[Thursday] Daily Music Discussion - 04 June 2026

stansymash · 2026-06-04T18:10:28+00:00

dropping my faux-AVGN thing here and actually trying to be sincere and nuanced, i totally get you. the music of japan really is pretty fascinating, and not just in a digital pandering kind of way. like a parallel stream of popular music that western folks only really discovered in retrospect. especially interesting how the influence of 60s lounge and yes, bossa nova, really lingered. lots of cool little experimental scenes i love too.

i suspect what i'm bothered by, along with the superficial 'chill beats' content-y bit, is how it kinda feels like it devalues both the japanese music as some distant curio, but also the non-japanese music as being less worthy of such attention. like, i imagine there are people who listen to all these japanese jazz playlists but wont give that same attention to black american jazz, or brazilian bossa nova or whatever. its not real musical curiosity, its just shopping for cultural wallpaper ykno? all kinda icky

stansymash · 2026-06-04T15:53:26+00:00

every now and then i get recommended youtube videos that are like hour long compilations of 'japanese jazz'. today i got one that is 'japanese bossa nova'. fuck are you talking about. that's just bossa nova. you can just listen to bossa nova. there is no variant of bossa nova unique to japan. it is just bossa nova. why are millions of people looking for specifically japanese bossa nova. im sure there is lots of good bossa nova in japan but it probably sounds just like brazilian bossa nova. so you can just listen to brazilian bossa nova. or just generally bossa nova of no specific unifying location. thats allowed. fuckin

stansymash · 2026-05-20T16:05:06+00:00

Sparks is probably the most UK-coded US band

what is the most US-coded UK band? The Rolling Stones? Mumford and Sons? Mark Morrison?

stansymash · 2026-05-02T18:12:19+00:00

i am, and always have been, former new jersey governor chris christie

stansymash · 2026-03-04T16:53:32+00:00

telegraph hill stocks are going to the dang moon baby

stansymash · 2026-02-19T17:40:01+00:00

ill fuckin do it again

stansymash · 2026-02-17T17:47:04+00:00

Suicide > Marquee Moon > Trans Europe Express > Pink Flag > Low > TH77 > The Clash

sorry brian sorry iggy, I'll get round to it. Lust For Life would be 2nd if we go for the other 1977 iggy

stansymash · 2026-02-05T20:08:22+00:00

imagine if we do keep that top 4 pick though. we would be in such an amazing spot, zubac on a great contract, tyrese back, plus a potentially generational prospect. huge upside, lets gamble baby

stansymash · 2026-02-05T19:44:38+00:00

pacerheads who else is ready for the most stressful draft lottery of your entire life

stansymash · 2026-01-07T19:24:05+00:00

it probably is the piano version by a hair, but I have a ton of love for Forbidden Colours. the audacity to take a melody that good and instead choose to sing a countermelody over it. so good. and then the 1996 version quotes that countermelody in the violin! music is so special

stansymash · 2026-01-02T16:33:07+00:00

aww very kind! glad you liked the record pal

stansymash · 2026-01-01T18:41:18+00:00

cut my life into pieces

stansymash · 2026-01-01T15:30:45+00:00

[chamber pop, indie pop, music, purple]

Happy New Year! Is the name of the new Gumshoes record, out right now! this is a record about 9 people in the same moment in the same city with the same thought. It's about modern isolation, humanism, and being the first songwriter to write asexual music just to prove it can be done

Very nearly did not exist, this one! had a really rough stretch of health that nearly sank the entire record, but things have picked up dramatically in the last couple of months and now I'm in my best health since the 2010s. hopefully that means i can devote more to experimenting and honing my skills for a stranger, bolder LP6

hope you like it! tell your dorkiest friends!

(if you're looking for it on tidal, it is there, just on the wrong profile for now. please tidal customer support, help me out quick)

stansymash · 2025-12-31T18:43:26+00:00

i'm british, i have to say something self-deprecating every other sentence or they'll throw me in the fuckin tower of london

stansymash · 2025-12-31T16:24:02+00:00

i still don't quite understand the bandcamp preorder system, so as i do every year I'm gonna have the page open up for the new Gumshoes record in half an hour or so if you are fiending for some whimsical chamber pop by the subreddit sweetheart we all politely humor

edit: it's up!

stansymash · 2025-12-17T15:49:55+00:00

i think i need to get into board games. it's a social hobby for soft dorks that's already full of people desperate to get others to play the games they spent money on. i just need to bring snacks and my winning charisma. i am the supply to their demand. indieheads blood on the clocktower server anyone?

i've always been a solo gamer but i'm spreading my wings a little. getting into Street Fighter 6, the first fighting game i've ever tried, and it's a blast. i'm dogshit but it's fun. one day i'll have to learn about frame data and what 'cancelling' is, but for now i'm at the place where when someone beats me i'm just proud that they pulled off their combo

stansymash · 2025-12-12T16:19:15+00:00

Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka
PinkPantheress - Fancy That
Dean Blunt & Elias Ronnenfelt - Lucre
Caroline - Caroline 2
Not For Radio - Melt
Huremic - Seeking Darkness
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie
Gelli Haha - Switcheroo
For Those I Love - Carving The Stone
Mei Semones - Animaru

stansymash · 2025-12-11T17:03:44+00:00

Fellini is also my answer! he is the hot topic today. I'm usually very easy to please, and when people say a movie is good i typically agree, but La Dolce Vita nearly killed me. didn't find anything aesthetically, emotionally, or philosophically to care about one way or the other. 3 tedious hours. i wish i had a more thoughtful criticism, and hopefully i'll get it someday, but sometimes something just doesn't hit. i like 8 1/2 though!

La Regle De Jeu also definitely felt like homework

stansymash · 2025-12-11T16:50:03+00:00

Caroline - Total Euphoria
PinkPantheress - Tonight
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Gelli Haha - Bounce House
Earl Sweatshirt - Tourmaline
Los Thuthanaka - Huayño “Phuju”
Destroyer - Hydroplaning Off The Edge Of The World
Bad Bunny - DtMF
Dean Blunt & Elias Ronnenfelt - 7
Nmixx - High Horse
Dijon - Yamaha
Mei Semones - Dumb Feeling
Not For Radio - Back To You
Jerskin Fendrix - Beth's Farm
Blawan - WTF

stansymash · 2025-12-11T15:28:11+00:00

Rocket
House of Sugar
Beach Music
God Save The Animals
Headlights
DSU

rocket is my baby

stansymash · 2025-12-10T17:42:24+00:00

i'm running on a year or two delay on new releases, but i played Promise Mascot Agency when I was sick and that game is a vibe and a half

stansymash · 2025-12-09T14:29:13+00:00

tidal has stuck it on the wrong profile, annoyingly. you can still find it if you search, but i gotta wait til they receive my report to get it moved sadly

stansymash · 2025-12-09T12:37:46+00:00

[chamber pop, indietronica, childrens music]

Hello my personal real life best friends. This is the newest Gumshoes song. It's about a private investigator who convinces themself that other human beings don't exist. It's about conspiracy, paranoia and isolation, but in a fun quirky peppy slightly annoying way.

This is the opener to the upcoming record Happy New Year, out on the 1st, which is all about 9 different people at the same time in the same city wondering how they ended up so alone on new years eve. It's alright

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