Weekly Music Thread (Feb 8th-14th, 2026)

[hprara]

its never really weekly is it...

What have you been listening to this week?

Talk about whatever music has marked your radar that you feel like talking about this week.

In the past little bit, I listened to...

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet



Haven't tried this one in years. Saw it at the thrift for cheap so I figured why not. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" is a classic. I first heard it as a parody in this piece of internet history. As for the rest of the album, I feel nothing particularly strongly about it. At least not on a musical level. But aesthetically, something about this album is just so damn Canadian. Feels like an early morning or late evening family car ride up to a cottage or something somewhere in the boonies. It has its moments but my copy will probably find its way back to a thrift store sometime in the future.

I also checked out...

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet



This one is kinda awesome. Real nice blend of contemporary downtempo/trip hop and jazzy bossa nova style. The two standouts are probably "Technova" and "Luv Connection" (both of which have awesome music videos - unfortunately the latter does the common 90s dance music video thing and doesn't actually include the real vocalists for [presumably] image reasons - Joi Cardwell and Viven Sessoms are nowhere to be seen). I will say though, I think I might prefer the radio edit of Luv Connection. There's only so much you can do with that idea over almost 8 minutes. The groove is nice but I don't know if you can really stretch it out that far without it becoming a bit tired. Overall, a real fun listen. Looking forward to checking out his second album, 'Future Listening'.


Aaand don't forget about our other weekly thread, the Skrillex Book Club! This week, we're checkin' out 'Bangarang'. Go share your thoughts!

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Space Laces - Vaultage 004



First became aware of Space Laces after he was featured on F*CK U SKRILLEX and he definitely makes the kind of music that my dubstep loving younger self would have been super into. In fact, this entire album is basically another FUS with like 30 tracks that are on average a minute long that flow seamlessly into one another. Would highly reccommend this to anyone who fucks with FUS. It somehow even has a Marshmello feature that doesn't suck complete ass! Now that's an accomplishment.

[scyphozoa]

I need to force myself to listen to new things each week, since now that I'm back to the droll of coursework I've resorted to my main white noise being podcasts of gay Canadian men talking about Magic: the Gathering. That being said, I've been revisiting the Plaster and Iron compilation by Plaster Fe, and it's just as good every time.



This album smells like wet concrete. It feels like playing on gm_construct at 4 AM. It tastes like tea that's been left in the can long enough to have siphoned aluminum. It's the night. You can't keep me out of it. Love it.

Highlight tracks for me are probably mechmemory by Secat and Reds Have Gone Gray by Crawlspacer. The transition into the second half of mechmemory feels like being reassured that the world is still beautiful after accidentally tearing your favorite t-shirt. Reds Have Gone Gray is just an ignorantly, delightfully evil soundscape of industrial processes and SAW intercoms. It's what I should be ripping off, to be honest.

[hprara]

That being said, I've been revisiting the Plaster and Iron compilation by Plaster Fe, and it's just as good every time.

I've had this open in a tab for like months now I really gotta get around to listening to it.