Underground Listmaker

Decade Rating: 3.84. Ranked  #2 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1990. 1990     1) The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends  ||  Jangle Pop     2)  Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk  ||  Dream Pop, Ethereal Wave     3)  Skinny Puppy - Rash Reflection  ||  Electro-Industrial     4)  Angelo Badalementi - Laura Palmer's Theme  ||  Television Music, Dark Jazz     5)  Lustmørd - Heresy Part 1  ||  Dark Ambient 1991     1) Slint - Good Morning, Captain  ||  Post-Rock, Post-Hardcore, Math Rock     2)  Massive Attack - Safe From Harm  ||  Trip Hop     3)  My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow  ||  Shoegaze, Noise Pop     4)  Rabih Abou-Khalil - An Evening With Jerry  ||  Arabic Jazz     5)  Talk Talk - Ascension Day  ||  Post-Rock 1992   ...

Decade Rating: 3.75. Ranked  #4 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1980. 1980     1) Talking Heads - The Great Curve  ||  Post-Punk     2)  The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You  ||  Neo-Psychedelia, Jangle Pop     3)  Kate Bush - Babooshka  ||  Art Pop, Progressive Pop     3)  Joy Division - Decades  ||  Post-Punk     4)  Prince - When You Were Mine  ||  Synth Funk 1981     1) Laurie Anderson - O Superman  ||  Experimental, Minimalism, Art Pop     2)  This Heat - Cenotaph  ||  Post-Punk     3)  New Order - Ceremony  ||  Post-Punk     4)  Soft Cell - Tainted Love  ||  Synthpop, Minimal Wave     5)  Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity  ||  No Wave, Noise Rock 1982     1) Kate Bush - Sat in Your Lap  ||  Progressive Po...

  Decade Rating: 3.92. Ranked  #1 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1970. 1970     1) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath  ||  Heavy Metal, Hard Rock     2)  Neil Young - Tell Me Why  ||  Country Rock, Folk Rock     3)  Exuma - Mama Loi, Papa Loi  ||  Freak Folk, Caribbean Folk     4)  Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance  ||  Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz     5)  Santana - Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen  ||  Latin Rock 1971     1) Joni Mitchell - All I Want  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk     2)  The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses  ||  Blues Rock     3)  Funkadelic - Super Stupid  ||  Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock     4)  Comus - Drip Drip  ||  Freak Folk, Avant-Folk, Progressive Folk     5)  Leonard Cohen - Avalanche  ||  Singer/Songwrit...

Decade Rating: 3.81. Ranked  #3 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1960. 1960     1) Charles Mingus - Moanin'  ||  Post-Bop Jazz      2) Etta James - At Last  ||  Soul, Vocal Jazz     3) John Coltrane - Giant Steps  ||  Hard Bop Jazz     4) Miles Davis -  Concierto de Aranjuez  ||  Modal Jazz, Spanish Classical     5) Max Roach - Freedom Day  ||  Avant-Garde Jazz 1961     1) Roy Orbison - Crying  ||  Traditional Pop     2) Bill Evans Trio - Haunted Heart  ||  Cool Jazz     3)  Tod Dockstader - Piece #8  ||  Musique concrète, Electronic     4) Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces  ||  Nashville Sound, Countrypolitan     5)  Chavela Vargas - La llorna  ||  Ranchere, Bolero 1962     1) Charlie Mingus - Ysabel's Table Dance  ||  Post-Bop Jazz ...

Best of 2022 The final product of my exploration of a diverse range of albums released this year. Remember that placements are only my opinion. Format is:  #. Artist  - Album   ||  Genres  ||  descriptors  ||   Country   ||  Rating Honorable mentions: Gazelle Twin - Black Dog, Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex, Great Falls - Objects Without Pain, Dorian Electra - Fanfare, Sigur Rós - ÁTTA, Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert, Mac Quayle - Mr. Robot Vol. 8, Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!, 파란노을 [Parannoul] - After the Magic 50.  Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags  ||  Speed Metal, Black Metal  ||  death, dark  ||   UK  ||  7.5/10 49.  Sofia Kourtesis - Madres  ||  Deep House, Latin House  ||  hypnotic, mellow  ||  Peru  ||  7.5/10 48. Algiers - Shook  ||  Post-Industrial, Post-Punk, Political Hip Hop  ||...

Hello all! I've been mostly listening older music recently, but I thought I would make a post with my ratings of albums released this year so far. 1. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics  ||  Darkwave, Art Pop, Post-Industrial  ||  dark, political  ||  9.5/10  ||  Sweden 2. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World  ||  Post-Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia  ||  dense, pessimistic  ||  9/10  ||  USA 3. Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall  ||  Art Rock, Progressive Pop  ||  uplifting, progressive  ||  8.5/10  ||  UK 4. Tropical Fuck Storm - Submersive Behavior  ||  Punk Blues, Experimental Rock  ||  quirky, raw  ||  8/10  ||  Australia 5. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You  ||  Alt-Pop, Art Pop, Downtempo  ||  lush, romantic  ||  8/10  ||  USA 6. Algiers - Shook  ||  Indus...

*Phew...* this was a hard list to put together! I decided to break this into two parts, as I wanted a longer list than I posted last year but need it to be manageable (doin' school at the same time).  This was meticulously put together and thought out. To some it may seem counter-intuitive to rank music, but over time I've developed systems to compare and rate albums based on enjoyment and the impact they've had on me. Nevertheless, this sort of extensive list is very hard to do. In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed the process of making it. A couple of little factoids about this half of the list: Percentage of male vocalists - 50%; female vocalists - 27.2%; male + female vocalists - 12.4%; instrumental - 10%; non-binary - 0.4%. Top sub-genres - Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Trip Hop, Art Pop, Industrial. Oldest album on the list -  Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1957). The format: #. Artist - Album   ||  genres  ||  Release Year...

2022 was a spectacular year for music. From the new Radiohead side project (The Smile) to the virtually unknown debut of Shrieking Violet, 2022 turned out to be on par with 2021 in terms of diversity and brilliance in sonic craft and experimentation.  Below I rank my favorite albums of the year. The format is: Artist Name - Album Name  ||  Genre  ||  descriptors  ||  Country  ||  Rating. Scroll to the bottom for a playlist of my favorite song from each album. Hope you find something you like! Honorable mentions: Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows, Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation, Ghais Guevara - There Will Be No Super-Slave, Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong, Jack White - Fear of the Dawn, Cult of Luna - The Long Road North. 25.  Avantdale Bowling Club - Trees   ||  Jazz Rap  ||  mellow, poetic  ||  New Zealand  ||   8.5/10 24.  J...

Last year was one of the best for music in the last decade. A lot of awful things happened in the world, and this is, I think, reflected in the sphere of music; so many artists turned inwards with dark thoughts and sentiments. This doesn't mean nothing inspiring came out...quite the opposite, in fact. I feel like darkness can lead to a depth of emotion and nuance in music that is, in and of itself, quite beautiful. Below are my favorite albums from the year 2021. (Scroll to the bottom for a playlist with track picks from each album.) Enjoy! 25. The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue  ||  Indie Rock  ||  melodic, heavy  ||  Favorite track: Sevier  ||  8.5/10 24. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix  ||  Experimental Hip Hop  ||  avant-garde, futuristic  ||  Favorite track: Superman That  ||  8.5/10 23. PJ Harvey - White Chalk - Demos  ||  Singer/Songwriter  ||  depressive, lonely...

Just some great discoveries I've recently made (albums of the current year).  Hatchie - Giving the World Away  ||  Dream Pop  ||  eclectic, uplifting  ||  Favorite track - This Enchanted  ||  Australia Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter  ||  Singer/Songwriter  ||  sombre, existential  ||  Favorite track - Ptolemaea  ||  USA Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy  ||  Jazz Metal  ||  eclectic, atonal  ||  Favorite track - Merkurius Gilded  ||  USA Shrieking Violet - ascii garden  ||  Ambient  ||  atmospheric, soothing  ||  Favorite track - nest seven  ||  USA Messa - Close  ||  Doom Metal  ||  ritualistic, dark  ||  Favorite track - Dark Horse  ||  Italy DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT  ||  Nu Jazz  ||  playful, mellow  ||  Favorite track - Not Tigh...