2022 to 1998: 25 albums I appreciate

I decided to go with Bowie, Melody's Echo Chamber, Godspeed!, Lingua Ignota, and Kayo Dot. Not surprised to see Blackstar running away with the poll 

Magma, UZ, NSRO, Bowie, Hausswolff.

^ I feel bad in a way saying how much I enjoy Sinner Get Ready, and in fact Caligula is my favourite Lingua Ignota album and I enjoy All Bitches Die as it makes me wonder if I have much of a soul to crush -- or maybe it was already crushed. It does emotionally impact me, similar to how Threnody can impact me -- and when I called Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima nice I had listened to it, but to quote Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace), "I guess I use sarcasm as a defence ... Maybe if everyone who'd ever been close to you had died, you'd be sarcastic too." I listen to too much true crime stuff perhaps, so it has desensitised me. Thank you very much for bringing her to my attention. It does move me.

As for not hearing Cisnienie, Vanishing Twin or Melody's Echo Chamber at all (you might have since I brought them up more than once), happy listening! I have a song from each album in the playlist I created in the OP, but...

Cisnienie makes a kind of epic post-rock that specialises in building up to huge crescendos (reminiscent of modern-day Swans). The Brass album and JazzArt Underground are both very good (they can get a bit samey sometimes as they do have a kind of formula). Anyway, these are my two favourite tracks by the band:





Vanishing Twin is a modern band that draws on the sounds of Broadcast, Strereolab, and Pram (which has very much been my thing). My favourite album is The Age of Immunology, but I also like music off Choose Your Own Adventure and Ookii Gekkou.

This is the one I have in the playlist:



And for another



Melody's Echo Chamber is another kind of loungey psych pop/ psychedelia band with etheral and echoey female vocals. Like Stereolab, Pram, Broadcast, and Vanishing Twin it drawns on old Frrench chanson and loungey music like Serge Gainsbourg and various French female singers of the 60s. Very much in my wheelhouse.

This is from her album this year (love this):



And in my playlist:



I adore Julia Holter, especially for the Aviary, Have You in My Wilderness, and Loud City Song albums.

here's the playlist with one song curated by me from eavch album in the poll again in case anyone is interested (superb stuff there, imo).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4KCo2bN8VtKZL7MUGmXDbrI



Edited by Logan - December 09 2022 at 15:16