>20. Pharmakon - Contact >19. Klein - Tommy >18. Amnesia Scanner - AS TRUTH >17. L'Rain - L'Rain >16. Eluvium - Shuffle Drones >15. Yves Tumor - Experiencing the Deposit of Faith >14. Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold >13. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green >12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers >11. Forest Swords - Compassion >10. Mhysa - fantasii >9. Lushloss - Asking/Bearing >8. Joni Void - Selfless >7. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time >6. Blanck Mass - World Eater >5. GAS - Narkopop >4. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async >3. Various Artists - Mono No Aware >2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid >1. Arca - Arca
Too laughable to really get flustered about that Klein ep is fucking awful, I suppose they had to fulfill the obligatory black woman quota though
Jaxon Diaz
This is still a hell of a lot better than the other shitty lists they've done this year.
Jackson Jackson
>No animal collective what shit
Isaac Thomas
Yeah new dds, or anything from orange milk this year, should top this
Jonathan Walker
Just cause it sounds slur and muddy doesn't mean it's bad.
Justin Cook
but seriously Pharma by Nmesh was extremely good and experimental and pushed the boundaries of vaporwave and sample based music in general really far this year
also HKE had his SQ 777 project which was 7 albums of 7 tracks spread across 7 different labels and each song was supposedly made in one sitting, I mean that's super cool conceptually and the music holds up really well, also Heavy Black Heart by death's dynamic shroud.wmv was a kaleidoscopic psychedelic sexy enigma made from pop music of the last couple years and also should of made the list
Warp records recognizing LILITHTWIN and Yoshimi in their end of year list was cool though
Gavin Cooper
yeah I don't know if music journalism has some weird aversion to covering vaporwave or if they're just stupid, like it's been the most popular tag on bandcamp for the last 3 years and vaporwave cassettes are constantly on the highest selling bandcamp physical releases
Gabriel Clark
They just think bandcamp is tumblr music=Disney pop
Elijah Diaz
I think anything even loosely tagged vaporwave has a hard time getting any 'legitimate' attention with some good reason i suppose.... I got pretty invested in the whole genre but unique releases have been few and far between until now - i think artists are really starting to experiment in the genre and not be so bound by conventions Havent been the hugest fan of hke, giant claw and nmesh but theyve each had some seriously new experimental vaporwave/electronic releases this year that deserve some attention
Jack Edwards
bruh hke is the shit, dude has like 30+ aliases and a lot of them relate to eachother thematically, like some of them are Gods and some are computers and some are robots its so tight, and he's got different labels that are supposed to be like ancient vaults with strange digital files of vaporwave albums, he's really killing it conceptually in my opinion and some of those albums are fucking killer (HK is probably my favorite vaporwave or ambient release ever)
Jordan Jackson
Oh yeah im definitely interested insome of his ideas and have liked a bit of his music - just not a huge fan of the whole ambient/vaporwave stuff on the whole personally
Henry Anderson
you should check out Arctic Circuitry by Electric Spectre from Business Casual
I think it was one of the better vaporwave releases this year it's super paranoid and crazy kinda like some of Darksleep's more experimental stuff but it's still really groovy
Noah Flores
Cheers for the rec, will give it a look
Jackson Martinez
It's bad because it's an uninteresting mess. It's like people have never listened to a sound collage before.
Carter Martin
is this not experimentaL enough?
Jace Rivera
Almost none of the music there is experimental
Nicholas Green
>1. Damn.
seriously?
Wyatt Turner
Where the FUCK is Lee Gamble
Jayden Ward
Then what is, genius ovalayer?
Joseph Collins
Pop
Hudson Taylor
>Awful comprehension What in sound making field is experimental?
Brody Evans
yves shuld have been top 5 anyway this is more of the experimental pop list lots of good shit on bandcamp didn't even get mentioned
. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green pleased to see JCL on here but it's not that experimental, especially compared to his other work.
Juan Lopez
>1. Arca - Arca jesus christ
also these
Aiden Baker
Most of these aren't even experimental.
Juan Walker
. Arca - Arca
Fuck you, this album is somehow very, very underrated by Sup Forums. Its hard for me to tell why. Imo its a great album and earns the first place
Austin Myers
>Imo thanks for sharing now fuck off with your tumblr coil shite
Nolan Gonzalez
nice meme
Kevin Nguyen
>arca being tumblr core
Ok boi
Just tell me why do you find arca's new album shit? Whats so bad about it?
Hudson Morgan
> Whats so bad about it? lets see urchin was a throwaway from mutant that xl made him put on it sin rumbo should have been the closer like it was on entranas with the fireworks. it doesn't work well with it being in the middle of the album. ESPECIALLY since he adds another interlude with whip(which should have been longer) desfactio is easily the best song but the songs afterward are just plain and are skippable and what really pissed me off. is that in concert hes WAY MORE AGGRESSIVE. especially with his vocals but here he kept up the same cry me river emotional singing all through. like i get he was trying to be like this youtube.com/watch?v=uHQnb3HS4hc but cmon man switch it up
mutant is still his best work. but this is obviously getting overblown by publication because they wanted to so badly give props to a lgbt artist and arca gave it to them i still love him and think hes one of the best producers. but this album is meh
Andrew Mitchell
Why are you comparing this album to his earlier works? Listen to it without thinking of it as another arcas album but as a individual one.
Jose Lewis
>Why are you comparing this album to his earlier works? did you even read what i wrote?
Grayson Morales
>the most hyped electronic albums are also the highest ranked No surprise there
Mason Anderson
>pushed the boundaries of vaporwave so its almost not vaporwave?
Joseph Moore
>Arca I really, really don't understand this meme
Ethan Gomez
He is gay
Jordan Barnes
What meme do you think you understand?
Jeremiah White
>20. Pharmakon - Contact >death industrial >19. Klein - Tommy >glitchy sound collage >18. Amnesia Scanner - AS TRUTH >post-industrial >17. L'Rain - L'Rain >neo-soul >16. Eluvium - Shuffle Drones >Drone >15. Yves Tumor - Experiencing the Deposit of Faith >hypnagogic pop >14. Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold >dark ambient with bass drops aka trailer music >13. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green >shoegaze >12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers >post-rock >11. Forest Swords - Compassion >downtempo >10. Mhysa - fantasii >alternative rnb >9. Lushloss - Asking/Bearing >lo-fi indie >8. Joni Void - Selfless >plunderphonics >7. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time >ambient >6. Blanck Mass - World Eater >post-industrial >5. GAS - Narkopop >ambient techno >4. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async >ambient >3. Various Artists - Mono No Aware >ambient >2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid >progressive electronic >1. Arca - Arca >art pop
how any of these are experimental?
Nolan Jones
>how any of these are experimental? its not top 40, indie rock and hip hop
Logan Green
TMT sometimes covers vaporwave
>Narkopop >experimental
what the fuck
Daniel Sullivan
it's basically "experimental" music for people who's taste is so sheltered in by indie rock and memerap that even the slightest bit of adventurous instrumentation or abstractness makes them go WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Cooper Davis
If anything, this displays how far p4k has fallen. Not that they were any good in the first place, mind you
Jack Ward
>Their end of year songs list is even worse
Sebastian Wright
They're not. When I saw gy!be on this list I had a legitimate laugh though
