1 album, 1+ listen/day for one week. Recommend something.

[brokenface]

I hate the 60 min rule.

Sounds like a very sensible precaution against prog

[Armoreska]

methinks most prog albums are much shorter than 60 actually

[sebby]

We're at 7. One spot left for someone who wants a middly-aged misanthrope to toss shit on something they hold dear.

[Onderhond]

Did you see my submission? Dälek - Absence
I count 8 entries already

[Armoreska]

Did you see my submission? Dälek - Absence
I count 8 entries already

Someone must be getting the silent refusal

[sebby]

Well look at me, being so Absence-minded.

We're at 8. No more recs. Thoughts on Loma and Miranda Sex Garden coming soon.

[Onderhond]

Did you see my submission? Dälek - Absence
I count 8 entries already

Someone must be getting the silent refusal

If you think I'm gonna let the chance to spoil someone's week go to waste, think again!

[Pretentious Hipster]

The Dalek album is easily one of my favourite hip hop albums.

[Onderhond]

The Dalek album is easily one of my favourite hip hop albums.

Yeah, same here. A lot of great stuff was made on the verge of hip-hop & electronic.

[brokenface]

The Dalek album is easily one of my favourite hip hop albums.

Yeah, same here. A lot of great stuff was made on the verge of hip-hop & electronic.

Saw Dalek at a festival last year, they still going good

[joachimt]

methinks most prog albums are much shorter than 60 actually

Not the ones I love. A few examples of albums I was considering:

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Devin Townsend - Empath
Haken - The Mountain
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Leprous - The Congregation
Ayreon - The Human Equation (or any other album, but they are all over 60 min, most are doubles)
The Mars Volta ‎– Frances The Mute

[PGonzalez]

Going in blind, but

Mal Waldron - All Alone

Not familiar with Mal Waldron but fuckin finally some jazz.

You probably know some of his work (he played with Mingus on Blues & Roots and with Eric Dolphy on Far Cry, to name just two), but yeah, his solo stuff usually flies under the radar.

[sebby]

Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery (1994)

Days 1-7, Listens 1-7

This did not work for me. I don't like the vox and the panoramic sludgy gothy dark wave soundscape didn't tickle me at all. I would have preferred something that felt smaller and chillier. With different vox.

Final verdict: 1/5

[sebby]

Loma - Loma (2018)

Days 1-7, Listens 1-7

This almost worked for me. Kind of a hard record to pin down with words. It sounds like lots of things I've heard before -- mainly It band indie shit that was popular a decade ago to 5 years ago -- churned together to create something ever so slightly novel. But that's not nearly enough to be engaging. As with the MSG album, once again not digging these try-hard female vox. Kind of an oddness to them, sounds like a music teacher reading off a lyric sheet after chasing a cup of coffee with a valium. "Relay Runner" is kind of nice. No other standouts.

Final verdict: 1.5/5

[brokenface]

1.5 is better than 1, I guess I think it has a bit of trip-hop/Portishead influence

[Pretentious Hipster]

The oxbow album probably has my all time favourite vocal performance. Very manic and avant-garde, but very emotional and you can definitely hear the talent. I usually find mixing an orchestra with rock music to be a turn off but it somehow works here. There are touched of noisy dissonance with the guitars and orchestra but it's rarely there.

[Pretentious Hipster]

[nimimerkillinen]

High Tide - Sea Shanties
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album ... hanties-3/

e: oops, late i guess

[nimimerkillinen]

Dälek is also nice live band! seen them twice

[sebby]

The writing and the thinking stuff is very hard for me at the moment so I haven't been doing it. Still have listened to all the albums. Eventually will post thoughts.

If there is a round 3 I'll probably demand requests of one and done 70s tax scam records and one and done 70s tax scam records only.

[Lakigigar]

Grimes - Halfaxa