25. Tomppabeats – Harbor LP
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: YouTube beat tapes, Short songs, Self-reflection, Nujabes, Soulja Boy samples, Feelings
Biggest Banger(s): “Emotional Crank”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: ‘Summer Crush,” “You’re Cute,” pretty much any song honestly
24. Ari Solus – Fearman [Tapeslave]
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Substance abuse, Releases that defy genre-categorization, Loneliness, That scene in Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams says “It’s not you fault” to Matt Damon
Biggest Banger(s): “patient,” “solus freestyle”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “kzsc”
23. Lil Uzi Vert – Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Melodic delivery, Metro Boomin, Having fun, TV references
Biggest Banger(s): “Money Longer”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “P’s & Q’s”
22. Não Ao Futebol Moderno – Vida Que Segue
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Shoegaze, Insisting shoegaze isn’t dead, Attempting to learn Portuguese exclusively through reverb-drenched vocals
Biggest Banger(s): “Carlinhos”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Laços De Família” maybe but I don’t actually know what the lyrics are so it’s a bit of a gamble
21. Pleasure Model – Kendo Dynamics
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Dancing, House music, Car chases, Daniel Avery
Biggest Banger(s): “Eat Itself,” “Sweetner V’enst,” “Bealichtbach,” every other track, too
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: Eh
20. Ice Choir – Designs in Rhythm
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered ‘80s, Super Monkey Ball, Big hooks, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Synthpop
Biggest Banger(s): “Windsurf,” “Noosphering”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Amorous In Your Absence”
19. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Experimental electronic, “musical epic poems,” Disorienting music
Biggest Banger(s): “Red Eyez”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: Don’t
18. Sheer Mag – III
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Rawk n’ roll, Wishing Alabama Shakes were better, Riffs, Thin Lizzy, Bar fights
Biggest Banger(s): “Can’t Stop Fighting,” “Night Isn’t Bright”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Nobody’s Baby,” perhaps
17. Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: The Velvet Underground, Witty lyrics, Being a slacker, Post-punk
Biggest Banger(s): “Outside,” “Two Dead Cops”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Steady On My Mind”
16. DJ Earl – Open Your Eyes
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Footwork, Drank, Kush, Barz, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Embracing the future of electronic music, OPN
Biggest Banger(s): “Smoke Dat Green”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: Eh
15. Mumrunner – Gentle Slopes EP
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Energetic dream-pop, Flyying Colours, Reverb, Browsing European shoegaze blogs, DIIV, Not having the attention span necessary to sit through an entire LP
Biggest Banger(s): “Cascais”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Gentle Slopes”
14. Babyfather – BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Being British, Dean Blunt ;), Unique sounds, Grime, Soothing English voices, Arca, Experimental music
Biggest Banger(s): “Greezebloc,” “Motivation,” “Juice,” “Killuminati,” “Deep (feat. Arca)”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “God Hour (feat. Micachu)”
13. Krill – Krill
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Pile, Tough goodbyes, Subtly infectious melodies, Whenever the words “jagged” or “angular” are used to describe music
Biggest Banger(s): Every damn one
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Happy”
12. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Ambient, Blankets, Distortion, Tim Hecker, Desperately clinging to any remaining semblance of Chillwave
Biggest Banger(s): “Love’s Refrain”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “In Summer”
11. Hovvy – Taster
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Alex G, Cozy melancholy, Pop, Thinking about past relationships, That gimmicky double v thing that Alvvays and Wavves have already beat into the ground
Biggest Banger(s): “Problem,” “Pretend”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “In My Head”
10. Warehouse – Super Low
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Gruff vocals, Krill, Cheese fries, Post-punk
Biggest Banger(s): “Simultaneous Contrasts,” “Audrey Horne”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Reservoir”
9. Noname – Telefone
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Conscious hip-hop, Urgent lyricism, Strong features, Saba, Beautiful shit in general
Biggest Banger(s): Nah
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “All I Need”
8. Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Breaking shit, Electro-punk-hop, Everything else that this band has ever released, Getting yelled at by your parents
Biggest Banger(s): “Bubbles Buried In This Jungle,” “Three Bedrooms In A Good Neighborhood”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: Would not recommend
7. Yumi Zouma – Yoncalla
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Dream-pop, Air France (the band, not the airline), Poptimism, Having songs stuck in your head, Lush production, Synthpop
Biggest Banger(s): “Yesterday,” “Short Truth”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Text From Sweden,” “Keep It Close To Me”
6. Frank Ocean – Blonde
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Sex, Nostalgia, R&B, Sexual intercourse, Miguel, Feelings, having sex
Biggest Banger(s): “Nights”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Ivy,” “Self Control”
5. Whitney – Light Upon the Lake
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Smith Westerns, Girls, Summertime, Falsetto vocals, Trumpets, Just sippin’ some brews with your buds on a lazy Summer’s day
Biggest Banger(s): “Golden Days,” “No Matter Where We Go”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “No Matter Where We Go”
4. Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Electronics blended with live instrumentation, Shoegaze, Having literally no idea what is being said, Whirr, Huge choruses
Biggest Banger(s): “I Catch You Napping,” “Kiddy Pool Dreams,” “The Cherry Pit”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Comet Marbles”
3. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Deism, Religion, God
Biggest Banger(s): “Waves,” “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1-2,” Highlights”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Highlights” maybe?
2. DIIV – Is The Is Are
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Captured Tracks-core, Dream-pop, Emulating Kurt Cobain, Krautrock, Beach Fossils, Spotting trains
Biggest Banger(s): “Out Of Mind,” “Dopamine,”
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: “Healthy Moon”
1. Young Thug – JEFFERY / Slime Season 3 / I’m Up
Recommended If You’re a Fan Of: Androgyny, Atlanta trap, Melodic genius, Innovation, Migos, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane
Biggest Banger(s): literally every song
Song(s) to Put On Mixtape For Your Crush: literally every song
Written by Ben Weinstein
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