I’ve always held the belief that music wasn’t better in the past, people just have survivorship bias. What are your genuine favorite albums of the last few years?
Personally, I’m loving The Rime of Memory by Panopticon, Ants from Up There by Black Country, New Road, and Hellfire by Black Midi.
the album Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa is a masterpiece in pop. I don’t think she’s release anything quite up to that standard since (not that she’s released much).
Doom Scroll - Immoral Compass
Mr Gnome - The day you flew away
Jonathan Wilson - Eat the worm
Viagra Boys - Cave world
Wet leg - Wet leg
Chet Faker - Hotel surrender
Igorrr - spirituality and distortion
Amigo the Devil- yours until the war is over
Out of orbit - OOO
I could go on.
This is exactly correct. Child of the early 70s.
I heard my peers say this about the 80s and had to laugh and laugh.
For every Prince, there were 100 sucky bands.
I’ve been absolutely loving Knower Forever by Knower from last year. Who else is doing stuff like this?
I don’t think these albums will exactly match the music tastes of people here, but here we go:
- Phuture Noize - Silver Bullet (Hardstyle)
- Phuture Noize - From Star to Stardust (Hardstyle)
- Etherwood - Neon Dust (Chill DnB/Electronic music)
Although my favorite KGLW albums are from 2019, there are great ones from 2020 onward as well.
I’m also liking Expert in a Dying Field by the Beths right now.
Since Google Play Music went away, I think it’s been harder to find new stuff I like. Recently, I’ve found better new stuff on my local public radio station.
KGLW never stops putting out bangers, they’re machines.
I actually end up browsing Rate Your Music for whatever happens to be recently released and highly rated, and listen for myself before deciding to buy the album or not. I’ve stopped streaming except as a means to preview albums, supports the artists more and lossless sounds better to my ears, or at least higher quality MP3s. Can’t tell between the nicer MP3s and FLACs tbh.
Pressure Machine by The Killers
There are so many, if I had to limit myself to just a few highlights though:
Starset - Horizons
The Glitch Mob - Revisions
Skrillex - Quest for Fire
Northlane - Obsidian, Alien
Noisia - Closer
Erra - Erra
Polaris - Fatalism, The Death of Me
The Chemical Brothers - For that beautiful feeling
Justin Hawkes - Existential
Poppy - I Disagree
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Muzz - The Promised Land
HEALTH - Rat Wars
There’s just so much good music out there, especially recently.
All for When (2020) - Anthony Kos
Some new stuff I’ve been jamming on lately
Fiddlehead - Death is nothing to us Scalp - Black Tar Zulu - a new tomorrow Zulu - my people…hold on
My current favorite albums are:
- Allison Russel - The Returner (2023)
- Black Eyes Peas - ELEVATION (2022)
- Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (2020)
- Descartes A Kant - After Destruction (2023)
- Tommy McLain - I Ran Down Every Dream (2022)
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
I know this is a weird choice but the Lustmord tribute album “The Others” is probably my favorite of the decade so far. The first half is pretty close to the dark ambient Lustmord is known for, but as the album goes on it has some more melodic contributions which are really spectacular.
Ethereal Shroud’s “Trisagion” album is really great if you’re into metal. Also with regards to metal - the song “Aggressor” by Vredehammer is crazy good, especially the first 2:20 or so, but the full album doesn’t quite match it for me.
“Aether” by The Moon and the Nightspirit is wonderful folk music from Hungary, but they’ve had a few other albums in the past that match it for me.
2020
- Tricot’s Makkuro (black, 真っ黒)
- Sinai Vessel’s Ground Aswim
2021
- Low’s Hey What
2022
- Kessoku Band’s Kessoku Band (self-titled, 結束バンド)
- Yuga’s Speechless Nights (言葉のない夜に)
- Wreath’s Decade of You
2023
- Ado’s Utattemita Album (歌ってみたのアルバム)
- Homecomings’ New Neighbors
- James Blake’s Playing Robots into Heaven
Single album by NOFX
