Wow. It has been a minute since I posted anything here. Over 7000 albums listened to and I still cranking them out. Took a new job in January that has me more working from home or driving more which means more music listening. 242 albums already this year which is wild. 175 going into the queue today.
I have also been reviewing these closer to live time over on Musicboard. Not the best platform or app, but easier than updating here. Has a surprising amount of albums.
Grails - Redlight: 7
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3: 6
Grails - Burning Off Impurities: 6
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday: 7
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living: 7
Grails - Deep Politics: 7
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 4, 5 & 6: 6
Grails - Chalice Hymnal: 7
Grails - Anches En Maat: 7.5
Greet Death - Dixieland: 6
Hotline TNT - Nineteen in Love: 6
Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz: 9
Junip - Fields: 7
Junip - Junip: 7.5
key vs. locket - i felt like a sketch: 7.5
kitchen - town: 8
kitchen - pussy willow: 7
kitchen - Halloween In August: 7
kitchen - Breath Too Long: 8
Lennon, John - Unfinished Music No. 2 Life with the Lions: 3
Lennon, John - Wedding Album: 3
Lennon, John - John Lennon+Plastic Ono Band: 7
Lennon, John - Imagine (4 Disc): 8
Lennon, John - Some Time in New York City: 8
Lennon, John - Mind Games (6 Disc): 7.5
Lennon, John - Walls and Bridges: 7
Lennon, John - Rock ’n’ Roll: 6
Lennon, John - Double Fantasy: 8
Lennon, John - Milk and Honey: 7
Lennon, John - Home tapes: 6.5
Little Simz - E.D.G.E: 7
Little Simz - A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons: 7
Little Simz - Stillness in Wonderland: 6
Little Simz - GREY Area: 7.5
Little Simz - NO THANK YOU: 7.5
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular: 6
MGMT - Congratulations: 8
MGMT - MGMT: 8
MGMT - Little Dark Age (2 Disc): 7.5
MGMT - Loss of Life: 7
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About: 6
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica: 8
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News: 9
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank: 8
Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker: 7.5
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves: 7.5
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket: 8
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted: 8
Pavement - Brighten the Corners: 6.5
Pavement - Terror Twilight: 6
Pavement - Wowee Zowee: 6.5
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain_ L.A.’s Desert Origins: 7.5
Pavement - Wowee Zowee_ Sordid Sentinels Edition:
Proof - Searching for Jerry Garcia: 7
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock: 7.5
Propagandhi - Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes: 8
Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits: 8
Propagandhi - At Peace: 7
PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs!: 8
Record Setter - Evoke Invoke: 7.5
Reed, Lou - Metal Machine Music: 8
Rolling Stones - 12 × 5: 8
Rolling Stones - England’s Newest Hit Makers: 6.5
Rolling Stones - December’s Children (and Everybody’s): 8
Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads: 7
Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2: 7
Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones, Now!: 7.5
Rolling Stones - Aftermath (UK): 7.5
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons (UK): 7.5
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request: 6.5
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers: 8
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup: 7.5
Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock ’n Roll: 7
Rolling Stones - Black and Blue: 6.5
Rolling Stones - Some Girls (2 Disc): 8.5
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue: 6.5
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (3 Disc): 7
Rolling Stones - Undercover: 6
Rolling Stones - Dirty Work: 6.5
Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels: 6
Rolling Stones - Another Side of Steel Wheels: 4
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge: 5.5
Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon: 5
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang: 7
SAULT - 11: 6
SAULT - Earth: 7
SAULT - Today & Tomorrow: 6.5
SAULT - UNTITLED (God): 6
SAULT - Acts Of Faith: 7
Shearling - Motherfucker, I Am Both Amen and Hallelujah: 9
Sleep Token - Sundowning: 7
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb: 7.5
Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden: 6.5
Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia: 7
Sleigh Bells - Bunky Becky Birthday Boy: 7.5
Smidley - Smidley: 8
Smidley - Here Comes The Devil: 8
Sprain - As Lost Through Collision: 7.5
Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy: 8
Telephone Man - The Telephone Man 1992-1994: 7
West, Kanye - BULLY: 5
Wishy - Planet Popstar: 6
Wits End - Demo I: 8
woods, billy - The Chalice: 6
woods, billy - History Will Absolve Me: 7.5
woods, billy - Dour Candy: 7
woods, billy - Known Unknowns: 8
woods, billy - Hiding Places: 7.5
woods, billy - Terror Management: 7
woods, billy - Aethiopes: 8.5
woods, billy - Camouflage: 6
woods, billy - Today, I Wrote Nothing: 7
woods, billy - Church: 8
XweaponX - Weapon X Demo: 8.5
xWeaponx - Weapon X Demo 2: 8
MSPAINT - No Separation : 8
Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out: 8
Home is Where - Hunting Season: 7.5
9.05.2025
5.30.2025
April/May 2025
Lamar, Kendrick - GNX: 8
McCartney, Paul - McCartney: 8
McCartney, Paul - RAM (4 Disc): 8.5
McCartney, Paul - McCartney II: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Tug of War: 6
McCartney, Paul - Pipes of Peace: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Press to Play: 7
McCartney, Paul - Снова в СССР: 7
McCartney, Paul - Flowers in the Dirt: 8
McCartney, Paul - Off the Ground: 7
McCartney, Paul - Flaming Pie: 9
McCartney, Paul - Standing Stone: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Run Devil Run: 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Working Classical: 6
McCartney, Paul - Liverpool Sound Collage: 9
McCartney, Paul - Ecce Cor Meum: 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Memory Almost Full (Disc 2): 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Ocean’s Kingdom: 7
McCartney, Paul - Kisses on the Bottom: 6
McCartney, Paul - Egypt Station: 7
McCartney, Paul - McCartney III: 7.5
Playboi Carti - MUSIC: 8
Swift, Taylor - Taylor Swift: 7
Swift, Taylor - Speak Now: 7
Swift, Taylor - Red: 7.5
Swift, Taylor - 1989: 8
Swift, Taylor - reputation: 7
Swift, Taylor - Lover: 7
Swift, Taylor - evermore: 7.5
Swift, Taylor - folklore: 7
Swift, Taylor - Fearless (Taylor's Version): 8
Swift, Taylor - Red (Taylor's Version): 8
Swift, Taylor - Midnights: 8
Swift, Taylor - 1989 (Taylor’s version): 8.5
Swift, Taylor - Speak Now (Taylor’s version): 7.5
Swift, Taylor - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: 6.5
Weatherday - Hornet Disaster: 7.5
Wings - Wild Life: 6
Wings - Band on the Run: 7.5
Wings - Red Rose Speedway: 6
Wings - Venus and Mars: 7
Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound: 7
Wings - London Town: 8
Wings - Back to the Egg: 6
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds: 9
Adebimpe, Tunde - Thee Black Boltz: 7.5
Air - Moon Safari: 9
Beirut - A Study of Losses: 7
Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong: 7
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE: 7
bygones - by‐: 8
Club Night - Joy Coming Down: 8
Fatboi Sharif - Ape Twin: 7.5
Fatboi Sharif - Gandhi Loves Children: 8
Fatboi Sharif - Decay: 7.5
Grails - The Burden of Hope: 6
Grails - Redlight: 7
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3: 6
Grails - Burning Off Impurities: 6
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday: 7
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living: 7
Grails - Deep Politics: 7
McCartney, Paul - McCartney: 8
McCartney, Paul - RAM (4 Disc): 8.5
McCartney, Paul - McCartney II: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Tug of War: 6
McCartney, Paul - Pipes of Peace: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Press to Play: 7
McCartney, Paul - Снова в СССР: 7
McCartney, Paul - Flowers in the Dirt: 8
McCartney, Paul - Off the Ground: 7
McCartney, Paul - Flaming Pie: 9
McCartney, Paul - Standing Stone: 6.5
McCartney, Paul - Run Devil Run: 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Working Classical: 6
McCartney, Paul - Liverpool Sound Collage: 9
McCartney, Paul - Ecce Cor Meum: 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Memory Almost Full (Disc 2): 7.5
McCartney, Paul - Ocean’s Kingdom: 7
McCartney, Paul - Kisses on the Bottom: 6
McCartney, Paul - Egypt Station: 7
McCartney, Paul - McCartney III: 7.5
Playboi Carti - MUSIC: 8
Swift, Taylor - Taylor Swift: 7
Swift, Taylor - Speak Now: 7
Swift, Taylor - Red: 7.5
Swift, Taylor - 1989: 8
Swift, Taylor - reputation: 7
Swift, Taylor - Lover: 7
Swift, Taylor - evermore: 7.5
Swift, Taylor - folklore: 7
Swift, Taylor - Fearless (Taylor's Version): 8
Swift, Taylor - Red (Taylor's Version): 8
Swift, Taylor - Midnights: 8
Swift, Taylor - 1989 (Taylor’s version): 8.5
Swift, Taylor - Speak Now (Taylor’s version): 7.5
Swift, Taylor - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: 6.5
Weatherday - Hornet Disaster: 7.5
Wings - Wild Life: 6
Wings - Band on the Run: 7.5
Wings - Red Rose Speedway: 6
Wings - Venus and Mars: 7
Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound: 7
Wings - London Town: 8
Wings - Back to the Egg: 6
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds: 9
Adebimpe, Tunde - Thee Black Boltz: 7.5
Air - Moon Safari: 9
Beirut - A Study of Losses: 7
Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong: 7
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE: 7
bygones - by‐: 8
Club Night - Joy Coming Down: 8
Fatboi Sharif - Ape Twin: 7.5
Fatboi Sharif - Gandhi Loves Children: 8
Fatboi Sharif - Decay: 7.5
Grails - The Burden of Hope: 6
Grails - Redlight: 7
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3: 6
Grails - Burning Off Impurities: 6
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday: 7
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living: 7
Grails - Deep Politics: 7
3.31.2025
March 2025
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain: 7
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky: 8
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis – Act III_ The Father of Make Believe: 8
Doves - Constellations for the Lonely: 7.5
Dylan, Bob - The 50th Anniversary Collection - 1974 Live AUD Recordings: 9
Fay, Bill - Time of the Last Persecution: 8
Ginsberg, Allen With Still Life - Allen Ginsberg With Still Life: 7
Johansen, David - David Johansen: 8
Little Richard - The Georgia Peach: 10
lots of hands - into a pretty room: 8
Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacío: 6.5
Michael Cera Palin - We Could Be Brave: 7.5
Orchid - Skull Sessions: 7.5
Panopticon - Kentucky: 7
Smith, Patti - Horses: 9
Thoughts on Bowling - tripping over the foul line: 7
venturing - Ghostholding: 6.5
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain: 9 Funeral
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky: 8
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis – Act III_ The Father of Make Believe: 8
Doves - Constellations for the Lonely: 7.5
Dylan, Bob - The 50th Anniversary Collection - 1974 Live AUD Recordings: 9
Fay, Bill - Time of the Last Persecution: 8
Ginsberg, Allen With Still Life - Allen Ginsberg With Still Life: 7
Johansen, David - David Johansen: 8
Little Richard - The Georgia Peach: 10
lots of hands - into a pretty room: 8
Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacío: 6.5
Michael Cera Palin - We Could Be Brave: 7.5
Orchid - Skull Sessions: 7.5
Panopticon - Kentucky: 7
Smith, Patti - Horses: 9
Thoughts on Bowling - tripping over the foul line: 7
venturing - Ghostholding: 6.5
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain: 9 Funeral
3.14.2025
February/March 2025 and Changes
Years. Thousands of albums. Time for change, or at least time to try change. Albums will now get a score and sometimes a RIYL.
2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions: 6.5 Shins, Pup
As Friends Rust - Lightless: 6 Hot Water Music, Against Me!
Bane - It All Comes Down To This (25th Anniversary Edition): 9.5
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (deluxe edition): 9.5
Bondo - Harmonica: 8.5 Slint, City of Caterpillar
Cauterize - So Far From Real: 6.5 Saves the Day, Get Up Kids
Chalamet, Timothée - A Complete Unknown_ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 9 Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess: 7.5 Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush
Charli xcx - BRAT: 7 Lady Gaga, SOPHIE
Coheed and Cambria - Claudio Covers: 6 Chonny and Clyde, Prize Fighter Inferno
Contention - Artillery From Heaven: 7 Most Precious Blood, Indecision
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal: 8 Little Simz, Noname
Dungen - Otis: 6 Yesterday's New Quintet, Boards of Canada
Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone: 8 The Hotelier, Modern Baseball
Fucked Up - Another Day: 7 Fucked Up
Fucked Up - Someday: 7.5 Fucked Up, Militarie Gun
Funeral Diner - The Underdark: 8 City of Caterpillar, deathcrash
Harrison Gordon - The Yuppies are Winning: 7.5 Japandroids, Free Throw
Hey, ily! - Hey, I Loathe You!: 6.5 Origami Angel, Glass Beach
Hiss Tracts - Shortwave Nights: 8 Azusa Plane, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Human error - Human Error: 7.5 Ratatat
Baez, Joan - Any Day Now: 9.5 Bob Dylan
Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation: 9
Lobsterfight - My Coat Hanger Is A Necklace: 7.5 Cap'n Jazz, Captain Jazz
Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police: 6.5 Bon Iver, Phil Collins
Mount Eerie - Night Palace: 8 Decemberists, Mountain Goats
Neutral Milk Hotel - Live at Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL: 10 Neutral Milk Hotel
Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini: 7.5 M, Aerial M
Pine - Lead Blocks for Feet: 8.5 Texas is the Reason
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me_: 6.5 Wovenhand, Unwound
Polaris - Beaumont Street Studio Recordings: 8 Slint, Curtains-era Piebald
Polaris - Demo: 7
Polaris - Belated: 7.5
Polaris - Live At The 13th Note, Glasgow (11.26.2000): 7
Polaris - Polaris: 7
Robinson, Porter - SMILE! _D: 7.5 Feeling Not Found, 1000 gecs
Spellling - The Turning Wheel: 6.5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads- 77 (Super Deluxe Edition): 10
Various - The Elephant 6 Recording Co: 10
Various - fourwaysplit: 8
Vektor - Outer Isolation: 7
Vektor - Black Future: 7.5 Mars Volta
Vektor - Terminal Redux: 6.5
Guthrie, Woody - The Asch Recordings, Volume 1_ This Land Is Your Land: 9
Young Jesus - Rejected Ambient Works: 6.5
As Friends Rust - Lightless: 6 Hot Water Music, Against Me!
Bane - It All Comes Down To This (25th Anniversary Edition): 9.5
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (deluxe edition): 9.5
Bondo - Harmonica: 8.5 Slint, City of Caterpillar
Cauterize - So Far From Real: 6.5 Saves the Day, Get Up Kids
Chalamet, Timothée - A Complete Unknown_ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 9 Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess: 7.5 Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush
Charli xcx - BRAT: 7 Lady Gaga, SOPHIE
Coheed and Cambria - Claudio Covers: 6 Chonny and Clyde, Prize Fighter Inferno
Contention - Artillery From Heaven: 7 Most Precious Blood, Indecision
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal: 8 Little Simz, Noname
Dungen - Otis: 6 Yesterday's New Quintet, Boards of Canada
Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone: 8 The Hotelier, Modern Baseball
Fucked Up - Another Day: 7 Fucked Up
Fucked Up - Someday: 7.5 Fucked Up, Militarie Gun
Funeral Diner - The Underdark: 8 City of Caterpillar, deathcrash
Harrison Gordon - The Yuppies are Winning: 7.5 Japandroids, Free Throw
Hey, ily! - Hey, I Loathe You!: 6.5 Origami Angel, Glass Beach
Hiss Tracts - Shortwave Nights: 8 Azusa Plane, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Human error - Human Error: 7.5 Ratatat
Baez, Joan - Any Day Now: 9.5 Bob Dylan
Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation: 9
Lobsterfight - My Coat Hanger Is A Necklace: 7.5 Cap'n Jazz, Captain Jazz
Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police: 6.5 Bon Iver, Phil Collins
Mount Eerie - Night Palace: 8 Decemberists, Mountain Goats
Neutral Milk Hotel - Live at Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL: 10 Neutral Milk Hotel
Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini: 7.5 M, Aerial M
Pine - Lead Blocks for Feet: 8.5 Texas is the Reason
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me_: 6.5 Wovenhand, Unwound
Polaris - Beaumont Street Studio Recordings: 8 Slint, Curtains-era Piebald
Polaris - Demo: 7
Polaris - Belated: 7.5
Polaris - Live At The 13th Note, Glasgow (11.26.2000): 7
Polaris - Polaris: 7
Robinson, Porter - SMILE! _D: 7.5 Feeling Not Found, 1000 gecs
Spellling - The Turning Wheel: 6.5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads- 77 (Super Deluxe Edition): 10
Various - The Elephant 6 Recording Co: 10
Various - fourwaysplit: 8
Vektor - Outer Isolation: 7
Vektor - Black Future: 7.5 Mars Volta
Vektor - Terminal Redux: 6.5
Guthrie, Woody - The Asch Recordings, Volume 1_ This Land Is Your Land: 9
Young Jesus - Rejected Ambient Works: 6.5
1.24.2025
December 2024/January 2025
Allman Brothers Band - Atlanta International Pop Festival (2 Disc): A simpler time
Being Dead - Eels: Total throwback to a simpler time of garage pop
Ben Quad - Ephemera: Is screamo the next big thing? Sign me up!
Bon Iver - Sable,: I think EPs are where he needs to be
Chat Pile - Cool World: Not quite as dread-inducing, but still full of dread
Coldplay - Moon Music: Reliably comforting
Cooke, Sam - Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964: Perfection
Duran Duran - Rio: So solid I am embarrassed I avoided it
Dylan, Bob and The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings (27 Discs): Just great
Dym - Ray's Front Teeth': Love what they are going for even if it does not fully deliver
Erai - Erai: Powerfully engaging
Erai - Before We Were Wise and Unhappy: Ahead of its time and belongs on tours with Fiddlehead
Erai - Only Future: Definite growth of their sound. Wish we had another chapter.
Fiery Furnaces - Stuck In My Head: Perfect
Follow for Now - Follow For Now: 90s time capsule
From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds: Gorgeous
Go-Go's - Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's (2 Disc): Much more here than I ever knew
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”: A definite sadness to this one
Green Day - American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (4 Discs): I am not fond of adding live tracks to fill out a deluxe edition
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol: Unrealistic expectations for most, but solid entry and good enough farewell
Karate - Make It Fit: I would believe this was a new Piebald album
Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes: Soothing and relaxing after a long day
King, Carole - Tapestry: An album that plays like a collection of greatest hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping: So much more than I thought!
Machine Girl - MG Ultra: Not pushing things forward
Mamas & the Papas - Greatest Hits: A few really good songs, but the rest does not hold up
Nonpareils - Scented Pictures: More challenging, but more rewarding
Nonpareils - Rhetoric & Terror: More dream than nightmare
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found: Somewhere City was perfect. Gami Gang had its moments. Feeling Not Found slots in between.
Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt: Sounds like they had fun
Pointer Sisters - The Best of Pointer Sisters: Nice to have collection that shows a broader success than conventional wisdom would indicate
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can_ The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings: More likely to revisit
Ronettes - The Best of The Ronettes: Essential collection
Shangri‐Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama: Gorgeous selection that feels as fresh today as it would have in the 60s
Slint - Tweez (tweethan mix): Dramatic improvement on already good release
Smile - Cutouts: Too soon
SOPHIE - SOPHIE: Better than nothing
Stars.Wept - The.Stars.Wept: Solid release lost to time
Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode: Connect more with this than any of the others from what I can remember
Supremes - Gold: Supremely good
Thomas, Fred - Everything is Pretty Much Entirely Fucked: Melancholy at best
Thomas, Fred - Sink Like a Symphony: Starting to warm up
Thomas, Fred - Changer: Some strong singles
Thomas, Fred - Window in the Rhythm: Big sad dad energy
Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line: Love the more melodic direction
Town Liar - Lies- Eight Through Thirteen: Keep the short EPs coming
Voidz - Like All Before You: Always worth a listen
Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns: Completely fine, but they never seem to grab me
X-Parrot - Volume 4: When you have it in you and it just needs to get out
Xiu Xiu - 13_ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips: Good at being full of dread
Yon Loader - Yon Loader: Flying under the radar because it does the basics so well
Being Dead - Eels: Total throwback to a simpler time of garage pop
Ben Quad - Ephemera: Is screamo the next big thing? Sign me up!
Bon Iver - Sable,: I think EPs are where he needs to be
Chat Pile - Cool World: Not quite as dread-inducing, but still full of dread
Coldplay - Moon Music: Reliably comforting
Cooke, Sam - Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964: Perfection
Duran Duran - Rio: So solid I am embarrassed I avoided it
Dylan, Bob and The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings (27 Discs): Just great
Dym - Ray's Front Teeth': Love what they are going for even if it does not fully deliver
Erai - Erai: Powerfully engaging
Erai - Before We Were Wise and Unhappy: Ahead of its time and belongs on tours with Fiddlehead
Erai - Only Future: Definite growth of their sound. Wish we had another chapter.
Fiery Furnaces - Stuck In My Head: Perfect
Follow for Now - Follow For Now: 90s time capsule
From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds: Gorgeous
Go-Go's - Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's (2 Disc): Much more here than I ever knew
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”: A definite sadness to this one
Green Day - American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (4 Discs): I am not fond of adding live tracks to fill out a deluxe edition
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol: Unrealistic expectations for most, but solid entry and good enough farewell
Karate - Make It Fit: I would believe this was a new Piebald album
Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes: Soothing and relaxing after a long day
King, Carole - Tapestry: An album that plays like a collection of greatest hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping: So much more than I thought!
Machine Girl - MG Ultra: Not pushing things forward
Mamas & the Papas - Greatest Hits: A few really good songs, but the rest does not hold up
Nonpareils - Scented Pictures: More challenging, but more rewarding
Nonpareils - Rhetoric & Terror: More dream than nightmare
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found: Somewhere City was perfect. Gami Gang had its moments. Feeling Not Found slots in between.
Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt: Sounds like they had fun
Pointer Sisters - The Best of Pointer Sisters: Nice to have collection that shows a broader success than conventional wisdom would indicate
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can_ The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings: More likely to revisit
Ronettes - The Best of The Ronettes: Essential collection
Shangri‐Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama: Gorgeous selection that feels as fresh today as it would have in the 60s
Slint - Tweez (tweethan mix): Dramatic improvement on already good release
Smile - Cutouts: Too soon
SOPHIE - SOPHIE: Better than nothing
Stars.Wept - The.Stars.Wept: Solid release lost to time
Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode: Connect more with this than any of the others from what I can remember
Supremes - Gold: Supremely good
Thomas, Fred - Everything is Pretty Much Entirely Fucked: Melancholy at best
Thomas, Fred - Sink Like a Symphony: Starting to warm up
Thomas, Fred - Changer: Some strong singles
Thomas, Fred - Window in the Rhythm: Big sad dad energy
Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line: Love the more melodic direction
Town Liar - Lies- Eight Through Thirteen: Keep the short EPs coming
Voidz - Like All Before You: Always worth a listen
Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns: Completely fine, but they never seem to grab me
X-Parrot - Volume 4: When you have it in you and it just needs to get out
Xiu Xiu - 13_ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips: Good at being full of dread
Yon Loader - Yon Loader: Flying under the radar because it does the basics so well
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