Agree with both of you on the new Crowded House. The stuff I'd heard from them in the past was all "eh, it's ok" and this new one really impressed me. I think I need to go back and listen to everything from them again.
They did do Split Enz. But Neil Finn generally speaking seems like he'd be right up Jason's alley. He's just such an effortless melodicist. He's one of those artists who one day will pass away and everyone will talk about how much they always loved him. But here in life? He doesn't get 1/10th the acclaim he ought to. Crowded House, Split Enz, Finn Brothers, albums with his wife and with his son, true solo stuff... There's *so* much out there and so much of it is incredible.
I never got the love for them. Good songwriting but itself does not a great band make. Musically, they’re just boring bland vanilla dated acoustic guitar-based soft rock.
This year I didn't get to listen to that much music compared to last year, still got to 42 albums in the end. Album Cover: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches out to She Reaches out to She Overhyped: Charli XCX - BRAT Biggest Surprise: St Vincent - All Born Screaming Biggest Disappointment: Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Still a good album, but the singles are much better than the rest) Best Debut: Warm Exit - Ultraviolence Senior Circuit: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Best Comeback: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World An album only I liked: Lime Garden - One More Thing (Got it at 4.5 stars, RYM score is 3.08)
album cover: Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder overhyped: Opeth - The Last Will and Testament biggest surprise: Antioch - Antioch VII: Gates of Obliteration biggest disappointment: Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive senior circuit: Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation best debut - Hands of Goro - Hands of Goro best comeback: The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards against the grain; Richie Kotzen - Nomad ep: Demon Spell - Evil Nights
Album Cover: either To Shoot Another Day by Rosalie Cunningham or Plunge by Sam Evian Overhyped: agree with both of your picks Biggest Surprise: Cheekface, not because I had any bad experience with them but I remember seeing other people in the Discord really dislike their previous album in 2022 (I never heard it) Biggest Disappointment: Beth Gibbons, I didn't hear what other people heard with that one sadly (although Dua Lipa is a good one, I couldn't even finish it) Senior Circuit: Agree with both Judas Priest and Crowded House Best Debut: probably Friko, not sure if RIP Dunes really counts since he had previous projects Best Comeback: I was really disappointed by the Chloe and the Next 20th Century so Mahashmashana was a very welcome comeback for me Against the Grain: Not sure what to put here either, the one I was going to pick (J Robbins - Basilisk) used to have a really low average on RYM but it has actually gone up EP: Apollo Ghosts - Amethyst
Album cover of the year by Joe - Triple Fantasy where Joe photoshopped himself sticking his tongue into the john n yoko kiss on the Double Fantasy cover.. Quite brilliant actually
Coldplays new album was SURPRISINGLY good tho the singles where terrible but there’s a lot of beautiful string arrangements on that album moon music, One World, Jupiter,rainbow, all my love, Aeterna all really great songs imo
Cover: BLUE LIPS - Schoolboy Q Overhyped: HMHAS - Billie Eilish Surprise: 2093 - Yeat Disappointment: WHY LAWD? - NxWorries Debut: Prelude to Ecstasy - TLDP Senior: Wild God - Nick Cave & TBS Comeback: Missionary - Snoop & Dre ATG: Like All Before You - The Voidz EPOTY: Connla's Well - Maruja
My biggest disappointments of 2024 were Jason’s opinions on Sign o the times and seventeen seconds. Hey, Jason. Santa called. You’re on the naughty list!
Surprised we share so much: Cover: Geordie Greep Overhyped: brat. It's...fine... just EVERYWHERE Biggest surprise: Vince Staples makes great music again! Also me finally liking a Fontaines D.C. album was shocking Senior circuit: some good choices, but kudos to The Cure Best debut: I'm not going to cheat and pick veteran debuts or supergroups and say Friko Best comeback: who knew Los Campesinos! had such a masterpiece left in them after basically being on hiatus Against the grain: I liked the Japandroids final album more than most of the fanbase it seems Best EP: Nourished By Time by a million miles
Curly - As The Dude would say .. " Well , That's Uh Just Like Your Opinion Man " Please stop posting 📫 🙄 negatively in my replies. It's ponderous .. Man !
Thanks, guys. Looking forward to a great year of music for 2025! 1. Album Cover- Rockabilly Queen- Linda Gale Lewis 2. Overhyped- MJ Lenderman- Manning Fireworks 3. Biggest Surprise- Jess Cornelius- Care/Taking 4. Biggest Disappointment- Wild God- Nick Cave 5. Debut- Sprints - Letter To Self 6. Senior Circuit Award- X- Smoke & Fiction 7. Comeback Album- Beth Gibbons- Lives Outgrown 8. My Favorite Critically Ignored- Kevin Burt and Big Medecine- Thank You Brother Bill 9. Favorite EP- Kaeto-Intro
hmmm... Jason, you've turned me on to such great music (Nico Paulo, Kacey Johansing, Wednesday, etc.), but the Waxahatchee review surprised me. While I can respect not liking it as much as St. Cloud, rating it your biggest disappointment is surprising. To me Tiger's Blood is St. Cloud plus MJ Lenderman. While maybe not as fresh, still pretty darn good!
Most overhyped: Charli XCX - Brat (I don't even dislike this album; I gave it a light 8/10 and put it in my honorable mentions. However, it has dominated numerous year-end lists, and I don't think it's worthy of all these accolades; Charli (2019) was superior, but received less praise.) Biggest disappointment: St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Another album that I liked. Unfortunately, the industrial rock aesthetic isn't explored to the degree I was anticipating, and I'm not crazy about track 2 or the album's closing leg. This is the first St. Vincent studio record not to make my top 50, breaking a 6-album (or 17-year) streak, and thus has to be considered my disappointment of 2024.) And now for my 5 least-favorite acclaimed (not necessarily universal acclaim) albums of 2024: 5. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine: I disagree with the sentiment that 2024 was a great year for mainstream pop. Billie/Dua Lipa/Camila Cabelo/Taylor Swift/Sabrina Carpenter/FLO put out middling material, but this Grande album was the most boring one of the bunch. 4. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter: A dull and pointless album from a 90s legacy act. Bands like Collective Soul, Smashing Pumpkins, Dandy Warhols, Primal Scream, and Jesus & Mary Chain also put out lackluster records in 2024, but at least those ones were ignored. 3. Phosphorescent - Revelator: Winner of the 2024 Andy Shauf Prize for blandest indie folk album. 2. Sprints - Letter to Self: Some of the most uninspired post-punk I've ever heard. The band has no chemistry whatsoever. 1. Body Meat - Starchris: A nightmarish, autotune-filled fusion of R&B/pop that encompasses every modern trend of music that I despise. Grotesque and hideous. (The rest of my honorable mentions from 2024 will be in the replies. I'm getting everything out of the way so that I only need to post my favorite songs and albums in the next year-end videos.)
Another 30-or-so albums that I couldn't fit in my top 50. All of these are still in the 4-star range! Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity NØ MAN - Glitter and Spit Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains Summoning the Lich - Under the Reviled Throne A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer Fat Dog - WOOF. Michelle - Songs About You Specifically Ripped to Shreds - Sanshi Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers Civerous - Maze Envy Osees - Sorcs 80 Remi Wolf - Big Ideas The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Aetheria Conscientia - The Blossoming Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithm Wormwitch - Wormwitch Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Aeternum Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God F****d Up - Another Day Charli XCX - Brat Krallice - Inorganic Rites The Chisel - What a F*****g Nightmare The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again Glass Beach - Plastic Death Robber Robber - Wild Guess death's dynamic shroud - American Candy Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate The Bevis Frond - Focus on Nature Nicolette & the Nobodies - The Long Way
Debut 30 years ago is senior circuit? Then I must confess my fav artists are on the senior circuit. MDC, Alice Bag, Billy Bragg, Napalm Death, Redd Kross, the Cure, Steve Earle... Can you change the definition to 40 or 50 years since debut??
Bikini Body's Weird Party is the best EP of 2024 IMO, with Chelsea Wolfe's Unbound on the "need to listen to that properly" list. Embarrassed the biggest surprise for me is Geordie Greep since black midi was news to me, and I think both are great. The cover I didn't particularly like because it rips off Cultural Revolution imagery for the sake of love-murder navel gazing, but since that's what the New Sound is all about then it fits. In terms of covers, the Brat LP should be placed next to the Durutti Column sandpaper cover. I discovered this year that Canadian artist Baby Rose has a really good voice. In new to me I added to my itunes Bubu (Anabelas), some Wobbler albums, German Oak, Cardiacs and The Necessaries. Biggest disappointment was Cardi B speech for Kamala Harris. She should have shamed her rather than praising. Also disappointing is that Sweeping Promises are dragging their feet on making merch available online to fanatics. How hard can it be to print t-shirts.
My top disappointment is Valley of the Sun. Just lazy riffs, ones you’ve heard in a million metal songs. Previous album was so good, so I was really excited for it. I didn’t like the new Priest either, but semi expected it. Metal has not been good and this made me turn to country, sometimes.
Best debut. The last dinner party Other good debuts are Sprints /English Teacher / NewDad Best comeback. The cure Most overhyped. Charil xcx brat. Biggest disappointment. Fontaines DC romance (although it was very good)
Ed Harcourt is in my top 10, but so is Waxahatchee. Overrated: Brat, Beth Gibbons, SPRINTS Biggest Disappointment: MGMT, Jesus and Mary Chain Favorite debut: Friko, The Last Dinner Party Senior Circuit award: X "LP only I liked": The Umbrellas Your Cindy Lee thoughts are music to my ears because I've been bracing myself for a 2-hour listen for months.
Cindy Lee’s interminable album is just that. It’s too long. It’s way too damn long, especially for the quality of music that it is, it’s just too much. It’s not an Exile on Main Street or London Calling or 69 Love Songs situation where more is more, where every single song is amazing. Not the case at all.
My favorite album cover: The Reflectors - Going Out of Fashion (great stylization and font!) My best debut of the year: Tie = Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police, Liana Flores - Flower of the Soul Most overhyped album: Geordie Greep - The New Sound (I can’t believe you guys liked this one so much, it’s awful. It’s noodly and incel-y and gross and grating and annoying. And that album cover is awful too! I hate his accent, I hate his voice, and I hate the lyrics. Just edgy for the sake of being edgy.), but that Cindy Lee album isn’t far behind. Biggest disappointment: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World (it’s just diminishing returns for me, and not some amazing expectation-crushing all-time comeback. Not even close.) Biggest surprise: Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch (I never heard her before and now I love her, and Better Hate is one of my favorite songs ever now!) Senior circuit: Redd Kross - Redd Kross (Gotta be them for me, and I agree: great album cover too!) Best comeback: Blank. Can’t really see any album in my top list as a true comeback, although they’re all great. Against the grain? I’ll pick a negative that I feel alone in not liking, two of them: Again, the Geordie Greep album and the new Cure album. 👎🏻👎🏻 EP of the year? Surprisingly, it’s: neverminds - nevermind, the winter. (Yeah, I didn’t even look at this one, and I really super enjoyed it!) Great awards video for 2024, boys! :3
Agree with both of you on the new Crowded House. The stuff I'd heard from them in the past was all "eh, it's ok" and this new one really impressed me. I think I need to go back and listen to everything from them again.
I absolutely agree with Joe, Invincible Shield kicks so much ass.
Also, I have to say that the Blood Incatation album cover is also pretty dope.
"Lives Outgrown" by Beth Gibbons would be my Senior Circuit winner. Absolutely incredible album. And "Dummy" was exactly 30 years ago, so it counts!
Time for y'all to deep dive Crowded House 🥳
They did do Split Enz. But Neil Finn generally speaking seems like he'd be right up Jason's alley. He's just such an effortless melodicist. He's one of those artists who one day will pass away and everyone will talk about how much they always loved him. But here in life? He doesn't get 1/10th the acclaim he ought to. Crowded House, Split Enz, Finn Brothers, albums with his wife and with his son, true solo stuff... There's *so* much out there and so much of it is incredible.
I never got the love for them. Good songwriting but itself does not a great band make. Musically, they’re just boring bland vanilla dated acoustic guitar-based soft rock.
great video. i don't like when somebody implies that people just pretend to like a certain artist or album.
This year I didn't get to listen to that much music compared to last year, still got to 42 albums in the end.
Album Cover: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches out to She Reaches out to She
Overhyped: Charli XCX - BRAT
Biggest Surprise: St Vincent - All Born Screaming
Biggest Disappointment: Fontaines D.C. - Romance (Still a good album, but the singles are much better than the rest)
Best Debut: Warm Exit - Ultraviolence
Senior Circuit: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Best Comeback: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
An album only I liked: Lime Garden - One More Thing (Got it at 4.5 stars, RYM score is 3.08)
album cover: Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder
overhyped: Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
biggest surprise: Antioch - Antioch VII: Gates of Obliteration
biggest disappointment: Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive
senior circuit: Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
best debut - Hands of Goro - Hands of Goro
best comeback: The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
against the grain; Richie Kotzen - Nomad
ep: Demon Spell - Evil Nights
Album Cover: either To Shoot Another Day by Rosalie Cunningham or Plunge by Sam Evian
Overhyped: agree with both of your picks
Biggest Surprise: Cheekface, not because I had any bad experience with them but I remember seeing other people in the Discord really dislike their previous album in 2022 (I never heard it)
Biggest Disappointment: Beth Gibbons, I didn't hear what other people heard with that one sadly (although Dua Lipa is a good one, I couldn't even finish it)
Senior Circuit: Agree with both Judas Priest and Crowded House
Best Debut: probably Friko, not sure if RIP Dunes really counts since he had previous projects
Best Comeback: I was really disappointed by the Chloe and the Next 20th Century so Mahashmashana was a very welcome comeback for me
Against the Grain: Not sure what to put here either, the one I was going to pick (J Robbins - Basilisk) used to have a really low average on RYM but it has actually gone up
EP: Apollo Ghosts - Amethyst
Here we go!
Album cover of the year by Joe - Triple Fantasy where Joe photoshopped himself sticking his tongue into the john n yoko kiss on the Double Fantasy cover.. Quite brilliant actually
Coldplays new album was SURPRISINGLY good tho the singles where terrible but there’s a lot of beautiful string arrangements on that album moon music, One World, Jupiter,rainbow, all my love, Aeterna all really great songs imo
Okay but you can’t deny that WE PRAY kinda slaps too!
I can't avoid thinking of the cover and a song from Genesis Nursery Cryme (+The Musical Box lyrics) when seeing the cover of the Geordie Greep album.
So gross and edgy for me, thumbs down.
Like sprints album which is think is underrated.
Cover: BLUE LIPS - Schoolboy Q
Overhyped: HMHAS - Billie Eilish
Surprise: 2093 - Yeat
Disappointment: WHY LAWD? - NxWorries
Debut: Prelude to Ecstasy - TLDP
Senior: Wild God - Nick Cave & TBS
Comeback: Missionary - Snoop & Dre
ATG: Like All Before You - The Voidz
EPOTY: Connla's Well - Maruja
Best debut. Last dinner party. You are bang on
My biggest disappointments of 2024 were Jason’s opinions on Sign o the times and seventeen seconds.
Hey, Jason. Santa called. You’re on the naughty list!
Release the cooooooal!
Best Cure album ever
@@afinn5555omg..r u serious? 😖
He means 17 seconds not the new one. Relax
@@TastesLikeMusic She! And yes!
Surprised we share so much:
Cover: Geordie Greep
Overhyped: brat. It's...fine... just EVERYWHERE
Biggest surprise: Vince Staples makes great music again! Also me finally liking a Fontaines D.C. album was shocking
Senior circuit: some good choices, but kudos to The Cure
Best debut: I'm not going to cheat and pick veteran debuts or supergroups and say Friko
Best comeback: who knew Los Campesinos! had such a masterpiece left in them after basically being on hiatus
Against the grain: I liked the Japandroids final album more than most of the fanbase it seems
Best EP: Nourished By Time by a million miles
Songs Of A Lost World 🌎 wins my 🏆 for Senior Circuit & Best Comeback.
Facepalm. Jeez.
Curly - As The Dude would say .. " Well , That's Uh Just Like Your Opinion Man " Please stop posting 📫 🙄 negatively in my replies. It's ponderous .. Man !
@@davidellis5141 hey, what is life without a little balance? ;)
Thanks, guys. Looking forward to a great year of music for 2025!
1. Album Cover- Rockabilly Queen- Linda Gale Lewis 2. Overhyped- MJ Lenderman- Manning Fireworks 3. Biggest Surprise- Jess Cornelius- Care/Taking 4. Biggest Disappointment- Wild God- Nick Cave 5. Debut- Sprints - Letter To Self 6. Senior Circuit Award- X- Smoke & Fiction 7. Comeback Album- Beth Gibbons- Lives Outgrown 8. My Favorite Critically Ignored- Kevin Burt and Big Medecine- Thank You Brother Bill 9. Favorite EP- Kaeto-Intro
hmmm... Jason, you've turned me on to such great music (Nico Paulo, Kacey Johansing, Wednesday, etc.), but the Waxahatchee review surprised me. While I can respect not liking it as much as St. Cloud, rating it your biggest disappointment is surprising. To me Tiger's Blood is St. Cloud plus MJ Lenderman. While maybe not as fresh, still pretty darn good!
I thought my comments would have been nominated for most annoying?? Not even nominated!
Ha, ha. Not even close. I do my rambles/rants at midnight when I’m going to sleep. Typical editor who can’t edit themselves.
Album of the year = Bill Ryder-Jones
Love that album
Most overhyped: Charli XCX - Brat (I don't even dislike this album; I gave it a light 8/10 and put it in my honorable mentions. However, it has dominated numerous year-end lists, and I don't think it's worthy of all these accolades; Charli (2019) was superior, but received less praise.)
Biggest disappointment: St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Another album that I liked. Unfortunately, the industrial rock aesthetic isn't explored to the degree I was anticipating, and I'm not crazy about track 2 or the album's closing leg. This is the first St. Vincent studio record not to make my top 50, breaking a 6-album (or 17-year) streak, and thus has to be considered my disappointment of 2024.)
And now for my 5 least-favorite acclaimed (not necessarily universal acclaim) albums of 2024:
5. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine: I disagree with the sentiment that 2024 was a great year for mainstream pop. Billie/Dua Lipa/Camila Cabelo/Taylor Swift/Sabrina Carpenter/FLO put out middling material, but this Grande album was the most boring one of the bunch.
4. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter: A dull and pointless album from a 90s legacy act. Bands like Collective Soul, Smashing Pumpkins, Dandy Warhols, Primal Scream, and Jesus & Mary Chain also put out lackluster records in 2024, but at least those ones were ignored.
3. Phosphorescent - Revelator: Winner of the 2024 Andy Shauf Prize for blandest indie folk album.
2. Sprints - Letter to Self: Some of the most uninspired post-punk I've ever heard. The band has no chemistry whatsoever.
1. Body Meat - Starchris: A nightmarish, autotune-filled fusion of R&B/pop that encompasses every modern trend of music that I despise. Grotesque and hideous.
(The rest of my honorable mentions from 2024 will be in the replies. I'm getting everything out of the way so that I only need to post my favorite songs and albums in the next year-end videos.)
Another 30-or-so albums that I couldn't fit in my top 50. All of these are still in the 4-star range!
Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
NØ MAN - Glitter and Spit
Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains
Summoning the Lich - Under the Reviled Throne
A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
Fat Dog - WOOF.
Michelle - Songs About You Specifically
Ripped to Shreds - Sanshi
Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers
Civerous - Maze Envy
Osees - Sorcs 80
Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Aetheria Conscientia - The Blossoming
Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithm
Wormwitch - Wormwitch
Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Aeternum
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
F****d Up - Another Day
Charli XCX - Brat
Krallice - Inorganic Rites
The Chisel - What a F*****g Nightmare
The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Glass Beach - Plastic Death
Robber Robber - Wild Guess
death's dynamic shroud - American Candy
Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate
The Bevis Frond - Focus on Nature
Nicolette & the Nobodies - The Long Way
Have been wanting to ask, is that a golf bag over your left shoulder in the background Jason? Can't tell, and would not have pegged you as a golfer.
It’s a guitar case
Debut 30 years ago is senior circuit? Then I must confess my fav artists are on the senior circuit. MDC, Alice Bag, Billy Bragg, Napalm Death, Redd Kross, the Cure, Steve Earle... Can you change the definition to 40 or 50 years since debut??
Also Roger Waters is great. He speaks out while Young and Dylan play it safe
Bikini Body's Weird Party is the best EP of 2024 IMO, with Chelsea Wolfe's Unbound on the "need to listen to that properly" list.
Embarrassed the biggest surprise for me is Geordie Greep since black midi was news to me, and I think both are great. The cover I didn't particularly like because it rips off Cultural Revolution imagery for the sake of love-murder navel gazing, but since that's what the New Sound is all about then it fits. In terms of covers, the Brat LP should be placed next to the Durutti Column sandpaper cover.
I discovered this year that Canadian artist Baby Rose has a really good voice.
In new to me I added to my itunes Bubu (Anabelas), some Wobbler albums, German Oak, Cardiacs and The Necessaries.
Biggest disappointment was Cardi B speech for Kamala Harris. She should have shamed her rather than praising. Also disappointing is that Sweeping Promises are dragging their feet on making merch available online to fanatics. How hard can it be to print t-shirts.
Best album: DIIV “Frog In Boiling Water”
My top disappointment is Valley of the Sun. Just lazy riffs, ones you’ve heard in a million metal songs. Previous album was so good, so I was really excited for it. I didn’t like the new Priest either, but semi expected it. Metal has not been good and this made me turn to country, sometimes.
New Priest rules. - Joe
Are you guys going to react to any end of year best albums lists like Rolling Stone? That was fun last year
We recorded a tier list video where we look at a bunch of em
Best debut. The last dinner party
Other good debuts are Sprints /English Teacher / NewDad
Best comeback. The cure
Most overhyped. Charil xcx brat.
Biggest disappointment. Fontaines DC romance (although it was very good)
Ed Harcourt is in my top 10, but so is Waxahatchee.
Overrated: Brat, Beth Gibbons, SPRINTS
Biggest Disappointment: MGMT, Jesus and Mary Chain
Favorite debut: Friko, The Last Dinner Party
Senior Circuit award: X
"LP only I liked": The Umbrellas
Your Cindy Lee thoughts are music to my ears because I've been bracing myself for a 2-hour listen for months.
Cindy Lee’s interminable album is just that. It’s too long. It’s way too damn long, especially for the quality of music that it is, it’s just too much. It’s not an Exile on Main Street or London Calling or 69 Love Songs situation where more is more, where every single song is amazing. Not the case at all.
Sprints are underrated. Night owl
Agree with you best debut which is spot on. Night owl.
@@curly_wynwhite album
man. crowded house were awesome back in the day, but I'm never going to feel brat, is it age? or could IT be she's just not that good?
Age. - Joe
Thank you Jason for saying Brat is the most overhyped! Most overrated album this year no question.
Jason not liking Brat and picking it as most over-hyped. Sure didn't see that coming.
Charli XCX list go!
Biggest suprise....Kram leaving!
That happened last year
Also wasn’t a surprise
@TastesLikeMusic to us it was! 😁
My favorite album cover:
The Reflectors - Going Out of Fashion (great stylization and font!)
My best debut of the year:
Tie = Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police, Liana Flores - Flower of the Soul
Most overhyped album:
Geordie Greep - The New Sound (I can’t believe you guys liked this one so much, it’s awful. It’s noodly and incel-y and gross and grating and annoying. And that album cover is awful too! I hate his accent, I hate his voice, and I hate the lyrics. Just edgy for the sake of being edgy.), but that Cindy Lee album isn’t far behind.
Biggest disappointment:
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World (it’s just diminishing returns for me, and not some amazing expectation-crushing all-time comeback. Not even close.)
Biggest surprise:
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch (I never heard her before and now I love her, and Better Hate is one of my favorite songs ever now!)
Senior circuit:
Redd Kross - Redd Kross
(Gotta be them for me, and I agree: great album cover too!)
Best comeback:
Blank. Can’t really see any album in my top list as a true comeback, although they’re all great.
Against the grain? I’ll pick a negative that I feel alone in not liking, two of them:
Again, the Geordie Greep album and the new Cure album. 👎🏻👎🏻
EP of the year?
Surprisingly, it’s: neverminds - nevermind, the winter.
(Yeah, I didn’t even look at this one, and I really super enjoyed it!)
Great awards video for 2024, boys! :3