Thanks for your list, I looked up all the bands I have never heard of and found a lot that I enjoy. Man I love this time of year! It's great for catching up on missed music.
i am going to recommend you guys listen to this at least once before finalizing your list Premiere: Stream Special Explosion's colossal new album 'To Infinity'
Rough top 20. 1. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 2. The National - Sleep Well Beast 3. Ryan Adams - Prisoner 4. Kevin Morby - City Music 5. Big Thief - Capacity 6. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up 7. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound 8. The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles 9. Real Estate - In Mind 10. St. Vincent - Masseduction 11. White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band 12. Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street 13. Colter Wall - Colter Wall 14. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 15. Laura Marling - Semper Femina 16. Spoon - Hot Thoughts 17. Jay-Z - 4:44 18. Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee 19. Beach Fossils - Somersault 20. Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
1. The Menzingers - After The Party An obvious choice but I think songs like After The Party and Your Wild Years have soundtracked my year, and seeing them live at 2000 Trees absolutely kill it really solidified my absolute love of this band. Top tracks - Your Wild Years, After the Party, Lookers 2. Tigers Jaw - SPIN Something about this album really connected with me, and if it wasn't for two songs at the end that I find myself skipping a lot, this would be pushing The Menzingers very close. Top notch songwriting and I love the harmonies between Ben and Brianna. Top Tracks - Window, June, Guardian 3. Turnover - Good Nature This band have quickly become a true favourite of mine. Peripheral Vision is one of my favourite albums ever and soundtracked the darkest year or two of my life. Now this album talks about falling in love again and learning to enjoy life over again, and I've definitely slowly learned that this year. Top Tracks - Bonnie (Rhythm & Melody), Super Natural, Sunshine Type 4. Deaf Havana - All These Countless Nights Lyrically, this is absolutely my favourite album this year. It PERFECTLY captures how I felt in the first two or three months this year, after a rough break up, some bad luck job wise, and I was drinking too much and doing drugs and generally feeling very depressed. I turned it around, but this captures so much of that, from the desperation of Trigger, to the defeated alcoholism feeling in Happiness. Top Tracks - Happiness, L.O.V.E., Trigger 5. Creeper - Eternity In Your Arms This band sound like AFI meets Alkaline Trio with a touch of My Chemical Romance, and the album is fantastic. Seen them live a few times and they just really excite me. Good fun, with an interesting image and some catchy choruses. Top Tracks - Misery, Black Rain, Darling Honourable mentions: Paramore - After Laughter Camp Cope - Selftitled (re-release I know but I'm having it) Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
Your top 3 are all will yip albums haha Listen to the movements record that same out this year I think you will like it
Will Yip does a LOT of records I enjoy. Peripheral Vision, Keep You, Jar, Floral Green, etc. I'll give it a go.
outside of my top 5 i have a lot of trouble deciding on the order of my records this year, i honestly loved every album in my top 20
The Dead Havana album - I see two versions, deluxe and one where all the tracks are “reworked”. Which one do you recommend?
I finally listened to Guppy by Charly Bliss all the way through for the first time yesterday and it’s definitely getting a spot in my top ten. I tried listening earlier this year and it did nothing for me but wow was I wrong. Glitter might have the chorus of the year (excluding anything from After the Party).
I don’t know if I wasn’t in the mood at first or what but I’ve listened non stop since yesterday morning. They’re like a more bubblegum Tancred in the best way.
im bored, heres what i came up with ranking is mostly arbitrary but im sure its more fun this way 1. corbin - mourn 2. francie cool + leor miller - girl 3. tall friend - safely nobodys 4. adult mom - soft spots 5. young thug - beautiful thugger girls 6. sixpress - on the road, sunny path 7. lexie - record time 8. chief keef - two zero one seven/thot breaker/dedication 9. florist - if blue could be happiness 10. show me the body - corpus i 11. julie byrne - not even happiness 12. sandy alex g - rocket 13. girlpool - powerplant 14. mount eerie - a crow looked at me 15. charli xcx - number 1 angel / pop 2 16. brockhampton - saturation trilogy 17. julie byrne - not even happiness 18. nana grizol - ursa minor 19. coma cinema - loss memory 20. lorde - melodrama 21. bedouine - bedouine 22. emily yacina - heart sky 23. jay som - everybody works 24. rostam - half - light 25. salami rose joe louis - zlaty sauce nephew
1. The Menzingers - After the Party 2. Paramore - After Laughter 3. Goldfinger - The Knife 4. Kesha - Rainbow 5. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick 6. The Bombpops - Fear of Missing Out 7. All Time Low - Last Young Renegade 8. Bad Cop / Bad Cop - Warriors 9. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Interesting, you're the first person I know to say this, which songs do you think are better reworked?
This is the only Scale The Summit record that I didn't immediately latch onto. Maybe I was having a funky week... I need to give it another try.