Tags: music and stuff
Pataphysical - Hapticality
Synth heavy ambient / experimental electronic music. FFO Space Afrika & KMRU I guess?
Release date: 2021-07-22
[8.6/10]
Astrid Sonne - outside of your lifetime
Really awesome electronic music. Beautiful sounds.
Release date: 2021-09-22
[8.5/10]
billy woods - History Will Absolve Me
Sound-wise this is more boom-bap than the kind of stuff he does right now. Lyrics-wise I’d say billy woods is consistently on a level of his own… or on a level that most rappers would not even be able to comprehend.
Release date: 2012-04-10
[8.5/10]
They Hate Change - Finally, New
If you want sick beats you listen to this.
Release date: 2022-05-13
[8.5/10]
Susumu Yokota - Symbol
Techno filled with classical samples. It’s probably the most observably playful album I’ve heard from him.
Release date: 1995-03-19
[8.4/10]
Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel
Somehow this kind of feels like where OPN’s first album sits in his discography: probably the darkest and dissonant of the entire line, but still kind of hints at what’s to come in the future. Anyways I can’t seriously imagine someone would not like this…
Release date: 1997-09-01
[8.4/10]
Organ Tapes - 唱着那无人问津的歌谣
Didn’t really understand his last album, which my friends all seem to love so much, but this one I totally get. Bedroom pop that feels genuine and deeply emotional.
Release date: 2022-04-29
[8.3/10]
Imaginary Softwoods - So Extra Bronze Lamp
Synth ambient.
Release date: 2020-08-06
[8.3/10]
Kilo Kish - American Gurl
FFO Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama’s self-titled EP. Futuristic electro-pop… the not annoying kind.
Release date: 2022-03-25
[8.2/10]
Lee Gamble - A Million Pieces of You
Deconstructed club music is probably the best way to describe this. Dope stuff.
Release date: 2021-09-10
[8.2/10]
Dean Hurley - Concrete Feather
Desolate ambient field recording. Somehow sounds like something that could be the soundtrack to Factorio…
Release date: 2021-06-18
[8.1/10]
claire rousay - everything perfect is already here
Soothing ambient / field recording. Dig it.
Release date: 2022-04-22
[8.1/10]
Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes
This is more impressive than his last LP. Decent conscious hip-hop.
Release date: 2022-02-25
[8.0/10]
Tarotplane - Light Self All Others
More new-age ambient than hauntology. Still pretty dope.
Release date: 2022-05-12
[8.0/10]
IDK - Simple.
Why is this one 18 minutes long and Spotify calls it an “album”, while MassMan’s is 26 and it’s an EP? Someone better explain this shit…
Release date: 2022-05-06
[8.0/10]
Drum & Lace - Natura
Ethereal IDM. Pretty cool.
Release date: 2022-04-08
[7.8/10]
Ilia Belorukov - Someone Has Always Come
Drone music for haunted brutalist ruins.
Release date: 2021-10-01
[7.7/10]
Alabaster DePlume - GOLD
Smoky noir-jazz / spiritual jazz.
Release date: 2022-04-01
[7.6/10]
Rachika Nayar - fragments
Solo math-rock guitar / ambient. This is like Ichika but with less focus on showmanship and more on the textures and overall feel of the songs. I dig it. Normally I’d find stuff like this insufferable but definitely not this…
Release date: 2021-08-13
[7.6/10]
Ravyn Lenae - HYPNOS
Alternative R&B like the 90s is back.
Release date: 2022-05-20
[7.6/10]
Jonny Nash, Ana Stamp - There Up, Behind the Moon
Mystical Romanian folk songs + lo-fi solo Joe Hisashi-ish piano (well not really).
Release date: 2021-12-17
[7.4/10]
Gabber Modus Operandi - PUXXXIMAXXX
Gamelan + hardcore techno. Pretty intense.
Release date: 2018-10-08
[7.3/10]
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: To Pimp a Butterfly > Good Kid, M.A.A.D City >> Mr. Morale & The Big Stepers > DAMN.
To be fair it’s not a bad album, but this year there are just a bunch of really good hip-hop album, and Kendrick’s new LP simply does not stand out among the bunch.
Release date: 2022-05-13
[7.0/10]
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Emo / post-punk / chamber pop. Feels much more approachable than their last one… don’t hate it but I guess I like Modest Mouse more?
Release date: 2022-02-04
[7.0/10]
Minoru Fushimi - Thanatos of Funk
Psych-funk / proto-hip-hop from Japan. A rare one, but I don’t really dig it that much.
Release date: 2022-05-06
[6.7/10]
Gospel - The Loser
Why do almost all rock bands I like all decided to do dad rock… Innovative progressive screamo band turns stale.
Release date: 2022-05-13
[5.0/10]
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