Golden Email #26: Some new music that I've found and liked (I think)
(new for me, not new as in NEW. because they old as sh######)

kmoy - The Precure Album
https://kmoy.bandcamp.com/album/the-precure-album-remastered
This album has it all: Great songwriting, fun instrumental arrangements, brutally honest personal lyrics, great vocals, and a cohesive theme and structure throughout the album making it almost into a symphony or a musical to listen to from start to finish. Seems to be one of those albums made at a computer by mostly one guy, and then just released to the internet. No band, no tour, no promotion. Nothing more, and nothing less, than just one of the best albums I've ever heard. You shouldn't really be able to make an album like this out of nowhere, kmoy! Or maybe that's exactly what you should be able to do.

April March - Chick Habit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDeoYk7oxN4
Cool album cover with cool 60s sound on it. April March has a cool voice and is cool. Still figuring out if she has made any own songs or if she only does covers. And also figuring out if I care about that, or if covering songs is also writing songs, but in another way.

Plumtree - Mass Teen Fainting (and more)
https://labelobscura.bandcamp.com/album/mass-teen-fainting
I just listened to their three albums and they were all good. Someone described them as a band that despite what they did they always got labeled as a "quirky girl band", and I can't see what would be bad about that. Because it's an accurate description of the band, and it's also why you listen to them and like them. They also write great songs, but that fact doesn't change anything about the fact that their genre is the quirky girl genre.

Sublime - with Jakob Nowell as new frontman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7xt_bcFx_s
I've really started to like Jakob Nowell, son of Bradley Nowell (Sublime's original frontman and songwriter). At first I compared him too much to Bradley, but now I understand Jakob's thing. He has his own thing, but he's also the true embodiment and reincarnation of Bradley Nowell at the same time. A tribute that doesn't feel forced (like Sven-Bertil Taube and Evert Taube), because Sublime is so darn good.
They are refreshingly oldschool and keep the legacy of Bradley Nowell alive by never apologizing for or even acknowledging the fact that they sing very weird lyrics. Their lyrics aren't meant as an opinion or to go against anyone, or to provoke. They're just about talking about real stuff. Maybe that's why it still works. Listen to the song "April 29, 1992" - it's much more gangster than any rap artist could dream of, and they're not even trying to be cool.

Girls' Generation
I'm not sure if I'm discovering anything new here, but I'm deepening my appreciation for technically performed, well-synchronized dance with many people (9). And for the elegance and general feeling of quality that comes with (almost) everything SM Entertainment does, which I constantly try to emulate in my own way in my own work, and which I also never completely understand the contents and origins of.

/kbrecordzz, 2025-07-24