2015
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Year's almost over. Post your favorite release thus far.
I still can't tell if the cover is of a guy or a girl
>>60284783
i always thought it was a guy
but looking at it now
it seems like a girl
This is fun.
>>60284783
It's a girl. There's another picture of her on the record sleeve.
Good call on the album btw.
>>60284988
Lyric sheet*
>>60284988
much obliged, anon
Carly Rae Jepsen
Wonder Girls
>>60284783
Good choice Op, this album was just beautiful, Humming is my favorite track
>>60285184
Nice! The second to last verse on Humming is my favorite part of the album, followed closely by the chorus on Dizzy on the Comedown
AOTY comin through
>
These lovely ladies
other album tho ofc
>>60285313
Agreed, Humming just reminds me about how I met my girlfriend, also the opening track is great too.
This has become on of my favorite albums of all time.
Also Divers is an incredibly solid release. Perfect for this time of year as well.
>>60285426
why do avant-teens like young thug so much but ignore every other rapper
>>60285530
>that
>avant-teen
lmao not even close
to answer your question, i like young thug
>>60285555
but why
runners up:
Car Seat Head Rest
Jamie XX
Kendrick Lamar
Vince Staples
The World Is A Beautiful Place
>>60285625
Young Thug is the only artist comparable to Julius Eastman. He is not just another manufactured rap star, he is a complete artist. He is not someone that is being controlled by a record label. Thugger is singlehandedly one of the most innovative and unique rap artists of this decade.
He is a melodic genius, his beats are experimental, innovative, unique, he isn't afraid to experiment, he is constantly evolving and changing his style. Young Thug, from the beginning, has always pushed boundaries and has continued to make progressive music that others could only hope to imitate.
His voice is an instrument. He wants you to look beyond just the lyrics. They are there just to complement the music, they are an application of the voice as an instrument rather than a medium for verbal communication and storytelling. His voice and his sounds are something that no one else is doing. Young Thug obviously isn't a Kendrick/Drake type of rapper with outstanding rapping ability but he still manages to make better music than them.
His mixtape, Barter 6, is an extremely introspective and personal record. It allows you to better understand the perspective and emotions of Jeffrey Lamar Williams. The mixtape has become a bridge for white youth to enjoy the art of the black inner city and empathize with the likes of Thugger and that is what is so wonderful about art. We are able to see who he really is and understand him. The introductory interview at The Fader Ford shows that he is a surprisingly soft-spoken young man and it gives you all the more reason to care about him.
There was no Young Thug before Young Thug. He is not emulating anyone, he isn't trying to be anyone. He has no influences. When Check came out of nowhere, everyone loved it because nothing sounded like it.
He has accomplished so much at such a young age, can you imagine what his music is going to sound like in 5 years?
>>60284783
I'm glad people on /mu/ are talking about this album
if you like turnover you may like pic related
>>60285712
thanks a lot for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out. I was exposed to turnover touring with a band I like called turnstile earlier this year, shortly before their album dropped, and fell in love with them
>>60285701
i prefer this pasta
Barter 6 is the most important album of this decade. Its barely there production doesn’t so much frame his rapping as it does provide a surface for his words to dance upon, to explore the art of rapping in multiple dimensions: melodically, rhythmically, lyrically, and in terms of composition. His voice glides through the thick absence of sound. He’s responsible for a lot of the songwriting; he knocks out his own hooks, and his writing speaks to his use of phrasing, his backgrounds, the flows he uses, and the way he plays with each song’s internal architecture. On “Halftime,” his car-screech adlibs are elongated—it’s as if a camera panned suddenly from a pinprick of light, causing it to blur—so he can change tones, harmonizing this background yelp with his own main vocals.
His lyrical style stands out in a number of ways; the most obvious is his ear for figurative language. Thug’s similes often build upon familiar imagery, but move in unexpected directions. On “Check,” he opens rapping about a “Mink coat with the rolls like a Shar Pei”; later on, he raps, “All my niggas, they hard, call them beetles.” These aren’t punchlines intended to get rap fans doubling over laughing (although they can be funny in their unpredictability). Thug seems more interested in an original and idiosyncratic approach to imagery, in discovering pathways in language that haven’t already been heavily traveled.
In this, his lyrical approach is closer to a rapper like Raekwon than it is Lil Wayne, with whom Thug is frequently compared through some fault of his own. But any close reading of his lyrics suggest comparisons between The Barter 6 and Wayne’s Carter series, for which it is named, are a total misdirection. Where Wayne shredded his vocals against hip-hop’s formal constraints, Thug is a synthesist, a rapper of control, an artist in the process of reassembly.
don't compare thugger to julius "hack" eastman again btw
>>60285785
pitchfork needs to look up the Wikipedia article for purple prose
>>60284783
>>60285901
lol
Y'all will come around
It's damn good.
>>60285347
Absolutely
The new Rustie comes very close
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you were thinking 'bout leaving, you were thinken 'bout walking away, the whole time sleeping...IN THE JAIL RIGHT NEXT TO ME!
everything I've listened to in this thread is at best a 6/10
desu
New bermuda
This is mine
>>60285300
Totally this
>>60288571
2014
>>60284797
we listen to music here sir
>>60284797
Shit, I'm a huge Tigran fan, but I haven't had a chance to listen to Luys i Luso yet, is it really that good??
>>60284783
saw this rec'd in an emo thread recently, very glad i checked it out. definitely in my top 5, but nothing comes close to Universal Themes
oblivion access will probably be on here if it actually comes out this year.
also the new mgla is one of my favorites, it just isn't on topsters yet
>>60289512
whooops
t b h innit
>>60285685
love this
>>60289597
woops forgot image
>>60289560
>destruction unit
https://hammerhead.bandcamp.com/track/age-of-the-troll
from New Directionz, released August 1, 2015
>>60289666
hey satan nice get.
what is this?
>>60289774
something I thought was in the same general style if I remember that destruction unit album correctly
>>60289820
oh cool thanks:3 unfortunately i'm doing nbbmn but i'll be sure to check it out at the end of the month
This. Would be interested if anyone has any recs like it.
This year was shit.
>>60286498
it's "chair" you fucking failure
>>60290022
in the mail right now
possibly even in my mailbox as we speak
C
None
what a shit year
tomorrowtrap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIBJ-RYSAhU
needs more recognition badly
no "pleb taste"-bullies yet? nice thread.
>>60291399
Even if it's all shit there is always some shit which is better than other shits.
>>60285701
>can you imagine what his music is going to sound like in 5 years?
Exactly the same
>>60284783
you watch too much twinks porn
>>60287079
i agree, it really came out of nowhere
>>60284797
Elza's new album is so good am i rite
>>60284797
listening to some of these, great mix of stuff i'm enjoying it
>>60284783
good choice
>>60285184
meh
>>60285347
his previous productions were far better than this
>>60285901
probably his worst release
