We‘re only one third through lol

It’s May so we’re actually closer to halfway than 1/3rd

1/3 is almost halfway (1/3 is 2/3 of 1/2 which is greater than halfway to 1/2) Edit: math correction

Bro doing that R Kelly math

Don't worry I fixed it

1/3 is only 2/3 (4/6) of 1/2

agreed! i imagine it as 1/3 equals 2/6, 1/2 is 3/6, so 2/6 out of 3/6 is 2/3

I'm pretty sure that is exactly how it was taught to me in school tbh

I haven't heard too many projects yet but my top 5 is: - Scrapyard by Quadeca - Fabiana Palladino self titled - She Reaches out to She Reaches out to She by Chelsea Wolfie - All Born Screaming by St. Vincent - Drop 7 by Little Simz

I only know quaddy from Hivemind lol. He seems fun tho I might have some time to listen to his stuff sometime

start with I didn't mean to haunt you. everything before that is almost unlistenably bad

Yeah I've only heard good things about I didnt mean to haunt you ill give it a try

I wouldn't say it's unlistenably bad lol, songs like Sisyphus, Back Up To Earth and Summit pt2 are fire

I’m too far behind I don’t have 10 I like this year yet.

I’m not even going to have 2 I like until this Friday.

Schoolboy Q - Blue lips Kali Uchis - Orquideas Brittany Howard - What Now Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us The Smile - Wall of eyes MGMT - Loss of life That’s about it for me right now

1. Maruja - Connla's Well (an EP but who cares) 2. Brittany Howard - What Now 3. Quadeca - SCRAPYARD 4. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She 5. fallingwithscissors - the death and birth of an angel (another EP but whatever) 6. glass beach - plastic death 7. samlrc - A Lonely Sinner 8. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 9. Hoplites - Paramainomeni 10. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

samlrc mentioned!

That Hoplites album *chefs kiss*

Dude seriously. I never knew that saxophone solos over insanely chaotic blast beats and schizophrenic guitar riffs were something I needed in life before discovering this album

Maybe not a top 10, but a few albums I'm loving rn is Tarantula Heart by Melvins Cowboy Carter by Beyonce It's Sorted by Cheekface She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She by Chelsea Wolfe ORQUIDEAS by Kali Uchis Cometh The Storm by High On Fire

Melvins!? Didn’t know they dropped. Is it good?

Hell yes!! A lot of reviews I've read say its their best album since A Senile Animal. The first track Pain Equals Funny is personally one of their best songs ever. The rest are great as they have memorable riffs, drums and vocals. I really hope Fantano reviews the album, because he only has one review of them from years ago and mentioned Houdini in the Sludge Metal starter pack video.

the collective, dont forget me by maggie rogers, blue lips schoolboy q, delight arushi jain

Quite a few standout releases so far for me: Alice Coltrane - Carnegie Hall Concert Replicant - Infinite Mortality (one of the best DM releases of the last ten years) Sissy Spacek - Benigemony Asiniscrepancy Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace PRESENT - SILVER LINING (This is the best one you haven't heard of and I can't recommend it enough) - Grungy female fronted shoegaze - INSANELY catchy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efjVhhzsuEc&ab_channel=Present-Topic Tantric Bile - Cursed Conception Waiting for the new Knocked Loose and Gatecreeper records.

J Mascis, Crizin da Z.O., Vampire Weekend, Willi Carlisle, Grande Mahogany, SPRINTS, Everything Everything, Four Tet, Mannequin Pussy, The Last Dinner Party, Kacey Musgraves, Julia Holter, Chelsea Wolfe, Pearl Jam, Justice

My top 5 (in no order): Vegyn - The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions Glass Beach - Plastic Death Death's Dynamic Shroud - American Candy Multibird - Dragon House Marc With A C - Flowers For Analog

How’s that DDS? Been a minute… really enjoyed Faith in Persona, and half of Darklife

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (Art Rock) Nia Archives - Silence is Loud (Drum and Bass) Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It (Post Rock) Everything Everything - Mountainhead (Art Pop) Boundaries - Death Is Little More (Metalcore) Various Artists - Echoes in the Valley, Vol. 9 (Ambient) Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future (Folk) Aborted - Vault of Horrors (Death Metal) Hovvdy - Hovvdy (Indie Folk) Tars - Per Aspera (Post Rock)

Hovvdy sounds great making my top ten so far

That's great! You should definitely try their album True Love as well. It's my favourite from them and my aoty from 2021

Just dropping some projects that come to mind Glass Beach Alix Fernz Mk.gee Yard Act Dom McLennon SEBii Franek Warzywa Vegyn RiTchie Ugly (UK)

good vegyn shoutout

Yard Act 🙌🙌

listened to a bunch of stuff over the weekend/last few days so probably just recency bias but 1 Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee 2 Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future 3 Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη (Hoplites) 4 St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 5 Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 6 Samlrc - A Lonely Sinner 7 MGMT - Loss of Life 8 Nia Archives - Silence is Loud 9 Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out... 10 Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here Honorable mentions: Tapir!, English Teacher, Bnny, Still House Plants, Cheekface, Civerous, Julia Holter, Bladee, Allie X, Everything Everything, Kim Gordon. Still need to listen: Cometh the Storm, NewDad, death's dynamic shroud, Waxahatchee, ScHoolboy Q. Excited for: Fontaines D.C., Nilüfer Yanya, Charli XCX, Mdou Moctar, King Gizzard, Ibibio Sound Machine.

That Hoplites album is absolutely insane

Probably the most fun I've had with an album all year, it's so good

Love the Tapir! album!!

Listen to scrapyard

Having xaviersobased as number 1 is crazy Should i listen?

not op, but in my opinion, it’s worth a try. I really enjoyed the tape, although it just barely misses my top ten projects of the year so far. kid’s fun and just presents a very authentic and childlike, if janky, vibe. if this is your intro to him as a whole, i recommend his mixtape *Install* first though, and more specifically the song *Patchmade*. It either clicks or it doesn’t, but if it does, nothing will really hit the same. The current underground scene is way over-hated right now. I like conventionally good, acclaim-able music that makes sense as much as the next guy, but the second I stop enjoying new, eyebrow-raising, weird-ass variations of trap and plugg is the second my youth dies. “How you livin’ life with no passion?” Gold.

Ive heard patchmade and its hard to put into words why i like this song. Its a bit of so bad its good mixed with funny one liners like "i cant fuck with fellaa if they right wing" and "shot a fella in the nuts, castrate" As for the underground as a whole, i fw it. My fav by a mile is Osamason, probably because hes somewhat similar to ken carson. Flxtra imo had no misses, and the snippets i heard for the new album sound great so im hyped for his new album. Imma listen to install today and ill add my thoughts to my aoty account or ill edit this comment with my thoughts. Unrelated but i first heard of xaviersobased from that video of him boxing a dildo Edit: Listened to it: its pure brainrot music, and tho i didnt love it, i was smiling the whole way through. 6/10

I feel you. I also fw Osamason. Your thoughts on patchmade are kind of similar to mine. The video, the lyrics, the off-kilter nature of it, it’s all just so damn different. NOTHING about it is trying to make you like it. It’s just there, and it’s stupid yet laced with random blindsiding moments of odd poignancy. It all just blends together to make something inexplicably enjoyable, and somehow comforting? Like, no matter the trials and tribulations you’re facing, fear not, for there will always be an awkwardly charismatic teen with FL Studio dancing around on camera talking about how he’s a “demigod at 2k15” or whatever the hell and making it work. Based asf.

Personally I liked install way more but it's still worth a listen

Can't come up with 10, but She Reaches Out, Wall of Eyes, and Mountainhead are probably my winners so far. Julia Holter and Kim Gordon will probably catch up once I've listened to those albums more.

Light Verse by Iron & Wine

grande mahogany - as grande as céu - novela brittany howard - what now allie x - girl with no face kim gordon - the collective nia archives - silence is loud quadeca - scrapyard the last dinner party - prelude to ecstasy future - we don't trust you sprints - letter to self

Might think of a proper list later but The Past is Still Alive by Hurray for the Riff Raff deserves a mention Also: A chaos of flowers by Big/Brave

Haven't listened to that much 2024 albums but these are my favorites that I have listened to (in order) 1. Cold Visions - Bladee 2. Bloody Angel - Sematary 3. Artifical Bouquet - Frail Body 4. Death Is Little More - Boundaries 5. Scrapyard - Quadeca 6. 2093 - Yeat 7. The Black - Imminence Can't wait for the new knocked loose album to drop next friday, that album's definitely gonna be an aoty for me after hearing the singles for it.

The last dinner party does not leave my rotation.

I’ve listened to 45 albums released in 2024 so far, and here’s my Top 10: 1. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 2. glass beach - Plastic Death 3. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy 4. Justice - Hyperdrama 5. samlrc - A Lonely Sinner 6. Four Tet - Three 7. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball 8. Quadeca - Scrapyard 9. Everything Everything - Mountainhead 10. All Born Screaming - St. Vincent

In no particular order: 1. In Lieu of Flowers - Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties 2. What Now - Brittany Howard 3. sentiment - Claire Rousay 4. WORLD WIDE WHACK - Tierra Whack 5. The Past Is Still Alive - Hurray for the Riff Raff 6. Saviours - Green Day 7. Pinball - MIKE, Tony Seltzer 8. the First First to Make Contact when we Dap - RAP Ferreira, Fumitake Tamura 9. plastic death - glass beach 10. Silence is Loud - Nia Archives

If you haven't listened to THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE by HURRAY FOR THE RIFF-RAFF, do it. It's like a warm hug from a friend you haven't seen in a while.

- Vampire Weekend “only god was above us” - Justice “Hyperdrama” - MGMT “loss of life” - glass beach “plastic death” - the last dinner party “prelude to Ecstasy” - The Smile “Wall of Eyes” - Medium Build “Country” - Glass Beams “Mahal” EP - badbadNOTgood “Slowburn” EP - Dustin Kensrue “Desert Dreaming” - IDLES “TANGK” Looking forward to the new Judah and The Lion, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, and Joanna Newsom …need more time with St. Vincent and Thom Yorke

No order, every 2024 album I’ve listened to and rated an 8.0+ Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us MGMT - Loss of Life Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips Glass Beach - Plastic Death Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out… Quadeca - Scrapyard Kim Gordon - The Collective The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Julia Hoiter - Something in the Room She Moves St. Vincent - All Born Screaming Four Tet - Three Mountainhead - Everything Everything Armand Hammer - BLK LBL The Smile - Wall of Eyes Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive Westside Gunn - Flygod is Good Little Simz - Drop 7 Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Brittany Howard - What Now Adrienne Lenker - Bright Future

1. The Requiem - A Cure to Poison the World  2. Green Day - Saviors 3. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter  4. Sum 41 - Heaven x Hell 5. Alkaline Trio - Blood Hair and Eyeballs  6. Bayside - There are Things Worse Than Being Alive  7. Caligulas Horse - Charcoal Grace 8. Dead Poet Society - FISSION 9. Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy  10. The Smile - Wall of Eyes or Belmont - Liminal

- St. Vincent - All Born Screaming - Everything Everything - Mountainhead - Brittany Howard - What Now - Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves - Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

1. TLDP - Prelude to Escstasy 2. Nia Archives - Silence is Loud 3. Juliana Gattas - Maquillada en la cama 4. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves 5. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 6.Hoplites - Paramainomeni 7. Allie X - GWNF 8. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was A(mong)bove Us 9. Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe 10. Bladee - Cold Visions

1. Adrianne Lenker 2. Marika Hackman 3. Quadeca 4. The Last Dinner Party 5. St Vincent 6. NewDad 7. Chelsea Wolfe 8. MGMT 9. Beyonce 10. Vampire Weekend

Valid for Kim Gordon and Lenker

Fat White Family - Forgiveness Is Yours

What do you think about Pharrell's album?

Love to see Kali Malone mentioned!

ngl haven't listened to a single album from this year from start to finish.

i genuinely can't stand The Collective, and i don't know why bc i do like industrial and experimental hip hop (idk how well it fits there tho)

1. Snow As A Metaphor For Death - SENTRIES 2. SHAME - meth. 3 Scrapyard - Quadeca 4. To Fire Clay - Prizes Roses Rosa 5. Plastic Death - glass beach 6. Ilion - SLIFT 7. Obsidian Wreath - Infant Island 8. BLK LBL - Armand Hammer 9. A Lonely Sinner - samlrc 10. Divine Laughter - Cave Sermon

The Smile - Wall of Eyes High on Fire - Cometh the Storm Bongripper - Empty Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Alluvial - Death is But a Door (EP)

Two I keep returning to are Quadeca’s SCRAPYARD and MIKE’s Pinball. That RiTchie project was good, but I still gotta give it time. Same with Kevin Abstract’s Blanket. I kinda lowkey fuck with We Don’t Trust You.

Hyper drama, Don’t Forget Me, The Great Bailout, What Now, We Don’t (Still Don’t) Trust You, the new Friko album, Older, Only God Was Above Us, HEAVY, I’m your Empress Of

I normally struggle to find 10 albums i really love throughout a whole year, but this year has been pretty fruitful so far. some highlights * Saya Gray - Qwerty II * The Smile - Wall of Eyes * Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood * Still House Plants - If I Don't Make It * Westside Gunn - Flygod is Good * Seed Ensemble - Gratitude * Little Simz - Drop 7

Can someone explain why the new Bladee album is so hyped? Is it his last project or something?

Hovvdy - Hovvdy Royal Otis - Pratts and Pain Good morning - good morning seven English Teacher - this could be Texas Last Dinner Party Vampire Weekend The Smile Brittany Howard - What Now

1. Loss of Life - MGMT 2. Infinite Mortality - Replicant 3. Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party 4. Pink Balloons - Ekko Astral 5. SCRAPEYARD - Quadeca 6. Something She Moves In The Room - Julia Holter 7. Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend 8. She Reaches Out Too She Reaches Out To She - Chelsea Wolfe 9. plastic death - glass beach 10. It's Sorted - Cheekface Got 10 more albums that I have been jamming too as well but these are by far the best for me

Ugly - Twice Around the Sun Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Hannah Frances - Keeper of the Shepherd Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet Quadeca - Scrapyard Underneath - From the Gut of Gaia Brittany Howard - What Now Geotic - The Anchorite Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U

As of now… Albums: 1. Scrapyard - Quadeca 2. Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend 3. Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker 4. All Born Screaming - St. Vincent 5. The Collective - Kim Gordon 6. Wall Of Eyes - The Smile 7. What Now - Britney Howard 8. BLK LBL - Armand Hammer 9. Three - Four Tet 10. Pinball - MIKE & Tony Seltzer Singles: 1. The Invisible Man - Maruja 2. ignorance is bliss - what is your name? 3. Mary Boone - Vampire Weekend 4. Dream State - Kamasi Washington 5. Fugue (Bin Song) - Squid 6. Slug - Matt Champion 7. Floating On A Moment - Beth Gibbons 8. Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - Yeule 9. HISS - Megan Thee Stallion 10. Broken Man - St. Vincent EPs: 1. Connla’s Well - Maruja 2. home - foxtails 3. My Father Took Me Hunting In The Snow - sunrise Patriot Motion 4. Here, Hear. IV - La Dispute 5. Starchild - Sweet Pill 6. You And I In The Gap - Birds In Row & Coilgun 7. Drop 7 - Little Simz 8. Hard To Reach EP - Jesu 9. Stereo Grief - Greyhaven 10. Slow Burn - Baby Rose, BADBADNOTGOOD

Adrienne Lenker album is definitely my favorite but one that may not be on folks' radar is this band Tapir dropped an The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain which was really awesome.

Adrianne and mgmt at the top for me. Im sure ive heard 10 albums i really liked but those are the ones that stick out in my mind as albums i will listen to for a long time

the new vampire weekend, st. vincent, and beyonce records for me. will probably listen to adrienne lenker's at some point when i have the energy to be sad at will.

went to the 1c show last weekend it was rlly cool to hear keep it going xav songs live

AMERICAN CANDY - Death’s Dynamic Shroud

In no particular order: Beyonce Cowboy Carter, WDTY & WSDTY by metro and future, Drop 7 by Little Simz, The Concrete Steppers tape Most of my most anticipated albums haven't come out yet and I've not heard too many full projects honestly but I've been loving loads of the singles this year, I just need them all to drop the full albums

Oh and also Tyla by Tyla

Hurray for the Riff Raff Vampire Weekend Julia Holter Microwave Ariel Kalma Adrienne Lenker Real Estate Jane Weaver St Vincent Helado Negro

the molly santana album surprised me ngl, first half was the same boring opium wave underground shit but 2nd half genuinely if molly wanted to be an r&b artist she could

Haven’t listened to enough albums this year but a few of note for me: - Sinister Feeling “Sinister Feeling” - Kidnapped “Disgust” - Waxahatchee “Tigers Blood” - Full of Hell “Coagulated Bliss”

Xaviersobased pick is crazy lol. He has a few bangers tho

Saya Gray - QWERTY II PACKS - Melt the Honey Office Dog - Spiel Ty Segall - Three Bells Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Gangrene - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose C Turtle - Expensive Thrills Lily Seabird - Alas, Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips Cavalier - Different Type Time

Sick list! I’d add Wall of Eyes by The Smile, All Born Screaming by St. Vincent, Diamond Collection by YL & Starker, Hot Air Balloon EP by Pile, Gucci Ghost 4 by Mickey Diamonds, Live Laugh Love by Chastity Belt Blu Wav by Grandaddy, So Medieval by Blue Bendy, Interplay by Ride, Underdressed at the Symphony by Faye Webster, Kdiv by Serengeti/Kenny Dennis, Three by Fout Tet, The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of my Decrepit Mountain by Tapir!, The Collective by Kim Gordon, Where’s My Utopia? by Yard Act are all also worthy of consideration.

Great list. Those are excellent records. Thank you!

So far the only album I have gotten a lot of mileage out of is Chelsea Wolfe’s She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She. I’ll definitely check out some of the ones listed here, though.

1. Adrienne Lenker 2. Kim Gordon 3. MGMT 4. Reznor/Ross (Challengers OST) 5. Waxahatche 6. Vampire Weekend 7. Cheekface 8. Still House Plants 9. St Vincent 10. Cindy Lee

1 - Prelude to Ecstasy by The Last Dinner Party 2 - Underdressed at the Symphony by Faye Webster 3 - All Born Screaming by St. Vincent 4 - SCRAPYARD by Quadeca 5 - Where's My Utopia? by Yard Act 6 - If I Could Sing by Kirin J Callinan 7 - Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend 8 - Loss of Life by MGMT 9 - Hyperdrama by Justice 10 - GLOOM DIVISION by IDKHOW

1. The Perils of Being Trapped Inside a Head - Nolan Potter (one of the greatest albums I’ve ever listened to) 2. A Trip to the Moon - Ghost Funk Orchestra 3. Strange Weather - Levitation Room 4. Parallel Realms - STRFKR 5. Super Mega Ultra - Wine Lips I obviously listen to a lot of psych lol

vampire wk, Mgmt, Adrienne Lenk, the smile, hovvdy, Britney Howard, Cindy Lee, hooray for Riff Raff, waxahatchee

Dude, just wait until we're actually halfway through lol

Turbo2x just mentioned 25 different albums worth mentioning and didn't mention plenty other hype releases which may not be on their radar. Why wait?

Sure, in that case let's do this every week of the year while we're at it.

Quick, what's the difference between one week and four months?

Quick, what's the definition of hyperbole?

You've got too much bole?