Dylee Dee
Heya, I'm Dylee Dee. I love catchy, memorable music, and cute, funny cartoons.
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I love many things, but here's a summary of some of my top-tier favorites with regard to media >:O]
cartoons
March comes in like a lion
FLCL
K-ON!
Trolls / Trolls World Tour
Kodocha
Kare Kano
SpongeBob SquarePants
music
Weezer
Denzel Curry
The Cure
Converge
Yung Lean
games
Mega Man
Ape Escape
Ace Attorney
Pokémon
personal entertainers, the funnies
Ampny
Leah B
Rob Vilepluff
Here are some things, that aren't long-time favorites, that I am currently super into.
_Seek Shelter by Iceage
This appeals to me in a way similar to how a lot of Nick Cave records appeal to me, but it's more compositionally active than a lot of that stuff, which makes it easier for me to throw on. I have more I'd like to say about it, but I want to sit with it a little more first. I do think, though, after only a couple listens, it's probably my favorite Iceage album.
_Quiz by Dylee Dee
I've been working on my first album for the past year or so, and I'm pretty excited about putting it out. I'm also extremely anxious about how it's gonna be perceived. Despite my best efforts to avoid this, a lot of my art, especially really personal stuff--like this album--tends to come off as very moody and, um, I dunno, like, overly self-serious. Which is odd, because I generally think of myself as being kind of stupid and goofy, and a lot of my friends seem to think of me that way too (not stupid in an insulting way, if that makes sense to you). A lot of the writing for this album, at the time, felt like I was staying in touch with that part of myself, being silly and all, but when I listen to these drafts of songs and read the lyrics I wrote, it's like... I think a lot of the humor got lost in my emotions--and at my core, I am a pretty dramatic, self-serious person, even though I think it's super lame for me to be that way.
Ultimately, what I would like to accomplish with this record is to release an album that people can have fun with. Before I became an adult, legally anyway, I assigned a lot of value to experiences wherein I would come home from school and find a piece of art I could invest a lot of myself in. Sometimes, that piece of art was an album, and a big example of this is Before These Mighty Skies by Le Soldat Pony. The storytelling on that album, lyrically and sonically, was one of the most powerful instances of me getting immersed in a world. So far in the short time I've spent in my adult life, the closest I've gotten to a similar experience was listening to the Mirror to Mirror version of Car Seat Headrest's Twin Fantasy, which is why my brain always crosses my emotional response to that album to Before These Mighty Skies. The storytelling on my own album is a lot more self-centered and less detailed than it is those records, so I obviously hold those in much higher regard than Quiz. Even though I spend a couple songs on the album playing the role of some cartoonishly over the top characters, I don't think I do a very good job describing scenes and context and all that good stuff--even these songs are very much about me choosing a topic, and then building detail to make some kind of point about whatever topic I decided I had enough to say about to turn it into a song. Which I guess describes most art, but I don't know, I guess I just think I'm not as good at doing this stuff as a lot of my favorite artists are. But anyway, if whatever I made is good enough to provide some kid the kind of experiences I really valued during childhood, then I would have accomplished some of the best I could hope to do.
(On the off chance someone looks at this page before I publicly reveal the cover art for this album, I've opted to put the back cover on here for now.)
even more music (super favorites are bolded)
A$AP Ferg
A$AP Rocky
A. G. Cook
Ada Rook
Adventures (Supersonic Home)
AERO GROS M
aivi & surasshu (I love their album, The Black Box. Great album to put on while doing work.)
Alex Cameron
Anamanaguchi
And Also the Trees
Andrew W.K.
Angel Olsen
Angus the Bard
Animals as Leaders
Anna von Hausswolff
Aphex Twin
Arctic Monkeys
Ariel Pink
Arjuna Genome
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
ART-SCHOOL
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Astroidtbh
ATARASHII GAKKO!
AURORA
Avenged Sevenfold
Avi Buffalo
awakebutstillinbed
Backxwash
BADBADNOTGOOD
BALLOND'OR
The Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Bell Witch
Benny the Butcher
The Big Nate
Billie Eilish
Billy Joel
Biosphere
The Birthday Party
Black Breath
Black Country, New Road
Black Dresses
black midi
Black Milk Impulses
Black Sabbath
BLACKBLACK
Bladee
Blindskywatcher
THE BLUE HEARTS
Bob Dylan
The Body
Bomb the Music Industry!
BOOM BOOM SATELLITES
Boris
Botch
BRADIO
Brian Eno
Bright Eyes
Broadcast
BROCKHAMPTON
Bruce Springsteen
Car Seat Headrest
The Cars (mostly just their self-titled--haven't really heard much of their other stuff, aside from some cool singles)
Chance the Rapper
Charli XCX (love her Charli album)
Cheeky
Chelsea Wolfe
Childish Gambino
Circle Takes the Square
City Morgue
Clairo
Clarence Clarity
The Clash
clipping.
Code Orange
Converge
convolk
Conway the Machine
crisis sigil
Crystal Castles (I listen to their self-titled album when I want to feel like a witch)
cub
The Cure
Da Mafia 6ix
Dan Deacon
Danny Brown
Danny Elfman
Daughters
David Bowie
Death Grips
Death in Vegas
Deep Purple
The Delgados (Hate is a fantastic album)
Denzel Curry
Devi McCallion
derrek (derrek sekito (snibsnobs))
The Dillinger Escape Plan
DODDODO
Dope Body
Drain Gang
DrDycer
Drive like Jehu
Earl Sweatshirt
Ecco2k
Eevil Stöö
Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Owls
Eminem
Endless Jess
Eva Hakai
Exit Order
Eyehategod
The Fall of Troy
Father John Misty
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
fern ghouly
fijitrip
Fishmans
Fleet Foxes
Foxy Shazam
Frances Quinlan
Freddie Gibbs
Friend Hell
Frontierer
fudarin ga'proy
Fugazi
Full of Hell
G.L.O.S.S.
Gabriel Gundacker
Gerard Way
Gleemer (generally not super into this kind of stuff, but Moving Away is a pretty cool album)
Gordon Lightfoot
Green Day
GREEN FLAME BOYS
Griffinillla
Grimes
Grinderman
Hackamore
Hajime Hyakkoku (people don't really talk about K-ON!'s background music, but it's very good)
Half Japanese
Hippocrit
Hiretsukan
Hiroyuki Sawano (KILL la KILL and Promare have incredible soundtracks)
HMLTD
Hobo Johnson
Hop Along
Ho-kago Tea Time
The I.L.Y's
Iceage
IDLES
If You're An Angel, You Will Suffocate on Earth
illuminati hotties
Imperial Triumphant
Injury Reserve
ISIS
IWALOID
J.I.D
Jack White
Jaden / Jaden Smith ("GOKU" alone is enough to put Jaden on here)
James Roach
Jeff Rosenstock
Jessie Ware
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jim Croce
Joanna Newsom
Joe Hisaishi
Joey Bada$$
JohnJRenns
jonatan leandoer96
Joyce Manor (only heard their self-titled, but I thought it was pretty good)
JPEGMAFIA
Judas Priest
Juice WRLD (Death Race for Love is one of my favorite albums of all time)
julie
Just Fern
Juvenile
Kanye West
Kate Bush
katie dey
Kendrick Lamar
Kenny Mason
Kero Kero Bonito
Kesha
KIDS SEE GHOSTS
The Killers
King Crimson
King Krule
Kirin J Callinan
KoЯn
Laurie Anderson
LCD Soundsystem
Le Soldat Pony
Liam Gallagher
Lil Nas X
Lil Ugly Mane
Lilith
The Linda Lindas
LINGUA IGNOTA
Lingua Nada (love the first half of Snuff)
Little Big League
Little Simz
Lizzo
Lucy Dacus
Luhas
Lykke Li
Mac Miller
Machine Girl
Madvillain
Major Powers & the Lo-Fi Symphony
Manic Street Preachers
Marilyn Manson
The Mars Volta
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
Mclusky
MELT-BANANA
Melvins
METZ
MF DOOM
MGMT
MickeyMeese
Mindless Self Indulgence
Ministry
Minor Threat
Modern Baseball
Mort Garson
THE MUSMUS
My Bloody Valentine
My Chemical Romance
N0THANKY0U
Nails
nano.RIPE
Nascar Aloe
Natalia Lafourcade
Neil Cicierega
NEKO, MAZS
Neutral Milk Hotel
Never Knows Best
never young beach
New Order
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Night Lovell
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Age
Norah Jones
The Notorious B.I.G.
NUMBER GIRL
NYAI
Oasis
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE
Oingo Boingo
Olallie
old gray (only heard slow burn, but I think it's pretty good)
Oliver Tree
ONE OK ROCK (Nicheシンドローム is the only album from them I've heard, but that record is goated)
onett (onett1209.bandcamp.com)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
osno1
Otoboke Beaver
Pallbearer
Pearls and Brass
People In The Box
Pet Shop Boys
Phoebe Bridgers
Pig Destroyer (only heard Terrifyer)
the pillows
Pink Floyd
pisse
Pity Sex
Pixies
Playboi Carti
PlayThatBoiZay
Polyphia
Poppy
PORTAL (love ION)
Post Malone
Prettiest Eyes
Princex
Priscilla Ahn
PUP
Radiohead
Rage against the Machine
Ramones
RATKING (So It Goes is essential listening)
RAY (their Pink album is pretty good)
Remo Drive
Rendez Vous
The Rentals
Richard Dawson
Rico Nasty
Rina Sawayama
Run the Jewels
RUT
Ryo Fukui
S-21
Scarlxrd
Sebastian Juul
SeeYouSpaceCowboy (Songs for the Firing Squad is good)
Sematary
Show Me the Body
Silk Sonic
Silversun Pickups (only heard Carnavas)
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Skinny Puppy
Sleep
Sleep Tight
Slime Girls
Slint
Slipknot
Slowdive
slowthai
The Smiths
SOFT GIRL
SoGreatandPowerful
SOPHIE
SosMula
St. Vincent
Starship Amazing (only ever listened to their "Bonk (You Got Bonked)" single, but that song has never left my listening rotation)
Steely Dan
Street Sects
The Strokes (first two albums and The New Abnormal are quite good)
STUDIO TRAM
Suicidal Tendencies
Swans
Talking Heads
Tame Impala
Tatsuro Yamashita (Japanese Billy Joel)
Tears for Fears
The Telephone Projects
Three 6 Mafia
TK from 凛として時雨 (TK from Ling tosite sigure) (not as good as the band, but still great--flowering especially)
Tkay Maidza
toby fox (UNDERTALE's soundtrack is goated)
toe
Tomoko Kataoka (only thing from them I've heard is the Tamako Market soundtrack, but I love that soundtrack)
Tony Molina (Dissed and Dismissed)
Touché Amoré
Travis Scott
Trial of the Golden Witch
A Tribe Called Quest
tricot (don't love them as much as a lot of my friends do, but they have some great songs, and they're a pretty cool band overall)
twenty one pilots
Tyler, The Creator
Uboa
$UICIDEBOY$
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
UPLIFT SPICE
Vampillia (highly recommend my beautiful twisted nightmares in aurora rainbow darkness)
Van Halen (first album is legendary)
Vein
Viagra Boys
Vince Staples
Violent Femmes (first two albums are incredible)
Wapddi (왑띠)
Ween
Weezer (favorite)
The White Stripes
Wiki
Wild Nothing (only heard Nocturne)
Wintergatan
Wire
wowaka
XXXTENTACION
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yung Lean
ZAQ (only like a handful of her songs, but the ones I do like are very good)
ZAZEN BOYS
Zeal & Ardor
Zen Huxtable
ZillaKami
ZUN
ヒステリックパニック (Hysteric Panic)
マキシマム ザ ホルモン (Maximum the Hormone)
ミドリ (Midori)
ラッキーオールドサン (Lucky Old Sun)
ラブリーサマーちゃん (Lovely Summer-chan)
파란노을 (Parannoul)
凛として時雨 (Ling tosite sigure)
宇宙ネコ子 (Universe Nekoko)
春ねむり (Haru Nemuri)
東京事変 (Tokyo Jihen)
梨本P (Nashimoto-P)
椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo)
相対性理論 (Soutaiseiriron)
神聖かまってちゃん (Shinsei Kamattechan)
銀杏BOYZ (GING NANG BOYZ)
The 1975
2001
385
9mm Parabellum Bullet (I mostly just like Termination)
Here's an archive of things that were in the "current fixations" tab at some point.
_ION by PORTAL
I've been fascinated by this album ever since it came out, but I never found myself throwing it on to enjoy, until very recently (May, 2021 (for reference, this album came out in 2018)). It's got a very cool, retrofuturistic take on horror and dystopia, that I always admired, but the sound of it was too dry and raw for me to get lost in at the time of its release. I'm very glad that I'm now able to enjoy it musically. It's hazy and swirling and twisted and manic, and it's been making me happy.
_LUCKYBOY, Directed by Domenic Romano
I am the 2D animation director on a film called LUCKYBOY. This film is taking over my brain, and most of what I do with my time is affected by it in some way or another. Frankly, I have very little idea as to what this thing is gonna even be like, despite spending so much time with it--kind of like how a lot of people think about gardening--but that's kind of exciting in its own way. Also, Dom (LUCKYBOY's director) is my boyfriend, and it's been very nice being in the same town as him.
_Dying
I am very upset and sad and wow. School is definitely a big part of it--I hate school--but I think I might typically put so much emphasis on school when discussing my bad feelings because I don't feel as comfortable explicitly naming other things hurting me. There are definitely things that I'd like to do, and the lack of completion of these fairly feasible things are a big part of why I'm still around. That said, I don't really foresee any fulfilling longterm future for myself.
