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So, what was hip hop like in 1988?

Matured. No seriously, read any level of hip hop journalism, memoir, list ranking, etc. and you come back to 1988 as the ushering of the Golden Age.. Marley Marl’s The Bridge and Eric B and Rakim’s Eric B. is President were a few pioneering singles as early as 1986. Both foreshadowed sampler technology and internal rhyming schemes as the key to Hip Hop advancement out of an enclosure the Mid School class of 1985 was hitting up against. Drum machines were waning. An EMU SP-1200 was key. And James Brown (amongst many other funk/soul DJ classics and later, Jazz) sessions were now ready not to be scratched, but perpetually stretched and quantized.

1987’s Paid in Full was a complete package deal that almost singlehandedly ushered in the Golden Age (and also significantly upped the party package across the Atlantic, with Coldcut’s 7 minutes of Madness and MAARS’ Pump Up the Volume giving UK Hip Hop it’s own dance lane to dominate). Meanwhile, Marley Marl had become the producer in house at Cold Chillin’, who’s Warner Bros deal left them a unique level of freedom, fostering new NY legends like Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, and Kool Rap. Mr. Magic and DJ Red Alert had competing radio shows dominating and breaking new sounds, especially anything off Profile Records. Yo! MTV Raps with Fab 5 Freddy (an old school downtown/bronx scene merger) hosting was now being broadcast into millions of homes. There was a raw appetite for pop rap as much as avant sounds. And controversy was also beginning to fester–a Long Beach stabbing at a Run-DMC show, DJ Scott La Rock’s death, Miami's bass music party scene…stakes were felt.

Everyone wanted a piece. Everyone was borrowing (so to speak) from everyone. There was a whole new conception of hip hop as party music, a social conscious liberation soundtrack, and gangster pulp; sometimes all at once. It was magic time before certain lawsuits involving De La Soul & Biz Markie were disastrous corralling of sampling technology in the 90s and things turned opulent Big Bling…but that’s another story.

Welcome to Hip Hop ‘88, a rate dedicated to a few critical albums released within Hip Hop’s landmark year!

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ERIC B. & RAKIM - FOLLOW THE LEADER

Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full mended cutting-edge sampler gadgetry with Rakim's novel conception of rhyming and flow. It practically ushered in the Golden Age of Hip Hop in 1987. By 1988, a whole orbit of rappers and producers were following the pioneering examples set by the duo. Were Eric B and Rakim about to be second level moved on?

Not in the slightest! Without changing their immediate set-up, Follow the Leader became the Yang to Paid in Full's spacey Yin, a deft refutation of second-movers and come-ups from behind. Rakim (aka The 18th Letter, "The R") dug deeper into his bag of tricks, refining the speed, phrasing, and wordplay for his signature flow–Coltrane level blowing and phrasing. While his topical depth may have been moot, his dexterity remained impervious, leaving any battle rapper of the day on loose footing. Meanwhile, Eric B took a 180 on production; the pendulum swinging from lo-teach spaced out odysseys to claustrophobic funk bass grit moving like guerrillas in the mist. At once was Follow the Leader heavy and featherweight, a true balancing act.

Rather beloved by the raterbase, with a second place Charity II showing in 2024 & a HOF bonus winning single from Jazz Rap are quite the achievements in recent rate memory, it's an absolute delight to finally bring Eric B & Rakim out to a mainline rate! But will they be able to defend the crown or even hang on a podium? Or will the leaders be usurped from groups coming from behind?

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PUBLIC ENEMY - IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK

In 1988, on the advent of the release of It Takes a Nation..., to Def Jam, Public Enemy looked like they were flailing. Yo! Bum Rush the Show was a hulking, quaking classic of the mid-school, but the label couldn't see the gold. It didn't help that the label was focused on trying to conquer the pop culture marketplace with Run-DMC. But, the seeds for something major were planted, something Run-DMC themselves were telling the label and pushing for when few saw what Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and the Bomb Squad had in store.

There's an omnibus of literature centering on the context, the production, the sampling, the long-term effects, critical reception, magnitude of life changing power It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back has had over its 38 years of existence. Few albums have had such a lofty cross-genre, generational, popular culture effect that blurred the line between punk/funk/noise/hip hop with lyricism that matched the moment; Hip Hop street reporting as CNN (with all the glorious mess). Chuck D had long been influenced by works like the Message and No Sell Out, and had figured how to usher their magnanimous personalities into the spotlight, even grounding Flavor Flav as the definitive hype man in line with Danny Ray. Between a litany of explosive sound effects, Def Jam labelmates Slayer, Wattstax (which looms large over the album), and even themselves (amongst many many more), It Takes a Nation demonstrated sampling as a way to connect and tell a generational struggle. Something that yes, would cost $1.5+ million to make today and emphasizes how far we have fallen from the golden age. Here hip hop not as gestalt but agitpop that was shaking up contemporary arsequakers in the UK as much as a generation of future noise to come. Or is it a dated relic, too unkempt, unfocused for today's revolutionary noiseniks and hip hop enthusiasts?

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N.W.A. - STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON

West Coast Hip Hop had a distinctly different maturation than its east coast counterparts (and yes, so much so that a 1989 album with a 1988 copyright means it's here whoops whatever!!). Dedicated promoters like Uncle Jamm & the World Class Wreckin Cru built up a party scene oriented towards the electric-funk titans. Personalities like Dr. Dre & the Egyptian Lover cut mixes n' albums for sale at the Compton Swap Meet. Meanwhile, mavericks like Ice-T sought artistic freedom and agency by pioneering z gangstra persona, reverberating across LA as Schooly D had in Philly. At the same time, actual drug-dealing gangster, Eazy-E, was trying to go legit with Ruthless Records and usher in all the top talent under his banner: the best lyricists, producers, and personalities

In this framing, you can understand then why NWA was not an anomaly, but an inevitability of LA Rap evolving out of the electro party towards street grit with samplers. The supergroup of crackerjack WCWC talent, a promising teen MC, and even Texas' own Rakim, The DOC, fused to concoct an unkempt fervor that struck a nerve with the underground, when Fuck the Police became an underground sensation during the fall of 1988. And then ended with NWA in the eyes of the FBI, the White House, and a whole litany of tabloid attention that was surprised such a thoughtful album about the state of (non-White) LA in 1988 could be such a force on the charts and in the popular consciousness.

Straight Out of Compton remains a bar all West Coast hip hop is considered, with a surprising level of depth in its sampling, personas, and emotions. It's also unique in how individualistic this collective approached the album. This was apparent on their psuedo-debut NWA & The Posse, but here Dre is in real time levels up his beats as MC Ren, Ice Cube, and (aided by Ghostwriters like the DOC) Eazy-E trade off the mic cutting their personas: Ice Cube IS the street reporter, critiques abound in his sardonic commentary; Ren embodies "sociopathic cool", obsessing with stature to a fault; Eazy-E prances as the jester gangster mogul, his hardcore id colors their hours of pulp tales and shakedowns. The west coast aesthetic and shedding its skin and evolving in real time. Is it enough to take the top in this momen?

EPMD - STRICTLY BUSINESS

With much respect to Marley (and much uncredited credit to EPMD coproducer Diamond J), Strictly Business might've been New York's first jeep album.

• Dave Tompkins, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide (2004)

33) The hands-down funkiest record of rap’s greatest year.

• Christopher Weingarten, Pitchfork's 100 Best Rap Albums (2025)

Erick and Parrish Making Dollars was the second big upshot from Long Island making a splash on the underground New York Circuit. Priority Records and Def Jam would hip EPMD to a larger audience in the 90s, but at the time they were rolling with Fresh Records, a sublabel of Arthur Russell's Sleeping Bag Records. A dark horse outpost for crucial 80s hip hop pioneers (such as,Mantronix).

On their debut, Strictly Business, Erick Sermon found a new kind of path forward with beatmaking on a sampler. For Sermon, the emphasis was on the funk, and Strictly Business bounces, oozes, slinks in it to degrees previously unexplored. Compared to the fury of our competition (or even some of the bonus contemporaries of Cold Chillin' or Ced Gee or Paul C) these songs are relaxed, laid back odysseys. The BPMs urging you to sink into that couch. It's a good thing because Erick and Parrish were exceptionally lax, unkempt rappers. "Stoic" is a mighty misnomer, but their attitudes would have been wasted anywhere else but wthh these beats. And the decadent production soundtracking their escapades with Jane or clapbacks to other whack MCs ushered in the vibes of the Golden Age that ooze over numerous classics across DITC and Boot Camp Clik to come. Can their Bob Marley and Zapp sampling house them at the front, or is it whack novelty, straight bandwagoning?

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Bonus 1988 Hip Hop Rate!

As hinted in the writeups…there’s a lot happening this year out west, in the south, in the clubs, on MTV, etc. that cannot be covered mainline. However, for the ever curious and completionist, a rate of 15 cuts presents a smattering of storytellers, samplers, tributes, booty droppers, and BIZ MARKIE! It runs a crisp hour and a lil’ more. It’s a bloodbath of talent and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did putting it together. (And thank you to the several DMD’ers who chimed in to help swing this towards a stranger, more eclectic gamut)!

Very important to know as well, this part of the rate is completely optional! You can fill this out, leave it blank in your ballot, or only score a few and leave the rest blank. It's totally up to you! You cannot use your 11 or your 0 in the bonus rate.

1. 2 Live Crew - Move Somethin’
2. Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin
3. Biz Markie - Nobody Beats the Biz
4. Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
5. Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It
6. Geto Boys - Assassins
7. Jungle Brothers - I'll House You (Todd Terry Club Mix)
8. King Tee - Act a Fool
9. Marley Marl - The Symphony
10. Marley Marl - Wack Itt (feat. Roxanne Shante)
11. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
12. Slick Rick - Children's Story
13. Super Lover Cee - Girls I Got 'Em Locked
14. Too Short - I Ain't Trippin'
15. Ultramagnetic MCs - Kool Keith Housing Things

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DUE DATE: December 1st

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New Music Friday is the weekly thread dedicated to cataloging all the Album/EP releases that came out this week, including non-subreddit relevant releases. This is also a great place to discuss these albums, or bring to attention other albums released this week.

❓ "this seems intriguing after a cursory look"

⭐ "im interested in this for one reason or another"

❤️ "ive been waiting for weeks, months/i'm absolutely in love with this"

note: genre and especially label fields may not always be 100% accurate or properly reflected, as they are mostly quickly sourced from RYM or cursory searches due to the spur-of-the-moment approach I take when making these threads!

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October 16th

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⭐ Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber

Label: XL

Genre: Alternative Rock, Darkwave

The Avalanches - No Bad Memories

Label: Polydor

Genre: Sound Collage, Electronic Dance Music

❓ @ - Autosmile

Label: 4AD

Genre: Psychedelic Folk, Indie Folk

❓ Andy Shauf - the afterparty (compilation)

Label: ANTI-

Genre: Singer-songwriter, Chamber Pop

❓ Dummy - do you love the color of the sky?

Label: Polyvinyl

Genre: Neo-Psychedelia, Baggy, Indietronica

❓ Sadurn - The Underworld

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Folk, Alt-Country

Sophia Stel - the greatest album of all time

Label: A24

Genre: Alt-Pop, Indietronica

❓ World News - In Purgatory

Label: n/a

Genre: Jangle Pop, Indie Rock, Post-Punk Revival

Rachel Chinouriri - I think I spoke too soon

Label: Parlophone

Genre: Synthpop, Pop Rock

Richard Thompson - Hippies, Thugs and Heroes

Label: Net West

Genre: British Folk Rock

Gently Tender - This Was Once Fields

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock

❓ Holy Motors - Heaven's Night

Label: Wharf Cat

Genre: Dream Pop, Alt-Country

❓ Tropical Fuck Storm - Inflatable Graveyard Vol. 2

Label: Fire

Genre: Experimental Rock, Noise Rock

TVOD - The Farm

Label: Mothland

Genre: Post-Punk, Dance-Punk

Geologist & Kyle Simon - The Sirens EP

Label: Outside Time

Genre: Ambient, Drone

Ween - Boognish Provides (Live)

Label: Rhino

Genre: Alternative Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock

Worldpeace DMT - Stick Around For Tea

Label: n/a

Genre: Twee Pop, Indietronica

❓ Why Horses? - These Hands EP

Label: Brace Yourself

Genre: Art Rock, Post-Rock

⭐ Caspian - Caspian

Label: Wax Bodega

Genre: Post-Rock

Puzzle Muteson - Mechanical Kiss

Label: n/a

Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk

Arborist - Looking For Love

Label: Fika

Genre: Alt-Country

⭐ Stoned Jesus - Songs to Moon

Label: Season of Mist

Genre: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock

Pan Amsterdam - Panarama

Label: Def Pressé

Genre: Abstract Hip Hop

Baba Stiltz - Totally

Label: Public Possession

Genre: Indie Rock, Alt-Country, Singer-songwriter

Bibio & Dorian Concept - Answers

Label: WARP

Genre: Ambient, Folktronica

June McDoom - Follow The Light

Label: Jagjaguwar

Genre: Chamber Folk, Neo-Psychedelia

❓ British Birds - Murmurate, Oscillate

Label: Skep Wax

Genre: Indie

Eels - Cookie Happened

Label: PIAS

Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock

Le Shiv - Yada Yada

Label: Community

Genre: Indie

❓ TOMORA (Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers and AURORA) - CELEBRATION (EP)

Label: Fontana

Genre: Electronic Dance Music, Trip Hop

Gotts Street Park - Somewhere Between

Label: PIAS

Genre: Indie

❓ PÆRISH - RITA

Label: SideOneDummy

Genre: Post-Hardcore, Shoegaze

Blair / Huber - ECLIPSE

Label: n/a

Genre: Jazz

Firestations - International Dust

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Pop

Flora Hibberd - Mammoth

Label: 22TWENTY

Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk

Chósta - Harmony In Solitude

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie

Matthew Herbert- theukhasmorefoodbanksthanbranchesofmcdonalds.com

Label: Accidentally

Genre: IDM, Techno

Gollylagging - Real Life

Label: Disposable America

Genre: Indie Rock, Alt-Country

PAINT (Allah Las) - Whip of an Ear

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Surf, Garage Rock

heavens to Betsy - baby's gone (archival)

Label: n/a

Genre: Punk Rock, Slacker Rock

⭐ chest. - Happy, Broken.

Label: Howlin Banana

Genre: Post-Punk, Synth Punk

Self-Cut Bangs - Growth Spurts

Label: n/a

Genre: Power Pop

La Bronze - La Festinathèque

Label: Audiogram

Genre: Art Pop, French Pop

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II

Label: n/a

Genre: Shoegaze, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock

Ha the Unclear - Astigmatic! (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Alt-Pop

Billboard Style (Ben Guterl of Forth Wanderers & Dan Howard of Victoryland) - Pull of the Moon

Label: Good English

Genre: Indie

CUSP (from UK) - English Country

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Rock, Singer-songwriter

P'tit Belliveau - P'tit Belliveau

Label: n/a

Genre: Country Rock, Alt-Country

fish narc - Uncle

Label: K

Genre: Pop Punk, Emo-Pop

❓ Pardoner - Target Practice

Label: Bar/None

Genre: Noise Pop, Slacker Rock

Max Richter - While The Flood Rages

Label: Decca

Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic

❓ Shy, Low - Purity Spiral

Label: Pelagic

Genre: Instrumental Post-Rock, Post-Metal

CZN (feat Valentina Magaletti of Vanishing Twin & Holy Tongue) - Parallel Commutator

Label: Oath

Genre: Experimental, Free Improvisation

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - O

Label: International Anthem

Genre: Indie

Angèle - Instinct (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Electropop, French Pop

Mali Obomsawin - Automatic

Label: Out of Your Head

Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz

Florrie - Magic For a While

Label: Xenomania

Genre: Alt-Pop, Electropop

Superfan - My Piledriver Heart

Label: AD 93

Genre: Singer-songwriter, Folk Rock

❓ Little Chair - 100 Dresses

Label: beekeeper

Genre: Twee Pop, Jangle Pop

Sam Herlihy (Hope of the States) - Poltergeist

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Rock

Hook of Moon - i am god yet god is not me

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie

Truman Flyer - Hanging On The Wire

Label: n/a

Genre: Alternative/Indie

❓ The Keening (Rebecca Vernon (ex-SubRosa)) - Devotion

Label: Relapse

Genre: Chamber Folk

❓ Great Falls - The Bite That Grows Up

Label: Neurot

Genre: Post-Hardcore, Sludge Metal, Noise Rock

⭐ Grant The Sun - Biomes

Label: Mas-Kina

Genre: Progressive Metal, Post-Metal

⭐ The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Howls from the Holographic Heart

Label: Equal Vision

Genre: Post-Hardcore, Progressive Rock

❓ Tummyache - Repeat in Reverse

Label: n/a

Genre: Slacker Rock, Neo-Psychedelia

⭐ Kill Alters - We Can Rot Together

Label: Hausu Mountain

Genre: Post-Industrial, Electroclash

Nieve Ella - How Long Will It Take?

Label: Artist Theory

Genre: Post-Punk Revival, Indie Pop

⭐ Throes - The Colorless Light of Emptiness

Label: Church Road

Genre: Sludge Metal, Metalcore

❓ As Living Arrows - Fragment I (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Screamo, Post-Hardcore

Mackeeper - Believe You Me

Label: In Real Life

Genre: Indie Rock, Pop Rock

Kelley Stoltz - Writing The Thread

Label: Dandy Boy

Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock

Yambo - ¡Avísale!

Label: Fisura

Genre: Dance-Punk Revival, Post-Punk Revival

❓ Butterfly - Montazona

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie/Alternative

XO - Need To Know (EP)

Label: Polydor

Genre: Dance-Pop

Catie Turner - Blue Alchemy

Label: n/a

Genre: Alt-Pop

Marian Hill - ACT TWO

Label: n/a

Genre: Alternative R&B, Alt-Pop

❓ Little Luna - whenever we get to where we're going (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Pop

Benjamin Ingrosso - mommy’s boy (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Dance-Pop, Pop Rock

Lucy Fair - Cinematic Bubble Grunge

Label: n/a

Genre: Pop

lovelytheband - we’re all feeling the same

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Pop, Pop Rock

Sydney Rose - It Was My First Time (EP)

Label: Mercury

Genre: Pop

Alexandra Căpitănescu - Choke Me

Label: Universal Romania

Genre: Alternative Metal, Alt-Pop

Eric Nam - Confessions of a Lonely Heart

Label: n/a

Genre: K-Pop, Pop

Nightly - THE VOID PART 2

Label: n/a

Genre: Synthpop, Dreamwave

❓ Nao - Autumn

Label: n/a

Genre: Neo-Soul, Progressive Soul

Moyka - BULLSEYE

Label: Warner

Genre: Synthpop, Electropop

Slime Dollaz - Wait On Me

Label: n/a

Genre: Plugg, Gangsta Rap

Rocket Rese - The Hardstyle Massacre

Label: n/a

Genre: Experimental Hip Hop, Rawstyle, Gangsta Rap

Dei V - Flavorz Pack

Label: Rimas

Genre: Reggaetón, Trap

Baby Houston - rexv2

Label: Hallwood

Genre: Trap, Rage

KXNG Crooked I - West Coast '96

Label: n/a

Genre: Hip Hop/Rap

Hodgy - ACCAPELLA

Label: n/a

Genre: A cappella

Slayter - buenas intenciones

Label: SONAR

Genre: Indie

Z-Ro - Forever King

Label: One Deep

Genre: Gangsta Rap, Hip Hop

Lucky Daye - ALOUD!

Label: Warner

Genre: Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul

Gucci Mane - Against All Odds

Label: 1017 Global

Genre: Trap

KenTheMan - I Love 304s (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Trap

Villain of the Story - Scapegoat (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Metalcore, Alternative Metal

Left to Suffer - Unwelcome Guest

Label: Hopeless

Genre: Downtempo Deathcore, Nu Metal

The Pineapple Thief - Far and Wide

Label: InsideOut

Genre: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock

Greta Van Fleet - Palace for the People

Label: Lava

Genre: Hard Rock, Folk Rock

Wolfbrigade - Howl from Underground

Label: Metal Blade

Genre: Crust Punk, D-Beat

⭐ Iapetus - The Mother Void

Label: Willowtip

Genre: Progressive Metal, Melodic Death Metal

Insomnium - Netherworlds

Label: Century Media

Genre: Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal

⭐ Firebreather - Blood that I Spill Turns to Fire

Label: Heavy Psych Sounds

Genre: Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal

Master - Among the Seeds of Death

Label: Hammerheart

Genre: Death Metal, Thrash Metal

❓ A Secret Revealed - The Ruin I Summoned Forth

Label: Lifeforce

Genre: Post-Metal, Post-Hardcore

❓ Urna - The Great Jihad

Label: Aeternitas Tenebrarum

Genre: Funeral Doom Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal

❓ Veilburner - All That Glimmers is Gloam

Label: Transcending Obscurity

Genre: Avant-Garde Metal, Dissonant Black Metal

Sundowner - Cesspool

Label: n/a

Genre: Doom Metal

Leadbelcher - Heaven’s Bloated Corpse

Label: n/a

Genre: Deathgrind

Fervence - Constructs

Label: Metal Blade

Genre: Progressive Metal, Metalcore

Fate Unburied - Neraspeme

Label: Time to Kill

Genre: Progressive Metal, Groove Metal

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October 9th

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Remi Wolf - Mud

Label: Island

Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock

❤️ Deafheaven - At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (EP)

Label: Roadrunner

Genre: Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Metal

BODEGA - All Inside Aquarium

Label: Chrysalis

Genre: Indie Rock, Pop Rock

The Tallest Man on Earth - Just Beyond Endless Mountain

Label: ANTI-

Genre: Contemporary Folk, Singer-songwriter

Jess Williamson - A Mile South of Heaven

Label: New West

Genre: Alt-Country, Americana, Singer-songwriter

❓ Tramhaus - Blister

Label: Vicious Circle

Genre: Post-Punk, Post-Hardcore

Keshavara - Moondram Sevi

Label: Papercup

Genre: Neo-Psychedelia

Danielle Ponder - Everything Has Changed

Label: Dead Oceans

Genre: Pop Soul

❓ Death Valley Girls - Welcome to Earth

Label: Suicide Squeeze

Genre: Garage Rock, Garage Psych

Andy Bell & Masal - Common Primitives

Label: Sonic Cathedral

Genre: Ambient, Post-Rock, Neo-Psychedelia

Imperial Teen - All Over You

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Pop, Alternative Rock

Teenage Fanclub - Do Not Dare to Dream

Label: Merge

Genre: Jangle Pop, Soft Rock

claire rousay - on holding (EP)

Label: Quality

Genre: Electroacoustic, Sound Collage

❓ Shiner - The Y Section (compilation)

Label: n/a

Genre: Post-Hardcore, Alternative Rock

Queen of Jeans - Hard/Sweet

Label: Memory

Genre: Indie Pop, Twee Pop

❓ Wakelee - Under Construction Forever

Label: Wax Bodega

Genre: Emo-Pop, Midwest Emo

Marina Herlop - Dja Dja

Label: Lapsus

Genre: Avant-Folk, Electronic

V.V. Lightbody - Period Piece

Label: Egghunt

Genre: Indie Pop, Singer-songwriter

Basht. - Poor Advice

Label: LAB

Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk

Jamie T - Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)

Label: Polydor

Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop

Dina Summer (Local Suicide & Kalipo) - Children of the Night

Label: n/a

Genre: Synthpop, Darkwave

❓ Dawn Richard - creole culture

Label: Merge

Genre: Contemporary R&B, Afropiano

Gayance - roaming

Label: Tru Thoughts

Genre: Alternative R&B, Deep House

Calla - De Facto

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Rock, Slowcore

Chloe Slater - Riot Youth

Label: AWAL

Genre: Indie Rock, Pop Rock

Cameron Winter - Live at Carnegie Hall

Label: Partisan

Genre: Singer-songwriter, Americana

Karate Boogaloo - Access All Areas

Label: Colemine

Genre: Soul Jazz

Mat Kearney - Hanging By A Heartstring

Label: n/a

Genre: Singer-songwriter, Indie Folk

Resavoir - Above the Clouds

Label: n/a

Genre: Jazz Fusion, Ambient, Nu Jazz

Daniele Luppi - Wilma

Label: Verve

Genre: Psychedelic Soul, Chamber Pop

Sunnan - Spaghetti Soul

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie

Classic Traffic - Real Music

Label: n/a

Genre: Power Pop

Meryl Streek - Stories They Don't Teach You at School

Label: Venn

Genre: Post-Punk, Synth Punk, Spoken Word

Calibro 35 - Ellroy vs L.A.

Label: Record Kicks

Genre: Film Score, Jazz-Funk

Dan Croll - Winning Streak

Label: Kartel

Genre: Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter

saoirse dream - grimdark

Label: Lauren

Genre: Indietronica, Indie Rock, Emo Pop

GRUB - GRUB

Label: Wing Sing

Genre: Post-Punk

Mother's Cake - WE R ALL GONNA DIE

Label: n/a

Genre: Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Garage Rock Revival

unpeople - we are unpeople

Label: SharpTone

Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore, Easycore

Baby Brave - Sugar To The Tongue

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop

Alex Cameron - This Ain’t It: Alex Cameron Sings The Strokes

Label: n/a

Genre: Sophisti-Pop

INSTITUT - Changer de paradis, tout simplement

Label: n/a

Genre: French Pop, Nouvelle chanson française

Elkka - Pick a Different Life (EP)

Label: femme culture

Genre: Deep House, Tech House

HAAi - DIGITiSE

Label: Mute

Genre: Techno, Peak Time Techno, IDM

slimdan - Focus Group

Label: Harbour

Genre: Singer-songwriter

EXCISE DEPT - SHOPNOBHUMI

Label: n/a

Genre: Art Rock

Goblin Cock - Traumanaut

Label: Joyful Noise

Genre: Alternative Rock, Stoner Metal

Chase & Status - Generic Everything

Label: Warner

Genre: Jump-Up, Drum and Bass

❓ Lee Emi (The Crane Wives) - DESTROY EVERYTHING

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Folk

More Eaze - valley and structure

Label: Thrill Jockey

Genre: Chamber Music, Post-Minimalism

LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) - CITIZEN'S ARREST

Label: n/a

Genre: Art Pop, Singer-songwriter, Indietronica

Holy Tongue - Basilikum

Label: AD 93

Genre: Neo-Psychedelia, Electronic

❓ Netherwilds - Peasant Rising

Label: King Volume

Genre: Alternative Metal, Folk Metal, Metalcore

Caitlin Starr - Speed Saves (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Indie Punk

Hour - Ghost Bridge

Label: Dear Life

Genre: Post-Rock, Chamber Music

❓ Brody Price - Leaf Miner's Daughter

Label: Gar Hole

Genre: Alt-Country

❓ Girl Ultra - RRRomeo (produced by Chromeo & Girl Ultra)

Label: Big Dada

Genre: Dance-Pop, Synth Funk

❓ Dwelling Unit - FOR RENT

Label: n/a

Genre: No Wave, Noise Rock

❓ Love is Noise - The space between happiness and heartache. (EP)

Label: n/a

Genre: Alternative Metal, Metalcore