Well it's been a long year of some of the best releases I've ever heard and it seems that none of my favorites from have been mentioned at all in any of the 'best of 2019' lists that I have read. So I have bothered to make my own dang list. This list of 20-something (or however many this is) was EASY to put together because these albums are so great however I am omitting a CRAP-TON of great stuff... so sorry about that.
I'm not going to make you read 10,00000000 words about each of these so just mentioning some key aspects.
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Jazz. Beautiful deep mellow low horn playing. Stunning virtuosity. Incredibly fresh compositions. Flawless group dynamics.
Death Metal. Proggy, interesting & fresh yet a nice classic approach to things.
Jazz? Drumming? Unique to say the least. The way the songs are developed on this album are very unique.
What you don't expect to see is a list of musicians that played on each track because it kind of sounds like a lot of electronics.
"Contemporary Composition", wild, an epic journey for the open-minded. For fans of Zappa perhaps.
Electronic & Black Metal, Microtonal, Serialist, heady and dark. Cathartic!
Computer Generated Electronic Music. Good Microtonal. Interesting song forms. Dance party for when the A.I. take over.
Solo Piano compositions. Simple, easy and beautiful. Soft and quiet. deep emotions. A nice recording with muted overtones.
Mysterious Drumming and electronics. The harmonic choices are sometimes gong-like. You can get lost in the form of this music but it seems to make a lot of sense somehow.
Tape Music? (Not sure) There's certainly some tape-hiss. The most we get for a description of this music is "Untamed spectral gloom". There are indeed some pretty odd noises on this.
Really unique. The perfect ambience for absolutely dead silent dinner parties.
Electronics and flutes? Ambient. Chill. Believe it or not, this is actually great music to jog to. Especially at the sunset in the park when you're really feeling it.
Funky. Flawless. Louis Cole delivers yet again on his commitment to give us the good things. ya tu sabes
UK Hip Hop / Grime. Top Notch. Very low calm voice and adept rhymes with clever turns of phrase.
Wild Electronics, guitars and voice. Requires repeated careful listening due to incredible intricacy. Maybe the worst music for a hangover that you can find on bandcamp (or the best, depends on what you do with your hangovers)
Folk. Singer Songwriter. Good. Beautiful. 60s-ish. Quite Good. Very great. Listen to this one when it's raining.
Digital Orchestra w/ metal vocals. The harmonies and progressions here are often a little unexpected.
IDM electronic. Incredible control of timbre on this record.
Black/Death Metal. Gnarly! Tremendous feeling of being at the absolute bottom of everything.
pop? Nice arrangements. Very nice.
Not sure what to describe this as. This is an overwhelming album with what sounds like a lot of improv and electronic music. There's often too much going on to decipher the bits.
A new recording of a Morton Feldman piece. One of my all time favorite composers. Like most Morton Feldman, you have to listen to this while considering how long your have been listening to a section, or else you are just lost in the pile of things. That is to say you have to carry with you memory in your ears. The frame of your short term and long term memory is being leveraged it seems.
Also it's supposed to be quiet ( obvy. )
Hardcore/metal. I'm not sure if this was previously released or not, but I certainly missed it.
This captures a very particular era of The DEP that they moved away from a little bit stylistically. The DEP is one of those bands that are an extreme of one genre that no one has quite matched. Very Intense.
Jazz. close mics. Soft quiet room. good. nice. The Chris Speed Trio is one of those bands that allows you to remember the first time you heard kind of blue or something. The way that each member of this trio supports the band feels so comfortable.
Deathcore? Djent? I hate the terms that are used to describe this particular subgenre, but I suppose they fit into it well enough. Nobody at all in this subgenre is doing quite what carbomb is doing. The guitar tones will take you over the edge and the drumming will make sure you stay there (off the dang edge).
Jazz, modern. Beautiful production quality, as it the standard for all Edition releases. Mega-talented instrumentalists.
Jazz. Modern art jazz. Microtonal. Crazy complicated compositions. Good luck finding the beat! There is a track on here that definitely seems like it's a voice memo recording, but this band is so dang good that you kind of forget about that fact very quickly as you listen to it.
Metal. Melodic black metal. It has a very Dungeon Synth-like vibe although it is not Dungeon Synth at all. I have actually seen this album on a couple of lists around on the internet. I've seen this being referred to as "folk metal" but I don't really like that term because it seems to misunderstand what folk music is.
Greenville SC Heck! ya!! I remember getting to see these guys play at Ground Zero in Spartenburg back in the day.... It's every so often that a band that has been around for multiple decades drops a new album and it's somehow even heavier and more gnarly than they have ever been before. I love all of Nile's work, and I think this is actually their best album.
Rings of Saturn albums: you gotta go gidim' !! Go Gidim at the store!!!
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