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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 year ago

    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

  • marighost
    1•1 year ago

    Haken’s Fauna was my top album of 2023. An absolute gauntlet of amazing prog metal.

  • WrenEnglish
    17•1 year ago

    Sleep Token - This place will become your tomb (2021) / This eden (2023)

    Grim Salvo - MILDRED (2022)

    Tame Impala - The Slow rush (2020)

    Spiritbox - Eternal blue (2021)

    Bad Omens - THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND (2022)

    Can I include EP’s? If so, Lorna Shore - … And I return to nothingness (2021)

    Black Tiger Sex Machine - Once upon a time in cyberworld (2022)

    Apashe - Renaissance (2020)

    Florence + The Machine - Dance fever (2022)

    Hozier - Unreal unearth (2023)

    I’m sure there’s more

    It’s definitely survivorship bias and likely that the barrier for entry is a lot lower now, so only ‘better’ music would be made (ie record companies doing risk assessment and deciding what would be more likely to sell) / your average person can make music now relatively easily, which I suppose technically ‘dilutes’ the overall ‘quality’ of music today - take your pick

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      I saw Lorna Shore as the warm-up for the Mega Monsters tour and I have to say whoever did the mixing for that performance is awful at their job. I had never heard any of their music before and I’m pretty sure I can still say that in all honesty. The vocals sounded like nothing but static and the instruments didn’t sound like much more than speaker feedback lol.

      For someone who hasn’t found many heavy metal bands to enjoy other than Gojira, are they worth looking into?

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        Homie can scream like nobody’s business, but that’s what you’re gonna get.

        My path went from Gojira, to Mastodon, David Maxim Micic, and Rivers of Nihil (check out where owns know my name).

        If Metal metal isnt really your thing, check out Leprous. Malina and Pitfalls both kick ass and are about as far from metal where you still get some recognizable tropes.

      • WrenEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I mean I like them, so I’m gonna say yes haha

        Sorry you had a terrible sound engineer that night though :/

    • astraeus
      1•1 year ago

      Listen to Ado’s Utattemita Album, it is all covers but they are all amazing

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        I know them all, she’s my favorite musical artist. 可愛くてごめん (kawaikute gomen) is my favorite of those, I’d say.

        • astraeus
          2•1 year ago

          I think 愛して愛して愛して (Aishite Aishite Aishite) was really good, her cover of unravel is also solid. I liked it better than the original.

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 year ago

            A fellow connoisseur! I and a friend we’re looking to get tickets for the world tour, sadly, it seemed they were sold instantly.

            If I could figure out how to follow people on Lemmy with jerboa, you’d be the first.

  • kellenoffdagrid❓️
    4•1 year ago

    Here’s a few I’ve enjoyed in recent memory:

    • Koyo - Would You Miss It?
    • Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
    • Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me
    • Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia?
    • Vacation Manor - Vacation Manor
    • Hotline TNT - Cartwheel

    The Koyo album is great if you like punk/hardcore/emo, same with the Militarie Gun one. Tigers Jaw has been one of my favorites for a while, and this album is one of their best imo; great band if you like indie rock/emo. Yard Act’s a British rock band with post-punk influences, you might like them if you enjoy that signature dry British humor in combination with some social commentary. Vacation Manor is a more laid-back indie rock band with more classic Americana/Springsteen influences, I can’t recommend them enough for people who have a sweet spot for classic rock. Lastly, Hotline TNT’s album is worth a listen for people who enjoy shoegaze and indie rock, they have a really great DIY sound with just enough polish to tie the album together and keep it accessible. The 2020’s have been a damn good year for music, at least as far as the bands I’ve been keeping up with.

    Edit: added Tigers Jaw, I couldn’t leave them out

  • astraeus
    2•1 year ago

    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
  • Sentient LoomEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    PetroDragonic Apocalypse by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

    and it’s not even close. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Prog metal at its finest!

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago
    • 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.

  • sickday
    1•1 year ago

    No particular order to these.

    • Yacht World (2020) - Engelwood
    • La Familia Pt. 3 (2021) - Always Proper
    • Yasuke (2021) - Flying Lotus
    • Lindo (2020) - emune