Recently,
Blue by PoolsCreatures by Alex YoungTony Mahoney - FYIStevie Wonder - Superstition (C2C Remix)Fever The Ghost - SOURCEDisasterpiece - Vignette: Panacea <-- I have listened to this over 200 times on google play and most of the time when I'm listening to a song I don't do so from google play.
SPEAK - PeaksSPEAK - Weiss + This Much I KnowHell just listen to all of Pedals by SPEAK. Then buy it. Because it's a fantastic collection of music.
Porter Robinson - Flicker (Citylights Remix)I love a lot of remixes of Flicker (and the original) but this one takes the cake for me, even above
Mat Zo's climaxic contribution.
As for folk, I really like this
Warner Blaster - Tam LinGreat Big Sea is awesome sometimes. I haven't really been in the mood for most of their stuff recently but
there's this great song.
Hozier's pretty good and I sing this song a bunch. His voice is pretty much inimitable for me though. I also like
this one of his. I don't really worry about the lyrics much if you don't like his message.
KAN was a really promising group, but they only put one CD out, and it can be really difficult to get a hold of it. I have it, though :)
The first song they play in that set is theirs, and it's called Noble. I think they also named the set that, but idk. I never got to see them live before they decided to split up.
They have really great energy.
Sleep by Rachel Sermanni, feat. Mo Kenney. I have had the privilege of hosting one of Mo Kenney's performances, and she's fantastic (but watch her live performances; they're better than the recorded versions IMO). Rachel Sermanni I have not encountered yet, but she makes a whole lot of music.
I should also finish by saying that the Punch Brothers are the best, and that I get their songs stuck in my head a lot. I draw a huge amount of inspiration from them. Some of their stuff is pretty weird and crazy but they are all brilliant and they play together flawlessly. Having seen them perform live, there's incredible communication between them on stage, to the point where they'll finish a song at the same instant after playing without rhythm for ~20-30 seconds.
This song, Julep, is my favorite of theirs, though I didn't really get it until I heard it live and it was the best musical thing that I have ever experienced.
If you want more Punch Brothers in as close to a live setting as you can get, you can watch
this recording of an entire show, along with backstage commentary. This wasn't the show that I attended, but it was pretty similar.
While all of their original material is fantastic and wonderful, they also do a lot of loving incredible covers, and they're
all over YouTube.
Anyhow that's most of the recent stuff for me.
