The big one for me this year is Satomimagae which is very much an AOTY contender and completely up my street, but not something I’ve come across anywhere else.
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Just checking my spreadsheet of bands I discover, and I think @stickboy might be in the lead of the bands that I actually buy music from. He’s lead to me purchasing albums from Delmer Darion, Elephant Micah, and Sam Skinner over the past year.
Also last year I found and loved Alexandra Savior because of @BMS1, and Sevdaliza because of @shrewbie
and Austra from a few people last year too!
Way too many to list and sort through, so I’ll just go with the first three that come to mind that haven’t been mentioned yet.
Palm Haze
Still completely obsessed with this. Melodic, fuzzed out, propulsive shoegaze with some trip-hop elements thrown in. Never goes into that “generic shoegaze” zone. The songs are there and they’re exciting.
One of the very best songs of last decade:
An all-time great first half / second half fake-out.
Their debut EP was really good too. Here’s a kind of unsettling sounding one.
Midwife
Beautiful, miserable, and soft but heavy. Like a fusion of CODY-era Mogwai and Blissed and Gone style Pumpkins being beamed from outer space. Everything she does is great.
Holy Fawn
A fusion of heavy, melodic shoegaze and post-rock (but way more massive and unique than that description) that somehow has the similar ethereal qualities of Midwife.
One of the very best songs of 2020. Like a slow wave overwhelming you.
A great fast one, maybe my favorite of theirs.
Love how floaty this one is:
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Think our tastes cross a lot
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Protomartyr is the big one for me. Turned up early to see them on a joint headline tour on someone here’s recommendation and loved them in about two notes.
Also big shout out due to @Brainfreeze for organising the Music League which means I have heard so much new stuff I would never had found anywhere else. Have added more to my library in last few months than I have for years.
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Now with a link, which I realise was actually the point of the thread. 
The main way I discover new music is through the Friday threads so there’s hundreds.
3 bands that I adore now and really made an effort to like because they have their own threads are:
Daughters
Big Thief
Protomartyr
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Also a huge shout to the album of the month threads too
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All three of these for me as well!
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They’re so good. Everyone should try them if they haven’t already, here’s one from each release:
This one wouldn’t be out of place next to Wolf Parade’s Dinner Bells. Pretty and sad and magical.
Can’t quite explain why but there’s something Jimmy Eat World about this one. Fast and loud, love how the chorus escalates.
Just a great song, there’s something very affecting about it.
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Saw them at the Shacklewell Arms in 2019. Really good band.
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Chika - excellent, positive, upbeat hip hop from @Jamos in music league
Bob Vylan - aggressive, angry mix of punk and grime from @Rolley1982 again in music league
Sex Swing - when I asked for recommendations in the Heavy Music thread
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Great thread. So many bands my fellow Disers have turned me onto, but stand outs are:
Old bands with great catalogues: Nothing and There Will Fireworks.
New acts with drop dead awesome records this year: Arooj Aftab and maria bc.
Gonna be chasing down Palm Haze and Midwife for a listen tonight.
Keep spreading the love(ly music) xxxx
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Big Thief are the major one for me.
Also plenty of well known artists from the HGATR threads that I would never have got around to listening to otherwise.
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Another Big Thief (and Adrianne Lenker) here, though only very recently from the HGATR thread (very, it turns out). Pretty sure I picked up on Cloud Nothings through here too. And Deafheaven.
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Loads over the years but off the top of my head:
Future of the Left
Poppy Ackroyd
Liars
dunno but glad you’ve mentioned them cos I’m now listening to them and they’re great
(they’re not on spotify as far as I can tell, so listening on bandcamp)
ha, that’s interesting cos I found them somewhere else (a Rocksound list) and then feel like I’ve mentioned them here a few times but not been involved in many discussions about them!
this is a random one I just remembered from @TAFH33 I love this album and this post was the exact place I first heard it mentioned
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I love the production on that album - they basically just turned every dial up to ‘very loud’ 