matrodger.bsky.social
Startup guy, metal guy, dad guy. đłïžâđ I dig music.
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Brings me no joy to point out that, as a fellow âone-Tâ guy, theyâve even misspelled the name of their superstar DJ booking
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No finer opening 10 seconds in all of hardcore, of course. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGaq...
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Iâm happy with it just being bad for Sam Altman tbh
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And here's 90 minutes of the best tracks of the year - it's been a good one! Can't remember a year where I've liked getting on for 30 whole albums. open.spotify.com/playlist/24n...
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4-1 (in an order that changes every time I try to make the list):
4 Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
3 Thou - Umbilical
2 Chat Pile - Cool World
1 Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
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Day 24: Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line. Last one before the big top 10 and a lovely slice of broadly screamy emo to see in the festive season.
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Day 23: Shovel Dance Collective - The Shovel Dance. Is getting into folk something that happens as you get older? Maybe Richard Dawson was a gateway for me but either way this sort of stuff grows on me more these days. Atmospheric stuff about the sea! Why not!
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Day 22: Big Brave - A Chaos of Flowers. Seems to be a Big Brave record every year at the moment and thatâs no bad thing. A bit more subdued than recent efforts, itâs still a very lovely and haunting mix of tangible noise and moody beauty. The loudest quiet album of the year.
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Day 21: Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia. So pleased Tyler came back to rapping on Call Me If You Get Lost; this one carries on the theme with a bit more of that experimental pop stuff mixed in. Gets closer to Kendrick every record, in a good way.
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Day 20: Tiny Moving Parts - Deep in the Blue. Had totally missed this one coming out after enjoying one of their records a couple of years ago, but something about Christmas brings out a need for earnest, twinkly emo in me. So it's been on a fair bit this last week or so.
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Day 19: Heems - Lafandar. Love this guy's flow; sort of lazy but verbose and full of fun multi-national references to dig into. Also there's a song called "Bukayo Saka" and that's coooool
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Day 18: Chat Pile - Cool World. I think odds were against Chat Pile coming back with a second album as instantly thrilling and horrible as their debut, but they manage to mine something even deeper and nastier on this one. Hard to call it mature, but certainly more sure of itself.
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Day 17: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024, 28,340 DEAD". Think the harrowing title and the fact that it's Godspeed tells you much of what you need to know - but it's on the lusher side of what they do and actually quite upbeat. Lovely that they're still around, tbh!
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Day 16: Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal. OK yes I've only just discovered this off the back of that amazing Tiny Desk show that came out last week but, man, it's really good.
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Day 15: Jamie xx - In Waves. Somehow the album of the summer despite coming out so late in the year; certainly the soundtrack of my summer holiday in October. Danceable and poppy yes, but also a clever mix of Jamieâs signature clubland references and moody dance myth making. Great production too
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Day 14: Thou - Umbilical. Really not the comeback album I was expecting - itâs so fast! And grungy! Really great though, best stuff theyâve done since the Emma Ruth Rundle collab.
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Day 13: Kendrick Lamar - GNX. Probably more words written about our Kenny this year than any other musician; but it's been a fun year! Not Like Us is an unassailable megahit, and even without it this album packs some spicy stuff. It's not up there with your TPABs, but he's still the best in the biz.
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Day 12: Fontaines D.C. - Romance. Such a fascinating band. At once really experimental and interesting, but also like a big stadium ladrock sensation, somehow? Good for them! Starbuster was maybe the single of the year, so addictive. And the album ain't bad either.
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Day 11: Coded Marking - Coded Marking. Thank-adjacent (I think) in that they're also from Leeds and play enjoyably raucous sort of post-punk. Not sure how known they are or what plans they have beyond this record, but I've been coming back to it lots.
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Can I interest you in a performance review for the Newcastle United manager 40 seconds into the song âNobodyâsâ by Californian post-hardcore aces TouchĂ© AmorĂ©? open.spotify.com/track/3WBFG4...
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Day 10: Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed. Delightful, noisy, very funny collection of songs from the Rock Band Thank from Leeds. If there's a better title than 'Woke Frasier' or a better screamed refrain than 'a pint of Guinness in a Madri glass' out there this year I'd be shocked.
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Day 9: Moin - You Never End. Another Quietus find, this band, all chopped up vocal samples and atmospheric guitars and stuttery drums, are a whole load of moody mysterious fun.
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Day 8: Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet. Centrepiece track âDevotionâ is a very rare thing: a six-minute epic of blackened screamo, and itâs the bandâs masterpiece. Caught them live twice this year and the show is as moving as it is crushing. Not messing about these lads
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Day 7: Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight. Oh man itâs so sludgy, occasionally terrifying, frequently hilarious. You need to get on this record.
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Day 6: Bongripper - Empty. One of my favourite bands to put on when working; just massive riffs that go on forever and ever into space. It doesnât always hit the heights of earlier records, but delivers on being a great big stoner metal lump.
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Day 5: Shellac - To All Trains. While I'd always been aware of Steve Albini's work and the man as industry myth, I'd never given Shellac much attention. Typically only among his eulogies did I discover this (and the wicked 10,000 Hurts) and really enjoy it. Tons of nervous energy and wonky humour.
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Day 4: The Smile - Wall of Eyes. More dependable prettiness from not-Radiohead on their first of two albums this year (the second of which wasn't to my taste, too free-jazzy) but built around ace centrepiece tracks like Friend of A Friend and Bending Hectic, it's some of the best stuff they've done.
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Could be worse, could have been doing whatever this is in June
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Day 3 is Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven. Bags of fun, bags of attitude, builds on everything theyâve done before in a sexy, antagonistic way. They were ace at the Garage in the spring and apparently killed at Glastonbury
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As it's just been named album of the year by no lesser authority than the @thequietus.com, today's album is Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther. A gorgeous and dramatic record made in fascinating and thoughtful ways; we were lucky enough to catch them live in a church in Hackney earlier this year.
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Flagmân!
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Small child at Walthamstow this weekend trying to get the linoâs attention by repeatedly shouting âflagman! Flagman!â (In the âBarclaysman sense, rather than the superhero sense, naturally). Nothing to adjudicate on: Iâm all for it
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Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath. Not a band I knew at all before this year, it scratches that widescreen Deafheaven shoegaze-metal itch that few bands do well nowadays (least of all Deafheaven). Some of the riffs on this thing? Towering!
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I went just once on my very first night living and working in London, being bought whisky by Gerry Adamsâs publisher. Shane MacGowan was passed out on the piano.
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The Bends / OK Computer?
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Agreed, no amount of remixing can improve on it (duh). Some good stuff on that album, though. The Zulu and Touche Amore takes are nice