Dessa, try album IDES. Feminine rap. Discovered via Doomtree when i thought their Boomerang video was hilarious.

I was shocked by how much I enjoyed APESHIT by the Carter, it also helped me discover Formation by Beyonce. I don't really enjoy her other songs but those two are rad.

Randomly heard the track "Hollywood Baby" by 100 gecs in a store or restaurant or something. It instantly hooked into my brain and I'm still not sure why.

So so many examples of this.

I'm normally into ndh, industry and electronically, with some metal thrown in. I did however get a good surprise by the following musicians/bands

• Dirty shirt
• Otyken
• Shahram Nazeri
• Sofi Tukker

Basically every episode of Los Espookys.

Also comments on YT have led me to

• Bloodywood
• Hamlet Gonashvili and beautifully crushing Georgian music in general
• Nooran Sisters
• I'm an atheist but this gives me a glimpse of what the faithful might be feeling. Wow, just wow.

There’s this series of compilation albums called Dark Country, most notable for having a lot of the music from the Rebel Galaxy games. I would not call these good, exactly. But they have a very specific vibe and they all do that vibe extremely well. It’s not what I normally listen to by a long shot, but I keep coming back to them. They’re gritty, dark, cheesy, catchy, and fun.

Maybe not the last time, but the last time I remember stumbling into a new genre. Mdou Moctor completely blew me away. Nigerian psychedelic rock meets folk and blues in such a unique and beautiful way.

Incredible musicianship, catchy songwriting, really easy to get lost in the music. It’s not something I ever sought out, it was just mentioned in a Reddit thread.

MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind was a really pleasant discovery for me recently.