Great Music While High: Deafheaven
Deafheaven emerged a few years ago with a style so fresh, it crossed genre boundaries. As an American black metal band hailing from San Francisco, CA, they had their work cut out from them.
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Andrea Silva
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Great Music While High: Twenty One Pilots
You will not enjoy this album; you will simply be compulsively forced into playing it on repeat for days on end. The inventing of genres has lead to Twenty One Pilots being lumped into the bizarre and newly birthed schizoid pop.
Great Music While High: Tim Barry
Tim Barry’s narrative style brings the honest nature of folk music full circle on his album Rivanna Junction. His songs explore the full range of emotions, exploring restlessness, enjoying the simplicities of life, falling in love, jumping trains and family honor.
Great Music While High: Cherub
For me, Cherub is a more recent discovery that is guiltily drowned in satirical-pop and electro-funk. Cherubs tongue in cheek lyrics consistently inject humor regardless of the sometimes-somber undertones hidden beneath the funk synthesizers, EDM style tunes.
Great Music While High: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Clever incorporations of the harmonium, piano and a variety of string instruments create a foundation from which PCO whimsically twists and embellishes. The voiceless poetry is a unique assemblage of folk, ethnic and contemporary composition.
Great Music While High: Sleep
A bellowing minute and a half guitar solo that sends you into the cosmos with a huge smile. Transitioning into the closer with such elegance that it’s hard to even tell.
Great Music While High: Why?
The intrinsically pleasing parts of Why? are the metaphors that I never fully grasp until the last note, contradictions that make pupils dilate and bigger picture revelations. The allure, above all else, is Yoni Wolfs ability to drag you into his world and give you a tongue-lashing lullaby.
Great Music While High: Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space is best served through eleven on the amps volume control, while in the horizontal position, with a side of essential oils and warm lighting.