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Your one favourite new album released in 2020
Reply with your one favourite new album released in 2020.
I spent most of lockdown listening to music released pre-millennium, but the one new album that hit the spot for me was...
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Run the Jewels 4 for certain!
Masters of Illusion by Magenta.
Thief of Sanity by Animistic Beliefs. (Actually an EP, not album, but it’s my favorite release this year.)
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/thief-of-sanity
Swimmer by Tennis.
Deadlife - City if eternal rain was my favorite album of the year. Wait for that bpm ramp up 3:40 till the end of the song. Very original, I have never heard a electronic artist do that.
https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/city-of-eternal-rain
It would be nice if people took the time to embed their favorite.
I didn’t know you could embed the Bandcamp player like that! I went back and added mine.
I’ve got a few favs of this year like Exeter by Bladee, Starz by Yung Lean, Best House on a Bad Block by 1-800-PAIN
I’m definitely on the younger side of this forum so I doubt any of those releases would peak much interest from anyone here lol.
One album I just started listening to and absolutely love is Hot Wet & Sassy by TOBACCO. I def think some forum members might dig it too
https://tobaxxo.bandcamp.com/album/hot-wet-sassy
Just 1... I can never do just 1 when it comes to selecting anything music related, lol, but I did love “græ” by Moses Sumney.
Here’s a recent and quite creative live performance, where he does 4 tracks, first 3 off græ. He kills it.
love tobacco, his album with aesop rock...malibu ken, one of my all time favorites
absolutely fav of the year, and top 5 of all time for me..
spirit world field guide , by aesop rock
Squarepusher - Be Up a Hello
When the kick turns into the baseline at 3:30 it gives me goosebumps every time.
yeah thats a great album too! just revisited that today and its so good. tobacco’s instrumentals are absolutely legendary.
I’ve been so floored by the new Matmos album. Listening to the first part for the first time was definitely the best ride I’ve been on this year.
https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/the-consuming-flame-open-exercises-in-group-form
Haven’t bought too many “new” albums this year...
But I guess off the top of my head The Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist, Alfredo album
for sure! i listen bacco weeeekly for sure. it’s cocaine synth music haha, that’s what i tell people that ask lol
I also really enjoyed Yves Tumor: Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Asteroid Blues is a good track off album, also listen to Kerosene....
Kylie-Disco
Dimgrimm (aka Dimlite) - Perlissop III
https://emporium.dimgrimm.com/album/perlissop-iii
I’ve been listening to podcasts a lot of this year and not listened to as much music as usual.
However Videosphere by Lake Turner is probably the new album I’ve listened to most:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/videosphere/1532911311
https://open.spotify.com/album/6uyw1LC8l3IXEbjFtW1XLP?si=ILhD4nilSYKnETId9LPnKQ
Currently listening to Parallel by Four Tet, the most recent release I've listened to this year. Hard to pick an absolute fave, but this one's pretty nice and it's what is in front of me.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1xrXrgQDQzTlGrDYhX8ikT
Matt Berninger (better known as the vocalist from The National): Distant Axis, from the album Serpentine Prison:
That was freaking amazing, both the song and the video
I don’t know a single name in this thread, well, apart from squarepusher I didn’t even know was still in the business.
But please keep them coming, I need to educate myself.
I never really figured why people kept listening to the same music they heard on their teens. There’s nothing I love best than finding a new genre or new artists that inspire me.
(Speaking of which, there aren’t new genres anymore, just new takes on old genres?) I remember when I first heard jungle, or dubstep, or baile funk, or reggaeton... I’m 52 btw
I’m sure one could argue that jungle, dubstep, baile funk, reggaeton were new takes on old genres. I think maybe things just move too fast now for names to stick and the past 15 years or so seems all about fragmentation and individuality more than anything too. Or there are tons of new genres and I am just too old and out of the loop to hear about them. Maybe it is the broad umbrellas that streaming and etc uses that keep them from forming? Or maybe the whole thing imploded up it’s own ass as I recall the sub-genre thing was getting pretty damn stupid.
Anywho, thanks for the links peeps, I am in dire need of a catch up and have the next week off to do it. Totally can’t listen to anything cool while working heh.
Listening to lot of instrumental music lately. The last album from Olafur Arnalds “Some kind of peace” is may be the one I like most:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6NW97EFYSQ9X1CulKyL7wf?si=AVA7jzrVTA6PyelYezq9IA
favourite album is "Free Love" from electronic duo Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso Ferris Wheel
(also track of the year for me)
closely followed by "Only Child" from the incredibly talented and wonderful Sasha Sloan
Sasha Sloan Hypochondriac
that's two, I know, but both well deserved being mentioned here
.. (Spotify links added in the album titles)
It’s only 2 tracks. But those Thom Yorke x Burial x Four Tet Tracks are sweet. Her Revolution and His Rope.
scardust's strangers
I'm listening to less and less hip-hop these days and it would be much easier to name an electronic or ambient album, but Koreatown Oddity's Little Dominique's Nose Bleed got a lot of listens this year. It's the most complete start-to-finish rap LP I can think of in a while.