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asbcblog · 4 years

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TOP SONGS OF 2020 WRITE UP!

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1. I remember everything - John Prine

I was going to write an incredibly earnest and long review of this song that outlined just how much John Prine meant to me. I can’t really do it and I think this song probably says enough alone. With only a few chords he always manages to express all the little things that make love what it is, all different kinds of love. Long lasting, short moments, love with places, sounds, going places and staying home, endless family ties, and the often fragile but in the end tenable love between all human beings in the face of catastrophe. The pandemic stole a lot of things from a lot of people this year, including John Prine, but he will remain one of the greatest songwriters of all time and his songs will live on forever.

2. Dream Palette - Yves Tumor

I can’t drive but let’s pretend I’m driving, I’m in LA and it’s night time or something, my elbow’s out the window, don’t know why I’m wearing sunglasses, this song comes on the radio, I’m the coolest person alive.

3. Boylife in EU- Yung Lean

Not to repeat my review of Garden but when the chorus comes I feel like I’m on top of a really big hill and its pouring it down with rain and im screaming but this time its because of a no-deal Brexit.

4. Garden- Joseph Futak

My review was already used as part of Joe’s promo campaign and it said: “feel like im on top of a really big hill and its pouring it down with rain and I’m screaming when the drums come in x x”

5. Circle the Drain- Soccer Mommy

I like this song because I too, am often alone in my room, and I have also become obsessed with subtle breakbeats to an extent where people around me have become very bored of the subject.

6. The Brothers William Said- The Innocence Mission

I listened to this song over and over when I was travelling round London in January just after my birthday, it felt like I’d been listening to it for years, like it was in a movie I’d forgotten. It felt at the time like I was saying a lot of goodbyes, recognising that things weren’t really like they used to be.

7. On the Floor- Perfume Genius

Say it with me ladies: I CROSS OUT HIS NAME ON THE PAGE!!!!

8. Shameika- Fiona Apple

She may not believe it but I bet Fiona Apple looked tough with a riding crop.

9. Song for Our Daughter- Laura Marling

Everything about this is fantastic, mellow and bright at the same time. Every part is brought forward individually and no part of this song gets left behind. A stunning vocal from Laura Marling and purposeful lyrics set to a cinematically emotive instrumental. Pure magic as always.

10. Building site outside- Piglet

Not going to lie, I was in a very vulnerable emotional state when I listened to this song for the first time, but I think that makes it no less powerful and just, sad. The lyric ‘she smiled at me so much last time’ is just so simple and devastating that you forget this would’ve been on every indie film soundtrack from 2000-2008 if Piglet was an industry plant.

11. I wonder- Shamir

One word: EPIC

12. Crimson Tide- Destroyer

Listened to this every time I came on my period this year.

13. In the Dining Room - Joe Pera talks with you

Adam showed me Joe Pera when I really felt incredibly sad at the very beginning of this year. It’s a show that’s made me feel good, no matter the circumstances. This moment in the show made me smile, and I love hearing Gene come in a bit too early.

14. Stupid Love- Lady Gaga

Shakin my little booty in the kitchen to this x

15. Might bang, might not- Little Simz

Livid we didn’t all get to go to End of the Road and see all the hot dad’s loving Little Simz.

16. Fire- Waxahatchee

A truly insane vocal. I listened to this song on my way to work almost every day from September to December and fantasised singing back up at some kind of outdoor gig in the summer and it made everything significantly less bleak.

17. Hannah Sun- Lomelda

This song is too nice and genuine for me to say anything other than, “really lovely song :)”.

18. Scroll of Sorrow- Machine Girl, guayaba

Listened to this a lot this year while sitting on my kitchen floor staring into an empty oven, wondering if I was ever going to go to a party again.

19. Build a nest- Jeff and Ruby Parker

Have put this on in the flat because the guitar solo reminds me of everything my dad listens to at home. A really great piece of music that kicks off a really exciting album.

20. Kiss me thru the phone- That Kid

Ned said yesterday that he thought it was funny how much the original of this song is so foundational to hyper pop and I agree. Also I’ve started saying ‘Bitch’ like That Kid does every time I stub my toe.

21. Cuckoo- Sam Amidon

I am punting down a creek, looking in the branches that hang over the water for the bird that shall lead me to my next clue.

22. Places/ Plans- Skullcrusher

Used this song to comfort myself in moments where I also just don’t understand why I’m not famous.

23. Sweetjoy- Jam City

Finally….. HAIM for dudes.

24. Clean Living- Slow Weather

I saw someone listening to this on the side of my Spotify so I decided to give it a go and it was a fantastic decision. It’s mental that half of this song is an outro.

25. Summer All Over- Blake Mills

Along with the music video visuals and the dampened piano tone, this wins the competition for least summer-y song with the actual word summer in the title.

26. Ready Cheeky Pretty- CHAI

All of my joy this year has been brought to me by CHAI. I have nothing negative to say about CHAI. If you have anything negative to say about CHAI you’re gonna have to go through me.

27. Diaphanous- Land of Talk

This band was recommended to me by a guy I was trying to flirt with at rough trade east but everything closed before I could impress him by saying ‘I think they’re really cool’.

28. Anything - Adrianne Lenker

Anyone who has ever attempted to write a song with me knows how much I simply love rhyming. Seriously though, every thing rhymes, brilliant stuff. (It’s also such a brilliantly full and constant song that still manages to move and remain exciting from start to finish. I imagine this is partially due to Adrianne Lenker’s almost nursery rhyme- esque structure and also due to her beautifully colloquial approach to family dynamics.)

29. Blow- Dj Gigola, Kev Koko

This song makes me wish I was Jason Bourne- just wanna jump really far while something explodes behind me.

30. Money Can’t Buy- Yaeji, Nappy Nina

‘Well I’ll buy some Yaeji tickets, they’re for NOVEMBER, there’s NO WAY they’re gonna get cancelled’.

31. Only the Truth- Johanna Warren

When I first listened to this song I felt like I was floating in the ocean looking up at the stars as the drums came in on ‘what more can I do’. An incredibly beautiful and careful song.

32. Gasoline- Haim

2020 could probably be summarised with the phrase ‘WHY AM I NO LONGER IN CALIFORNIA? WHY DID I LEAVE CALIFORNIA?’ And this song is the 3 minutes 13 seconds seconds of escapism I needed to not topple into a full spiral.

33. Mapuu - Ic3peak

No one can convince me that Ic3peak are real people. They are a collective made up of child ghosts.

34. Don’t Worry- Bladee

Whenever I have an anxiety attack in the night I wake up and see Bladee’s ghost of the future over my bed, he says ‘Don’t worry’ and mumbles for a bit as I fall back into a peaceful sleep.

35. The biggest tits in history- The magnetic fields

The most relatable magnetic fields song imo.

36. Sand Castle- nijuu

Yujin is a genius and my answer is yes, I do want to just walk for a while.

37. Curl Up- Darren Hayman

Ned reminded me how much I used to love Darren Hayman, and both of them have been a pretty big part of my year.

38. When Will Death Come- Sarah Mary Chadwick

‘Wow, mental voice’ - Ned, while doing the washing up.

39. Dear Dad - Sylvie Wiley

‘But I didn’t cry, you’d be proud’ Sylvie, I’m weeping forever.

40. 34+35- Ariana Grande

Hehehehehehehehehe

41. Garden Song- Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers is a pretty unparalleled lyricist and this song feels like a disconnected series of thoughts that somehow all make sense together and come to create something that doesn’t build, but all just kind of sits? What I’m trying to say is that I don’t really know what she’s talking about but like, I get it.

42. Ringtone (remix) - 100 gecs, Charli xcx, Kero Kero Bonito, Rico Nasty,

I love the way it sounds like everyone got just one take and had to improvise all the lyrics but it still bangs.

43. Changer- Andy Shauf

Thank you lord for another album about a smaller than average man overthinking all of his social interactions with lots of lovely clarinet parts.

44. What’s your pleasure - Jessie Ware

My pleasure jessie? Probably just sitting by the fire with a tough crossword and a glass of merlot x

45. Slime- Shygirl

Shygirl’s series of singles this year made me even more livid that I had to take out my eyebrow piercing for my new job this year.

46. Sears Tower- Salem

Perfect halloween release.

47. Title track- happyness

Ned turned to me and said: ‘so is their new thing that they sound like Elliot Smith’ and I said: ‘and that’s a bad thing?’

48. Cross-sound ferry (walk on ticket) - Hamilton Leithauser

Have found unbelievable joy in chopping veg and shouting GREEEEEEEN PORT, NEEEEEEWWWW YOOORK alone in my kitchen.

49. Lowswimmer- Hailaker

I’ve loved hearing Jemima’s voice when I haven’t got to see her much this year. I normally take the piss out of the Hambledon line but I haven’t seen that this year really either. I guess we find sentimentality in strange places.

50. XS - Rina Sawayama

This song made me feel very decadent on those days where I didn’t wash.

51. Emily- Clem Snide

Let’s be more kind and brave in the face of it all.

52. Building a fire- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

P.O.V you’re doing bushcraft in the garden with your husband Bonnie Prince Billy and he’s here to protect you.

53. Asexual Wellbeing- Okay Kaya

This song absolutely bangs but I am truly bewildered by the way they singled out the line ‘if they could put a pulse into a spinach leaf, can they turn the two of us into a tree?’ in the production as if that was a true piece of genius. As I say great tune tho.

54. Anthems- Charli xcx

The soundtrack to couch to 5k

55. Never Better- Kitty Fitz

A SE London queen bringing us huge pop tunes in 2020. So so excited to see what 2021 brings us from Kitty, she’s gonna be a real force!

56. Deep in Love- Bonny Light Horsemen

This is such a delightful song which (mainly due to the time I actually got around to listening to the whole record) for me really rang in the spring. A beautifully recorded testament to the feeling of love getting stronger meaning you have a lot more to lose.

57. Malibu- Kim Petras

My song of the summer, made me feel like I was at the beach when really I was in Lewisham.

58. Like I’m Winning it- Girlpool

I’m so delighted that the turn girlpool have made this year is towards dramatic goth music with breakbeats. Their voices both sound amazing and they look simply incredible.

59. Azad- Frazey Ford

I have no idea what she’s saying as always but I love it.

60. Helio- Charlotte Dos Santos

I’m literally so excited for what Charlotte Dos Santos is gonna put out next. The production is fantastic and her aesthetics are flawless.

61. Lost in the Country- Trace Mountains

‘I checked my email twice as I cried’. Safe to say we’ve all been there this year amirite girlies x

62. Unfold You- Rostam

I hated this at first, I thought, what’s this lo-fi beats to study to shit, but it’s now my classic ‘I’m just gonna pop to the shops, anyone want anything? x’ song. Huge.

63. Oh Yeah- A.G cook

One of 2020s realisations is that me and A.G Cook kind of look like we could be cousins.

64. Can’t cool me down- Car Seat Headrest

I would like to personally thank will Toledo for giving me a tune that got me off my ass when I was too warm to do exercise this summer.

65. Take back the radio- Katy J Paerson

In love with Katy J Pearson’s voice and the way this song builds. Just pretty flawless and feel good in my opinion. I think she’s such an exciting new artist who’s gonna be around for a very very long time.

66. Good Woman- The Staves

‘I’m a good woman’… speak for yourselves.

67. A Little Love- Jack Francis

Feel like I’ve been singing this song for about 5 years! It’s amazing and I’m so excited about what Jack’s going to bring out in 2021, he’s a genius and also the nicest man on the planet.

68. Lullaby No.4 - Snailbeach

This song makes me feel like I’m being hypnotised on a haunted carousel in a very relaxing way.

69. Boyfriend in every city- Roma Radz

Sucks that she can’t see any of her boyfriends cos of covid :(

70. Jaja ding dong- Will Ferrell

Get back in there and play Jaja Ding Dong !!!!

71. Highway- Jonatan leandoer96

Man, would be pretty sick to have 20 boys outside the club but alas the clubs are dead and I’ve only regularly texted about 4 people this year.

72. De nadie- Kali Uchis

Felt v sexy listening to this for the first time in a Morley’s in Honor Oak.

73. Weird Fishes- Lianne La Havas

This album was a pretty triumphant return for Lianna La Havas and me teenage self simply couldn’t be happier.

74. Micro Creature- Aya Gloomy

Love that despite everything about this song telling me otherwise, that the artwork for this single looks like Aya Gloomy is just chilling in the fields by my family home in Hampshire.

75. Si Ella Sale- Bad Bunny

Better get on the duolingo now if I’m gonna know what this guy’s saying at Porto next year.

76. Through my sails- Mountain Man

Truly gentle reimagining of an already incredibly beautiful song, mountain man make every word seem new!

77.Christmas Day (get me outta this funk) - Baggio and Blue 5 Years- Bath days

In joint 77th place are two banging Christmas songs that have soundtracked a pretty bleak Christmas period and have made me feel pretty joyous in their ways, despite one literally being called Blue Five Years.

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fairweathermyth · 14 days

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WAXAHATCHEE + of anglers and wranglers Ruby Falls + Burns Out at Midnight

#waxahatcheeedit #musicedit #musicgifs #dailymusicians #waxahatchee #katie crutchfield #made by carolyn #gonna keep making my lil waxa-katie posts for me and the two other people on this website who love her <3 #at the concert last weekend my sister and i looked at each other at one point and agreed she's the coolest person we've ever seen #SEE HER LIVE IF YOU GET THE CHANCE

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gayverlyearp · 4 years

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Gimme all the multiples of 10 pls

10. Arkadelphia - Waxahatchee

20. the 1 - Taylor Swift

30. Cul de Sac - HOUNTRACK

40. this is me trying - Taylor Swift

50. Ruby Falls - Waxahatchee

60. mad woman - Taylor Swift

70. Maybe You’re the Reason - The Japanese House

80. RAIN - Ben Platt

90. America - Sufjan Stevens

100. The Eye - Waxahatchee

#tswift waxahatchee domination came through on this one #thank u!!

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reminiscences · 4 years

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another attempt at blogging

i started this tumblr a couple years ago at the same time kate did. i can’t remember why—i’m sure tumblr was in the news again for some reason. i guess it was before the great porn purge. i was talking about blogging again this week with my friend daniel, and i woke up this morning and he had sent me a blog he wrote on a new tumblr account early in the morning, so to continue my regression to the early 2010s, i too have rebooted tumblr, given it an era-appropriate name, and decided to give it another go.

the problem with having a newsletter is that i don’t think anyone wants to hear from me in their inbox daily, so i’ve become very precious about the things i write there. it feels like it has to really matter. i like blogs because they’re disposable and can be dumb and not your best writing. how many two-graf tumblr posts did i write in 2011 that were just thoughts i idly had during a statistics lecture? anyway, here’s the first blog, they won’t all be this long probably.

When I think about eventually looking back at this year I think about what I want to remember from it. I will remember the first week of March. I’ll remember the last birthday party I attended in person at Branch Ofc, a perfectly serviceable Crown Heights bar that was very full of people. I’ll think about that night and how I showed up to the party with a Ziplock full of homemade salted chocolate chip cookies in my purse, how I shared them with a table where the birthday-haver and their friends sat. Breathing in the same air as the four dozen other people crammed into the bar. I can’t imagine it now. I like Branch Ofc because it is unpretentious without pretending to be a dive, unlike Sharlene’s, which tries too hard to mimic the aesthetic trappings of an authentic dive bar but is really just a normal Park Slope bar. Branch Ofc is just a bar where you can buy drinks, and it was an eight-minute walk from my old apartment. It used to be a bar with a photobooth and Big Buck Hunter but I think both of those are gone now.

For a few days in March, it felt like people were preparing for a snow day. Everyone was slightly more on edge than giddy—but only slightly. “WFH but make it a coffeeshop” I saw on someone’s Instagram story, a selfie with four of their friends coworking somewhere in Bushwick, completely nullifying the point of a work-from-home edict. I ran into my friend Maddie at the renovated Key Food on Nostrand the next week. Maddie, her roommate and I were in the aisle with the Pop Tarts and the Oreos. “I feel like I should get those?” we asked each other, pointing at junk food. I wasn’t wearing a mask or gloves; nobody was. Some guy wearing a Cornell University Sigma Chi tshirt walked by us with the largest bag of dried beans I’ve ever seen in my life slung over his shoulder. That was a man who had never soaked dried beans in his life. I wonder if he ever ate the beans. We were a bunch of idiot 20-somethings blindly grabbing for cans of soup and Fritos for the end of the world. What were any of us doing there? Why was it imperative that day that I make and freeze a lasagna? Maddie’s roommate had fresh lasagna noodles from Eataly she wasn’t going to use before she left for her parents’ house, and she said I could have those. She brought them over for me and I idly wondered if you could get Coronavirus from someone else’s fresh pasta noodles or if the heat of the oven would kill the germs. I made my lasagna.

I’ll think about how March-to-May is just one long gray blurry streak in my head. I baked, I got into running, I said “running with a mask? No thank you, no more running for me,” I got a job, I felt bad about getting a job when everyone I knew in journalism was getting laid off. I did a lot of Zoom Zumba. At first I slept terribly, and then I started sleeping too much, and then I stopped sleeping again at some point during that stretch. There was a novelty to suddenly being inside all the time that made it feel like an excuse to get “really into martinis.” I got really into martinis. Then I stopped drinking for a couple months. Remember “Zoom happy hours”?

The thing I use most as a means of setting apart different eras in my head is the music I used as a soundtrack at the time. I rang in the 2014 new year in my cute apartment on Westcott Street in Syracuse with my college boyfriend, drunk and blaring Cold Cave, before we walked down the street to Alto Cinco and got Mexican food and passed out. It was my senior year and I only had a few more months of living like this and I loved the small life I’d built for myself there. Of course, it couldn’t stay. When we broke up a year and a half later after he moved to New York, where I had been living for most of a year, I walked around the neighborhood near the Myrtle-Wyckoff stop, close to where we were living together, listening to Mitski’s 2014 album Bury Me At Makeout Creek. I sat in Maria Hernandez Park and watched a bunch of kids play Red Rover. I didn’t especially want to go home because I hadn’t taken an escape route into account when we broke up and somehow timed it out so that things ended after the first of the month, leaving me with three-and-a-half weeks of continuing to share an apartment with someone whose heart I had just broken. In retrospect it’s clear to me that I had just outgrown a relationship with someone five years older than me who hadn’t grown up at all, but I hear that Mitski album now and all I think about are the cold early April days of 2015 when no place and no person felt like home. There’s a line in First Love/Late Spring, by Mitski, where she sings “胸がはち切れそうで,” which translates to something like “My chest is about to burst (with grief).” My advice to recent college graduates moving to New York is to simply not do anything the way I did it.

So when I think about 2020, I do not want to associate any music I previously had fond memories of with this year. This is unfortunate because every musician I like who produces sad music has nothing but time on their hands now and they’ve all come out with new songs and albums. My recently played selections on Spotify look like a cry for help: Phoebe Bridgers, Bright Eyes, even Tigers Jaw.

On Saturday I couldn’t sleep in. I woke up at 5:30 and watched the sun appear through my bedroom windows. I kept rolling over, trying to sleep again, but it was futile. Eventually I got up and got dressed, and left my apartment on foot. The walk into lower Manhattan is a few miles from my new place in Fort Greene. I walked west on Fulton, and then down Flatbush. It would have saved me ten minutes to take the Manhattan Bridge, but I’ve always regarded it as the ugliest of the bridges to cross on foot or on bike—last fall, I would walk home from Ben’s apartment over the Manhattan Bridge, and it was just so grey. You get an okay view of Dumbo, I guess, on the walk east, but it isn’t much to look at. When I got back to the Brooklyn side on those walks, I’d get on the A at High Street and take it back to Nostrand instead of walking the last couple miles.

So I chose the Brooklyn Bridge this time. It was as busy as you’d expect it to be in a non-pandemic event. Instagram boyfriends took pictures of their girlfriends, who took off their masks for a few seconds for the right shot. I saw a couple taking engagement pictures in front of the lower Manhattan skyline. It felt so normal, pedestrians and bicyclists squeezing past each other at the narrow points.

I was listening to Saint Cloud, the Waxahatchee album that came out a few months ago, turning it over and over in my brain like a rock you pick up at the beach and end up carrying with you on a long walk. The album, outwardly, has this gauzy blue-sky Americana vibe but when you listen to the lyrics of some of the songs it feels like peeling back layers of skin until you hit a raw nerve ending. Every song feels like a eulogy for this year. “You might mourn all that you wasted/That’s just part of the haul,” Katie Crutchfield sings on Ruby Falls. I got to the title track, which closes out the album, as I ascended the bridge. When you get baaaack on the M train, watch the cityyyyyy mutaaaaaaate, she sings. I guess she’s singing about New York. Is there another M train somewhere? I don’t know. I’m going to think about this stupid year whenever I listen to this album, I thought.

I got off the bridge at City Hall, surveyed the ongoing occupation movement there and the literal dozens of cops that had seemingly been deployed to stand there and, at best, do nothing. I walked down Centre Street, eventually winding through the little park by Baxter Street where two adults were playing ping pong, which felt like a socially distanced sport, all things considered. I walked down all those side streets in Chinatown as the sun struggled to break through the oppressive clouds. I walked by Nom Wah, past the salon Polly taught me will give you a very good $12 blowout, past that annoying bar where the bartenders are dressed like scientists, past the place where Kate and I got our auras read on her birthday in January, and ended up at Deluxe Green Bo. I ordered my spicy wontons in peanut sauce and ate them right there, the hot plastic container burning my knees as I sat on the sidewalk.

Afterwards I walked by all my favorite places—the skatepark under the bridge, Cervo’s, Beverly’s (RIP), Little Canal, Jajaja, the Hawa Smoothie near the East Broadway F. The skaters were hanging out in Dimes Square. Everything had changed but standing outside Kiki’s, it felt for a second like almost nothing had. It was almost a normal Saturday on Canal Street. The sky stayed electric blue until I got back to Brooklyn.

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fuckyeahabocado · 4 years

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2020年上半期ベストアルバム

今年上半期のベストアルバムを25枚選びました。ジャケットをクリックすると購入先に飛びます。

1. D Smoke「Black Habits」

西海岸のラッパー。

生っぽい音を多用したネオソウル的な音作りをベースに、Gファンクなどのウェッサイ要素を注入したようなレイドバックした曲が中心の傑作です。スムースに流すフロウや歌うようなフロウなど、多彩なフロウを柔軟に用いるスキルフルなラップも抜群。Kendrick Lamarファンの方にもオヤGにもおすすめできる、洗練された西海岸Gの新たな金字塔です。

DJ Battlecat、Jill Scott、SiRらが参加。

2. FMB DZ「The Gift 3」

デトロイトのラッパー。

太く低めの声質から繰り出されるヒリヒリとした緊張感のあるラップが、殺伐としたハードな路線や哀愁曲などの現行デトロイト印のGなサウンドで堪能できる快作です。淡々と凄むようにギラついたラップは、時折21 Savageを思わせる瞬間も。E-40影響下にあるオフビート系のフロウも巧みに使いこなします。ベイ好きの方も是非。

哀愁と緊張感が同居したラストの「Reminiscing」は圧巻。

3. Duke Deuce「Memphis Massacre 2」

メンフィスのラッパー。

「ワタファ～！」。このアドリブが癖になる、メンフィス臭いラップがメンフィス臭いビートに乗るメンフィス臭い作品です。高めの声質でいなたく、時には歌フロウも用いる賑やかなラップ。ダークなMタウンクランクや鬼渋ファンキー路線などのサウンド。特にクランク系の曲での暴れっぷりが凄まじく、好き者の方はニヤニヤが止まらないと思います。

Project Pat「If You Aint From My Hood」まんま使いのビートで本人とJuicy J、Lil Jonを迎えたMタウンクランクの「Crunk Ain’t Dead (Remix)」はもはやアンセムです。

4. DJ Fresh「The Tonite Show With Curren$y」

ベイのプロデューサーとルイジアナのラッパーのタッグ作。

DJ Fresh印のチルめでスムースなものが中心のビートに、Curren$yの脱力ゆるゆるラップが絡むG度高めな良作です。極上メロウの連打に腰砕け必至。例の高音シンセも多く聴けます。

アウトロでのシンセの動きが凄いメロウな「Round 3 Times」がお気に入り。

5. Don Toliver「Heaven or Hell」

テキサスのラッパー。

Big MoeやChalie Boyなどを思わせる、フガフガとしたソウルフルな歌を聴かせるラッパーです。80年代R&B的なシンセを多用したサウンドや、楽器（？）のソロやエディットなども取り入れた構成がユニークな怪作。

声を素材のように扱ってビートに遊びを持たせたスペイシーな「Candy」がベストトラック。

6. Kassa Overall「I THINK I’M GOOD」

NYのプロデューサー兼ラッパー、ドラマー。

Kanye Westからの影響を感じさせるマッドなセンスで、ヒップホップとジャズを同一視して同時に鳴らしたような怪作です。生音やラップを活かしつつも、編集された魅力もある不思議な音楽性が堪能できます。

打ち込みっぽいドラムと生のドラムのコントラストが印象的な「Got Me A Plan」がハイライト。

7. Lil Baby「My Turn」

アトランタのラッパー。

ゆるさとハードさが同居したスキルフルなラップが、シリアスなトラップ系や暖かいレイドバックした曲などで楽しめる作品です。少しG-Unit勢にも通じるバランス感覚があります。

Gunna、Lil Wayne、DJ Paulらが参加。

8. Emily King「Sides」

NYのシンガーソングライター。

ハスキーな声質の優しくソウルフルな歌を、アコースティック編成のフォーキーなサウンドで聴かせる好作です。シンプルなようで、時にはファンキーに聴かせたりと表情も豊か。

美しいストリングスと共にSara Bareillesの美声と絡む「Teach You (Acoustic)」がお気に入り。

9. Mozzy「Beyond Bulletproof」

ベイのラッパー。

太めの声質で聴かせる泥臭さと緊張感のあるラップが、ベイらしいバンギンやメロウ路線などで堪能できる快作です。トラップ的な曲も少しありますが、基本はGなので好き者にはたまらないはず。

切ないピアノを使った哀愁系の「Bulletproofly」がベストトラック。

10. Tha God Fahim「Lost Kingz」

アトランタのラッパー兼プロデューサー。

高めの声質で噛み締めるようなラップが、ソウルフルで男気溢れるブーンバップ系のビートで楽しめる作品です。Wu-Tang Clan周辺に通じるような雰囲気もあります。

DJ Muggs制作のローファイで緊張感のあるワンループが光る「Iron Fist」がハイライト。

11. Ethan Gruska「En Garde」

西海岸のシンガーソングライター。

フォークやチェンバーポップをベースに、エレクトロニカやThe Soulquariansっぽいヒップホップ感覚を注入したような作品です。やりすぎない捻りと、優しい歌心の妙が楽しめます。

Phoebe Bridgersをフィーチャーした疾走感のある「Enough For Now」がお気に入り。

12. Haiti Babii「California Haitian」

ベイのラッパー兼プロデューサー。

素っ頓狂な高音でカサカサと動くようなフロウや歌、野太い低音、SEのようなアドリブ・・・といった多彩なスタイルを一人で同時進行させる怪作です。音的にはポストハイフィ的なシンプルなものが中心。

ファンキーなベースのループに一人何役もこなして賑やかに乗る「Murder Mook vs. Haiti Babii」など、強烈な曲が詰まっています。

13. Halsey「Manic」

ニュージャージーのシンガー。

浮遊感のあるオルタナティヴR&B路線やロック風味、トラップ的なものなど多彩なサウンドを扱いつつも、エモーショナルでラップっぽい感覚も備えた歌の存在感で芯を通した快作です。Juice WRLDあたりが好きな方も是非。

フォーキーなギターやふわふわとしたシンセ、アフロポップ的なパーカッションが効いた「Graveyard」がベストトラック。

14. Westside Gunn「Pray for Paris」

NYのラッパー。

高めの声質から繰り出す武骨なフロウやゆるいフロウが、ブーンバップ系のものが中心のソウルフルで暖かいビートで楽しめる作品です。賑やかなアドリブやドラムレスのビートなども印象的。

Daringer、The Alchemistらに加え、静岡のBohemia Lynchも参加。

15. Jeff Parker & The New Breed「Suite for Max Brown」

西海岸のミュージシャン、Jeff Parkerのプロジェクト。

生演奏の良さを活かしつつエディットを施した、ヒップホップとジャズが完全に溶け合ったようなユニークな作品です。ジャズ好きの方だけではなく、J DillaやMadlibなどが好きな方も楽しめると思います。

ループ感強めで時折ギターが妙にサンプリングっぽく響く「Go Away」がハイライト。

16. Tank「While You Wait」

DCのシンガー。

ピアノのみで歌った非常にシンプルな作りで、ソウルフルで甘くセクシーな歌声の魅力が堪能できる好R&B作品です。路線を絞ったからこそ生まれる濃厚さがあり、6曲というボリュームも絶妙。

誠実な歌心とキャッチーなフックが良い「My Lovers」がお気に入り。

17. Nazar「Guerrilla」

アンゴラのプロデューサー。

クドゥロのアフリカの匂いがするパーカッシヴなドラムと、ダークで重苦しい音作りが合わさった怪作です。ダブステップなどのUK産ベースミュージックや、ゴムなどが好きな方にもおすすめ。

連打されるパーカッションが印象的な混沌とした「Intercept」がベストトラック。

18. Quando Rondo「QPac」

ジョージアのラッパー。

トラップ的な音作りを踏まえつつも、ピアノなどの生楽器っぽい音色を多用した哀愁系の曲が中心の作品です。ハスキーな声質でソウルフルに歌うラップは、時折Z-Roを思わせる瞬間もあります。

切ないピアノを使った哀愁曲の「Love Or Lust」がハイライト。

19. dvsn「A Muse in Her Feelings」

カナダのR&Bデュオ。

Drake的な浮遊感やダンスホール風味なども交えつつも、基本はスウィートなR&Bに仕上げた良作です。セクシーなファルセットも巧みに使うスムースな美声は、それだけでR&Bファン悶絶必至の魅力があります。

Bryan-Michael Cox、Ty Dolla $ign、Summer Walkerらが参加。

20. Sneakk & KiingRod「Brothers Keeper」

ベイのラッパー二人のタッグ作。

SOB X RBE周辺らしい、ストリート感強めなブヨブヨのファンクが中心の作品です。高めの声質でねちっこいラップや歌を聴かせるSneakkと、ベイ流儀の中にJuicy Jの影響も感じさせる男臭いKiingRodのコンビネーションもばっちり。

例の高音シンセも飛び出すバンギンの「Aob」がお気に入り。

21. The Weeknd「After Hours」

カナダのシンガー。

オルタナティブR&Bをベースにシンセポップ的な要素を注入し、ダークな雰囲気にまとめた良作です。セクシーで華のある歌も、曲によって多彩な表情を見せます。

ドラムンベース風味を取り入れた「Hardest To Love」がベストトラック。

22. Medhane「Cold Water」

NYのラッパー。

太いドラムやループ感というより、うわものの響きで聴かせるような進化型ブーンバップ作品です。太く低い声質でしっかりと噛み締めるラップもビートによく合っています。Earl Sweatshirtなどが好きな方におすすめ。

クラウドラップにも通じるドリーミーな「Watch My Step」がハイライト。

23. Waxahatchee「Saint Cloud」

アラバマのシンガーソングライター。

フォークロックやカントリーをベースにした飾らないサウンドで、良いメロディを優しく寄り添うように歌った良作です。明るく開放感のある曲が多い印象。インディポップ好きの方は是非。

メロウなエレピが効いた「Ruby Falls」がお気に入り。

24. Megan Thee Stallion「Suga」

テキサスのラッパー。

YG周辺の西海岸ものっぽい路線をテキサス風にしたような、バウンシーなものやメロウなどのGな曲が目立つ作品です。三連フロウや歌うようなフロウなど、多彩なフロウを用いるラップもスキルフルな魅力があります。

Helluva、Jake One、Kehlaniらが参加。

25. Slatt Zy「Zy Story」

テネシーのラッパー。

濁った声質のエモーショナルな歌い上げラップを、哀愁路線が中心のサウンドで聴かせる好作です。メロディメイカーとして非常に優れており、また時折飛び出す引用にもニヤリとさせられます。

例の高音シンセも使った哀愁系の「Metal Tight」には、オヤGもソファで泣き崩れると思います。

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