Repetition, Development, Unpredictability - and their Displacement to a Different Level. feeo: Goodness In some of feeo's tracks, the main structuring principles of songs are displaced, assigned to different layers: synths, drums, noises. That leaves the listener without the familiar signposts.

A strange kind of displacement takes place in some of feeo's songs: the main structuring principles of songs are assigned to different layers: synths - repetition, drums - development, noises - unpredictability. That leaves the listener without the familiar signposts guiding the listening process.

Music as an Ordinary Activity And Transcendence As A Break in the World - Weirs: Diamond Grove Weirs play (avant)folk songs as if music-making were just one of the ordinary activities of the human world - except when they break the unmediated nature of the songs with radical artificiality.

Weirs play (avant)folk songs as if music-making were just one of the ordinary activities of the human world - except when they break the unmediated nature of the songs with radical artificiality.

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Metal as an Eruption of Energy Within and Outside the Confines of a Song - csicskakoporsó: S/T For the "avant-doom graveyard metal" band, there is no hierarchy between the noisier improvisations and the more conventional - albeit loose - doom songs.

For the "avant-doom graveyard metal" band, there is no hierarchy between the noisier improvisations and the more conventional - albeit loose - doom songs.

Fragmentation and the desire for continuity - NZO: Come Alive NZO's music is a joyous examination of fragmentation and continuity. She's teasingly asking you: how much fragmentation are you willing to tolerate?

NZO's music is a joyous examination of fragmentation and continuity. Part of the joy and thrill of her album Come Alive is witnessing her to make continuous lines made up from differing, cut up sounds. She's teasingly asking you: how much fragmentation are you willing to tolerate?

The inability to properly finish a song - Smerz: Big city life The songs on this album all feel slightly unfinished, as if the diversions of the "big city life" made it impossible for the duo to concentrate enough to properly finish a song.

The songs on Smerz's Big city life (on @eschoescho.bsky.social) all feel slightly unfinished, as if the diversions of the "big city life" made it impossible for the duo to concentrate enough to properly finish a song. This inability is embedded in the very structure of the music.

Negotiating the rules of the song and of the community - caroline: caroline 2 Rules are the problem. Either because they exist at all; or because they are hidden. caroline expands the song's expressive potential by working with two approaches at the same time.

Rules are the problem. Either because they exist at all, stifling expression; or because they are hidden, not made explicit. caroline expands the song's expressive potential by working with these two approaches at the same time.

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The individual and its world, the song and its horizon - La Baracande La Baracande don't simply interpret songs from the 19th Century, they reconstruct the world that served as the home for these songs.

La Baracande don't simply interpret songs from the 19th Century, they reconstruct the world that served as the home for these songs.

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The drone and the song, the tradition and the individual - Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain Bridget Hayden's folk album proposes a concept of the song as the expression of individuality within the constraints of tradition, embodied as an unwavering, gentle, yet mournful drone.

Bridget Hayden's folk album proposes a concept of the song as the expression of individuality within the constraints of tradition, embodied as an unwavering, gentle, yet mournful drone.

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Witnessing songs taking shape - Nazar: Demilitarize Nazar's album differs from the usual "deconstructed songs" approach. Instead of traditional forms erupting, we witness songs in the unfinished process of taking shape.

Nazar's Demilitarize (Hyperdub) differs from the usual "deconstructed songs" approach. Instead of traditional forms erupting, we witness songs in the unfinished process of taking shape.

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The song as the emotional core of disorienting transformation - Jules Reidy: Ghost/Spirit While the singing on Jules Reidy's latest album is "poppier" than before, the music is seemingly swirling, pulsating, moving in many different directions. But the chaos has an emotional center.

Jules Reidy's Ghost Spirit on @thrilljockey.bsky.social is "poppier" than before, yet the music is swirling, pulsating, moving in many different directions. But the chaos has an emotional center: the album is an allegory of deep personal transformation.

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The song and the body, the noises and the drums - Daniel Blumberg: GUT This striking album is not just about the body, it gives voice to Body

Daniel Blumberg's striking GUT (2023) is a record that is not just about the body, it gives voice to Body. Not only through the bodily noises, but - more subtly and more radically - through the interplay of the song form and the strange drumming.

Songs Not Songs | András Rónai | Substack Music questioning, probing, expanding the boundaries of the song form. Click to read Songs Not Songs, by András Rónai, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.

I started a Substack called Songs Not Songs. It's about music questioning, probing, expanding the boundaries of the song form, seeking something that cannot be expressed in the confines of a song, or trying to expand its expressive potential.

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There _was_ a Hungarian band that started in 1969 as a girl group playing disco, then one guy joined, then more guys joined and more girls left, then it was just guys playing glam rock / hard rock / proto punk. They still exist and the frontman is a staunch supporter of the far right ruling party.

Rónai András – kedvenc 2024-es dalok Évösszegzésünkben a 2024-es külföldi és magyar lemezes, valamint a filmes és sorozatos listák után most a magazin szerzői is bemutatják kedvenc dalaikat az elmúlt évből. A 2011-es, 2012-es, 2013-as, 2...

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