Artist: Freddie Gibbs, Madlib
Year: 2019
Genre: Gangsta Rap
My favourite booty-spreading, life-loving rapper. Like, shrugging off your asshole being posted as revenge porn is highly based.
Gotta say, the art sucks.
Artist: Danny Brown, JPEGMAFIA
Year: 2023
Genre: Glitch Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
My favourite autistic ass, weird-voiced rapper and my favourite easily triggered rapper collab, yay.
Artist: Juan Gabriel
Year: 1990
Genre: Mariachi
Probably the best live album I've ever heard. Amazing performance, arrangements and audience. Any time I listen, I'm thinking "Shit, I wish I were there".
Artist: Anna von Hausswolff
Year: 2025
Genre: Spiritual awe, ecstasy and dread
Waited for this to drop for months, and then... didn't listen to it. Until after the first ayahuasca ceremony, at which point I realised I'd apparently been waiting for just the right moment.
Artist: Haircuts for Men
Year: 2025
Genre: Barber beats
Barber beats are a big, vaguely guilty pleasure. HFM does great work (and has consistently aesthetic art), but this is one of my favourites. Listen to the descent 2.
Artist: Joe Hisaishi
Year: 1993
Genre: Soundtrack, cinematic classical
One of my favourite films, and one of my favourite soundtracks. I love his Ghibli works too, but the Beat Takeshi stuff takes it for me. Hana-Bi's OST is also excellent.
Artist: DJ Screw
Year: 1995
Genre: Screw
What if pre-vaporwave, but for hiphop, kind of?
Artist: The Alan Pasons Project
Year: 1976
Genre: Prog
Impeccable prog. Prog particularly seems to lend itself to concept albums? That's like, all these guys did. It slaps.
Artist: Death's Dynamic Shroud
Year: 2015
Genre: Vaporwave, kinda
Surely one of the most autism-coded groups out there. I like all their work, but this remains a standout.