What was the last album that shook your world up?

It’s been at least two years since I’ve come across an album that felt paradigm shifting, the kind that you play over and over again throughout a particular era of your life and that gets you sifting through the genre looking for similar highs. The last albums to do this for me were probably Hosianna Mantra (Popol Vuh) and Ayahuasca (Pelt), but again, these were sometime around early Covid and I haven’t quite experienced that again since.

Just seeing what has done it for you all as of late. It was fun being a teenager and having this feeling every other week it seemed.

Sault's five album drop put me in Sault world for a month and made me rethink their whole endeavor for the third time.

Before that, probably Hesam Inanlou's Amid cemented my adoration of experimental Iranian music.

somehow i didn't hear 'coke wave' until 2021 and it was an absolute lifeline

ty for this thead zacata! i've been wanting to post stuff in what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by? but got the feeling that posting cult favorites and random ass catalogue finds didn't exactly fit the criteria for "classic."

anyway, the big one for me this year has been fishmans' long season, which i heard for the first time ever back in february and still remains in heavy rotation. very much the kind of thing i put on as a comfort food by now.

The most recent thing that hit me in a "I have never heard anything like this in my life and it fucking rules" way was Naná Vasconcelos' Africadeus, which has just been reissued. The first side is nothing but Vasconcelos playing the berimbau (Brazilian one-stringed bow-like instrument); on the second side there are some other people rattling percussion instruments and singing along with him. Despite that, it's got a psychedelic and ritualistic quality that's absolutely mind-melting.

Check it out here:

https://altercat.bandcamp.com/album/africadeus

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4229767264_10.jpg

Possibly Shelleyan Orphan's debut, that was several years ago and Jethro Tull's Passion Play maybe a bit earlier

Shook my world up is overstating the case, but I had completely forgotten that I own an Ozric Tentacles CD, Jurassic Shift. Got a promo, kept it because I heard they were somewhat Gong-like, wasn’t that into it and filed it away. Turns out lately they are exactly what I want to hear! I don’t need others by them, or others in that genre, but that one album is really excellent.

I liked them when I caught them live at dos in the mid to late 80s. Wasn't into the gloss of the synthy stuff 6that's all over their 90s recordings but did like the more lo fi 80s recordings that had initially been released on cassette tape

I guess I understand the question as new unique voices I was not previously aware of
- Silent Feet or Colours of Chloë by Eberhard Weber. Highly composed but lively, fluid and pure.
- Mom's by Carl Stone. Not for everyday, but best thing I heard this side of Meredith Monk (happy minimalism).

I'm resisting putting any more, though I could mention Disco Inferno and Pylon from just last week (DI is a relisten but from a very long time).

wow @ africadeus, what a gem

last album that shook my world up is king gizzard ice death etc.

listening to their songs that touch on climate change, which is like all of them, has helped me process it.

or like pointed a way forward wrt dealing with it on a personal level

Africadeus is amazing yeah , <3 Nana

idk who needs to hear them, but the Codona (Colin, Don, Nana) records are fantastic.

👍 will check those out

Johnnie Taylor's been fucking me up for the last few weeks. hits the sweet spot of the Stax sound in the early 70s, raw blues/funk with the full complement of orchestration and backing vocals. he's like a harder Isaac Hayes. he eventually transitioned to the chitlin circuit and had a huge hit with "Good Love" which sounds like something Pharrell might have produced for some rediscovered bluesman in an alternate universe.

current fave is the very Hayes-ey "Running out of lies" where JT battles his conscious over a dope organ part. he's got me really regretting that we never got to hear Sam Cooke's psychedelic, vibed out soul period. JT replaced Cooke in the Soul Stirrers because their vocals were so similar.

1971's One Step Beyond through Eargasm are filled with little gems. He's amazing over straight funk like "Hi'Jacking Love" and "Shackin' Up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYj_iYTRIQ

seems like a forgotten legend that should have been