyes towards the throne / tongue adrip in revolting ecstasy” “Sever the corrupt tongue of the imperious fool / silence the gangrenous root of his abhorrent voice”Peepin’ Tom - Courtney Barnett: When I saw Kurt Vile he brought out Courtney Barnett to play Over Everything as an encore and it was so good to see just how much a hometown crowd loves her. Everyone lost their shit! We love our good friend Courtney! I think I’ve written about this before but Peeping Tom is one of my favourite Kurt Vile songs and I think Courtney’s version is even better. Her voice is perfect for it and she really has to show off her range to do it which I love. The super deep 'peeping’ to the high cascading 'tom’ is a perfect musical moment to me.​listen here -- source link

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