I love Natural Snow Buildings, especially Daughter of Darkness which I've been listening to a lot these last months. But to be honest, I wouldn't want "Devil's Fork" or "Her Face Is Not Her Real Face" to be any shorter at all. These tracks are so immersive and together with "Carnal Flowers", "The Invisibles" and "Blood in the Ground Linking Us All" my favorite tracks of the whole "album".
btw great list of notable releases, I myself would have included Nadja's "The Bungled and the Botched" from 2008 in the masterpieces, with its two 30-minute tracks it's a most excellent example of drone metal mastery. :)
Boris is one of my favorite bands, I always love to see them get recognition. Their drone albums are probably their best, but they also dive into several other genres throughout their MASSIVE discography. Heavy Rocks (2002) is probably my favorite of theirs.
natural snow buildings brought me here. Im a bit more than halfway through and have been listening in chunks. Today i was sitting at the rocky beach with my dog watching the waves and the birds flying through the grey sky while her face is not her real face played. What a experience to just walk around listening to this album. I even danced a bit to it. This is the first drone type album i have listened to and your video on the genre was quite interesting!
Tim Hecker is amazing - he is my most listened on Spotify after a a year long bender. He turns static and noise into amazing music - no one can do it quite like him.
The Winter Ray is such an underrated album. I’m not as much into the tribal/folk sounds that NSB really started using in later releases, but I love the post-rock and the winter ambiance of their earlier stuff. The Winter Ray really encapsulates that part of them, and I’d put it on the same level as The Dance of the Moon and Sun.
The album name and overall style of Earth 2 is a reference to a series of field recordings done by Syntonic Research Inc in the 70s. There was special release they did in 1987 called "Environments 2: Tintinnabulation (Special Low Frequency Version)". Earth 2 takes the font and whole style from this album. Thought this would be a cool thing to point out.
So many of the albums on here are among my favorites of all time. I really adore Flood, The Dance of the Moon & The Sun, and many of your casual mentions like Godspeed You! Black Emperor (favorite of all time!), Stars of the Lid, and Brian Eno. Awesome video. It's great to see people talking about them!
Little side note 4 years later: An Index Of Metals by Fripp & Eno later insipred the title (I think - it's a pretty nieche name) for the homonymous work of Fausto Romitelli (whom was born in my same home town), which I really reccomend listening/watching to! Great video.
i know they are not as much of drone artists but Jim O'rourke and Animal Collective have some outstanding drone pieces, Jim O'rourke's Im Happy And Im Singing and a 1,2,3,4 and his Live In Japan have some amazing drone, especially his 30 minute drone version of Fast Car, and Animal Collective's Campfire Songs and Here Comes The Indian have some incredible songs too like Two Sails On a Sound or De Soto de Son and Doggy, really worth checking out!!
Glad to see dance of the moon and the sun getting some recognition! Sonically it's quite similar to the dronier side that was present here and there in the Glow pt2, but I think it does the atmosphere and mysterious storytelling even better. Easily top 5 even in the broader psych folk genre.
I was wondering if you could help me identify some music for me. It's very easy to describe: A guitar playing a single note endlessly sustained. I was in a friends car in Canada circa 1992, heard it on the radio and didn't catch the artists name. The driver changed the channel after it rang for something that felt like eternity. A single sustained note without modulation, vibrato, ...nothing. Very simple and strangely powerful and effective. The note felt like it slightly shifted but that could be an auditory illusion. Haunts me to this day.
Thinking of drone and mood, dreampop or shoegaze, Flying Saucer Attack comes to mind as perhaps my favorite. Their dreamlike explorations of hazy washes are quite soothing and even uplifting to me; and I, too have explored droning sounds and experimental music for decades👽 Cheers
you should talk about paysage d'hiver! it's a super an extremely atmospheric and cold black metal project by one person. it is noisy and droney in nature. check it out. also kranky IS SO GOOD
Great video man I'd like to recommend The Savage Young Taterbug, he makes this sweet and eerie drones out of tapes he finds and also records. It's a mix between hypnagogic warped drones and lo-fi americana folk ballads. Also, Yellow Swans are great too, if you like drone and want to get into noise
Probably Flood by Boris…also damn it’s crazy for me how long ago it feels like I made this vid thx for pointing out that time stamp I completely forgot I put that in there lol
Candlemass' "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is not drone anything. It'd qualify as more Doom/Dark metal. It is also the best album by that band with the original singer I believe.
theyre pretty obscure so i wouldnt imagine he wouldve heard of them, plus their discography is so massive its hard to go in depth with recommendations without making a long ass video
Would have been nice to touch on the 80's with Spacemen 3, influential to both Earth and NSB. "Dreamweapon" stems from the same lineage as the other bands in this video.
Bro this is all cool but you didn't mention the melvins????!?!!?!?????? What?? Boris the band is literally named after a Melvins song, and Lysol might be the most important drone metal release apart from earth 2
lol you talk about drone and barely mention stars of the lid also personally im not really into much drone beyond tim hecker and some of the more dream pop sounds of grouper (dead deer, man who died on his boat, ruins).. i tried SotL and brian eno and it was super boring and not emotionally heartbreaking for me
jocie welp, u got me there 😵 and yea I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea (I’m actually not the biggest SotL fan either and that’s why I didn’t talk about em that much). I still think you’d enjoy natural snow buildings (particularly “the dance of the moon & the sun”) if you haven’t checked them out yet cuz they’re rly different from other drone acts
@@108Mics thanks.. i do like recommendations, i just had trouble getting into some of the acclaimed stuff like stars and eno and even the disintegration loops (surprised you didn't cover that) because it was so long and slow and i felt little emotion
jocie tbh I don’t rly like the disintegration loops at all. The other volumes r much better than the first one but the whole concept of looping something and have it disintegrate over an extended period of time is just handled in such a barebones way that it kinda just comes across as bs to me, especially now that Everywhere at the End of Time exists and handles that idea in a much more interesting way (even tho the albums are different topically/thematically). I do rly like Basinski’s Melancholia tho
@@108Mics the ambient is enjoy is more the tim hecker and jefre cantu-ledesma style.. "lets listen to the beautiful sounds while the textures of change let us contemplate our depression", in theory i should like disintegration loops but one issue is that is feels like its tampered with and not the raw tape, due to a certain trumpet never shows any audio degradation throughout the whole song. it ruins the poetic melancholy of the piece and just leaves me with an hour of confusion.. i like finding good albums but its hard to find them
Nice vid, really cool to see somebody discuss such underrated and special music! If anybody is interested, here are some deeper cut artists I'd rec in the psych-folk/drone/avant-garde scenes, especially if you like the ethereal, rich and organic, sometimes freaky sounds of NSB: (not a complete list by any means just a few that came to mind) Steven R. Smith / Hala Strana Richard Skelton / A Broken Consort Six Organs Of Admittance Sunburned Hand Of The Man Spires That In The Sunset Rise Sun City Girls James Blackshaw Meg Baird / Espers Corum La Nòvia Fursaxa Fearthainne DVA Elfin Saddle Faun Fables Songs Of Green Pheasant International Harvester / Pärson Sound Arbete Och Fritid Virginia Astley Veronique Chalot Emmanuelle Parrenin (this last two are somewhat the progenitors of french psychedelic folk and some of the biggest influences for NSB, I believe! listen and you'll hear some similarities for sure, as well as some of the earliest incorporation of drone and psych elements in folk music anywhere)
Sorry if I talk too fast. I'm trying to work on that. Thank y'all for baring with me 💯🙏
Also sorry about the editing error at 19:30
talk like drone music - veryyyy slow lol
It isn't too fast for me. I can catch up no problem.
for me its perfect
people really need to talk about natural snow buildings, seriously such an incredible band
daughter of darkness is utterly mesmerizing
its been a year and i think natural snow buildings has been talked about quite a bit
People like you are what make RUclips comments section a treasure trove!
Merci !
That band is like being in a warm blanket under starry skies in the mountains.
ah yes a fellow fishmans fan
I love Natural Snow Buildings, especially Daughter of Darkness which I've been listening to a lot these last months. But to be honest, I wouldn't want "Devil's Fork" or "Her Face Is Not Her Real Face" to be any shorter at all. These tracks are so immersive and together with "Carnal Flowers", "The Invisibles" and "Blood in the Ground Linking Us All" my favorite tracks of the whole "album".
btw great list of notable releases, I myself would have included Nadja's "The Bungled and the Botched" from 2008 in the masterpieces, with its two 30-minute tracks it's a most excellent example of drone metal mastery. :)
Boris is one of my favorite bands, I always love to see them get recognition. Their drone albums are probably their best, but they also dive into several other genres throughout their MASSIVE discography. Heavy Rocks (2002) is probably my favorite of theirs.
Saw them with The Melvins last year. Great show! The way Boris can switch between drone and shoegaze seamlessly is pretty badass.
natural snow buildings brought me here. Im a bit more than halfway through and have been listening in chunks. Today i was sitting at the rocky beach with my dog watching the waves and the birds flying through the grey sky while her face is not her real face played. What a experience to just walk around listening to this album. I even danced a bit to it. This is the first drone type album i have listened to and your video on the genre was quite interesting!
The Angelic Process is amazing
Came here to say this
Also rest in peace to kris and monica, may their memories live on
Tim Hecker is amazing - he is my most listened on Spotify after a a year long bender. He turns static and noise into amazing music - no one can do it quite like him.
virgins is perfect
loveeee tim! i started listening to him cuz of his production he did on cayo by arca.
@@xenduvall ha I'm still obsessed with him.
This dude really the perfect embodiment of the instagram music review scene onto youtube, props for the vid too. Amazing work.
Kataskii TV aye thank u 🙏🙏🙏
There is an instagram music review scene?
I get a more RateYourMusic vibe tbh
Finna make a drone trap beat rn
The Winter Ray is such an underrated album. I’m not as much into the tribal/folk sounds that NSB really started using in later releases, but I love the post-rock and the winter ambiance of their earlier stuff. The Winter Ray really encapsulates that part of them, and I’d put it on the same level as The Dance of the Moon and Sun.
Finally a youtuber talking about Natural Snow Buildings
The album name and overall style of Earth 2 is a reference to a series of field recordings done by Syntonic Research Inc in the 70s. There was special release they did in 1987 called "Environments 2: Tintinnabulation (Special Low Frequency Version)". Earth 2 takes the font and whole style from this album. Thought this would be a cool thing to point out.
Glad you mentioned Henry Flynt - I find him super-underrated
So many of the albums on here are among my favorites of all time. I really adore Flood, The Dance of the Moon & The Sun, and many of your casual mentions like Godspeed You! Black Emperor (favorite of all time!), Stars of the Lid, and Brian Eno.
Awesome video. It's great to see people talking about them!
Little side note 4 years later: An Index Of Metals by Fripp & Eno later insipred the title (I think - it's a pretty nieche name) for the homonymous work of Fausto Romitelli (whom was born in my same home town), which I really reccomend listening/watching to! Great video.
Yooo!! Flood by Boris is one of my favorite albums ever made. Your channel is the best
I really hope that one day I can say "I was here before 1mil
Fast car by Jim o’rourke gotta be my favorite drone song
Drone is one of my favorite genres!
i know they are not as much of drone artists but Jim O'rourke and Animal Collective have some outstanding drone pieces, Jim O'rourke's Im Happy And Im Singing and a 1,2,3,4 and his Live In Japan have some amazing drone, especially his 30 minute drone version of Fast Car, and Animal Collective's Campfire Songs and Here Comes The Indian have some incredible songs too like Two Sails On a Sound or De Soto de Son and Doggy, really worth checking out!!
I don't usually comment but just wanted to say that you're a great youtuber :)
Glad to see dance of the moon and the sun getting some recognition! Sonically it's quite similar to the dronier side that was present here and there in the Glow pt2, but I think it does the atmosphere and mysterious storytelling even better. Easily top 5 even in the broader psych folk genre.
I was wondering if you could help me identify some music for me. It's very easy to describe: A guitar playing a single note endlessly sustained. I was in a friends car in Canada circa 1992, heard it on the radio and didn't catch the artists name. The driver changed the channel after it rang for something that felt like eternity. A single sustained note without modulation, vibrato, ...nothing. Very simple and strangely powerful and effective. The note felt like it slightly shifted but that could be an auditory illusion. Haunts me to this day.
Daughter of Darkness is my favourite album
I loved your video man, I hope more people can get into the world of drone music, and listen to amazing bands like boris and natural snow buildings
Right there with on NSB. You’re tackling all my favorites, my friend, and now pointing me into a dozen other directions. Keep up the strong work!
Thanks for this. Glad to see The Angelic Process and Nadja on your list.
Thinking of drone and mood, dreampop or shoegaze, Flying Saucer Attack comes to mind as perhaps my favorite. Their dreamlike explorations of hazy washes are quite soothing and even uplifting to me; and I, too have explored droning sounds and experimental music for decades👽
Cheers
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Bro u need to make a video on sybyr
This guy narrates so fast his voice almost became a drone
you should talk about paysage d'hiver! it's a super an extremely atmospheric and cold black metal project by one person. it is noisy and droney in nature. check it out.
also kranky IS SO GOOD
Finally someone else who loves nsb! I really hope your channel will gain some traction!
Great video, man. Totally deserves more views.
Great video man
I'd like to recommend The Savage Young Taterbug, he makes this sweet and eerie drones out of tapes he finds and also records. It's a mix between hypnagogic warped drones and lo-fi americana folk ballads.
Also, Yellow Swans are great too, if you like drone and want to get into noise
I love drone music. Causes It falls into the ambient music category.
The 1 before the Tony Conrad 1
Ur content is pretty sick keep going dude
The Melvins also did drone in the 80s
5:58 that’s dopesmoker! That ones an hour long
you make good vids man, keep it up! music youtubers hardly do it for me
24:00 now u have over 10k! What’s ur fav drone album ever? Not sure what mine is.
Probably Flood by Boris…also damn it’s crazy for me how long ago it feels like I made this vid thx for pointing out that time stamp I completely forgot I put that in there lol
@@108Mics what's ur fav drone album that isn't metal?
Mick Harris after he left Napalm Death he went totally drone, electronic
13:15 who’s the drummer’s name? He/she is insanely good!
great vid, love your stuff!
Candlemass' "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is not drone anything. It'd qualify as more Doom/Dark metal. It is also the best album by that band with the original singer I believe.
You’ll be on Wikipedia someday 🤘
boris FUCK YEA
No mention of Bull of Heaven on a drone video????? missed opportunity there
theyre pretty obscure so i wouldnt imagine he wouldve heard of them, plus their discography is so massive its hard to go in depth with recommendations without making a long ass video
14:46 how many copies of it exist?
where can I find Natural Snow Buildings discography ?
Buena pronunciación de santa sangre
Would have been nice to touch on the 80's with Spacemen 3, influential to both Earth and NSB. "Dreamweapon" stems from the same lineage as the other bands in this video.
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Bro this is all cool but you didn't mention the melvins????!?!!?!?????? What?? Boris the band is literally named after a Melvins song, and Lysol might be the most important drone metal release apart from earth 2
hey i love this video, i watch it very often. thank you for your content!
Great video. What’s the intro music. It sounds so familiar.
I got it from Iron Galaxy by Cannibal Ox, but it’s a sample from Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo
"No cat footing". Jesus wept.
Check out Liz Harris. She's made many records as Grouper.
he literally mentioned her on this video
8:31 what albums are those & by what bands?
One is Filosofem by Burzum
2nd is 'A Blaze in the Northern Sky' by Darkthrone,
3rd is 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' by Mayhem
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"a man's guitar" goodbye
12:26 what do u think of their 1st album?
Was flood only released on vinyl?
L O U D N E S S
where is Nadja? dude come on..
1:41 what album is that?
Outside the dream syndicate by Tony Conrad & Faust
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what software do u use to make ur videos on?
Adobe Premiere
Lol poser bet you've never never even listened to the bull of heaven discography
ive listened to all of it slowed and reverbed
I’m still alive after listening to all of it at 0.25x speed.
6:55 I hate you. Great video tho 👍
virgins is not drone (my opinion and that's okay)
1:40 what album is thAt?
A rainbow in curved air by Terry Riley
Thanks I hate cursive writing no offense so hard 2 read
I had 2 know cuz I’m makin a playlist on Spotify if all the albums u talked about here that r on spotify
@@Ian_Upchurch Gotchu, if u need others lmk (sry if you've already commented others and I missed it, I'll respond here if that's cool)
5:26 what r those on the bottom left & top right?
lol you talk about drone and barely mention stars of the lid
also personally im not really into much drone beyond tim hecker and some of the more dream pop sounds of grouper (dead deer, man who died on his boat, ruins).. i tried SotL and brian eno and it was super boring and not emotionally heartbreaking for me
jocie welp, u got me there 😵 and yea I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea (I’m actually not the biggest SotL fan either and that’s why I didn’t talk about em that much). I still think you’d enjoy natural snow buildings (particularly “the dance of the moon & the sun”) if you haven’t checked them out yet cuz they’re rly different from other drone acts
@@108Mics thanks.. i do like recommendations, i just had trouble getting into some of the acclaimed stuff like stars and eno and even the disintegration loops (surprised you didn't cover that) because it was so long and slow and i felt little emotion
jocie tbh I don’t rly like the disintegration loops at all. The other volumes r much better than the first one but the whole concept of looping something and have it disintegrate over an extended period of time is just handled in such a barebones way that it kinda just comes across as bs to me, especially now that Everywhere at the End of Time exists and handles that idea in a much more interesting way (even tho the albums are different topically/thematically). I do rly like Basinski’s Melancholia tho
@@108Mics the ambient is enjoy is more the tim hecker and jefre cantu-ledesma style.. "lets listen to the beautiful sounds while the textures of change let us contemplate our depression", in theory i should like disintegration loops but one issue is that is feels like its tampered with and not the raw tape, due to a certain trumpet never shows any audio degradation throughout the whole song. it ruins the poetic melancholy of the piece and just leaves me with an hour of confusion.. i like finding good albums but its hard to find them
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bro change your name its been taken for over 3 years
klipse killem I didn’t know it was taken when I made the channel but it’s kinda too late now :/
108 Mics Shouldve checked. I made sure nobody else had my rap name before i established it. Proper thing to do mane
john carpenter is probably the best song ever made
who by? can't find it in the video
@@angusc2042 It’s a track on The Dance of the Moon and Sun by Natural Snow Buildings
Sometimes artsy bullshit is exactly what the doctor ordered
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Nice vid, really cool to see somebody discuss such underrated and special music! If anybody is interested, here are some deeper cut artists I'd rec in the psych-folk/drone/avant-garde scenes, especially if you like the ethereal, rich and organic, sometimes freaky sounds of NSB:
(not a complete list by any means just a few that came to mind)
Steven R. Smith / Hala Strana
Richard Skelton / A Broken Consort
Six Organs Of Admittance
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Spires That In The Sunset Rise
Sun City Girls
James Blackshaw
Meg Baird / Espers
Corum
La Nòvia
Fursaxa
Fearthainne
DVA
Elfin Saddle
Faun Fables
Songs Of Green Pheasant
International Harvester / Pärson Sound
Arbete Och Fritid
Virginia Astley
Veronique Chalot
Emmanuelle Parrenin
(this last two are somewhat the progenitors of french psychedelic folk and some of the biggest influences for NSB, I believe! listen and you'll hear some similarities for sure, as well as some of the earliest incorporation of drone and psych elements in folk music anywhere)