I’ve always held the belief that music wasn’t better in the past, people just have survivorship bias. What are your genuine favorite albums of the last few years?
Personally, I’m loving The Rime of Memory by Panopticon, Ants from Up There by Black Country, New Road, and Hellfire by Black Midi.
What the Dead Men Say - Trivium
Lamb of God - Lamb of God
Omens - Lamb of God
Abyss - Unleash the Archers
Violence Unimagined - Cannibal Corpse
Fortitude - Gojira
Zeit - Rammstein
Modern Primitive - Sceptic Flesh
Here’s a few I’ve enjoyed in recent memory:
- Koyo - Would You Miss It?
- Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
- Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me
- Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia?
- Vacation Manor - Vacation Manor
- Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
The Koyo album is great if you like punk/hardcore/emo, same with the Militarie Gun one. Tigers Jaw has been one of my favorites for a while, and this album is one of their best imo; great band if you like indie rock/emo. Yard Act’s a British rock band with post-punk influences, you might like them if you enjoy that signature dry British humor in combination with some social commentary. Vacation Manor is a more laid-back indie rock band with more classic Americana/Springsteen influences, I can’t recommend them enough for people who have a sweet spot for classic rock. Lastly, Hotline TNT’s album is worth a listen for people who enjoy shoegaze and indie rock, they have a really great DIY sound with just enough polish to tie the album together and keep it accessible. The 2020’s have been a damn good year for music, at least as far as the bands I’ve been keeping up with.
Edit: added Tigers Jaw, I couldn’t leave them out
Militarie Gun & Koyo are killing it. I would like to add Fleshwater’s We’re Not Here to Be Loved.
Ooh that was a solid one too, good catch. Can’t wait to see what else they have in store
Osees - A Foul Form
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
KGWL - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
PetroDragonic Apocalypse by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
and it’s not even close. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Prog metal at its finest!
King Gizzard never stops pushing bangers, do they?
the album Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa is a masterpiece in pop. I don’t think she’s release anything quite up to that standard since (not that she’s released much).
Steve Lacey- Gemini Rights
Foals- Life is Yours
Japanese Breakfast- Jubilee
Covet- Cartharsis
JUNGLE- Volcano
Black Thought & Danger Mouse- Cheat Codes
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes- What Kinda Music
Yussef Dayes- Black Classical Music
Any of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s 10 albums relased since 2020
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There are so many, if I had to limit myself to just a few highlights though:
Starset - Horizons
The Glitch Mob - Revisions
Skrillex - Quest for Fire
Northlane - Obsidian, Alien
Noisia - Closer
Erra - Erra
Polaris - Fatalism, The Death of Me
The Chemical Brothers - For that beautiful feeling
Justin Hawkes - Existential
Poppy - I Disagree
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Muzz - The Promised Land
HEALTH - Rat Wars
There’s just so much good music out there, especially recently.
My fav album of the 2020’s would probably be Saviors by Green day. I however dont look at the release date of the album Im currently listening too often so It gets pretty hard to make a good list.
I don’t think these albums will exactly match the music tastes of people here, but here we go:
- Phuture Noize - Silver Bullet (Hardstyle)
- Phuture Noize - From Star to Stardust (Hardstyle)
- Etherwood - Neon Dust (Chill DnB/Electronic music)
So far, these three come to mind:
Mammoth WVH (2021 self-titled debut)
- Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang’s debut album in which he wrote and recorded all instruments. It’s some fantastic hard rock about not giving a shit what other people expect of you. “Mammoth” embodies the spirit of the album, while “Stone” is one of the best low-tempo, high-energy songs I’ve ever heard.
Pawns & Kings (2022) - Alter Bridge
- A heavy, raw, intense and politically charged album about how the new generation of humanity needs to be better if we want any sort of societal continuity. I may be playing it up but the music is kickass.
Fortitude (2021) - Gojira
- Most of Gojira’s music is about the doom we’re sowing by destroying the planet. This album is a stark tonal shift for them in that almost all of it is supposed to be positive and encouraging. “The Chant” is nothing but encouraging those who suffer oppression to fight on for their rights. “Into the Storm” is an anthem for fighting for political change in a world that beats everyone down for trying to challenge the status quo. This album was exactly what I needed after COVID had already gone on for a year and showed no signs of stopping.
If you like politically charged albums, check out God’s Country and Hostile Architecture, by Chat Pile and Ashenspire respectively. Unashamed and raw are what I’d use to describe them.
2020
- Tricot’s Makkuro (black, 真っ黒)
- Sinai Vessel’s Ground Aswim
2021
- Low’s Hey What
2022
- Kessoku Band’s Kessoku Band (self-titled, 結束バンド)
- Yuga’s Speechless Nights (言葉のない夜に)
- Wreath’s Decade of You
2023
- Ado’s Utattemita Album (歌ってみたのアルバム)
- Homecomings’ New Neighbors
- James Blake’s Playing Robots into Heaven
KNOWER - Knower Forever
Kim Dracula - A Gradual Decline…
Kadabra - Umbra
Mammal Hands - Gift from the Trees
Atsuko Chiba - Water, …
Archspire - Bleed the Future
Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal
Between the Buried and Me - Colors 2
DARKSIDE - Spiral
Vola - Witness
Sleep Token - -both albums-
Lucid Planet - ll
Kimono Drag Queens - Songs of Worship
Woodkid - S16
Algiers - There Is No Year
And of course… most of what King Gizzard released.
For just the albums I’ve listened to extensively and probably many more that I really enjoyed I think it’s been a good few years.
Pressure Machine by The Killers
No particular order to these.
- Yacht World (2020) - Engelwood
- La Familia Pt. 3 (2021) - Always Proper
- Yasuke (2021) - Flying Lotus
- Lindo (2020) - emune
