The last new music you heard that left you stunned?

I love that, after after a lifetime of loving music, I can still be surprised by it. There's nothing quite like putting on something I expect to play in the background while I do something else, and then just stopping, because I can't do anything but listen. And then I have to play it over again immediately. And then again....

Anyway, this last happened to me a week ago when I played PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project for the first time and got to track two:

 

Whiteout Conditions, most likely (New Pornographers). The new KL I like, but that one is more of a grower.

 

Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order, back in maybe 2003 or 04.

 

Snap, and the "What is love song" Those bands were pretty nice....

 

There are lots of seriously wonderful new records constantly, but the last one that really stopped me in my tracks was probably Bon Iver's 22, A Million.

 

Probably "Tunnel Vision," the last track on Kate Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos, specifically the version I heard her play live last Wednesday.

 

It was a few years ago..
Kevin Gilbert - THUD. the EP.

 

Blackstar

 

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

His concert left me stunned with goosebumps.

 

The one in my signature, maybe not immediately, but it just gets better and better, so now is up there in the stunning realm ...

 

2016. Anderson Rabin Wakeman live. Holy smokes. That show cooked. Stunned? How about knocked out?

 

Yeah, that one really threw me for a loop last fall.

 

The Internet- Purple Naked Ladies
This album came out sometime in 2011, and, I LOVE IT!
Sadly, the following albums they made don't have the same 'vibe' as this one!
Enjoy!

 

Deep Purple - Time For Bedlam

 

Dead Man Winter - Furnace

A truly great album with some heart wrenching lyrics. My candidate for album of the year so far.

Destroyer and Red Wing, Blue Wing are good starting points, those are also the first two tracks in this live clip:

 

I Will Not Stop Singing by Zomba Prison Project

 

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity. Absolutely blew me away.

 

Jake Bugg's debut album.

 

Regarding 'new' music (stuff that's by new acts, from the past couple of years, presumably) then I loved last year's Cavemen album: Born To Hate. They fused the spirit of Iggy, Lemmy, MC5 & GG Allin together, fed it through The Damned's first album, and out popped a real f*** you slice of primitive r 'n' r. (It's not stunning - very little music is - but I think it's poptastically good.)

 

Stunned maybe not, for me, but I agree that after 40 years of collecting music I still hear something that makes a big impact.
My most recent are Joe Jackson's Fast Forward (from fall 2015), Van Morrison's Keep Me Singing and Colin Hay's Fierce Mercy.
I'm hoping Ray Davies tomorrow and John Mellencamp next week have the same impact!

 

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams. I know that was over 20 years ago, but…

 

Stanley Clarke's "School days" lp.....have had for a while and played it on my new table and it stopped me in my tracks.....my old deck and cartridge apparently didn't do it justice.....great album

 

"A Sailor's Guide To The Earth" by Sturgill Simpson.

This is an album where I simply never knew what was coming next.