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.
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
Steve Lacey- Gemini Rights
Foals- Life is Yours
Japanese Breakfast- Jubilee
Covet- Cartharsis
JUNGLE- Volcano
Black Thought & Danger Mouse- Cheat Codes
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes- What Kinda Music
Yussef Dayes- Black Classical Music
Any of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s 10 albums relased since 2020
Just want to shout out a couple more bangers;
God’s Country - Chat Pile
Hostile Architecture - Ashenspire
Some Nights I Dream of Doors - Obongjayar
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.
What the Dead Men Say - Trivium
Lamb of God - Lamb of God
Omens - Lamb of God
Abyss - Unleash the Archers
Violence Unimagined - Cannibal Corpse
Fortitude - Gojira
Zeit - Rammstein
Modern Primitive - Sceptic Flesh
Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony
Ooo another Larkin Poe fan in the wild! Literally wearing one of their shirts right this minute
Damn, I need to get me one of their shirts haha. I already have their whole discography on vinyl. Which shirt do you have?
Same! I was lucky enough to get a limited edition one of Peach too. And this one, all their designs are so cool
Right on!
And btw if she’s not on your radar, I highly recommend you check out Samantha Fish. Very similar blues-rock artist.
Thanks I’ll check it out!
- Bring Me The Horizon | POST HUMAN SURVIVAL HORROR
- YOASOBI | everything is post 2020
- Paula Hartmann | everything is post 2020
- Toe | 独演会 "DOKU-EN-KAI
It’s a bit hard to find stuff that is new that I’ve actually listened to a lot, but it’s not because there isn’t new stuff just because I have no new music entering my rotation except from artists I already know, other media or friends recommendations. And music from other media often doesn’t end up being on any album.
I have already posted some of them to !musiczka@szmer.info
Jazz - Etnobotanika - Fruwający Przestępca
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
Great choice. Little Simz needs more love.
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.
Amigo the Devil- yours until the war is over
Thanks for letting know about this. Last album I knew he dropped was Born Against. I’ll definitely look into this. I saw him open for Drokkick Murphy’s. It was a great show.
Jockstrap - Wicked City
I’ll second Black Midi - Hellfire obviously
Bobbing - Mixtape
And now I’m faced with the fact that most of my favorite recent albums are at least 5 years old
Wake Up & It’s Over - Lovejoy (although the singer has had some stuff come up about him being nasty with his ex girlfriend recently)
Soul Elegy - Termina
Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token
Fatalism - Polaris
ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - MAY-A
Post Human: Survival Horror - Bring Me The Horizon
Euthanasia - Stray From The Path
- Ensiferum - Thalassic
- In Extremo - Kompass zur Sonne
Both from 2020 exactly, and amazing.
Osees - A Foul Form
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
KGWL - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
These songs are for anyone sick of earth - Aliah Sheffield
Sample - Earth Is Ghetto
As Above, So Below - Sampa The Great
Sample - Let Me Be Great