Tags: music and stuff
百合花 - 燒金蕉
I’m really glad there are still decent bands in Taiwan. 不聽可惜
Release date: 2019-09-06
[9.0/10]
Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
FFO Have A Nice Life and Planning For Burial. All banger no filler.
Release date: 2019-09-27
[8.8/10]
Richard Dawson - 2020
Doesn’t disappoint whatsoever.
Release date: 2020-10-30
[8.7/10]
Minor Pieces - The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming
Slowcore will never die, but you will. Exquisite lofi glitchy folk / electronica.
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[8.7/10]
Proc Fiskal - Shleekit Doss
I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to his last album, but this EP totally slays… awesome UK grime. Also gotta say it’s insane how Hyperdub always manages to find dope stuff.
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[8.6/10]
Loraine James - For You And I
Glitchy club music. I like the techno beats on this album. Another stunning release from Hyperdub!
Release date: 2019-09-20
[8.6/10]
Maria w Horn - Epistasis
FFO Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone and Abul Mogard. I’m a sucker for this type of music…
Release date: 2019-10-25
[8.6/10]
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods
So this album was actually released in 1975… I guess Pitchfork is quite accurate in calling it proto-ambient? A large portion of this album consists of field recordings and they really do help bring out an imagination of the American suburbs, and they pair very well with the old time sounding instrumentation. Nice stuff.
Release date: 2011-01-01
[8.5/10]
DJ Spinna - 1997 Beat Tape
Nujabes fans will definitely dig this.
Release date: 2019-06-21
[8.5/10]
Weatherday - Come In
This is what would happen if Phil Elverum plays punk rock. The track My Sputnik Sweetheart is especially visceral. Overall an awesome emo album (can’t believe there are actually still people that know how to do a proper emo record…)
Release date: 2021-01-14
[8.4/10]
HTRK - Venus in Leo
Delicate indie electronica / pop. Somehow feels like a sadder Beach House…
Release date: 2019-08-30
[8.3/10]
S S S S - Walls, Corridors, Baffles
Borderline noise experimental electronica. Think Ben Frost’s By the Throat, but more abrasive. I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff…
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[8.3/10]
Floating Points - Crush
This one is more techno than jazzy electronica. Still pretty dope.
Release date: 2000-01-01
[8.2/10]
Sana Obruent - End Game
Haunting ambient. It gradually gets more intense as the album approaches its end.
Release date: 2017-12-08
[8.2/10]
Toshifumi Hinata - Broken Belief
Pretty good new age. This is a compilation of the artist’s music from the 80’s so I guess it makes sense.
Release date: 2019-09-19
[8.2/10]
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
I feel like it’s much more surprising if one day Danny Brown puts out a wack album. This album is killer just like his older stuff.
Release date: 2019-10-04
[8.2/10]
Cult Of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
I don’t know what’s not to like about this band or this album.
Release date: 2019-09-20
[8.2/10]
Sote - Parallel Persia
Techno / experimental album from Iran. The plucked ethnic instruments in the songs give a cacophonic yet enticing feel to the overall sound of this album, and the beats are pretty killer.
Release date: 2019-04-26
[8.1/10]
Old Man Saxon, Cer Spence - Goldman Sax
Quality chillhop. Gorgeous instrumentals and flows.
Release date: 2019-04-24
[8.1/10]
Ka Baird - Respires
Minimalistic experimental album. Pretty fun to listen to, but requires multiple listens. Greg Fox played the drums for this album.
Release date: 2019-10-25
[8.0/10]
Afrodeutsche - Break Before Make
Funky, upbeat techno music.
Release date: 2018-06-08
[8.0/10]
Pessimist, Karim Maas - Pessimist & Karim Maas
Chilling, dark and restrained techno.
Release date: 2019-06-21
[7.9/10]
Klein - Lifetime
That first song was pretty spooky. I like how this album’s overall sound has a raw distorted quality to it. Pretty decent experimental album.
Release date: 2021-01-21
[7.8/10]
Air Max ’97 - Ice Bridge
Intense techno tracks here. Put out a full length already…
Release date: 2019-09-27
[7.8/10]
Philippe Cam - Rotterdam
Chilled-out ambient / minimal techno. Some tracks remind me of Visible Cloak’s stuff.
Release date: 2021-03-12
[7.8/10]
Carl Gari, Abdullah Miniawy - Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor)
Pretty neat album. Bass-heavy electronica plus Egyptian chants and trumpets.
Release date: 2019-09-06
[7.7/10]
Yosi Horikawa - Spaces
IDM + hip hop + world music(?). The songs are pretty fun to listen to.
Release date: 2020-02-01
[7.7/10]
Equip - Nocturne Catacombs
Funky vaporwave.
Release date:
[7.6/10]
Deathprod - Occulting Disk
Industrial / dark ambient. Spooky af.
Release date: 2019-10-25
[7.4/10]
Tribe Of Colin - Age of Aquarius
Techno music. A pretty safe one.
Release date: 1969
[7.4/10]
Comit - Remote Viewing
Organic sounding techno.
Release date: 2019-08-12
[7.4/10]
J Rick - No Retreat No Surrender
Short and sweet UK hip-hop / jazzy pop mixtape. I think this mixtape are a bit unfocused at times, but then I like how jazzy it sounds throughout the entire project.
Release date: 2008-11-10
[7.3/10]
Topdown Dialectic - Vol. 2
Pretty safe compared to their first album.
Release date: 1998-11-29
[7.2/10]
Stavros Gasparatos - Rage Park
Gloomy modern classical.
Release date: 2020-03-27
[7.1/10]
Mestozi - Peak Communication
On the artist’s Bandcamp page there are tags like “folk rap”, “neo-folk” and “blues”, so that’s a strong indication of this album being something quite refreshing to listen to. However IMO none of the songs are really that memorable. I’d say this is still pretty much chillwave rap.
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[7.0/10]
Claro Intelecto - Forgotten Wasteland
Dub house / techno. Pretty good and I like how the beats are a bit distorted, but this EP overall doesn’t stand out from the rest of the crowd.
Release date: 2019-06-21
[7.0/10]
Mark Lanegan - Somebody’s Knocking
Alternative rock jams with a gothic undertone. Kinda sounds like the Killers with a raspier vocal if you ask me…
Release date: 2019-10-18
[7.0/10]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bryce Dessner, eighth blackbird - When We Are Inhuman
Not the strongest stuff from Bonnie Prince (Viva Last Blues and I See A Darkness are two albums I’d consider as his magnum opus) . Still a pretty soothing album though.
Release date: 2019-08-30
[6.9/10]
Danny Scott Lane - How to Empty a Cup
Shimmery ambient.
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[6.8/10]
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Indie chamber pop. I feel like this album has a chanson like grandiose quality to it. Not the biggest fan of the flamboyant overall sound of this album…
Release date: 2019-10-04
[6.7/10]
Bakongo - Momoweb / Disposition / Goulbap
Techno with some African percussions.
Release date: 2019-09-06
[6.7/10]
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
overrated
Release date: 2019-05-17
[6.5/10]
Wilco - Ode to Joy
Don’t see how this album is different from all the other Wilco albums. Definitely not an awful album though.
Release date: 2019-10-04
[6.5/10]
DIIV - Deceiver
This could be any other shoegaze band’s stuff and I wouldn’t be able to tell which band came up with it. Or maybe I’m just too old for this…
Release date: 2013-06-25
[6.1/10]
Thaiboy Digital - Legendary Member
Maybe it’s just me but I’ve always found mumble rap to be an obnoxious form of music… To be fair some tracks do have decent instrumentals, but then even in the best moments on this album it’s just less irritating radio trap bangers.
Release date: 2019-09-26
[5.8/10]
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
OMG CAN’T FINISH
Release date: 2019-09-27
[4.6/10]
當代電影大師 - 狀態
… I mean the songs are just really not good… the narcissistic lyrics and the pretentious whiny vocals don’t help either. 整個受不鳥
Release date: 2019-10-18
[4.4/10]
Kanye West - Jesus Is King
I guess Ye made this album just for the lulz. Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fill-A? This line says everything about the album.
Release date: 2019-10-25
[4.0/10]
Fabulous Diamonds - Commercial Music
Grossly overlooked experimental album.
Release date: 2021-06-01
[9.0/10]
Madteo - Noi No
King Midas Sound + minimal techno.
Release date: 2019-08-09
[8.5/10]
Soccer Mommy - Clean
FFO Shura and Jay Som. However the album sound very exuberant and lush, and is much more in the vein of indie rock music compared to the said two artists.
Release date: 2018-03-02
[8.4/10]
Pan Sonic - Aaltopiri
I still like Kesto more…
Release date: 2000
[8.1/10]
Sarn - Postmodern Trash
Even if the singing is totally off I still consider this a fun one… just that probably not everyone will enjoy it. The brass in the track Fss is pretty nasty.
Release date:
[7.2/10]
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar
Not a fan of the triumphant sounding horns. Overall sounds pretty safe to me.
Release date: 2004
[6.6/10]
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