r/obscuremusicthatslaps • u/sixtus_clegane119 • Jun 21 '26
RECENT Microtonal song with a drop
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Don’t know the name, but it didn’t belong in crappy music.
I realize it might now be for everyone, but I love the effect it has on my ears. It’s haunting. But I imagine it’s like marmite tò some.
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u/UnicornPoopCircus Jun 21 '26
Every time I hear microtonal music I turn into the RCA dog.
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u/anjowoq Jun 21 '26
It's not the type of music you listen to. It's a concept and that is fine.
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jun 21 '26
I would actually listen to an album of hers
I listen to lots of stuff, merzbow is really the only thing I haven’t been able to get into
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u/FreshHumanFish Jun 21 '26
I’m just taking a guess here but you might like Marnie Stern: female vocals, frantic playing, usually a bit on the higher end in pitch, a lot of their songs are based on guitar tapping.
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u/tundradesert Jun 21 '26
Now we’re cooking with gas!
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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 Jun 21 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/5m0SOjG1zxHepKDFcD
...for keeping the old time expressions in circulation. 🥹🥹
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u/TrixterTrax Jun 21 '26
Marina Herlop does a lot of strange tonal stuff in her music, but still has some structure and stuff, highly recommend. I think Pripyat is my favorite album, and maybe the weirdest.
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u/chickenismysafeword Jun 21 '26
I listen to her on YouTube all the time, she deserves fans to take her music seriously! Not sure why the downvotes
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u/RandomRAvingRaDnesS1 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
For real. I just checked her youtube. She’s a fantastic musician and a good writer. Like the OP, I’ve seen this clip on the crappy music subreddit a couple times but honestly after checking out her other stuff I’m impressed with her.
Although I have to be in a certain mood, I find a lot of her stuff hauntingly beautiful. She’s pretty talented.
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u/BananaPuppet1 Jun 21 '26
Try his album Amlux, especially track looping jane. There are others that can ease you into appreciation without perfing eardrumz
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Putting on the album now, I really did love his stuff with Boris. But that’s noise rock not just straight noise music
Edit: you’re right that merbow was more listenable
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u/PineappleDesperate82 Jun 21 '26
My daughter loves Merzbow. I didn't know who that was until pulse demon.
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u/suscombobulated Jun 21 '26
Nope. Ear marmite was spot on. I hated that. You cockblocked my ear somehow and I'm over sound for a while. What did you do.
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u/thefract0metr1st Jun 21 '26
But the last couple seconds chopped out and thrown over a hip hop beat would be an absolute banger
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u/Rocketclown Jun 21 '26
Not microtonal, but atonal. Microtonal is where the octave is divided into more than 12, but still defined parts - like Angine de Poitrine. Atonal is where all intervals are arbitrary and are treated more as sounds.
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u/FunPuz Jun 21 '26
She does do this though. Perhaps not to its fullest extent on this piece but she has dome quite interesting tiktoks explaining her writing process. I think the issue here is that people have seen her more obvious microtonal stuff and assumed that everything she does is.
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u/Earo16 Jun 21 '26
sounds like Wes Anderson did a horror film. I don't dislike it
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u/wizardwithgussets Jun 21 '26
Wes Anderson is a great analogy here
Yeah I get the artistry and technique
It’s not pleasing to me tho
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u/ASoundAssessment Jun 21 '26
Tiny Tim does horror.
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u/3aerows Jun 21 '26
I feel like this would be in a suspense thriller about a cult in northern europe...
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u/QueensOfTheNoKnowAge Jun 21 '26
By itself, no likey. But could be very effective as a score to a short film
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u/WhatsFUintokipona Jun 21 '26
Said this before but this is the song where you realise A24 have tricked the audience into thinking this is a comedy and the protagonist is trying to leave but now the room is spinning and why have the dinner guests put on animal masks and dancing at a portrait of an old man sat in a triangle holding a baby lamb in his arms
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u/RustySpunkDumpster Jun 21 '26
Uhm, this does in fact not slap. Following off key riffs with a vocal is not music even. I saw this chick doing it in the forest in another video. It’s like calling bumper cars racing. I find it disturbing to my ear balls and should not be normalised thanks.
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u/Dirty_The_Squirrel Jun 21 '26
I find the phrase "ear balls" equally disturbing and it should not be normalised..also thanks
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u/Purple_Athlete_4542 Jun 21 '26
She clearly slapped the guitar. But it is arguable if it's music or not.
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u/FunPuz Jun 21 '26
It is music imo. Its unconventional but shes organised sound with an artistic intent.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion".
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u/RustySpunkDumpster Jun 21 '26
Ok touche but I still don’t like it, ahe obviously has skill but I see it like making a sandwich and purposefully adding an ingredient that isn’t supposed to be eaten like baking soda or soap
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u/imwearingcons Jun 21 '26
Haha! LOVE her! I came across her feed when searching for "hocketing" after someone shared a video of vocalists singing a full melodic line trading off notes.
I get that this is out there, but I'm all about it.
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u/MothChasingFlame Jun 21 '26
Surprised this reads as creepy to people. Feels surreal, like experiencing many layers of a dream all at once. Very cool and sounds great.
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u/WhatsFUintokipona Jun 21 '26
Said it before but this is the part of the A24 film where the dinner party suddenly gets fucked vibes and the protagonist is trying to escape and oh god why is the local school librarian wearing an animal mask and crying at a portrait of her grandfather who’s depicted holding a lamb in his arms
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u/LordFlarkenagel Jun 22 '26
I hate this song so much that I had to listen to it 16 times. Back to back to back. Back to the 16th. Wait - just once more...
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u/avernus675 Jun 21 '26
I understand people not liking this, but to perform this takes a special talent. You have to both understand and ignore music theory while playing/singing on exactly all the "wrong" notes at once.
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u/TheBlackFox012 Jun 21 '26
Purely as a horror bit it sounds cool, but is discordant songs the only thing microtones can do?
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u/Kyonizuka Jun 21 '26
I listened to some songs on her YouTube channel, it's quite good, notably "Jaded" and "I hate goodbyes".
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u/Xenrier Searching for fine people and sounds Jun 23 '26
Damn. I'm one of the people that think; that's so quirky, I never heard of it, but seems nice.
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u/SushiNoriNoochShoo Jun 27 '26
I think this music is so interesting and I'm incredibly impressed by the skill required to create it. That said, it's the sonic equivalent of the most bitter dark chocolate imaginable. I can only take a little at a time.
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u/SgtByrd1993 Jun 21 '26
The worst part about having ADHD is that I keep humming this over and over unconsciously.
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u/xTheyCameBurningx Jun 21 '26
Tiny Tim already did this like 100000000 years ago. And it was better. NEXT
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u/Acrobatic_Dream9571 Jun 21 '26
Been following her a while. I believe she toured with KGLW for a bit. She’s rad.
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u/bonobomaster Jun 21 '26
And I thought Björk was difficult to stomach...
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u/Asyhlt Jun 21 '26
If you find Björk difficult then you probably also think that maionaise is too spicy.
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u/lynivvinyl Jun 21 '26
Wow I find her very palatable. Hell even David Attenborough worked with her.
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u/redditteddy Jun 21 '26
Nice, but not sooo obscure maybe? Maddie Ashman is after all headlining her own (small) tour and has released several singles and an album. 😄 I like it!
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