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Archive_Reports
05-24-2020, 10:45 AM
What band / artist do you feel was influential to whatever genre, or music as a whole, but doesn't get the credit they deserve? Also, why?

Scarlet: Metalcore band in the same vein as The Dillinger Escape Plan but less chaotic. They were good from their inception but got better with each release. By the end of their run (2006) they were mixing spastic metalcore, use of cleans (with a legitimately good singer), with electronics and programming which many bands adopted in the following years. This Was Always Meant to Fall Apart should be considered a genre classic but, sadly, most people haven't even heard of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMAsTCMvoI

chuckrh
05-24-2020, 10:52 AM
Neil Finn. Consistently fine playing & songwriting for the last 40 years in whatever playing situation he's in. A very nice guy too.

dlb
05-24-2020, 11:23 AM
Alot of bands fall into this category but it always baffles me how absolutely no one I know has heard of Curve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyERK55GlFc

richardp
05-24-2020, 11:56 AM
While they're essentially broken up now, MUTEMATH was a band that I ALWAYS thought deserved far more attention and credit than they ever received.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHHRBsTc7I

katara
05-24-2020, 12:51 PM
spastic
FYI, this is considered a highly offensive derogatory term, at least where I'm from.

Keeping this on topic, I'm going to pick Collide, an eclectic duo from LA. Much of their music is electronic-based, with trip-hop, Middle Eastern, and industrial elements. They've been making music since 1992.
Their cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit gained some traction, and to this day, it's one of their most popular songs.
Some pretty cool people in underground circles have remixed their material. Chris Vrenna, Charlie Clouser, and cEvin Key among them.

One of my personal favourites is Tempted off their third album Some Kind of Strange.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN1AnIPzkM

For those wanting to know a place to start, their last major album Color Of Nothing is very solid indeed. I'd also recommend Chasing The Ghost and Some Kind of Strange.

They have their own record label Noiseplus Records, self-releasing everything through their website (https://www.collide.net/).

GulDukat
05-24-2020, 01:07 PM
The Monkees. They have one of the best body-of-work of any artist from the 1960's. A lot of it they didn't write (or play on), but they were awesome.

katara
05-24-2020, 01:17 PM
The Monkees. They have one of the best body-of-work of any artist from the 1960's. A lot of it they didn't write (or play on), but they were awesome.
Weren't The Monkees incredibly successful? They're still a household name over 50 years after their debut.

eversonpoe
05-24-2020, 01:53 PM
Rosetta

beautiful, sprawling songs, mostly screamed vocals, really cool lyrical concepts. their first album came out in 2005 and they've done a lot since then. they're also totally DIY (though their first couple albums were released by Translation Loss). they've also been hugely inspirational in my own music. i've only seen them live twice (and the first time i only got to stay for one song). mike armine, the vocalist, is a high school psychology teacher, so their touring availability is very limited.

here's a really good example of their style:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrHvZF8jbwg

neorev
05-24-2020, 03:06 PM
I nominate LA based band Woven. I absolutely love this band. I discovered them back in late 2002/early 2003-ish. Got to see them live in NYC and hung out with Jonathan from the band. He brought my girl and I around to meet the whole band. He chilled and hung out with us during the opening act and we chatted. I actually found him later on Facebook and we became friends and still chat on there. I also got a crazy story involving this band and me meeting my girlfriend who I've been with for 16+ years. Sadly, after their EP and album, Interscope dropped them. When they came through NYC, they were doing a little US tour and selling their brand new Aftermath EP on tour. A little later, they dropped their follow up album Designer Codes.

WOVEN
https://www.discogs.com/artist/178782-Woven


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vpGeqbp3E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5OBn3ZRDo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jho_0R01-Ew

GulDukat
05-24-2020, 03:29 PM
Weren't The Monkees incredibly successful? They're still a household name over 50 years after their debut.They were, but they never got the critical respect that they deserve. They still aren't in the Rock n' Roll HOF.

katara
05-24-2020, 04:22 PM
The Monkees. They have one of the best body-of-work of any artist from the 1960's. A lot of it they didn't write (or play on), but they were awesome.


Weren't The Monkees incredibly successful? They're still a household name over 50 years after their debut.


They were, but they never got the critical respect that they deserve. They still aren't in the Rock n' Roll HOF.
The Monkees were the first (as far as I know) manufactured boy band. They deserve to be in here (and the RnR HOF) as much as Backstreet Boys or One Direction.

Speaking of people who deserve to be in here...

Remember Sneaker Pimps? They made one great album and then fizzled out of the public eye when they kicked out their vocalist, Kelli Dayton (she wanted to write as well as sing). Guaranteed, every comment section about this band turns into a bitchfest because of this fact.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4splHS8vM

Becoming X is one of my favourite albums of all time. Their subsequent releases were good, just not really the same without Kelli. What the complainers forget is that she rebranded herself as Kelli Ali and still makes music to this day, ranging from sugar-sweet pop to down and dirty trip-hop just like in Sneaker Pimps.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71oqtBKzl0

neorev
05-24-2020, 05:21 PM
Remember Sneaker Pimps? They made one great album and then fizzled out of the public eye when they kicked out their vocalist, Kelli Dayton (she wanted to write as well as sing). Guaranteed, every comment section about this band turns into a bitchfest because of this fact.

Becoming X is great. I couldn't get into their follow up albums with the guy taking over singing.

theimage13
05-24-2020, 05:53 PM
They Might Be Giants.

There's a generation of people who know that they did "that song that was on Tiny Toons", then there's a relatively small cult following that will allow them to sell out clubs & small theaters...and that's about it. 30+ years, hundreds of songs, extremely intelligent lyrics over unique instrumentation. Those who do give them credit certainly give them that which is due, but there are SO many people who simply have never even heard of them. When was the last time you actually heard this band on the radio?

bobbie solo
05-25-2020, 02:08 AM
Kenna. But i attribute his underratedness to being his own fault/label drama.

GulDukat
05-25-2020, 07:37 AM
The Monkees were the first (as far as I know) manufactured boy band. They deserve to be in here (and the RnR HOF) as much as Backstreet Boys or One Direction.


The Backstreet Boys and One Direction didn't eventually take creative control of their music, start to play their own instruments and write their own songs.

halo eighteen
05-25-2020, 08:31 AM
FYI, this is considered a highly offensive derogatory term, at least where I'm from.

Well the UK certainly has an incredibly even moreso derogatory term for cigarette, so yeah.

katara
05-25-2020, 10:24 AM
The Backstreet Boys and One Direction didn't eventually take creative control of their music, start to play their own instruments and write their own songs.
That doesn't change the fact that these are all successful, popular bands that are in no way underrated.


Well the UK certainly has an incredibly even moreso derogatory term for cigarette, so yeah.
That word is also disgusting and should be banned. What point are you trying to make here?

eversonpoe
05-25-2020, 10:42 AM
Remember Sneaker Pimps? They made one great album and then fizzled out of the public eye when they kicked out their vocalist, Kelli Dayton (she wanted to write as well as sing). Guaranteed, every comment section about this band turns into a bitchfest because of this fact.


Becoming X is great. I couldn't get into their follow up albums with the guy taking over singing.

i love becoming x and i really like kelli's voice, BUT since chris was the one writing the lyrics, if you listen to live recordings of him singing the songs, the emotion comes through so much stronger. i actually think Splinter is their best album. and i adore chris' solo project, IAMX, that he started when sneaker pimps dissolved. many of the songs on the first IAMX album were actually meant to be on the fourth sneaker pimps album. i saw IAMX live and it was a truly amazing show at my favorite venue in chicago.

i'm going to add Rachel's. every single album they put out was gorgeous. each one was strictly or loosely based around a particular concept. a brilliant collection of musicians that varied from album to album but always included the same core members (though Jason Noble doesn't appear on Music For Egon Schiele, as it's just piano, cell, & viola). Rachel Grimes is still releasing music that's gorgeous (The Clearing is an amazing album), but i don't know if anything similar will ever top the actual band for me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUoKyuJujuw

incredible opener for my favorite album of theirs, Selenography

GulDukat
05-25-2020, 12:01 PM
That doesn't change the fact that these are all successful, popular bands that are in no way underrated.



I'm arguing that the Monkees body-of-work is underrated and that their contribution to popular music warrants their induction to the HOF. Their actual popularity and the popularity of One Direction or the Backstreet Boys is not relevant.

How popular a band/artist is doesn't necessarily have anything to do whether or not they are underrated. Yes, they were successful, but I am arguing that they are critically underrated and never really got the recognition or respect that they deserve.

I would also add that Micky Dolenz is a very underrated singer and Mike Nesmith was a sorely underrated songwriter.

neorev
05-25-2020, 12:19 PM
LORN
http://www.lorn.bandcamp.com

Honestly, one of the most amazing producers out there. I put him up there with legendary sound designers like Richard D. James and Amon Tobin. His stuff sounds especially amazing on headphones with the spatial effects he uses. He ran a bassline through a broken subwoofer speaker to record the vibration of the broken pieces to add on top of the bassline. He should be scoring film and TV series. Plus the dude gives away most of his music for free thru his Bandcamp.


https://youtu.be/u9g0U-M2McQ


https://youtu.be/nxg4C365LbQ

Helpmeiaminhell (is now in hell)
05-25-2020, 12:36 PM
Justin K Broadrick.....Dude is a legend. Does Napalm Deaths debut album as a teenager. Then forms the mighty Godflesh who are extremely influential on the entire industrial/metal scene (lot of bands took the Godflesh formula and commercialized it and made some big $$$$. Lookin at you Korn and Fear Factory)....Then forms Jesu which is at the forefront of the whole post-metal boom circa 2004....So many artists have been influenced by JK ranging from Greg Puciato to Mike Patton to our beloved Trent (Burning Bright Field on Fire sounds more like Godflesh than the last Flesh LP).......Justin gets respect and people who know their shit know how influential he is but he still is underrated as fuck. Ministry got all the accolades and big tours and big $$$$

eversonpoe
05-25-2020, 03:53 PM
LORN
http://www.lorn.bandcamp.com

i discovered him because one of his songs was used in a perfume ad, of all things. but holy shit did i love it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4DDtB1VM

neorev
05-25-2020, 06:52 PM
i discovered him because one of his songs was used in a perfume ad, of all things. but holy shit did i love it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4DDtB1VM

Such a good track! His whole Maze To Nowhere trilogy is great and this tune is one of my faves from it.

Bachy
05-25-2020, 06:58 PM
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is one of those bands that’s very easy to overlook given the size of their library but that’s mainly due to the sheer length of their pieces. I call them pieces because I don’t know if I’d necessarily put them in the category of a song per se. The below one has been in my playlist the last month:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczZTD13YkY

Deadpool
05-26-2020, 12:02 AM
Sneaker Pimps are an all-timer for me. They're definitely underrated compared to the giant, defining acts of the 90s but their debut (which seems to be the favorite around here) is by far their most well-known and popular. Hell, Michael Bay's last movie was called 6 UNDERGROUND(!!)

Their 2nd and 3rd albums are far more underrated imo: their songwriting is more mature and the sound design sampling is way more sophisticated. Some of my favorite music production I've ever heard is on Bloodsport. Chris Corner (currently of IAMX) and Liam Howe (who would go on to work with fka twigs, Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding) self-produced that album and it's a stunner. They reunited last year to finally finish their 4th album but there hasn't been much news since. :(


Bloodsport still sounds ahead of its time whereas Becoming X sounds very much of its era (not so much a criticism as much as an observation). I think the unique chemistry of Chris and Liam combined with their cumulative studio experience and the less-than-earth-shattering response are textbook conditions for a highly overlooked, under-appreciated work.

Kelli's voice is iconic and I love it, but I think Chris's comparatively less striking vocals on Splinter (a beautiful, deeply melancholic album) and Bloodsport make those latter two albums easy to ignore. <3

frankie teardrop
05-26-2020, 10:11 PM
y'all already hit curve, but i'll add the following:

the comsat angels
lowlife
the sound
cranes
wire
felt
manic street preachers

i mean, i specialize in 'underrated' and 'obscure,' so we can be here all night...

allegate
05-26-2020, 10:50 PM
While they're essentially broken up now, MUTEMATH was a band that I ALWAYS thought deserved far more attention and credit than they ever received.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHHRBsTc7I

those first two were just amazing, the drums alone were just *chef's kiss*. Them and Frightened Rabbits "Percussion Gun", just something about that drum sound that gets me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHHGqIcncKs

allegate
05-26-2020, 10:52 PM
i discovered him because one of his songs was used in a perfume ad, of all things. but holy shit did i love it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4DDtB1VM

it's like Aphex Twin and Carpenter Brut got together. fucking wow.

richardp
05-27-2020, 01:21 AM
those first two were just amazing, the drums alone were just *chef's kiss*. Them and Frightened Rabbits "Percussion Gun", just something about that drum sound that gets me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHHGqIcncKs

Dude I have a fucking STACK of used drumsticks from Darren from my days of seeing them live those first few years. I always planted myself right in front of his kit and ended up walking away from so many shows with sticks, setlists, broken drumheads, etc. Those were great times.

neorev
05-27-2020, 08:22 AM
i discovered him because one of his songs was used in a perfume ad, of all things. but holy shit did i love it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4DDtB1VM

If you like Lorn, you should check out Dolor...
https://dolor.bandcamp.com

Lorn & Dolor have collaborated many times. They were both on Wednesday Sound label with adoptahighway.

Lorn & Dolor recently dropped a collab EP...
https://lorn.bandcamp.com/album/zero-bounce

ChipRock
05-27-2020, 10:33 AM
Knew Curve would pop up here, and rightly so - they were amazing. This brings to mind a real bubgear of mine - the erasing of Carter USM/Pop Will Eat Itself/The Wonder Stuff etc from the popular timeline of British alternative/indie rock. Curve fall into the same category, I guess.
Nine Inch Nails fans should be familiar with PWEI of course, but there were a bunch of bands from around the same era that are not popularly remembered. Carter for instance had number one albums and headlined Glastonbury, but outside of the hardcore indie nerds you will rarely hear them mentioned.
I guess the problem might have been that they didn't fall into an easily categorised genre (Grebo? Maybe, but that does sound silly). It's a shame, whatever the reason.
Still hoping they'll be cool again for the next wave of a 90s revivial!

In addition I will big up Cranes (they were great, right? still hoping they'll show up again - from my home town, which might be the only reason I know them!), and the Monkees. I don't know much of their stuff, but regardless of whether they were 'manufactured' - I do agree that they are underappreciated.

eversonpoe
05-27-2020, 12:40 PM
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is one of those bands that’s very easy to overlook given the size of their library but that’s mainly due to the sheer length of their pieces. I call them pieces because I don’t know if I’d necessarily put them in the category of a song per se. The below one has been in my playlist the last month:

how do you feel about A Silver Mt. Zion? i actually prefer them to godspeed (as i'm one of those weirdos that loves efrim's voice). saw them live at the logan square auditorium like ten years ago (they were touring on 13 blues for 13 moons) and it was an incredible show. sadly never seen godspeed.

one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking pieces of music ever, totally inspired the style of piano playing i used on a lot of my music in high school:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWzHcS55rzQ

@Deadpool (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=237) guess you didn't see my post about sneaker pimps saying most of the same stuff :p

PhoenixML
05-27-2020, 12:52 PM
Circa Survive and Anthony Green

Circa Survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfbnSb8kFkI

Anthony Green solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthJU03MkZc

Deadpool
05-28-2020, 12:02 PM
@Deadpool (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=237) guess you didn't see my post about sneaker pimps saying most of the same stuff :p

Oh, shit! How did I miss that?!

Just read your post! Always great to know another fan of latter-day SP and of course IAMX. Totally agree on everything, and you make a good point about Chris singing Becoming X stuff live: you can tell he really feels and believes the lyrics because as you pointed out... he wrote them! ;)

And I might even argue that Splinter is the most underrated SP album. It's not as pop-y as Becoming X or as energetic and colorful as Bloodsport, but the depth and maturity of the pervasive melancholy is really something to behold. <3

I think a lot of ETS'ers who aren't familiar with that LP would be fast fans.

eversonpoe
05-28-2020, 02:02 PM
Oh, shit! How did I miss that?!

Just read your post! Always great to know another fan of latter-day SP and of course IAMX. Totally agree on everything, and you make a good point about Chris singing Becoming X stuff live: you can tell he really feels and believes the lyrics because as you pointed out... he wrote them! ;)

And I might even argue that Splinter is the most underrated SP album. It's not as pop-y as Becoming X or as energetic and colorful as Bloodsport, but the depth and maturity of the pervasive melancholy is really something to behold. <3

I think a lot of ETS'ers who aren't familiar with that LP would be fast fans.

"lightning field" is probably my favorite sneaker pimps song, it's so gorgeous and haunting. ungh.

katara
05-28-2020, 02:35 PM
Knew Curve would pop up here, and rightly so - they were amazing. This brings to mind a real bubgear of mine - the erasing of Carter USM/Pop Will Eat Itself/The Wonder Stuff etc from the popular timeline of British alternative/indie rock. Curve fall into the same category, I guess.
The story behind Curve falling apart (unsure about the rest of those bands) was mainly due to a total lack of interest from the label, Universal Records. Their penultimate album Gift was sitting in storage for at least a year, completely finished. It was taking so long that they assembled and self-released another album (Open Day At The Hate Fest), whose success convinced Universal to finally release Gift. They fought long and hard against the label. I imagine it was quite a stressful time.

Also: Sneaker Pimps' Splinter is a great album. Definitely worth a listen if you dropped off after Becoming X.

benoïde
05-28-2020, 09:53 PM
Susanne Sundfør's Ten Love Songs is a deep, joyful and heartbreaking collection of songs about love. Her singing is exceptionnal and the production on this album is phenomenal.

https://youtu.be/_bH1FJj9b3o

GulDukat
05-28-2020, 10:10 PM
In the late 90's/early 00's there was a band called Union, which included singer John Corabi (of Motley Crue) and Bruce Kullick (KISS). They were booted out of those bands to be replaced by the people that they replaced, Vince Neil and Ace Frehley.

Really liked this song from their self-titled debut from 1998:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJG3uI0_07k

Erneuert
05-29-2020, 07:32 AM
VAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yc_5uuakfM (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0yc_5uuakfM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZDBZXRJcdQ (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZDBZXRJcdQ)

GulDukat
05-29-2020, 08:12 AM
Mother Love Bone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkcJAhefEs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52MEJa54k84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwzwdJ8ofI4

allegate
05-29-2020, 10:41 AM
Andy was one of a kind.

Goliath and the Giants is a band that I keep trying to get people into. They had two albums - no matter what the wiki says - and the second one is the one I was introduced to. A small forum that I used to go to - it's since dissolved - had an admin that kept an FTP of albums open for trade. He recommended this album to me since he knew I liked Jimmy Eat World (I don't hear it) but I never got around to listening to it until 2018.

I was depressed at work and put this on because I was in the process of listening to albums that had zero plays in iTunes to see what I should get rid of. The bubbly surf tones started and there's just so much fun going on in the song right away. Then at 58 seconds a piano jumps in with a lively little melody, driving it even further. The whole thing made my day immediately better and it quickly became a favorite album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpA2NLXutsE

For some reason the band's website (http://www.goliathandthegiants.com/?p=media) is still active. It's funny that under the Done Deed album listing there's a download link (http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7734033/Goliath_And_The_Giants_-_Done_Deed) that takes you to TPB. The link is inactive - the .se domain has long been abandoned - but the files are still on the site proper, if you can track that down.

As for the first album that has a download code field on it:
On February 28, 2011 the band announced that their album was scheduled to be released the week of March 18, 2011, and was promoted as being the first album without a CD. They did this to minimise its environmental impact and to keep down its costs. Instead of a classic CD, they included a digital download code so that the buyer could download the album from the band's webpage, burn it onto a CD and place it in its recyclable, eco-friendly packaging.

ldeaf2
05-29-2020, 12:45 PM
I have two bands (for now).

Burst
https://youtu.be/Yj_HTI5r2X4

https://youtu.be/lslvvTnE4QE

The Pineapple Thief
https://youtu.be/nDBdrXo4Nw0

[parasite]
07-06-2021, 06:20 AM
the erasing of Carter USM/Pop Will Eat Itself/The Wonder Stuff etc from the popular timeline of British alternative/indie rock.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US9nVBuDHhg&amp;list=PLr9KjrC2uWJH8aArjMvRAH60 JSqDZCro-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN9-NK6Z4SU&amp;list=PLz_wBLfXJIHe4G6xWfTRVjsf3P8ypYYZ2&amp;in dex=11

chuckrh
07-06-2021, 06:47 AM
You Am I. Great Australian band, criminally overlooked.

henryeatscereal
07-06-2021, 11:11 AM
PAW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzJz9TIbjv8

The Rollins Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmfLLaz9XE

Failure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwXt2PPpU8

elevenism
07-08-2021, 06:24 PM
I'd go with Broadcast, who are one of my favorite bands of all time, a staple of Warp Records, and a group no one seems to have heard of, here, except @eversonpoe (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=588) .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knIFMuppzpQ

I'd also add Baxter. THis was a trio comprised of 2 DnB producers and the lead singer of a band called Salt. They set out to bring drum and bass sounds to the mainstream by mixing them with a melancholy pop vibe and using more traditional songwriting.
It didn't work, as far as record sales go, but, good GOD, their first record was AMAZING.
I'd call what they created IDM, for lack of a better term, with the sadness of Portishead, some nasty industrial guitar sounds, and a healthy dose of DnB style.
I'd recommend that record to just about anybody here...i mean, it's slightly NIN adjacent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygnCJT96leg

neorev
07-08-2021, 07:04 PM
HANSEL


https://youtu.be/PnfhhFX5Lpw


https://youtu.be/BPRMTj4o9do


https://youtu.be/jOnkL-SVVFk


https://youtu.be/XHP927C8Hmw

elevenism
07-24-2021, 03:54 AM
Failure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwXt2PPpU8

Failure is fucking great.
I saw those guys at Lolla in the afternoon in 97, on a headful of blotter acid.
I'd never heard them before, and they just blew me and my friends away.
They won me over in about five minutes.

Oddly enough, that was the last Lollapalooza tour, and the last Failure tour until they reunited in 2013.

But, yeah. Those motherfuckers were GOOD, and they were DIFFERENT. I'd never heard anyone play guitar quite like that. It really felt like something special was happening when they played their set, which was quite commendable, considering they were playing EARLY in the day, at a show that included Tricky, Tool, Snoop Dogg, and The Prodigy.

Edit: NOWHERE online can i find the actual lineup for the dallas show listed.
It was ABSOLUTELY, 100% Julian and Damien Marley, Tricky, Failure, James, Snoop Dogg, Tool, Prodigy.

It's weird that websites claim that Devo was there, and Orbital, and Korn, but fail to mention Failure. Poor bastards.

antediluvian
07-24-2021, 07:53 AM
Eivør

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqnMkUcTmys

Myrkur

https://youtu.be/NCh_8P6T8wE

orson thrust
08-11-2021, 10:50 AM
I nominate LA based band Woven. I absolutely love this band. I discovered them back in late 2002/early 2003-ish. Got to see them live in NYC and hung out with Jonathan from the band. He brought my girl and I around to meet the whole band. He chilled and hung out with us during the opening act and we chatted. I actually found him later on Facebook and we became friends and still chat on there. I also got a crazy story involving this band and me meeting my girlfriend who I've been with for 16+ years. Sadly, after their EP and album, Interscope dropped them. When they came through NYC, they were doing a little US tour and selling their brand new Aftermath EP on tour. A little later, they dropped their follow up album Designer Codes.

WOVEN
https://www.discogs.com/artist/178782-Woven


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vpGeqbp3E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5OBn3ZRDo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jho_0R01-Ew

Just want to say thank you for introducing me to this band. I saw you mentioned them multiple times, finally checked it out last year. Now i have an account here so i figured i'd look one up and say thanks. Just the 3 releases? Where we going might be my favorite song.

Ruined
08-11-2021, 11:46 AM
Sault:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRC4Ac6IB1w

The Adults:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6G0NGZJxU

imail724
08-11-2021, 12:14 PM
I feel that Death From Above 1979 play far smaller venues than I would expect them to. I think they had potential to be pretty big after their first album (touring with NIN probably helped), but then they broke up for a few years and by the time they got back I think a large chunk of their fanbase had moved on and they never recovered. I love all their stuff though.

neorev
08-11-2021, 01:23 PM
Just want to say thank you for introducing me to this band. I saw you mentioned them multiple times, finally checked it out last year. Now i have an account here so i figured i'd look one up and say thanks. Just the 3 releases? Where we going might be my favorite song.

They have 2 albums 8 Bit Monk and Designer Codes and each 2 EPs EPrime and Aftermath (one for each album). The song Solder Me had a 3 track remix release. So happy you dig them. I absolutely love these guys. They said they're reuniting for a new album, which I'm very excited for.

By the way, just in case you check Discogs, there is actually an older album called Innercom under the Woven name released back in 1997. This was 5 years before 8 Bit Monk when they had different members in the band and a different sound. They don't really consider it part of the Woven that put out 8 Bit Monk and Designer Codes. I guess they liked the name Woven and wanted to keep using it for the new band.