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Recently, motivated by the sharing of a Dollis Marry's best-album a kind user did here, I have been listening to a good portion of Metis Gretel, Dollis Marry and Izabel Varosa, a group of bands that I've seen their name in every download website I visited since I started myself into vk back in 2009, but never tried. Although their sound is absolutely not a novelty, and in this sense they sound/look kind of generic, let me say that they actually did came over my expectatives, at least for a first listening, which is a really good sign. The best one was, of course, Dollis: a very decent vocalist (which it's like a miracle in this god forsaken scene; it's actually a pity there isn't any live footage available at least on Youtube, it is the only challenge it lefts to prove he is so) and very good arranged songs, some with a fresh approachs (with that I mean they take themselves off from the archetypical indie clichés), they best example being this:
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QuoteI'm finding I'm going back and revisiting a lot of things I looked over a long time ago and realized that they sound a lot better than I originally thought.
Glad you're liking Metis Gretel too: they're one of the first vkei bands I got into and are still a favorite of mine.
I'm glad you are doing it!
My process is generally the opposite: revisiting a a lot of things I looked up a long time ago and realize that they sound a worst than I originally thought. Next year I enter my second decade being a vk listener realizing that vk is in fact (and kinda was in its beggining) a scene filled with a bunch of boys in their early twe
nties trying to mimic the big acts with none to zero creative spirit. Thus we have the increasing amount not only of plagio (the most incredible and yet dramatic case of it is bands like Kiryu, that literally copy themselves over and over with no signs of going to stop it someday) but of an idolized conception over bands, their formation, music, looks, selling strategies, etc. A very big dissapointement, if you aks me.
So, being into this process of grieving the ideal VK was for me a a musician, finding that there actually is/was listeneable music and cool looks within the scene is a caress to the wounded heart!
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