This musician who goes by Stufy disappeared from the internet for years and recently made their triumphant return with a very cute (but also kinda heavy!) song about being comforted through hard times by their plushies. Supposedly more is on the way and I’m very excited about it!
Something lighter from them (embed should start around 13:20):
And probably my favorite, all about gender trouble:
I listen to a lot of different stuff but I’ll maybe just put some of my favs
so this is probably one of my absolute favorite albums/bands ever, Cult Of Luna is this swedish post-rock / metal or something kinda band, and they did this kinda space travel themed album with an absolute god of a singer Julie Christmas called Mariner. I really recommend to listen to the whole thing if you enjoy this one, as i kinda just also wanted link every song from it.
this is one song that i really love by Moby, (also album is good too)
And then some finnish music, kinda listened to this band since a lil kiddo, love it still
more from them
and some more from not them: (ask me for more stuff i got too much)
Then we have this like “Post- Bishoujo game music” band project called Full Metal Wristcut, which is really interesting in itself but it is also very good.
Also a related band with some the same members/member (solo project? not sure) is called Clanmana if you’re looking for more.
(kinda) lastly is one other of my favourite artists of time of all called Low Roar. Their discography is so full of amazing songs it is a crime to choose one. if i had to choose one artist to listen to the rest of my life i think they would be a very strong candidate
MGMT - Nothing To Declare
i think i kinda got a sweet spot for MGMT or something i dunno, also go listen to their Congratulations album
ime44 - Pyromania (feat. Kafu)
sorry if super long post xd
This is my “I’m about to explode” song tbh
This Solarpunk-themed song is one of my favorites
Magico Catastrofe goes so hard it got me to spend money on DLSite today.
Coming back to this because it feels important to Soyl to expose others to this band whenever it is thinking about it.
Seeing @listennui’s photos of the recent eclipse reminded it of this album cover, which got it in the mood to listen to some Kino.
Soyl tends to find itself enjoying music in languages that it can barely understand a bit more than it does music in English, simply because it doesnt have to worry about what the lyrical content is too much and can focus instead on the overall vibe that the music presents.
This band comes from the Soviet Union, formed in Leningrad/St. Petersburg in the early 1980s, and they had a habit of protesting some of the social issues they were facing in their country. Living in a land dominated by ethnic Russians to this day, the band was fronted by a half-Korean half-Russian man named Viktor Tsoi. Their music was commonly heard at protests, and still occasionally is. One of their more popular songs is Хочу перемен (loosely translated to “wanting change” and pronounced “Hochu peremen”), which highlights this.
Part of the appeal of their music comes from the fact that it has that same retro rock vibe that a lot of music of this era has, but being that they were relatively isolated from the west, kind of have an original sound. There’s also no real worries about hearing a song that has been overplayed 18 billion times on the radio like one might run into with Iron Maiden or something.
If we’re doing russian rock, I am obligated to mention my inherited interest in Aquarium/Akvarium (english spelling varies per streaming platform). They were formed in 1972 (!) and are still going in 2024 (!!!) (founder, Boris Grebenshchikov, is the only one of the original crew, but still).
Genre range is like 7 different variations of rock & folk and also reggae and more mismatched stuff. Their lyrics are typically very trippy. I am a native russian speaker, I don’t understand what the hell they even mean half the time. Despite that, songs always convey a very strong emotional package.
Samples, russian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUI3D3pEn50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQBr7JVBjKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tbtO2g2coA
Samples, english:
they are very good! heard a few of their songs
Been jamming to this song recently. I hope someone enjoys it. It gives me a lot of positive energy. 
I’m gonna start listening to this thread in earnest, top to bottom, and I’ll leave a track here each time I return to it. Here’s a song about feeling trapped in the limited world you’re afforded, and finding solace in the other people in your life.
I love this bit:
And the signified butt heads with the signifiers
And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words
When across the sky-sheet, the impossible birds
In a steady, illiterate movement homewards
This one is special to us. It becomes a quintet.
I’m gonna start listening to this thread in earnest, top to bottom,
if you do watch out, paused videos on a thread tend to unpause themselves after some time. happened to me when i listened to all of them. unbearable cacophony of songs.
Now I really want to listen to all of them at the same time, just to see how bad it is
I’m ready. Here’s all the tabs
Some limitations to make it a bit more bearable is I only used songs that were Youtube embeds and were less than 10 minutes. I’ve roughly organized them based on length. I’ll let you know how it goes
I stumbled on a song that I haven’t listen to in a bit, Body by MotherMother. Listening to it now. I think really liked this song because it helped me put something to dysphoria before I understood what dysphoria was. It wasn’t till years I learned what dysphoria was and found help.
The original video I found it from was a fan animation. It has gore. Like cartoony gore but warning always. I’ll put the official youtube for it below;.
Fan Animation of song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNB-DInET18
I was able to get this far
before I got this error. I’ve never seen this error before
What I was able to hear though was incomprehensible as music. It wasn’t as loud as I though it’d be, but it was like standing in a crowd of people all talking, except some of them had instruments as well
In terms of music recommendations, I can confidently say I do not recommend this
I’ve gone through a decent chunk of this thread and haven’t seen Car Seat Headrest! Are the gay furries worried about being too cliche? Here’s a song about the harmful messages we internalize about our own depression. Nothing else has ever summed up my adolescence quite so well. This one goes out to the On Shame thread.
wow. this is the first time ive ever seen that error too. i truly salute your braveness. what a tremendous feat.
I have had itbefore it was annoying
found this channel from their mashups which are good, but really like this song that was an original of theirs
groboclone/masenko - Android Soul
A song about people and AI thinking about whether each other can feel, and how we should treat each other well even if we can’t know, is how I interpret it.
Also, Austin Weber songs are nice! I didn’t really vibe with this one at first but I really like it now. It’s a cover of Mamma Mia he does. He has a lot of covers he gives a completely different feel to, and good original songs as well.
