Back in March or 2021, my good friend Grayson and I found this little album challenge on Rate Your Music and decided to participate. It was a lot of fun, but the user seemed to stop posting the challenges after April of that same year. In order to push ourselves to listen to more tunes, we decided to make one of our own!
Essentially, we have listed a subgenre (or subgenres) for each day of the month. Each day, try to listen to an album within that genre that you’ve never heard before. Some of the genres listed are pretty obscure, so I’ve linked the Rate Your Music charts for the respective top rated albums below, as well as an example album from the genre.
Have fun and listen to some new music!
*A ⭐ notes it's a personal favorite from Grayson or Colton*
2: Ambient Pop. E.g., Floating Into The Night by Julee Cruise
3: Glitch Hop. E.g., Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus
4: Sequencer & Tracker. E.g., Healing by In Love With a Ghost
5: City Pop. E.g., First Light by Makoto Matsushita
6: Minimalism. E.g., Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich
7: Avant-Garde Jazz. E.g., Let My Children Hear Music by Charles Mingus
8: Picopop. E.g., L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer by capsule
10: Post-Metal. E.g., Ashes Against the Grain by Agalloch⭐
12: Neo-Psychedelia. E.g., Crumbling by Mid-Air Thief⭐
13: Hardcore Hip-Hop. E.g., The Money Store by Death Grips⭐
14: Plunderphonics. E.g., Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never⭐
15: IDM. E.g., Music has The Right to Children by Boards of Canada⭐
16: Modal Jazz. E.g., Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
17: Disco or French House. E.g., Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
18: Moogsploitation. E.g., Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson
19: Industrial Rock or Industrial Metal. E.g., The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
20: Field Recordings. E.g., Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations by The Conet Project
21: Hyperpop. E.g., 1000 Gecs by 100 Gecs
22: Midwest Emo. E.g., Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate
24: Neoclassical New Age. E.g., Hosianna Mantra by Popol Vuh
25: Chamber Music or Chamber Pop. E.g., 1996 by Ryuichi Sakamoto
26: Sound Collage. E.g., A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018 by Slauson Malone 1
27: Cloud Rap. E.g., Gods Father by Lil B (TYBG for this rare mixtape)
28: Chiptune. E.g., Dawn Metropolis by Anamanaguchi
29: Southern Hip-Hop. E.g., TA13OO by Denzel Curry⭐
30: Trip-Hop. E.g., Demon Days by Gorillaz⭐
To everyone in college, I hope your fall semester has started off well. Good luck with classes and life and all that stuff!!
-Colton Game A.K.A. DJ Crouton
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