My goal is to listen to and rank 300 records this year. I'm close but can y'all post your favorite lesser known/obscure albums/eps from this year?

And can you mention the genre? I'm happy to try anything

My personal AOTY. It's indie rock i guess

threetwenty - separate from the noise (r&b)
KeiyaA - hooke’s law (r&b)
Sam Gellaitry - Anywhere Here Is Perfect (electronic)
Ouri - Daisy Cutter (electronic)
Ramakhandra - Daimajin (jazz/r&b)
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta - Mapambazuko (electronic/cumbia)
Corey Lingo - Safe 2 Say (r&b)
Bathe - Inside Voice(s) (r&b)
Brendan Byrnes - Astral Bloom (jazz)
Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming (alt)
YL & subjxct5 - Only Ones Taxin (rap)
Moskino - King Of The Underdogs (rap)
Kaicrewsade - Joint4u! (jazz/rap)
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds (alt)
Extra Small - Tears (electronic/rap)
Wombo - Danger In Fives (alt)
Slow Crush - Thirst (alt)
Peter Cat - Starchamber (alt)
Snõõper - Worldwide (punk)

This is interesting for sure

Extra small seems dope but this album is from 2024

45 pounds is in my top 3-5. Been obsessed with them since I found them last year. Seems this album low-key blew them up. I'd call them noise rock mixed with synth punk specifically, but so unique and original they could spawn a whole new genre

My wrapped showed they had about half of my top 10 most played songs of the year. Forgot id obsessively listen to castro raw and sickle walk over and over as singles

william tyler - time indefinite

dunno if ambient country is a genre but either way super cool and unique album

meat computer - new world disorder (digicore / experimental rap)

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honeypop & honeypop reloaded by thebabegabe

That descriptor is seriously intriguing

I only skipped around the first song a lil bit cause I'm finishing the new brainbombs album I keep forgetting to hear...

this seems excessively up my ally

Do not listen to music this way.

yeah he's one of those artists that just goes all in on their sound, always interesting to check on

I don't see the point of rushing through albums in hopes of hitting an arbitrary number you set I strongly believe you need to spend time (i.e more than one halfhearted listen) with an album to gauge how much you like it. Speed listening is contradictory to this. Listening to fewer albums while taking the proper amount of time to appreciate them would probably be a better use of time.

Do whatever you want but that's my 2 cents

I just finished it, was super unique and interesting. I think he could flesh the sound out a bit more but def will be following for new releases

Im not actually rushing anything I just have the house/surround system to myself and I'm stuck on the couch all day so I'm listening to new albums back to back. I rarely like listening to the same album on repeat for a whole day and it's rarer for me to get an album that I feel like it requires a lot of listens to digest like that

I relisten to whatever I really like but that doesn't mean I can't just listen to a bunch of new records and spend a day exploring new musicians. I've found only ~5 I plan on revisiting but I enjoy hearing stuff that is new to me over anything else. This has been one of my favorite things to do since I was a kid and found my dads CD collection, and also found out you could borrow any CD in existence from the library to copy

You do you tho

HAAi - Humanise (electronic)
Sudan Archives - THE BPM (dance)
Mereba - The Breeze Grew A Fire (R&B/pop)
Barker - Stochastic Drift (electronic)
Blood Orange - Essex Honey (alt)
Dijon - Baby (alt)
FKA twigs - Eusexua (and Eusexua Afterglow) electronic
Erika de Casier - Lifetime (dream pop)
Cole Pulice - Land’s End Eternal (ambient)
Lily Allen - West End Girl (pop)
Kelly Moran - Don’t Trust Mirrors (ambient/classical)

A couple favorites to share!

have you considered that its fun, fun guy 👍

Reject 3
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damn didnt know kelly released an album

Shooting for the same goal as you; I have 9 left before 300.

Here are my favorites from my top 50 that went under the radar on KTT:

Jens Lekman - Songs for Other People's Weddings
Lou-Adriane Cassidy - Journal d'un loup-garou
Huremic - Seeking Darkness
César y su Jardín - Corre y suelta a los perros
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles - Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts
Niños del Cerro - Alma Tadema
Mei Semones - Animaru
Frog - 1000 Variations on the Same Song
Annahstasia - Tether
Tennis - Face Down in the Garden
Gelli Haha - Switcheroo
TURQUOISEDEATH - Guardian
Candelabro - Deseo, carne y voluntad
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Turnpike Troubadours - The Price of Admission

is that a personal goal? i used to do that before but dont got it in me no more lol

Rooster - Rooster Slipped
Ghais Guevara - Quest to Self Mythologize

Nope. It was accidental/mostly arbitrary. I usually land in the 250-275 range without trying but my commute gave me a lot of time to go through albums in the morning and it became increasingly obvious that 300 was achievable. Plus, I have a list of stuff I still want to get to, so I'm going to do it.

Under the Farm
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