Album Rating: 3.0

1 - Redwoods

2 - Rory

3 - Bastardizer

4 - Go Down Together

5 - Beacons

6 - Eiffel

7 - Speak With The Dead

8 - Bit by a Dead Bee pt. I

9 - Gratitude

10 - Secret History



*put on sunglasses*

1. weave
2. grand paradise
3. rory
4. the medic
5. night channels
6. won't drown
7. redwoods
8. bloodhound
9. indica
10. bastardizer


this still isn't hitting me the way "foxing do daisy" should hit but maybe my head is not in the right place atm

Album Rating: 3.5

@gravity I love the Beacons love

Album Rating: 4.0

Hell yeah Jesp I would also have those 3 from The Albatross in my top 10

Album Rating: 3.5

idk if itd be a top 10er for me, my list skews really hard towards nearer my god, but my top from albatross is den mother. so good

Album Rating: 5.0

No clue how I'd rank them, but my top 10 would likely consist of Grand Paradise, Lich Prince, Gameshark, Lambert, Nearer My God, Secret History, Hell 99, Greyhound, Gratitude, and Looks Like Nothing. I'm not even sure that anything from their first two albums or DDtM matches up to their NMG/Foxing eras for me. With that said, I'm doing a full discog rerun, and am liking Dealer a whole lot more than I used to. There's a chance something from that album could crack my top 10 with more time.

Album Rating: 4.5

After a week and half of listening to this beauty, I’m upping my rating. 4.5/5



This is now my AOTY (replacing Vampire Weekend) so far, I can’t see Touche Amore or Linkin Park etc releasing an absolute banger to beat it, but you never know lol

Album Rating: 5.0

This unseated Vampire Weekend for me as well. For a while it was between that or Wall of Eyes, but I think this pretty safely runs away with 2024 for me personally, barring something decade-defining dropping in Q4.

Album Rating: 4.0

Something decade and genre defining has already dropped this year tho

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah new alkaline trio



and i guess those state faults guys are pretty cool too

it's all about iress guys smh

Album Rating: 3.5

"This unseated Vampire Weekend for me as well. For a while it was between that or Wall of Eyes, but I think this pretty safely runs away with 2024 for me personally, barring something decade-defining dropping in Q4."



I was not at all impressed by Vampire Weekend or Wall of Eyes. May have to revisit if you are really so high on those



@bubs will have to revisit alkaline trio as well

fwiw this would have comfortably unseated Vampire Weekend and Wall of Eyes for me too if they were the best 2024 albums I had heard
simply keep calm and use those precious minutes checking the new Nala Sinephro instead

About halfway through and this does sound incredible so far. Very fresh and futuristic sounding.

Blows away anything I've ever heard from them.

Album Rating: 4.5

happy to see Redwoods getting love

Album Rating: 3.0

this is too indie for me tbh, I was hoping for more tracks like Hell 99 but have been let down. Not bad by any means tho, I’ll give it a few more listens before I write it off.

Album Rating: 4.0

@JesperL finally some Won’t Drown love, amazing track that really puts you in a trance.

Album Rating: 5.0

I think I like this more than daisy tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, I think this is actually more impressive than Daisy. It's a little more experimental/daring. Both albums are amazing, though.

Album Rating: 4.5

This is so much better than the Vampire Weekend album or that The Smile record

State Faults is where its at tho