nicky
@nicky

i've listened to a good chunk of these recommendations and i've discovered a few new favorite artists and have enjoyed basically all of it! however...... I NEED MORE RECOMMENDATIONS. give it to me, any genre at all, ANY time period


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graham kartna - illegal transmissions over boyos, on
porter robinson - nurture
rosemary fairweather - heavenly
glass beach - the first glass beach album
sam wilkes - wilkes
louis cole - time
soshi takeda - floating mountains
greenhouse - _SNDWRK/gh
greenhouse - arc,regn

Giver Taker by Anjimile
https://anjimile.bandcamp.com/album/giver-taker
Absolutely gorgeous indie folk from a nonbinary trans person

Bleed Out by The Mountain Goats
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/bleed-out
John Darnielle and crew are extremely prolific but I think this is his best recent release, based on 70's and 80's action movies. I think the first 4 Jordan Lake Sessions are also really special, acoustic versions of their earlier work, released during the early Covid years, with a lot of passion and joy and longing for the day we all could see each other again

White Trash Revelry by Adeem the Artist
https://adeemtheartist.bandcamp.com/album/white-trash-revelry
Indie country from a nonbinary artist from Knoxville TN. Themes of dealing with poverty and unlearning conservative bullshit. Some of the lyrics are a little clumsy but when they hit they hit hard. My favorite from this album is Books and Records.

I Am Easy to Find by The National
https://thenational.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-easy-to-find
A lot of The National's music is what I call Sad Dad Music, and I like a lot of their work, but here guest singers like Gail Ann Dorsey really elevate the album to new heights. The line "There are police in the museum" in Roman Holiday comes out absolutely haunting.

The album by boygenius
https://xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com/album/the-record
I know they don't need the promotion but it's one of my favorite albums from last year so I have to mention it. Not Strong Enough is fantastic.

The Paradise Killer OST
https://kaizengameworks.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-killer-original-soundtrack
The one instrumental album I keep coming back to (only the first song has lyrics)--I am bad at remembering music without lyrics but this album has so much style I can't forget it

making a door less open by car seat headrest
in times new roman by queens of the stone age
visions and afterthoughts by red vox
likewise by frances quinlan
underneath by code orange

BYOP, mommy:
https://beyourownpet.bandcamp.com/album/mommy
punk band that i loved in high school, they quit for about 12 years and just came back and released a new album

shonalika, XXX:
https://shonalika.bandcamp.com/album/xxx
ran across shonalika on masto a couple years ago and followed, obsessed with this EP they put out last year

katatonia, sky void of stars:
https://katatonia.bandcamp.com/album/sky-void-of-stars
i fuckin love doom metal

pinkshift, love me forever:
https://pinkshift.bandcamp.com/album/love-me-forever
hella good pop punk

my fav albums of the year (plus genre) from the past 5 years:

2023: awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger, punkish emo

2022: string machine - hallelujah hell yeah, maximalist indie rock

2021: s280f - 28, experimental... classical? good if you like music with ~texture~

2020: the goalies anxiety at the penalty kick - ways of hearing, emo slowcore

2019: origami angel - somewhere city, emo

i think 1000 gecs was originally fav album for me in 2019 but in retrospect i'm giving it to somewhere city

hope you enjoy and feel free to hit me back with some recs yourself, i love listening to new stuff ::)

Tyler, the Creator: IGOR
Backxwash – God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It
Nêhiyawak, nipiy
Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Cadence Weapon – Parallel World
Moor Mother: Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime
André 3000: New Blue Sun
ANOHNI and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
billy woods / Kenny Segal: Maps
SZA: SOS

in reply to @nicky's post:

-Sundial by noname. I've been in love with this album since it dropped. I'm a sucker for a bossanova opener.
-moMints by Tobe Nwigwe. All the videos for this album are also super cool and stylish.
-Fim do Mundo by Thiago Pantaleao. There's a track on here that's a naruto themed gay love balad.

Garage punk-y, occasionally yowling, 100% good times: "Year of the Spider" by Shannon and the Clams https://shannonandtheclams.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-spider

Soul from 2021 that will make you feel like the year is 1961: "Introducing..." by Aaron Frazer https://aaronfrazermusic.bandcamp.com/album/introducing

Love songs that give you the sensation of listening to other people gossip while you're at a cafe: "Boleros Psicod​é​licos" by Adrian Quesada https://adrianquesada.bandcamp.com/album/boleros-psicod-licos

Okay, recommending this for the first track, which is such a club-y earworm for me: "T​ó​quioBug Compilation" by T​ó​quioBug https://tquiobug.bandcamp.com/album/t-quiobug-compilation

I'm not a Big Music Person, so the genres given may be inaccurate, but I hope I conveyed some sense of what the albums are like regardless

the garages produced a distressing amount of great music during blaseball's all to brief life. most of it is in the rock/punk/metal space, but there are a lot of albums and one off songs in other genres. a few favorite albums

https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/album/seattle
https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/album/unstable
https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/album/the-garages-riv

i also really enjoyed cohost user 2mello's recent album (i enjoyed his older ones too, but maybe you've heard those)

https://2mellomakes.bandcamp.com/album/phd-portable-headphone-dancefloor

i am so so so bad at listening to New Music but here's some cool stuff I've been into

False Lankum (2023) by Lankum (confusing, i know) is like. folk doom metal from a band who I am now obsessed with. the album itself is a mix of new original music with a couple cool interpretations of traditional songs. Highly recommend starting with Go Dig My Grave, the opening track, though if you pressed me I think my favorite song on the album is Lord Abore and Mary Flynn.

come into your power (2022) by Blackbird Raum is an album I have yelled about on here before but it's my favorite folk-punk-metal band ever and they put out a new album and it slaps.

Less niche perhaps but Ethel Cain's Preacher's Daughter (2022) is, imo, very much worth the hype. Languid, depressing pop music about christianity and the midwest and just a hint of Gender stuff.

Pigeon Pit's feather river canyon blues (2022) is a folk punk (ish) album about friendship and growing up and stuff like that. good stuff. I recommend starting with Fire Escape, a ballad about being hung over and in love and resisting death.

Black Country New Road's Ants From Up There (2022) is... a very good album, about breaking up and being old and dealing with human relationships. it's very epic in scope is the only way i can describe it. Highly recommend the track The Place Where He Inserted The Blade, a 7 minute song about being with someone who had been hurt by someone else.

Mustafa's When Smoke Rises (2021) is a really beautiful hip hop album. It's only eight tracks and there was a period where I just had it on repeat. Mustafa's voice is just incredible throughout this, soft and crooning and very approachable in a way I haven't felt about a rap album in quite a while. Recommend starting with the opening track, Stay Alive.

there's some great recs here already but here's a bunch i haven't seen that definitely deserve your attention:

Billy Woods - Aethiopes
Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
WITCH - Zango
Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE
Amaarae - Fountain Baby
grouptherapy. - i was mature for my age, but i was still a child
Ghais Guevara - BlackBolshevik
Mckinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
Electric Callboy - TEKKNO
Ecko Bazz - Mmaso
Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes
JID - The Forever Story
Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon
Ross From Friends - Tread
@tdstr - internet brainrot
Lil Ugly Mane - volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern
You'll Never Get To Heaven - Wave Your Moonlight Hat For The Snowfall Train
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Hum - Inlet
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
Ithaca - The Language of Injury
TNGHT - II
ni-hao!!!! - FOUR!!!!

in recent releases, putting in some good words for jane remover - frailty AND jane remover - census designated (both are quite different styles but whip ass equally)

outside of that i will never stop shilling for my favorite album ever, kashiwa daisuke - program music i

i could rattle off a few of my other top favorites, but i'll leave it there for now. drop a reply if you end up wanting a few more recs :o)

2020 - Raised In a Doomsday Cult by Good Tiger (alternative rock/metal)

2008 - Animals by This Town Needs Guns (math rock/emo)

2023 - Underbelly by Kiltro (Post rock/latin pop)

2006 - ...And the Battle Begun by RX Bandits (prog rock/ska)

2022 - Strong Ends by Quarter Conscious (emo/math rock)

the urge to self-promote is strong but none of this is mine

Also; and I'm certain you've heard this, but because I would not be me if I didn't mention it; King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's "PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation"

PinkPantheress - "Heaven Knows" (2023, alt-pop/r&b/drum and bass/2-step/breakbeat/dance)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kKVw4CIOEHm-UtbSxe0l_xWhjZT78rYRc&si=8gEKNBIednOlqQD8

Poison Damage - "Angel Is Calling" (2021, noisy/ambient/dub/techno/house)
https://plasterfe.com/album/angel-is-calling

Brendan Byrnes - "Realism" (2020, microtonal synthpop/rock/ambient)
https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/album/realism

Flown - "Awry" (2018, leftfield/experimental/atmospheric/IDM/glitch/???)
https://iamflown.bandcamp.com/album/awry

Eleven Tigers - "Clouds Are Mountains" (2010, atmospheric/future garage/post-dubstep/a journey)
https://eleventigers.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-are-mountains

Actress - "Hazyville" (2008, outsider house/lo-fi/minimal techno/loopy)
https://actress.bandcamp.com/album/hazyville

Belong - "October Language" (2004, warm drone/ambient/noise)
https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/album/october-language

Lois - "Strumpet" (1993, twee/indie/jangle pop)
https://loismaffeo.bandcamp.com/album/strumpet-klp021

I've been obsessed with "Get To Heaven" by Everything Everything since I discovered the song "Only As Good As My God" off the deluxe version of the album. Not a single song misses. It's a fucking incredible album.

Also, I know they're much more popular now than when I first started listening, but not a lot of people listen to Glass Animals' album "Zaba," even fans of Glass Animals, and it's honestly a crime. "JDNT" and "Cocoa Hooves" are two of the best songs on that album.

Honorable mentions: "Thank You" by Stone Temple Pilots, "Boys For Pele" by Tori Amos, and "Like Vines" by The Hush Sound. Any album by Jinsang is good, too, if you like lo-fi and chillhop.

  • Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek is pretty essential swoon-pop imo
  • Burial’s last several EPs are perhaps mostly for the fans and the tracks i’m looking at were technically released more than five years ago but the ‘Claustro’ -> ‘Rival Dealer’ sequence on Tunes 2011–2019 is one of my favourite 20 or so minutes in music
  • Celestial Blues by King Woman is a little goofy conceptually maybe but a real fun intro to doom metal
  • tricot released two albums in 2020, 真っ黒 (Black) and 十 (10), which are kind of their local maximum in terms of mathy pop-rock
  • Fontaines D.C.’s Skinty Fia is like, i guess the next generation of Bloc Party/Interpol style guitar music? with a bit of a dark pop sheen on. songs about colonialism and the lot of the Irish
  • The Native Cats released The Way On is the Way Off late last year and it’s a fun clash of minimal post-punk and spacey DS-10 electronics (there’s like 4 seconds in the middle of ‘Future Death Cult’ that contains some of the lushest noise i’ve ever heard)
  • Australian singer–producer Aphir released one called Pomegranate Tree in 2022 that kind of synthesises her early post-choral stuff with glossy electronics

ok i might think of more later but this is uh plenty to be getting on with lol

Wicked soundtrack- Stephen schwartz
School trip - the vanished people
Vivid bad squad volume 1 - vivid bad squad
Everything I know about love - laufey
きくおミク3 - kikuo
風が吹く街 - luck life

here's a bunch from the past couple years I didn't see in the replies:

  • The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Extasy
  • Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
  • The Drums - Jonny
  • Helena Deland - Goodnight Summerland
  • Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
  • Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me
  • Dev Lemons - Delusional (EP)
  • Hemlocke Springs - going...going...GONE! (EP)
  • Rachel Chnouriri - Better Off Without (EP)
  • Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End
  • Divorce - Get Mean (EP)
  • Alice Longyu Gao - Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn, and Retire (EP)
  • Geese - 3D Country
  • The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
  • The A's - Fruit
  • Paramore - This Is Why
  • Mamalarky - Pocket Fantasy
  • Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

and a couple older ones I have in the rotation atm:

  • Chelsea Jade - Personal Best
  • David Usher - Hallucinations

(starting with most recently released!)
Quaranta by Danny Brown
Softscars by yeule
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross by ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Silver Fairy by Megumi Acorda
_SNDWRK/gh by greenhouse
Love Me Forever by Pinkshift
Horseshit on Route 66 by The Garden
Prehistory by FLOOR BABA
God's Country by Chat Pile
Bi Cinnete Bakar by Lalalar
Undir köldum norðurljósum by Kælan Mikla
+/- by Boys Noize

The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, The River North: Prog rock concept album!

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine: Punk rock concept album from 2006, extrapolating W's presidency into an explicitly Christofascist empire. Whoops!

Doomtree - No Kings: DIY/anarchist rap out of Minnesota.

Dan Warren - A Series of Tasteful Nudes: Very small indie rock album mostly centered on depression and existentialism.

Man Man - The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face: Kind of a klesmer/noise band? If this is a little too raw, the band has kind of refined their sound by Rabit Habits, but their first album is really an experience.