While harnessing the talents and inspirations of his contemporaries this time around, Sir Render not only can rival his best works such as the Sword and the Soaring, but deliver a conceptual album that keeps Navy’s music sounding fresh and potent with gentle beats and righteous lyricism.

Navy’s output continues to show us that he potentially has one of the “highest ceilings” in the entire genre. I couldn’t honestly cried after seeing Ka featured on this album.

Great protesting music for zoomers

Swans continue to do what Swans does best, but this time around you can tell that they’re starting to run out of ideas. I’m satisfied with Birthing, I Am a Tower and Rope (Away) are my new favorite Swans songs, but it’s not like they’ve been truly outdoing themselves on this recent album run.

I want Finally, Peace played at my funeral, straight up.

I really hate being a Swans fan sometimes because I can’t help but glaze their music every single time I listen to them. I strongly believe they are amongst some of the greatest bands of all time. Swans is just Pink Floyd but for cult followers. The sheer terror and technicality in their approach to making music is unmatched, unparalleled, grandiose, and arguably flawless.

But this is their best album and it isn’t even close honestly. I’m done running away from it. I love the ... read more

The indomitable human spirit in its purest and rawest form. This album makes me feel like I belong, as if it wants me to be apart of its experience. It’s their best

Charli XCX from Israel. I think I’d rather hear Riley Reid rap

Are youuu theeeerrrreeeee? On the moooooooooonnn

I’d like to imagine that my grandparents were bumping this when they were young and hip, smoking fat ones and protesting the Vietnam war at Woodstock. Count on Pink Floyd to make music that is celebrated through multiple generations. Larger than life music, I can’t even put it into words

I’m very uneducated when it comes to blues music, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this is blues music perfected. I felt like slim shady riding public transportation looking out the window. This is peak coffee drinkin, sunrise watchin music. This is the kind of music that helps rebuild civilizations. Gorgeous stuff

Typically it’s really difficult for melancholic and somber albums to work their charm on me. Unless it’s an album that tries something very “off the beaten path” and tries to do something new that separates itself from other albums in their genre, I’m not very interested. But this wasn’t a slug of an album to get through. It was surprisingly enjoyable. A Rush Of Blood to the Head isn’t reinventing the wheel by any means, it’s just packed full of ... read more

Songs so savage, technical, tight, dizzying, heavy that you feel it in your bones. Despite a few duds in the album, it absolutely deserves a spot on the tech-death Mount Rushmore, along with albums like Close to a World Below and None So Vile.

My favorite track in the whole thing is prolly Nostalgia. It sounds and feels like I’m watching a lovecraftian, abyssal wretch of a sea monster emerge from the depths of the ocean (very Godzilla-esque). Sweet silence is such a “cherry on ... read more

Album was so painfully sad I didn’t think I could handle it. Had to take a couple of breaks to compose myself. The combination of indie country with simple, stripped-back instrumentation and painfully sad lyrics work in harmony so beautifully. Needed this. Rest in peace

My favorite deftones release. These melodic and sensitive songs really just scratch that part of your brain and they’re accompanied with this sense of longing. Was definitely a successful rebranding of the bands music, possibly one of the most successful thematic changes I’ve seen in music, period.

Deftones already had an incredibly distinct sound with albums like Around the Fur and White Pony, which was the band’s closest attempts at nu metal perfection. Both are just ... read more

This a good album. It has a unique and aesthetic sound, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, one of a kind instrumentation. It’s like if Primus tried to make a hip hop-punk-metal fusion with the Dillinger Escape Plan. Some of the best songs I’ve heard this year come from this album; Jackpot and 200 bottles On Eviction are songs I’m confident in saying are some of the best tracks to come around this half of the year

Theft World deserves everything good coming its way!

Another victory lap for peggers

This had the potential to be one of the highest rated Imperial Triumphant albums for me, if the production wasn’t so bad. Everything just sounds tone-deaf and muddy. Don’t get me wrong, some of my favorite Imperial Triumphant tracks are on here, Metrovertigo, Chump Change to name a couple, but you can’t really serve a 5-star meal on a paper plate with plastic silverware, like it’s just not fitting

Probably the most effective and hard-hitting piece of music that implements themes of poverty, oppression and financial slavery into their sound ever; point, blank, period. The experimentation with eerie beats, abstract song structures, vocal samples and uncomfortable silence is just beautifully wrapped together. The depressive tone and giant middle finger towards the American economy and corporate elites was definitely felt and seen from me. And on top of that, Billy and Elucid always deliver ... read more

The energy and vibes this album delivers in the first half is really fun and carries a lot of emotional weight along with it. The Worldwide Scourge is one of my favorite songs of the year. Unfortunately, the album takes a little bit of a creative nosedive towards the end of the album and that’s understandable because of how insane the first half sounded to me. I enjoyed it though

I see Larry’s vision in his delivery, flow, album concept, rhyme schemes etc., it’s just not effective and it’s boring. By the time Alchemist got to Larry June, Al had already worked with 10 different Larry Junes. Something’s gotta change for Larry, something that’s gonna make me excited to hear that he’s dropping something new.