Am i taking crazy pills? “Bad Guy” came in my Hi-Fi setup and i was floored. Been listening to her top songs and its incredible. Its not typically my music type. Wow.
What other pop artists have this level of extremely interesting audio mixing?
Lady Gaga has some excellent mastering on her albums. Not sure who handles it, but she’s always had a super clean and impactful sound for me. Especially her Born This Way album.
I don’t have a high end setup but I was always curious how Tesseract’s Tourniquet sounded in your expensive setup. Let us know how it sounds!
She’s a stunning talent. The whole album has impact.
Her brother produces all the music in their bedroom, I don’t like Billie that much but that’s so cool to me, shows you don’t need a big fancy studio, just talent
I might get shit for suggesting anything by Grimes, but I love “So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth” with headphones on… feels like I’m floating through space
She’s great. Never would have thought twice about her but my kids like her and I’m down. Way better than T Swift!
Silk Sonic/Bruno Mars and that whole gang.
Check out BENNE’s first album. Real good production and mixing there too!
The newest Harry Styles album is very impressive to me, real late 70s slickness.
In a similar vein of an artist that I wouldn’t listen to just chilling, as his music is meant for tripping on mushrooms, but sounds INSANE on hi-fi setups and is worth a listen, check out “Ott”, maybe “happy ending” from his new album “Heads” or “The queen of all everything” from his album “Skylon”. They really show off what an amazing pair of headphones (or speakers) can do.
“Stay Home” by Self is an oddity, for how unusually good it sounds. I heard it off the Shrek soundtrack album back in the day and was blown away by the clarity of everything.
Michael Jackson is 10/10.
The first time I heard Pink on my system I was really impressed by the sound staging.
One of my favorite sounding hiphop albums is Legend Of The Liquid Sword (not to be confused with his earlier solo album just plainly Liquid Swords). I don’t know how or why but wherever I listen I get the same wow of how every single note is so perfectly evenly audible. From the lowest low to the highest high with no muddiness or harshness anywhere on the album at all. If anything at all could be considered a con I’d say the least HQ track is the single Fame from that album, but the insane lyricsm of that song trumps any other way it could be evaluated.
There’s a lot of current pop/rap artists that master their music well these days, it’s not like 20 years ago when pop music was mastered horribly.