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Originally Posted by Frownland
The niches are harboring the truly phenomenal works of our time as the better-known releases are what appeal to an ever-shrinking common denominator. With all of the noise, those niches are harder to tap into, so it takes more work to recognize the cream of the crop. Or maybe choosing your favourite kind of cream is the hard part. Oversaturation brought us as much brilliance as it did garbage.
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I can relate to this more or less, especially with all the hip-hop releases this year. Lots of decent/slightly above average stuff but it has all been kind of samey and just runs together after awhile. Two of the only albums that I've really enjoyed are from jpegmafia and joey purp, both of which aren't super underground or anything but definitely stuck out first due to the uniqueness of their sound which led me to repeated listens where I then recognized the quality of the work as well.