I feel like if an album comes out early in the year and its around as good as the top 3 from the following year, its safe to call it an AOTY contender.
i feel like claiming your aoty too early subconsciously puts up an unfair barrier to entry for every single album you listen to thereafter
ocean avenue. beneath medicine tree. deja entendu. in keeping secrets of silent earth: 3. speakerboxxx/the love below. war all the time. give up. the ugly organ. the artist in the ambulance. transatlanticism. a mark a mission a scar. chutes too narrow. holy, 2003 was amazing.
i remember there was another band named Transit that was a bunch of dads and they’d always come up when i looked for scene Transit. there’s a universe where AP loved that band and i wanna see it