What are you currently listening to?

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[Jags]

Playing the new Wolf Alice album all weekend. It's growing on me more with every listen. Not quite as brilliant as their debut album (that was incredible) but still very good. Got so much talent, especially when they find 'their sound'.

Lots of shouts about being best band in the UK at the moment... hard to argue with them.

@johnnydawg68

I'll argue with them - Enter Shikari. New album, The Spark getting a bit of hype, absolutely brilliant album.

Going to see them on their album tour, in Liverpool, on my birthday

 

[Baines' left foot]

Four Tet’s new album. Only 15 minutes in and it’s absolutely lovely.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

What is my life?

 

[johnnydawg68]

Playing the new Wolf Alice album all weekend. It's growing on me more with every listen. Not quite as brilliant as their debut album (that was incredible) but still very good. Got so much talent, especially when they find 'their sound'.

Lots of shouts about being best band in the UK at the moment... hard to argue with them.

@johnnydawg68

I'm going to have to listen to it all the way through. Not as impressed with the first few songs I've heard they released as singles. I hope this isn't a band that peaked right before their debut album.

 

[coollino]

I'm going to have to listen to it all the way through. Not as impressed with the first few songs I've heard they released as singles. I hope this isn't a band that peaked right before their debut album.

Have you listened to the new The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die album? It's gooood

 

[johnnydawg68]

I'm going to see Matt Pond PA again on Friday night. I've banged on about them for beards now. For the life of me, I can't explain why they never got huge. This is the final album under that moniker and possibly the final tour.

@LocalNative @Alio @ijjysmith @RFUS and others this should be right up your alley. The best news is if they are, there's a back catalogue going back 15 years to discover.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Have you listened to the new The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die album? It's gooood

No but I will!!

 

[coollino]

No but I will!!

I was becoming one of those bores who write off new conventional-ish guitar music so I'm glad this came around.

 

[johnnydawg68]

I was becoming one of those bores who write off new conventional-ish guitar music so I'm glad this came around.

Check out the Matt Pond PA post just above too...I forgot to tag you in that one.

 

[coollino]

Check out the Matt Pond PA post just above too...I forgot to tag you in that one.

Will do, my gf was on this Wikipedia the other day and I can't for the life of me remember why.

 

[ijjysmith]

I'm going to see Matt Pond PA again on Friday night. I've banged on about them for beards now. For the life of me, I can't explain why they never got huge. This is the final album under that moniker and possibly the final tour.

@LocalNative @Alio @ijjysmith @RFUS and others this should be right up your alley. The best news is if they are, there's a back catalogue going back 15 years to discover.

Oh man literally just played the first one and already know you’ve done it again mate!

 

[johnnydawg68]

I have to give a shout out in memory of Tom Petty. I'm not sure how he is viewed in England, but Tom Petty is an icon here. I'm not sure there's an American artist who so uniquely represents a national zeitgest, if such a thing exists. As Marc Maron said in his most recent stand up special “Everybody loves Tom Petty and burritos”. If you look at the tributes online it's every type of fan/musician/generation/political ideology.

I found another good quote that sums him up as well: “Tom Petty’s music doesn’t necessarily demand a value judgment. It’s like having an opinion on tap water or concrete. Why bother? It’s just there, reliable to the point of invisibility. If it went missing, you would notice. But it’s never going missing, because Tom Petty has existed since the beginning of time, and will continue to exist until time is extinguished.”

As for my own words, I posted this yesterday on Facebook:

I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't like Tom Petty at least a little bit. He was really great at the straight head Rickenbacker driven rock, but I've always had a soft spot for this weird little psychedelic song that doesn't have any the characteristics of a typical pop song that got played on the radio. Then, near the end, it explodes into this stomp worthy rocker until stops suddenly. It's not constructed like any top 40 hit I've ever heard, and it's certainly not the formula for radio play, then or now. So aside from loving it as a song, I respect the man, and his band, that wrote it. It's a shame Tom Petty won't come around here no more.

RIP TP.

 

[bigjonny]

On vinyl that's older than (at least) half the posters on here.

 

[LocalNative]

I'm going to see Matt Pond PA again on Friday night. I've banged on about them for beards now. For the life of me, I can't explain why they never got huge. This is the final album under that moniker and possibly the final tour.

@LocalNative @Alio @ijjysmith @RFUS and others this should be right up your alley. The best news is if they are, there's a back catalogue going back 15 years to discover.

Reminds me a little of We Are Scientists - quite a cool throwback guitar band. I actually remember having a song of theirs on my old iPod classic - can't for the life of me remember which one though.