1= Enter Shikari - LOSE YOUR SELF 1= The Twilight Sad - IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE 1= of Montreal - Aethermead The rest of a mid-year top 30 in alphabetical order... Archive - Glass Minds Big Sleep - Holy Show Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone Boards of Canada - Inferno BRSR - A Field of Manmade Fires Cable Boy - Forever Cardinals - Masquerade CHALK - Crystalpunk Colour of Fire - All the Wolves I Have Known Converge - Love is Not Enough (not heard the newer one yet) Dance With the Dead - Malombra Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower Exploring Birdsong - Every House We Built Footballhead - Weight of the Truth The Format - Boycott Heaven goo - Oh Wow, Oh Well Joyce Manor - I Used to Go to This Bar KNEECAP - Fenian Love Rarely - Pain Travels Madeon - Victory Prince Daddy and the Hyena - Hotwire Trip Switch Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair San Holo - TRUE LOVE IN A MADE UP WORLD Sly Withers - To Be Honest THUMPER - Sleeping With the Light On Tigercub - Nets to Catch the Wind underscores - U
Lip Critic - Theft World Mandy, Indiana - URGH Heathen Axe - S/t Coward Syndrome - Xanax & Horses Modest Mouse - An Eraser And A Maze Powerplant - Bridge of Sacrifice Portrayal of Guilt - ...Beginning of the End Weird Nightmare - Hoopla Summer of Hate - Blood and Honey Hater - Mosquito Cola - Cost of Living Adjustment Cathedral Bells - parallel dreams Real Farmer - Two Wrong's Don't Make a Right Heel - Segmentation Bosse-de-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest Fruit Bats - The Landfill Fantastic Cat - Cat Out Of Hell Archaic Faces - You're More Alive Than You Think Plaaaato - brightdeadstar Wildernesses - Growth Parent Teacher - Tricks for Meds Discovery Zone - Dreaming For Miles The Blue Herons - Demon Slayer Webb Chapel - Vernon Manner Deadharrie - Eternity, Make Believe Deer Fang - Forest For The Trees The Suncharms - Darkening Sky Landowner - Assumption Future Magics - Sparkle Tapes King Slender - There Is Your Image In Light Meltt - Pathways Girl Scout - Brink Darksoft - Everydayness Draag - Miracle Drug Lucid Express - Instant Comfort Silversun Pickups - Tenterhooks Styrofoam Winos - Any River Iceage - For Love of Heather & the Hereafter Magon - Yours unchanged / Sun, Moon, Mushroom, Man Pye Corner Audio - More Songs About The Sun Sex Shop Mushrooms - 131217 Vince Staples - Cry Baby Boldy James, Rome Streets - Manhunt Boldy James - Trappers Alley 3: Hell or Highwater / Salvation for the Wicked / Hook, Line & Sinker Action Bronson - Planet Frog Miike, Earl Sweatshirt - Pompeii // Unity Philty Rich - T$GO Ahnklejohn - Everything Beautiful Dies Early / Self Made Mickey Diamond - Blood Of The Lamb / Black Sheep Rigs - I Got Samples 3 Estee Nack - Al-Andalus Gaza Glock, Illinformed - Cocaine Anonymous Trapmat Savior - Scottie Trippin Hus Kingpin - Wavo Forever DJ Muggs - Soul Assassins II The God Fahim - The Dark Shogun / Dump Gawd Vols Dave East - Eastmix Vol 1 & 2 / For The Love 2 JR Writer - Writer Block 6 Tony Shhnow - Flood Ok Goodnight - Stop/Go Orc - S/t 7" Wraith - S/t 2026 Cheek Bone - Storm the Castle Dumbo - Gunga Rao / Guess Again, Dumbo Funeral Home - Your Funeral Deathmarch - Violent Retaliation Banisher - Metamorphosis Stranguliatorius - Flies Dont Lie Chainlacing - Messuage Harboured - We're Only The Love We Lead Inherits The Void - The Sileny Abscission Genghis Tron - Signal Fire Iron Reagan - Demonitization Malist - Eternal Echo Of The Fall Converge Hum Of Hurt / Love Is Not Enough Horn - Apokalyps 1618 Funebrarum - Beckoning The Void Of Eternal Silence Gutrectomy - Slamdown Is Not A Phase, Mom Belexum - S/t Bone Reaper - Obsessed With Death/Driven To Kill Corrosive Agent - Vastator Mundi Non Est Deus - Blessings and Curses Chamber - this is goodbye... Hellripper - Coronach Mt. Dagger - Nothing Personal. Just Misery. Crush Your Soul - Ice Water Commitment - Fear Of Machete Law - Liturgy of Violence Double Life - Please Delete This Rod of Correction - Future Class Primitive Future - 1st Attack Witch Piss - Hot Bog Thee Oh Sees - Off Course / Cara Malcuro not in any order just ~100 albums from this year ive rly liked
quick top 10, not really in order outside of the first one portrayal of guilt free throw tigers jaw koyo neurosis converge (x2) poison the well knumears static dress slayyyter other good shit: i promised the world (ep) 100 demons the field bosse-de-nage chamber boards of canada death cab for cutie dj seinfeld joyce manor skrillex august burns red a wilhelm scream bodysnatcher manchester orchestra (live album) the format terror plenty more i need to get around to and/or spend more time with
lil top ten w/ the first five in order and second five a bit interchangeable! Gladie - No Need to Be Lonely Alex Melton - The Process Remember Sports - The Refrigerator Namasenda - Limbo Ecca Vandal - LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW Haute & Freddy - Big Disgrace Lande Hekt - Lucky Now Nova One - how to kiss Hemlocke Springs - the apple tree under the sea Joyce Manor - I Used to Go to This Bar
My rough top 10: I Am the Avalanche - The Horror Show Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar Sly Withers - To Be Honest Muse - The Wow! Signal Koyo - Barely Here Super Sometimes - Show The World What’s Underneath Gorillaz - The Mountain The Flatliners - Cold World Piebald - Tales For the Rages Karnivool - In Verses
Stuff I’ve liked so far: Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower Elder - Through Zero Tigers Jaw - Lost on You Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit Snail Mail - Ricochet Converge - Hum of Hurt Converge - Love Is Not Enough MØL - DREAMCRUSH Vince Staples - Cry Baby Sweet Pill - Still There’s a Glow Fiddlehead - Baby I’ll Change Still need to listen to American Football, Kurt Vile, Modest Mouse, Slift, and Basement. I’ve mostly been listening to 70s/80s prog these past few months.
karnivool - in verses is my favorite but the enter shikari is not too far behind biggest surprise of the year has gotta be modest mouse. even with us getting a bunch of albums that i thought would never even exist like boc and poison the well. just brought them back for me in such a blindsiding way biggest letdown of the year for me is without a doubt the new erra album. off the top of my head i dont think ive sat down with an album ive outright not liked this year though
Some of these will stick around on my Top 10 list at EOY but I have high hopes for a few upcoming releases and imagine some of these will drop out. Varials - Where The Light Leaves Levi Turner - Road Recordings Noah Kahan - The Great Divide Josiah And The Bonnevilles - As Is Chamber - This Is Goodbye Ella Langley - Dandelion Future Teens - Still Life Bodysnatcher - Hell is Here, Hell is Home Above, Below - I Guess it Was Nowhere Keyland - Knuckle Sandwich
I've listened to less new music than any year for the last 10 but I've got a few I like. Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair underscores - U Joyce Manor - I used to go to this bar Topiary Creatures - Greenhouse Oubliette Seahaven - S/T Ferris Wheel Regulars - Back in the Jetstream
No ranking but here is what I've enjoyed the most this year so far: Basement - WIRED Ratboys - Singin to an Empty Chair Angel Du$t - Cold 2 The Touch Converge - Love Is Not Enough Cashier - The Weight EP Ferris Wheel Regulars - Back In The Jetstream Tigers Jaw - Lost on You Newhvn - Spring Time Blues Soft Curse - Liminal Ritual Isaiah Rashad - It's Been Awful Capillary - In Remembrance Courtney Barnett - Creatures of Habit Lucid Express - Instant Comfort Trauma Ray- Carnival EP Blandest - As She Drifts Away...
In the spirit of the news post, is posting 30 chill? Will anyone read the whole list? We may never know. 1. The Twilight Sad - It's the Long Goodbye 2. A Wilhelm Scream - Cheap Heat 3. Station Model Violence - Station Model Violence 4. Feels Like Heaven - Within Dreams 5. Joyce Manor - I Used to Go to This Bar 6. Seahaven - Seahaven 7. New German Cinema - Pain Will Polish Me 8. World I Hate - Total Nuclear Annihilation 9. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and a Maze 10. Poison the Well - Peace in Place 11. Tigers Jaw - Lost on You 12. Junius - Sotera 13. The Saddest Landscape - Alone With Heaven 14. American Football - American Football 15. Converge - Love Is Not Enough 16. Rifle - Rifle 17. Bitter Branches - Let's Give the Land Back to the Animals 18. I Am the Avalanche - The Horror Show 19. Ritual Bronze - Ritual Bronze 20. Piebald - Tales for the Rages 21. Eyelet - Solenoid 22. Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower 23. Basement - Wired 24. Failure - Location Lost 25. Sparta - Cut a Silhouette 26. Fotocrime - Security 27. TV Star - Music for Heads 28. Wears Me Out - Splenetic 29. Converge - Hum of Hurt 30. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love
Here’s where I’m at today 1. MUNA - Dancing On The Wall 2. Slayyyter - Wor$t Girl In America 3. Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights 4. Bleachers - Everyone For Ten Minutes 5. Tigers Jaw - Lost On You 6. Converge - Love Is Not Enough + Hum Of Hurt 7. Poison The Well - Peace In Place 8. Muse - The Wow! Signal 9. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower 10. FCUKERS - Ö Shoutouts Metric - Romanticize The Dive Snail Mail - Ricochet Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love Zach Bryan - With Heaven On Top The Format - Boycott Heaven Koyo - Barely Here Charley Crockett - CLOVIS + Age Of The Ram Vince Staples - Crybaby Edit: big goof, Joyce manor is in the top 10
In order: Ratboys Boards of Canada The Format Poppy Olivia Rodrigo Static Dress Joyce Manor Johnny Blue Skies Noah Gundersen I Promised the World El Ten Eleven Bilmuri American Football Seahaven Hilary Duff Emperor X Lost in Kyiv '68 Junius Unwed Sailor Honorable Mentions: A Wilhelm Scream, The Academy Is…, Alex Melton, The All-American Rejects, Angine de Poitrine, Arlo Parks, Converge, Death Cab for Cutie, Fcukers, Flying Lotus, Foo Fighters, Footballhead, Iceage, Lantlôs, The Maine, Mitski, Muna, Neurosis, New Found Glory, Nothing, Poison the Well, Slift, Story of the Year, Sunn o))), Super Sometimes, Sweet Pill, Tigers Jaw, Vince Staples, We Stood Like Kings, YHWH Nailgun, Zach Bryan I also have a long list of stuff that I need to check out but haven't had a chance to, and obviously that list is constantly growing.
Division of Mind Boards of Canada Killing Pace Thundercat Lone Converge Yambag Charli XCX Final Gasp Poison Ruin Dry Cleaning idk haven’t felt moved by a lot
so much has already wowed me this year. I am consistently adding to my list on the first page to keep track of it all. a couple great rock records here and there but finding much of the stuff that's hitting lately leans dance-oriented.
Sublime - Until The Sun Explodes American Football - LP4 Oakwood - Blurred Away Tigers Jaw - Lost On You Sincere Engineer - Probable Claws I am impressed with everyone's ability to absorb so many full length albums. I'm so behind. These are the only 5 I have been really in love with, but it goes beyond the music in them, which is great. I definitely cannot assess any of these objectively though. Sublime is on here because they have been my favorite band of all time for 28 years now. I have a legitimate personal and emotional attachment to them. Among them, opening for Jakob early in 2023 and getting to talk to him at length before he reunited Sublime late in the year. Also getting to see Eric Wilson with his other band Spray Allen at a small venue in Long Beach late in 2022 with other Sublime-related legends. He was so happy to be there, had me help him get his bass strap on him while he was setting up on stage, and after the show, he had his wife send me the soundcloud link to Spray Allen's album before it came out. So to see Sublime's story continue to unfold, it inspires to continue moving with my life. American Football, got to see them perform LP1 at the first Best Friends Forever. Ran into Mike Kinsella before the festival at the Walgreens by the venue. He was super kind. The venue I run was also one of the very few venues that got to show their concert film before they released it on YouTube. Another band with a story that continues to unfold. Oakwood, just absolutely incredible that a band with merely a few EP's from 2013-2015 can out of nowhere come back over a decade ever and release such a cohesive and strong full length album. Tigers Jaw, a band that survived one of their integral members leaving 12 years ago, but managed to take it as an opportunity to build upon their sound and expand it. Also allowed for Brianna to really shine now. Sincere Engineer, got to see them in Atlanta once. Deanna Belos has a heart of gold. Her songwriting style is so unique to her. I have connected with all of their albums. I'm hoping for way more success for them in the future.
By far and away the album I have listened to the most this year is Calling All Captains- The Things I've Lost my other favorites The Format- Boycott Heaven Super Sometimes- Show The World What's Underneath The Maine- Joy Next Door Story of the Year- A.R.S.O.N. New Found Glory- Listen Up! Daisy Grenade- So Much to Say E.P. The All-American Rejects- Sandbox
So far this year: Footballhead - Weight Of The Truth Leisure Hour - ...And To Think Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar I Am The Avalanche - The Horror Show Tigers Jaw - Lost On You Feels Like Heaven - Within Dreams Capillary - In Remembrance Death Lens - What's Left Now? Between Bodies - Hands To Hold Each Other Super Sometimes - Show The World What's Underneath A Wilhelm Scream - Cheap Heat Captain Asshole - I'm Having More Fun Than You
Top 10: 1. The Maine: Joy Next Door 2. Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love 3. Bleachers: everyone for ten minutes 4. The Format: Boycott Heaven 5. Ratboys: Singin' to an Empty Chair 6. Kacey Musgraves: Middle of Nowhere 7. Basement: WIRED 8. The Academy Is...: Almost There 9. Turnover: Down on Earth 10. Tierra Whack: Whack's World Also enjoying: Charli XCX: Wuthering Heights Ecca Vandal: LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW Gay Meat: Blue Water Harry Styles: Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. Kehlani: Kehlani Mitski: Nothing's About To Happen To Me Palette Knife: Keyframe Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane Sella: Well I Mean Vince Staples: Cry Baby
threw together a mid year playlist for myself that is lookin 1. american football - man overboard 2. wild pink - round of applause at the end of the world 3. enter shikari - dead in the water 4. modest mouse - third side of the moon 5. erra - cicada siren 6. haste the day - gnasher 7. lower definition - spires 8. loathe - revenant 9. poison the well - melted 10. august burns red - new horizons 11. madonna - the test 12. karnivool - salva
I liked the Kacey Musgraves but keep forgetting about it. Looking forward to hearing the songs performed live this fall- hoping it’ll all click then