This post inspired by my very recent discovery of the band Broken Focus, a hardcore/metal band that has a transfem lead vocalist. Who might just be my new gender goals.
I really like https://open.spotify.com/album/25PRPqWH5Z3fOR2CHocRDq !!!
Myself :D
I have two trans* artists that I really like.
Tiggrez Punch is a German feminist artist that mainly produces HipHop. I saw them live and I can only recommend them.
Awakesy! is a British transfem Artist that produces quite a wide Variety of genres, but mainly the darker styles of Techno and its subgenres. She has quite a lot of speedcore, but also lots of other cool stuff.
Gen and the Degenerates make some fun queer punk.
Eris drew and octa octa they just released a wonderful acid, breakbeat album as alchemical sisters. It is a testament, a statement. Transfemmes on top of their game shaking up electronic dance music. Its just so ridicoulesely fun
Probably still Wendy Carlos. The Clockwork Orange soundtrack is tight, and was pioneering.
Recently got into Lex Walton. She’s pretty obscure, you’ve probably never heard of her lol!
Sophie is incredible. She made one of my favorite albums of all time, Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides. Highly recommend for fans of experimental pop and club music.
Sophie was amazing, and that album is incredible! I love her sound.
She also produced a song by Let’s Eat Grandma called Hot Pink that’s pretty great.
Underscores (I like their album U), then femtanyl
Kinda obsessed with their newest All The Time rn, but I like a bunch of her earlier stuff too
I really like Wallsocket.
same, U is good too but the highlights on wallsocket are phenomenal.
Came here looking for this, I LOVE underscores. Lena Raine is super cool too! Though different… At the same time I feel isolated in liking the Celeste OST much more than the Minecraft one.
you’re the second person to say that in this thread… do people really think of Lena Raine as “THE minecraft composer” these days? in my mind that role has always belonged to C418
I hope not… C418 is absolutely the Minecraft composer in my head. But a lot of people when they hear Lena Raine don’t think Celeste, they think Minecraft. I do know people who always mention Lena Raine when talking about who composed Minecraft now… Which having played it again more recently I guess is somewhat fair because a surprising amount of the current soundtrack is hers.
But the best parts are C418 on that one IMO.
okay whew, i’m not losing it. C418’s music is what makes minecraft what it is, imo
you are not alone in associating Lena Raine mainly with Celeste, that is a fantastic soundtrack. although now that i’ve bought and listened to her entire discography a few times, i gotta say: the Chicory: A Colorful Tale soundtrack is growing on me
edit: weirdly enough, when i think of “celeste music” i actually think of catapillie, Maddie Sexton, BeanJammin or one of the other many composers on the massive soundtrack for the Strawberry Jam mod
I swear, you’re about to get me on nodded Celeste… ;-;
I need to listen to more Lena for sure. Haven’t heard that one.
I swear, you’re about to get me on nodded Celeste… ;-;
dewit dewit dewit DO IT
JOIN US
>:Dyes i am totally normal about this
Oh no Celeste is peak yeah
My favourites are resurrections and reach for the summit
TOTALLY great choices. I don’t think I can choose personally… WAAAAAAY too many bangers in that OST. I listen to the whole thing in the car sometimes on longer drives. <3
Lena Raine is the first person in my mind, some people were very hard on her being C418’s successor. But I believe she’s actually great, haven’t listen to her other works tho.
You should try Celeste :3
I’ve only played the game jam version I believe, not the fully finished game.
The game jam version is pretty good in its own right, but the full version is honestly incredible.
Against Me!
Idk how I’ve never heard of this one before but it’s giving early-2000’s blink 182/the killers, 9/10 very solid!
Transgender dysphoria blues is my favorite song.
She’s awesome but aside from being a legend of modern punk she mostly got super well known for coming out as trans in like 2014ish
Reinventing Axl Rose 🎧
Laura Jane Grace is a beautiful person. I love her music, both before and after she transitioned.
Favorite songs:
- Delicate, Petite & Other Things I’ll Never Be
- We Laugh at Danger (and Break All the Rules)
- 333
- Fuckmylife666
Laura Jane Grace is a legend for her history in the punk community.
Edit - fav songs:
You look like I need a drink
I’m an anarchist
How Low
I had no idea! I’m only familiar with Teenage Anarchist and Thrash Unreal, which apparently came out before she came out. That’s awesome.
Yeah, her coming out was pretty big. Including her ex wife having to tell Rolling Stone that Laura’s gender had nothing to do with the divorce. She later titled her (pretty good) autobiography a transphobic slur.
Transgender Dysphoria Blues was an amazing album as well, that really hits hard especially early in transition. And it’s wild in retrospect that she put out The Ocean (song) before coming out. But in retrospect she’s got a handful of songs from that era that are clearly dealing with her relationship with her gender.
Don’t feel bad, I had no idea until seeing her in concert in 2014! It was a “Holy fuck, fuck yeah dude!” experience.
Against Me! remains GOATed
Honorable mention to Wendy Carlos the mother of electronic music. Seriously, she basically completely revolutionized music by helping develop the moog synthesizer then winning a grammy by releasing an album of Bach on it (in 1968), transitioned in 1968, publicly came out in 1979, and is still around today in her 80s. She also did the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange, the Shining, and Tron.
Kim Petras is also worth bringing up here, especially since this thread is really punk. I’m not much of a pop girlie, but her music is pretty dang good, and she’s also won a Grammy, made all the more impressive by doing it while openly trans.
Laura Jane Grace is my favorite artist I love Against Me! And her solo works. Saw her concerts a few times shes really good
She’s so fucking good in concert. My ex took me years ago and it was great. I should look to see if she’ll be somewhere near me at some point, I’d love to take my wife to one of her shows
Wait, apparently she’s been releasing new music under her name‽ I’d just been looking for AM!. And it’s folk punk! Ooh, I’m gonna have some fun with that
Definitely the artist I’ve most consistently loved. Been listening to her for like 12-13 years now. At first, at least one song confused me because it seemed like she was gendering herself as female, but she was stilling going by her deadname back then. In hindsight, it was obvious she had already tried to come out through songs before TDB released, but I hadn’t paid much attention to the lyrics in the most explicit songs.
Cheap Dirty Horse
A UK punk band
Highlights include “On the rob” and “I transed your dad”
Glad to see Cheap Dirty Horse mentioned in the wild. On the Rob is a great song!
I play them to my daughters, they loved them too
I don’t listen to that many transfem artists, though my favourite artist, Jamie Paige, is one of the few. I can also recommend shteppi.
Also a notable mention for a small non-trans artist: hiSwaps!
