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A Dread Transformation
Sep. 11th, 2022 09:30 pmDue to the fact that I casually haunt the local craigslist listings sometimes, I was able to get a pair of Extremely Fancy Headphones for less than a fourth of their retail price, ie Normal Human Amounts Of Money. And the difference is wild.
If I'm playing music on my cell phone, I can't really tell the difference between the new headphones and my other Good Headphones aside from slightly better noise isolation, and with my laptop they actually sound worse (probably because of the higher-than-standard impedance). If I plug them into my mp3 player though, I can hear all these little details! And tell what direction all the different sounds are coming from (moreso than "ah, this is in my left ear, my right ear, or both ears").
It's kinda like when you get glasses for the first time and spend the whole trip home staring at trees because holy frig hey did you know trees have leaves?????
But now I'm a little worried that this is how audiophiles happen and I cannot afford to become an audiophile.
what I want
musically, what I am searching for
is something with a sound between Brown Bird's "Blood of Angels" and the Indigo Girls' "Chickenman", with the interweaving, soar-and-dip high-energy kinda melodies that aren't particularly harsh and are in the realm of acoustic but are just at the edge of overstimulating and sound like if they were animals they'd have blood on their teeth
but thematically a better match for The Garages' "fight gods" or "and I mean, all gods" plus Grace Petrie's "Black Tie"
with the general imagery-feel of Tracy Grammer's "I Go Like The Raven" or "The Mountain"
And not in the unrooted, vaguely neopagan realm of, say, SJ Tucker (who is a perfectly fine musician on her own merits, just specifying), nor on the Actual Bluegrass/Country end of the spectrum.
at this point if I had any musical talent whatsoever I'd be better off writing something myself, but alas, I do not
It must exist somewhere, right?
Dec. 24th, 2020 02:00 pmI'm open to suggestions, especially if the artist can be found on bandcamp.
A few of the songs, in case anyone is curious:
I Go Like The Raven
The Mountain
Seven Hells
Blood of Angels
Tom Paine's Bones
Black Tie
Chickenman
Devotion
