Tool
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His last Tiny Desk performance was really good.
I was never a fan, either. But he was definitely talented. It’s a taste thing, for me. Same reason I can’t get into a J Cole record.
I can second this. Even the mixing is beautiful, and I never thought I’d say that about an LSDJ album, haha!
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@Ess loved your post man!!! Liked everything in your top list and most enjoying amnesia scanner. Wow. Thanks for the thoughtful post.
Sam
I haven’t listened widely enough this year to make any definitive statements, but here’s stuff I’ve really liked:
- Daphne & Celeste (this is basically a Max Tundra pop record and it’s every bit as great as that sounds)
- Skee Mask - Compro
- Second Woman - Instant / Apart
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
- Gwenno - Le Kov
- Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
- Tim Hecker - Konoyo
- Dilly Dally - Heaven
- Blood Orange - Negro Swan
- Jogging House - Would
- Emily A. Sprague - Mount Vision
- Caterina Barbieri - Born Again in the Voltage
- Perfume - Future Pop
- whatever that unprintable Wingdings name is that Four Tet used to unload a bunch of his old tracks
It’s been a hip hop filled year for me. Handful of favs In no particular order, except Daytona is turning into my favorite release of the year
Pusha T - Daytona
Czarface & MF Doom - Czarface meets metal face
Ghostface Killah - the lost tapes
Kids see ghost - self titled
Kanye west - ye
Lil Wayne - tha carter v
Earl sweatshirt - some rap songs
Atmosphere - mi vida local
Dem atlas - bad actress
Ho99o9 - cyber cop ep
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Daytona was short, sweat, and slaps hard.
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several contenders for my favourite already mentioned, but haven’t noticed anyone mentioning this record from 7FO which I loved and made me feel all fuzzy. Plus the entire of side 2 is about a Dragon.
Did not see that coming!!
Oh yeah! Skee Mask - Compro. Forgot that one, so good. Deep.
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May I ask all of you how you are digging for new music? Spotify recommendations? Music magazines? Blogs? Vinyl dealers?
Super nice music here - thanks a lot! Keep 'em coming!
My 2018 finds:
Ocoeur - Inner https://open.spotify.com/album/6ObHzlHMjPsKQZtOBR2c6c?si=9dmzcSG4TiWfeDy5jeKxtA
Ocoeur - Reversed (2017 though… but super nice)
Totally stunned that all the new music I listened to this year were <= 2017 releases … but 2018 is the year where I started to make music on my own - so I guess I have an excuse.
Edit:
I just created a Spotify Playlist and starting to add all albums mentioned here: https://open.spotify.com/user/microfx/playlist/0H1MFtlgbsY5HZwr7yeBGK?si=4TzNiyVeShGZ0ZN01zVx-g
The playlist is now 110,75h long - 1468 songs …ooooops
Have fun! Do you want to collaborate? @Kingtiers aybe you can add this to your first post for everyone?
Bandcamp and Boomkat for me, usually visit daily and browse around.
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Same here. Along with some well chosen twitter feeds and The Wire magazine.
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Bandcamp and Spotify. I used to use Last.fm as a discovery/recommendations engine but I think Spotify has surpassed it.
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Bandcamp, Needle Drop, Resident Advisor, Fader and Factmag. Also sometimes clicking on related links within a YT video would expose me to similar artists that I find myself enjoying. But it can be all very time consuming, so I just set some time in the week to check out feed alerts from the ones mentioned above.
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Added the playlist.
As far as how I find music: I check the new releases every week and basically skim through everything until something catches my ear. Other than that it’s suggestion algorithms, word of mouth, and a few blogs I follow.
I spend a lot of my free time listening to music.
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Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Shit and Shine - Very High EP
Barker - Debiasing EP
Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 5: Crush
Sophia Loizou - Irregular Territories
Yung Hurn - 1220
Felicia Atkinson - Coyotes
Surprised there’s been no mention on here for the new Robyn album - Honey
Probably my favourite this year
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