Music I Like That Spilled Over

As I listen to new music, I make notes of what I’d like to share. When I have time, I work my way through my lists of discoveries and try to slot bands into the themed drafts saved on my computer. When a draft has enough bands in it (usually 4-6), I schedule it for publication. It’s a system that’s worked pretty well for me, but sometimes when I’m working through my lists I come upon a band that really belonged in a post that already published. So I started this post of missed opportunities. The theme is regret, but the music is good.

Drab Majesty

Oh how I regret publishing my dark moods post before I got down to Drab Majesty on the list. Modern Mirror, with it’s Cure-like guitars and 80’s drum machine, belongs on that list more than anything that made the temporal cut. I dare you to listen to this goth-pop gem without reaching for the eyeliner.

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Backxwash

I don’t usually write about singles. But I stumbled on Deviancy, which looks like it was a special release for charity. And I wished I’d heard it in time to include in my women rappers post.

The opening song “Don’t Come to the Woods” is credited to Backxwash, and it is an irresistibly witchy, sinister song. It’s followed by “Devil in the Mosh Pit,” which I also love, and the rest of the album sticks to the witchy theme with mostly success. But “Don’t Come to the Woods” is definitely the highlight. I clicked through to Backxwash’s bandcamp page. Their most recent album is called Black Sailor Moon. The Zambian artist is based in Canada and proclaims their work “an eccentric and aggressive social commentary” inspired by Missy Elliott and Redman. Yes, please.

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Fumio Miyashita

I like instrumental music, but new age is rarely my thing. After I blogged about music I like from Japan, Bandcamp featured Fumio Miyashita. He described WAVE Sounds of the Universe as healing music. I had a lingering cold and was feeling sorry for myself, and WAVE Sounds was just the soothing thing for a day when I had to work anyway and couldn’t spend my day on the couch watching healing anime like Yotsuiro Biyori.

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FxckMr

I had not heard FxckMr (pronounced, as you might expect, fuckmister) when I wrote my post on indigenous musicians, but if I had, he would have been there. I’m always interested in hearing different perspectives, particularly from indigenous voices. As a 21-year-old Inuit from Iqualut, Canada (it’s on Baffin Island, thus closer to Greenland than Vancouver or even Toronto) is definitely coming from a place I don’t know. His debut album 1997 doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve ever heard. I mean, sometimes his vocals are very Korn, and my husband hears shades of AFRO (whom I don’t know yet) – but the sum of the parts is unique.

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Oak

I almost put the post-rock titled False Memory Archive, a moody, proggy album with unusual instrumentation from Oslo-based band, Oak, in my Dark Moods post. But that dark mood didn’t come through at first. The opening track was pretty poppy and if I hadn’t been watching so much K-drama lately, I wouldn’t have listened further. The only reason I played it in the first place was because I was looking for the band OAK, which I had in my notes for a post on Portuguese bands. Finally I realized that with so many tie-ins to other posts, this album had to go in my spillover post. Just don’t ask me where exactly it spilled over from.

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Vastum

There are only so many ways to thematically slice death metal. But I listen to so much of it I guess I should just always have a death metal post in progress. Since Vastum put out Orificial Purge in October, I think every blog I read has covered them, and I every time I read about them, I play the album again and like it just as much.

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