JAY’S HYPEROBSCURE MUSICWHATNOT CORNER! JAY’S HYPEROBSCURE MUSICWHATNOT CORNER! A collection of musical projects with little to no attention on Bandcamp, streaming services, or any subcultures/live events I’m aware of. Each project here is only known (much less listened to) by a couple hundred people at most, providing maximum hipster pretention points. Each project has been professionally vetted by myself, and my immaculate, second-to-none music taste, so you know every project is worth your time.
(remember to click the album art to check these out!)
A Black Dot Seen Through the Eyes of an Observer in a Dream Sequence (or BALLET I)
Pearl's PSEUDOSPHERE
Easily the most obscure pick on this list. An experimental electronic album that ecclectically borrows elements from classical music, and electronic scenes from all across the sub-genral spectrum. Was made via inhuman means entirely with FL Studio 20, and its native instruments, although you’d never guess. It’s fantastically varied and unique, consistently coming upon new and unique instrumental or arrangement ideas again and again that I can almost guarantee you’ve never heard anything like before. Will take you on one hell of a ride from start to finish.
Alien Age
Mile Me Deaf
Here’s a question for you: What do you get when an artist with a few decent hits, as well as an arguably cult classic noise pop album decided to make one of the most daring, downright genius stylistic shifts since Kid A? The answer: Nothing. At least not in terms of audience reception: you do get one of the absolute best neo-psych albums ever made. Seriously, this is what Animal Collective fans wish Merriweather Post Pavillion sounded like: countless nonsensical-yet-earwormy hooks, tasteful genre crossovers with glitch hop and dub, and a tracklist so airtight that skipping warrants up to 5 years of jail time. The fact that nobody gives a shit about this masterpiece is proof that if God isn’t dead, he’s probably a Taylor Swift fan.
MONOCHROMIUM/MONOTONIUM
glass remnant
So I was at ECON 3, right? It was a big vaporwave music festival if you don’t know. Anyway, the day before the festival, I was at a tape swap organized by Pad, and I’m thinking to myself: If I don’t buy some tapes at this event, I’m a poser. It’s a fucking tape swap, for god’s sake, one of the people I came with is literally running one of the tables. If I don’t buy some tapes I’m one-hundred-percent gonna die - spiritually, socially, mentally and physically. The problem is, I absolutely was a poser, and didn’t know jack shit about anything being sold. So, I just walked from table to table, asking the people running the tables what they thought was good. Most just said some variant of “oh, this is really popular right now”, or “this one’s new to the label”, which wasn’t what I asked, but hey, I bought them anyway, ‘cause I sure as hell ain’t making my own decision. Then, at one of the tables, the guy running the stand picks up this cheesy, noir-looking album on a red cassette and says “hey, I found out about this guy just a few months ago, and managed to convince him to release his newest album on the label. It’s really good.” So, I bought it, and on my way to the next table, some guy handed me a sticker of his fursona, which was the only piece of merch I lost during the whole trip, which isn’t relevant, but in the rare circumstance that that guy ends up reading this, you’re very kind, your fursona is super cool, and I promise I didn’t mean to get rid of the cool sticker you gave me. Anyway, a few days after the festival, I was stuck in the LaGuardia airport overnight after my flight got delayed, and I decided to listen to this album using the bandcamp code that came with the physical copy. The dude was right - it was pretty good. You should listen to it. It’s pretty good.
Physics 2
Physics
Rob Crow has really done everything at this point. He became an underground indie rock legend as part of Pinback, worked with Zach Hill as part of Holy Smokes, The Ladies, and Team Sleep (where he also worked with Deftones frontman Chino Moreno), and even started a post-rock band named Physics. Not to be confused with his other band, Aspects of Physics. Or their debut live EP, Physics. Physics 2 (A follow-up to Physics 1, not Physics) is a pretty solid piece of space rock infused post-rock that probably won’t blow you away if you’re familiar with that sorta thing, but makes for a pretty enjoyable listen regardless. The first and last tracks kinda suck though.
thats it please leave