What good artists (old and new) did you discover this year?
who is that creature she looks quite cute
Cerce
Lovechild
Bruce Springsteen
Baby Dayliner, DIIV, Wild Nothing, and I finally turned on to Kate Bush. It was a swell year.
>>61246986
>Cerce
>Lovechild
Are they any good?
>>61247020
Do you like hardcore?
Death grips
New Candys
P.A.L
Primus
Boris
Blind Melon
Unida
Suicide
It's been a big year for me
The Black Angels - Psych.
Allah-Las - Seriously good garage rock, some surf elements.
Bad Liquor Pond - Psych again
Naxatras - Greek hard psych band, just released an album this year
Guantanamo Baywatch - Fun surf rock band, saw them at a show locally
Thee Oh Sees - Garage rock.
>>61247042
New Candys are great.
>>61247042
>primus
>discovered this year
I find this hard to believe. Surely you knew who Les Claypool is, right?
>>61247039
No. But maybe you could recommend me some accessible, entry level hardcore.
>>61247077
maybe he was born this year :O
Discovered this the other day and it is now one of my favorite albums ever
It's like bjork x10 with norwegians
Listen to it
The Chameleons
The Sound
Comsat Angels
Spear of Destiny
Joy Division
New Order
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
The Stooges
I kind of only started actively pursuing music as a hobby this year. I'm 26 and I feel like I should have been doing this in my teens rather than playing vidya games. I've been making up for lost time though (went to my first gig this September, and I've been to a total of 8 since then).
>>61247091
Black Flag - My War
>>61247077
There was one song I thought was theirs that turned out to be from a different band, so yeah I'd heard the name but this year i heard Shake hands with Beef.
Also Tweak Bird and Liars
>>61247091
Ignore that dude and listen to American Nightmare/Give up the Ghost and True Love. They're the best hardcore bands you'll ever find outside of the classic Minor Threat and Black Flag stuff.
>>61247159
Cool list.
>>61247196
Ok, thanks.
>>61247159
Move to Dead Can Dance, This Heat and The Pop Group
>get into Tangerine Dream
>Froese dies
>get into Negativland
>Don Joyce dies
>get into Cluster
>Moebius dies
Who should I get into now
Ringo Deathstarr
lovesliescrushing
Natasha Kmeto
The Veronicas
Battles
The Do
Clan of Xymox
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Colder
Julia Holter
Roxy Music
Rush
Sweet Trip
Duster
Clor
T.Rex
Dead Can Dance
>>61247296
Metallica
I started posting on /mu/ this year, so I got in to My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, and Bjork.
>>61246921
Radiohead
Swans
Atmosphere
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Alt-J
Velvet Underground (this one borders on last year, around November but I listened to them more in depth this year).
Theres a couple others and I'd heard a few songs at least by most of these but I didn't really get a good feel for them until this year.
The Lounge Lizards & John Lurie
John Fahey
Blind Willie Johnson
>>61247357
Also forgot Godspeed you Black Emperor!
>>61246921
Stealing Sheep
Pure Bathing Culture
Darlia
>>61247435
>Stealing Sheep
Their video for Apparition is so cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVYDRM842s
Anyone should watch it.
Julia Holter
Vietcong
Everything Everything
Yellow Magic Orchestra
HEALTH
Neon Indian
Courtney Barnett
Oneohtrix Point Never
Mark Ronson
clouddead
first I can think of. Fucking fantastic year.
>>61246921
come on man, how the hell am i supposed to answer that. i listen to wayyy to much new shit all the time.
Jonathan Mathis, the greatest rapper, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and all around artist from the state of Maryland.
>>61247514
Post the highlights
>>61247466
>Yellow Magic Orchestra
+1
>>61246921
Seaway
Turnover
Citizen
Knuckle Puck
The Brave Little Abacus
>>61246921
Who's dis lady
>>61246921
>>61247301
My god who is this. I don't think I've ever had such a heart on.
>>61247517
Quite honestly the best artist ive found on this website.
>Denzel Curry
>Absu
>Father John Misty
>Oneohtrix Point Never
>Future (not a that gold but I like it)
>Inquisition
>>61248804
>>not a that gold
How the fuck did I fuck up 'not that good' so bad
>>61247466
m9 you got any recs for someone who loved Garden of Delete and can't stop listening to it
>>61248599
Ladytron singer
>>61249031
>Ladytron
My god, thank you.
>>61246965
>>61248497
>>61248599
>>61249031
>>61249083
Mira Aroyo. She's the secondary vocalist of Ladytron, Bulgarian, PhD in genetics at Oxford, and plays synths. Basically perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui7CSs6hInw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCxJkoiDJo
>>61247357
I still didn't get into TVU except few songs.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The National
Duster
Iceage
Low
Codeine
Magazine
Wire
The Chameleons
Sufjan Stevens
Yo La Tengo
The Flaming Lips
Sonic Youth
Beach House
I'm probably forgetting some, but I had a great year.
The Moving Targets (Punk)
Showbiz & A.G. (Hip Hop)
Asylum Party (Post punk)
PRINCE!
After hearing family members/friends mentioning/raving about him, I then started reading Questlove's autobiography. He's a big fan, and his thoughts of Prince interested me.
Also at the end of last year, I started listening to D'Angelo when he released the Sugar Daddy single. He's also a Prince fanboy.
I started talking to my family, asking for recs, they told me Purple Rain. I gave it a shot, thought it was not bad, but checked out other albums.
It was Dirty Mind that first struck a true chord with me. I love that late night, DIY sound it has. When you were mine is the blueprint for any 80s pop hint.
I then made my way to 1999, with it's unique combo of funk and new wave. I loved it's icy synths and the grooves. (DMSR is still my favorite song)
After that, I dove right in. Had to buy his albums too, as the pirated copies I had were panned oddly.
Holy shit, though, that 14 minute version of computer blue is insane. It's track 1.
http://freemp3now.net/catalog/Prince%20-%20Computer%20Blue%20(Full%20Version%20-%20Previously%20Uncirculating)
Busdriver
Amadeus Awad
Father John Misty
Lightning Bolt
Radiohead
>>61249767
What's good by him? Real Estate in Imaginary Places is my jam
I discovered Celibidache as a conductor of orchestral music. His interpretations are sublime and have revitalized my passion for classical music. Listen to this fucking Beethoven excerpt. LISTEN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsG4mhVuqO4&t=5m48s
>>61247042
What's good by suicide besides their self-titled? Its all I have heard
![813S2UwBpPL._SL1500_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aFEh5HV.jpg "813S2UwBpPL._SL1500_[1].jpg")
I had this for years without listening to it, it's gay as fuck but I love it.
Got out of a long term relationship with a girl who didn't like hip-hop or electronic music.
Got acquainted with a lot of artists this year. Love Travis Scott, Sophie, Julia Holter, Kamasi Washington, Kacy Hill, Oneohtrix Point Never
AND CLERENCE CLARITY. HOLY SHIT. COMPLETE LEFT HOOK OUTTA NOWHERE. No Now is amazing!
2015 has been an amazing year for music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R_3mXZBsuU&list=LLl22oCQA-x-HaWGuaQrg9Ng&index=7
Sufjan Stevens
Prinze George
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Electric President
Soft Kill
RAC
Since I just started listening to albums this year, there's alot to put down
Can't really recall all. Discovered /mu/ about half a year ago and instantly went full on sperg in terms of music since /mu/ and rym made exploring really really easy. I listened to about 800 albums in that time spam. /mu/, you've ruined me, but I still love you.
>>61250365
*span
A bunch of music in spanish but Lucybell stood out as my favorite
Finally got into shoegaze.
Brian Jonestown Massacre
My Bloody Valentine
Ride
Author and Punisher, definitely
>>61246921
WEEN and st. vincent
>>61250775
>St. Vincent
Very nice.
i can't believe i lived my life without this man
he's probably gonna die soon though
>tfw i'll never give him my album just to hear his opinion about it
>>61250667
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAvSwEe4XU
Just perfect.
C H I L E
H
I
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E
>>61250682
No way, I just saw him open for Wolf Eyes not too long ago. It felt like my face was melting off.
>>61250667
>BJM
>shoegaze
Methodrone is shit compared to Pol Pot's, Spacegirl, Take it from the man, Satanic Majesties, Thank God for Mental Illness, Give it Back and Strung out in Heaven
>>61250869
My opinion of Chile went up just cause of these guys
I like Comiendo Fuego but their early stuff is better imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekXFKPL8FY
>>61250087
nothing lmao
>HEALTH
>Black Moth Super Rainbow
>Unwound
And i finally got into screamo.
>>61250667
>lucybell
They are awesome. Saw them like 2 years ago.
New Order
Post Smile Beach Boys
The Damned. Yup it's been a busy year not a lot new.
>>61247159
>The Chameleons
Since when /mu/tants have good taste
>>61250939
>HEALTH
Did you even Max Payne?
>>61250667
>Finally got into shoegaze.
Great genre
>MBV
>Slowdive
>Ride
>Curve
>Lush
>Chapterhouse
>Pinkshinyultrablast
>lovesliescrushing
>Sweet Trip
>Malory
>Medicine
>JAMC
>Ringo Deathstarr
>Airiel
>SPC ECO
is Mira fucking someone?
>>61247042
Listening to New Candys now. Thanks
Fuck. This thread made me realize how little I' e branched out this year.
The Angelic Process
Sleeping Peonies
Deafheaven
Lantlos
That's pretty much it. I didn't even like them that much, it's more like I was chasing a sound I haven't heard yet, and these guys are as close as I've gotten.
>>61250087
the second self titled
>>61246921
Abba
>>61251262
Solid.
They're one of my top 5 favorite artists believe it or not.
What's your favorite song?
Mine is [spoiler] Fernando and/or I have a dream [/spoiler]
>>61246921
Yes
Run The Jewels
John Frusciante
Gentle Giant
Flying Lotus
Deafheaven
Aphex Twin
>>61246921
king krule
RTJ
Dance Gavin Dance
Hail the sun
just friends
and alot more
alot of these are thanks to /mu/ so thank you guys and merry christmas
Cal chuchesta
The Wake
The Van Pelt
Martin Dupont
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Boredoms
Pixies
Jim O'Rourke
Guided by Voices
The Eels
Billy Joel
The Church
Echo & The Bunnymen
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Echo and The Bunny men
Gang Of Four
Wire
Magazine
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Lcd Soundsystem
Beach House
Mac Demarco
R.E.M. (more than just radio singles)
The Modern Lovers
>>61246921
>What good artists (old and new) did you discover this year?
Oh. What did I discover? Just a lil' sumthin' inside o' me.
>>61252453
Tumor?
>>61252479
I just want you to know that, although you probably didn't mean to trigger me, you did.
>>61252479
jej
Hooverphonic
Young Guns
Haverford
The color morale
Emarosa
Five Fingers Death Punch
Gideon
Starset
X Ambassadors
Amarante
MO
ODESZA
Shy Girls
Placebo
DJ KHALED ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
although there were a lot this year, my top 2 are:
mitski
lionel hampton
>>61246921
this was the year I discovered classical via the Juilliard String Quartet (from '57-'70)
I discovered flamenco through El Borrico, then Camaron de la Isla (Paco de Lucia is all over his albums)
this was the year I finally got into Cuban music - I found a link to the Arsenio Rodriguez box "El Alma de Cuba" (I'll be listening to that forever); I got some sweet son compilations, and found a Soul Jazz release called Afro-Cuba: Tumba Francesca which feels like encountering a culture's greatest hits of a powerful music style, centuries-old
I finally got into bebop after putting off that music from the 40's and early-50's (pre-album means compilations - good thing there were good compilers during the 90's & early 00's)
great year. and that leaves out all the great films I watched this year, and the books I got around to reading.
Parenthetical Girls
Car Seat Headrest
The Strokes
BADBADNOTGOOD
And I started seriously listening to Bjork this year
St Paul & The Broken Bones
Alabama Shakes
BB King
Fleetwood Mac
Benjamin Booker
Arctic Monkeys (old stuff)
>>61247159
Congratulations.
You discovered post-punk. Do you want a yellow star?
>>61251070
Since some tripfaggot had to spam one of their albums repeatedly
>>61247247
>The Pop Group
No
>>61246921
Colin Stetson - avant garde jazz (?)
Gloryhammer - cheesy power metal
The Third Eye Foundation - atmospheric drum & bass
This Heat
Sun City Girls
Xiu Xiu
Carissa's Wierd
Flipper
Slint (might have been late last year)
It was a good year for music
>>61254315
Please get a trip so we can all filter you
NOLEAC YAHSIN
DJ ZYDECO
>>61246921
Fishmans
Fiery Furnaces
Joanne Robertson
Oneotrix Point Never
Titus Andronicus
Bitch Magnet
Current 93
Laddio Bolocko (and side projects)
I'm a bleep man so I'm sure you all are not gonna reply to this
Person of interest
Micky Finn
Dj vibes
Billy "Daniel" bunter
Cece Rodgers
Pretty Toni
I didn't start listening to music seriously until I was 18. I thought the beach boys were a one hit wonder band, I didn't think anybody listened to anything other than wouldn't it be nice.
Anarcho-punk in general, especially Crass and Dirt
Ween (Besides the Mollusk)
Jeffrey Lewis
Syd Barrets solo albums
No Trend
Richard Hell and the Voivods
Somehow I didn't get into The Grateful Dead until early this year
This years mostly just been me digging deeper into artists I've liked for a while. Merry Christmas guys
Let's see...this is off the top of my brain right now (also I started hanging on here a whole lot more so it's /mu/ influenced desu
Started listening to:
Liszt
Chopin
Rachmaninoff
Mahler
Vivaldi
Beach House
Chet Atkins
Tatsuro Yamashita
Young Marble Giants
DNA
The Contortions
The Ronettes
Lush
Frank Sinatra
Throbbing Gristle
Françoise Hardy
OMD
Rip Rig + Panic
Mansun
John Williams
Slaves
The Feelies
Rediscovered:
The Pop Group
Kate Bush
The Fall (still can't decipher MES's lyrics by ear tho)
Blondie
Miles Davis
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
Echo And The Bunnymen
It's more old music than new music tbf, I can't quite keep up with current music. Only a few more days for me to start on St. Vincent now..also one of the few genres I missed out on was metal, judging from my list.
>>61247159
I feel you tho, I'm 25 this year and I feel like I missed out on music during my teenage years (I was burying myself in books rather than games.) It doesn't feel the same listening to music in my mid 20s but it's the best I can do now..
>>61255149
>The Feelies
my nigga
>>61246921
literally never heard of st vincent until this year.
>>61254620
Isn't there a This Heat or circle-jerk chart thread that you need to give people thumbs-up of approval you should be in?
>>61255344
You heard about her because of this board?
>>61247159
>The Chameleons
>The Sound
>Comsat Angels
nice list
>>61257091
yep
>>61252355
Worthy list.
Ladytron
Phantogram
CHVRCHES
Studio Killers
Crystal Castles
I've basically gotten bored of Rock and started listening to a lot of Synthpop / Indie pop.
sisters of mercy
nausea
the danse society
extinction of mankind
>>61257190
I like this list. I recommend you some others artists:
Marnie (Ladytron's primary vocalist)
Shiny Toy Guns
La Roux
Royksopp
Man Without Country
Xeno & Oaklander
Goldfrapp
M83
Todd Terje
Perturbator
Lazerhawk
John Maus
Chromatics
Glass Candy
Purity Ring
Cut Copy
Chairlift
Marsheaux
The Knife
Fever Ray
iamamiwhoami
Hot Chip
Miss Kittin
Grimes
>>61255149
>Only a few more days for me to start on St. Vincent now.
You still have time. I'd pick Actor as the first St. Vincent album to listen.
Coil
John Fahey
Death
King Tubby
Otomo Yoshihide
DNA
>>61246921
Lots, Death Grips, Boards of Canada, Del the Funky Homosapian
LCD Soundsystem
Viet Cong
Beach House
Sweet Mother Logic
Warpaint
Wilco
>>61257432
>people this pleb regularly browse mu
Wolf Alice
Prince Rama
Limp Bizkit (tfw at first it was ironic but I somehow warmed up to them)
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Dope Body
Joanna Newsom
Alt+J
Local Natives
Foals
Syd Matters
Stoned Jesus
1000mods
Marienbad
No one gets out alive
Nargaroth
God Seed
The Beach Boys
Beck
Swans
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
King Crimson
Genesis
Phoebe Snow
The Mars Volta
Paul Simon
>Re-discovered
Taylor Swift
Pink Floyd
Brian Eno
America
The Alan Parsons Project
>>61254615
I wish I could call someone I loved
>>61257246
Thanks for the rec senpai, I'm on it
>>61250094
Hey this is actually really good, thank you.
>>61246921
The Mars Volta
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
At the Drive-In
Ween
Set Fire to Flames
Have a Nice Life
MegaDeth
St.Vincent
Beck
骨架的 (Skeleton)
Bjork
Death Cab for Cutie
Locust Toybox (Too underrated)
Jethro Tull
Slint
The Microphones
S U R F I N G
Suicide
Giles Corey
Yellow (First album is GOAT)
>>61258819
>Locust Toybox (Too underrated)
nice
Mr Twin Sister
John Cale
>>61258874
I love me some Locust Toybox. It's a bit of a cheat because I started listening late last year. Stringland might be one of my favorite albums of 2014, and he has some real gems in his discography.
I like how he has an Aphex Twin bent, but given how hard it is to copy Aphex Twin, that's kind of an accomplishment.
>>61247517
>>61248689
Really subtle self promotion you fucking faggot
Mr. Bungle, Soundgarden, NIN, APC, Faith no more, cynic, Converge, voivod, fantomas, Godflesh, refused, and tomahawk
Though I wouldn't say "discovered" since I had heard of most of those guys before, but this was my first time getting into them
legitimately one of the best bands ever
>>61258735
Cool. The song "The Bed" has a Christmas-y feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h114NAhiZcE
>>61258874
The animator of Salad Fingers = Locust Toybox?
Kinoko Teikoku
Everything Everything
The Soft Moon
Sleaford Mods
Renewed my love for a lot old favorites as well. Pic related: Tom Ellard - Rhine
I've been browsing /mu/ for 5+ years, and I only this year listened to Duster - Stratosphere, which is SO fucking up my alley
I always thought it was a drone metal album for some reason
>>61259818
yeah, he even used some Locust Toybox music in the last episode of Salad Fingers
>>61249113
Not a PhD, just one of countless academics working on a PhD who later dropped out to get a real job.
>>61259940
Nice. Salad Fingers is one of the most frightening animations ever.
>>61259975
Still counts. She also worked on a book about genetics:
>Yates J, Aroyo M, Sherratt DJ, Barre FX (2003) Species specificity in the activation of Xer recombination at dif by FtsK. Mol Microbiol 49: 241-249.
>>61260185
no it doesn't
if it still counted I would list PhD on my CV, but I don't, because I can't, because I don't actually have one
>>61247042
>P.A.L
my negro
>>61260185
http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/graduate/DPhilSymposium00.html#Aroyo
>>61260248
I meant it counts that she studied for the PhD.
xiu xiu, talk talk, and brian eno were my biggest ones this year. so great
>>61246921
nicolas jaar
xiu xiu
dragging an ox through water
have a nice life
the flaming lips
giles corey
dope body
captain beefheart
talk talk
rediscovered:
the music tapes
tomahawk
joy division
Jamaican Queens
Dilly Dally
Emily Reo
>>61260510
sounds like a good year
>>61258819
A pretty nice list
Phuturistix
Baroness
Deafheaven
Mastodon
Ghost
Got back into metal.
Autechre
>>61262318
Great. What's your fave Ae album so far?
>>61260026
You really should watch his other stuff, especially Health Reminder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfAul2isPfo
I was obsessed with the guy for a while and still am. He has this perfectly surreal and dark sense of humor that I love.
For more stuff like this, also see: The rest of the Health Reminder series, DrillbitHead, BurnFaceMan...
A lot of his stuff is just experimentation, a lot of which shows up later in Salad Fingers if you pay attention.
>>61262318
I saw them live a couple of weeks ago in Rotterdam. Great fucking shit man, best concert i've been to this year. Had a chat with the producer, super chill guy. Great 'band'.
>>61265058
>Had a chat with the producer
Who?
>>61264976
David Firth has a dark sense of humor. It's hard to do something original these days, but he surely did it.
>>61249448
Good list f a m
>>61264976
I watched that episode. Damn...
My first hip-hop/rap album ever, unless you count exmilitary. I actually really liked it, but I'm not sure where to go from here
>>61267821
Other artists from this year:
>Karen Dalton
>Muddy Waters
>>61267821
You must listen to the classics: Nas, Dr Dre, Eminem, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Outkast, 2Pac, Beastie Boys, Run D.M.C., The Sugarhill Gang. Afrika Bambaataa, Snoop Dogg, NWA, DJ Shadow (instrumental hip-hop), and so on.
>>61268953
Could you just throw a few albums at me? I've actually listened to the Nas album like once and liked it
>>61268983
Goodie Mob - soul food
Outkast - aquemini
Big L - lifestylez of da poor and dangerous
Tribe Called Quest - midnight marauders
The notorious big - ready to die
Start there.
Not him, so just to speak on a few artists: run dmc is more rock combined with rap, bambata is more electronic influenced, sugarhill, public enemy, and the beasties are more about lyrics than the beat, and you prob know enough about the rest, like nwa or eminem.
>>61246921
I've started to fall off. Really dug into Destroyer, Frank Zappa, kraftwerk, and tangerine dream - not much else. Need to reignite the spark
>Check out all this entry-level crap I'm listening xD
>>61268983
Ready to Die by Bigge. It's pretty similar to Nas's Illmatic, which, if you liked, you'd probably like joey badass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfQGXFRr30
>>61268983
Illmatic
The Chronic
The Marshall Mathers LP
Fear of a Blank Planet
3 Feet High and Rising
Stankonia
All Eyez on Me
Paul's Boutique
Raising Hell
Sugarhill Gang
Planet Rock
Doggystyle
Straight Outta Compton
Endtroducing...
All, essential hip hop albums. I would add also Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). I didn't like it but maybe you do.
>>61269092
>>61269103
>>61269119
>>61269140
Oh shit, thanks guys! I'll take note and give them all a listen.
I've been into Funk, Soul and Blues the past couple of years and just feel as though rap and hip-hop should naturally be my next step
Built to Spill
Rome
William Basinski
Suicide
Arnold Dreyblatt
Asmus Tietchens
Om
Hijokaidan
Inquisition
New Order
Cloud Rat
Dolorian
Akhlys
Woven Hand
if my rym ratings for this year are anything to go by, i enjoyed these the most in addition to my usual suspects. i 'rediscovered' Om and Basinski (as i had heard but dismissed one piece in each's discog) but everything else was fairly new to me
>>61246921
>st. Vincent
>Tegan and Sara
As a Canadian I shamed myself by only just discovering the latter.
>>61269474
>st. Vincent
the only 10/10 musician since Kate Bush
