An eerie and haunting bout of religious psychosis wreathed in beautiful songcraft with a darker unseen horror bleeding through the surface.

The kind of record that just makes you love being alive, the kind that makes you wanna give your partner a hug and just be grateful to be here at all, the single greatest thing to ever come out of pop punk.

Words escape me, this record took me apart and put me back together again a dozen times over, perhaps the only work of art ever that I feel like understands and embodies the particular sort of loneliness and depression that’s plagued me all my life. I love it beyond words.

Specialist alone would make this incredible, but it absolutely doesn’t hurt that it’s joined by the superior versions of two excellent songs from Turn On The Bright Lights.

A thousand bursts of angst and heartbreak and loneliness all filtered through a thousand digital memories and made into something resembling pop music but which is far more under the surface, incredible.

While I don’t think this album is a 100 I do think that Hold On Magnolia may be my favorite song of all time, it is incredible beyond explanation.

This is possibly the most romantic album I’ve ever heard. Not romantic in the sense that we commonly conceive romance but instead in the artistic sense, it is soaring and idealistic. Ladies and Gentlemen does indeed contain many themes of traditional romance and love but more so it seems to be a record absolutely in love with everything around it, in sheer adoration of the strange and complex world around us. Ladies and Gentlemen speaks to me and my view of the world in ways not common, ... read more

A dense haze of melody and rhythm and feeling and beauty. Bocanda is all the aesthetics and feelings of a late night drive given form, I’m obsessed.

The end of everything, a sick and warm apocalypse burning in every inch of the desert of your flesh.

Sometimes you just find a record at the perfect time in your life, this is one of those times. Captain my Captain’s themes feel practically made for me especially at this time, just such an incredibly emotionally affecting record.

A desolate and haunting desert filled with only absence. Loss and grief are soaked into the sand only joined by blood. Closer is so much better than Unknown Pleasures it’s almost comical, this is how you create a hollow soundscape that is still incredible.

Such a vibrant, powerful, and life-affirming record. Post is off the wall pop perfection.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸. What more can be said? My heart weeps for every lost life in the ongoing genocide. From The River to The Sea Palestine shall be free.

The kind of record that makes me wanna take a long drag of a cigarette and gaze into the star studded sky, knowing not what I want nor what lays in wait for me. Night Palace is beautiful and dense and complicated in ways that only artists like Phil Elverum can conjure, one to return to time and again much like the original classics of Phil’s discography, it’s that spectacular.

Oh and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, may your joys be many and your sorrows few to all entering ... read more

A manic and tragic firestorm of death and rebirth, destruction and creation. The Last Live Recording is the Alpha and Omega of Jazz music pushed to the very brink, threatening to break through the boundaries of sound through the power of passion and mortality. RIP John Coltrane

The best purely pop album of the 60’s, or at least that I’ve listened to so far. This is a sugary sweet daydream of a record, full of sparkles and sunshine. It’s like listening to the inner dialogue of a girl in the 50’s sitting in a diner with her boyfriend sharing a milkshake.

So consistently breathtaking I nearly asphyxiated. My very first time listening to any music by Nick Cave and I am thoroughly impressed, such consistent and effortless songcraft evoking all manner of dreary, gothic, love-torn and love-sick atmospheres. Cave’s voice is well…cavernous and powerful and all the more grand backed the instrumentation present here so full of grandiosity and power. Let Love In is the soundtrack to one of the greatest musicals that doesn’t exist.

Stunning at every level and in every fold, an exercise in crafting complex ideas into something endlessly replayable and enjoyable. Animals is the greatest thing Pink Floyd ever did, in a runtime only half of many other albums that share its depth it blows nearly all other progressive rock out of the water.

Beautifully chill and laid back, the vibiest record to drop this year it is absolutely filled to the brim with vibrant and expressive production, vocals and instrumentation. The wonder of this record is simple in execution yet its multi layered enough that you’ll always find something new to love about it, simply spectacular.

The most blissful serenity and crushing weight.

Let the waves crash over you.

Words hold no power over the tides.

Feel the water fill your lungs.

Mankind will never escape nature.