Casting your film…

A film of Listener 1314’s Spotify: 5 people live in it (The French Dreamer: Black Box Recorder and Slowdive keep the lights low. The Riot Dissenter: Fried By Fluoride turns three songs into a tiny uprising. The Graveyard Jester: Sematary, Kikuo, and a Russian war song share a crooked grin. The Feedback Fan: KMFDM goes industrial; Weezer takes a very odd exit. The Fictional Sleeper: Rot Daughter and My Confession make insomnia feel carefully scored.). Together they are IFOM, The Cupcake With a Feedback Pedal: I for Intimate, F for Focused, O for Rooted, M for Mainstream.

A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Cupcake With a Feedback Pedal

Who lives in yours?

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Listener 1314’s letters

The test Listener 1314 didn’t take

Four dimensions, read from what Listener 1314 actually plays.

I is for Intimate

100%

vs Kinetic

Feelings get the front seat.

At your center you reach for warmth and closeness - voices, guitars, rooms you can hear breathe. The feeling arrives quietly, even when the edges get loud.

F is for Focused

58%

vs Eclectic

You settle in and stay there.

Your taste holds together as 5 close sides of one sound. You know exactly what you like, and you go deep rather than wide.

O is for Rooted

62%

vs Rising

Old rooms still keep their keys.

Your taste is settled. The sides you love now are the sides you have loved - you return rather than wander.

M is for Mainstream

78%

vs Niche

Familiar hooks know how to find you.

You meet music where most people are - the artists everyone knows, the songs that fill rooms. Shared taste, big rooms.

Listener 1314’s reading

Who Listener 1314 is

As Brew wrote it to Listener 1314.

Your core is alt-rock mood whiplash: intimate feeling, sudden turns. Black Box Recorder, Slowdive, and Radiohead mark familiar ground. But that center is fading as punky queercore grit rises through Fried By Fluoride and Dazey and the Scouts.

Hyperpop chaos-core and industrial-night gremlins jostle beside indie-lush low-fi drift. Queen and Pink Floyd share your orbit with Kikuo and KMFDM, so even the strange feels familiar. You keep five neighboring worlds; even your feedback comes from a room you know.

5 people

The people inside Listener 1314’s library

Brew didn’t ask what Listener 1314 likes. It listened until the clusters showed up - press play on any of them.

1 of 5 · The one you reach for most

The French Dreamer

Black Box Recorder and Slowdive keep the lights low.

The one that's alt-rock mood whiplash

What Brew heard159 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The French Dreamer: Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

Black Box RecorderMattyeuxantihoneySlowdive
2 of 5 · Taking over lately

THE RIOT DISSENTER

Fried By Fluoride turns three songs into a tiny uprising.

The one that's punky queercore grit

What Brew heard119 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Riot Dissenter: Dead By 30 - Fried By Fluoride

Fried By FluorideDazey and the Scouts
3 of 5 · Shows up when it wants

The Graveyard Jester

Sematary, Kikuo, and a Russian war song share a crooked grin.

The one that's hyperpop chaos-core

What Brew heard142 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Graveyard Jester: Cemetery - Sematary

SemataryKikuoурал гайсинs0rrow
4 of 5 · Shows up when it wants

THE FEEDBACK FAN

KMFDM goes industrial; Weezer takes a very odd exit.

The one that's industrial-night gremlins

What Brew heard160 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Feedback Fan: Cuntboy - KMFDM

KMFDMWeezerMindless Self IndulgenceGezebelle Gaburgably
5 of 5 · Shows up when it wants

The Fictional Sleeper

Rot Daughter and My Confession make insomnia feel carefully scored.

The one that's indie-lush low-fi drift

What Brew heard121 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Fictional Sleeper: Rot Daughter - Sophie Woodhouse

Sophie WoodhouseDan SalvatoMemo BoyKane Parsons

One song

The song that explains Listener 1314

Not Listener 1314’s favorite, not the most played. The one song all of Listener 1314’s people share.

My Confession
Dan Salvato
“Indie-lush low-fi drift with tender confession energy and soft momentum, feels like them”

Listener 1314’s Spotify took the test

IIntimateFFocusedORootedMMainstream

Listener 1314 is The Cupcake With a Feedback Pedal

Brew listened to 1,502 songs from Listener 1314’s artists and found 5 people living in there. Yours takes about a minute.

The film as it posts: a story, cut to Listener 1314’s songs.

A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Cupcake With a Feedback Pedal

Who lives in yours?

Free. Sign in with Spotify and get your own reading like this one. Brew adds one private playlist, Fresh Finds, with new music from your top artists. Remove it any time.