Best of Discover Weekly – Week 40:2022.

This week on Discover Weekly. I choose three tracks and list them in no particular order! We’ve stepped into october and autumn is a fact that we no longer can ignore. The leaves of the trees paint a colorful picture before they depart towards the ground.

The first track on this weeks Discover Weekly playlist is Agenda Suicide by The Faint. The track Agenda Suicide is off of The Faints 2001 album Danse MacAbre. This is an existensial song, lyrically, that sounds very much like songs did in 2001. And it is very good, i had never heard it before, so i got very happy when i heard it as a part of my Discover Weekly playlist! Some elements of the song, like the voice of the singer, made me think of Bloc Party – a band that i hold very close to my heart.

The second track this week is tremolo+delay by toe. This song if off of their 2012 album the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety. Never ever before had i heard of the band toe, and therefor i will paraphrase what it says on Genius.com, that i also linked in the sentence above. toe is a japanese group founded in the year 2000. They play mostly instrumental post-rock, and i believe that tremolo+delay is a beautiful rendition and exhibition of their craftsmanship with the instruments. One of my many favourite things about instrumental songs is when you get the feeling, that they tell you a story, even without there being any lyrics. And i get that feeling from tremolo+delay, it tells a story, without using any words.

The third and last track off of this weeks Discover Weekly is Lucid Dreams by Franz Ferdinand, and the song is off of their 2009 album Tonight. I was absolutley obsessed with Franz Ferdinands earlier work, and i listened to it a lot, when i was younger. But it’s been a while since i revisited their work. And that’s why i got very happy when i saw that i had a Franz Ferdinand song on my Discover Weekly, this week! The song in question, Lucid Dreams starts off like a regular FF song, but it is waaaaay longer than their regular tracks that i am familiar with as this track stretches out for almost 8 minutes. And the first three and a half minutes or so, sounds like a regular FF track, and the rest of the song fades into an smooth and soft instrumental outro.

Until next time, take care.
SLQT.

Best of Discover Weekly – Week 39:2022.

Another week, another Discover Weekly update! As always i pick my three favourite tracks from the playlist and list them here, in no particular order.

The first track this week is Since I Left You by The Avalanches. The Avalanches released this track back in 2000, and this was their only album until 2016. Avalanches combines a dreamy take on electronic music, with sometimes equally dreamy voices and sometimes funny samples. I’ve been listening to Avalanches for a while, and my favourite track of theirs is Frontier Psychiatrist.

The second track this week is Election Day by Blaze Foley. This is the first track i’ve ever heard from Blaze Foley, and i know nothing about him. But according to Genius he was a country artist that was murdered in 1989. Usually i’m not that keen on country music, but then i realize that it’s the more newly produced, and commercialized country that i don’t enjoy. However, this gritty and raw country is amazing.

The third and last track from this weeks Discover Weekly is a track called Pa Pa Power by Dead Man’s Bones. Dead Man’s Bones play a sort of ”dark folk music”, and i think it’s very good. The first time i heard a song from this duo was when i was watching a movie or a tv-show, when their track In The Room Where You Sleep was used, and i fell in love with it. Oh, by the way – a fun fact about the duo Dead Man’s Bones is that one of the performing artists is Ryan Gosling, more known as an actor.

Hope you had some good tracks on this weeks Discover Weekly!

Until next time, take care.
SLQT.

Best of Discover Weekly – Week 38:2022.

Monday has passed, and we’ve gotten ourselves a updated Discover Weekly playlist from Spotify! As earlier weeks, i will listen through it and choose the three tracks that i like the most and list them, in no particular order.

The first track off of this weeks Discover Weekly is Eastwood Dub by King Tubby. Genius says that King Tubby was a Jamaican sound engineer, who greatly influenced the development of dub. And that makes sense, as this track, Eastwood Dub has got that classic dub-sound, and it’s really easy to listen to – and it makes you nod your head with the rhythm. There’s something that’s just a bit soothing about the sound, and i can see that this track would be sampeled in other songs, with singers singing over this dub.

The second track is Wet And Rusting by Menomena, and it’s off of their 2007 album Friend And Foe. Genius lets us know that Menomana is a Portland, Oregon based band. Just as with King Tubby, i had no previous knowledge of Menomana. But i love the sound of this track, Wet And Rusting, it reminds me of Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, MGMT and similar bands. There’s something with the soft voices of the singers, combined with the heavy focus on the instrumental elements that just makes sense to me.

The third and last track from this weeks Discover Weekly playlist is Open Heart Surgery by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and it’s off of their 2000 album Zero. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is, according to Genius, an American psychadelic rock baned based in San Fransisco, California in 1990. In this weeks list, this is the only band i had previous knowledge of. I’ve been listening to The BJM on and off for years now, however the album Zero which contains this song, has passed me by without notice. Open Heart Surgery is a track with slow sounding instrumentals and a rather melancholic lyrical element, where the singer reminds me of Robert Smith, from The Cure.

Also, side note, this was the first week in years that i didn’t get a track that’s in a language that i don’t understand. Intriguing! I hope your playlist contained some good songs, that will feature in your future rotation!

Until next time, takre care.
SLQT.

Best of Discover Weekly – Week 37:2022.

Another week! Another batch of tracks has been generated and put into our Discover Weekly playlists. And, like every week, i’ll let you know what three tracks were my favourite!

The first track of this week is Unhappy by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. This is a mastodont album, consisting of 40 tracks. I’ve listened a lot to OutKast over the years, i love most of what they’ve done. However i haven’t been listening that much to the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album, apart from the biggest songs, like Hey Ya!, Roses & The way you move. Unhappy is this beautiful, yet melancholic track, with a groovy groove with a sound of the lyrical elements that brings a eerie, melancholic feeling over this track. This is a well used phenomenon by OutKast, a very happy and upbeat instrumental, with terribly depressive lyrics – like on Hey Ya!. I’m very pleased that i was introduced to this track my Spotify, and it’s going straight into my regular rotation.

The second track this week is A Dozen Roses by Braid. This track comes off of Braids 1998 album Frame and Canvas. This was the first time i ever heard this song, and the first time i heard of this band. AllMusic says that Braid is: ”Influential emo band from the days when the genre still had a connection to hardcore”, and i feel like that describes this song very well. You have this gritty sound, with changes of the tempo that you often find in emo songs, combined with the lyrics and the way the singer sings – this feels like a good representation of the emo wave.

The third and last track this week is I’ll Fight You by Open Mike Eagle. This track is a single that was released the 9th of August, 2022, so it’s right off the press! I’ve heard of Open Mike Eagle, but i have never really listened to his music before. I think this track is very easy to listen to, the voice of Open Mike Eagle is soothing and he’s very much on the beat. I loved the beat straight away, and as i kept on listening to the track a couple of more times, it just grew on me. And i very much enjoy how well the flow, beat and voice grows together to make this track a reality.

This week was a good week, i had a lot of good songs, and it was tough to choose tracks this week. And, only one song was in a language i don’t understand, i believe it is sung in Dutch.

I hope you give these tracks a listen, and i hope that you’ve gotten some good tracks on your Discover Weekly, this week!

Until next time, take care.
SLQT.

Best of Discover Weekly – Week 36:2022

Here comes my three favourite tracks from this weeks Discover Weekly-playlist from Spotify. The tracks are in no particular order. This week we had no tracks in finnish or other languages that i don’t speak, and that’s a rare occasion. Usually there are a few tracks in finnish.

The first track is Here’s Your Future by The Thermals. This is a good rock song, with a slowpaced start that gets into some heavy hitting tempo. This sounds just like a song that was released in 2006, and that’s also when it was released. It has the same features of a mid 00s rock song. And i’m a sucker for it.

The second track is Dum Surfer by King Krule. I’ve been listening to King Krule on and off, but somehow this track flew over my head. I’ve probably never really listened to the 2017 album The OOZ, where this song comes from. This track is a King Krule-esque track, with some pretty interesting and intriguing instrumental parts and solos. King Krule’s voice is one of those things, i believe, that you either love or hate. I had a rough time with it in the beginning, but it grew on me.

The third and final track in this weeks best of Discover Weekly is Something Bigger, Something Brighter by Pretty Girls Make Graves. The album which features this song was released in 2003, so this is also a mid 00’s rock song. We’ve got a female vocalist, whose voice fits this kind of song excellently. This song is very tempo-driven, it changes several times during the track, and i find that this enhances the song for me.

Hope you give these songs a listen, and i hope that you had some good music this week on your DIscover Weekly-playlist.

Until next time, take care.
SLQT.

Best of Discover Weekly – Week 35:2022

Spotify has a feature that is called Discover Weekly, it’s a playlist that contains 30 songs based on similar things to what you already listen to, and it gets updated every monday with 30 new tracks. It’s a nice way to find some new music, and rediscover old music that you haven’t been listening to for a while. Spotify describes it as: ”Your weekly mixtape of fresh music. Enjoy new music and deep cuts picked for you. Updates every monday.”

As with my post the other day where i went through my three favourite tracks from my Release Radar playlist, i figured i would do the same thing with my Discover Weekly playlist! I will pick my three favourite tracks from this weeks Discover Weekly and i’ll give some explanation as to why. Since both of these playlists updates weekly, i figure that this could be a good weekly feature of this website. And as with the Release Radar, the three tracks i pick are in no particular order. An interesting thing about my Discover Weekly, that i know of other that have aswell is that some of the tracks i get every week is in languages i don’t speak, it’s often 1-2 tracks in finnish, and sometimes there are some tracks in german. But the only constant is that there’s atleast 1 track in finnish, every week. I don’t mind tho, sometimes they’re good, even tho i don’t know what they’re singing, and sometimes they have excellent band names – like Teksti-TV 666. And as i wrote for the Release Radar text – some weeks you get 10 fantastic songs that you can’t live without, and some weeks you’re scraping by, trying your absolute hardest to even find one track that has some redeeming qualities. And that’s a part of the charm – like Forrest Gumps mom said, ”[…]you never know what you get.”

Anyway, here’s my three picks from this weeks Discover Weekly:

The first track is Another Morning Stoner by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. It’s a heavy hitting track, that i don’t really know how to categorize, but it sounds a bit like some like post-punk, gritty sounding, heavy rock with some doom-metal and maybe a splash of shoegazey-ness mashed into it, and i’m all for it. Let me tell you. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is a band that i’ve never heard of before, so, i will be sure to check them out! And i belive that this is one of the great features of the Discover Weekly playlist. You get a sort of small introduction to a band, or a sound, or an idea and then you can keep on digging into that hole and discover even more great music on your own!

The second track from this weeks Discover Weekly is Turtle Neck by Bosnian Rainbows. I noticed a pattern during this weeks playlist, and it’s been a lot of shogazey sounding tracks. This song by Bosnian Rainbows stood out a bit, and i do very much enjoy the vocalist and her voice. The production is on par and all the different elements of this track bounces off of eachother. As this sometime’s is a problem with these sort of tracks, that part of either the instrumentals or the songs gets drowned out by other parts of the song. I do enjoy this track a lot, and i’ll be sure to look into Bosnian Rainbows discography.

The third and final track from this weeks Discover Weekly is Revolution 1993 by Jamiroquai. It’s this 10 minute and some long song featuring a lot of different elements, but it is fun, and it is dancey, and it is groovy. It’s like you get a few different songs, in one song, since it features so many different elements and that’s rather fun and interesting to listen to. And it was a good break from all the heavy shoegazy tracks that i got this week. And we got this fabolous trumpet solo towards the end of the track, which lifts the song to new levels.

I had some trouble picking the three tracks this week, as very many of them was rather similar, and none of them really jumped at you. But the three tracks i’ve chosen are solid, and i recommend that you give them a listen! Fun side note, this week the playlist only featured three songs in finnish, which is fewer than usual!

Until next time, take care.
SLQT.