Your "sleeper" albums of 2019 - Recommend an album from last year that got nowhere near as much love as it should have

[EmpireOfTheClouds]

Me thinks the thread title and caption are simple enough.

My recommendation is No-Man's Love You to Bits.

It's a 36 minute song split into two tracks (if you have the vinyl or tape, the CD splits it into 10), titled "Love You to Bits" and "Love You to Pieces".

Think Donna Summer, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd and Tame Impala thrown in a blender. "Bits" is 17 minutes long and very much disco and 90s House influenced. Structurally it's very similar to the full 17 minute version of "Love To Love You Baby", and even has a sick disonnant guitar solo about 10 minutes in that adds some spice to an otherwise musical sugar high

"Pieces" is its 19 minute moodier counterpart, influenced by 80s electropop and with some industrial elements, even a bit of Prog Rock in there for good measure.

The tracks go by VERY quickly too, for long songs, and are very danceable and catchy, best of all accessible.

 

[exhausted]

The Caretaker put out his last album this year, "Everywhere, an Empty Bliss". It's interesting in a kind of eerie way, since it uses ballroom music, but it takes a new tone when you learn all his albums are a concept collection about memory and dementia

The Caretaker - Everywhere, an empty bliss (FULL ALBUM)

'Everywhere, an empty bliss' is available for free at Bandcamp until June the 16th, 2019 https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-an-empty-bliss Au...

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Also, slightly more popular, "Infest the Rats' Nest" by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I respect these dudes because they literally play whatever the fuck they want, but this album has been my goto for most of this year just because its got some pretty fucking good speedmetal

Infest the Rats' Nest - YouTube

Studio recordings of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards new beautiful disaster album Infest the Rats' Nest. Planet B Mars For The Rich Organ Farmer Superbug...

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[glossdrop]

You Know What They Mean by Bent Knee was one from last year I enjoyed. Their sound has elements of industrial rock, prog, and baroque pop with a pretty solid female vocalist. A lot of the album consists of short interludes, and some of the instruments and vocals end up muddied in the mix, but otherwise it's worth a listen if you're an art rock sperg like me or like experimental synth fuckery.

(Also putting King Gizzard on an underrated albums thread should be considered cheating, lol.)

 

[EmpireOfTheClouds]

You Know What They Mean by Bent Knee was one from last year I enjoyed. Their sound has elements of industrial rock, prog, and baroque pop with a pretty solid female vocalist. A lot of the album consists of short interludes, and some of the instruments and vocals end up muddied in the mix, but otherwise it's worth a listen if you're an art rock sperg like me or like experimental synth fuckery.

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(Also putting King Gizzard on an underrated albums thread should be considered cheating, lol.)

Bent Knee are fantastic!!!