Strawb's listianity - The top 15 albums from 2024 (and more)

by Strawb on Sat, Jan 4, 2025

A very strawb round up of the year

Every year there will be grouches who complain that there’s no good music (or movies/tv shows/etc), and every year I respond by saying that there’s always good music, and if you can’t find it that’s on you. That being said, I feel 2024 was better overall than the last few, with many albums that I enjoyed enough to listen to, until Bandcamp told me to pay up. I had a good time with the sheet this year, absquatulating to my heart’s content and not forcing myself to fill gaps.

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Goldicot's listianity - The top 15 albums from 2024

by Goldicot on Mon, Dec 30, 2024

The ''top'' albums according to him and no one else

15 - Neural Indent / Gorenette Coleman - Neural Indent / Gorenette Coleman Extreme experimentation yields insane results. Matt Stephens’ split with himself takes two logical affronts to absurd conclusions, each maximally challenging to categorization and palatability alike. Ostensibly goregrind, Neural Indent’s non sequitur technical brutal illogic free jazz defies free improvisation: is it carefully composed extemporaneous nonsense, or aleatoric preprogrammed seizure? Either way, I can imagine Neural Indent opening for Conlon Nancarrow on the Extremely Hard Bop tour.

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DUMPSTER SLAMDIVE APRIL 2024

by planex on Thu, Apr 18, 2024

Planex explores the ''slam'' tag on bandcamp so you don't have to

I haven’t been back to this dumpster in a while. Gotta hose it out every now and then or the manager of the Burger King next door starts to complain about the smell. It’s been two years since I last polled the state of slam on Bandcamp, and there have been a number of legitimately good slam releases since then. Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship has changed the game with Otakuslam <3 Animecide, the best release of its kind.

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The 2023 Escape Plan

by tarbeaux on Thu, Feb 1, 2024

A retrospective about non-2023 albums

In 2023, I didn’t delve much into listening to older music due to a notorious yearly project that consumed a significant amount of time (read about it here https://www.interdimensionalvortex.com/posts/community/2023-08-11-compost-a-reflection-on-live-albums-and-the-failing-of-this-year-community-project/). I found myself exploring albums from the reliquary, which was not very fruitful, as you can imagine. Shout out to the worst album I have heard this year, Little Woman - Throat, that I described as ‘’a bunch of ducks playing Jazz’’ and gave a 2.

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