For week 5 I checked out Beyond the Fleeting Gales by Crying at the recommendation of @marioeatworld. I will admit that if it weren't for wanting to give it a fair shake for this club, I wouldn't have come back to this after the first listen. Nothing much really stood out to me or caught my ear initially to make me want to return to the record. However, I'm glad I stuck with it for a few more listens because I eventually found plenty to appreciate here. The main thing that stood out to me was how many different styles the band explores on the album. There's synth pop on the first track, "Premonitory Dream," and a handful of songs mine the same vulnerable territory as a lot of current popular indie pop and emo. But there are also moments when the band breaks out into heavy metal riffing/soloing ("Patriot") or the vocalist uses an almost rap style delivery ("There Was a Door"). Some of these experiments work better than others (in part because it seems to me that the vocalist is better suited to a softer sound), and though I thought the album was a bit disjointed at times the band has an endearing quality to their sound that kept me along for the ride. Even though the hooks weren't immediate, there were parts that became infectious after repeat listens. Though I don't see myself going back to this one too often, I will definitely be checking out what Crying do next to see if they streamline their sound in one specific direction or continue with this unique and eclectic blend of styles.
Totally read this as "crying at the recommendation" and was totally intrigued by whatever gutting album was recommended!!
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it! I hope you all will find some great records under your christmas tree @WolvesAreCircling182 I think i'd like to join the special christmas bonus round if there's a chance
@angrycandy I’m having my morning coffee listening to the first album you gave me, Jeff Buckley - Grace. I’m honestly blown away. I don’t know how I’ve never heard this whole album. I’ve only ever heard Hallelujah which I enjoyed, but the rest of this is just on another level. Last Goodbye is the instant standout to me, and is already a huge favorite for me. Lover You Should’ve Come Over is also just phenomenal. I feel like I’ll be hearing new things on this album each listen, and I’m so excited to continue listening to it. Vocally, he’s out of this world. I’ve been following along with the lyrics too, and it’s just incredible. I’m an idiot for not hearing this before and I’m very grateful you gave me this album. I can’t wait to check out the second album you gave me too.
Taking on a second partner for this holiday bonus round in @nickyeatworld . He has given me: Neversmile- Neversmile City Sleeps- Not An Angel And I have given him: Senses Fail- Let It Enfold You Silverstein- A Shipwreck In The Sand
@skurt is spending the day updating @Mister Lyrical ’s list of every album that’s been recommended. That’s a lot of work let’s give the dude a hand of thanks
Thanks Kevo. Shoutout to @Mister Lyrical on making the original list. Moving forward I will be updating this as rec's come in.
CHORUS MUSIC CLUB SOCIETY 2017 BY THE NUMBERS!!!!!! Since our inception on November 20, 2017 The Chorus Music Club Society has been a massive success. It grew far beyond @WolvesAreCircling182 and @skurt 's wildest dreaming and it is still going strong to this day!! Here are some numbers from the club so far: 65 members! 5 full sessions, 1 smaller bonus session over christmas 2,321 Posts 93 pages (may vary based on your account preferences) AND *Drum roll* 366 Albums/EP recommended, listened to and reviewed collectively between us all in these short 34 days!! This is absolutely incredible, thank you all for joing and participating. Here's to a great 2018 for CMCS . Master List of All Albums (Alphabetical by Artist Name): Updated 12/24/2017 10:56AM +44- When Your Heart Stops Beating A Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes A Giant Dog - Toy A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step A Rocket To The Moon- On Your Side A Static Lullaby- And Dont Forget To Breathe A Wilhelm Scream - Partycrasher A.M. Overcast - Pellow Adessa On Bay State - Handmade: The Full Story Aklaline Trio - My Shame Is True Alexisonfire - Watch Out! All Boro Kings - Just For the Fun of It (2001) All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy Anberlin - Cities Angel Olsen - My Woman Architects-All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Art Blakely & The Jazz Messengers - Caravan As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command athletics - who you are is not enough! Augustana-Self Titled Backwards Dancer-Backwards Dancer Bad Bad Hats - Psychic Reader Bad Religion - The Gray Race Basement - Colourmeinkindness Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk Beck - Sea Change Between the Buried and Me-Alaska Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights Birds of Tokyo - Birds of Tokyo Bjork - Homegenic Bleached - Welcome The Worms Bleachers - Gone Now Blindside- About A Burning Fire Blink-182 - California Boredoms - Super AE Borns - Dopamine Boys Night Out - Trainwreck Breaking Benjamin - Dark Before Dawn Breaking Benjamin- Phobia Brighter Brightest - Right For Me Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit Broken Social Scene- Forgiveness Rock Record Broken Social Scene-Hug of Thunder Bullet For My Valentine - The Posion Butch Walker - Afraid of Ghosts Cakes Da Killa - Hedonism Camp Cope - Camp Cope Camp Cope - Camp Cope Captain We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled Caracara-Summer Megalith Cardova -Draw In The Light Cayetana - New Kind Of Normal Ceres - I Don't Want To Be Anywhere But Here Charli XCX - POP 2 Charly Bliss - Guppy Cheem - Downhill Chon - Homey Chumped - Teenage Retirement Circa Survive - On Letting Go City Sleeps- Not An Angel Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sounds Cluster - Cluster Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas Comeback EP - No Hope Kids Computer Magic-Davos Conditions - Fluorescent Youth Continuance - Carry Ourselves Copeland-Eat, Sleep, Repeat Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites Craig Manning- Life in the Rearview Mirror Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms Crime In Stereo-I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone Crying-Beyond the Fleeting Gales Dan Adriano In The Emergency Room - Hurricane Season Dan Adriano In The Emergency Room - Party Adjacent David Maxim Micic-Who Bit the Moon Daytrader - Twelve Years Dead By Sunrise- Out Of Ashes Dead Poetic - Four Wall Blackmail Death Cab For Cutie-The Photo Album Deftones - White Pony Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Depeche Mode - Violator Direct Hit! - Brainless God Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors Doomtree - No Kings Dredg - Catch Without Arms Dredg- El Cielo Dua Lipa- Self Titled Duran Duran - Rio Edan - Beauty & The Beat Elder Brother - Heavy Head Emarosa-131 Eric Hutchinson - Sounds Like This Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues Face To Face - Protection Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime Falling Up - Captiva Farewell Continental - Hey, Hey Pioneers! Far-Less - A Toast To Bad Taste Feist - Pleasure Fela Kuti- Zombie Figure It Out - Nothing To Lose Figure It Out - Silence Isn't Golden Filthy Friends - Invitation Fjørt- Couleur Flying Lotus — Until the Quiet Comes Foals - Total Life Forever Foo Fighters - Concert And Gold For Everest - We Are At Home In The Body France Gall - Grandes Exitos Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Fight Frjort - Kontakt Fucked Up - David Comes to Life Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation Future - Evol Gang Of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness Gatsys American Dream - Volcano Ghost Key - If I Don't Make It Glass Animals - How to Be A Human Being Gouge Away - , Dies Greek Fire - Deus Ex Machina Habibi Funk 007 -An eclectic selection of music from the Arab world Half Moon Run - Dark Eyes Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On Halos- living like kings in confined spaces. Hanne Hukkelberg - Trust Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun Hawthorne Heights - Hurt Hawthorne Heights - Zero Hawthorne Heights- Skeletons He Is Legend - Heavy Fruit HEALTH - Death Magic Heavy Heart - Distance Heavy Hearts-Bliss Hello Seahorse! - …And The Jellyfish Parade Hidden In Plain View - Life In Dreaming Holy Holy - Whens The Storms Would Come Homeboy Sandman - Veins Hometown Anthem-Don’t Hold On To What You Hear Hooligans - Heroes of Hifi Hot Cross - Risk Revival I See Stars-Phases Ibeyi — Ibeyi IDLES - Brutalism IDLES - Brutalism Ignite - A War Against You Inside//Outside - Inside//Outside Iron & Wine - Beast Epic Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet Jeff Buckley - Grace Jeff Rosenstock - Worry Jessie Ware - Tough Love Jimmy Eat World- Futures Jimmy Eat World- Integrity Blues Julian Casablancas + The Voidz- Tyranny Kesha - Rainbow King Crimson - In The Court Of The King Crimson Kopecky- Kids Raising Kids Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson Latterman - No Matter Where We Go Laughing Stock-Talk Talk LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening Liars - Mess LIFE - Popular Music Local Natives — Gorilla Manor Luck Of Aleia - Six Songs Madd Oso - Sleep Cycles Mae - Destination: Beautiful Mae - The Everglow Magic Man - Before The Waves Mansions - Dig Up The Dead Marianas Trench - Astoria. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels Marmozets - The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart Mastadon-Emperor of Sand Mat Kerekes-Luna & The Blue Wild Everything Matt Skiba And The Sekrets - Babylon Mew - Frengers MGMT - Congratulations Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 Milo - Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! Mineral Girls - This Is The Last Time Every Time Mitski - Bury Me At Make Out Creek Mono - You Are There Montry Are I - Break Through The Silence More Than Life - Love Let Me Go Movements - Feel Something Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift Name Taken – Hold On Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz Neil Young - Comes a Time Nelly Furtado - Loose Neversmile- Neversmile Night Verses - Lift Your Existence Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - DROOL Noah Gunderen - Carry The Ghost Now, Now - Threads O’Brother - Garden Window Oasis- Morning Glory O'Brother - Garden Window Old 97s - Too Far To Care Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape Oso Oso - Yunahon Mixtape Outkast - Stankonia P.O.S.-Never Better Paper Rival - Dialog Pat Metheny - Bright Sized Life Paul Simon - Graceland Paulina Rubio - Border Girl Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals petal - shame Phish - July 2nd, 1997 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands* Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps Pinback - Autumn Of The Seraphs PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear Porter - Moctezuma Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan Preoccupations- Viet Cong Protest The Hero- Fortress Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent PUP- The Dream is Over Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole PVRIS - White Noise Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R Racquet Club - Racquet Club Radiohead - The Bends Ratboys - AOID Ratboys - GN Relient K - Forget And Not Slow Down Remo Drive - Greatest Hits Restorations - LP3 Reuben - Very Fast Very Dangerous Rex Orange County - Apricot Princess Rey Pila - The Future Sugar rina sawayama - Rina Rise Against- Wolves Ron Gallo - Heavy Meta Royal Tusk-DealBreaker Ryn Weaver - The Fool Safe To Say-Down in the Dark Saint Asonia - Saint Asonia Satellite Stories - Phrases to Break the Ice Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is Scarlet - This Was Always Meant To Fall Apart Seahaven - Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only Seaway - Vacation Secret Space-The Window Room Senses Fail - Still Searching Senses Fail- Let It Enfold You Shura- Nothing’s Real Silverstein- A Shipwreck In The Sand Slingshot Dakota - Break Slint - Spiderland Slotface - Try Not To Freak Out Smash Mouth - Astrolounge Smoke Or Fire - Above The City Souvenirs - Posture of Apology Sparta - Wiretap Scars Spector – Enjoy It While It Lasts Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer Spraynard - Funtitled St. Vincent - Masseduction St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Starset - Transmissions Starset- Vessels Story Of The Year - Black Swan Story Of The Year - Page Avenue Story Of The Year - The Constant Story Of The Year - Wolves Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans Super Unison - Auto Susanne Sundfor - Music For People In Trouble Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair Terminal - How The Lonely Keep The Almost - Fear Inside Our Bones The Almost - Monster, Monster The Alternate Routes - Good and Reckless and True The American Scene - Safe For Now The Antlers - Hospice The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes The Breeders - Last Splash The Color Fred - Bend To Break The Contortionist-Clairvoyant The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading The Descendents - Everything Sucks The Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate The Early November - Imbue The Exies - A Modern Way of Living With the Truth The Exit - Home For An Island The Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots The Flatliners - Inviting Light The Glorious Sons - Young Beauties And Fools The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There The Internet - Ego Death The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms The Menzingers - After The Party The Mezingers- On The Impossible Past The Mountain Goats-The Sunset Tree The Movielife - Cities In Search Of A Heart The Penske File-Burn Into The Earth The Pixies - Doolittle The Republic of Wolves - Varuna The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You The Starting Line- Direction The Suicide File - Twilight The Swellers - Ups And Downsizing The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation The Wrens - The Meadowlands The XX - The XX These Arms Are Snakes - Easter This Day & Age - Always Leave The Ground This Heat - This Heat Thomas Giles-Modern Noise Three Days Grace - One-X Thursday - War All The Time Tidelines - Tidelines Til Tuesday - Voices Carry Tim Kasher - The Game Of Monogamy Tori Amos - Under The Pink (Remastered) Touche Amore - Stage Four Trophy Eyes-Chemical Miracle Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants Trophy Scars - Alphabet. Alphabets. Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood Tsumani Bomb - The Definitive Act Turnspit - I Wonder If They're Happy Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History Tyler Daniel Bean - Longing Under The Influence Of Giants - Under The Influence Of Giants Vaux - Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm Weatherbox - Flies in All Places Weatherbox - The Cosmic Drama What What What - Shopping Is A Feeling White Lung - Paradise White Lung - Deep Fantasy Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool Worriers - Survival Pop Worriers – Survival Pop (2017) Xiu Xiu - Knife Play You, Me, & Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out Young Guns- Bones Young Thug - Jeffery Zuli - On Human Freakout Mountain If you don't see an album you listened to or recommended to someone please let me know and I will update it ASAP. Going forward I will be updating this list as new recs come in and will periodically post it again at the beginning of a new session when the pairings are released. In 2018 I hope to add the amounts of times certain albums have been repeated.
I posted a review last night for What What What - Shopping Is A Feeling and shared Night Verses - Lift Your Existence with littlejohn.
My word that’s a lot of album. PS: You listed a couple albums twice. Notably Starset, HIPV, and Polar Bear.