Can we have a slowcore thread? Easily one of the best things

>>72417889

I made this playlist if anyone's interested

https://open.spotify.com/user/wichoagc/playlist/0mHFg0wdXietHcnZYmOupi

>>72417889

Frigid Stars
DCH
Bedheaded
Stratosphere

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I feel like Songs: Ohia doesn't get mentioned alongside slowcore enough, but pic related and Didn't It Rain absolutely fit inside the bounds of the genre and are fantastic.

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>>72417889
Check out Pic related

also Rivulets latest album has a very rollercoaster vibe to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2IPLzBRxTg

>>72417889
havent checked out this band in forever. thanks for reminding me anon

>>72418473
Things We Lost in the Fire is one of my favorites by Low, I love that band
I'm basically in a Low cover band at this point

Obligatory Blue Rogue dump link
https://mega.nz/#F!wodxzS5A!VzxfDCeTzI0gds1sWixwQA

Over 150 albums ranging from genre essentials to literallywho

More like snoozecore.

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obligatory
love this band/drug

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>>72418473
>>72418497
I never see it mentioned much on here, but I think pic related is their best effort.

Do You Know How To Waltz is sublime.

>>72418620
Only band I've ever found that can communicate pure crushing depression and despair into music
Other bands can fuck you over with relatable feels about nogf or even about living with depression but only Codeine puts you right into the last ten minutes of a suicidal man's life as he prepares to end it all violently.

>>72418646
Have you ever listened to The Angelic Process

also if you like Codeine, check out the new 40 watt sun album, it's very Codeinish

>>72418633
I love that song, top three Low songs for me, along with Lullaby and Medicine Magazines

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bless up for matt elliott

>>72418687
Lullaby is pure Lowkino
Lowkey tho what the fuck is mimi on about with medicine in magazines, does medicine come in magazines in Minnesota or some shit?

>>72418609

I actually call it Snoozegaze but I mean it like a good thing

>>72418712
Galaxie 500 is snoozegaze

I listened to Geek the Girl but I didn't get it
Do I have to have a vagina (female) to understand it?

>>72418705
It's about like Cancer Hospital waiting rooms, where you get chemo, how they have magazines and give you a ton of medicine, but it won't fix the inevitable.

>>72418749
Damn I'm a fucking retard
Thanks man, great album nevertheless, Embrace and Closer are both top ten Low songs

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Basically nothing has captured pure listless melancholy quite like this one.

I love tons of other slowcore stuff, but I feel like this is basically the apotheosis of the genre. It took a few listens to really get, but once it hit goddamn did it hit. It just moves and builds and even stagnates at all the right times.

>>72418731
I don't think you do (I mean I was able to get a lot out of it), but it does seem to touch on a lot of insecurities or sources of despair that are more associated with femininity. Which isn't to suggest those things are only felt by women, but I think it does explain a bit why her music in general doesn't resonate as much around here as someone like Mark Kozelek does.

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>>72418779
No problem. it's definitely a severely underrated album.

>I fell down the stairs, i wish i were dead

I like how all the albums posted thus far are pretty much all 10/10's for me.

Why is this genre so fucking good and why does basically nobody know about it?

>>72418840
Slowcore can't really be done in an offensively bad way imo, the worst it can be is boring.

>>72418870
yes slowcore can be bad, it's called emo.

>>72418731
I think it has to do with alot of girl insecurities and detrimental behavior that becomes of such things

Like Cry Wolf is about having sex with boys to fit it, and she starts to have regrets and thoughts of how she is probably being sexually assaulted by these men

Anywho here is Mark Kozelek completely burying Lisa Germano (probably cuz he wanted to sleep with her and she denied her) at 4:07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJ8Qq6A8mk

>>72418870
Well, it can be bad when hipsters get a hold of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2h7S5TbqCk

Those fucking vocals

>>72418794
I think the Marky Mark comparison is pretty apt: Mark makes music that really resonates with awkward and slightly depressed men in their 20s who don't vibe with getting older and are just successful enough in love to have gotten it but not successful enough to not lose it because he was one, while Germano makes music for awkward girls who have been taken advantage of by predator people but who still, somewhat naively, has hope for the future even if it might end in tears, because she was that girl.

>>72418906
HOLY FUCK LISA BTFO
HOW THE FUCK WILL SHE EVER RECOVER FROM /OURGUY/ BANTSING HER THE FUCK OUT?

>>72418947
Kek, i don't think she did cuz she hasn't released an album in awhile.

Mr. Gira dropped her from Young God i think

>>72418906

That was some savagery

>>72418924

Can music even get more boring than this

>>72418924
Damn man those vocals
It's okay if you sound like this but just damn nigga mix your vocals lower

>>72418906
>>72418947
>>72419007
>>72419008
I honestly wouldn't pay that much mind to that. We know Mark can be kind of an ass when he's speaking off the cuff like that. I just think that "juvenile" quality he's referring to seems to be more of deliberate kind of feeling she's exploring rather than any actual emotional immaturity on her part.

Again, not to get to tumblr-ey, but I do think that can be a difficult album for guys to understand, especially someone like Mark, who despite his sensitivity still speaks from a very masculine point of view.

I mean overall he is definitely a better songwriter though.

>>72418924
Why is he so fucking whiny

>>72419082
I feel like Mark puts a lot of stock into artistic growth, it's fairly evident that with each album of his he's growing and trying new things and new thoughts and new emotions out, even up to this day. That isn't to say that Germano's music is crap or whatever, just that their two artistic personalities don't really go well together.

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>>72418924
what the fuck is this John Green-Slowcore bullshit

>>72419134
its when hipsters listen to, too much tumblr slowcore

don't die beautiful thread

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Any more essential walking down the beach with a girl you know you will have to leave soon-core?

One last sad bump for /slow/

Not too knowledgable on the goods and bads of slowcore, but I stumbled upon a group called early day miners a bit ago. Anyone know of them or whether they ever produced anything decent?

hey guys SLOW IT DOWN you're posting too fast lol

>>72419928
Let Us Garlands Bring is top 10 /slow/ for me, BEAUTIFUL string arrangements. Haven't really fallen in love with much of their other stuff though. They have a tendency to meander and there are some parts of songs that drag on for a good minute longer than they should. They even made an entire album-length remake of one song that I already thought was a little overlong (Offshore; song's still great, though)

My favorite song of theirs is the closer from LUGB, A Common Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aTrG5W6m8

Guys, if you didn't know, the new album by The New Year comes out in two days.

>>72418044
Absolutely agree. This album is fantastic.

>>72420399
>kozelek is a Polish last name
Holy... it all makes sense now

IT'S OUR DUTY

AS WE'RE RESPECTED

>>72423423
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE

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Does mark have an orgasm at the end of Blindfold

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I've noticed /mu/ hasn't been talking about this album for a couple months. Makes sense though. It doesn't fit the current season too much.

>>72424361
Nice bait.

>>72420129
Thanks, I'll check that out. Yeah, I listened to a couple more tracks this morning and that was my main critique. I was ready to end the song about a minute or so before it ended. >>72420129

You guys need to listen to the new Planning For Burial if you like crossover slowcore. Better than Desideratum, which a lot of people seemed to enjoy.

>>72418044

yes yes yes, absolutely incredible artist

the album Magnolia Electric Co is absolutely gorgeous

>>72423689
I
READ
YOUR
PALM
WHILE
YOU
WERE
SLEEPING

>captcha
holy....

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>>72425082
oops, forgot image

>>72424361
It's a perfect record. Discussion's dropped off because /mu/ rubberbanded, and people here despise consensus.

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>>72423423
>>72423689
>>72425082

>HE'S NOT LIKE THE OTHER BOYS AROUND HERE
>HE SAYS NOTHING AND SITS IN HIS ROOM
>AND HE'S AFRAID TO DRIVE A CAR

Strawberry Hill hits a little too close to home...

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>>72426271
>The part of the chorus when Mark starts saying It's our.. and the crowd of voices come in and he doesn't even finish the line, It's like he is so overwhelmed with emotion and shock when the voices come in, maybe not feeling so alone anymore in such a lonely song

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>>72426360
Our time is passing, old friend...

>>72418794
Liner from Bluetile Lounge is fantastic album

>>72426125
agree. its a 10/10 for me as well.

What's the difference between Slowcore and Sadcore? I've heard a lot of Slowcore but no Sadcore, is there a huge difference or no? Because the term has been used interchangebly

>>72427922
They're both terms from around the same time to describe the same bands. However, arguably sadcore isn't always slow and slowcore isn't always sad.

Pretty nitpicky, though.

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>>72426271
that fuckign part.......god damnit it hurts

I love Low

https://youtu.be/GeDQ-BM_MaI

>>72428866
Super underrated

>>72428866
>>72429194
Are Low's later efforts worth listening to? I always assumed that they adopted a poppier sound that I probably wouldn't enjoy as much.

>>72429649
They're really great up to Things We Lost in the Fire. They're almost like a different band afterward.

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/ailurus/strm_h,ss.l.r/slowcore

drone me pls

>>72429284
>FemMark will never take you on a date to Panera
WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE

>>72429692
I'd add you but we're already friends :(

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>>72429743
>TFW female koz will never degrade me verbally, then morn my death when I die in a aerosol explosion

>>72429956
>you will never come home to FemMark and catch her sickness by the bedside
>you will never embrace FemMark's illness under soft light
>you will never heal FemMark in the sprinkling of the ocean side

>>72429284
>>72429743
>>72429956
>>72430039
stop

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>>72430433
I ain't no ones fucking puppet

>>72418044
Didn't It Rain is some of the most terrifyingly honest songwriting I've ever heard. Molina is ridiculously underrated

>>72418794
Great stuff

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If you guys fancy some stuff more along the Bark Psychosis glacial route than check out some of Hood's early work, especially the Rustic Houses, Forlong Valleys EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSM6zclasbU

>>72426360
>>72426271
>>72428040
I think you guys are misunderstanding this song. Or maybe I am, but here's my interpretation.

The character being sung about who spends all his time alone (presumably Mark) LIKES being that way. All of the lyrics are talking about him through the eyes of other people, which he has an issue with. Mark isn't upset about his life, he kind of likes it (he's attested to this in interviews that he lives his dream life etc.) but everyone, especially these outgoing california types of his new home won't allow him to be the way that he is, so they take it upon themselves to violate every bit of solitude he has, and expose all of the privacy he clings to, in the hopes of showing him this "new life" that he clearly detests (given how he talks about the drunk girl in the first verse).

The saddest thing about the song is that it's fucking true. Have you ever had "nice" neighbors? who want to talk to you and interact with you, and see what you're up to etc. It's fucking hell. It makes your house a prison when you are as much of an introvert and misanthrope as mark was at this point in his life. The song is really about the death of solitude and privacy, things that he loves, now that he has come to california, which at the time of him writing this song he seems to hate their intrusions.

>>72430750
There's a difference between getting annoyed at people trying to take you out of your comfort zone, and actively "liking" the fact that your comfort zone is so limited to begin with.

I mean he's clearly not "praising" the Californian's for giving undesired help, but I think it's going too far in the opposite direction to say it's about "privacy". I mean the entire album is about misery and solitude, I think that song is like you said, the pressures and frustrations of having to deal with "nice neighbors" but simultaneously recognizing that they're probably right and your self imposed isolation is degenerative.

I really like Transaction de Novo.

>>72430918
definitely agree, I think the song has a similar message to medicine bottle where the narrator pretty much knows that the girl who he's in love with is right and he really does need to try and work his way out of it as best as he can, but he just can't give up the perverse and degenerative thrill of hiding in the bedroom and looking out from his window and scowling at the houses, he wants to get better but the mental illness makes it hard for him to fully abandon it all.

>>72430750

I'm not misunderstanding.

Being surrounded by people who are convinced that you're not normal, or who think you need some kind of help is guaranteed to make you uneasy, even if you're ultimately comfortable with who are.

Mark wants his relatives not to worry so much about him, but they don't understand how he feels. That's what it's about, that's why >muh feels

>>72430925

I'm coming round to it. love everything else, including live and 92-98 thing but transaction has took a bit longer.

>>72431029
Most people point to WhatFunLifeWas as their best, but I personally think Bedhead got better with each album.

Why do people like Idaho? I listened to Heart of Palm and I unironically could not stand it, I turned it off after like 5 songs because it was just so bad. Whats the appeal?

>>72431064
Try The Lone Gunman. It's a little more experimental.

>>72431056
If you haven't listen to The New Year it's either one of or both the guys from bedhead

>>72429649
They got a little poppier and warmer with Things We Lost in the Fire, which many agree is their best album. Depending on the album they've experimented with post-rock, noisy rock, electronics, folk, and straight dream pop.

They really haven't produced a bad record. Just a series of good to great ones.

>>72431056

yeah I rate beheaded over whatfunlifewas so I'll be giving transaction a few more spins

>>72431085
I love The New Year. They similarly got better with each release in my opinion. Just two more days until their new album.

Haywire by bedhead is such a monster song, also it has the same strumming pattern are in the aeroplane over the sea

Eh, this chart is in need of some changes.

>>72431353
Meant to refer to this >>72431217

>>72431394

thanks for that m8 would never have guessed. had me right confused I tell you.

What lead Mark to bust out the slide guitars on Songs and Old Ramon? Did he ever say why?

>>72431462
Whatever reason it was, it was the best decision he ever made. Old Ramon a best

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>>72430433

>>72431542
Is FemMark for sexual? I want to sexual with FemMark.

Do you think that if Old Ramon were released as planned without any label problems, Mark would have never changed monikers?

>>72431594
Probably not
GotGH is so similar to Old Ramon style RHP it might as well be a Red House Painters album

>>72422681
he's Polish and proud too, according to his new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t9uJUI95AY

Rare Marks

>>72431594
Absolutely because it would have gotten more publicity since they were the main artist of John Hughes label, also Mark wouldn't have had to pay 100k to acquire the Masters from island

>>72431674
Speaking of Island, I'm really glad they came in to reissue SfaBG, taking over from the shitty Plain Recordings reissue.

>>72430918
>>72430958
>>72431020
Gotta say, I like it more as a Rilke poem turned song.

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

No one ever mentions RHP - Michael. That song fucks me up to the point that I can't even listen to it because i don't want to ruin it by overlistening to it. There aren't many songs that invoke memorie of carefree youth and lost childhood friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJeKIabyjVI
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>>72431961

YOUR WARM SMILE IN THE SUN
THE DAYDREAMING BOY WITHOUT A SHIRT ONNN

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>>72431961
>do you remember our first subway rides
>our first heavy metal haircuts
>our last swim on the east coast
>and me with my ridiculous looking pierced nose?

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>>72431961
MY BEST FRIEND....

>>72431961
It really is one of their most underrated tracks by far. Same with Drop

>>72432254
SO MUCH THAT I CAN SAY TO YOU
Btw anyone have any sheet music for the piano tracks on Ocean Beach? I've been dying to find it

>>72432254
Moments into Drop is a one two knockout punch finisher

honestly think this is one of koz's most devastating songs :[

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7orsMzR9w-E

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>>72432334
That song and the acoustic version of the light kills me

>>72431961
>>72432032
>>72432236
My name is Michael and I hadn't looked at the track listing the first time I listened to DCH, so hearing "MICHAAAEEEL WHEEERE AREE YOU" while lying in bed, sort of on the verge of sleep while nearing the end of this incredible album just fucked me up beyond belief.

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>>72432603
Are you ok now?

>>72433189
no

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>>72433265
Someday you'll be ok

>>72431961
I was doing just fine reading this thread and then you reminded me of Michael and all the hairs on my body stood up

Anyone else listened to the recently discovered Love, Claire album?

i also think i found the vocalist on instagram but idk what to say to him

>>72433594
"Hey I like your music"

>>72433651
"I know, that's why I make it, asshole."

>>72418924
Told Slant's first album is the only good one

>>72433663
The only guy I could see saying this is Mark desu

Idk how much she counts as slowcore but does anyone like Nina Nastasia?

>>72421263
This is fucking up there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nvjbpylu04

>>72433189
bottom left is Rachel Maddow.

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Not exactly a slowcore band, but would this song be considered slowcore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B20NJTQqA-k

>>72418620
>>72424361
Both incredible albums

Posting this criminally underrated and unknown album that I've never seen discussed on here. Lo-fi, comfy, depressing, makes you wanna go sail on Lake Superior type stuff. Unfortunately don't have a download, p sure it's on soulseek though

Love, Claire - Love, Claire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AgbGqdYwPQ

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>>72435065
fucking christ forgot pic

>>72435065
bruh>>72433594

>>72435179
Love, Claire is pretty unknown and under appreciated, 300 rates on RYM and the album has maybe a couple thousand views on YouTube so they're definitely underrated

>>72420037
nice

>>72435591
I know, i was just referring to how you said you've never seen them discussed on here when there was a post about them just a couple posts above yours

>>72435674
Wasn't me desu but w/e music's good, let's all listen to it

>>72435727
what album

any recommendations for slowcore like On Fire by Galaxie 500? I like the summery feeling of that album.

>>72436528
check out Luna if you haven't, it's the lead singers newer band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsSqvfiALQ

also for some reason Camp Cope reminds me of Galaxie, but not as shimmery and slow.
You might like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP1Rg4IS_o0

As Elliott Smith did the shimmery very well on some songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAf01cef70U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N30isO_BW8

all i can think of

>>72431217
I accept that I'll get hate for this, but why is Stratosphere the Duster album that's always on charts and talked about the most? It's a really inconsistent album with maybe three great songs, those being Heading For the Door, Gold Dust, and Topical Solution in my opinion. To me, Contemporary Movement is a much better album, probably a 9/10 for me. Also though this is nit picking, I think it should be on charts more often because it's also more of a slowcore album than whatever the fuck Stratosphere was trying to be. Not saying that variance in albums is wrong or a bad thing, it's just that Stratosphere was too messy about it to the point of having bad album flow.
>>72431877
Props for having Cat Power on there

>>72436677
I have the opposite complaint about Stratosphere, in that while I love the album there are legit like 7 songs that use the same or similar riffs
At least galaxie 500 just used the same chords

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I downloaded all of this as a set a long time ago in a sharethread.

is this a good starting point? I've never listened to slowcore

>>72437017
Once you've listened to all that you're an official slowcore patrician and can start jerking it to bandcamp slowcore

does /mu/ remember Come?

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>TFW found a qt girl on social media that is a great singer who loves slowcore and lives near me but I'm too autustic to message her and ask to make music

Just fucking end it

>>72437307
Try to tell her you've been making female Kozeleks all day long. That will surely impress her.

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>>72437335
I'm enjoying myself too much, why did I download this app

>>72417910
Weird, I made a slowcore playlist in the last couple of days while listening to Red House Painters I.

>>72437307
If you don't know her irl then just shoot the shit about your favorite /slow/ then try and mention that you are working on a project that needs female vocals and would she like to come and help you?
If you know her irl then just talk to her about your favorite band and listen to music together and then ask her if she wants to help you make /slow/
Mark wants you to get a gf FemMarkposter

>>72437017
make sure to find American Analog Set - The Golden Band, probably their purest slowcore album

speaking of which, why do I never see AmAnSet discussed? One of my favorite bands of all time, absolutely adore their psychedelic influence

>>72437473
It's worth the risk right, worst thing she can say is "no, you're ugly"

I hope somehow she has heard of the Red House Painters, and wants to make that type of music.

All i know is that she is a huge fan of Duster

>>72437566
think of it this way: if she rejects you you'll feel bad for a week at the absolute maximum, but if you get to know her and she wants to make slowcore with you you'll have months of happiness and fun (and maybe even a romance?)

>>72437710
You're right man, i need to man up and stop being insecure about it. Even if is just a music friendship at least i'll be able to make the music i love with someone other than myself.

Thanks for the motivation, senpai

Bluetile Lounge is fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIWmpETloo