itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

ok this echelon the seeker ep is incredible, its basic set of sounds is very '80s but they're recombined into these unwieldy rhomboid compositions https://echelontheseeker.bandcamp.com/

accompanying bandcamp interview https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/21/echelon-the-seeker-interview/

Sevdaliza's (rather extraordinary) album ISON, released a few weeks ago, seems like it belongs here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znV9KDsNtXY

holy shit harriet brown

loads of you have surely freaked upon hearing this?

well here you go anyway https://harrietbrown.bandcamp.com/album/contact

hmmmmm

In L.A.'s revivified funk scene, the 26-year-old Bay Area native is emerging as a potential torchbearer. On his debut full-length, Contact, Brown triangulates early Prince, a grown, sexy Janet Jackson and Mr. Contact himself—Carl Sagan, if you're nasty—connecting the corporeal, the spiritual and the extraterrestrial through vintage synths, bangin' drum machines and the occasional ripping guitar solo. And he does it while rocking a look best described as Lloyd Christmas-meets-new jack swing.

http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/07/05/harriet-brown-is-the-l-a-funk-scenes-new-resident-alien/

Wow, can't believe how much he sounds like Prince vocally.

enjoying the MHYSA record from the quietus' year-end

oh my god L'Rain

oh my god

this album is like a sort of sad amazing dream

i'd post like 5 pages of trademark imago hype but rly i shdnt need to, just listen to it

listening to the new DoNormaal album again too, it's rly great

i really like both donormaal records

Sad amazing dream otm, L'Rain is great. We can send it up the EOY poll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6cuCfML98

was only able to find one mention of DAVON BRYANT aka DREAMCAST on ILM (buried in a dj mix)

he is really good

yes he is, "Floral Place" is also lovely

that is one fabulous 7"

dreamcast only has the two 7"s out, right?

three 7”s and an LP

all available at earcave

the new Jai Paul release has shot straight to the top of the RYM 2019 chart. listening now I can't really hear what's so special and his stop-start production trick got stale very quickly but...why does RYM love it so much?

obviously ilx hates him, or at least did back when the lex posted

it's not exactly new since it first leaked 6 years ago but i haven't really given it much thought since then. i think it's just the whole cult of mystery thing - him releasing two promising and distinctive (though still fairly overrated) demos before all these other demos leaked and he disappeared for ages. it seems like a shame they did leak because hearing more polished versions of some of those songs would have been cool, instead of what happened which is that the leak freaked him out and frustrated him enough to not release anything until now. skimming through the 'album' again i still really like 'str8 outta mumbai' and some of the rest shows some promise but it's not too special and i don't get why people are so enamoured with it.

anyone here listen to black grapefruit? think they fit this thread and are also pretty wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOBRAcV99c

They fit the thread, but that’s kinda the problem. They’re not doing much new with this approach. Not bad . Just ok imho

Maybe you don’t always have to do something “new,” but there’s something missing from the Black Grapefruit song that keeps me from being wowed.

reread this whole thread the other night. really miss this meta-genre lane in my ilx reading

curmudgeon was otm about black grapefruit i think, i am easily mesmerized by aesthetic

https://terence.bandcamp.com/album/v-o-r-t-e-x

really liking this! debut from someone more famous as a filmmaker

listening to J*Davey the beauty in distortion for the first time in 10+ years. Sounds f’in great. Love all the warm distortion.

The Niecy Blues record is really really good (sorta minimal, 'lo fi', spacey r&b)

https://niecyblues.bandcamp.com/album/exit-simulation

https://jouskajouska.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly-my-mind-is-blank-2

i liked this jouska album a fair bit

yo niecy blues is dope af. just gave the whole spotify availabilities a marathon run. got DAMN. from gothy ethereal sounds to ambient drones to straight up modern r+b... really thorough stuff.

also she kinda sounds like amber from we are king.♡