Recent Reviews
May 9, 2018
Deafheaven keep up their fantastic work this decade with another killer, multifaceted lead single from their new album. As always, the lyrics of this song are really worth a read. My favorites are the ending lines:
"My love is a bulging, blue-faced fool
Hung from the throat by sunflower stems
Hung from the throat by sunflower stems
Sunflower stems"
"My love is a bulging, blue-faced fool
Hung from the throat by sunflower stems
Hung from the throat by sunflower stems
Sunflower stems"
May 9, 2018
I can't believe I let this pass me by last year. Definitely the best metalcore band working not named Converge.
Favorite tracks: Real, Spy, Bleeding in the Blur, The New Reality
Favorite tracks: Real, Spy, Bleeding in the Blur, The New Reality
May 7, 2018*
This is some whacked out shit, like if Emperor fell into a k-hole at a nightclub and never came out. I dig it.
Favorite tracks: Slaughtergarden Suite, A Sunset Song, Scarlet Dream
Favorite tracks: Slaughtergarden Suite, A Sunset Song, Scarlet Dream
May 3, 2018
This album is the loopy, psychedelic dance party I didn't know I needed. Thanks, Mr. Koze!
Favorite tracks: Moving in a Liquid, Illumination, Pick Up, Bonfire, Seeing Aliens
Favorite tracks: Moving in a Liquid, Illumination, Pick Up, Bonfire, Seeing Aliens
Feb 10, 2018
I've followed Hookworms ever since I saw Drowned in Sound give their debut a 10/10 back in 2013, and while their noisy, basement-dwelling approach to psych rock has always intrigued me, each of their last two albums has stopped short of placing them in my pantheon of modern psych music. Pearl Mystic came close, but the sound was ultimately too muddy and repetitive for me. The Hum felt like a step back, repeating a lot of Pearl Mystic's ideas but with less energy.
With Microshift, Hookworms ... read more
With Microshift, Hookworms ... read more
Feb 11, 2018
I think I'm going to give this some listens when school starts for me. My dad also really loves La Monte Young (and a lot of minimalist composers) hehehehe
Feb 11, 2018
How did you take in the five hours from that La Monte Young album?
Dec 30, 2016
Thank you for your contributions in 2016!
http://forums.albumoftheyear.org/t/top-contributors-of-2016/190
http://forums.albumoftheyear.org/t/top-contributors-of-2016/190
Jun 17, 2013
Appreciate all the work you put in to get the new album ratings added to the site.
