I was surlrised by two different pieces: To Ponemo Stithous Mou (Giannis Parios) which is improvised and it's incredible + Chaser (Mammal Hands) because I found it in my savdd music but didn't know how and when I found it and I was surprised by how I liked it
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Randomly heard the track "Hollywood Baby" by 100 gecs in a store or restaurant or something. It instantly hooked into my brain and I'm still not sure why.
Maybe not the last time, but the last time I remember stumbling into a new genre. Mdou Moctor completely blew me away. Nigerian psychedelic rock meets folk and blues in such a unique and beautiful way.
Incredible musicianship, catchy songwriting, really easy to get lost in the music. It’s not something I ever sought out, it was just mentioned in a Reddit thread.
So so many examples of this.
I'm normally into ndh, industry and electronically, with some metal thrown in. I did however get a good surprise by the following musicians/bands
- Dirty shirt
- Otyken
- Shahram Nazeri
- Sofi Tukker
There’s this series of compilation albums called Dark Country, most notable for having a lot of the music from the Rebel Galaxy games. I would not call these good, exactly. But they have a very specific vibe and they all do that vibe extremely well. It’s not what I normally listen to by a long shot, but I keep coming back to them. They’re gritty, dark, cheesy, catchy, and fun.
Basically every episode of Los Espookys.
Also comments on YT have led me to
- Bloodywood
- Hamlet Gonashvili and beautifully crushing Georgian music in general
- Nooran Sisters
- I'm an atheist but this gives me a glimpse of what the faithful might be feeling. Wow, just wow.
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- GoGo Penguin (1, 2) - probably my biggest positive surprise in the Jazz/Fusion genre as of late. Singlehandedly re-invigorated my interest in the genre. I basically didn't listen to this genre at all for a very long time but they changed that
- Mammal Hands (1) - I thought I didn't even like saxophone but this band changed that. Very unexpected, very great. Apparently I just listened to the "wrong" kind of Jazz bands before. Discovered them right after GoGo Penguin.
Hey Mammal Hands surprised me too ahaha, I just wrote a comment about it