2020 albums you're digging
 

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep...the-sun-again/ Awesome and beautiful offering by my friend Virginia

Hope you don't mind me renaming the thread.

Be my guest

Sticky this please

done :beer:

Thanks

Now I got a feeling there’s gonna be some good music this year

Lots of people been practicing real hard you know

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Tristan_Geoff/2020-yall/

Current albums and EPs I've really been enjoying (some not so much but those are included too)

Been really enjoying these three albums a lot this year.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...t-to-eternity/
Super super cool lofi indie/noise combination that I haven't heard done nearly this well before. Probably gonna be a constant rotation album once it officially comes out.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...the-kinspiral/
p. rosa has become one of my favorite artists over the last year after I heard his vaporwave/post rock fusion album Bioconcrete. He has a really interesting style that feels at once synthetic and organic, like experiencing hyper realistic VR simulations of different cities. His new album album The Kinspiral feels like a sequel to Bioconcrete in a way, but the city being set far in some post apocalyptic future where nature has retaken this virtual office building. Wonderful experience even if its patience testing.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/dj...ain-your-life/
A really interesting new boundary in post internet music has been the emergence of lo-bit music as a purposeful stylistic choice. Using the bit crush technique to turn trap/cloud rap songs into incredible icy noise and ambient soundscapes. Would love to see this style really gather a strong aesthetic and become a phenomenon similar to vaporwave.

Also hey everyone

https://i.postimg.cc/MGzSjs9S/A849-E...31-F4-AEC3.jpg

水族館の夜 by ＤＲＯＩＤＲＯＹ

https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/--22

Parenthetical by Innesti

https://innesti.bandcamp.com/album/parenthetical

It’s become very common to use water as an instrument in ambient. It’s effective: rain sounds, waves, brooks, splashing - so now it’s about finding who’s better at playing water: it’s done well on this release.

https://walkinclosetrecords.bandcamp...m/homepatients

debut release from our frontperson

Floral Tattoo
You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start

Shoe gazing emo

I swear it’s pretty damn good

Really wears its heart on its sleeve

Music to Be Murdered By by Eminem

Absolutely floored by what a brilliant masterpiece this is. Completely mesmerizing. 5/5 unassailable.

Um

https://i.postimg.cc/XYGRG2K4/4-B6-C...89-C78-A69.jpg

Mr. Hilroy

talks after ten

http://aviarybridgerecords.bandcamp....alks-after-ten

Down tempo hip hop EP

https://i.postimg.cc/HnZHp30P/7-F48-...5520-A7410.jpg

http://wyrdbritain.bandcamp.com/albu...ey-of-the-land

The Ley of the Land by The British Space Group

Electronic ambient drone

Stars by Boris Salchow

https://borissalchow.bandcamp.com/album/stars

If you like On Time Out of Time by William Basinski you will probably like this.

Poppy
Halsey
Eminem
Hayley Mary (ep)

That Poppy album was better and less gimmicky than I was expecting, but still left me wanting.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0938955733_16.jpg
J@k@l with Michaël Attias - Static Adieu

Lineup:
Keefe Jackson - tenor/sopranino saxophone
Julian Kirshner - drums
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
Michaël Attias - alto saxophone (track 2, 3, 4)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0135818309_16.jpg
Joe McPhee and Fred Lonberg-Holm - No Time Left for Sadness

Excellent free jazz, links in photos.

Isotope Soap - An Artifact of Insects

This slaps, like an especially punky Ralph Records album.

http://willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/nist-nah

Nist Nah by Will Guthrie

Solo percussion using Indonesian Gamelan instruments.

Línia Pedra Paisatge Solc by Edu Comelles

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/al...-paisatge-solc

Ambient drone using field recording, voice, and double bass.

Sometimes the albums that you absolutely love surprises me.

x2

The level of Brockhampton love in the past was a bit of a surprise to me, even though they're great.

Would be interested to know what hip-hop OH dislikes, can't think of time I've seen him talking about it where he wasn't praising an artist or album.

I’m sort of luke warm on frowny’s Shabazz Palaces.

I think To Pimp a Butterfly is boring. ADHD is the only KL I like.

As for Kanye his early Golddigga single and his new gospel record are the only ones I like. Twisted bores me to tears.

I think I’ll probably like “Ye” when I revisit it.

I don’t think I’ve liked anything Eminem has done since his second LP and this new one. I hate that addiction recovery record that Bat likes.

I love early Tribe but their comeback thing was sad iirc.

It’s looking like Fetish Bones was a one off.

Saul Williams has made some very bad music.

Oh yeah... I remember being bored silly listening to Lupe Fiasco

***I reserve the right to change my mind about anything or to just be plain wrong or to contradict myself

New hip hop artists like Billy Woods and PEGGY have finally broken
the minstrel show model and have discovered ways to be entertaining post Biggie without catering to white suburban wankoffs to black on black violence (citing examples to contradict this theory won’t impress me)

***Don’t Do Drugs***

Ja Saul Williams should stick to poetry.

I’m glad you left SP comment alone. We’ve gone around (a round?) on that one

No point in that

PS Don’t ignore this:

https://www.musicbanter.com/avant-ga...ml#post2103612

Metgumbnerbone

Fair. I like Shabazz Palaces but they're a bit overhyped for me too.

What exactly is it that impressed you so much with Em's new release?

Also I think it's relapse you're thinking of that Bat likes. It was the album after Recovery. And it's ****ing awesome.

It’s great

Some of the verses he spits are so virtuosic that it seems almost supernatural

That doesn’t mean I’m saying he’s the best or anything but he has a certain dexterity that is truly his own

Rap is more than that but it’s still mind blowing

Plus the album is creepy as hell really unnerving

This album fucks.

真っ黒 (Makkuro) - tricot

Japanese pop infused math rock, kinda slams.

Dump Run by SCRPYRD

https://muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandca...album/dump-run

Experimental

Kind of like collage music but with slower changes

https://i.postimg.cc/2S6FfPqR/A81761...65131-C3-F.jpg

Penitent and Triumphant by Militant Sect


https://srst.bandcamp.com/album/penitent-and-triumphant

Beat driven industrial noise

Vatican Shadow vibes from this. Went ahead and got the entire label catalog just because it was stupid cheap.

Papua Land Where Spirits Still Rule is a record that really freaks me out.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...51YYle0Gd6-oL9
Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven - We're New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven

I think that I prefer the original but this is still a really great rework of Scott-Heron's work. Definitely worth your time if you're a fan of either artist or spoken word jazz.

^ I'm a huge Makaya fan (was just spinning Universal Beings a few nights ago) - can't wait to hear this.

Holographic Dreamtime by khora | I≤ µ ø Я ∆

Percussive psychedelic ambient drone.

https://khora.bandcamp.com/album/holographic-dreamtime

This is really good

They are a band from Moscow. The vocals are a little bit different but don't let that deter you. The music is pretty good.
COSme - Lost Generation
https://i.postimg.cc/V6T3SJZF/Cosme-Lost-Generation.png

what yaw think about that new ozzy album? https://boxden.com/images/icons/nHXEgl8-compressor.png