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Their latest album Fear Inoculum is a masterpiece

Short Answer: I’m in your Mind Fuzz

Long Answer: subjective pick for sure, but no matter what part of Mind Fuzz you like, there’s another album that sounds like it to keep running with

Second place: Nonagon Infinity: like the album concept, probably my fave generic list of radio friendly rock bops, and there are a couple segments that call back to mind fuzz and forward to other pieces (interconnected themes and leitmotifs is a common theme of the band)

if you’re a metalhead I’d recommend Infest the Rats Nest if it’s above 35 degrees and you’re driving a vehicle with no aircon (but I won’t gatekeep) or PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

Other than that, if you’re looking for something upbeat and emotional I’d recommend Butterfly 3000

I can’t speak to their virtuosity, but if you’re a musician or interested in the technique they have a lot to be interested in, Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava is an album where each track is ina different mode of the major scale, they have 2 different microtonal albums

And if I’m reading you wrong and you’re looking for something weird and avant guard to spark interest in a dull world there’s Murder of the Universe, the Silver Cord, or Omnium Gatherum

And I don’t want anyone to think that omission from this list is a bad mark, 12 bar bruise, Flight b741 and Phantom Island are great, just not necessarily my speed

Yeah I can see that with Mogwai, I play guitar myself and am hearing it. I do always love to put them out and space out but I could get that with someone like ten east as well.

Godspeed is so damn great, glad I could rejuvenate them for you :).

Yeah beach house has some interesting stuff. Their first albums were real lofi and really based off hip hop beats with dream pop stuff going on. Always dug them for just getting stoned out and meandering through thoughts.

Have you fucked with bitches brew and that fusion jazz before it got too generic sounding? I’ve honestly listened to that stuff and it’s so mesmerizing and hard to even process some of it, I love how out there Miles was getting in the 70s

Louis and Genevieve are the two permanent members of Knower, but they also do a bunch of side projects as well. About a year ago Louis put out some huge orchestral works and live performances and then had some health issues and kinda disappeared. Hope he’s doing alright!

Lemmy put me on to Knower. Check out “Do Hot Girls Like Chords” for the song that started it all!

Its kinda funny because the concert I paid to see in chicago theater after having loved the band for ages was horrible but now I know its sorta a well known thing where anderson got sick and his voice never recovered. I likely heard him at his worst. Later though the flutist society had them for a free concert and I think because of the sponsors they played their most flute heavy stuff. Literally had a comrade fan at my side with tears in both our eyes we could not get over how good it was. The music has always had a lot of feeling and philosophy and such and I had someone tell me they did not like them because they were too political (we were talking about music from the 60's and 70's though which is like. dude it was all political at that time). Anyway anderson reformed the band and I was blown away by the first albumn that was influenced by trump1 and covid called the zealot gene. just summed up the feel of the time to me so much. They had this crazy outsized effect on music in general realtive to the popularity and recognition of the band. They had a lot of membership changes through the years and past members ended up in so many bands and they experimented a lot with stuff that you kinda see in other music genres later. Besides anderson, martin barres guitar in particular but its quite the rabbit hole. As you can tell im quite the fan. Getting away from the band, one thing that is kinda funny is at one point I thought I really liked a wide variety of music. Over time I realize I sorta tend to like a type of music that is related across time spans. progressive rock, new wave (the real stuff as it feels like in modern times they list all eighties stuff as new wave), alternative, no idea what the modern name would be.

Nice! Glad you enjoyed them. If I knew you were going to take a listen, I would have offered entrypoints. But I appreciate that you listened to entire albums rather than whatever the top tracks are on spotify.

When I think Explosions, I think The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place or All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. But TC, TC, TC is one of my favs. The Wilderness is probably their most bold departure from the typical organic sound. Very industrial feeling.

Aeroplane is probably the one you should listen to if nothing else. As I understand it, part of their noteworthy sound comes from their use of a distortion pedal with an acoustic guitar. I recommend listening to Song Against Sex real quick too.

Probably the mwY album I'd recommend as an entry would be Brother, Sister. Their first album was considered post-hardcore, and I can see it, but I honestly am not sure how to classify their second. After that I think they'd be more considered folk, and then maybe back towards indie and post-hardcore. But even without the notable vocals, their instrumental segments are so uniquely "them". I have a friend who always knew I listened to them, but was never his thing until Ten Stories came out, and then told me, "I get it now."

Take care! (tc tc)