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| Neek's 2010s Cram List
It's fuckin time boyos, figured I get this going a while before my 2019 one so I could get a head start. So here's the thing. It's been a long 10 years, and I've barely heard anything before 2017 (around when I started listening to music seriously). Throw me classics I've missed, your all time faves, and keep it to three recs for now, capeesh? Below are some examples why not | | 1 |  | Swans
The Seer
neek (2012)
4.4
Holy hell. This is one dense beast of a record. While I didn't find it as sickening or hellish as some others, the discordant sounds and impressive scope were undeniably unsettling, though I found them to resolve into a more hopeful place in the second half of the record. But this was so so much more moving than Soundtracks in my opinion (my only other experience with them), with far more dense, melodic, and affecting tunes that, while massive, still had intense emotion and purpose throughout. I see why this gets so much praise 'round these parts. To Be Kind is next...
Favorites: "Avatar" "The Seer" "Apostate"
Least Favorite: "93 Ave. B Blues" | | 2 |  | The National
High Violet
neek (2010)
4.1
So I understand that my issue of Matt Berninger's vocals acting as a small block to me fully enjoying this band is not a common one, but goddamn can it be. It seems to drown out the gorgeous, deep instrumentals at many turns, and rarely do the melodies have enough of a catchiness or immediacy to them that make me want to jam these songs again and again. And yet, I give it a 4.1. Here's the thing, this is an album that should so easily be a 4.5 for me, but these all hold it back. Even the b-sides and live cuts on the expanded edition carry the performances that could've made this fly, but here, ever so slightly, things just feel so held back at times. It's a great but frustrating listen. Maybe it'll grow in time.
Favorites: "Afraid of Everyone" "England"
Least Favorites: "Anyone's Ghost" "Sorrow" | | 3 |  | Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience
neek (2013)
3.7
I definitely understand where the love comes from, as his approach to progressive-pop here is definitely exciting and a lot of fun, but ultimately this record was a bit hit or miss for me. The hits definitely hit more than the misses missed, but it was enough to say that while I definitely really liked this album, I certainly didn't love it. Everything was a bit too all over the place quality-wise (did "Suit & Tie" really need to sound so lethargic?), and the songs I didn't like just seemed too overlong. Still, I admire the shit out of this for its adventurousness, and like I said, it paid off more often than not.
Favorites: "Don’t Hold the Wall" "Let the Grove Get In"
Least Favorite: "Suit & Tie" | | 4 |  | Death Grips
The Money Store
neek (2012)
3.7
This was one of those albums I didn't expect to know what to make of it, and then I still didn't know what to make of it. Still, I got a huge kick of the weird-ass vocals and sampling on here, especially on the tracks that used the guitar in a really aggressive and engaging fashion. I feel like I should like this better than I do, but I think it has a huge amount of room to grow.
Favorites: "I've Seen Footage" "Hacker"
Least Favorites: "Punk Weight" "Blackjack" | | 5 |  | Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
neek (2014)
4.2
Since my only experience with Sharon Van Etten were the aggressive, sprawling corridors of her latest release, all I knew what to expect from this was something different, and different is what I got. While the personal side to this record is extremely convincing, I felt myself equally swayed by the smallness of the album compared to her latest release. However, there's a plainness toa few of the songs that can't be ignored given the scope of female indie singer-songwriters out there today, and I feel that her operatic vocals better suit the more atmospheric stuff she's done. So while I think this is a truly great record, I gotta say that Remind Me Tomorrow edges this out just a tad.
Favorites: "Our Love" "Tarifa"
Least Favorites: "I Know" "I Love You But I'm Lost" | | 6 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
neek (2013)
3.7
While this is certainly an intriguing blend of elements, I still can't what see what all the hubbub was about. It's really impressive in scope and variety, and I did really like it, but it just doesn't seem as groundbreaking now. Perhaps it's because it's been built up by so many people and elaborated on by so many other acts, but this simply didn't do much to floor me the way I expected it to. I also thought it was a strange decision to place the most abrasive and least interesting track as the opener, especially for an album so dedicated to accessibility within the genre. Still, very glad I gave it a spin, and some of those atmospheric tracks were something else entirely.
Favorite: "Please Remember"
Least Favorite: "Dream House" | | 7 |  | Memoryhouse
The Years
budgie (2010)
3.9
This was simply a pleasant experience. While I'm not sure how much I'll remember of it in the future, its hazy atmospheres and calming guitar lines were just the thing I needed in the moment. Some tracks stood out over others, but overall this was a solid dream pop EP that admittedly could've used lot more originality to become decade-end worthy.
Favorite: "Lately"
Least Favorite: "Modern Normal" | | 8 |  | Pinkshinyultrablast
Everything Else Matters
budgie (2015)
4.0
Appropriately bright and shiny, this band also has a muscular sheen to them that helps them stand out against different bands in their genre, creating a sound both new and exciting. My biggest problem would be that it's hard to pin down but is also a bit unmemorable, as in I really enjoy listening to this, but not much sticks in my mind afterward looking back on it. Still, it was definitely a great record I'm going to have to check in with every once in a while!
Favorites: "Wish We Were" "Ravestar Supreme" "Marigold"
Least Favorites: "Glitter" "Metamorphosis" | | 9 |  | Lantlos
Melting Sun
budgie (2014)
3.8
Yeah okay this was really damn good, but it's hard to believe the black metal tag? Sure, this was really loud, spacious shoegaze sounding stuff, but it wasn't as understandably "blackgaze" as something like Sunbather. Still, I for sure enjoyed this more than that even if I found this considerably less memorable. A lot of these passages were supremely beautiful in the moment but afterward I'm not sure I'd remember what album this was if you played it for me in a week, which brings the score down a bit.
Favorite: "Jade Fields"
Least Favorites: "Azure Chimes" "Golden Mind" | | 10 |  | Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld
Still Smiling
Papa Universe (2013)
4.2
In typical Papa fashion, something wholly accessible but daring, yet rendered almost inept with one important factor--this time again, the vocals. Why they decided to pair such extravagant and moving instrumental passives with monotonous moaning in foreign languages and often undercut and made redundant a great many of these tunes. However, it all works far, far more often than not, especially in a pair of closing tracks that put the pieces together to finally deliver the emotional (rather than intellectual) blow the album so desperately needed to seal the deal. This was an excellent rec.
Favorites: "A Quiet Life" "Defenestrazoni"
Least Favorite: "Axolotl" | | 11 |  | Hail Spirit Noir
Mayhem In Blue
Papa Universe (2016)
4.3
Holy shit was this a good time. I described this to slex as "Ghost but more black metal," which I think fits considerably well with the ridiculously fun riffs and vocals combined with the harsh vocals and distortion. Idk, I'm just throwing words at this to try to excuse why I love it so much, but this kicked ass and will definitely deserve a spot in my year-end list.
Favorites: "Mayhem in Blue" "Lost in Satan's Charm"
Least Favorites: seriously I can't think of much of a low point here, maybe "I Mean You Harm"? | | 12 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Nonagon Infinity
Papa Universe (2016)
4.2
Oh so thissssss is why everyone has been talking about these guys? No doubt this is some brilliant, progressive-ish rock with a lot of different sounds and elements, which I love. The thing I think that holds it back is the same thing that makes it stand out--its cyclical, self-referencing nature adds to the overall cohesion of its disparate parts, but it also makes it seem a bit redundant at times despite this eclecticism. Overall though, this is a banger of a record, and I'm excited to dig into these guys more with my 2019 cram list.
Favorite: "Robot Stomp"
Least Favorite: "Gamma Knife" "Mr. Beat" "Invisible Face" | | 13 |  | Julia Holter
Loud City Song
granitenotebook (2013)
4.0
I feel like it'll take me a couple years to fully grasp the beauty of this album, but what I heard here was really great. I wasn't blown away by the opener (still amn't), but as the album slowly unfurls itself like a flower, I have to say I was incredibly charmed by it's strangely serene yet eclectic nature. I definitely preferred this to her latest release, and it makes me curious to check the album in between!
Favorites: "Hello Stranger" "Maxim's II"
Least Favorite: "World" | | 14 |  | Oneohtrix Point Never
R Plus Seven
granitenotebook (2013)
3.5
I normally find myself at odds with these discordant, disjointed electronic albums that rely more on intellectualism than melody or emotion, and this one was no different usually. However, there was a seriously engaging approach to these bits and pieces that most other albums of its kind. The bookends especially here were more captivating than the rest of the album, which seemed far more all over the place.
Favorites: "Boring Angel" "Chrome Country"
Least Favorite: "Cryo" | | 15 |  | Sophie
Product
granitenotebook (2015)
4.1
Oh wait, this really is that much better than her album?? This clicked a lot for me, as even though this is just as processed, it feels a lot less cold and more inviting than that release, featuring abstract but decidedly poppy tunes that don't alienate but definitely elicit emotion. I liked this one a lot more than I expected.
Favorites: "ELLE" "MSMSMSM" "VYZEE"
Least Favorites: "JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE" | | 16 |  | Trophy Scars
Holy Vacants
dmathias52 (2014)
4.4
Yeah this album was something else. I didn't really know what to expect here, but I was not let down by the ecstatic array of hardcore, alt, gospel, and blues rock influences coming at me from all sides. It's one thing to create some massive bangers that jump from one genre to the next, but to do so with such consistency and then still deliver the emotional wallop of that one-two punch of a closer? That's just magic.
Favorite: "Everything Disappearing/Nyctophobia"
Least Favorite: "Vertigo" | | 17 |  | Jason Isbell
Southeastern
dmathias52 (2013)
3.8
This was a very good and at times moving folk record that unfortunately played into my lack of listening to lyrics a bit too much for me to fully appreciate it. When songs did grab my attention with their skeletal sound and brash lyrics (i.e. Elephant), they devastated, but truth be told that song is the only one that shook me in such a way. The others didn't grab my attention enough to truly dig into the lyrics, and therefore all I was left with was enjoying the music alright and liking his voice. Bonus points because I know this will grow on me when I finally give it a proper listen.
Favorites: "Elephant"
Least Favorite: "Super 8" | | 18 |  | Hey Rosetta!
Seeds
dmathias52 (2011)
4.2
This was crazy enjoyable and beautiful through and through, but depending on my mood I was alternately engrossed or a bit put-off by the widescreen sentimentality that bleeds through every track on this thing. I mean, it's a lovely record, but it's so goddamn cheesy that it sometimes undercuts just how great the sound and melodies are here. Some of the more bittersweet moments helped to relieve my sweet tooth, but I can't say that the sanguinity helps the record overall. Still, this rules, don't get me wrong!
Favorite: "Bricks"
Least Favorites: "New Sum (Nous Sommes)" "Welcome" | | 19 |  | The Smith Street Band
No One Gets Lost Anymore
SlothcoreSam (2011)
3.6
While I resisted its charms for a while, I eventually grew into a peaceful liking of this album. While its pop-punk (I know it's not pop-punk) leanings bothered me a tad, overall I felt that it came from a genuine place and that even if not all the tracks did it for me, overall it was filled with fun tunes and a solid variety for its genre. A few tracks stood out far more than others and I wouldn't say I was blown away, but it was a pleasant listen nonetheless.
Favourite: "Sigourney Weaver"
Least Favourite: "My Little Sinking Ship" | | 20 |  | Jonsi
Go
SlothcoreSam (2010)
4.6
This is a glowing, glittering masterwork of hope and happiness. Honestly goddamn I’ve been going through some real ups and downs these last couple weeks, and I think a big reason why I haven’t been able to move quick on this comp (outside of me being stupid busy) is just because I can’t move past this album. It makes me feel so goddamn good and it’s just goddamn beautiful. This has earned a scarily high place in my decade-end list. Thank you Sloth (:
Favorites: “Go Do” “Grow Till Tall”
Least Favorites: “Animal Arithmetic” “Around Us” | | 21 |  | The Hotelier
Home, Like NoPlace Is There
SlothcoreSam (2014)
4.0
This was far more of a straightforward emo release than The World Is a Beautiful Place, and while this relative plainness (I do feel they could've switched up the sound a bit more) did a bit of harm, I really enjoyed the way this album sequesters itself in that "Home" and delivers emotional stories that hit harder than you'd expect. There's a great dynamic between softer and louder moments here that only detracts in moments like "Life in Drag," but adds great power to tracks like the biggest highlight and closer "Dendron." Overall this was a big win and I could see why someone would like it even more than I!
Favorites: "Dendron" "An Introduction to the Album" "Among the Wildflowers"
Least Favorites: "Life in Drag" "Housebroken" | | 22 |  | Bomb the Music Industry!
Vacation
Rowan5215 (2011)
3.6
Two punky albums in a row?? I made a mistake jamming this and Smith Street back-to-back, but I did have quite a bit of fun with 'em. This one was far more anarchic and all over the place, and I still haven't fallen for Rosenstock as a vocalist, but this was a pretty convincing pop-punk argument that, even with all its faults and sickeningly sweet choruses ("Everyone That Loves You" and "Why, Oh Why, Oh Why (Oh Oh Oh)") was a good time overall, and it certainly lays the groundwork for his solo work in the future which I'd say I enjoy quite a bit more.
Favorite: "Campaign for a Better Weekend" (This track kicked ass tho)
Least Favorite: "Everyone That Loves You" | | 23 |  | John K. Samson
Winter Wheat
Rowan5215 (2016)
3.7
There are some true highs on this thing, but overall it’s a bit too mellow and run-of-the-mill to fully stand out to me. The Gen X-y lyrics and focus on confusion of the new world is alternately engaging and more amusing than it means to be, but then again there are just some tracks that stand clear and tall above the rest that I can imagine myself coming back to pretty easily.
Favorites: “Capital” Vampire Alberta Blues”
Least Favorites: “Quiz Night at Looky Lou’s” “Virtue at Rest” | | 24 |  | Keaton Henson
Birthdays
Rowan5215 (2013)
4.1
I ended up enjoying this far more than I thought I would based on the opener, but I never recovered from that initial skeptiscism. I think the biggest issue with this album is that the opener and closer are so intent on setting a tone that they don’t capture the listeners attention, instead putting the catchier or bigger tracks in the middle where they get lost a bit. Still, this was a powerful and VERY moving indie folk record that I won’t forget in a long while, but I wish the music shook me more on the bookends.
Favorites: "Kronos" "Don’t Swim"
Least Favorite: "Teach Me" | | 25 |  | Baroness
Yellow and Green
Kompys2000 (2012)
3.9
I definitely dug the aggressive mix of stoner rock and metal influences with a touch of folk here, though the farther it went along I became a bit tired by songs that felt like only choruses, and some uninspired at times, grunge-y vocal stylings. Overall though this was a really great album, especially the more progressive-sounding back half of Yellow, even if the entire thing could've used more thinning.
Favorites: "Twinkler" "Cocainium" "Back Where I Belong"
Least Favorites: "Take My Bones Away" "Board Up the House" | | 26 |  | Nails
Unsilent Death
Kompys2000 (2010)
3.1
Ummmmmmm, so I listened to this months ago and forgot to do a write-up on it. I think what I was gonna say is that I thought there were some cool riffs that helped it stand out from others in the genre, but that it's a genre that I have trouble getting into as it all just blends together and becomes generally unmemorable for me. Just as it was proved by me forgetting to write this.
Favorite: "Unsilent Death"
Least Favorites: the rest ig | | 27 |  | The Flaming Lips
The Terror
Kompys2000 (2013)
4.1
Wow this was one hell of a record. While it could’ve used a seriously punchy or hooky track to keep me coming back (I’m not sure how often I will), it was still an excellent record and an exciting experience, serving as one hell of an introduction to a band that I’ve taken way too long to start getting into.
Favorites: “Look… the Sun Is Rising” “Turning Violent”
Least Favorite: “You Are Alone” | | 28 |  | Erra
Augment
SteakByrnes (2013)
3.2
I'm not gonna pretend that I enjoyed this album, but I will say that there was an inherent charm to its blend of poppy/proggy metalcore aesthetics, but after a couple songs worth it got old fast. As technical and admirable as it was at times, every song felt completely un-unique from the rest, each tracking the same amount of untrackable riffs, screeching choruses, and brutal growls. There wasn't a song here that I actively disliked, quite the opposite actually, but when you smash them all together you got some quite less than the sum of its solid parts.
Favorites: "Alpha Seed" "Ultraviolet"
Least Favorite: "Prometheus" | | 29 |  | A Lot Like Birds
No Place
SteakByrnes (2013)
3.8
This is like some seriously inventive modern prog band decided to pair their music with high school slam poetry. But seriously, this stuff is really damn good. Even if the lyrics can get a bit laughable or incredulous at times (like a much, much better Icarus the Owl), the music and themes were still very engaging and at times moving. Overall it worked great, but let’s just say that this album made we realize why La Dispute are considered master wordsmiths in their genre.
Favorites: "In Trances" "Kuroi Ledge" "Shaking of the Frame"
Least Favorites: "Next to Ungodliness" "Myth of Lasting Sympathy" | | 30 |  | Dream On Dreamer
Loveless
SteakByrnes (2013)
3.7
I was pretty impressed by the record, especially for the genre. It had enough tricks up it sleeve to stay interesting beyond to basic loud/soft dynamic of the vocals, and even that worked far better thematically than most metalcore records I’ve heard. It’s not the most memorable experience out there but I can say it was another winner in a genre I’m quickly learning to not cast aside so easily.
Favorite: “Hear Me Out”
Least Favorites: “Evol” “Foundations” | | 31 |  | Fair to Midland
Arrows and Anchors
Dewinged (2011)
4.2
I wasn't sure how much I had liked this until it was over, when I looked over my song ratings and saw a bunch of 8s and 8.5s with no dips in quality. I think that's the best thing about this, no matter how eclectic the sounds are and crazy the instrumentation can be, it's extremely consistent. The closer especially was excellent, and it's about time that I took a dive into some modern prog, so I appreciate the rec. Good shit Dewi (;
Favorite: "The Greener Grass"
Least Favorites: "Rikki Tikki Tavi" "Whisky & Ritalin" (i guess, these are both great) | | 32 |  | Fink
Perfect Darkness
Dewinged (2011)
3.8
Moving and mellow (the latter almost to a fault), this was a really chill experience that got better on the second listen for me. The patient way that the songs unfold can be a bit taxing at times, but more than often it’s worth it. Still, some variation on this thing would be nice to tell the songs apart more, but again overall I really enjoyed this one.
Favorite: “Fear Is Like Fire”
Least Favorites: “Wheels” “Save it for Somebody Else” | | 33 |  | Temples
Sun Structures
Dewinged (2014)
3.7
While that their sound is violently close to a certain Tame Impala (to their benefit and harm), I must admit that at times their progressive and wide-screened tendencies allow them to nearly eclipse him. A few tracks here land almost perfectly, others just plain don’t. But overall this is a solid take on the modern psych-rock style, and nails it more times than not.
Favorites: "A Question isn't Answered" "Sand Dance"
Least Favorite: "Mesmerize" | | 34 |  | Mark Eitzel
Hey Mr Ferryman
DoofDoof (2017)
3.9
Now you know me, I'm a sucker for this indie-folky stuff, and this album largely delivers. While at some times the vocals stylings get a bit too close to Elvis Costello for my liking, I really enjoyed a lot of what this album brought to the table, especially in the more melodic, rocky moments ("Professional Singer" kicks ass). Again, it was a bit rocky in some parts and not all its tricks paid off, but overall this was a really nice little folk record.
Favorite: "In My Role as a Professional Singer and Ham"
Least Favorite: "An Angel's Wing Brushed the Penny Slots" | | 35 |  | John Grant
Queen Of Denmark
DoofDoof (2010)
3.7
As moving and pleasant as this record was, just too much of it fell through the cracks and wasn’t memorable for me to fall in love with it. Still, I thought it was a really solid folk record with some incredible highlights when things got more interestingly musically.
Favorites: “TC and Honeybear” “Leopard and Lamb”
Least Favorite: “Silver Platter Club” | | 36 |  | Cass McCombs
Wit's End
DoofDoof (2011)
2.7
I do feel a bit bad about this one, but the lethargic pacing and lack of any sense of climax and purpose to a lot of this songs was incredible harmful to some otherwise nice vocals and songwriting. Still, the closer use the pacing to its benefit to create a sinister yarn that was for some reason much much more captivating than anything that came before it.
Favorite: “A Knock Upon the Door”
Least Favorite: “Hermit’s Cave” | | 37 |  | Suis La Lune
Riala
Lucman (2012)
3.7
Man y'all love your screamo don't you? Not gonna lie, this record did a solid job for me. While I'm a bit resistant to the genre in general, when it showcases some impressive melodic elements, which are fully on display here, it's easy for me to enjoy. This was even more gorgeous than it was aggressive and crunchy, making a happy balance for me that was only weakened by some uninspired screamed vocals and a lack of variation between some of the songs. I thought the heavy and light could've been balanced more engagingly I guess? I don't know, but this is a solid win for me!
Favorites: "Remorse" "Riala" In Confidence"
Least Favorite: "Hands Are For Helpings" | | 38 |  | Brian Fallon
Sleepwalkers
Lucman (2018)
3.7
You guys really liked the traditional folkier sound this time around, albeit this one definitely had a bit of a rock edge that helped this to stand out a bit. That being said while I enjoyed pretty much all of this record, I have a hard time believing that it’ll stand the test of time in my memory. A couple songs ruled here, and the rest were just really solid and agreeable tunes, but honestly it was hard to find something that would ever break my decade list here.
Favorite: “Etta James”
Least Favorite: “See You on the Other Side” | | 39 |  | Destroyer
Poison Season
Lucman (2015)
4.1
I think I definitely, if only slightly, preferred this to Kaputt. While this certainly had its share of great moody, hazy tunes that shifted like a nighttime cityscape, what really stood out for me here were the jazz-rock bangers, which honestly just stole the show here through and through.
Favorites: “Dream Lover” “Midnight Meet the Rain”
Least Favorites: “Hell” “The River” | | 40 |  | Norma Jean
Polar Similar
tyman128 (2016)
3.7
Y'all know by now that metalcore is not my cup of tea, but when you combine it with some crazy interesting riffs, some serious melodies and genuinely solid vocals, well, that's quite enough for me to be swayed by it. While I may not think this is the coolest thing in the world, I really did enjoy this album and it's just another metalcore album that's starting to sway more and more closer to fully giving in to the genre, much like that Greyhaven release last year.
Favorite: "Reaction"
Least Favorites: "Death Is a Living Partner" "An Ocean of War" | | 41 |  | Attalus
Into the Sea
tyman128 (2015)
3.9
I was definitely resistant at first to the opening duo, which featured scene-like vocals (seriously this might be one of the most generic vocalists I’ve ever heard for the genre), but it quickly flipped my expectations to deliver a sonically daring and moving experience through and through. Sure, it definitely could’ve been a bit short, but I was very happy for the journey.
Favorites: “Step Out” “The Breath Before the Plunge” “Message in a Bottle”
Least Favorites: “The Ship Is Going Down” “Sirens” | | 42 |  | Deftones
Diamond Eyes
tyman128 (2010)
4.2
I can see why so many love this record, it’s a beautiful if very barebones rock album. It could’ve stood to make things a bit more interesting as a lot of them felt a bit too monochromatic, but especially on the back half it turned track after track into massive emotional epics.
Favorite: “Sextape”
Least Favorite: “CMND/CTRL” | | 43 |  | Kairon IRSE!
Ujubasajuba
bgillesp (2014)
4.6
Yo this shit BANGS. A brilliant blend of post-rock and shoegaze (and even some jazz??), this is guitar music firing on all fucking cylinders to deliver a grand and exciting album. There's a massive amount of talent going on in these structures and melodies, each song prancing through trance after trance and each growing further from the last. The only downside is that some parts are clearly more effective than others, but each song delivers overall in such a large quantity it's easy to forgive. The fact that the opener, which is an absolute BANGER, is the weakest song here simply because it never goes beyond itself is a testament to this album's quality.
Favorites: "Tzar Morei" "Rulons"
Least Favorite: "Valorians" | | 44 |  | Son Lux
Remedy
bgillesp (2017)
4.4
Okay yeah, I have no idea what the heck this is but I think I’m in love. I’ve found that I really dig organic but rhythmic electronic music, and this does so with alien precision, and yet feels so entirely human. It’s an intriguing dichotomy that just makes this consistently and completely invigorating.
Favorites: “Dangerous” “Stolen” “Remedy”
Least Favorite: “Part of This” (still damn great) | | 45 |  | Trampled By Turtles
Palomino
bgillesp (2010)
3.8
This was quite a surprise. I’m not really sure what I expected from the band name, but a pretty straightforward country outing wasn’t exactly it. Nevertheless I really enjoyed this album, even if it was a bit too traditional for my tastes at times. A couple tracks like “Gasoline” were really interesting and outside the box, and a couple more were just a jolly good time in their own genre trappings (“Sounds Like a Movie”). At the end of the day, this sounds like an album both me and my dad would enjoy, which is never a bad thing. I think I’ll show him it over the holidays :)
Favorites: “Gasoline” “Victory” “Sounds Like a Movie” | | 46 |  | Joanna Newsom
Have One on Me
fogza (2010)
4.1
This album is sort of like digging through gold. The dirt you have to scour through is pleasant and lovely enough, but it’s pennies compared to when it all comes together—the eclectic instrumentation settling into beautiful vocal melodies that lure you into its haunting lyrics (i.e. “Go Long”)—that’s when the gold starts to show. One can’t argue that this album isn’t a bit excessive, and it certainly pays off overall, but goddamn if only this were shorter it could’ve been one of my top albums of the decade.
Favorites: “Go Long” “Baby Birch”
Least Favorites: “On a Good Day” | | 47 |  | Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
fogza (2010)
4.2
This album finds a surreal blend between the Springsteen-ian, blissed-out but downtrodden takes of the suburbs from classic rock and their own inherent weirdness, creating a sound that's extremely familiar but still unique. It's comfortably similar to other anthemic alt-rock bands of their age and never feels the need to be anything else for that, it's happy to be what it is and it delivers explicitly because of that. It's un-pretentious, fun, and emotionally satisfying.
Favorites: "Suburban War" "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
Least Favorite: "City with No Children" | | 48 |  | Midwife (USA)
Like Author, Like Daughter
slex (2017)
4.3
This was a hreatbreaking reminder of everything sad going on in my life right now. The moment I popped this on, I was overcome by feelings of loss and homesickness from my move. But the thing is, these are all things that I was unconsciously suppressing and not letting myself feel. I need music like this to remind me to feel, and that it's okay too. Musically I'm just in love with the endless reverb and distortion, and it was a captivating mix of sadgirl indie and shoegaze, with minimalist but devastating song after song.
Favorite: "Name"
Least Favorite: "RTD, Pt. 2" | | 49 |  | Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
Mariner
Bedex (2016)
4.5
This has got to be one of the absolute best metal albums I've ever heard, diving headfirst into the sheer heaviness of the genre without being afraid to delve in the dark melodies that crystalize each song as being a gorgeous and unique composition. The only track here that falters is "Approaching Transition," which is great in its own way but still serves as a disappointing blend of being overlong without enough content to back it up. Still, there's such a depth and scope to everything delivered here that it's impossible for me not to love it with all of its unbelievable heights.
Favorite: "The Wreck of the S.S. Needle"
Least Favorite: "Approaching Transition" | | 50 |  | Grouper
Ruins
Bedex (2014)
3.6
I found myself kinda at odds with this album. Sure, it definitely falls into that sadgirl indie sound that I love so, yet the skeletal approach here didn’t quite work for me completely since the melodies never hooked me in and the piano parts weren’t that engaging. I think what swayed me most were the ambient passages that injected some change and hope into an otherwise despairing sound, and just the beauty of hearing the nature outside of her studio added far more than I would’ve expected.
Favorites: “Made of Air”, “Lighthouse” (kinda)
Least Favorite: “Labyrinth” | | 51 |  | Clever Girl
No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room
Bedex (2010)
4.0
This managed to strike a unique blend of sounding super original but also just dripping with pleasantness. Despite it’s uniqueness, it might not really stick out in my memory as some of the other entries on this list, I still enjoyed it, and it definitely warmed me up to the math-y jazz-y emo whatever genre even more.
Favorite: “Ohmygodiloveyoupleasedontleaveme”
Least Favorite: “Sleepyhead Symphony” | | 52 |  | Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
SowingSeason (2010)
3.9
While the folk-punk aesthetic tends to wear thin for me when it leans on the punk side too far, this actually had a great balance between the two. And while I didn't much prefer some of the more rambunctious offerings from the first half, the folkier, more progressive tunes that wormed their way in later one were as exciting as they were moving. While this won't end up on my own decade-end list, I'm glad this ended up being more compelling than its genre tags suggested for me.
Favorites: "A Pot in Which to Piss" "Four Score and Seven"
Least Favorites: "Richard II" "Titus Andronicus Forever" | | 53 |  | The Dear Hunter
The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
SowingSeason (2011)
Black: 4.2
Red: 3.9
Orange: 3.7
Yellow: 3.6
Green: 4.1
Blue: 4.0
Indigo: 4.3
Violet: 4.1
White: 3.7
Overall: 4.0
Okay so some of this was REALLY cheesy, but overall I just loved the concept and although some EPs hit me way harder than others, it was just generally a really cool experiment that created some rad rock music and some songs I could definitely see myself coming back to. It’s not quite as exciting, consistent, or “out there” as it might be, but yeah this thing is pretty damn great overall.
Favorites: “Therma” “Never Forgive, Never Forget”
Least Favorite: “Misplaced Devotion” | | 54 |  | Joanna Newsom
Divers
SowingSeason (2014)
4.3
This is a whole ‘nother kind of Newsom from what I heard of her in Have One On Me. There’ s a real driving force to all of the songs here, while many of that felt really lethargic pace wise. The quicker length of the album does it a ot of help to. Basically wha tI’m trying to say is that when we writes songs with climaxes and real variety, I’m head over heels for it. There was some really impressive stuff here that wowed me beyond even “Go Long.”
Favorites: “Time, as a Symptom”
Least Favs: “Goose Eggs” “Same Old Man” | | 55 |  | The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past
ButtBoy (2012)
3.7
Y'all and your goddamn pop-punk... Okay, I'll admit that I really liked this record. It maintained a healthy balance of upbeat bangers and brooding lyrics that manifested an admirable amount of personal emotion, making it far more engaging and moving than the usual stadium-rock leanings in the genre. But while there were a fair amount of interesting musical change-ups, it stuck to the roots of the genre fairly closely. And while I did think this was very good, if this is the best that the genre has to offer, I think I'll keep keeping my distance from it.
Favorites: "On the Impossible Past" "Good Things" "Nice Things"
Least Favorites: "Gates" "Ava House" | | 56 |  | We Lost the Sea
Departure Songs
BlazinBlitzer (2015)
3.7
On one hand, this was a really nice and chill widescreen post-rock experience, but on the other the melodies and structures never really wowed me as much as the greats of the genre. It left me happy and with positive thoughts, but I don't think it had a unique enough voice (in a genre where one is desperately needed) to really make it work and stand out to me, so it came off as a bit tepid.
Favorite: "The Last Dive of David Shaw"
Least Favorite: "Challenger Part 1 - Flight" | | 57 |  | Blood Command
Cult Drugs
BlazinBlitzer (2017)
4.2
Yeah, wow. This is so not what I’m normally into but this blend of genres (I mean, pop punk? metal? really?) clicked with me for some godforsaken reason. Maybe it’s because I’m so in love with the vocals and the kinetic energy of it, and the fact that unlike most punk music out there, it doesn’t sound like it’s been done a million times before, but overall I think this was a crazy fun release that I won’t soon forget. Still, I wish they’d changes things up just a bit more (if only because the weirder ones here are so cool) and that they’d let the music breathe a bit, but yeah this rocks.
Favorites: “Gang Signs” “Ctrl + Art + Delete”
Least Favorites: “Quitters Don’t Smoke” “You Can’t Sit with Us” | | 58 |  | Earthside
A Dream In Static
BlazinBlitzer (2015)
4.0
While this can definitely veer into cheese-metal territory (depending on the vocalist), the instrumentation really shines and breathes life into these massive tunes. Especially the closer here brings the scope and emotion hinted out throughout the record seriously to the forefront and really just nails what it felt like it was all leading to.
Favorite: "Contemplation of the Beautiful"
Least Favorites: "Mob Mentality" "A Dream in Static" "Crater" | | 59 |  | Women
Public Strain
luci (2010)
2.6
Okay so like I didn't really enjoy this much at all. It's rare that an acclaimed album like this rubs me this wrong of a way, but I just could not care less for the abrasive post-punk boringness that was this album. I actually liked the thick atmosphere on the opener, but it was completely abandoned for "lo-fi" ugliness and repetitive riffs that I couldn't remember if you played them back to me.
Favorite: "Can't You See"
Least Favorite: "Narrow with the Hall" | | 60 |  | Japandroids
Celebration Rock
luci (2012)
2.7
This is like the blandest, most white-bread rock I can’t think of. While it’s certainly lively enough to earn the “punk rock” denominator, it was also a boring liveliness that went through the motions without really having anything interesting in terms of riffs or anything musical. While the closer was a rare spot of light, and there wasn’t really any “bad” songs on here, I just wasn’t impressed with anything much here.
Favorite: “Continuous Thunder”
Least Favorite: “Adrenaline Nightshift” | | 61 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel...
luci (2012)
3.9
I'll have to admit that I was a bit... disappointed is a strong word... with this. While I definitely see the appeal of her more minimalist take on the same indie-pop singer-songwriter field as Regina Spektor does, she also really lacked the hooks and wide variety that makes Spektor so appealing to me. Maybe it's just because I'm used to a more maximalist sound with this kinda stuff, but also a lot of the melodies here didn't quite click for me or get stuck the way I wish I did. Does it sound like I'm complaining too much? I shouldn't, I really enjoyed this record (especially "Hot Knife") and hope to listen to more of her! I just hope it clicks more in time.
Favorites: "Hot Knife" "Anything We Want"
Least Favorites: "Jonathan" "Largo" | | 62 |  | Boom Boom Satellites
To The Loveless
Uzumaki (2010)
4.1
There's something so attractively immediate about this album's heavy rock hooks, that at the same time doesn't betray its catchiness or accessibility. What I'm trying to say is that this is a great alternative rock record with a lot of exciting, loud ideas whose only setback is its length (the third act gets a bit too redundant and feature 3-4 songs in a row that could've acted as a fitting closer). Still, this is an album that I really liked, and one that I'm sure to remember.
Favorites: "Drain" "Stay"
Least Favorite: "Hounds" | | 63 |  | Perfume Genius
Put Your Back N 2 It
wtferrothorn (2012)
4.0
This was a really captivating collection of bite-sized, depressing indie folk tunes. While I really wish some of these sounds were more developed than they were, it's hard to say that the album didn't land exactly how it was intended, commanding my attention at every turn. It's lovely, inspired, and heartbreaking. And goddamn is it good.
Favorites: "AWOL Machine" "All Waters" "Floating Spit"
Least Favorite: "Dirge" | | 64 |  | O'Brother
Endless Light
Uzumaki (2016)
4.1
Alright this was another winner for me from Uzu. It's just a great rock album through and through, and while I wish that it stood out just a bit more from the rest of the pack (it's admittedly a bit forgettable), the sounds and textures here we just so enjoyable and engrossing. Maybe if the bookends were a bit more interesting this would stand more of a chance in my decade-end list, but as it stands, this was a great album that I hope I won't forget.
Favorites: "Complicated End Times" "I Am (Become Death"
Least Favorites: "Slow Sin" "Realm of the Physical" | | 65 |  | Nightwish
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Divaman (2015)
3.1
Christ. Well this album started out soaring with that completely ridiculous and utterly awesome opener, combining everything idiotic and overblown about metal in the most charming and engaging fashion, but it kinda crashed and burned whenever it forgot that it was a metal band. The more world-based and post-y pieces just didn't do it for me and ran straight-first into the cheese while lacking the muscle that made the first couple tracks on this land so well. Still, it'll be hard to forget this album, so that's something.
Favorite: "Shudder Before the Beautiful"
Least Favorites: "Edema Ruh" | | 66 |  | Foster the People
Torches
Divaman (2011)
4.0
Yeah alright this was a winner too. Y'all know I'm a sucker for upbeat indie rock, and this is certainly no exception. That being said, there really is an inherent creativity to the music here that goes beyond the pop hooks, especially on tracks like the opener and "Houdini." It's blissful, smart, fun pop rock that hits the nail on the head even if its not as consistently ear-popping as it could be.
Favorites: "Helena Beat" "Houdini" "Waste"
Least Favorites: "Call it What You Want" "Pumped Up Kicks" | | 67 |  | Bayside
Vacancy
Divaman (2016)
3.5
Now this was a good time no alcohol required. While admittedly I can’t really remember anything from this since I’ve jammed it, overall I remember it being a pleasant and agreeable experience. It starts on a strong note and falls a bit off as it goes, but it’s a lot of fun and features a lot of strong moments—more than it’s pop-punk stylings would suggest.
Favorites: “Two Letters”
Least Favorites: “Mary” “The Ghost” | | 68 |  | Kayo Dot
Plastic House on Base of Sky
AnimalsAsSummit (2016)
3.3
Yeah this was a nice little album, even if the jagged electronic bits and pieces didn't really fit so well together as they should've. The vocals here glued things together a lot, and the more alienating songs were actually pretty formidable pieces and based on what I know from Toby Driver, this was a pretty interesting excursion from his normal sound.
Favorite: "Rings of Earth"
Least Favorite: "All the Pain in All the Wide World" | | 69 |  | Destroyer
Kaputt
AnimalsAsSummit (2011)
4.0
This was another great, intruiging release that ultimately I'm worried just hasn't stuck with me. I'm writing this a couple weeks after my last listen, and I'm already struggling to put into words why I liked it, as I can't pick out anything aside from some weird melodies and discordant songs. And yet my rating says I really enjoyed this, so I must have. Maybe it doesn't have the staying power I wish it did.
Favorites: "Kaputt" "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker"
Least Favorites: "Bay of Pigs (Detail)" "Song for America" | | 70 |  | Black Barrel
Last Frontier
AnimalsAsSummit (2018)
2.9
This was a bit of a frustrating release—especially given how interesting the sound is right off the bat. However, this thing goes on for far too long without ever deviating from its inherently repetitive formula, which is a huge detriment to it. If this were an EP, or if it were able to keep a steady supply of interesting ideas going, then this would’ve been something great. But alas, it t’weren’t so.
Favorite: “Blue Sky (Intro)”
Least Favorites: “Sonar” “Hydrophiinae” “Undercurrent” | | 71 |  | King Creosote and Jon Hopkins
Diamond Mine
zakalwe (2011)
4.2
Zak, you may be frustrating and crotchety at times, but let it never be said that you don't deliver quality recs from time to time. "John Taylor’s Month Away" mopped the floor with me, and everything else didn't follow fall behind. While quality-wise there was a bit of a slow dip, overall the mix of folk and ambient passages throughout really shaped something unique and memorable throughout.
Favorite: "John Taylor’s Month Away"
Least Favorite: "Your Young Voice" | | 72 |  | Hypno5e
Alba - Les Hombres Errantes
Kaiwaz (2018)
4.1
RIP Aiwaz, maybe you'll see this somewhere. Anyway, this was a really great album. I loved the progressive-ish use of acoustic elements to create a deep and moving atmosphere throughout. While I agree with the criticisms that the interludes kinda kill and deflate this with incoherent mumbling in foreign languages, it does help to create the mood and far from ruins it. The music is just gorgeous and free-flowing, though it never quite matches the blissful heights of the opening track.
Favorite: "He Who Wakes Up from This Dream Does Not Bear My Name"
Least Favorites: "Cuarto del Alba" "Ojos Azules" | | 73 |  | My Purest Heart For You
Tragic End
temptationFruit (2017)
1.3
Okay, I am sorry about this, but this is an abomination. The imagine of anyone listening to this for enjoyment is beyond my understanding. I mean, the only reason I haven’t 1’d this into oblivion is because I do see SOME artistic merit to stuff going on deep beneath the overbearing and ear-shredding amount of distortion (literally like having nails shoved into your ears), but it’s so so buried under there that there’s no point even putting it there in the first place. If this is what whatever the hell “blackened drone-gaze” has to offer, then it can stay the hell away from me.
Favorites (if you could say that): “Alone”
Least Favorites: “Phantom Channel” “Tragic End” | | 74 |  | Uneven Structure
Februus
temptationFruit (2014)
4.1
Yeah, this was just a shining and beautiful example of a genre I’ve had trouble really enjoying a lot of the time. While the vocals here still don’t always land and the record takes a while to fully lift off, the closing two here just especially rule (what the heck is finale? Djent/shoegaze??) This affirmed metalcore as a genre that I could still find a home in, and I’d be glad to explore more in the genre thanks to this record.
Favorite: “Plentitude” “Finale”
Least Favorite: “Hail” | | 75 |  | Mount Eerie
Clear Moon
temptationFruit (2012)
4.3
Yeah holy shit this was momentous. I absolutely loved the sound of this thing, dark yet vibrant with feet planted in so many different worlds and ideas. The variety of sounds yet the tonal consistency here is really admirable, and I'll be damned if I didn't love it. It's very different from what I've heard of him in the past (his two most recent releases), so I really didn't expect to be this caught up in it, as this is much more my speed musically. Hot damn.
Favorites: "The Place I Live" "Lone Bell"
Least Favorite: "Synthesizer" (idk if this even counts but I had to pick something) | | 76 |  | Goldfrapp
Tales Of Us
JohnnyoftheWell (2013)
4.3
Goddamn this was another winner. While the tunes altogether might sound a bit homogenous and woven from the same textures, on their own they just burst with emotion and vibrancy, which is just impossible to ignore. So while this might not quite be as good as the sum of its parts could've been, those parts are just purely delectable, interesting, and gorgeous so fuck it--it's exactly as good as it should be.
Favorites: "Jo" "Stranger" "Clay"
Least Favorites: "Ulla" "Laurel" | | 77 |  | The Gathering
Disclosure
JohnnyoftheWell (2012)
4.3
I’d like to thank Johnny for this beauty of a rec—it’s so much up my alley with the striking, blown-up alt-rock sound and gorgeous female vocals that I’m surprised I haven’t gotten into this band earlier, but this was enough to make me a fan and I’m sure will thrown me headfirst a some serious discography run sometime very soon… From head to toe this album rules, even the weaker moments hold up when looking at the big picture.
Favorites: “I Can See Four Miles” “Meltdown”
Least Favorite: “Gemini II” | | 78 |  | Ichiko Aoba
QP
JohnnyoftheWell (In place of 0 (2013))
3.6
Sorry bud, but I had a really hard time getting into this :c While the guitar and vocals were so pleasant, there wasn’t a single tune or melody that stuck in my head. Maybe it was the language barrier, but I already have trouble remembering much about this except the length and mind-numbing repetition of some songs. That being said, there were some great ditties here and I’d be interested in hearing more from here, it’s just that nothing really became memorable for me.
Favorites: “いきのこり●ぼくら” “うたのけはい”
Least Favorite: “はるなつあきふゆ" | | 79 |  | Kitty
Miami Garden Club
theYearis1999 (2017)
4.0
This was just a fun time. Super smooth singing messed well with the electronic flourishes and hip-hop beats, creating a singer-songwriter album not super original but also not quite like anything else I’ve heard. Even if some of the songs blended together, there were enough interesting things going on to keep it from ever getting boring. I had a really good time with this album and I hope I like her other stuff when I eventually check her out!
Favorites: “Overpass” “Asari Love Song”
Least Favorites: “2 Minutes” “Affectionate” “Running Away” | | 80 |  | Count to Altek
Imodius Forms: Millenium Flux
theYearis1999 (2017)
3.3
As far as abrasive, mega-bleep-bloop, electronic sci-fi concept albums go, this is pretty damn cool. It maintained a very unique sound throughout (I mean that OPENER goddamn that’s neat), and even though it seemd to really run out of steam by the end, it’s a fascinating and cool group of songs and sounds that play nicely off each other. Not the best thing ever for sure, but it’s a hell of a lot more memorable than many of the other albums on this list.
Favorites: “They Constructed the Supernetwork Using Only Sound” “Living in the Data Flow”
Least Favorites: “Liquid Memory of Area 1” “Eden’s Final Forms” | | 81 |  | Boris
New Album
theYearis1999 (2011)
3.9
Me and you have had an interesting history with your recs, Year. But I've gotta hand it to you, this is one hell of an album. While the opener didn't really sell me and the closing duo was a bit disappointing, overall these tracks are far different from what the rest has to offer, which is a dense, exciting, and unique experimental rock record. I'm not even sure if that's the correct descriptor but this album really did keep me guessing (and not just in terms of some inconsistent quality) through its constant switch-ups in sounds and vocalists. Idk, this just did it for me man. Kudos.
Favorite: "Luna"
Least Favorites: "Flare" "Tu, La La" | | 82 |  | Sun Kil Moon
Benji
BlushfulHippocrene (2014)
4.2
I had a negative experience with the long, drawn-out passages of "Common as Light," and Doof's anger at my suggestion that I might like this better did nothing to quell my worries that I'd feel the same here. Still, I was truly blown away by just how similar the two records are, but also at just how different I feel about them. I mean, this thing is just purely gorgeous and heart-wrenching. Even songs that shouldn't hit me that hard (I've never gone through anything like "Micheline" and yet I found myself near tears both times I heard it) do, and man, this just makes me fucking feel things beyond my years.
Favorites: "Micheline" "Pray for Newton"
Least Favorite: "I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love" | | 83 |  | AJJ
Knife Man
BlushfulHippocrene (2011)
3.3
Again, I’m not a huge fan of this folk-punk stuff everyone keeps reccing, but there were some genuinely great moments here. There were also some genuinely not-great moment so this album was a bit all over the place for me quality wise. Overall though I liked it, but not enough to find me coming back to it again. Maybe I’d like his other stuff more? I can be picky when it comes to punky stuff.
Favorites: “Back Pack” “Big Bird”
Least Favorites: “Skate Park” “Sorry Bro” | | 84 |  | Blood Incantation
Starspawn
Itwasthatwas (2016)
4.3
This was a kickass combination of everything I love in extreme metal: melody, sweeping scope, atmosphere, and devastating riffs. This thing really had it all, to the point where I was surprised metal purists actually enjoy it as much as I do, since usually I find less is more in terms of what most metal fans enjoy. But still, I was completely wowed by how much I enjoyed this, and I hope to come back to it more and really dig deep into why I like it so damn much.
Favorite: "Vitrification of Blood (Pt. 1)"
Least Favorite: "Chaoplasm" | | 85 |  | Icarus The Owl
Icarus The Owl
GreyShadow (2014)
1.8
Yeah, no. Not for me thanks. I just can't stand this kind of stuff at all, it's but laughable lyrics, terrible choruses, and some genuinely incel-core amounts of edge going on at all times. There a few moments at the start of cleverness or fun, but aside from those I did not have a good time with this in the slightest. This album only has one emotion: anger. And it really wears on you when you realize he's never gonna allow himself to ever feel anything else. I need someone to tell me what this is genre-wise so that I can steer clear of it for the rest of my life.
Favorite: "Ignore Check Engine Lights"
Least Favorite: "Crimson Covered Walls" | | 86 |  | PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
neek (2011)
4.1
This was weirdly catchy and stuck with me quickly, I remembered practically every song by this already when I listened to it a second time. Still, no song here reallyy stands out from the pack, which left me wishing for a clear highlight that would make the album jump out overall. While I thought this was a great album through and through, I feel I’m gonna have to wait for it to sink in before it achieves a lasting impact on my decade lists.
Favorites: “Let England Shake” “England” “Written on the Forehead”
Least Favorite: “Bitter Branches” “The Colour of the Earth” | | 87 |  | Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
neek (2016)
3.9
This is pretty much what I expected from this record, which is to say I was not disappointed at all. I’ve always been a fan of weird, aggressive hip-hop, and while this didn’t feel quite as varied ass it could have, those big moments really delivered and overall I thought this was great. Excited to dig more into his discog more. (this summary is bad because I forgot I hadn’t added this one even though I’ve jammed this months ago)
Favorite: “Ain’t it Funny” “Golddust” “Tell Me What I Don’t Know”
Least Favorite: “Lost” | | 88 |  | Swans
To Be Kind
neek (2014)
4.7
Holy shit. I guess I'm in the camp that liked this even better than The Seer, which I loved in of itself. This turned up the dark a few notches but also the melody, crafting some massive, almost bluesy numbers which never felt too long despite their massive girth. I thought this was an even more moving and interesting experience than The Seer, although I'll say the one problem this has in comparison is that it's a bit top heavy, the first half would be almost a flat 5/5, but a few of the latter compositions don't really add much to the table (especially once "Oxygen" is done). Still, I could see this becoming a 5 in due time, especially if I keep giving this a few listens.
Favorites: "Just a Little Boy (For Chester Burnett)" "A Little God in My Hands"
Least Favorite: "To Be Kind" | | 89 |  | Beach House
Teen Dream
neek (2010)
3.7
Yeah man, I just don't get what all the talk about these guys is about. Like, they're really talented and good musicians, but just like with "7," I found this to be a perfectly fine and enjoyable collection of blissed-out, monochromatic tunes that I'll never remember or be able to pick apart from each other tomorrow. But hell, it's good stuff. Really good stuff. I just can't believe how much I know I'm gonna be hearing about this again when all the year-end lists come around.
Favorites: "10 Mile Stereo" "Norway" "Lover of Mine"
Least Favorites: "Walk in the Park" "Used to Be" "Silver Soul" | | 90 |  | Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
neek (2010)
3.6
This was another one where the longer I spent with it, the more I was drained of interest. And that’s a shame because the sound is so damned interesting, but it too easily wallows in repetition and vagueness where a more eclectic palate and pace would really make it shine. Idk, I know I’m in the minority in that this didn’t blow me away, but it was a good record that I’m glad I took the time to check. I just think it could’ve been a bit more than it is.
Favorite: “Earthquake”
Least Favorites: “Basement Scene” “Fountain Stairs” | | 91 |  | The Black Keys
Brothers
neek (2010)
3.8
This was some pretty goddamn fun blues rock, a bit looser and punchier than The White Stripes (but it’s clearly inspired by them). Still, it might not be anything revolutionary but I guess it was a really fun album that filled some holes in my listening for the decade—which is about all I can ask for.
Favorites: “Tighten Up” “Sinister Kid” “I’m Not the One”
Least Favorite: “She’s Long Gone” | | 92 |  | Gunship
Gunship
DinoJones (2015)
4.0
If the apocalypse happened in the 80s, this is what music in the 90s would sound like. Given my thoughts on previous nostalgia-heavy releases I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did, but it really adds a lot of creativity and nuance to synth-heavy music of yore. Idk, I thought this was great, so props to you Dino.
Favorites: "The Mountain" "Maximum Black"
Least Favorites: "Black Sun on the Horizon" | | 93 |  | Macintosh Plus
Floral Shoppe
neek (2011)
3.8
I’m certainly glad I swapped this one out, even though I’m sure there were other records I’d enjoy more, I feel like this is a very important album to the 2010s, and wanted to make sure I jammed it before the decade’s completion. While it’s certainly strange and alienating, there’s a subtle beauty to the way a lot of this unfolds. While it goes too far in certain points to retain listenability, it’s always interesting and captivating throughout. I’ll probably not return to this outside of some memes, but overall it’s a museum of modern art I’m glad I visited.
Favorites: “リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー” “数学”
Least Favorite: “月” “ライブラリ” | | 94 |  | Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
fogza/my roommate (2016)
4.2
This was a deceptively complex folk rock album that really interestingly married some rad modern production with a more aged atheistic than I usually prefer from my folk, but it did so in a moving and fun way.
Favorites: “The Morning Star” “Rough Going (I Won't Let Up)”
Least Favorites: “Peaceful Morning” “Sick as a Dog” | | 95 |  | Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
neek (2014)
4.3
This directly fit my self-perscribed mode of hip-hop I've found that I most enjoy--weird, aggressive, and fun. It took a lot of pages from hard rock and experimental sounds that I've found myself enjoying greatly and paired it with hilarious lyrics and a seriously violent edge that never ceased to amaze me. This seriously might be my favorite hip-hop album next to MBDTF, I thought it was rad af.
Favorites: "Lie, Cheat, Steal" "Early" "Crown"
Least Favorite: "Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1" | | 96 |  | St. Vincent
Strange Mercy
neek (2011)
4.0
Now here’s some seriously intriguing art-rock for ya. All these weird clattering and hummings come together to form something very pretty and understated at times—and at others times loud and brash and in your face. It’s a dichotomy that works super well, and it’s engaging form strat to finish. That being said, I wasn’t really blown away by this one and could see her stand to form this sounds with something a bit more catchy or freaky. Or both. Now THAT’s the St. Vincent album I want to jam. Point me towards that one please.
Favorites: “Cruel” “Strange Mercy” “Neutered Fruit”
Least Favorites: “Cheerleader” “Hysterical Strength” “Year of the Tiger” | | 97 |  | Flying Lotus
You're Dead!
neek (2014)
4.1
This was a jittery, eclectic work of jazz that was just fun through and through, but everything simply felt too brief for me to sink my teeth into it. I wish some of these songs were longer or more developed, as I felt like everything here was just another flavor of a different song. Still, this was pretty damn great if I say so myself, I just wish there was more substance and depth to it all.
Favorite: "Never Catch Me" "Dead Man’s Tetris"
Least Favorites: "The Boys Who Died in Their Sleep" "Obligatory Cadence" | | 98 |  | Drake
Take Care
neek (2011)
3.2
Goddammit Drake, we’re just never going to get along are we? People promised me that this was gonna be the one I liked form you, but here we are. I mean sure, some of the instrumentals here are gorgeous, and your voice is the best I’ve ever heard it, but every time you try rapping, every time you build a song off of an insufferable chorus or deadbeat beat, I’m caught right back when we met on “Views.” I think I’m going to have to say this is it, Drake. I’m done trying.
Favorites: “Buried Alive Interlude”
Least Favorites: “Make Me Proud” “The Real Her” | | 99 |  | Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap
neek (2013)
3.4
Yeah, this was pretty good. Even though his voice was unbearable at times and some of these tracks were genuinely annoying (I'm looking at you, "Juice"), there was more than enough originality in the production and songwriting for me to be more than placated. And even though you probably won't catch me jamming this in a long time, I certainly why this carved Chance a (recently lost) big name in terms of being an important hip-hop creative.
Favorites: "Good Ass Intro"
Least Favorites: "NaNa" "Juice" | | 100 |  | The World Is a Beautiful Place...
Whenever, If Ever
neek (2013)
4.3
I've been meaning to listen to these guys for literal years (since high school at the least), and man they did not disappoint. While I'm still new to the emo genre, these guys' knack for leaning into progressive, highly emotional soundscapes just kicks me in the gut, and I haven't been able to stop listening to the closer here. Sure some moments hit harder than others, but otherwise this is a lean, mean, feeling machine.
Favorites: "Getting Sodas" "Low Light Assembly" "Heartbeat in the Brain"
Least Favorite: "The Layers of Skin We Drag Around" | | 101 |  | Florence and the Machine
Ceremonials
neek (2011)
4.3
Yeah the hype for this has been very well deserved, I was only familiar with her latest up to this point and while I loved that, this definitely surpassed it. Some truly gorgeous instrumentation and production is overshadowed in the best way possible by a ridiculously grand vocal performance from “Florence.” This kicks so much ass in moving, unexpected, and fun ways.
Favorites: “Seven Devils” “What the Water Gave Me” “Heartlines”
Least Favorites: “Breaking Down” | |
neekafat
06.13.19 | Again, assume I haven't heard any of your favorites before 2017
Keep it to 3 for now please! If we don't hit 100 I'll ask for more | AnimalsAsSummit
06.13.19 | plastic house on base of sky by kayo dot | budgie
06.13.19 | on the off chance i havent already forced you at gunpoint to listen to memoryhouse - the years (2010), add that as my rec, solid 5 for me
pinkshinyultrablast - everything else matters
lantlos - melting sun | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | oh what is this, my birthday? | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | oh 3 recs only? nevermind | budgie
06.13.19 | and keep it to three recs for now, capisce papa???!!!!! | neekafat
06.13.19 | lmaooooo
But yeah I really want this to be cream of the crop shit, either site-wide classics or personal 5.0s and stuff like that! (: | budgie
06.13.19 | [redacted] | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | how do you feel about black metal again? | neekafat
06.13.19 | did you have other stuff you wanted to rec?? | neekafat
06.13.19 | Budgie is confusing me
cautiously optimistic Papa, the less lo-fi/droney the better | sixdegrees
06.13.19 | hopsin- no shame | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | i have plenty of recs, I just need to narrow it down to something.
so I have a few packets of three, please pick one:
1. metal
2. noisy punk
2. whimsical and orchestral | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | if the less lo-fi the better is the way to go, then whimsical/orchestral it is:
And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves (2016)
Get Well Soon - The Scarlet Beast O' Seven Heads (2012)
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - Still Smiling (2013) | neekafat
06.13.19 | what were in the other two | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | black metal one:
N'Zwaa - Maha Kali (2019)
Fluisteraars/Turia - De Oord (2018)
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem In Blue (2016) | granitenotebook
06.13.19 | loud city song - julia holter
r plus seven - oneohtrix point never
product - sophie | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | noise/punk one:
Giant Haystacks - This Is All There Is (2018)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (2014) | dmathias52
06.13.19 | Ooh commenting with recs and also so I can come back and steal the recs folks give you:
Holy Vacants - Trophy Scars
A personal and also sitewide one, bluesy post-hardcore weirdness
Southeastern - Jason Isbell
A personal favorite, but gaining traction on the site. Country/singer songwriter
Seeds - Hey Rosetta!
Folk rock and a personal favorite
| neekafat
06.13.19 | Thanks for all the recs guys!!
Papa can I just pick and choose? We're excluding 2019 from this too! | SlothcoreSam
06.13.19 | Just 3 recs hey, better make them god tier.
The Smith Street Band- No One Gets Lost Anymore. Their debut album, and their best release so far.
Jonsi- Go. My favorite album of 2010. A beautiful celebration of life.
The Hotelier- Home, Like NoPlace is There. My favourite of 2014, averaging 4.2 on Sput, i can't believe you haven't rated this yet. Get into it. | neekafat
06.13.19 | Oh yessss been meaning to jam that Hotelier album! | Rowan5215
06.13.19 | def Bomb the Music Industry - Vacation for u | neekafat
06.13.19 | Keep em coming rowbro, you go two more! | Kompys2000
06.13.19 | Alriiiight, let's go with
Baroness- Yellow & Green (my fav rock release of the decade, I know you dig a lot of mellow folk stuff but also like QotSA and Foo Fighters so odds are you'll find something here to enjoy)
Good Ghost Bill- Holler. (Mind-bogglingly amazing folktronica/spoken word album that I just want more ppl to know about & listen to)
The Flaming Lips- The Terror (because srsly Neek you need to check the FLips) | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | Neek, it's your thread, do as you please. | SteakByrnes
06.13.19 | Neek I'm gonna hit you these
Erra - Augment
A Lot Like Birds - No Place
Dream On Dreamer - Loveless
Three of my favorites, I hope you enjoy them fren :]
| neekafat
06.13.19 | Thank you steak and all you wonderful people, getting very excited about this (: | Rowan5215
06.13.19 | was gonna but my brain stopped working mid comment lol. ok without looking at what you've heard already I'd go John K Samson Winter Wheat, and Keaton Henson Birthdays | Dewinged
06.13.19 | Oh damn, my recs disappeared? trying again:
Fair to Midland - Arrows and Anchors
Fink - Perfect Darkness
Temples - Sun Structures | SlothcoreSam
06.13.19 | 2012s Provincial was also an excellent album by John K. I need to spin both of them again, it's been too long between listens. Great story telling through his work. | neekafat
06.13.19 | Kompys you're def right idek why I haven't checked them yet | neekafat
06.13.19 | Sloth I'll throw that up too if I have space! | DoofDoof
06.13.19 | Mark Eitzel 'Hey Mr Ferryman'
John Grant 'Queen of Denmark'
Cass McCombs 'Wits End' | neekafat
06.13.19 | c'mon Doof gimme some hard Doof 5s | Lucman
06.13.19 | Ah, I might join ya neek! Need some more recs myself.
Mine to you would be Suis La Lune - Riala. It's my baby so don't let the decade pass without hearing it.
Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers is another standout for me. It's simplistic and perhaps a tad generic but it's so earnest and well-written. Love it.
Destroyer - Poison Season. Kaputt gets the most love but Poison Season is nearly just as good and deserves equal praise imho. | tyman128
06.13.19 | alright, I’ll try to make these count this time
Norma Jean - Polar Similar. The band’s magnum opus and easily one of my favorites in the metalcore/post-hardcore realm.
Attalus - Into the Sea. I’ve loved this album for quite some time and just started spinning it again and it’s truly a beautifully crafted indie (ish) rock album.
Deftones - Diamond Eyes. I don’t know if you’ve heard this or not, but I didn’t see a rating so here you go | DoofDoof
06.13.19 | neek - they're what I decided to rec when I thought 'this dude likes that Glen Hansard album'
I can send you stuff I've 5'd from random genres like Garden of Delete but I'm not sure how helpful that would be - I went genre :/ | bgillesp
06.13.19 | Benjamin Clementine- I Tell a Fly
Murder by Death- The Other Shore
Kairon IRSE- Ujubasajuba
Rainbow Kitten Surprise- Seven + Mary
Son Lux- Remedy
Trampled By Turtles- Palomino
(Pick 3 you haven’t heard) | fogza
06.13.19 | Not very obscure, I guess:
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell | neekafat
06.13.19 | Thats fair doof, I just wanna get what people think I can't afford to not hear by the end of the decade so I don't mind genre so much! I like hearing new things (: | neekafat
06.13.19 | Fogza I've heard War on Drugs and Sufjan! | Bedex
06.13.19 | Random recs from my highly rated 2010's albums:
Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante
Clever Girl - No Drum and Bass in the Jazz Room | butt.
06.13.19 | The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace is There | fogza
06.13.19 | Apologies :-). Then my list is very low effort for you.. | neekafat
06.13.19 | Feel free to check my ratings and rec a couple more!
ButtBoy I already got rec'd that (: | butt.
06.13.19 | ahhh figures. good on them. | fogza
06.13.19 | Ok, making up the numbers...
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (I'm sure you just forgot to rate this though)
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
| Kompys2000
06.13.19 | Ooh, can't believe I forgot The Suburbs, glad someone else recced it. | Sowing
06.13.19 | I reviewed your ratings and there's oh so many more than 3 recs for me to give. Anyway, here's 3 that I feel are pretty much decade essentials:
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants
Here's a few more if you have the time:
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Beach House - Bloom
Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-Mail
Tigers on Trains - Foundry
The Jezabels - Synthia
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Basically check anything on this list that you haven't heard, plus anything from 2019 that isn't on this list:
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=276983&start=23 | neekafat
06.13.19 | fogza, I actually haven't heard any Arcade fire... I'm glad to have someone force me to finally check them!
Sowing, a couple of those were ones I wanted to add anyway so I might just add them under my name... (; | tyman128
06.13.19 | neek, just wondering, from my three recs have you listened to any of them? if so, I have some other albums that I can exchange | butt.
06.13.19 | Alright I was about to rec Titus Andronicus - The Monitor but Sowing just beat me to it.
My other big one is The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past. I see you were lukewarm on their last release...but still give this a shot. The avg speaks for itself! | neekafat
06.13.19 | I havent heard those tyman, though I'm esp interested in Diamond Eyes!!
And for sure, always down to try a band again (: | fogza
06.13.19 | Cool, Funeral is a better entry, but suburbs is their best record. Inspired to give Sharon v a try from your list, wasn't in the right space when I tried it last. | BlazinBlitzer
06.13.19 | We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs (2015)
Blood Command - Cult Drugs (2017)
Earthside - A Dream in Static (2015) | neekafat
06.13.19 | thank you all keep em coming! | Papa Universe
06.13.19 | even repeats? | neekafat
06.13.19 | no stop | luci
06.13.19 | three indie rock albums from my decade picks that you haven't rated:
women - public strain
japandroids - celebration rock
cloud nothings -here and nowhere else | DoofDoof
06.13.19 | My recs were all top 100 of the decade so worth your time :) | neekafat
06.14.19 | Copy ty doof (: | neekafat
06.14.19 | Been meaning to check that Japandroids! | Uzumaki
06.14.19 | Boom Boom Satellites - To the Loveless (2010)
Nostalghia - Chrysalis (2014)
O’Brother - Endless Light (2016)
Lemme know if you want more recs! | neekafat
06.14.19 | Will do Uzu!! | neekafat
06.14.19 | (Half updated will continue to update tomorrow) | Divaman
06.14.19 | Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Foster the People - Torches (2011)
Bayside - Vacancy (2016)
and here's an extra for good luck, in case you don't get to 100:
Tang - Blood & Sand (2015)
| AnimalsAsSummit
06.14.19 | oh shit missed the part where it said 3 dog, damn. here's my new version:
kayo dot - plastic house on base of sky
destroyer - kaputt
black barrel - last frontier | bgillesp
06.14.19 | 16=54 | neekafat
06.14.19 | Just updated, looks like we got a hell of good variety here, appreciate that the recs lean more towards the beginning of the decade (: | budgie
06.15.19 | ooh look at all the pretty artworks | sixdegrees
06.15.19 | hopsin- pound syndrome | neekafat
06.15.19 | Hmmmmm interesting! | Sowing
06.15.19 | Since someone already recommended Trophy Scars I'd like to change my rec at slot 54 to Joanna Newsom - Divers. I think you'd really dig it! | luci
06.15.19 | anyone placing divers on their list needs to get into have one on me. that's her decade best | dmathias52
06.15.19 | Def gonna be stealing this list, cause I’ve heard so little of it! It’s a tricky thing to try to catch up on the decade and to try to keep up on 2019 | DoofDoof
06.15.19 | Well the best album of the decade made the list at 69 | DoofDoof
06.15.19 | Third or fourth best Deftones for album of the decade? | JohnnyoftheWell
06.15.19 | Ichiko Aoba - 0
Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
The Gathering -Disclosure
Not necessarily the BEST of the decade (although I rate all v highly), but think these will sit nicely here | neekafat
06.16.19 | Kaiwaz you know I just haven't updated it yet I was hoping for more recs before going through all that hahaha
Sounds good Johnny!! | temptationFruit
06.16.19 | my purest heart for you - tragic end
uneven structure -februus
mount eerie - clear moon | neekafat
06.17.19 | Looks like we may hit 100 after all! | neekafat
06.17.19 | sowing I didn't catch the double up haha, and luci someone already listed that one! | neekafat
06.17.19 | for the life of me it does NOT want to add that Ichiko album Johnny | JohnnyoftheWell
06.17.19 | Oh no! Now I think about it, I think I've had the same problem (just assumed I'd forgotten it when my list was published and couldn't be bothered to edit haha). Stick on qp (which is almost as good and a lot shorter) and take your pick between the two ;] | budgie
06.17.19 | when does this thing start! | neekafat
06.17.19 | Around July 1st I'll start listening (: | luci
06.17.19 | wait neek... you haven't heard fiona apple's the idler wheel? change my 3rd rec to that, it's a must | neekafat
06.17.19 | Oh no I've been meaning to! | SteakByrnes
06.17.19 | Excited to hear your thoughts on a bunch of these :] | Papa Universe
06.18.19 | hey neekafat, you still seem in a desperate need of over 20 recs... | theYearis1999
06.18.19 | Seeing as most of you are doing sets of three
Kitty - Miami Garden Club
Count to Altek - Imodius Forms: Millenium Flux
Boris - New Album | neekafat
06.18.19 | Updated again! and yes 1999 three was the limit (; | BlushfulHippocrene
06.18.19 | Risky, but: Sun Kil Moon - Benji (2014); AJJ - Knife Man (2011); Xenia Rubinos - Magic Trix (2013) | neekafat
06.18.19 | Ooooooh interesting picks! | Bedex
06.18.19 | My picks are way too aggressive lol, pls change to
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Grouper - Ruins
Clever Girl - No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room
I'd also say Kayo Dot - Hubardo but I thought might as well spare you getting two recs from the same band hey | neekafat
06.18.19 | I have two doubles rn hahaha I don't mind! | Bedex
06.18.19 | Eeee given you have some Kayo ratings already but none for the other artists I'll pass Hubardo
Unless you wanna jam all four of them heh | neekafat
06.18.19 | Updated! And we'll see Bedex, things are getting pretty tight and I might be adding a few more myself! | Bedex
06.18.19 | ye makes total sense, thanks for updating it. Hope you find some 5's in all those recs hey | neekafat
06.20.19 | Here's hoping!! (: | Kompys2000
06.20.19 | If there's room you should add Macintosh Plus- Floral Shoppe. Not a personal favorite or anything, just something that probably belongs on a decade-end list | neekafat
06.20.19 | You know what I have been meaning to jam that so I might add it as one of my own | neekafat
06.23.19 | any last recs? | budgie
06.23.19 | add .neon from lantlos :P
best album of the decade | neekafat
06.23.19 | I might ask for 4ths down the road, but we'll see... | Atari
06.29.19 | I second 21. You have lots of amazing stuff to catch up on! | SlothcoreSam
07.02.19 | You started the cram session yet? | neekafat
07.02.19 | Was waiting on the second quarter to end, so I'll be starting asap (:
Gonna fill in the rest with a few more of my own if you all don't mind! | SlothcoreSam
07.02.19 | Sounds good. You should enjoy a lot of these. Will keep you busy. | neekafat
07.02.19 | Thanks man, I'm excited!! | Uzumaki
07.02.19 | Can’t wait to read your thoughts on these!
[edit]: I do have a fourth if you want it... | GreyShadow
07.02.19 | Icarus The Owl - self-titled
mathy pop rock and i'm not sure how much that intrigues you, but it's definitely a top 5 album of all time for me so yeah, give it a try | neekafat
07.02.19 | Sounds interesting, I'll add it! | SteakByrnes
07.02.19 | hyped to read your thoughts :] | neekafat
07.02.19 | Hyped to hear your recs! (:
I'm also using this as a jumping off point for a lot of artists I've been meaning to jam for a long time hahaha | SlothcoreSam
07.02.19 | If you going to check out The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, you need to listen to Harmlessness as well.
| neekafat
07.02.19 | Oh I'm sure I will, I just can't jam everything from every band I list here or I'll never get anything done lol | neekafat
07.02.19 | 2, 7, 10, 13, and 16 are up next! | Pheromone
07.02.19 | women [2] | Papa Universe
07.02.19 | are they tho? | neekafat
07.02.19 | Yee jamming High Violey rn | SteakByrnes
07.02.19 | I see no write up fren | Uzumaki
07.02.19 | If you like that Florence + The Machine, you should listen to their album “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”. | neekafat
07.02.19 | Oh I meant up next lol | zakalwe
07.02.19 | King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (2011)
*Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo (2011)
Jason Isbell - Southeastern (2013) | luci
07.02.19 | there's nothing interesting coming out in july, quite convenient for you | neekafat
07.02.19 | zak why now | zakalwe
07.02.19 | Better late than never I spose | dmathias52
07.03.19 | I have no idea why I’m anticipating this as much as I am, but I really am! | Papa Universe
07.03.19 | it's a neek list. what's not to anticipate? | budgie
07.03.19 | 1 day late alreadhy!!!! | neekafat
07.03.19 | Who says I haven't started listening?? 2 listens before write-ups, I do it for you all!
I may have even heard yours already budgie (; | neekafat
07.03.19 | also aw thanks uni (: | neekafat
07.06.19 | 2 + 7 + 10 are done! | SteakByrnes
07.06.19 | Nice :] I've been meaning to check out Memoryhouse | neekafat
07.06.19 | 13 + 16 are done! | budgie
07.06.19 | glad you enjoyed it dude! | Kompys2000
07.06.19 | That Trophy Scars album sounds like a treat, might have to check it myself soon. | neekafat
07.08.19 | Oh it for sure is, I loved it (: | Uzumaki
07.08.19 | Nice start to your list. | wtferrothorn
07.08.19 | You still taking recs? If so:
Kishi Bashi - Lighght (Baroque/Art Pop, Pure Joy Incarnate)
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It [Singer/Songwriter, Sad Gay Piano Stuff]
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial [Indie Rock, Power Pop] | neekafat
07.08.19 | I am not but ughhh those are good ones | wtferrothorn
07.08.19 | HOT TAKE: The last one is prooobably my favorite indie rock record ever | BlushfulHippocrene
07.08.19 | Oh man, how did I forget about Put Your Back N 2 It... Would second that rec regardless of the list. | neekafat
07.08.19 | you could always swap it blush (; | luci
07.08.19 | it's like the 3rd best PF this decade tho | Slex
07.08.19 | Marietta-Summer Death
Midwife-Like Author, Like Daughter | neekafat
07.08.19 | stoppppp | Uzumaki
07.08.19 | Well, it’s kinda your fault for not keeping up to date on things... | neekafat
07.10.19 | Which of these are considered emo? | SlothcoreSam
07.10.19 | 21 and 100 are. | SlothcoreSam
07.10.19 | And Bayside are pop punk/emo/alt rock | neekafat
07.10.19 | might have to give those preferential treatment for Mars' album thing (; | SlothcoreSam
07.10.19 | What's Mars' Album thing?
Do you need other emo recs?
| neekafat
07.12.19 | Bomb the Music Industry! and The Smith Street Band are up! | neekafat
07.12.19 | Mars has been on-and-off running an album-curation competition and this one is for emo (: | dmathias52
07.12.19 | Any reason you have to jam 21 sooner rather than later should be taken! | SlothcoreSam
07.12.19 | You might be interested to know that the first time i saw the Smith Street Band, it was with Bomb the Music Industry, in a small town in Australia over 5 years ago.
And that tour resulted in a friendship between the bands to the point that Jeff Rosenstock has produced the last 2 Smith Street Band albums. Coinkydinks!!
| neekafat
07.13.19 | Perhaps I already have (;
That is super rad, I totally forgot about that last bit, crazy that they just happened to be my last two up!! | neekafat
07.14.19 | Swans' "The Seer", Baroness, and The World Is a Beautiful Place... are done! | Gyromania
07.14.19 | "Favorites: "Afraid of Everyone" "England"
Least Favorites: "Anyone's Ghost" "Sorrow""
this is possibly your worst take ever. sorrow is easily a top 10 national contender | Gyromania
07.14.19 | check out menomena - moms. blue hawaii - tenderness. the jezabels - synthia | DoofDoof
07.14.19 | 'Swans' "The Seer"'
I don't envy you, not only do you have to listen to an hour or so of slowly building spooky pagan ritual style 'ominous' bs - by indie rock law you then have to pretend you enjoyed it, write about how much you like it (to trap the next victims and pass on the curse), and then {shudder}, maybe even give the boring debacle subsequent listens.
My prayers are with you neek | Gyromania
07.14.19 | damn doof.... | luci
07.14.19 | damn doof... [2] make that your soundoff | DoofDoof
07.14.19 | Done | neekafat
07.14.19 | Doof I already did I write up and I really liked it... unless you were talking about Soundtracks for the Blind then I agree | Kompys2000
07.14.19 | I'm glad you dug Baroness somewhat, interesting that the tracks you listed as your favorites probably wouldn't even make my top 5...
Side note, all the post-reunion swans stuff I've heard has left me pretty cold, maybe I'll give The Seer another go the next time I have *checks notes* 2 hours to kill | neekafat
07.14.19 | Those were the ones that sounded most outside the grain for that album (:
And I really loved the Swans one, but it's definitely a chonky boi | DoofDoof
07.15.19 | Soundtracks for the Blind is the best Swans album...I give up lol | DoofDoof
07.15.19 | Not a lot here from 2012, such a bad year, currently struggling to find 100 albums I like from that year as part of my deep dive project
Did find my new favourite album (and only 5 rated album) from 2012 - ‘Green to Blue’ by Breathless, try it out of you have time neek | luci
07.15.19 | agree that 2012 sucks. two recs from that year for ya: john talabot - fin and brambles - charcoal
also neek you mistagged the idler wheel (it's 2012) | neekafat
07.16.19 | The Hotelier is up, and yeah I have not a single album from 2012 above a 4 which is saying a LOT for me | neekafat
07.16.19 | Thanks doof and luci! Can't wait to have to do a runoff list for all these recs lmao | neekafat
07.18.19 | Erra's up, sorry Steak ): | SteakByrnes
07.18.19 | :[ oh well, can't please them all | Uzumaki
07.18.19 | TBH, I agree with much of your sentiment on 28. | neekafat
07.18.19 | I'm sure I'll dig your other two!! | Itwasthatwas
07.18.19 | Nero di Marte - Derivae
Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane
Blood Incantation - Starspawn | neekafat
07.18.19 | *sighs audibly* | Uzumaki
07.18.19 | Through your nose, right? | ian b
07.18.19 | you still taking recs? | budgie
07.18.19 | darude - sandstorm | neekafat
07.19.19 | Not really but everyone is still rec'ing so why not lol
To Be Kind and Arrows & Anchors are done! | Uzumaki
07.19.19 | “...never felt too long despite their massive girth...”
Oh my. | budgie
07.19.19 | OwO | neekafat
07.19.19 | lol i should've caught that | Kompys2000
07.19.19 | Neek is mega thirsty for Swans confirmed | neekafat
07.20.19 | I really didn't like Soundtracks very much tho | neekafat
07.23.19 | I might be cutting people who've already rec'd stuff's recs down to 2 to allow 1 from all the people who've rec'd since if that's okay with everyone | neekafat
07.23.19 | Norma Jean and Mark Eitzel up! | Uzumaki
07.23.19 | If you'd like, you could remove my rec of Nostalghia to free up a spot. I still highly recommend it, and I hope you'll still check it out.
:) | neekafat
07.23.19 | That's the problem is I feel bad taking all you lovely people's recs away ): | NorthernSkylark
07.23.19 | i reccommend you listen to 61 next! | neekafat
07.23.19 | I'm really excited for that one! That's 16/100 done (: | Pheromone
07.24.19 | 59 :D | tyman128
07.24.19 | glad to see you actually enjoyed Norma Jean | neekafat
07.24.19 | it was really good! | fogza
07.24.19 | You can remove 48, since I'm probably one of the few people who thinks that is almost a classic. | tyman128
07.24.19 | that’s good to hear neek, but I am expecting you to enjoy Deftones the most from my recs, I think it’s up your alley | NorthernSkylark
07.24.19 | fogza@ it ain't a classic but it's still pretty damn good. | fogza
07.24.19 | It sure is. But I'm happy to let someone else get a space...:) | Sowing
07.24.19 | *patiently awaits updates on 3 of the best recs ever made* | neekafat
07.25.19 | my Suis La Lune and Sharon Van Etten write-ups are done!
Don't worry Sowing, they're coming soon!
Thanks Fogza, I appreciate that!! (: | neekafat
07.25.19 | 18/100 | neekafat
07.25.19 | Arcade Fire and Kairon IRSE! are done!
20/100 | fogza
07.26.19 | Nice, glad you found it enjoyable. Interesting pick for least fave, for me it was sprawl 1. | bgillesp
07.27.19 | Nice on Kairon IRSE | DoofDoof
07.27.19 | Ah nice write up dude, Eitzel is great - def check some American Music Club one day down the line too. Prolific song writer. | Kompys2000
07.27.19 | Good Arcade Fire write up, "emotionally satisfying" is a really good way to describe it imo. Shit's a hard 5 for me but I first heard it when I was a disaffected high schooler so I'm obv biased (: | neekafat
07.27.19 | Cult of Luna is up, 21/100!
Y'all will just not stop with these killer recs with you? | neekafat
07.27.19 | Yeah fogza that one just didn't do too much for me and felt a bit redundant but it was still really good (:
Thanks guys! And Kompys it def felt like it could be one of those "right place at the right time" records, reminded me of American Idiot a lot in that! | neekafat
07.31.19 | Titus Andronicus and Chance the Rapper (23/100) up! | Dewinged
07.31.19 | SO happy you dug Fair to Midland and Mariner, 2 of my fave albums of this decade. | Scheumke
07.31.19 | Bro you need to get into De Staat - Bubblegum. Such a fun good time that I think might be up your alley. Owh and I second 53 hard! | neekafat
07.31.19 | that'll be on my 2019 list for sure Scheumke!
And yeah Dewi, esp Mariner was sooooo amazing | neekafat
07.31.19 | The Menzingers is done!
24/100 | neekafat
08.02.19 | Fiona Apple and We Lost the Sea are up!
26/100 | tyman128
08.02.19 | I’m anxiously awaiting your rating on deftones, been wanting to see what you think for a while well before this list | luci
08.02.19 | the idler wheel is my favorite album lyrically (see my review for an explanation). ignoring the lyrics i'd rate it a 4/5 as well. i think the melodies are a perfect match to the concept, "anything we want" being the only concession (which makes it one of my least favorites - we're looking for different things here lol). there's a lot to discover so I hope more listens draw you closer to the album, glad you checked it out | AnimalsAsSummit
08.03.19 | glad someone recd 51 that shit is gooooooood | SteakByrnes
08.03.19 | Neeka I can't wait to hear your thoughts on A Lot Like Birds | neekafat
08.05.19 | That's fair luci, I notoriously don't listen to the lyrics until several listens or until the melodies/music truly draw me into them, but I'll be sure to let you know if that changes in the future!
I'm getting there guys (; | neekafat
08.05.19 | Anyone else willing to give up a spot for Itwasthatwas? Everyone else who's rec'd has at least one album up now! | Divaman
08.06.19 | I don't. :( | neekafat
08.06.19 | Diva dont you have like 3 up there? | BlushfulHippocrene
08.06.19 | Yeah, ditch whichever of mine doesn't interest you as much. c: | Divaman
08.06.19 | Yes. I thought you were saying you had reviewed at least one of everyone's recs. | neekafat
08.07.19 | Thank you blush < 3
Oh gotcha don't worry diva one of yours is up very soon!! | neekafat
08.20.19 | Finally back on this train, sorry everyone just finished a short film that ate up most of my life the last two weeks | Uzumaki
08.20.19 | IIIIIITTTTTTT
LLLLIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!! | neekafat
08.20.19 | 62, 66, 69 up!
29/100 | budgie
08.20.19 | neekstaaaaaaa
excited for 8 and 9! | SteakByrnes
08.20.19 | Hell yea brother | budgie
08.20.19 | and 50! that's my go to album lately! have you really never heard 89 though? everyone's heard 89! | Uzumaki
08.20.19 | Yay! Glad you enjoyed BBS; I love playing that album and mentally drifting into sunlight on the track “Stay”. | DinosaurJones
08.20.19 | Dang, the things I miss out on when I'm away from Sput. | neekafat
08.20.19 | Dino!!! Please rec an album, I'll move one for you!
"Stay" is goddamn gorgeous Uzu (:
And yeah Budgie, that's why it's on my must-listen list :/ | luci
08.20.19 | I didn’t get Bay of Pigs at all at first; everyone eventually realizes it’s one of the best. Album begins and ends perfectly. | Uzumaki
08.20.19 | :D :D :D | AnimalsAsSummit
08.20.19 | Agreed luci. Glad you jammed and dug it that neek! That album is majestic, perfect atmosphere. | Divaman
08.20.19 | Ah good. Glad you liked Foster the People. | Kompys2000
08.20.19 | Yo Neek can I replace good ghost bill with Nails- Ubsilent Death? Figure it'll be easier on yr schedule to jam a 14-minute album than a 60+ minute one, and also I just noticed the distressing lack of extreme metal on this list... | Drifter
08.20.19 | never even noticed this lmao rip | DinosaurJones
08.20.19 | Since you're being so kind, Neeka, I will give you an album. And not even a TWRP or NSP album... though I did think about it. You're getting some damn funk though.
The Fearless Flyers II (2019) | neekafat
08.21.19 | Dino, rec one not from this year! I've still got a 2019 cram list coming up... | DinosaurJones
08.21.19 | Okay, in that case, check out
GUNSHIP - GUNSHIP | neekafat
08.23.19 | 6, 72, and 75 are up!
32/100 | neekafat
08.25.19 | 76, 81, 81, and 89 are up!
36/100
Ya boi's crackin down!! | neekafat
08.25.19 | these write-ups aren't trying to be clever or professional, these are literally my stream-of-consciousness thoughts the moment my hands touch the keyboard. Which I think is a lot more honest and fair to the people who rec'd them | neekafat
08.25.19 | Also that's the only time I did anything like that here yet lmao | DinosaurJones
08.26.19 | I've never been able to get into Beach House | SteakByrnes
08.26.19 | pls | neekafat
09.08.19 | 48 (Midwife), 63 (Perfume Genius), 84 (Blood Incantation), 85 (Icarus the Owl) are all done!
finally getting back into this after the move
40/100 | neekafat
09.08.19 | 92 (Gunship) is up!
41/100 | dmathias52
09.08.19 | I always get excited when you update this cause I just steal whatever ones you like lol. It’s been an efficient system | neekafat
09.08.19 | Really?? Which ones have you liked? (: | dmathias52
09.09.19 | Ooh if I had to pick a top five - 71, 22, 34, 75, and 100. It's been an indie folk goldmine! | neekafat
09.09.19 | You must be having a hard time since I like pretty much everything ;)
Those are all great picks! | dmathias52
09.09.19 | Oh no, that's super relatable! I probably have like one of the worst objectivity ratings on this site | neekafat
09.09.19 | Mine's worse (; | budgie
09.09.19 | 54% bitches what's uppp | neekafat
09.09.19 | >:c | budgie
09.09.19 | neeky listen to this https://polygonwoods.bandcamp.com/releases | neekafat
09.09.19 | no | neekafat
09.12.19 | 3 (Justin Timberlake), 8 (Pinkshinyultrablast) 12 (King Gizz and the Lizz Wiz), 15 (SOPHIE), 17 (Jason Isbell) are done!
46/100 | budgie
09.12.19 | ugh i love that pinkshinyultrablast record to death | Divaman
09.12.19 | So how many other people monitor this list just to see if neeka has reviewed one of their recs, but pretty much completely ignore what he says about everybody else's recs? (Hey, I'm not proud of it.) | neekafat
09.12.19 | Hahaha that's partly why I stopped ahoutboxing people, you're all too lazy (; | budgie
09.12.19 | " but pretty much completely ignore what he says about everybody else's recs?" i just scan each write-up to figure out the genre before reading it. if it's pop punk or something like that i don't really care what neeka writes about it because i know i'm never going to hear it myself | Uzumaki
09.12.19 | Even though I might not care for a specific genre/album, I still enjoy reading neek's writeups for each one. | Divaman
09.12.19 | I only pay attention to his write-ups for the albums I already know, to see if he is right (i.e., he agrees with me), or he is way off base (i.e., he doesn't agree with me). | dmathias52
09.12.19 | Ayy Jason Isbell! Glad you enjoyed it for the most part. Elephant is my favorite from it as well, maybe a top ten song for me. Hope you find time to give it an in-depth listen! Seems like you've got a fairly full plate though lol | neekafat
09.13.19 | Thanks guys (: And tbf budgie I don't really care what I write about pop punk too
@dmath yeah but I loveeee that song so I'll probably end up checking it again! | Kompys2000
09.13.19 | I read the write-up if it's an album I've heard or something I think I might potentially be interested in hearing, which for this list is most of 'em | neekafat
09.13.19 | Would love to hear all y'all's thoughts if you think a write up is interesting! | neekafat
09.17.19 | 24 (Keaton Henson), 29 (A Lot Like Birds), and 33 (Temples) are up!
49/101 | SteakByrnes
09.17.19 | Damn, I'm sad you don't like Next to Ungodliness that's one of my favorites of theirs. That outro where they switch from 13/8 to 12/8 every bar is insane. Glad you dug it for the most part tho :] | neekafat
09.17.19 | I honestly can't catch time signature stuff casually yet ): | Uzumaki
09.17.19 | Nice job, you're almost halfway done! | Pheromone
09.17.19 | And yet you still haven’t done the best album of the decade | neekafat
09.18.19 | Thanks Uzu, kinda sad I'm not farther, I wanted to be done by the end of this month hahaha, life got in the way!
@phero, que es? | Uzumaki
09.18.19 | @phero, you mean my other rec? S’all good, he’ll get to it. | Itwasthatwas
09.18.19 | I had forgotten that I rec’d something to you here. Glad that you enjoyed Starspawn, it’s one of my favorite modern albums. Appreciate you taking the time to listen; hope at some point you get a chance to hear the other two | neekafat
09.18.19 | I'll try my best to check those too, man! Starspawn was really damn good for sure (: | neekafat
09.23.19 | fml... if I follow my normal order then "Have One on Me" and "Color Spectrum" are coming up right next to each other... gonna be a long week lol | luci
09.23.19 | lol... I'm glad you're hearing HOOM before Divers, that's the correct progression | neekafat
09.23.19 | I'm goin in order my friend (; | Pheromone
09.24.19 | I mean women ! | neekafat
09.24.19 | I have like five write-ups I need to do... | Uzumaki
09.24.19 | Doooooooo iiiiiiittttttttt.............
I wanna read them.......... | neekafat
09.24.19 | Either tonight or tomorrow I will (: | neekafat
09.26.19 | 94 (Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam), 35 (John Grant), 39 (Destroyer), 42 (Deftones), 44 (Son Lux), 50 (Grouper), 53 (The Dear Hunter) are up!
bgill’s fuckin killing it here
56/101 | Kompys2000
09.26.19 | Good pick for best track on Diamond Eyes, also interesting that you prefer the back half of the album since imo the last few tracks are where it gets a little samey for me | neekafat
09.26.19 | you can rec me one thing if you have an absolute classic in mind I haven't yet heard (: | Sowing
09.26.19 | I am disappointed with those lowly 3.9's and 4's being assigned to my stone cold classics but nevertheless I appreciate that you still liked them. | Drifter
09.26.19 | tcs cheesy
what
frick you | neekafat
09.26.19 | I'm sorry sowing I tried ): Indigo was so damn good tho | neekafat
09.26.19 | Drifter you're like the king of cheese did you even listen to the white EP | neekafat
10.04.19 | 46 (Joanna Newsom), 58 (Earthside), 97 (Flying Lotus) are up!
59/101 | Lucman
10.04.19 | Happy to see the love for 39! Kaputt is probably his most popular (and I do like that one slightly more overall) but PS has some amazing highs that surpass it. | Dewinged
10.04.19 | Nice Temples rating neek, glad you enjoyed it to some degree. Some of the stuff in that album served me as inspiration for Sol D (and Tame Impala of course) | Kompys2000
10.04.19 | I get what you mean about most of the songs on You're Dead feeling a bit insubstantial on their own, for me everything after Coronus kind of blends together but that's also kind of why I enjoy it, if that makes sense. It's like a bunch of little incomplete sketches that add up to a very strong overall impression. | luci
10.04.19 | It took me a year to fully explore what Have One on Me has to offer. I called it my favorite album ever at one point. | tyman128
10.04.19 | man, I just noticed you got the Deftones album, glad to hear you enjoyed it!! definitely suggest going back through their discography if you haven’t and really enjoy each of their albums (White Pony, Around the Fur, and self titled are amazing) | neekafat
10.20.19 | Dewinged I actually much prefer your stuff to either of those bands in general
And I definitely will tyman (: Good points Kompys and luci!
4 (Death Grips), 59 (Women), 64 (O’Brother), 65 (Nightwish), 68 (Kayo Dot) are up!
64/101
| JohnnyoftheWell
10.20.19 | Damn, Plastic Sky got rec'd but not Hubardo?! | neekafat
10.20.19 | Idk man, I probably would've preferred that :/ | JohnnyoftheWell
10.20.19 | Hubardo is probably a top 20 pick for me! Would switch it in for one of my 2 unjammed recs, but I reckon you'd prefer them even more (and neither of them are 80 mins long) ;] | neekafat
10.20.19 | I've already given 0 one listen, liking it a lot so far!
God fuck "Go Long" by Joanna Newsom is killing me still | Divaman
10.20.19 | You've been a busy little bee, neeka. | neekafat
10.20.19 | I'm trying c: | fogza
10.20.19 | Bless you for doing the Leithauser record when you didn't have to lol | Uzumaki
10.21.19 | Yo, I'm happy that you enjoyed O'Brother overall; they're one of those bands that get progressively better with each release. | neekafat
10.21.19 | Yeah man, my roommate rec'd it and I remembered that you did to so I figured I'd throw it back up! (:
Uzu I'm def interested in checking more of their stuff | Drifter
10.21.19 | Neek I just saw your response
You right tbh | neekafat
10.21.19 | That's what I'm sayin drifteez | neekafat
10.29.19 | 74 (Februus), 78 (0), 79 (Miami Garden Club), 83 (Knife Man), 86 (Let England Shake), 87 (Atrocity Exhibition) are up!
70/101
dis is fillin' up nicely (: | JohnnyoftheWell
10.29.19 | "Least Favorite: “はるなつあきふゆ""
DUDE :O :O | neekafat
10.29.19 | Dude idek what that says | neekafat
10.29.19 | wait was that one of the really long ones? | JohnnyoftheWell
10.29.19 | Copied and pasted from your 0 write-up (Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu - the closer) :P I can see how you'd vibe with the album the way you did, but that song is heartwrenchingly beautiful lol | neekafat
10.30.19 | I think by then I completely lost attention and couldn't get over how samey it sounded ): I'll try jamming it separate from the album tho! | JohnnyoftheWell
10.30.19 | Only samey one is track 4 with its 10 mins of one motif :[ The final pair is the best bit imo, don't sleep on it! | SteakByrnes
10.30.19 | ily neeka | neekafat
10.30.19 | Okayyyy I'll give it a chance (:
Ily too steak, how ya been? < 3 | neekafat
10.30.19 | He returns holy hell | DinosaurJones
10.30.19 | YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR | neekafat
10.30.19 | dino don't be fooled by this impostor | JohnnyoftheWell
10.30.19 | Oh lol RIP sach? | AsleepInTheBack
10.30.19 | Fab list idea. Make sure you revisit alot of these, cause I know it can be easy to inadvertently rush stuff when trying to make it through so much bulk | neekafat
10.30.19 | Thanks asleep < 3
Yeah I'd love to! I can only listen to these twice and then I have to move on :/ | SteakByrnes
10.31.19 | I'm doing well my guy, doin that 8:30-5 work grind now lol how are you brother | DinosaurJones
10.31.19 | o shit, I didn't even notice. I made that post at like 4 AM, lol | neekafat
10.31.19 | Same my friend, been busy busy in LA now (:
That's fair dino it confuses me too sometimes lol | budgie
10.31.19 | what does la stand for
losers anonymous?
poached, fried! | luci
10.31.19 | ichiko's 0 and 0% are the decade contenders, don't know why qp was rec'd instead | JohnnyoftheWell
10.31.19 | 0 is impossible to include in a list lol (try it - it deletes itself) - but that was the rec. Agreed that it's ahead of qp but part of me thinks neek might have dug that more | luci
10.31.19 | i’m annoyed lol, it’s just album art! let something else serve as a placeholder :p | DoofDoof
10.31.19 | 'Least Favorites: "Bay of Pigs (Detail)"'
unsubscribing | neekafat
11.03.19 | 9 (Melting Sun), 11 (Mayhem in Blue), 14 (R Plus Seven), 18 (Seeds), 95 (Run the Jewels 2) are up!
75/101
Maybe I would've Johnny! Doof ): | budgie
11.03.19 | melting sun, woot! | JohnnyoftheWell
11.03.19 | Lol luci, I think Sput just has an allergic reaction to the number 0. Absolute disgrace! | Kompys2000
11.03.19 | Aw man good picks for best tracks on RTJ2 but daaamn Blockbuster Night is such a banger tho | dmathias52
11.04.19 | Ayy glad you liked Hey Rosetta! Pretty much agree with your write up. It's never one I just randomly pop on, but when I'm in the mood it's an immediate go to | neekafat
11.04.19 | @Kompys that one just didn't click for me the way the others did!
@dmath, and yeah that's fair man, we'll see how it ages for me (:
26 is up now, sorry Kompys I forgot to do that one!! | Winesburgohio
11.04.19 | funnily enough Suit and Tie has become my favourite off the 20/20 experience over time: demands and commands a headphone listen imo!!! luvv the write-ups yo | Kompys2000
11.05.19 | Lol, can't say I'm too surprised you weren't that into Nails. I don't even really disagree about it being unmemorable, I just think it's so good at being loud and abrasive that memorability becomes a tertiary concern. | neekafat
11.05.19 | Thanks Wines, means a lot (: I try to keep them as conversational and stream-of-consciousness as possible but sometimes I write something I'm proud of!
That's fair Kompys, but if I want something loud and aggressive I'd rather listen to something memorable and catch like the first Voidz album or something! | sixdegrees
11.05.19 | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIktON9WoAAv-gd?format=jpg&name=900x900 | Kompys2000
11.05.19 | Yeah see I find the Voidz pretty thoroughly insufferable, but you know, different strokes for different folks (pun intended) | neekafat
11.12.19 | goddamn im stupid behind | Kompys2000
11.12.19 | We're all rooting for ya neekster | neekafat
11.12.19 | At this rate I won't finish until the end of the year and then I still have my 2019 cram list ): | Uzumaki
11.12.19 | 23 more to go! | JohnnyoftheWell
11.12.19 | Allnighter with neek whoop whoop | Divaman
11.12.19 | One word: coffee! | neekafat
11.12.19 | Lmao if you guys jammed all 23 albums with me in a row over a live chat that'd be dope | JohnnyoftheWell
11.12.19 | 23 would be many hours and potentially ruin your weekend but I'd be hella down for 2, 3 or 4 sometime ;] | neekafat
11.12.19 | That'd be super fun! I'll give you my live takes and people could get mad at me (: | JohnnyoftheWell
11.20.19 | Yo neek when is this happening?
Just got through Fiona Apple and second your write-up for that album word for word | neekafat
12.03.19 | I'm sorry I'm so slow guys, I wanted this to be done in September and now I'm just trying to get this done before the end of the year ):
20, 23, 27, 30, 91 are up! 80/101 | SteakByrnes
12.04.19 | Ayyy I'm glad you like the Dream On Dreamer album! Such an underrated gem that more people gotta listen to, one of my favorites for sure. Zach Britt is my favorite clean vocalist, man I love that guy's voice.
Glad to be a part of this experience with ya Neeka my boi, hope you found some cool shit :] | SlothcoreSam
12.04.19 | Glad you enjoyed Jonsi!
I bet a lot of people either digit about that album orwrote it off. It's will probably be my highest non-punky album of the decade.
Gayest album of the decade, in a good way. | Kompys2000
12.04.19 | Good to see you enjoyed the Terror, I think your comment about it not having any standout tracks to keep you coming back is one a lot of people would agree with. I agree it works primarily as a holistic experience, though I'd also argue Turning Violent and the opener are both pretty incredible on their own. | JohnnyoftheWell
12.04.19 | It's odd, the only tracks I come back to on that are Try to Explain and the t/t, though I get why that take probably should be the correct one ;] | AnimalsAsSummit
12.04.19 | get neek'd fools | neekafat
12.04.19 | < 3 you all for sticking through this with me, hope you know I am having so much fun with it despite the time it's taking (:
Thanks for all your lovely recs!! And definitely agree with you there Kompys, the opener was pretty memorable so maybe I'll come back more than I think! | butt.
12.04.19 | Gotta say I'm pretty impressed you've almost gotten through all of them! | neekafat
12.14.19 | 32 (Fink) 36 (Cass McCombs) 38 (Brian Fallon) 41 (Attalus) 101 (Florence and the Machine) are done!
85/101
Hopefully I can get this done before the end!! | neekafat
12.14.19 | Thanks butt (: | Uzumaki
12.15.19 | You’re almost there!!!!!! | neekafat
12.15.19 | I'm gonna have to cram these albums hahaha | JohnnyoftheWell
12.15.19 | Hello welcome to neek's cram list is this your first visit to neek's cram list please enjoy neek's cram list | klap
12.15.19 | how was sick as a dog one of your least favorites on that rostam album got damn
if you liked that record tho, should check out the two Walkmen album released this decade (Lisbon in 2010, Heaven in 2012). probs their two best | Lucman
12.15.19 | Glad you enjoyed Sleepwalkers, Neek. When I first jammed it I got him confused with Brian McFadden so I was expecting a pop record. What I got floored me. It's probably the best accident I've ever had haha. The romanticism, Fallon's vocals, those glorious melodies. I fell in love with it, though I knew it wasn't the most musically innovative or monumental record. Now it's got a lot of memories associated with it and it helped me through some real bad ones, so it's become a very personal classic. I'm not entirely sure why, to be honest, I just found myself wanting to revisit it over and over and that hasn't changed. And dang does it sound good during the Christmas season. 3.7 is probably the perfect objective rating, but I absolutely adore it. | luci
12.15.19 | if there's one thing we can all agree on is that the favs and least favs are extremely wrong
Favorite: "Please Remember"
Least Favorite: "Dream House"
wtf is that | Gyromania
12.15.19 | Yeah really weird take. Dream House is so much better than anything else they've ever done | Gyromania
12.15.19 | Dead man's tetris over coronus the terminator? Least favourite on benji I can't live without my mother's love? 4.3 for run the jewels, no mention of Eyesore, on a good day least favourite on hoom, both of your least favourites on that fair to midland album are the only good songs and the best by a huge margin lol. Sorrow worst on HV. So many perplexing opinions. At least I agree with suicide demo being best on kaputt. And a couple others | luci
12.15.19 | neek's takes are more offensive than rowan's which is a damn accomplishment | tyman128
12.15.19 | yo, glad to see you enjoyed Attalus, I was kind of expecting a lower rating than Norma Jean for some reason | neekafat
12.19.19 | Wow it's almost like when you put 100 of my opinions together, they don't all align with yours :O | Kompys2000
12.19.19 | Anyone who only has good takes is probably boring and I don't need boring ppl in my life | JohnnyoftheWell
12.19.19 | In fairness I'm pretty sure the only reason Dogs exists on Benji is so it can dominate the "least favourite" tab on every list of this kind
"Sorrow worst on HV"
Okay this one needs some unpacking holy shit
"Yeah really weird take. Dream House is so much better than anything else they've ever done"
Dream House is okay, Brought to the Water and Pecan Tree both dump on it and Deafheaven are such a 6/10 band in general that they can't really afford to have one song as so much better than anything else they've ever done
| Minushuman24
12.19.19 | gates as the worst on the impossible past? crazy man | neekafat
12.20.19 | I don't LIKE pop punk | SteakByrnes
12.20.19 | Same brother | neekafat
12.20.19 | < 3 | neekafat
12.31.19 | 45 (Trampled By Turtles), 51 (Clever Girl), 54 (Newsom), 57 (Blood Command), 90 (Deerhunter) up (:
90/101 | GreyShadow
12.31.19 | ouch neek. i think you're officially the only person i'm legally not allowed to be friends with ever. i didn't even know it was possible to to dislike best band Icarus The Owl to that extent. you have not only defied my self-defined logic, but you have also made me one emotion: sad :( | neekafat
12.31.19 | I'm sorry Grey it just made me angry but I didn't mean for it to come between us :c | SteakByrnes
12.31.19 | It really be like that sometimes | butt.
12.31.19 | neek what's your fav on this whole cram list so far? | neekafat
12.31.19 | Very close call between Kairon; IRSE! and Jonsi but probably the former for now! | SlothcoreSam
12.31.19 | Jonsi, Jonsi, Jonsi!
I hope I win a prize! Lol | SteakByrnes
12.31.19 | His favorites are mine because me and neeka are pals and he wouldn't do a pal like that | neekafat
01.01.20 | (; | neekafat
01.01.20 | Just so everyone knows--I've heard just about all of the final recs leftover at least once! So I'll be doing some final spins and getting them up, but don't worry if my AOTD list comes up before the write-ups here are, all were considered (: | SteakByrnes
01.02.20 | Nice, seems like you found lots of good stuff here my guy :] | Bedex
01.02.20 | Yesss I was waiting for that 51 write-up. ~4.03 average rating for my three recs, not too shabby | bgillesp
01.02.20 | Trampled By Turtles is bluegrass :offended:
Glad you still liked it though! | bgillesp
01.02.20 | 4.27 avg of 3 ain’t bad | luci
01.07.20 | list is the best argument I've seen for not posting a first listening take on anything | JohnnyoftheWell
01.07.20 | Lmaouch. I'm glad this list exists but yup, those parameters are ultra apparent | SteakByrnes
01.07.20 | Really showed him there man | neekafat
01.08.20 | you're right, it's very bluegrass-y, my dad corrected me haha (:
wait what? | neekafat
01.13.20 | Japandroids (60), Bayside (67), Black Barrel (70), My Purest Heart for You (73), The Gathering (77), Count to Altek (80), Macintosh Plus (93), St. Vincent (96), Drake (98)
101/101
did it (; | JohnnyoftheWell
01.13.20 | YOU DID IT CONGRATULATIONS
now please explain how in the fuck Neutered Fruit is a fave from Strange Mercy while Year of the Tiger is bottom tier this aggrieves me
also RIP most of luci's recs | neekafat
01.13.20 | luci shouldn't rec boring music then :/
And idk I only jammed these all twice!!!!! | Pheromone
01.13.20 | Okay so like I didn't really enjoy this much at all. It's rare that an acclaimed album like this rubs me this wrong of a way, but I just could not care less for the abrasive post-punk boringness that was this album. I actually liked the thick atmosphere on the opener, but it was completely abandoned for "lo-fi" ugliness and repetitive riffs that I couldn't remember if you played them back to me.
you are trash | neekafat
01.13.20 | :c | Divaman
01.13.20 | Congrats Neeka. I don't know why you do it, but I'm impressed that you actually finished it. | SteakByrnes
01.13.20 | Dude hell yea Neeka, proud of you bb < 3 | Kompys2000
01.14.20 | Aw sick glad you decided to put Mac Plus on the list. Been listening to it again lately and Lisa Frank 420 is unquestionably one of the definitive tracks of the decade. | neekafat
01.14.20 | Thanks so much guys, much love < 3
And yeah I'm glad I did too Kompys, that track in particular ruled (: | Uzumaki
01.14.20 | Yay! | JohnnyoftheWell
09.16.20 | bump for this travesty | neekafat
10.03.22 | what did i even do | neekafat
10.03.22 | < 3 I do occasionally land in the right on things |
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