Think that might be going a touch too far. Reminded me a bit of coffee table 90s house without the beats. Not offensive, just bland, oh - and very, very, sincere.
Pontification time.
The closest thing to new this year was Trap Goth; mainly Goth Money Records artists and affiliates, but also artists like Slug Christ.
Sonically it was more recombination than innovation, but nonetheless this particular cocktail of cloud rap, chopped and screwed, lo-fi, horrorcore, Withch House and Triple Six Mafia was refreshing.
The more paradigm shifty quality of the music was seeing black culture (and those imitating it) embracing Goth aesthetics; in particular fetishising depression and suicide.
There has been suicidal ideation in rap before, but it has never been cultivated into an aesthetic in and of itself in the way Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain did.
This seems to be part of a larger processes of the whiteboy-ification of rap that can be seen in Rap Rock, the neptunes, Odd Future, emo rap, etc.
Luke Bryan and the rise of Bro Country?
ekoplekz: reflekionz
that's a great record. definitely in my list. only got it a couple of days ago - but really brilliant.
I did a mix of them this year; and agree with you, here's what I done wrote then :
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=13538
Finnatude mix - James B.L. Hollands
http://we.tl/aT8okskPoE
This was me going through thousands of youtube and soundcloud videos to find some nice new music, so you don't have to. This is some, probably independent, American hip hop. Trilliam, you might like it.
Lovely, isn't it?
What I like about where this bedroom hop is going is the regret it's sonically expressing, in a kinda Pornography-era Cure type way. The bombast is doubtful, and melancholy; smoking LSD-laced skunk and preferring to be lost inside a screen because going outside is too difficult. Pertinent.
Tracklisting :
Front, Back, Side To Side - VanCityBeats
Red Tear Drops Goth Crip - Black Kray
FedEx - xoxaineDEEZY
Chad Butler - Rizzo Blaze
Cold World (instrumental) - Swagg B
Flodgin' - $uicideboy$
"How We Planned It" ft Skippa Da Flippa - OG Maco
Land Of The Lost - RAMIREZ
WASSUP - YUNG JUUG ft HUNNEDMILL
The Handle - JGRXXN
3RD WARD DOVES - Black Kray
no context at all though, it feels "eclectic" to say the least - is it classifiable to any particular "genre"? anyone??
Nice one, apologies for the inadvertent plagiarism. All this stuff pretty much fits into what I was talking about; the name $uicide boy$ perfectly encapsulates the amalgamation of the Gangsta and Goth aesthetics/subcultures.
...quite tasteful - perfect for restaurants, in that sort of cinematic orchestra/4hero kind of vein, but not badly, or poorly done.