Given the goings on of the world I find myself in a lot of dark moods these days. the pAper chAse spent their career making albums about the occult, serial killers, and social panic. For whatever reason this kind of music sustains me in these moods. I’m sorry. Welcome to what’s sure to be a fun week!
(4 votes, average: 7.75 out of 10)
Loading... I’m pretty glad that 2019 is finally coming to an end. I don’t feel like recapping in here (gotta save some material for Festivus eh?), but I will say that the events of the year made it really hard for me to really connect to a lot of music.
Music has been a huge part of my life for 25 years. The last few years, I can easily think of 50 albums I enjoyed. This year it’s honestly hard for me to identify 10 things I listened to that were new. I desperately needed normalcy and spent a lot of time revisiting the same things over and over, mostly albums I loved from a dozen years ago and that last Lil Peep album.
Anyway, the new Nots record, 3, was the closest to that kind of thing out of new stuff I heard this year. I love this kind of raw, urgent, punk. I liked the other Nots records but this one really sank its hooks into me. Given how damn hard that was this year, it says a lot about this record.
Also, I’m going to cheat and add a second, totally unrelated, song here. I couldn’t find a live video of it (which is super unfortunate, I saw her last year and she was incredible!), but it’s my favorite song of the year so you’re welcome.
(4 votes, average: 8.25 out of 10)Loading... No, it’s not a cover.
I struggled pretty hard on narrowing this down to one song, but this came on and I couldnt’t get out of my head and I figured that’s as good of a criteria as any. Every Wimps album is really fun; super hooky power pop about getting old basically. Their new one, Garbage People might be their best. If you enjoy this song, you’d probably like the rest. Check ‘em out, they don’t get nearly enough love.
(5 votes, average: 6.80 out of 10)Loading... Another Zack recco. This album becomes more catchy each time I listen to it.
(3 votes, average: 6.00 out of 10)Loading... I'm entirely into these guys thanks to Zack.
(3 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... Going to have to check more of her out.
11 Dec 2017
Thanks to Zack for the recco.
(3 votes, average: 7.33 out of 10)Loading... The search function says no one has played Thee Oh Sees here? I feel like someone should rectify that.
(4 votes, average: 7.75 out of 10)Loading... Sometimes, you see a band's name and you just know you're going to be really into them. This was absolutely one of those bands. Their self-titled record is very high in my album of the year list, and if you like feedback drenched rock I highly recommend it.
(4 votes, average: 6.25 out of 10)Loading... Gone through this album a few times and I'm really digging it. Feels like something Zack would have gotten me into.
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... Wanted to play this song back in December, but there weren't any live videos of her new stuff yet. I think this posted a week after I looked.
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