Personally, I think I’m pretty adventurous. I love music and my library has thousands of artists across dozens of genres like classic rock, new wave, Motown, smooth jazz, shoegaze, drum & bass, prog rock, hip hop, and more. Hitting ‘shuffle all’ is a recipe for absolute chaos.
I love finding new artists and connections between them (solo projects, supergroups, samples, etc), and every 5-10 years I discover a whole new genre and enjoy going down the rabbit hole. I have all-time favourites, but listening to the same thing for too long drives me crazy.
By contrast, my wife only ever really listens to 2 or 3 different artists and somehow never gets bored of listening to the same few albums on repeat for literal years.
Where do others fall on that spectrum? Do you feel the need to constantly seek out new music, or are you the kind of person who prefers settling into a groove long-term?
I’m probably just old, but I find it harder to find new music. Not like I’m not trying. Just mostly everything sounds similar or a callback to another band from the past. Too much pop shine on almost most songs.
Although, I am loving Angine de Poitrine. Great music.
I just learned about these guys a couple weeks ago when they appeared on my YouTube feed out of nowhere. And yeah, there’s a lot of fun to be had in those tracks. A couple things I noticed:
Their approach to microtonality is probably one of the most pragmatic approaches I’ve seen: Emphasize the root, use it for little melodic tasties, use sparingly in the ostinato bass lines.
I’ve never seen a group so casually play with rhythmic modulations the way these guys do. Every groove is like a playground and they try to max out the possibilities in every one. And when they do lock into a groove, got damn!