there is not nearly enough posts in this thread so let me enlighten you with my shitty taste in music
i am going to use a lot of genre names just to help describe the general feel of each thing
all of these are mixes or albums
american football - american footballmath rock, emo, indie, really sweet listen that i am just finishing up a first listen on atm. if you like stuff like this town needs guns you'll probably love this album
titlefight - hyperviewreally good kind of shoegazey indie/postrock/punkish album. melancholic, languid guitar, kind of drowning in it really
totorro - home aloneenergetic, sweet, very wistful math rock/indie rock. kind of oozes with a sweet tangible sadness on some/most tracks. mostly instrumental. yes i love math rock okay there's gonna be like 3 more math rock albums here
kendrick lamar - good kid, m.A.A.D cityrap/hip hop. okay this guy completely deserves all the hype he gets because the kind of intellect and self-awareness in his lyrics are so A+ and the narrative he spins in this concept album is really intimate. put all that to really sweet west coast beats and you have one of my favorite albums of all time. warning for explicit content
mick jenkins - the watersdark, languid, watery beats coupled with rap about, well. water. excellent lyrics as far as i've paid attention, idk i get kind of lost in how great everything sounds together with the beats and basically, if you like relaxing, chilled out rap, give this mixtape a listen. explicit content
william basinski - cascadedon't listen to this if you dissociate or get depressed easily because this is one seriously extremely depressing 40min of basically the same loop over and over and over and over again. i am putting this here because it is EXCELLENT mood music for the times you want to get super dark and deep and introspective but i also feel the need to explain this track because at first i was like, okay this is really pretty but *skips to the middle of the album* um *skips around more* uh *skips again* its the same thing still..... basically, if you treat this like a regular song you're gonna probably come off disappointed, but i think the basinski's point here is to recreate the idea of eternity/infinity in some kind of auditory way. like this one guy from pitchfork said, "He certainly doesn’t like endings—his pieces make you keenly aware that they’re just audible portions of infinite lines—and he treats little bits of captured time like bottomless wells. "
hot sugar - seductive nightmares 2nick koenig is such a funny, smart, quirky guy i honestly love anything he says or does but ANYWAY he's this guy who spends way too much time recording random sounds and tweaking them, and also collecting odd shit in his house. his beats are extremely reflective of this insularity and he makes some of the prettiest, most haunting, quirkiest music i've ever heard. i'd say his stuff is highly experimental with trap/hiphop/electronic influence
spazzkid - desireLOVE this guy. i bought a physical copy of one of his eps, signed. and i don't even do cds. spazzkid is a filipino beat maker who also sings on some of his tracks. i'd describe his music as... upbeat, sweet and wistful, electronic-based yet organic at the same time. i dunno, it has the intimacy of listening to someone sing on a cassette player with the progressiveness and clarity of higher fidelity stuff
nicole dollanganger - observatory mansionsi seriously can't express how much i love nicole's music. i love this album to absolute bits. think sweet, ethereal yet very intimate vocals on gorgeously simple guitar, plus reverb. this album is like looking through an old photo album that belongs to a stranger and seeing all the memories associated with them. the lyrics are also very intimate— dealing with themes of death, decay, love, self-destruction
chouchou - alexandritei actually have yet to finish listening to this album but let me tell you, it's pretty fucking gorgeous. japanese. crisp, ethereal, expansive electronic with gorgeously soft vocals. a mix between electronic and fantasy-esque piano and harp. lots of lovely crunchy percussion. the vocals might remind you of the singer on ME!ME!ME! or also bonjour suzuki who did the OP for yurikuma arashi
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the seaBEFORE YOU GIVE ME THAT LOOK LET ME EXPLAIN YOU A THING the first time i listened to this album was ~2010 when this weird dude who obviously had a crush on me told me and my current bf to give it a whirl, and so i did, and i thought it was OKAY but i wasn't like BLOWN AWAY or anything. but i stumble on a review of it by my favorite album reviewer on youtube and he was like YO, THIS IS REALLY GOOD so i went to listen to it again while looking for the stuff he mentioned, and then... i listened to it 4 times straight in a row afterwards. so yes. it is a good album. it's folk rock, indie rock, it has elements of post rock goodness and it sits right between the cusp of progressive and simple. richly textured, very european, happy guitar riffs on top of pretty fUCKING DEPRESSING + SURREAL LYRICS about lost love, death, reincarnation, anne frank, etc
honestly i could do this for the rest of the night but let's.. let's start with this.......
i love music way too much god
