hi i’m jay and i make music.
like a lot of people do nowadays.
i just wanted a place to document the musicians that really got me into creating and listening to music, so fuck it here we go!!!
(list is in chronological order of when i found the artist)
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salvia palth
if you know me you’ve immediately clicked off, but i’m still gonna talk about it. having unrestricted access to the internet when i was young helped shape my music taste. i used sites like bandcamp to find my little tunes (unlike all the cool kids using itunes and spotify.) in 2015 i found the only album on this guy’s page called “melanchole”, and listened to it front and back maybe 10 times that day. the way this person used their instruments (and a shit-ton of reverb) absolutely blew my little mind. songs like “stones pull out heart”, “needs no progress i will lie” and “reprise (reprise)” shaped my ears into some of the stuff i make today.
[side note: in researching this shit i found this dude covered marvin’s room i’m losing it]
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crywank
another bandcamp gem, crywank was a band i found around 2016 when they released their first studio album “Don’t Piss On Me, I’m Already Dead.” the first thing i heard from them was their song simply entitled “Love”, and from there i was hooked. i remember going through the earliest of crywank (albums like “James Is Going To Die Soon”) and being absolutely starstruck by how much emotion can be shown in one voice. beautiful music, i will never forget how much i listened to them 3–4 years ago. Songs like “Pope Alexander”, “Care Not For Your Club Nights”, and “I Am Shit” bring me comfort in the best way possible.
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quinn
finding quinn in 2019 with the song “fake emotions” was awesome and all, but seeing how she developed from there is what made me a fan. while the contrast between her first and second albums is enough to take up this entire page, and i admire the way she doesn’t stick to one genre. her second self titled release is the one that made me so fucking amazed by her. i remember the day it dropped, july 22nd, 2022. i woke up at 7am absolutely dead from the night before, so i decided to take the day slow and walk around town with this album playing on this big ass speaker i was hauling around. i probably played that bitch like 20 times. i remember lighting up to “two door tiffany” and just losing the day until around 11pm, the song “been a minute” was on. shit was so impactful.
side note, quinn said something in an interview that’s stuck with me for a long time.
she said:
“if you really want to blow up, just shut the fuck up. End the social media presence, all that. Just stay to yourself and focus on your music; don’t even promote shit. Eventually, the rest will just follow suit”
and that’s real shit.
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jonatan leandoer96
aka, yung lean.
i’ve known about yung lean for a while. i’m a huge fan of his music, specifically the mixtape “poison ivy”, but when i heard “psychopath ballads” for the first time i damn near cried. another example of atmosphere being used very well, i love the way it sounds like someone singing alone in a room, completely unaware of the music surrounding them.
that entire album grabbed my heart. especially the song “never again”.
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dean blunt
dean blunt is someone who i’ve known about since 2021 with the release of “BLACK METAL 2”, i listened to both the first and second, alongside “The Redeemer” and left unsatisfied, but i never bothered to truly try again until recently. i wanted him on this list for the amazing albums he made, but also a quote of his that i think only dean blunt could say.
simply,
“arts involved in me.”
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i didn’t mention a lot of musicians that deserve to be on this list because i am fucking lazy, so heres an honorable mentions list.
dandelion hands, kero kero bonito, jim o’rourke, radiohead, aphex twin, sweet trip, the beatles (and their solo ventures), talk talk, tek lintowe, grouper, david kauffman, joanne robertson, black sabbath, muddy waters, fog lake, other nothing, argo nuff, and lots of hands.
if you want to check out my music, you can do so here! i put a lot of work into what i make so a simple listen means alot :)
