2020 albums you're digging

OccultHawk · 12-08-2020, 12:39 AM

ftpim by KMRU

https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/ftpim

Drone from Kenya

5/5

OccultHawk · 12-08-2020, 03:13 PM

Double Bind by Geneva Skeen

https://genevaskeen.bandcamp.com/album/double-bind

This is a really outstanding work of experimental drone. The pieces generally start off like an ambient work and then they slowly build in weirdness. In a very crowded genre her work is surprisingly unique. It kind of reminds me of F uck Buttons but that’s just reference to put you in the ballpark.

She also has a very down to earth Instagram page complete with almost obligatory cat pictures. Too cute and not the least bit pretentious. You’d never know she made one of the top recordings of her field for 2020.

https://www.instagram.com/geneeves/?hl=en

5/5 highly recommended

**Marie Monday** · 12-08-2020, 03:37 PM

god damnit if she has a cat instagram I'm sold. Why are you spamming all these interesting recs, I need to keep up

OccultHawk · 12-08-2020, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

god damnit if she has a cat instagram I'm sold. Why are you spamming all these interesting recs, I need to keep up

I just post em if I like em.

OccultHawk · 12-08-2020, 05:57 PM

Multiverse by Gadi Sassoon

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.band...bum/multiverse

If you like Basinki’s On Time Out of Time you’ll probably go in for this too

**Frownland** · 12-12-2020, 10:05 AM

Boris and Merzbow - 2R0I2P0

A huge, chaotic, beautiful monolithic monster. A high watermark for both artists, which is saying a lot.

Moor Mother and billy woods - BRASS

Another meeting of the gods that came out even better than expected. Production in a similar vein to Shrines with some noisy plunderphonic touches from MM while all involved weave dense lyrical webs. Stacked and surprising features including Sons of Kemet, Amirtha Kidambi, Franklin James Fischer (Algiers), John Forte, Alchemist and the Backwoodz regulars. Probably going to be my AOTY, it's like they used me as the focus group.

JiggleMonster · 12-12-2020, 04:31 PM

Anyone heard of the band, Soul Glo?

Tristan_Geoff · 12-12-2020, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by JiggleMonster

Anyone heard of the band, Soul Glo?

YES they frickin slap

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Moor Mother and billy woods - BRASS

Another meeting of the gods that came out even better than expected. Production in a similar vein to Shrines with some noisy plunderphonic touches from MM while all involved weave dense lyrical webs. Stacked and surprising features including Sons of Kemet, Amirtha Kidambi, Franklin James Fischer (Algiers), John Forte, Alchemist and the Backwoodz regulars. Probably going to be my AOTY, it's like they used me as the focus group.

The track with Kemet reminds me of Beefheart.

This is one of if not the creepiest hip hop records I’ve ever heard from a production standpoint. The sonic landscapes are like a post-nuclear apocalypse. The MCs give each other a lot of space. I’m so used to hyper excited rappers going WU in quick procession and peppered with frequent interjections that the respectful approach on display here reminds me of one of Miles’ bands. They way he was so meticulous about giving everyone their say. This is definitely cerebral stoner sounding music, too. And probably the most pioneering recording I’ve heard from 2020. It feels like they carve into this new territory simply by being themselves.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Boris and Merzbow - 2R0I2P0

A huge, chaotic, beautiful monolithic monster. A high watermark for both artists, which is saying a lot.

Just listened. Unassailable. Incredibly complimentary collaboration. Some of it is like the top moments of the Flaming Lips realized in another universe and others, like EVOL, would fill the roll of everything the entire discography of U2 is heralded to be if we only lived in a sane world. This is an incredible musical outreach of hope without any artistic compromise from these spine crushing behemoths.

12-08-2020, 12:39 AM	#251 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	ftpim by KMRU https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/ftpim Drone from Kenya 5/5 __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-08-2020, 03:13 PM	#252 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Double Bind by Geneva Skeen https://genevaskeen.bandcamp.com/album/double-bind This is a really outstanding work of experimental drone. The pieces generally start off like an ambient work and then they slowly build in weirdness. In a very crowded genre her work is surprisingly unique. It kind of reminds me of F uck Buttons but that’s just reference to put you in the ballpark. She also has a very down to earth Instagram page complete with almost obligatory cat pictures. Too cute and not the least bit pretentious. You’d never know she made one of the top recordings of her field for 2020. https://www.instagram.com/geneeves/?hl=en 5/5 highly recommended __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-08-2020, 05:57 PM	#255 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Multiverse by Gadi Sassoon https://astrangelyisolatedplace.band...bum/multiverse If you like Basinki’s On Time Out of Time you’ll probably go in for this too __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

12-12-2020, 10:05 AM	#256 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Boris and Merzbow - 2R0I2P0 A huge, chaotic, beautiful monolithic monster. A high watermark for both artists, which is saying a lot. Moor Mother and billy woods - BRASS Another meeting of the gods that came out even better than expected. Production in a similar vein to Shrines with some noisy plunderphonic touches from MM while all involved weave dense lyrical webs. Stacked and surprising features including Sons of Kemet, Amirtha Kidambi, Franklin James Fischer (Algiers), John Forte, Alchemist and the Backwoodz regulars. Probably going to be my AOTY, it's like they used me as the focus group. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-12-2020, 04:31 PM	#257 (permalink)
JiggleMonster GoochTickler Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 249	Anyone heard of the band, Soul Glo?