If you want to listen to the list in playlist form, either as a fun adventure to see who is on it and if you can identify each/any artist, or if you just want a place with recommended individual songs in a centralized location, I made a Spotify playlist here. It has 28/30 of the releases (#26 and #13 are not on Spotify).
2016 I didn’t make any sort of official list, but Mamiffer’s record was a likely contender for AOTY (woman and a piano). 2017, my top choice was Evelyn Davis’ record (woman and a piano). If I had a gun to my head about my favorite record of all time, I wouldn’t be lying if the answer that I gave was Grouper’s Ruins (woman and a piano). This is all to give context if you don’t know me, but also to inform of the surprise twist that Grouper’s newest woman-and-a-piano record is not my current top slot of the year!
April was S T A C K E D. I think 12/30 including my #1 and #2 were April.
I believe 15 of these 30 involve a woman in a position of creative control, which is not a percentage I’m dissatisfied by.
I’ve provided the genre tags listed for each release by RYM, sans Singer/Songwriter because I’ve never felt that tag was ever a descriptor of the music but rather the form.
I left the list blank of reviews so that way there's something to look forward to from my end of year list considering there will be overlap between the lists. (: This is like a sneak-peak check-up, not reviews front to back! Feel free to ask me anything about any of them or provide recommendations!!
Also, because I've been absent, shoutout to /u/YummyDevilsAvocado and /u/supremeshieldon (me being the person who showed you Trophy Scars) for mentioning me in the 6,000 sub shoutout thread, and I'll add /u/ericneedsanap myself. I love you all and appreciate you <3 Will try and be less absent here moving forward...
30) Nils Frahm - All Melody
(Post-Minimalism, Electronic, Berlin School, Ambient, Ambient Techno)
29) Tigue - Strange Paradise
(Not on RYM, I'd say Modern Classical)
28) Ben Levin Group - Our Place
(Not on RYM, let's go with... Art Rock?)
27) Wreck and Reference - Alien Pains
(Experimental Rock, Post-Industrial)
26) Jordan Munson - Until My Last
(Not on RYM, I'd say Modern Classical) (Not on Spotify)
25) Invisible Anatomy - Dissections
(Not on RYM, I'd say Modern Classical)
24) Sylvan LaCue - Apologies in Advance
(Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Trap Rap, Spoken Word)
23) Christina Vantzou - No. 4
(Ambient, Drone, Modern Classical)
22) Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
(Industrial Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock, Dark Ambient, Art Rock, Dark Jazz)
21) Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
(Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Synth Punk, Noise Rock, Glitch Hop, Experimental Rock, Electro-Industrial, Industrial Hip Hop)
20) Respire - Dénouement
(Blackgaze, Screamo, Post-Rock)
19) Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
(Contemporary R&B, Art Pop, Synth Funk, Conscious Hip Hop, Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul, Psychedelic Soul, Synthpop)
18) The Armed - Only Love
(Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore, Mathcore, Cybergrind, Nintendocore)
17) Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
(Indie Rock, Chamber Pop, Indie Pop)
16) Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep
(Art Pop, Progressive Pop, Drone, Ambient, Dark Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Dream Pop)
15) Bobby Previte - Rhapsody
(Avant-Garde Jazz, Avant-Prog)
14) Hypno5e - Alba - Les Ombres Errantes
(Progressive Rock, Acoustic Rock, Art Rock)
13) Dustman Dilemma - On Second Thought
(Avant-Prog, Avant-Garde Jazz) (Not on Spotify)
12) Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love
(Emo, Indie Rock, Post-Rock)
11) Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
(Post-Hardcore, Mathcore, Post-Rock, Blackgaze, Progressive Metal)
10) Charlie Looker - Simple Answers
(Chamber Music, Progressive Pop, Art Rock, Modern Classical)
9) Jordan Nobles - Rosetta Stone
(Not on RYM, I'd say Ambient, Modern Classical)
8) Andy Akiho - The War Below
(Modern Classical, Chamber Music, Minimalism)
7) Grouper - Grid of Points
(Ambient Pop, Ethereal Wave)
6) Ashley Paul - Lost in Shadows
(Avant-Folk, Electroacoustic)
5) Xinlisupreme - I Am Not Shinzo Abe
(Noise Pop, Noise, Shoegaze)
4) Carla Bozulich - Quieter
(Avant-Folk, Drone)
3) Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
(Avant-Garde Metal, Spirituals, Blues Rock, Black Metal, Gospel)
2) Saba - Care For Me
(Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Cloud Rap, Jazz Rap, Neo-Soul)
1) Clarice Jensen - For This From That Will Be Filled
(Drone, Modern Classical)
For all keeping track at home, this would be a "woman and her cello" release. 🙃
Submitted June 28, 2018 at 06:00PM by CultofNeurisis https://ift.tt/2lKqozr
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