I'd like to improve the scope of the music I listen to in 2016. I think I have better than average taste, but I mostly only listen to stuff that pitchfork reviews each day, with only a limited amount of more obscure stuff they wouldn't cover. I want to listen to more obscure music this coming year and discover more unknowns.
How do you guys do it? What are some good blogs or sites that recommend brand new albums from artists that get barely any media coverage?
go visit carles.buzz
>>61290712
Generals, /metal/ /shugazi/ /noise/ and /bleep/ are often very knowledgeable and can show you some obscure shit if you ask nicely
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http://www.albumoftheyear.org/2016/releases/january-01.php
but there's big stuff too
https://bandcamp.com/?g=all&s=new&p=0&gn=0&f=all&w=0
would you say at least 90% of all new releases go through bandcamp now? so if I just keep checking this then I should literally get everything.
>>61290712
Well if you drop the "new" part, try browsing Wikipedia's list of recent deaths:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_deaths
Look for musicians of any sort, from any country.
So in the past ten days, we have a 61-year-old Brazilian guy named Geraldo Roca, a 26-year-old Azeri singer named Elvin Ordubadlı, a 74-year-old American R&B singer named William Guest, a 65-year-old Swedish singer named Gustaf Peter Lundblad, a 61-year-old Jamaican reggae musician named Peter Broggs, the 88-year-old German orchestra conductor Kurt Masur, the 83-year-old Argentine conductor Carlos Païta, a 55-year-old Brazilian singer named Selma Reis, a 56-year-old Belgian composer named Luc Brewaeys, Mick Lynch (the singer for an Irish rock band called "Stump"), 66-year-old Gareth Mortimer of Welsh pop band Racing Cars, the 91-year-old Dutchwoman contralto singer Aafje Heynis, 57-year-old Adam Roth (a guitarist with the Del Fuegos), and an 87-year-old French organized named René Saorgin.
If you do this for a while, you will come across all sorts of genres and styles and nations. Just pick names and look them up online and see what they sound like, basically.
>>61290885
this leak doesnt technically work but its just to search the catalog under "discover"
>>61290931
*link
then you can filter new releases by week, month, etc.
>>61290903
Wow. OP here, and that's a really interesting idea
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone - keep em coming!
>>61290903
Does this yield anything good? I would imagine this would just get you a bunch of eclectic shit.
It doesn't hurt to ask on here. I've gotten some pretty off the wall things as recs on /mu/ before. Of course you'll get 90% of posters circlejerking DIIV and Animal Collective and other really obvious surface shit, but you should be able to find a real gem here and there. Just be patient.
Follow other music publications, use Hype Machine, see who your favorite bands are touring with, find labels you like and explore their rosters, the aggregate sites like albumoftheyear...
>>61290712
Look at what record labels artists you like release on, and look at the other artists on that label. Also check discogs to see what other groups musicians you like have been in, and what other aliases they might record under.
you become a musician. everything you think you know about music is some kind of second hand thing you've tried interpretting through someone elses expression of it if you dont make it yourself. active musicians work in underground circles and communities. theres more underground artists and music out there than you might think possible. if you're already a musician you should start collaborating with others and making friends in communities and they will introduce you to a lot of different music.
if you have passion for music though, you will find more music, musician or not. but if you are actually involved with the creation of the medium, you become more invested in it and surrounded by it.
Just use the RYM custom chart and look at the top releases from genres or countries that you have not explored a lot musically. I do it all the time and it's very effective.
neat thread, i'm actually trying to do the same thing this coming year
bandcamp surfing is always fun. you'll probably run into a lot of shit, but you'll also run into some great stuff.
>>61290885
This. My top two albums from 2015 were bandcamp releases.
>>61290981
10/10
This is easily my most anticipated album of 2016. Every single has been incredible and they've never made a bad album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARmmN3r0Bo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7XWJRQmNtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYHqN2Hs9s
>>61291074
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/44345-junior-boys-big-black-coat.php
just gauging how comprehensive the site is.
>>61291074
This is gonna be a great one. Seeing them with Jessy Lanza in April, stoked about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkaBD6CBrA0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AURORA
All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
Released: 11 March 2016
Label: Decca, Glassnote
Formats: Digital download, CD
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Running with the Wolves
Released: 3 May 2015
Label: Decca
Here's a small variety of things to get you started, pick what sounds best to you and go from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByfGjjXIXOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDODLEzHfxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syso-3384R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmXp008JkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHdIIkRa4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzp9Ji333PI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8LMsBJJ3Ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KNDXQUJ9BI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrLjN1RLh6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfmv4Kmgv5s
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2016+full+album
>>61291364
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2016+teaser+album
works a lot better this time of year
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=bandcamp%20releases%20january%2031%2C%202016
repeat for the 30th, 29th, etc.
Dive deep into specific genres, it will kinda come together after that
>>61290903
Interesting advice dear anon.
