/int/ - International

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdWqCtkqgaE

I was looking for some other song and happened upon this, instant fav.

Yes, it's a youtube rip, sue me.

Listening to le X-Files soundtrack

Before going onto international notoriety and opening for big bands like Jimmy Eat World, At the Drive-In and Cursive, Hokkaido's Eastern Youth shook up the Japanese underground as part of the emerging Samurai Spirits Skinheads scene. Unlike many of their contemporaries who took influence from the British and American skinhead scenes that subsequently incorporated various Rock influences, Eastern Youth's inspiration grew from Washington DC's Post-Hardcore scene along with various Oi! and Street Punk bands. The music here sounds as inspired by Fugazi or Rites of Spring as they do by Angelic Upstarts or Combat 84. Jangly, energetic riffs buzzing with angst and alienation guide the album from track to track at a charged tempo that only relents on a handful of tracks while still keeping the wattage at full force. The memorable choruses have enough simplicity to break the language barrier and allow plenty of non-speakers to sing along after repeated listens. Breaking script from many of their peers within the SSS scene, Eastern Youth took a much more socially conscious lyrical approach broaching subjects like environmentalism, urban alienation, social disintegration, capitalism, wealth/greed, angst and uncertainty. The band was fully aware that even a majority Japanese country was still plagued with many social ills that desperately needed rectification. The band was still firmly rooted within the Nationalist scene where they condemned drugs, homosexuality and the corruption of youth. Still, the band had no interest in collaborating with Western skinheads and were quick to call out Japanese elites who sold out to Western capital. In a sense, they were less like Skrewdriver and more like Combat 84. Band leader Yoshino Hisashi would later regret the band's past in the skinhead scene and disavowed all of their work prior to 1995 when the band would become ensconced within the Japanese Indie scene upon moving to Tokyo. In an interview, he felt the contradictions in Japan's social life inspired contemplative reflection, and despite previous statements made on this record, he would never be so inspired to fight for his country's leaders in war. It was from 1995 forward the band abandoned politics entirely and focused solely on making music free of sociopolitical messaging and instead on personal angst. So how does this all hold up? This ranks as one of my favorite Punk albums of all time. 守るべきものは何か (loosely "What We Protect") opens up with a steady beat that soon transitions towards the jangly burst of anxious power chords before our vocalist growls about the monied corrosion of Japanese society where rivers become polluted and the people estranged from their roots. The vocals are firmly in line with their Oi! contemporaries, but those riffs come from Washington DC. Most of the album follows the same approach at varying tempos, but each song retains its identifying features. 手懐けられた犬 (loosely "Tamed Dog") continues with similar motifs only with much more jangle. For me, the highlight of this album comes on 今、警報を鳴らせ (loosely "Sound the Alarm"). Opening with a steady drumbeat before an eerily jangly chord hits your ear drums before crescendoing to a burst that leads us into the main body, our vocalist issues a stern warning to the band's listeners of Japan's fate if the country continues to sell out to Western capital unchecked. Cementing the comparison to Combat 84 would be the album's closer 死刑台に送り込め (loosely "Capital Punishment") where the band calls for violent criminals to be put down once and the streets to be cleaned up.

>>17673 Damn, I didn't know Eastern Youth was a skinhead/Oi! band in the beginning. I only listened to pic related, their 2001 album Kanjusei Outouseyo (感受性応答セヨ), which I really liked. Tbh I prefer their later stuff to the RAC stuff you posted, sounds too aggressive for my taste. But on the note of RAC: do you know any bands that are similar to Vae Victis that rather go in the folk rock direction instead of hardcore screamo? Or stuff similar to "Nordland" by Landser, acoustic guitar folksy music?

>>17694 There was a wave of Campi Hobbit bands and acts that might pique your interest: Janus, Compagnia dell'Anello, Fabrizio Marzi and the deceased Folk musician Massimo Morsello. https://youtu.be/57CwjOcGJKI https://youtu.be/5JkTATKnqmw https://youtu.be/GlzCm5E8Fn8 https://youtu.be/-FTtF0-tK4Q

>be me >be completely taken by qt3.14 music >become intensely obsessed over the last couple months >learn about this Et tu, Maggie? Et tu? https://people.com/maggie-rogers-reflects-on-going-onstage-with-madonna-exclusive-8634358 At least I have consolation knowing that 99% of the comments roasted the hell out of it: https://www.instagram.com/p/C17lCLyOaPt I shouldn't be surprised. It's an industry built on pageantry and politics, and even the purest presenting ones still work within that rotten system.

>>18140 Yuck, what a trollop.

>>18141 Only consolation is that those dancers are almost guaranteed to be something other than heterosexual. If they were, those two would likely have a very different reaction.

To change the subject to something less depressing (or maybe it's more depressing, given the genre I've been bingeing on), what have you all been listening to all month? Me: a steady diet of gloomy Gothic Rock with errant favorites from other genres thrown in.

>>18147 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srq1FqFPwj0

>>18147 I don't really track it, but I did some heavy relistens on >>17002 and >>16559.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHd5mm7qNI

>>18525 Do you know Tinariwen, they're pretty good as well?

>>18526 Interesting.

>>18140 Hehe.

>>18578 >hasn't saved smug apu >uses some weirdly named low res image from the interwebz Why Italian bro...

Weird that you can post normal opus files, but no webms that only contain an opus audio stream...

>>18147 Top 3 played in October. Folk/indie and Christian are in heavy rotation. Princess Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TV_128Fz2g My Promise Land- Josiah Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pESKlPWNFq4 Meek Mill No Church In The Wild Feat Rick Ross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QavKt6Y7o

>>18585 Posting links instead of files in a music thread should be a bannable offense.

>>18578 My only cope: those dancers are all, down to a man, something other than heterosexual. If those zesty bucks were straight, Mags and Madonna would be having a very different reaction.

>>18595 1st one I know - it's okay the others I guess are Christian

>>18587 Since you asked so nicely, here!

>>18614 If you're really RAC-Bernd why don't you have high quality FLACs of the songs hmmmmmmmm But on a serious note: thanks for the suggestions, already listened to them yesterday, was a bit too purely folk for my taste.

>>18615 Since you asked so nicely... I have another recommendation to send your way. Zetapiemme.

>>18604 >the others I guess are Christian Third isn't Christian, but has a religious theme. Similar to this one by Jack White. Christian concepts worked into a track critical of Christian institutions.

>>18684 >Jack White his guitar is so recognizable but I generally know only his most famous and also that Apple Blossom song - it was in some Tarantino's movie if I remember correctly

This January, The Protomen will be releasing Act III: This City Made Us: https://theprotomen.bandcamp.com/track/calling-out I'm very, very excited!

>>18717 Holy basedoni.

>>18717 Posting their 2 really good songs, the rest, not so much for me sadly.

>>16228 I liked her in her Neofolk era too.

I really like South American folk music

>>18767 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QUraxLXnaI

>>18769 Stop posting links instead of files goddamnit

>>18772 That sounds like too much effort. Besides, what about the server? You'll fill it up.

>>18773 >That sounds like too much effort. Yeah, checks out

>>18767 A fellow man of culture and civilization. For a different flavor of Andean folk, I like Inti-Illimani. As the product of Chilean university kids it misses the volkisch feel of a band like Intiraymi, but their genius in elaboration and adaptation more than makes up for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyjFtnBK5Lo sorry for no file, but I don't pirate things

>>18818 While we're in South America, Bandalos Chinos from Argentina were a happy recent discovery for me. New-ish indie band that only took off in the late 2010s. A lot of their songs end up sounding same-y, but I appreciate anyone who puts out beautiful original music in this degraded age. This album makes me want to ride a motorcycle across the endless pampa listening to it on repeat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FqH71p8ZmY

>>18818 Yeah I know Inti-Illimani, but I prefer Intiraymi. I just stumbled upon a weird collab album between a Finnish singer and Inti-Illimani from the 1970s though, maybe I’ll post if I get home.