Where to start with Noname
Start with Diddy Bop (feat. Cam O'bi & Raury) — Telefone, 2016. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 21 Noname tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 21 Noname tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 21 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 11 of the 21 tracks come from Room 25 alone.
The years need a caveat: 21 of 21 dated tracks land in the 2010s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under alternative r&b; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The mood knob swings 80 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Diddy Bop (feat. Cam O'bi & Raury) — Telefone, 2016. Of the 21 Noname tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the melancholy end
no name — Room 25, 2018. The lowest mood reading of any Noname track in the room (11 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Forever (feat. Joseph Chilliams & Ravyn Lenae) — Telefone, 2016. The highest mood reading here, at 91 out of 100 — a 80-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Noname sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Noname's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 61 | 11–91 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 52 | 30–83 | ambient → driving |
| density | 42 | 18–88 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 63 | 35–89 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Room 25 | 2018 | 11 |
| Telefone | 2016 | 10 |
Every Noname track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| All I Need (feat. Xavier Omär) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Bye Bye Baby | Telefone | 2016 |
| Casket Pretty | Telefone | 2016 |
| Diddy Bop (feat. Cam O'bi & Raury) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Forever (feat. Joseph Chilliams & Ravyn Lenae) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Freedom (Interlude) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Reality Check (feat. Akenya & Eryn Allen Kane) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Shadow Man (feat. Phoelix, Smino & Saba) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Sunny Duet (feat. the Mind) | Telefone | 2016 |
| Yesterday | Telefone | 2016 |
| Ace | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Blaxploitation | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Don't Forget About Me | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Montego Bae | Room 25 | 2018 |
| no name | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Part of me | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Prayer Song | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Regal | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Self | Room 25 | 2018 |
| Window | Room 25 | 2018 |
| With You | Room 25 | 2018 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Noname's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Erika de Casier — alternative r&b, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Mélonade — vaporwave, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Naomi Akimoto — city pop, 22 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Noname as a solo artist, from Chicago, the United States and born in 1991. Its contributors tag the artist hip hop, jazz rap and rap. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Noname tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 21, across 2 albums. 21 of them carry a date, running from 2016 to 2018. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 21 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 21 of these 21 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.