Darkthrone - Transilvianian Hunger (1994)
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'90s Darkthrone is the ultimate black metal band. Lo-fi, raw, sparse, cold, eerie. Absolutely venomous riffs and vocals. Bands have been trying and failing to recapture this magic for thirty years.
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Wonderfully warm and sad ambient music. A bit of modern classical combined with static, electronic drones.
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Nostalgic and triumphant post-rock so good it spawned an entire genre of lesser copycats. The military-style drumming doesn't get enough credit for how creative and influential it was.
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Freddie Gibbs's magnetic personality and delivery combined with Madlib's smooth production is a perfect match. Best gangster rap at least since the '90s, surely.
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Ensemble post-rock for the apocalypse.
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Beautifully arranged ambient/instrumental folk covers of American Civil War-era folk songs.
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Dense, savage, brilliant screamo with progressive instrumentation, genuine funk influence, and an organ.
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Legendary Ethiopian jazz. Smooth, organ-heavy, hypnotic. Branches into a proto form of instrumental hip-hop on ocassion. This recording was nearly lost forever but was just managed to be saved, cleaned up, and released.
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Hammock's trilogy of Mysterium, Universalils, and Silencia is probably my favorite ambient music. Sweeping, warm, lush, full of life and health and peace. Silencia is my most listened-to of the three and possibly my most listened-to album of all time, despite its coming out in 2019. I listen to it so much and so often it's already embedded itself into my DNA.
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Ridiculously catchy maximalist bubblegum electropop. There's a lot of depth beneath the kind of childish, sugary aesthetics. And the production is just so detailed and fascinating and made with so much love. The kind of album you need to listen to with good headphones to catch all the details.
