[awayyyythrow]

Even music people think is new is actually quite old. I have yet to discover a genre whose origins don't extend at least two decades back (unless you cheat and name an extremely specific subset that sounds like 'hard dark psy tech core' or something)

[Porthos9K]

I'm using "new" in the sense of "new to me". For example, there's a New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) act called Satan that I had never heard of until I was browsing Bandcamp and saw they had a new album called Cruel Magic. They aren't new, but they're new to me -- and they kick ass.

Likewise, there's this Japanese pianist named Hiromi Uehara. She's been performing and recording for at least 15 years, and has worked with artists like Chick Corea, but I hadn't heard of her until this morning. She just dropped an album called Spectrum, and it's absofuckinlutely brilliant. If I didn't make a point of looking for new music, I'd still be missing out.

[nefitty]

Well, art is iterative. It would be weird to create music with no ties to the past. It's hard to imagine what that would sound like because there would be no precedent!

The closest thing I can think of to that though is the album Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective. The song Bonefish is a good representative sample. My brain couldn't process it at first... It made no sense until after a few listens and a hit of weed.