Albums like Discouraged Ones

[thisempty]

I love TEF(and Thergothon), "Useless" is one of the best songs I've ever heard, also "Snowblind" and "Rebuilt Passage" are brilliant aswell. Nice one for mentioning them, you can hear The Cure's "Disintegration" all over their songs....the album "Faith" by the Cure also sounds a bit like TEF, try this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgNx89B8Y4

If you like This Empty Flow then The Frozen Autumn is another good band to check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGNnMJOjBo


I know all this probably doesn't sound a great deal like Discouraged Ones but then again, what does? Maybe you should just root through the "depressive music" thread here, there's plenty of good stuff to be found in there

Yes, i know they sound alot like The Cure, only better and much more depressive, ehhe.

And The Frozen Autumn?? I thought nobody knew them but me! ehheh
They're great.

 

[BlueSky]

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[off_beat]

The Cure - Bloodflowers -> Underrated album imo, pretty good. A perfect winter album I think.

I totally agree, excellent comment.

 

[Blackfield]

BLACK HEART PROCESSION-2

hope do not commit suicide!

 

[MadTinus]

 

[Pelata]

Lots of great bands mentioned in this thread...Slowdive, Red House Painters, Swans, Rapture, The Cure...great, great stuff.

 

[i aint play this]

I'm listening to some Rapture right now tbh <3

 

[Pelata]

I'm not sure if it's a B-Side or an EP track or what, but The Cure has a song called "Carnage Visors" that is a long song w/ no vocals...very sad/depressing music.

 

[Pelata]

I'm not sure if it's a B-Side or an EP track or what, but The Cure has a song called "Carnage Visors" that is a long song w/ no vocals...very sad/depressing music.

OK, I found this on Wikipedia...I first heard the song on a cassette a buddy of mine used to bring to work...I love it.

The song "Carnage Visors" (an antonym of rose-coloured spectacles), originally available only on the long-play cassette release, is the soundtrack of Carnage Visors, a short film by Ric Gallup, Simon's brother. It was screened at the beginning of shows in place of a support band on the 1981 Picture Tour, and featured animation of several dolls in different positions and stances. The film has since disappeared and only Lol Tolhurst, Robert Smith, and Simon Gallup own copies of it, though during a televised interview in the mid-1980s the host of the program surprised the band by playing a clip of the film on set.

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

^^ You can get that song on the 2-dic remastered version of the "Faith" album, which also comes with the AMAZING song "Charlotte Sometimes", a hideously underrated non album track from that time:



everyone should like this song

 

[Wildhoney]

If you mention This Empty Flow and The Cure, you must absolutely listen to Magenta Skycode - that's a band too - not only one of the best records ever released.
Their debut album is probably the record I played the most in these 3 years or so and now have just released a couple of beautiful brand-new songs.
Jori was a former and fundamental member of This Empty Flow.

Pls, also check Malory from Germany, if you're into Slowdive and stuff like that. Definitely one of the most dreamy bands ever.

 

[Pelata]

Wildhoney - that Malory stuff sounds great! Thanks for the reccomendation...

I'm going to go check out Magenta Skycode now too...

 

[MiniMoose]

Now and then LifeLover does have something like Discouraged Ones. Only often much more angry and/or desperate.
That doesn't mean most of it is like that...but some.
New MCD from them out now...the first three songs are brilliant. Myspys are one of the new ones. Most of it is in swedish vocal wise though.

http://www.myspace.com/lifeloverband

 

[Wildhoney]

I don't think Lifelover has so much in common with DO or Katatonia. Anyway, I didn't know this band, but it's really sick and weird stuff.

If you liked Malory pls, check this band I've lately discovered - Air Formation http://www.myspace.com/airformation.
Pls, check also the record lately released by one of their member Matt. Find the link on the same page.

 

[astral76]

similar to Katatonia: Rapture, Slumber, Daylight Dies...and some others.

 

[BrunoFaust]

Definitely the italian guys Room with A View, their first album "first year departure" is very much in the vein of DO.

The Wounded - Monument. though not thier best stuff, still cool. in the last album they got more proffesional and lost the amateurish feeling that DO had, check both if you have time. Novembre's Arte Novecento should be in your list too

the argentinian bleakness http://www.myspace.com/bleakness might satisfy your thirst for melancholic stuff as well

 

[John Carvajal]

The Loveless is great, hope to see another album!

 

[Deliverance6]

My current obsession band= Amoseurs. Not necessarily so much katatonia related; but the feeling of the music, to me, relates greatly to mid katatonia type feeling. Hmmm....kind of similar cover to some kata art

 

[Pelata]

My current obsession band= Amoseurs. Not necessarily so much katatonia related; but the feeling of the music, to me, relates greatly to mid katatonia type feeling. Hmmm....kind of similar cover to some kata art
http://www.[/quote] I like this!! Thanks for the rec!