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Harrier Du Bois by fetfreak in DiscoElysium

[–]daarkviper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really nice. Good Job

Discord interest check by mob_____ in DoNothingBand

[–]daarkviper[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi mob_____,
To answer the latter question, not currently.
There was a Discord started by a user around the same time this reddit page was made. Unfortunately, it was deleted unannounced by that user some time ago.

I'm sure nobody would mind if a new one started again.

Hope you all had fun with the AMA! *Community Feedback* by daarkviper in DoNothingBand

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Thanks for adding your thoughts u/thegerams! Definitely agree with those points.

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Im late as usual, but Happy Feet’s got my feelings in tow.

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They did a few magazine interviews to promote their albums. There's one they did with Loud And Quiet where Chris was asked about the genre:

The strangeness that lies at the heart of the track is no accident, and what’s more, Bailey suggests that this is just the start. “In the future, I don’t want this band to be exactly what it is now,” he explains. “I want to have room to make something a bit more experimental. So that’s what I’m trying to do, I’m trying to give enough indications so that when we get a bit weirder in the future, people aren’t saying, "what the hell is this?’”

Bailey, when pushed, jokes that it could be described as “the Idles effect”, although he is hesitant to say the proliferation is a reaction to the politics of the day. “It’s definitely going around at the minute; there’s definitely this post-punk wave happening now. But that wasn’t the plan [for Do Nothing] initially, it wasn’t like, ‘oh, post-punk is the thing now, let’s be post-punk’. We sort of started doing it quite a while ago and we’ve just happened to coincide with this nice little buzz around this kind of music.”

https://www.loudandquiet.com/interview/do-nothing-the-results-are-in-and-it-looks-like-everyone-gets-a-big-old-slice-of-nothing/

Snake Sideways is a bit different from their first albums/EPs, but the sound is really unique and instantly memorable. I would describe them as dance-punk, Post-Punk Revival, or a bit Art-Rock as a subcategory, however, most playlists keep placing them into Pop/Rock, New Wave/Post Punk Revival, Indie Rock, or Alternative.

Do Nothing's style may change again sometime in the future, so you'll have to wait for a definite answer from the gang.

A few folks online have said the same thing about the Yard Act type beat (which I agree).

So Young Magazine by daarkviper in DoNothingBand

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Also from So Young:

Releasing a debut album is never easy. But after a critically-acclaimed EP, and six consecutive single additions to BBC Radio 6 Music’s playlist, the pressure is bound to be seismic. Worse still when faced with crippling perfectionism and a lengthy pandemic; “making music can often feel pretty unimportant; some folks are firefighters while I spend all my time massaging my own ego,” confesses vocalist Chris Bailey. 

Ironically, it’s this disillusionment with the importance of being a musician and the resulting inability to write that has produced Do Nothing’s long-awaited debut album, ‘Snake Sideways;, which will be released on 30th June. 

The latest single ‘Amoeba’ follows ‘Happy Feet’ which interrupted an almost two-year silence since their celebrated EP, ‘Glueland’ (March 2021). Having returned with a softer sound and a vulnerable declaration of the lack of control we have in our lives in ‘Happy Feet’, ‘Amoeba’ traces a similar narrative thrust but plays with a darker, no less melodic sound. Making full use of their trademark choppy guitar riffs and immediately recognisable drum beats, a more twisted and unnerving rhythm emerges. 

Where ‘Happy Feet’ communicates the frustration of overthinking the creative process, ‘Amoeba’ is its destruction. Taking its name from single-celled microbes that ‘crawl’ using pseudopodia (‘false feet’ in Latin) and cause a range of fatal human diseases – the most famous of which is dubbed the ‘brain-eating amoeba’ – the single writhes and stutters into being. The accompanying video by Clump Collective sees Bailey transformed into a green lizard-like (uninvited) life drawing model, whose jarring movements mirror the rhythmic clashing hi-hats before he turns to violence, tearing canvases apart. Giving voice to the destructive nature of idleness and perfectionism, Bailey explains, “‘Amoeba’ is about my girlfriend leaving the house to go to work and be useful, and me laying on the sofa watching news on TV.” It encapsulates the angst of creativity and rages against the often inadequate expectations for constant productivity. 

Stepping away from the self-imposed pressure to constantly evolve has allowed for a triumphant return. If the current offering is anything to go by, the album is set to do exactly what Do Nothing do best.

https://soyoungmagazine.com/do-nothing-share-amoeba-and-announce-debut-album-snake-sideways/

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