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Underrated/obscure artists I think you should listen to

gorky's zygotic mynci - psychedelic britpop, sometimes welsh-language, pretty weird
fav eps/albums: spanish dance troupe, barafundle
fav songs: poodle rockin', if fingers were xylophones, meirion wyllt, let's get together
i cannot recommend looking up some old interviews with them enough, they are very funny

big*flame - inaccessible incomprehensible noisy jangly political post-punk
fav eps/albums: rigour, cubist pop manifesto
fav songs: xpqwrtz, every conversation, cat with cholic, sargasso, cuba
yes i only got into them from manic street preachers interviews

embrace - emotional hardcore (dischord records)
fav eps/albums: embrace
fav songs: said gun, if i never thought about it, building, end of a year
if you're into emo at all you should sooo look into its roots...

pop will eat itself - industrial with elements of punk, hip-hop and a bit of everything
fav eps/albums: dos dedos mis amigos
fav songs: r.s.v.p., cape connection, ich bin ein auslander, fatman

aberdeen is dead - grunge
fav eps/albums: bliss, lamb
fav songs: rock is dead and you killed it, you monsters are people, greenhorn
essentially a nirvana tribute

christ on parade - hardcore punk
fav eps/albums: a mind is a terrible thing, sounds of nature
fav songs: chaos breeder, tv media mass murder celebrity, human laboratory, everyone's crazy

cysteke - mostly metal-ish but a lot of variety, furry
fav eps/albums: cancer dragon
fav songs: all in my claws, riot suit, where do i belong, culture vulture
follows me on twitter :3

the cowboy killers - hardcore punk
fav eps/albums: i can't find any full releases from them :(
fav songs: autobiography, just one more

all natural lemon and lime flavours - shoegaze plus a lot of variety
fav eps/albums: straight blue line, all natural lemon and lime flavours
fav songs: repetitive monotonous, jayne baby, saturn jig

space - a bit dance, hip-hop, psychedelic, idk
fav eps/albums: spiders
fav songs: female of the species, the man, boy in a body bag, neighbourhood, money

g.l.o.s.s. - hardcore punk, queercore
fav eps/albums: demo 2015
fav songs: outcast stomp, we're from the future
stands for "girls living outside society's shit"!

hell bruizes - grunge, metal ish, i imagine they count as riot grrrl
fav eps/albums: speak of the devil
fav songs: painkiller, speak of the devil, poisoned wine

adrenalin o.d. - hardcore punk
fav eps/albums: humungusfungusamoungus
fav songs: velvet elvis, trans am, ass kisser, clean and jerk

necros - hardcore punk (dischord again)
fav eps/albums: ambionic sound
fav songs: police brutality, raw to the bone, public high school

shearwater - super pretty art rock, often from an animal perspective
fav eps/albums: rook, jet plane and oxbow
fav songs: leviathan bound, filaments, laguna seca

shizune - multilingual post-hardcore
fav eps/albums: le voyageur imprudent
fav songs: sputnik! nostalgia, instructions for inertia, orienteering in aokigahara

the chameleons - goth, post-punk
fav eps/albums: strange times, what does anything mean basically
fav songs: soul in isolation, in shreds, up the down escalator

inspiral carpets - dance post-punk, madchester
fav eps/albums: revenge of the goldfish
fav songs: smoking her clothes, butterfly, 96 tears, generations

lesbians on ecstacy - techno-punk, queercore
fav eps/albums: lesbians on ecstacy
fav songs: sisters in the struggle, tell me does she love the bass
what a band name

man or astro-man? - surf-rock with space themes
fav eps/albums: intravenous television continuum, spectrum of infinite scale
fav songs: out of limits, television man, song of the two-mile linear particle accelerator

servotron - surf-rock by robots planning to take over the world
fav eps/albums: no room for humans, entertainment program for humans
fav songs: pull the plug, erotomatica, i sing! the body cybernetic, moving parts
i love their costumes so much

the bluetones - britpop
fav eps/albums: return to the last chance saloon
fav songs: solomon bites the worm, slight return, autophilia, 4 day weekend

danny denial - depressive queercore
fav eps/albums: goodbye, fuck danny denial
fav songs: white tears fake queers, i'm not your type, sell me out, an optimist's obituary

teen idles - hardcore punk
fav eps/albums: minor disturbance
fav songs: sneakers, fiorucci nightmare, fleeting fury, getting in my way
started the dischord record label

a place to bury strangers - loud and distorted shoegaze/nugaze/noisegaze
fav eps/albums: see through you, a place to bury strangers, exploding head
fav songs: exploding head, broken, let's see each other, there's only one of us
the loudest band i have ever seen live by miles

star strangled bastards - hardcore punk
fav eps/albums: whose war is it
fav songs: burn it down, system of greed

void - hardcore punk (dischord)
fav eps/albums: condensed flesh, faith/void split side b
fav songs: organised sports, condensed flesh, think, go south
you know you've found a hardcore gem when the ep has more songs than minutes

drop nineteens - shoegaze
fav eps/albums: delaware, national coma
fav songs: franco inferno, my aquarium, limp, rot winter, moses brown

toy bastard - grunge-ish
fav eps/albums: life for cowards, the war
fav songs: it's my child, valis, candyland, daddy was a starship captain
ethan ives from car seat headrest

supermodel - post-punk-ish britpop
fav eps/albums: clumba mar
fav songs: penis size and cars, clean, haircut, moronic

the tears - britpop
fav eps/albums: here come the tears
fav songs: refugees, co-star, beautiful pain
collaboration between suede singer brett anderson and ex-suede guitarist bernard butler

artmagic - pretty art-rock, britpop
fav eps/albums: the songs of other england
fav songs: the king of fishers, black flowers bloom, down in the river
side project of suede guitarist richard oakes

nicky wire - kinda weird indie, genuinely so cute
fav eps/albums: i killed the zeitgeist, intimism
fav songs: daydreamer eyes, saudade, withdraw/retreat, keeper of the flame
manic street preachers bassist who i love so much

i will probably add to this or make a second part as i discover and/or remember more!


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juliansjuicebox🧃

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eeerrrrmmm is gengahr underrated enough to fit here ??


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you can make your own list with them on if you are so inclined

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im too lazy, js wanted to give a listening recommendation hehehe

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Lowfe

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I love G.L.O.S.S. I'm so sad they stopped making music, I know it's because of some controversy or something they had though :(


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Oliver

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Thanks, can't wait to check these out :D


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