okay, lux æterna came on in the car yesterday and yep, i’m here for it. It’s definitely not a headphones song.
30yrs of people wanting another puppets/lightning/black album has led to disappointment. But if they want to rehash Whiplash til they’re too old to hold guitars, i’m in.
(via (7) Metallica: Lux Æterna (Official Music Video) - YouTube)
Katatonia is just so good at being katatonia. Somehow still dodging the problem of interesting bands losing their teeth over time
(via (7) KATATONIA - Birds (Official Video) | Napalm Records - YouTube)
*thinks about Against Me, The Ocean*
Girl....
This was 7 years before Laura came out btw. If u care.
Imagine a time before trans visibility, when your only choice and our only representation was pure stealth barbie tabloid fodder or rocky horror cackling queen. Imagine being a still heavily closeted diy punk girl in the most isolated city on earth who had been using the name Laura as her MSN handle "as a joke" for about six months when this record came out. Imagine playing it for the first time as you drive your [extremely heteronormative] girlfriend of the time home from a long day at work. Imagine the silence descending on the car at the lights on Loftus St. It can't be overstated - this song all by itself punched a hole in the fabric of reality.
midwife continuing to make my high school/college uncool faves somehow actually cool
(via Midwife - Send the Pain Below - YouTube)
it feels like the production on the new lamp of murmuur jumped way up, and seeing them on apple music is kinda bizarre. sound great tho, and i’m excited to see if this production level extends to their gothier tracks
(via (1) Lamp of Murmuur - Conqueror Beyond the Frenzied Fog (Track Premiere) - YouTube)
This was a year of quitting spotify and my friend starting a #CDFriday hashtag which i joined in because of CDs’ ability to power through streaming rights disappearing. I rediscovered a lot of things I was into pre-spotify that just disappeared in the streaming era. I also moved any pre-orders to CD.
2022 Fave Albums
- Cave In - Heavy Pendulum - It should be obvious that this album would be my favorite, right? favorite band, new album? But like, the first truly post-caleb album was so fraught, and could have been such a disaster. But like, Nate had to make a Nate stamp on it, and if you described any other band to me as Cave In + Doomriders, I’d be all over it. I don’t know what I was afraid of, this album is amazing.
- Brutus - Unison Life - From the title to the cover to the video for Victoria, you could be forgiven for thinking Brutus had gone posi-core. There’s still lots of demons in here, and my demons are resonating.
- Sonja - Loud Arriver - If I hadn’t been ensnared by this album, Sumerlands might have been on this list, if neither had grabbed me, Haunt’s latest might’ve had a chance. I’m glad this genre revival keeps getting better and better, and I’m glad something so gothy and transy and well written gets the top slot.
- Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II - Another “it should be obvious that your other favorite ‘c’ band’s album would be on this list” and yeah, I can’t deny it. Coheed doing Coheed things.
- Mitski - Laurel Hell - I still don’t know how to talk about how wonderful mitski, and this album, are.
- Chat Pile - God’s Country - If the whole album were as blunt as demanding an answer to “Why Do People Have To Live Outside?” this would either be a perfect album or too trite and quickly absorbed and dismissed. But the rest of the album is messy both in sound and in lyrical discussion - you’ve gotta sit with it and let it hurt you.
- Placebo - Never Let Me Go - Somehow among all my friends this album’s songs were mostly overshadowed by Brian Molko’s gender, which like. We’re all gendery weirdos who were drawn to Molko’s gender in the 90′s, but we’re all pretty much “my gender is the least interesting thing about me” in the 20′s, so … IDK why. The songs rip.
- Allagaeon - Danmum - tech death often sounds zany and unintelligible, this reads more clearly as rush/yes/opeth worship, but faster. I love it.
- Zeal & Ardor - s/t - as soon as Z&A made an album that felt coherent and cohesive, it belonged in an AOTY list. Their spirituals + metal schtick has been, well, uneven and scattered across EPs up until now.
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