On Friday of last week, I reached out to folks on Twitter, requesting recommendations for some of their favorite music. I was in the mood for something new. I asked people to share an album that they totally dig, but that maybe not everyone else might have heard of or be into.
Looking for new #music: What’s the one album that you listen to ALL THE TIME, but no one else you know has heard of it.
— Liam Dempsey (@liamdempsey) October 29, 2021
Please share those with me today.
I expected that I would get a few new-to-me recommendations, I was happily surprised with how many different genres of music were shared.
As a way to build myself a playlist, and to serve as a reference for future listening, I pulled together the recommendations into a single blog post.
You can scroll down to the recommendations by tweet if you’d rather skip the list of recommended albums. I am sharing the tweets so you can see how so many people shared such wonderful music with me (and you.)
Recommended Albums
Please note that I have chosen deliberately not to link to any of the albums or artists in this list. You can find them all on your preferred streaming service.
- The ’59 Sound by Gas Light Anthem
- The Other Side by Tonight Alive
- Deathcounciousness by Have a Nice Life
- Dust to Gold by Cris Jacobs
- Any album by Piano Project (not an album recommendation)
- Comfort to Me by Amyl and the Sniffers
- The Valley by Betty Who
- I Love You Always Forever by Betty Who
- Any music by The Secret Sisters (not an album recommendation)
- Outside Child by Allison Russell
- A Southern Gothic by Adia Victoria
- Tales from the Beach by Incognito
- 39 Laps by Monkey3
- The Human Condition by Jon Bellion
- Generationwhy by Zhu
- O by Damien Rice
- Ghetto Pop Life by Danger Mouse and Jemini the Gifted One
To everyone who shared recommendations with me: THANK YOU! My headphones have been rocking, swaying, brooding, and jamming ever since.
And I’ll add a special shout-out to Topher DeRosia who shared his entire album listening history for the previous year.
Recommendations by Tweet
I don't know about "no one else," but The '59 Sound by @gaslightanthem.
— ?? Joe Casabona (@jcasabona) October 29, 2021
And more recently, The Other Side by @TonightAlive
https://t.co/LqNyjylq3n
— Joseph Marks (@josephmarksjr) October 29, 2021
I really like this album, I listen to it a lot while coding and it always gets me into a nice flow pretty easily.
Have you listened to Cris Jacobs Dust to Gold from 2016?
— Kevin Druecker (@drueck) October 29, 2021
Not any one particular album, but I love Piano Project
— Lauren Pittenger (@laurenpittenger) October 29, 2021
I am a women of folk type of listener so if you want to try that, The Secret Sisters are easy to listen to
— Tara Claeys (@TaraClaeys) October 29, 2021
Amyl and the Sniffers are my current obsession.
— Jim Breslin (@Jimbrez) October 29, 2021
The latest 2 albums from Betty Who
— Beka Rice (@Beka_Rice) October 29, 2021
Have you listened to Allison Russell and Adia Victoria's latest albums? So. Good.
— Chris Ford (@riotmaam) October 29, 2021
Incognito’s Tales from the Beachhttps://t.co/M74PD0Ej7x
— Tonya Mork (@hellofromTonya) October 29, 2021
Albums I listen to a lot… Stats don't lie. https://t.co/ZtUx5GyF9H
— topher1kenobe (@topher1kenobe) October 29, 2021
Monkey3 – 39 Laps
— Corey Salzano (@salzano) October 29, 2021
I don't know where to start with your musical taste but the first 2 that come to mind are"The Human Condition" by Jon Bellion or "GENERATIONWHY" By Zhu
— Chris Mcintosh (@akamac) October 29, 2021
Damien Rice ‘O’
— Kimberly Coleman (@colemank83) October 29, 2021
— Adam W. Warner ? Let’s chat. DMs open. (@wpmodder) October 29, 2021
— April Wier (@theaprilwier) October 29, 2021
P.S. With luck, I will have to come back to this post and make it Volume I.