Anyone else overwhelmed by all of this new music?

if you're the sort of person who wants to appreciate every piece thoroughly, the answer is as simple as consume at the speed you're able to appreciate it. the tunes ain't going anywhere.

srsly this is like being offered a truck full of chocolate and then being all OH GOD OM NOM NOM NOM and then vomiting everywhere and then saying I HATE CHOCOLATE I NEVER WANT ANY EVER AGAIN

The best solution to the soundcloud dump is to break into digestible chunks and make playlists of your favs. I need to revisit loads of it but already have a couple of albums worth of literally my favorite stuff he has every done.

I've kinda been the opposite this year listening to the soundcloud dump and also getting into Coil in a big way has slowed down my new music intake but helped me appreciate not needing to find the next thing all the time. As others have said take your time and enjoy what you have there is no rush.

Also if your burned out just try a completely new genre. I was a bit jaded a couple of years ago but then got into Grime, a genre which I had always previously thought to be mostly shit... the fact it was such a different scene from what I had been used to really got me back into being excited about music again.

  On 9/21/2015 at 1:46 PM, kirm said:

The best solution to the soundcloud dump is to break into digestible chunks and make playlists of your favs. I need to revisit loads of it but already have a couple of albums worth of literally my favorite stuff he has every done.

 

I've kinda been the opposite this year listening to the soundcloud dump and also getting into Coil in a big way has slowed down my new music intake but helped me appreciate not needing to find the next thing all the time. As others have said take your time and enjoy what you have there is no rush.

 

Also if your burned out just try a completely new genre. I was a bit jaded a couple of years ago but then got into Grime, a genre which I had always previously thought to be mostly shit... the fact it was such a different scene from what I had been used to really got me back into being excited about music again.

this is sound advice i think! cheers!

This.

At one point I could come back from a record shop with 10 CDs or get a new album in the post every day, but these days I can't actually take in more than one album at a time. It's likely a mixture of my brain already being saturated with music I own, less music sounding 'new' with the more I hear, and possibly some mental health things combined.

Everybody listens and reacts differently, myself if I buy something but don't end up listening to it quickly it ends up sitting on the shelf forever. I say to myself I'll get around to it, but then there's never a big enough gap in the incoming stuff to give it my proper attention. There are some people who can have a constant intake of new music and enjoy it, but I'm not like that.

I've now reached the point that I don't go looking for new music at all, I just wait for it to come to me. I'm a fan of enough current acts to keep me in 1-2 new albums every month as it is without needing to seek out anybody new. I certainly wouldn't complain that there's too much music (that's obviously daft), but I do get utterly overwhelmed when trying to keep up with the tiniest percentage of what I'm interested in hearing. The key is just not to try and keep up...

  On 9/21/2015 at 7:32 AM, MIXL2 said:

  On 9/20/2015 at 9:04 PM, xox said:

what new music?

everything? iunno, had I been a bit more sober I might have written a better thread title.

no, i know... i just can't find anything interesting enough lately.

i'm 90% of time into ae or beethoven.

other 10% are murcof, afx, plaid, bach, stockhausen, mozart, pole, rhythm&sound, raster noton crew, yagya, mark fell/snd, stravinski, htrk, fax records releases, kraftwerk, locust/mark van hoen, moebius, ikeda, sote, supersilent, thomas fehlmann, both heckers, vhs head, tetsu inoue...any many other but if you take all of them together (those who are still alive) you have 10-20 releases per yr tops, so not many new things for me.

  On 9/21/2015 at 9:12 PM, xox said:

 

  On 9/21/2015 at 7:32 AM, MIXL2 said:

  On 9/20/2015 at 9:04 PM, xox said:

what new music?

everything? iunno, had I been a bit more sober I might have written a better thread title.

 

no, i know... i just can't find anything interesting enough lately.

 

i'm 90% of time into ae or beethoven.

 

other 10% are murcof, afx, plaid, bach, stockhausen, mozart, pole, rhythm&sound, raster noton crew, yagya, mark fell/snd, stravinski, htrk, fax records releases, kraftwerk, locust/mark van hoen, moebius, ikeda, sote, supersilent, thomas fehlmann, both heckers, vhs head, tetsu inoue...any many other but if you take all of them together (those who are still alive) you have 10-20 releases per yr tops, so not many new things for me.

 

lucky you, I have been bouncing from genre to genre since last year, trying to listen to everything. I guess im kinda exhausted iunno, ill probz come back to it eventually.

i don't feel this way at all with the aphex leak, but I've felt this way about electronic music marketing in general since about 2006, that there is so much promotion and marketing now that it's harder to trust reviews or that people writing about it aren't somehow personally benefitting from praising something.

the flipside is that now you can preview almost anything coming out online, but there's just still too goddam much of it.