Here’s my 100 most listened to albums on last.fm for reference of what my taste is like, don’t let that stop you from recommending me things you think I won’t like though I’m trying to expand my horizons.
I also like listening to small artists, I write a series of artist features all about people less than a million Spotify listeners so if you have any recommendations for that lmk.
Deltron 3030.
Hes the rapper for the gorillaz but also has/had a solo career before/during/after the gorillaz as del the funkee homosapien.
The album is a sci-fi futurism concept hip hop album.
I love Gorillaz and have listened to Deltron 3030 plenty of times but never made the connection!
He’s also Ice Cube’s cousin
Thats a fun fact i did not know!
If you must is one of the best bloc party jams of all time.
Glad to see plenty of gorillaz in there!
Actually a lot of yours align with mine such as Tame Impala and King Gizzard. I’m gonna check out some of the others you have.
I don’t really listen to specific albums, just certain artists and playlists.
I will throw in Franz Ferdinand - Hits to the head album though
You check out Tame Impala’s live rendition of innerspeaker yet?
Better then the studio album by far, and the visuals are tight. The session starts at dusk and it slowly turns night as the album progresses.
I had not. Thanks for sharing
If you’re willing to go a bit out of hip hop you’d probably love Dijon. Our tastes seem pretty similar. I’m assuming you listen to Freddie Gibbs? If not Bandana for sure collab with madlib and it sounds amazing
Carrot Season too classic hip hop
Smino just in general. love for rent is pretty good
CunninLynguists - Will Rap for Food
Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
Deltron Zero - Deltron 3030
Jurassic 5 - self titled album
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor
Deltron Zero - Deltron 3030
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Love that Forever story is there as both original and extended version! Sticking to the strong lyricism rap themes Food and Liquor from Lupe Fiasco is great.
I think Eminem’s latest project The Death of Slim Shady was a lot of fun and showed his talent as an artist but it’s not for everyone thematically.
Aesop rock - Skelethon
The drums are just 🤱
I listen to several of the same rap albums as OP and I also love some Aesop Rock.
Hell of a good album. Cycles to Gehenna slaps, fryerstarter is a little surreal. A good chunk of his albums have an instrumental version too.
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You should check out Psyence Fiction by UNKLE, I think you would enjoy it based on your taste for Gorillaz, and maybe Mezzanine by Massive Attack and Becoming X by Sneaker Pimps. My top picks off each album would be “Guns Blazing”, “Bloodstain” and “Rabbit in Your Headlights” off the first one and “Black Milk”, " Inertia Creeps" and “Mezzanine” off the second, and “Tesko Suicide” , “6 Underground” and “Spin Spin Sugar” off the third. But honestly I feel like these are just albums you gotta do a sequential listen of. Let me know if you enjoy any of them!
Actually one last one, I’d throw in The Sun Rises in the East by Jeru the Damaja, “Mental Stamina” and “Jungle Music” are solid
Those Unkle and Jeru the Damaja albums are rock solid recommendations
Glad you enjoyed them!
I love Psyence Fiction. I’m not even sure what genre it fits into, maybe trip-hop?
Yeah it’s usually classified under trip-hop. Such a good album and the sound is so diverse. You would not think guns blazing and lonely souls came off the same album
Solid tracks. Nursery rhyme is one of my favorite tracks, goes so hard and it’s not even a metal album.
Fuck me I forgot to add “You Can’t Stop The Prophet” off of Sun Rises in the East, that’s probably the best song on the album.
- Public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
- de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
- the weeknd - dawn fm
- jurassic 5 - power in numbers
- the coup - genocide and juice
- amy winehouse - frank
Didn’t notice The Streets in your top 100. It’s kind of in line with Gorillaz. My fave album of theirs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grand_Don’t_Come_for_Free
I can’t stand their accent (im a brit) and their lyrics have no artistry
I share a lot of those albums in my top listens! I highly suggest any album by the Avalanches (there are only 3.) Start with Since I Left You, then Wildflower, then We Will Always Love You. They’re a group from Australia that kinda popularized Plunderphonics. Where they just bought a TON of old records and made songs purely from samples. Since I Left You is an amazing album that is pure samples, easily over 1000 samples were used.
The album Syro by Aphex Twin.
Robert Glasper - Black Radio
Sungazer - Perihelion
Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire
Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III
Will Wood - “In case I make it,”
The Algorithm - Brute Force
Devin Townsend - Empath
Miles Davis - Bltches Brew
Oneohtrix point Never - R + 7
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
King Capisce - Memento Mori
Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us
Archive - Controlling Crowds The Complete Edition Parts I-IV
Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things
SHT GHST - 1: The Creation
Dan Deacon - America
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Holy shit Archive mentioned!!! Controlling Crowds is perfect. Dangervisit and Come on Get High are some of my favorite Archive songs post-Londinium
I keep finding tracks to love on each album, but Controlling Crowds has too many, so I just recommend the entire thing.
Also Axiom is killer too, but that might just be because I’m a sucker for narrative concept albums
I love the short film for Axiom, I rewatch it every couple of months. Just an absolute banger of a music film. Baptism is such a raw and visceral track, and the accompanying video just elevates it.
Kinda older at this point, but I still love Cadence Weapon’s “Breaking Kayfabe.” In 2009 he was named Edmonton’s Poet Laureate.
Because you like Handsome Boy Modelling School I’d give Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By a spin.
Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE if you wanna expand into psychedelia
