AsleepInTheBack
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10.31.23 REC ME: pOst-hardcOre (November 2023: C ♦10.01.23 REC ME: WEED 🥦 (October 2023: Chapte ♦
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07.02.23 FUNK ME: rec (July 2023: Chapter 7) ♦06.01.23 REC ME: FOLK (June 2023: Chapter 6) ♦
05.01.23 JohnnyoftheWell recs me (May 2023: Chap ♦03.31.23 REC ME: BLACK METAL † (April 2023: Ch ♦
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Asleep's Belated 2017

Almost redundant at this point, but here's my 2017. It's been a mad year, but the music's been pretty good. Have a good one.
50Slave Labor
A Sicker Cow

Noise || 3.5 || demented
49Artificial Brain
Infrared Horizon

Death Metal || 3.5 || mind-boggling
48While She Sleeps
You Are We

Metalcore || 3.5 || (not particularly) guilty pleasure
47Golden Retriever
Rotations

Ambient || 3.5 || i've actually forgotten what this sounds like. oops.
46Elbow
Little Fictions

Dad Rock || 3.5 || beautiful, quite frankly
45Heart Attack Man
The Manson Family

Pop Punk || 3.5 || pretty fun
44Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Finisterre

Black Metal || 3.5 || intense
43The World Is a Beautiful Place...
Always Foreign

Indie Rock || 3.5 || colourful
42The Smith Street Band
More Scared of You Than You Are of Me

Punk || 3.5 || sloppy
41american poetry club
glad to be here, etcetera

Twee? || 3.5 || comfortingly awkward
40Full of Hell
Trumpeting Ecstasy

Noise / Grind || 3.5 || 2nd best nun record 2017
39Andy James
Exodus

Heavy Metal || 3.5 || tastefully technical
38Caddywhompus
Odd Hours

Noise Rock / Math Rock || 3.5 || hazy
37Forest Swords
Compassion

Electronic || 3.5 || feelings
36Darkest Hour
Godless Prophets and The Migrant Flora

Hardcore / Death || 3.5 || ballou-core
35Mogwai
Every Country's Sun

Post-Rock || 3.5 || pretty pretty
34The Body and Full of Hell
Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light

Noise || 3.5 || textures
33Remo Drive
Greatest Hits

Pop Punk / Emo || 3.6 || new dog, new tricks
32bansheebeat
Techo Deluxe

Electronic || 3.6 || canned happiness
31Death Grips
Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)

Death Grips || 3.6 || MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE
30Vysoké Čelo
Űrutazás

Albient/Folk || 3.6 || elsewhere
29The Flying Eyes
Burning the Season

(Psychedelic) Rock || 3.6 || wonderfully derivative
28The Front Bottoms
Going Grey

Pop (Punk) || 3.6 || tactlessly tacky tunes
27Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
High Visceral B-Sides

Psychedelic Rock || 3.6 || even their b-sides are absolute gems. check out this band.
26In Love With A Ghost
Healing

Electronic || 3.7 || kawaii
25Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.

Hip-Hop || 3.7 || k-dot's inkblot
24Falls of Rauros
Vigilance Perennial

Black Metal || 3.7 || 'uge
23Venenum
Trance of Death

Death Metal || 3.7 || riffs
22Bibio
Phantom Brickworks

Ambient || 3.7 || nostalgia
21Elder (USA-MA)
Reflections of a Floating World

Prog/Doom || 3.7 || an ice-skater on a glacier
20IDLES
Brutalism

Post-Punk || 3.7 || kinda pissed
19End (NJ)
From the Unforgiving Arms of God

Hardcore || 3.7 || short and not particularly sweet
18Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Luciferian Towers

Post-Rock || 3.7 || easy does it
17The Tiger Lillies
Cold Night in Soho

Carnie-core || 3.8 || quirky blues
16Enter Shikari
The Spark

Pop? || 3.8 || unexpected
15Novo Amor
Bathing Beach

Indie Folk || 3.9 || bon iver-core
14Converge
Jane Live

Hardcore || 3.9 || killer performance
13Gang of Youths
Go Farther in Lightness

Indie Rock || 3.9 || chin up mate
12The Menzingers
After the Party

Pop Punk || 4.0 || old dog, old tricks
11Converge
The Dusk in Us

Hardcore || 4.0 || sadboi riffs
10Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside the Moon

Folk || 4.0 || cosy
9Flotation Toy Warning
The Machine That Made Us

Indie Rock || 4.1 || shimmering sepia
8Phoebe Bridgers
Stranger In The Alps

Indie Folk || 4.1 || intimate
7The National
Sleep Well Beast

Indie Rock || 4.1 || desolate yet lush
6McCafferty
Thanks. Sorry. Sure.

Pop Punk || 4.1 || anthemic melancholy with some bite to it
5Igorrr
Savage Sinusoid

Breaks || 4.2 || spliced
4Julien Baker
Turn Out The Lights

Indie Folk || 4.2 || tentatively optimistic
3Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno
Finding Shore

Classical/Ambient || 4.2 || soothing
2Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
High Visceral Pt. 2

Psychedelic Rock || 4.3 || the most fun I've had all year
1Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked At Me

Folk || 4.5 || a harrowing release from one of my favourite artists. real death fucking sucks.
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