Bandcamp Friday - 4x Album Short Recs ♪ ♫ ♪

Today (April 07) is Bandcamp Friday; any purchases made go 100% to the artists today. I've missed the last few of these, so I took the opportunity to snap up a few albums I've been craving for a while.

Short recs follow - I've been enthusiastically listening to these all day!

♫ Pony by Orville Peck: This man has a beautiful voice. There's something very... I don't know, this album is full of love and loss, and it's just excellent. Stylistically this seems to be described as old-fashioned country with a touch of shoegaze.

♫ First Flight by Morgan Toney. Some of these are sung in Mi'kmaq, some in English. I heard one of his songs on the radio - I think it was "Ko'jua", but I'm not sure - and thought, "Okay, I need to check this guy's work out immediately". If you love fiddle music, listen to this one.

♫ Everywhere I Used to Be by Mariel Buckley. I've enthused about her music before, but one can never enthuse enough. :V Her stuff is a very rough at the edges alt-country - I really enjoy the sound of pre-2000 country music, and her stuff takes me back to all of that.

♫ Inheritance by Musk Ox. Exceptionally beautiful modern classical by a group that I've recommended before. One of the reviewers describes it as "chamber music that will draw folk, metal, and classical fans" - and yeah, that ain't wrong. If you like metal, you'll like this. If you like folk, you'll probably like this. If you love cellos, DEFINITELY listen to this, it has the same great cello sound from their album Woodfall, which made me fall in love with their work.

Misc +++

+ Survived another formal family dinner. With luck I won't have to deal with another one of these for... a while. (Ugh, spare me. :V)

+ My overtime request for this weekend was denied, so I'm not working this weekend. Taking bets on how many hundreds of emails I'll have in my inbox come Monday. :V

+ (You know what. I don't have to work tomorrow. So I am gonna SLEEP, gonna totally set my alarm for 8AM and have a self-indulgent sleep-in, HELL YEAH.)

+ My buddy Scout drew me some Hetalia Ro/Bul and it is gorgeous. Seriously, I keep going back and staring at this picture, like... at this point I should just slap it on my desktop wallpaper, hah. (They currently have commission slots open, check here for details - really lovely person to work with, and I find their prices are super reasonable.)

+ I find it kind of funny how RO/BG has gone from "Oh, that pairing's kind of cute" to "Definitely in my current top ten, at least". It's amazing what a big dose of canon shipbait can do. (Plus, writing them made me like them more... so here we are.)

+ Speaking of writing, if I don't finish this draft I'm currently working on, I might as well blast myself off to Mars and let that be the end of it. Due dates are coming up far too soon, aaaagh. (Will try to get something done this weekend... With luck.)