My moderately in depth review of albums from the list I sent. Anything on this is on Spotify (and the album links there) because I'm too lazy to find them elsewhere (🙇♂️ to Jeff for finding the ringing rocks link).
One thing to note: I listen to music regularly these days, but pretty much only when working. I generally like music with lyrics, but I can't do new music with lyrics, because it's distracting, so I mostly listen to the same things over and over.
So I decided to go through the list and listen to all the albums that seemed interesting.
Here are the ones I will listen to again:
Artist | Album | List description | My review |
---|---|---|---|
Bab L’ Bluz | Nayda | If Motown Had Existed in North Africa... | Non-english lyrics, doesn't distract me from work! I love it, very exciting |
Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow | Life goes on | Jazz Trio | No lyrics! Moderately exciting |
Louise Bock | Sketch for Winter VII - Abyss: For Cello | Mystical Drone Music for Cello | Weird cello drone, good for working, moderately exciting |
Cataventos | Cataventos | Medieval-ish Portuguese Bagpipe Music | Real weird! Pretty exciting |
Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers | Vodou Alé | Haitian Drumming and Singing with Touches of Electronica and Dancehall Music | Pretty fun, pretty exciting |
Jacob Collier | Djesse Vol. 3 | Experimental Pop/R&B/Electronica | Pretty Exciting! Love the weird bass hits. |
Horse Lords | The Common Task | If La Monte Young Ran a Funky Microtonal Rock Jam Band | Weird! Doesn't have lyrics, and pretty exciting, but I can still work to it |
Jimanica | nothing but cosmos | Experimental Japanese Electronica/Electropop | Weird. Definitely seems to be cosmic. |
Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Singer-Songwriter | Whoah, damn this was amazing. Can't work to it, & had to listen multiple times to really get it |
Bad Bunny | YHLQMDLG | from pitchfork | I actually love reggaetón, and this bangs |
Jess Ware | What's Your Pleasure | conjures the erotic frisson of the cruisy dancefloors we aren’t permitted to congregate on while the global pandemic rages on. | Dancy. From pitchfork. |
Here's the other screenshot: