Mort.'s 2024 pt.1
not albums from 2024, just everything ive heard so far. 1 is the first album i rate this year xxx |
| 1 |  | AL-90
CODE-915913
4
Microhouse house/techno/ambient. Club music you can just about hear from the other side of the city |
| 2 |  | Age Of Reason
Fuck You
3
obscure metalcore that i believe had Aaron Turner of Isis fame in. nothing special, nothing awful. |
| 3 |  | Death
Spiritual Healing
3
I have no memory of this. Not really my type of death metal |
| 4 |  | Women
Public Strain
3
Indie music that is for snoozers |
| 5 |  | Traindodge
The Alley Parade
4
Kansas City band that has been around for a fair while. Mix of alternative rock, post-hardcore, emo and big riffs. For fans of Hum & Shiner (pretty sure them and Shiner have played together a fair bit and now share a label on Spartan Records) |
| 6 |  | Kumo 99
HeadPlate
3.5
Electronic music |
| 7 |  | Four Tet
There is Love in You
3
I dont remember this, the only impression I have a vague impression of was 'this is sort of nice' |
| 8 |  | Girls Against Boys
House of GVSB (25th Anniversary Edition)
5
Post-hardcore of the Fugazi era and vein, most interested in cruisin, playing bass, vibing, being ironic and going 'ooh la la im from france'. Not so much interested in politics. |
| 9 |  | Hopesfall
Satellite Years 2.0 (Remixed and Remastered)
4.5
If there is a to be a genre called 'melodic metalcore', it should be like this (fuck sweden) |
| 10 |  | NewJeans
New Jeans
3
K-pop |
| 11 |  | Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill
4
If Alanis cut down on the vocal histrionics just a tad I would have enjoyed this more. Not the Doctor is a fantastic deep cut. |
| 12 |  | Expander
Neuropunk Boostergang
3.5
Thrash/crossover with a futuristic aesthetic, throat shredding vox and pummelling riffs. Minus 1.5 for being thrash. |
| 13 |  | Stereolab
Dots and Loops
4.5
Yuppie scum? No, theyre just undercover as yuppie scum. Its ironic and therefore good. |
| 14 |  | The Jesus Lizard
Down
4
Noise rock boys go through the motions and still put out music leagues beyond the rest. |
| 15 |  | Harvest
Transitions
3.5
90s metalcore that was lacking in the songwriting and could have gone heavier on the skronk. Looking forward to checking out the rest of their discography though. |
| 16 |  | Shudder To Think
50,000 B.C.
4.5
Post-hardcore glam outfit leave Dischord for a major label and go all in on the glam/pop rock vibe. Velvet crooners eat your heat out. |
| 17 |  | Hot Snakes
Automatic Midnight
4.5
Post-hardcore that riffs hard. Not much to write home about in the songwriting department but there are riffs for days. |
| 18 |  | The Lounge Lizards
Voice of Chunk
4
Jazz (good) |
| 19 |  | Hammerhead
Duh, The Big City
4
Noise rock (good) |
| 20 |  | Soundtrack (Video Game)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
4
Video game soundtrack (good) |
| 21 |  | U.S. Maple
Acre Thrills
4.5
Experimental rock |
| 22 |  | Beloved
Failure On
4
Ask sputnikmusic.com user beloved |
| 23 |  | Machine Girl
Super Freq
4
Hell yeah machine girl rock |
| 24 |  | Today Is the Day
Supernova
4
Noise rock/metalcore |
| 25 |  | Shiner
Schadenfreude
4
Check Shiner |
| 26 |  | The Field
Looping State of Mind
4
Ambient techno/microhouse or something. I dunno its like the other The Field records |
| 27 |  | Tomas Dvorak
Machinarium Soundtrack
4.5
Puzzle game soundtrack best enjoyed by playing the game itself. Ambient tracks on this are 10/10. |
| 28 |  | The Chisel
Retaliation
4
Straightforward oi punk |
| 29 |  | Tragic Mulatto
Locos Por El Sexo
4
Noise rock about cum |
| 30 |  | Replicant
Infinite Mortality
4
Read my review |
| 31 |  | MouthBreather (USA-MA)
Self-Tape
4
High-speed chunky core daddies with some bad lyrics but excellent vocal attack/antiphony |
| 32 |  | Arctic Monkeys
AM
1.5
I hate this with all my soul, pastiche of rock music for shithead yuppies to sing along to. Nobody is only calling you when youre high, shut the fuck up. |
| 33 |  | Hiroshi Yoshimura
Soundscape 1: Surround
4.5
Clean water outside reading ambient for those at peace |
| 34 |  | Aftershock
Through The Looking Glass
3
Metalcore band that had some cool bits and a lot that bored me that I dont really remember much about. Was more in the vein of the swedish dm influenced metalcore than the hardcore stuff I prefer. |
| 35 |  | Bring Me The Horizon
POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
2.5
Bring Me The Horizon shamlessly ape a dozen or so aesthetics/subgenres instead of doing just 1 well. Also, how dare you pretend youre Enter Shikari you dogs, you have none of the charm. |
| 36 |  | Shudder To Think
Get Your Goat
4
Post-hardcore band with a little bit of a glam streak that only grows with time. Catchy and melodic. |
| 37 |  | Butthole Surfers
Rembrandt Pussyhorse
3.5
Experimental noise rock merchants go meander |
| 38 |  | Turmoil
The Process Of
4
90s metalcore minus the dissonance |
| 39 |  | The Blinding Light
The Ascension Attempt
3.5
Thrashy metalcore with a dissonant streak, very rough and fierce aethetic. |
| 40 |  | D'Angelo
Voodoo
4.5
This is possibly a 5 in time. Great vibes, slick, soulful and smooth. |
| 41 |  | Pissed Jeans
King of Jeans
4
Noise rock with emphasis on the rock, but not as sloppy as Cows. They do both share an affinity for piss however. |
| 42 |  | Hum
Electra 2000
4
A formulaic album with not much songwriting variation but a whole lotta riffs. |
| 43 |  | Charli XCX
Brat and it's the same but there's three more…
4
The 2000s club scene comes back with a PC music update and unashamedly bratty attitude |
| 44 |  | Undying
This Day All Gods Die
3
Melodic metalcore with religious aesthetic and raspy vocals |
| 45 |  | Portishead
Third
4
I like this much more than their debut LP. The electronic (almost industrial) influence does a lot for them. |
| 46 |  | KEN mode
Entrench
4
Sludgy noisy taut metalcore with Dave Verellen of Botch coming in to finish off a skronker? Based |
| 47 |  | Starkweather
Croatoan
3
I really love the songwriting and instrumentation on this, very unique take on the metalcore/sludge sound with fantastic production, but the tradional metal off-key creepy boy vox do not please me. Harsh vox rule however. |
| 48 |  | Blacklisters
Adult
3
UK noise rock band who had a great debut album fail to replicate that squawk |
| 49 |  | Commix
Call To Mind
3
DNB is not my thing but I can appreciate the production quality on this. |
| 50 |  | mclusky
My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours
4
Welsh Pixies with perhaps a little too much ironic jokemaking but oodles of cheekiness endear them to me |
| 51 |  | Groundwork
Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent
3.5
OG metalcore that seems to be having a rediscovery. Has the dark, crushing atmosphere that 90s metalcore so desperately needed to supplant awful thrash/punk melding |
| 52 |  | Downcast
Downcast [LP]
2.5
Obscure OG metalcore (very early) that has stayed obscure for a reason |
| 53 |  | Ringworm
The Promise
2.5
Generic sucky metalcore with too much thrash influence and little personality. |
| 54 |  | Lightning Bolt
Wonderful Rainbow
4
High-speed noiseniks craft repetitive odes to loudness |
| 55 |  | Joey Valence and Brae
Punk Tactics
4
Beastie Boys worship excels due to charisma, fun lyrics and great instrumentals |
| 56 |  | 108
Holyname
3
The one truth for 108 is that Krishna is very cool and based but the hardcore isnt much to write home about |
| 57 |  | Strife
One Truth
2.5
The one truth is that this is incredibly generic hardcore |
| 58 |  | Refused
This Just Might Be... The Truth
3
Good band makes an ok album with proto-metalcore stylings. |
| 59 |  | Slater
FM Thoughts
4
Pop/electronic/hip-hop (bedroom?) project that is a fun time and hits the 2000s nostalgia brainstem tingling |
| 60 |  | Cows
Orphan's Tragedy
4
Scuzzy, sleazy, sloppy, stinky noise rock that is more about rock than noise which I honestly prefer (noise rock with an experimental edge can be great but beer drinkin rock with big fuzz is great fun, sue me) |
| 61 |  | Merauder
Master Killer
3.5
NYC Hardcore with a lot of bouncy riffs, a very charismatic 'metal' vocalist and songs about being a master killer. |
| 62 |  | Sonic Youth
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
2.5
Sonic Youth lose all their equipment and make some boring music (band is genuinely at their best when theyre writing pretty tradionally straightforward rock songs with a noisy/rough edge). |
| 63 |  | Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
4
Big beats, big voice, big proclamations. BASS |
| 64 |  | Integrity
Systems Overload (A2/Orr Mix)
3.5
Integrity's best moments are when they really start going for the off-kilter solos, otherwise theyre a pretty by the numbers 90s metalcore band most the time. I really really love the aesthetic, but the songwriting often leaves a lot to be desired. |
| 65 |  | Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music
4
I lack the vocabulary to speak about jazz. Not really a genre im acquainted with but I do very much enjoy this. |
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