Swallowtail - The Bloom / The Blossom
88

Honestly, this one is beautiful. More to come.

Sun Thru Trees - Mixtape 1
NR

Sun Thru Trees' One Won Now is a debut instrumental hip hop effort that popped onto the AOTY dot org front page yesterday. So far, from all my preliminary research this is an unidentified entity who is friends with this poster on reddit. Mysterious!

I started 2021 with a bit of mystery and metal heads making pop punk. More on that pop punk later, maybe. With every new year I tend to start off strong keeping up with at least one or two new releases each week from day one. This dedication ... read more

Primitive Man - Immersion
88

A previous self of mine would have embodied the quoted Primitive Man tweet seen below. I’d would have been all teary eyed, trembling and clutching my Ahab hoodie mumbling some bullshit about “they aren’t playing THAT RIFF enough times MAN”. Now we live in a world where music streaming CEO’s feel the need to lecture musicians on how often to write records. I’m now older, fatter and have grown a maTUrEd appreciation for shorter song writing. Immersion, third ... read more

Umbra Vitae - Shadow Of Life
95

The Red Chord's second coming complete with all-star vocal work from Bannon. Truly an AOTY offering in heavy music.

Midwife - Forever
NR

Heaven metal indeedily doodily.

Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
99

I don't know what to do with all of these feelings.

Purity Ring - pink lightning
85

two more teasers dropped midweek like a fat bolt of pink lemonade lightning.

King Buffalo - Dead Star
75

a big ‘ol fuzzy serving of interstellar space voyaging.

Låpsley - Through Water
70

contemplative harmonious synthpop.

Myrkur - Folkesange
75

I’m a tough sell on anything that smells like Viking culture, but Myrkur belts out enraptured bilingual hymnals reminiscent of Yuki Kajura’s work in the 2000s.

Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?
90

A tight wound pack of properly pissed off & socially aware free form jazz. This album title might as well be printed in all caps. Even the saxophone sounds white hot pissed.

The Weeknd - After Hours
90

The man is back. Undeniably the bloody faced grand champion of the week in execution & coincidental mood. The forefront single 'Blinding Lights' will be caught bouncing the balls of my feet (since I’m glued to my office chair) for weeks at this rate.

Wake - Devouring Ruin
89

Big. Furious. Sprawling. The kick in the ass this pandemic living room mood needs right now.

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