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Explosions in the Sky, anything from Scandinavia, anything with invented languages and electric cellos, that's what Luka wants
 

luka

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a question for The Dudes. is catalog right when he says american whites arent allowed to listen to contemporary black music anymore?
 

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mvuent you are allowed to answer this question too if you like though strictly speaking you are not a dude.
 

padraig (u.s.)

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I like Khruangbin some, but it reminds me a little too much of a craft brewery
yes, I have the same hesitancy. and it's too conceptually precious. and the fucking wigs.

but the quality won me over. or, more or less.

the guitar player is drawing on a vast tradition of 70s world fuzz which he seems to know inside out and that motherfucker shreds

the rhythm section is rock-solid too, definite hip hop and (per the bass player) dubwise consciousness

all of which could easily end up as tasteful and/or blase disaster, for sure, but for me it gets just onto the right side of the line

think of them as a modern take on the classic power trio
 

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I don't think it's disallowed; I think it's complicated and there's a fair number of possible bad looks. "White people love black culture but hate black people" is a common refrain online; white boys rapping along to black music, or freestyling, is seen as icky/gross/borderline racist.

But it's probably fair to say white boys get more shit for listening to Bon Iver or smthing tho than black music
 
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padraig (u.s.)

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Not modern, but have you heard this?
idk about that comp in particular but yeah I'm familiar with psychedelic cumbia as a thing, I've heard some

not really my thing, but I do appreciate the application of imported guitar fuzz to a native musical tradition

60-70s world fuzz is a real mixed bag for me in general

there are occasionally amazing records but there's also a ton of mediocre to straight up trash hyped up by the reissue industrial complex

which tbf is true of many things, including - in re guitar digging for reissues - garage rock, 60s psych, turn of the 70s heavy psych, and 70s hard rock

Zamrock for instance is a huge disappointment when you actually listen to it, outside of a couple exceptions (namely Witch)
 
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