Only put out one album this year according to metal archives (But as always I might be wrong) compared to 3 from Caio and like, a billion from Damien.
Listening to Drown now though.
Inpariquipê is as soothing as it is feral. I don’t think I’ve heard anything like it. I’m still unpacking it but I took a flyer on putting it high(ish) up there given how much time I spent listening to his 2020 album this year.
As for Sadness… easily my favorite discovery of the year. His discography seems bottomless, like an ever expanding universe of ambient and blackgaze.
Stoked to see Wednesday so high on here. Absolute fucking monster of a guitar record, and it sounds like they’re just getting started. Also stoked to see the Gum hop on the Men I Trust train, the chillest locomotive imaginable.
I hereby motion that the Musical Year (MY2021) began on December 1st 2020. It makes no sense to exclude December, an increasingly fruitful month of music releases, from awards consideration, and I’m tired of pretending it does.
Ogbert the Nerd - I Don’t Hate You
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
Sadness - april sunset
Origami Angel - Gami Gang
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
Panopticon - ... and Again into the Light
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Fluisteraars- Gegrepen Door de…
Men I Trust - Untourable Album
The Armed - ULTRAPOP
Clairo - Sling
TURNSTILE - GLOW ON
Sun June - Somewhere
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights
Kaatayra - Inpariquipê
Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
Portrayal of Guilt - CHRISTFUCKER
Parannoul - To See The Next Part of the Dream
Alien Boy - Don’t Know What I Am
Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky
Amygdala & Listless Split
Spirit Was - Heaven’s Just a Cloud
I went through such a weird cycle of relief and disappointment when I realized that we weren’t gonna see a wasted Kendall Roy warble through a Billy Joel song while strapped to a crucifix. But thinking about it, that kind of demented cycle of tease and denial is part of what makes the show (specifically this season) so great.
“Travis Scott is the last person these innocent children saw before their resurrection” sounds like the first line of a yet-to-be-written Mountain Goats song.
Glad to hear your son is OK Brenda.
I thought “Alluring the Distant Eye” was a new 2021 release when he put the new pressing up for sale, and was listening to it thinking that it was the big LP that he was leading up to releasing all of these “EPs” (April Sunset is 71 minutes! Lol @ call that monster an EP). Alas, I found out it actually came out in 2018 and I was simply not in the know.
It seems that every couple years, there’s a relatively quiet week around the holidays where Tom gets to say fuck it and go in on a Dropkick Murphys album.
Hey you lil piss baby. You think you’re so fucking cool? Huh? You think you’re so fucking tough? You talk a lot of BIG game for someone with such a small truck.
Oh please. This site is just as much for nostalgia as it is for new music these days, and that’s not a bad thing! Nostalgia is a strange thing that can manifest in different ways in different people, and just because you hated something 10 years ago (like I hated 1D in college) doesn’t mean you can’t learn something new from reading a different perspective. It doesn’t cheapen the art (or junk food!) you like in anyway, and pretending it does in anyway is just as bad as a BTS Stan flaming people who have dissenting opinions.
But why is it that the people that shtupp for albums like Van Weezer and Sob Rock are the same ones who lose their cookies when Stereogum has the gall to go long on a boy band?
Giving this playlist an honest shot and you know what, I kinda like it. It’s cheesy, sure, but who doesn’t like nachos?
Earlier this week I was talking about the new songs on RED with my sister, and I mentioned how much I liked “Better Man”. I even said something along the lines of “I wish that was what was on country radio!” To which my sister replied (paraphrasing) “It kind of was, moron. She wrote it for Little Big Town. I kinda like their version better.” Since then I’ve been thinking about all the good songs I’ve probably missed out on due to being kinda snobby (in this case, an avoidance of country radio), or only listening to what I know I’ll like. I’m probably not going to be listening to 1D on the regular, but at least now I know they’ve got more than that one jam Mitski covered that one time.
I’m not gonna pretend that I know any of these songs. But I remember when Mitski dropped this bomb out of nowhere, and it holds t f up.
https://youtu.be/Urtyrfz32jY
I will follow this band to the ends of the Earth. Full bore zoot suit synth-pop? Yes please. Free jazz with spoken word interludes? Gimme. Atonal and arrhythmic experimental bullshit? Why not. Ten minute two chord ukelele songs? Sure. Death metal with a literal garbage disposal for backing vocals? Literally the stuff of my wildest dreams.
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