September 2, 2022

Why?

I enjoy discovering music but am very, very bad at it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I could listen to Aja or Close to the Edge another ten million times each and still find new things to appreciate about them, but, there's nothing quite like hearing something for the first time and being punched in the mouth with "ah yes, this sounds nice". These moments are too few and far between. For me, anyways. I think what I'd like to do is force myself to listen to an album that is brand new (to me) and listen to it front to back, at least once monthly. Then, jumble my thoughts together and write them down here. As much as I like to shit on my own writing from years past, it is nice to look back with a feeling that I'm better at it now. Maybe I'm not. I don't really practice. Who cares? This is for me. 

A friend recently turned me onto God's Country by Chat Pile. These older millennials from OKC absolutely wreck. It's visceral. Some bits of the album seem to exude bits of cringey teenage angst, but judging by their social media, they don't take themselves too seriously, which makes those same bits somehow endearing. Clearly influenced by 90s era noise and grunge, something about this album is strangely relatable for a late-to-mid 30s aging millennial like myself. Almost like Helmet had a baby with the Melvins and that baby tuned his guitar down 3 steps and took the bpm down by 33% or so. Any rate, it has been a sludgy couple of years, and the raw, damn the man, noisiness of this album just feels right. I mean, who in their right mind, is not harboring some kind of frustration with the way things have been going?

Please give me album suggestions. If you like it, that's all that matters to me. I just want to sit quietly with my earbuds in, listening intently, then write some stupid shit about it and post it on the internet. 

Thanks.