4/3/2024 0 Comments Oddisee best albumsIn electronic music, Pictureplane, Nicolas Jaar, and James Blake zoned the fuck out in some extremely different ways. In rap, the so-called “cloud rap” aesthetic wafted through Clams Casino’s astral instrumental thump, ASAP Rocky’s stylized Southern-rap love letters, and Kendrick Lamar’s wordy self-examinations, even manifesting in big blockbuster opuses like Drake’s emo masterstroke and Kanye West and Jay-Z’s superstar summit. In indie rock, Bon Iver’s slippery blend of smooth-rock sounds and abstract-jazz ideas shared a certain starry-eyed afghan-rug appeal with Gang Gang Dance’s worldly stoner pulses, Kate Bush’s daffy piano odysseys, M83’s synth fantasias, and Oneohtrix Point Never’s Casio-addled nostalgia-play. But surveying our 2011 top 50, ethereal haze is something that’s reached across genre lines to touch all corners of the musical globe. Actually, that’s not true at all music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe since the first caveman licked a frog and figured out that his grunts got extra-spacey. 2011 was the year music learned to float.
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