The Graveyard and Voodoo by King Diamond
Voodoo by D’Angelo is another top tier album
Mercury by Imagine Dragons
The Death Stranding OST
Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone.
It’s just a solid album top to bottom and I’ve been vibing with it for awhile, now.
Of all time, The Cure’s Disintegration. Lately, it’s been Kangding Ray’s Zero. Exactly what you need from a great techno record
Treat yourself to Fontaines DC’s new album “Romance”!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kZT0QOARqqnSdN_UcUN0qBfANvv4hvaq0&si=E0LfKskRbRr5vdFG
I played this in my house when it came out because I liked Skinty Fia; my kid immediately said “play that again please, the whole album”. I love it!
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I. A progressive extreme metal. If you want to give it a shot, listen And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope, to see if it is for you.
Honorific mention to Nirvana - All of us. This is not Kurt Kobain’s Nirvana, but another band called that way back from 1967. Amazing soft psychedelic rock. The band’s history is quite interesting as well, including a lawsuit against Kurt Kobain’s Nirvana, and then also trying to cash out of KB’s Nirvana popularity by launching a new album after several years of breaking up, in order to profit from confused customers. Then, last year they launched a new album, after 50+ years of their original break up (which I really enjoy as well).
I’ve been listening to Wolfie’s Just Fine a lot recently
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kD59vK8EVf4t07XFU06YMIl5r1T33GkWw
A Boat On The Sea by Moron Police. Can’t wait for their next album!
I’m too mercurial and indecisive to ever have a definitive favourite anything. So here’s three that do well on different metrics:
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
It’s one of the strongest first halves of an album ever in my opinion.Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fond memories, and if you’ve nothing to do for an hour headphones, the two of you and a comfy chair are still a great way to pass it.Talking Heads - Fear of Music Probably the album I’ve listened to most. Lot of big tunes here.
High mare - dead pirates
The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us
“Enn” by Eivør, simply amazing! Was on a concert a few weeks back, totalt 600 people and it was a blast!
Have a listen: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mfYUyMRk-zYA1V1Z04a7GGB106N2JT5vU&si=m-R3MtJD1CuUTmVV
My wife saw her last week with a band called Heilung. That looked pretty out the gates
What a night! How were Heilung live if I may ask? I’ve been thinking of going to their show here in February.
Dude she showed some videos and it looked unreal. Full disclosure, we are both not into this type of music. Despite that, she said it was probably one of the best concerts she’d ever seen.
We live in New Zealand, and the group had joined forces with a local group of Maori performers who blended in their own cultural practices. It seems like they went above and beyond to tailor their performance to the local setting and honouring native practices here.
I’m really sad I didn’t join, but occasionally you have to give the wife a girls night out.
What an awesome show that must have been! Maybe I have to really go then!
Hellmode - Jeff Rosenstock
The only other thing I’m listening to atm. is the Monogatari series openings and endings
At this moment -
The Boy Bands Have Won by Chumbawumba.
It had been taken off Spotify for a while but it’s back and I can’t get enough.
