Sleep Token - This place will become your tomb (2021) / This eden (2023)

Grim Salvo - MILDRED (2022)

Tame Impala - The Slow rush (2020)

Spiritbox - Eternal blue (2021)

Bad Omens - THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND (2022)

Can I include EP’s? If so, Lorna Shore - ... And I return to nothingness (2021)

Black Tiger Sex Machine - Once upon a time in cyberworld (2022)

Apashe - Renaissance (2020)

Florence + The Machine - Dance fever (2022)

Hozier - Unreal unearth (2023)

I’m sure there’s more

It’s definitely survivorship bias and likely that the barrier for entry is a lot lower now, so only ‘better’ music would be made (ie record companies doing risk assessment and deciding what would be more likely to sell) / your average person can make music now relatively easily, which I suppose technically ‘dilutes’ the overall ‘quality’ of music today - take your pick

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!

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

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.

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

Doom Scroll - Immoral Compass

Mr Gnome - The day you flew away

Jonathan Wilson - Eat the worm

Viagra Boys - Cave world

Wet leg - Wet leg

Chet Faker - Hotel surrender

Igorrr - spirituality and distortion

Amigo the Devil- yours until the war is over

Out of orbit - OOO

I could go on.

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.

This is exactly correct. Child of the early 70s.

I heard my peers say this about the 80s and had to laugh and laugh.

For every Prince, there were 100 sucky bands.

Although my favorite KGLW albums are from 2019, there are great ones from 2020 onward as well.

I'm also liking Expert in a Dying Field by the Beths right now.

Since Google Play Music went away, I think it's been harder to find new stuff I like. Recently, I've found better new stuff on my local public radio station.

I pretty regularly pick up new music.

Fun machine

https://batboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/fun-machine

I guess this is pop punk rock? It has a lot of lines in it I think about a lot. "Ask me again how it's going even though you know it isn't going anywhere". "I don't want you to romanticize falling the fuck apart".

The dark path to the light

https://wolvennest.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-path-to-the-light

This is some good witchy shit. The last track is so menacing I love it.

Taylor Davis - Songs of the Lost Woods

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

My current favorite albums are:

• Allison Russel - The Returner (2023)
• Black Eyes Peas - ELEVATION (2022)
• Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (2020)
• Descartes A Kant - After Destruction (2023)
• Tommy McLain - I Ran Down Every Dream (2022)

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

I’ve been absolutely loving Knower Forever by Knower from last year. Who else is doing stuff like this?

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.

Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony

Osees - A Foul Form

Run the Jewels - RTJ4

KGWL - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

Pressure Machine by The Killers

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).

Just want to shout out a couple more bangers;

God's Country - Chat Pile

Hostile Architecture - Ashenspire

Some Nights I Dream of Doors - Obongjayar

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.

Wake Up & It's Over - Lovejoy (although the singer has had some stuff come up about him being nasty with his ex girlfriend recently)

Soul Elegy - Termina

Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token

Fatalism - Polaris

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - MAY-A

Post Human: Survival Horror - Bring Me The Horizon

Euthanasia - Stray From The Path

• Ensiferum - Thalassic
• In Extremo - Kompass zur Sonne

Both from 2020 exactly, and amazing.

I'd probably have to go with Nightwish Human :||: Nature

It's a very solid album, but to be honest I'm not sure if I've even listened to any other album in full from past couple years

• Bring Me The Horizon | POST HUMAN SURVIVAL HORROR
• YOASOBI | everything is post 2020
• Paula Hartmann | everything is post 2020
• Toe | 独演会 "DOKU-EN-KAI

It's a bit hard to find stuff that is new that I've actually listened to a lot, but it's not because there isn't new stuff just because I have no new music entering my rotation except from artists I already know, other media or friends recommendations. And music from other media often doesn't end up being on any album.

I have already posted some of them to !musiczka@szmer.info

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