how the heck do I go about looking into the dear hunter and/or chonny jash? I’ve seen your works on it and it looks really cool but I have no idea where to start lol (also sorry if I asked this before and forgot, ma bad)
Chonny jash has a lot of completely separate songs, eps, albums, all that stuff, some is connected like the power hour project and some are standalone like patchwork doorstop paranoia, but you can pretty much start anywhere since most isn’t story driven and most isn’t connected to anything else, He has a lot of covers so covers of artists you like may be a start, and for originals, the album patchwork doorstop paranoia is my favorite but he also has a lot of original music based on things like his majora’s mask album. All and all it doesn’t especially matter where you start but you just have to find things that match your music taste since his genres are all over the place
For TDH it’s a bit more complicated since they have two larger interconnected storylines that range across multiple albums; for example the acts series and the indigo child (TIC, antimai, and sunya) so if you want to listen chronologically i’d start with act 1, go in act order if you want a story through only music, but the indigo child has a lot of other media associated with it: ie, a short film, arg, etc. But a lot of the music is great standalone stuff and it’s not a requirement to go into it like a story
They also have other things like the color spectrum, migrant, etc. which aren’t as story driven or connected but are also very good though i personally prefer the acts and indigo child
As for another project of theirs; the north american EP there is a movie that goes along with it that isn’t necessarily important to the music but is a good watch for a bit of context
All and all, I would say chonny jash you can really start anywhere and it’s mostly music focused besides s few concept album/story based music such as chonny’s charming chaos compendium but it isn’t hard to get into and there’s no real bad place to start, and for the dear hunter pretty much the same but there is a lot more interaction and theory crafting involved especially if you want to interact with and understand the story(s) fully but i would personally deem it worth it.
My personal recommendations:
CJ (mix of original music and covers): count 11, april’s fool, the forest for the trees, the soul eclectic, cotard’s solution, twist the knife, the king the fool and the poison, and 20XX
TDH: The lake and the river, In cauda venenum, mustard gas, shlammin salmon, the pimp and the priest, Dear ms. leading, Ring 4- patrol, Marauders, The oracles on the delphi express, Ring 7- industry, the march, the revival, the procession, a night on the town, this body, the old haunt, the poison woman, the tank, and the bitter suite IV and V; the congregation.
(i’m not as big of a fan of color spectrum, migrant, the indigo child, etc so this is mostly acts series and indigo child sequels but that shouldn’t dissuade anyone from giving those a try too)
I will give a trigger warning about the dear hunter’s music especially the acts have themes of prostitution, war, violence, religious trauma, among others so listen at your own risk
if you need any resources for either to get started like video explainations, music videos, movie links, etc on either feel free to ask in replies or rbs, or, or if any fans of either of these artists want to add anything feel free to do so