Name the most recent album that has shaped your musical world


Every now and then, sometimes when you're least expecting it, an album comes along that shifts, develops, and extends the shape of your music world.The album/artist/creation doesn't have to be a sea-change from your previous taste, but it does have to add a flavor to that taste palette that was missing before.

In the past few years, creations like M83's "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming", TV on the Radio's "Quartz", and Wye Oak's "The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs" have all done this. But most recently, Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer" eased me into a new musical shape, itself populated by Erykah Badu, Dominique Fils-Aime, and others I wouldn't have discovered had it not been for Monae's brilliant, game-changing release.
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Very impressed three recent 2020 releases (yep still buying CDs):

1) Miklos Rozsa: Ivanhoe - Sinfonia Of London - Bruce Broughton condt
Intrada - limited edition release
Lower strings and french horns in this recording absolutely rock.
This one deserves to be my only answer to this discussion as it stayed in near
constant play after arrival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCoqmYFR7o&list=PLIu6h0_aEEGravhksa43n8kugEAFzauy4&index=39...

2) Katia & Marielle Labeque - Phillip Glass Les Enfants Terribles
Piano duo that can make everything they play captivating. DG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiWkPxn6PpE

3) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Outtakes
Who needs a flux capacitor for time travel when you can listen to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xaBMKDQov4