I’ve been big on MUTEMATH since highschool. Unfortunately, I think they’ve broken up, but I still love their music.
I like Will Wood, his stuff has been described as “evil jazz”, but it ranges from calm and soothing singer-songwriter type stuff to a full upbeat jazz band with chaotic composition and arrangement. I find his lyrics insightful, but they are also often quite abstract.
Cute girls doing cute things have some nice tracks, but many of them feel a bit the same-y.
The Vienna Clarinet Collection has great covers of classic clarinet songs, but classical and jazz.
I couldn’t choose one, so here are a few jazz bands I like: Francis Coppieters, Loftys Comet, T-Square, Micheal Lowerstern, Archie Shepp, Sons of Kemet, and Mansur Brown
Khruangbin, MONO, Babe Rainbow, Kikagaku Moyo.
If Khrungabin aren’t well known there is no justice in the universe. They are so good. They headlined a big festival here (one so expensive I didn’t go) and did those awesome collaborations with Leon Bridges so I thought they were famous?
Hello Meteor: https://hellometeor.bandcamp.com
Exodrifter: https://exodrifter.bandcamp.com (discovered his/her work with Radio Free Fedi)
Some that I think should be wayy more popular than they currently are:
- Jukebox the ghost
- aimee mann
- V.A.S.T
- Prefab sprout
- Ivy
- Passion pit
- Placebo
- The war on drugs
- tokyo police club
- Stars
- The dismemberment plan
Is Placebo niche now?
Probably, I don’t know how I found them but I grew up in the 90s and 00s and never heard of them.
