My favorite podcast is called "Why I Hate this Album" Two guys named Tim Richardson and Garrett Harvey listen to an album for a week and criticize it Their dynamic is sooooo funny. You get these conversations about candle-based serial killers, cowboy cults, wearing nice shoes to get into heaven, all from limp bizkit lyrics or florida georgia line lyrics. It's incredibly unknown, so I am never not ... » Continue Reading
Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. Three hundred and ninety full-lengths albums, oh dear. Thirteen days, six hours, thirty two minutes, and twenty eight seconds of music this year. Here's the playlist link , the AOTY list, and thanks for joining me on th » Continue Reading
Look, if nobody cared the first time I was a day late, nobody will care one week from the end. December 16th: Phrenology by The Roots Returning to the well of the Roots, this album is just as good as Things Fall Apart , maybe even better (I'll decide at a later date.) Black Thought is as visceral on the microphone as ever, Questlove's drums and production are wicked, and this » Continue Reading
50 weeks. 5*10 weeks. 25*2 weeks. It's shocking that I've managed to keep this up for this long. I mean, it was shocking for the first 49 as well, but multiples of 10 feel more important. Here's the playlist , and here's the AOTY list. » Continue Reading
San Francisco work it out! I don't know, man. Playlist , AOTY, let's get to it. December 2nd: FLYGOD by Westside Gunn BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM. AYO. I SOLD CRACK TO A PINE TREE . That Hivemind bit was, in fact, my first exposure to Wests » Continue Reading
Here we are, in the lower 48. By which I mean that we're in the twilight of this series, and I live within the continental US. Look, I know it's a stretch. Sometimes I don't have a good opening statement. Playlist . Also my AOTY list that I've been forgetting to link to. November 25 » Continue Reading
Allan, please add an Agent 47 joke. Allan, please click this link to find my playlist of one song from each of the albums discussed in this series. Allan, please tell anyone who found this series late that I probably won't take requests after the fact. I mean, maybe if you send me an ask, I'll write about it. It'll be a separate playlist and under a different t » Continue Reading
2024 Album-A-Day: Week 46 The Tidal desktop app is down for some reason, which is inconvenient. The web player works, which is nice, but... why just the desktop app? Click here for the playlist , and.... y'know what, don't bother recommending albums. Two people have at this point, and I don't think this series is going to exponentially increase in readership in the » Continue Reading
Nearing the end of this series, as we are nearing the end of democracy as we know it. Feel free to recommend albums for the remaining seven weeks of this series (I find it unlikely that you will, but I'm not offended by that. Five people have read these.) November 4th: The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) by Steven Wilson I was surprised to like this more than I liked Fear of a Blank... » Continue Reading
October 28th: Mellow Gold by Beck I've loved Beck's Odelay, Midnite Vultures, and Sea Change for years now, so I thought it was finally time I heard his major label debut Mellow Gold . This album is pretty similar to Odelay in many ways, with his usual style of blues-folk-rap-rock-nonsense songs such as "Loser" and "Fuckin With My Head" and more traditional numbers such as "Pay No Mind." The produ... » Continue Reading
I don't know if I've said this before here, but I am not built for cold weather. I'm going to have to start going really overboard with the layers soon. Click here for the playlist link, and if you're so inclined, recommend an album for the remaining 9 weeks of this series. I doubt you will, but you could. October 21st: Milo Goes to College by Descende » Continue Reading
Do you know where your towel is? Click here for the playlist , and feel free to suggest albums for me to write about for the remaining ten weeks of this project. I find it unlikely anyone will at this point, but consistency is important to me. October 14th: Deathcounsciousness by Have a Nice Life This is one of those albums I'd heard spoken o » Continue Reading