ITT: Talk about non-existent music

Go for Blue Forest. Their best album is definitely The Girl With The Jewel Eyes. Simply masterful.

Hephestugator is also worth checking out. Yes, they're a post-swampfunk (just listen to that bass fiddle and try tell me otherwise with a straight face); don't listen to the fanboys who insist they're really alt-squirrelcore.

Wait, is alt-squirrelcore a real thing? I mean, seriously? Seriously?

I mean, I thought everyone liked squirrelcore. Why would anyone want to try to mix alternative rock with it?

edited 1st Mar '11 6:10:54 PM by LuckyRevenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

While Hephestugator is a very good band, they're not squirrelcore. Their swampfunk can rival that of Blue Forest.

I also have to say that I am appalled that anyone would mix-up the energetic, chipper, fast sounds of squirrelcore with the more funky and Southern beats of swampcore.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

Well, the alt-squirrelcore fandom says that straight squirrelcore is too restrictive, that if you follow "three nuts and the truth" strictly then all your songs end up sounding the same. They're wrong, of course, but it's an easy enough mistake to make. So they mix in some chipmunkcore here, some mousecore there, occasionally some beavercore. Most of the scene is garbage, of course, but there are some occasional gems.

Like The Crucial Conspiracy. They mix squirrelcore and capybaracore; that shouldn't even be possible, but they make it work.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned post-ironic beardcore yet. Jeez, you guys call yourself music fans? Do you even read Pitchfork? If there's one up-and-coming genre of music that's worth paying attention to, it's post-ironic beardcore. I mean, come on. The scene is just crawling with amazing bands. Sport Warping? Sordid Thirst? Test Software? Why Won't The Hassle? Ringing any bells, guys?

edited 1st Mar '11 8:49:00 PM by Zudak

Oh, man I love Ringing Any Bells Guys. Don't Reap the Fear was my second-favorite album of 2008. I didn't realize they were part of a scene; I'll definitely be checking out all the other bands you mentioned.

^^I'm more into the postmodern anarcho-socialist folk scene, myself. Jud Grieger is a damn bloody god!

edited 1st Mar '11 8:59:42 PM by SeanMurrayI

I got Jaded Minds in Retrospect today! It's... it's on par with Ishikawa and Molyneux's stuff. Rhapsody on a Wire have truely outdone themselves this time. I think it's some of the best pseudo-rock classical I've ever heard.

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

I got Jaded Minds in Retrospect yesterday, and I thought it was excellent too - I love this more melodic direction they're moving in, and Smoke's really finding his feet as a keyboardist. The one thing I didn't really like about Lifetime of the Outer Sphere was that Smoke didn't fit in in his new band, and he didn't use enough of the band's trademark orchestration, but now he's struck a balance and they sound a lot more comfortable with him. Also, the English horn solo on "Blood on the Ice" is so fantastic and filled with emotion, total Tear Jerker. I'm just gonna call it - Jaded Minds in Retrospect is their best album in twelve years, and the best pseudo-rock classical album of 2011 so far (although the second phase of Ishikawa's Seventh Symphony might give it a run for its money when it drops in July).

A lot of the major alt-squirrelcore bands started off as straight-forward squirrelcore before they decided to add all those indie rock elements just to please Pitchfork, who were giving the squirrelcore style more attention because the bassist of Nuttytreebark  ^*

looked like a stereotypical hipster.

In essence, alt-squirrelcore is what squirrelcore bands start playing when they want to sell out.

edited 2nd Mar '11 2:15:52 AM by Lordnecronus

last.fm | RYM

What about beardrone? Any fans here?

Anyway, yeah, on a different topic: Passerines are magnificent. The mixture of the light keyboard textures, wafting vocals, and frantic breakbeats driven by looped bird samples is just breathtaking.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

I agree. Save for the bird whistles.

I like listening to some WIFOM now and then, though they get a bit old if you listen to them too regularly.

At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...

I'm really finding it hard to break my dependance on the Lithium-punk scene, bands like LA13 and Cybership at Noon are getting a little old.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

@Lordnecronus: I should've expected that. Fuckin traitors.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

I'm trying to check out some Balkan hyper-folk, but wikipedia's article on the subject is terrible; I've asked what bands to check out at four other forums and have yet to get a straight answer. Do you have any recommendations?

I'm not really well-versed in Balkan Hyper Folk, but from what I understand, people don't really form bands. They just kinda get together and make music sometimes.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

Vladimir Tarasov, from what I understand, is a prominent player in the Balkan hyper folk scene; he never releases albums, but his live shows are something to behold. It's amazing what you can accomplish on a cheap 50-year-old mandolin with three broken strings if you have heart and lyrics. (OK, I don't speak Vilkjavogyavandostani, but they sound cool.) If you really can't get to Romania to see him play, at least check out the bootleg Jajkj Vlokthoghiruini.

And speaking of Vilkjavogyavandostan, I know that they have one of the world's greatest sixth-dimensional dolphin punk scenes, but what would you reccommend I check out first?

Balkan hyper-folk? I can't name any one band, but my word of advice is that the best ones are from Latvia.

^^Sixth-dimensional? I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the 5D stuff, man.

That just means you haven't taken enough inter-dimensional hallucinogens.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around 3D weed, man.

Don't worry about it, it's like riding a bike. Watch, you'll be listening to eighteenth-dimensional nu-divinitycore in no time.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!