ⓘ FUN FACT! assumpção was one of the biggest contributors in "vanguarda paulista”—a brazilian avant-garde scene that emerged in são paulo during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which united artists who operated involuntarily outside of the commercial music industry
12. TOUMANI DIABATÉ & BALLAKÉ SISSOKO ~ NEW ANCIENT STRINGS (1999)
happy black history month! btw I’m aware a few artists like santigold and dean blunt aren’t obscure by any means, but I still feel like they’re overlooked at least on tumblr so including them anyway
also sorry in advance if some of the descriptors are weird, I got them from RYM if that wasn’t obvious enough 😭. It’s mainly just to give ppl a rough idea of what the music sounds like
Here's a 12x12 of some of my favorite albums that aren't rap albums. I did one of those recently as well, which you can find here. I think some years back I also made a similar list of the albums that were most influential for me, but this is more of an inclusive list of the stuff I generally just enjoy listening to the most these days. One album per artist, and only the first two rows are in order. I might do another one these in the future with all of the albums I love that didn't make the cut this time around, but for now i'm happy with how this turned out
Chart with album titles included
Maybe I could add as many of these albums as possible to a spotify playlist - is that something any of you would be interested in? What albums are your favorite, do we have any in common? If you've got any kind of list of your own i’d love to see it. Peace.
1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Björk - Vespertine
3. Portishead - Third
4. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
5. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
6. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
7. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
8. Sade - Love Deluxe
9. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
10. Sun Ra - Lanquidity
11. J Dilla - Donuts
12. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
13. John Coltrane - Sun Ship
14. Converge - You Fail Me
15. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
16. Slowdive - Souvlaki
17. Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
18. Max Roach - Members, Don't Git Weary
19. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
20. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
21. Isis - Wavering Radiant
22. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
23. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
24. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
25. Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
26. Fugazi - Red Medicine
27. Orchid - Orchid
28. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
29. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
30. Candy Claws - Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time
31. Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
32. toe - For Long Tomorrow
33. maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
34. Ichiko Aoba - マホロボシヤ (Mahoroboshiya)
35. United Nations - The Next Four Years
36. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
37. Nujabes - Modal Soul
38. Unwound - Repetition
39. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
40. Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
41. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
42. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbo
43. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
44. Boris - Flood
45. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
46. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
47. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2
48. Paddy McAloon - I Trawl The Megahertz
49. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
50. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
51. Krallice - Years Past Matter
52. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
53. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
54. The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
55. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
56. slauson malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018
57. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
58. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
59. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
60. Sonic Youth - EVOL
61. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
62. The Cure - Disintegration
63. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6 A Tribute To...
64. Autechre - LP5
65. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
66. Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
67. The Chariot - Long Live
68. tricot - T H E
69. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
70. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
71. Prince - Sign "☮︎" the Times
72. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞ [1995–1997]
73. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
74. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
75. NoMeansNo - Wrong
76. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
77. Oh No - Oh No Vs. Now-Again
78. Alcest - Écailles de lune
79. Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
80. Grant Green - Idle Moments
81. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
82. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
83. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
84. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
85. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
86. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
87. Tatsuro Yamashita - For You
88. Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles...
89. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
90. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
91. The Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger
92. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
93. Death - Symbolic
94. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
95. King Crimson - Red
96. Junko Yagami - Communication
97. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
98. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
99. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
100. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
101. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
102. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
103. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
104. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
105. Brutus - Nest
106. fleshwater - We're Not Here to Be Loved
107. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
108. Burial - Untrue
109. NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM - Éons
110. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
111. Standing On The Corner - Red Burns
112. Taeko Onuki - SUNSHOWER
113. Pg.99 - Document #8
114. Alvvays - Blue Rev
115. Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth
116. Cibo Matto - Stereotype A
117. D'Angelo - Voodoo
118. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
119. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
120. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone
121. Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
122. Bill Evans - Symbiosis
123. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
124. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
125. Newfound Interest In Connecticut - Tell Me About the...
126. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
127. Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden
128. Lil Ugly Mane - THIRD SIDE OF THE TAPE
129. mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
130. Love Spirals Downwards - Flux
131. Ohbliv - Retrospective
132. Liv.e - Couldn't Wait To tell You...
133. Shinsei Kamattechan - tsumanne
134. Herbie Hancock - Sextant
135. Beach House - Bloom
136. Wormrot - Hiss
137. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
138. Anri - Timely!!
139. Cloud Rat - Threshold
140. Polaris - Home
141. Yes - Close to the Edge
142. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
143. Coaltar of the Deepers - Submerge
144. Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power