Hello,

I think we’ve all had enough of Foster’s shenanigans, new account starting threads about music that secretly push propaganda to brainwash you wild, creative souls into playing music by staring at sheet music. So, let’s talk about how we’re actually listening to music in 2025. I’m still rocking the full-album experience, start to finish, like some kind of vinyl-spinning boomer, tho it's rarely vinyl now.

I get the appeal of the modern single track, Spotify shuffle, instant vibes approach, like how kids do it today. But let’s be real: there’s something about diving into a whole album, letting it unfold like a story, that hits differently. Back in the day, I had my 10-inch phase. physical art, liner notes, the vibes you can’t get that from a digital download or a Limewire rip), but it doesn’t feel hollow like listening to new singles on Spotify like now if you know what I mean.

The big question: Do you still listen to albums in one go ? Doesn’t matter if you’re a self-proclaimed audiophile with a 20k Hi-Fi setup or just streaming on Spotify like the rest of us mortals. I’m curious, are we still out here soaking in full albums, or are we all just chasing the next viral banger?

Now, let’s address the elephant in the room. I’d bet my record collection that at least 70% of you are still blasting the same artists or bands you discovered in high school or your early 20s. You know who you are: “80s Music Is the Pinnacle of Art,” “Pink Floyd Is the Closest We Get to God,” or “Limp Bizkit Was My Personality in the 2000s.” (apologies for not including your fav genre) Look, I get it nostalgia’s a hell of a drug. But when did “new music sucks” become a personality trait ? Some genuinely believe it makes them look cool or something, or worse, better.

Here’s the challenge: Tell me about the best album you’ve discovered and loved in the last two months, released within the past three years or so, by a new artist (newly discovered or simply just new), ideally younger than you.

1. The album and artist
2. Why it slapped (vibes, production, lyrics, whatever hooked you)
3. How you listened (vinyl, CD, streaming, tape)
4. Do you still spin full albums, or are you a singles kinda person?

Let’s keep it fresh!

 

Last edited: Jul 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM

Well, you’re definitely setting some pretty arbitrary and rigid conditions to categorize what 'new music' is. I think what comes close to me is:

1. The Garden - Mirror Might Steal Your Charm (2018)
2. It's cheesy, it's odd and it's heavy. All perfectly balanced.
3. Streaming
4. Yeah, why not? I can't imagine how it must feel to be a 'singles' kinda person.

I don't know if that fits your definition of a 'newer artist', but it's definitely new to me. I did enjoy my share of fresh music in 2024, like Chat Pile's "Cool World", which was my favorite. But honestly, I've spent most of this year making music (my band’s next album is coming out next month) and studying, so I need to catch up.

 

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1. Funeral Mist - Deiform (2021)
2. Production is good, better than other FM albums, but it is mostly the way music is composed, it's very sophisticated and full of surprises. And the way the album functions as a whole, each track being perfect and blending perfectly with the next. The general atmosphere too.
3. flac files on my computer / mp3 on an usb stick on the living room stereo. I hate streaming.
4. I almost only spin albums. There are good songs, good singles but albums are where it's at. Vinyl and tapes were the only way to listen to music when I was a kid (there was radio, of course, but music I liked was rarely aired). I hated to have to get up to change the record, so it was often the whole side at once.
These days, most recent music I listen to is Black Metal and Doom Metal, where catchy songs are rarely a thing and often work on the long term. Songs in these genres dont follow the verse/chorus structures of pop music most of the time.

If I hear a good song, I want more of the stuff, so I go for the album. A few years ago, some rapper catched my ear. I downloaded an album, which was in fact a compilation, as tracks had originally been released one by one. I was so disappointed that the hard hitting tune I liked so much was an isolated thing and that most of the rest of the record was elevator music.

 

1. Tall Tales (Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke), released on 9 May 2025
2. Electronic, experimental, kind of minimalist, trippy
3. Youtube
4. Still listen to full albuns

Another one:

1. >>>> (Beak>) released in 2024
2. Experimental, trippy, has a Portishead member (Geoff Barrow)
3. Bandcamp

Both stroke me as aesthetically appealing in many ways, and full of interesting atmospheres.

PS: sorry, but I missed the "ideally younger than you" part lol

 

Last edited: Jul 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM

From start to finish, I love every track on the Kellermench album 'Capitulism'.
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I didnt take into account the "last two months" thing.
I jumped to Funeral Mist because this album is relatively recent and is a masterpiece in my opinion.

So, to fully comply with the parameters of the thread :
1. Hate Forest - Against all Odds ( 2025 - released in april, but I became aware of its existence this morning)
2. The 'caught in the snowstorm', despaired and angry feeling that post-2020 Hate Forest albums bring. The blend of melodic guitar work and sheer brutality. It can work only as an album as atmosphere is the most important thing.
3. "I hate streaming" is a bit exagerated. It's useful to quickly discover something but it is not a way to truely listen to music, the same as radio before. When I post a youtube video or bandcamp link in the "What are you listening to now" thread, it's for sharing. Nine times of ten, a CD or flac version is actually what I'm listening to.