Imaginal Disk

What happens when a body of work is so great that it makes me feel things?
It gets a perfect score.
This is my third perfect scorer. First from the 2020s.

You see, the problem with the subjectivity in music is that this will bring the argument that no piece of music is perfect, and that is true!
But the thing is that, when it's so profound and it is so enjoyable to sit through - it will be getting that perfect score.

This album is so perfectly packaged across its 15-track run, it somehow gives me the impression that it's one, long song that takes you through different paces/tempos. Achieving that form of cohesiveness is somehow quite an impossibility for many artists this year, and somehow - they did it. I'll be clear - I am not even gonna waste my trying to nitpick its flaws, it really is perfect to my eyes.

Once "True Blue Interlude" plays for the first time to its listeners, they will be sitting through my favourite track run.
Something about it up until "Fear, Sex" is just so, so excellent.
It's tight. Perfectly tight. "Death & Romance" is just something that sticks with you, and "Fear, Sex" accompanies it so well.
I could go on and on with how good the run is.

"The Ballad of Matt & Mica" is easily one of my favourite songs of this year, too!
I love the jumpscare synth and its callback to the opening track, it shows that its one arching story, its carefully planned, its well thought out!
The dissonant ending of the song just leaves you wanting more, it clearly sets the precedent that their musical run, and I am very elated to see what is to come.

Yes, this is my defining album of the year - unless something that's crafted by the gods suddenly appear at the very end of 2024.
I am very glad that this is going to into my 100s.