That NIN song is a bit strange, had never heard NIN and after this one I think I won't look to older stuff. I already have enough albums to buy until the end of the year anyway.
1- MisterWives - Connect the Dots: 10/10 2- Linkin Partk - One More Light: 9/10 3- Starset - Vessels: 9/10 4- Allie X - CollXtion II: 9/10 5- Vérité - Somewhere in Between: 8.5/10 6- Astrid S - Party's Over (EP): 8.5/10 7- Oh Wonder - Ultralife: 8/10 8- The xx - I See You: 7.5/10 9- Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa: 7/10 10- Transviolet - Kleidoscopes (EP): 7/10 11- Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom: 6.5/10 12- Theia - Theia (EP): 6.5 13- Silverstein - Dead Reflection 6.5/10 14- Blackbear - digital druglord: 6/10 15- Katy Perry - Witness: 4/10 Anticipating: PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell - August 25th LIGHTS - Skin & Earth (TBD) 30 Seconds to Mars - LP5 Elohim - LP1 Luna Shadows - LP1 Fickle Friends - LP1 Purity Ring - LP3 (Hoping) CHVRCHES - LP3 (Hoping) Melanie Martinez - LP 2 (Hoping) My songs of the year. Hey! wow she's amazing, I love this EP. all the songs are really good but especially Bloodstream is fucking fantastic, ahh that bridge with the vocoder is sooo good :O If you like you can check Luna Shadows, she has a similar voice/sound but it's a little bit more chill/moody
"Bloodstream" is easily my favourite too, and I like how it helps to make the EP varied. Astrid also released piano/acoustic versions of the songs but I truly find the production to be vital, quite simply. EDIT: updating ... TIER 1 Astrid S: "Party's Over" EP Flume: "Skin Companion EP II" Lastlings: "Verses" EP Linkin Park: "One More Light" Lorde: "Melodrama" TIER 2 Halsey: "hopeless fountain kingdom" PENDING Lana Del Rey: "Lust For Life" Nine Inch Nails: "Add Violence" EP Wolf Alice: "Visions Of A Life"
THE BEST Father John Misty - "Pure Comedy" Linkin Park - "One More Light" * Wintersun - "The Forest Seasons" * Fleet Foxes - "Crack-Up" * THE GREAT Coldplay - "Kaleidoscope" * Pallbearer - "Heartless" Persefone - "Aathma" Chris Stapleton - "From A Room: Volume 1" Ulver - "The Assassination of Julius Caeser" THE GOOD Fen - "Winter" Harry Styles - "Harry Styles" * Mastodon - "Emperor of Sand" THE OKAY / DISAPPOINTING Kendrick Lamar - "DAMN." Thundercat - "Drunk" ANTICIPATING Algiers - "The Underside of Power" Arcade Fire - "Everything Now" * The Contortionist - "The Clairvoyant" * Gorillaz - "Humanz" Dave Kerzner - "Static" Leprous - "Malina" Ne Obliviscaris - LP 3 Nine Inch Nails - "Add Violence" * The War on Drugs - "A Deeper Understanding" Steven Wilson - "To the Bone" * = Ranking Change / New Addition
updating TIER 1 Astrid S: "Party's Over" EP Lastlings: "Verses" EP Linkin Park: "One More Light" Lorde: "Melodrama" Nine Inch Nails: "Add Violence" EP TIER 2 Flume: "Skin Companion EP II" Lana Del Rey: "Lust For Life" TIER 3 Halsey: "hopeless fountain kingdom" PENDING A$AP Mob: "Cozy Tapes, Vol. 2: Too Cozy" Angus & Julia Stone: "Snow" D33J: "Death Valley Oasis" Wolf Alice: "Visions Of A Life"
THE BEST Broilers - [sic!] Marteria - Roswell The Good Gorillaz - Humanz Linkin Park - One More Light Rise Against - Wolves Kraftklub - Keine Nacht für Niemand Dragonforce - Reaching Into Infinity Wintersun - The Forest Seasons The Okay Sondaschule - Schere, Stein, Papier Papa Roach - Crooked Teeth Die Toten Hosen - Laune der Natur
THE BEST [I want to note that between this update and the next update I plan to really sit down and re-listen to all albums in "The Best" section as I feel like the order might need changing] 1. Neck Deep- The Peace and the Panic* 2. Our Last Night- Selective Hearing 3. Halsey- Hopeless Fountain Kingdom 4. Kendrick Lamar- DAMN. 5. Ed Sheeran- Divide 6. Queens of The Stone Age- Villains* 7. Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life* THE GREAT 8. CKY- The Phoenix 9. Royal Blood- How Did We Get So Dark? 10. Linkin Park- One More Light 11. THEY- Nu Religion: Hyena 12. Harry Styles- Harry Styles 13. Sampha- Process THE GOOD 14. SHINee- Five 15. Motionless in White- Graveyard Shift 16. Grayscale- Adornment 17. MisterWives- Connect the Dots 18. Incubus- 8 19. Silverstein- Dead Reflection* 20. Starset- Vessels 21. The XX- I See You 22. Brad Paisley- Love and War 23. Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness- Zombies on Broadway 24. Cloud Nothings- Life Without Sound 25. WSTR- Red, Green, or Inbetween 26. Lady Antebellum- Heartbreak 27. Chin Up, Kid- Swing With Your Eyes Closed 28. Young Dolph- Bulletproof 29. Smile Empty Soul- Rarities 30. Eisley- I'm Only Dreaming 31. Free Throw- Bear Your Mind 32. McCafferty- Thanks. Sorry. Sure. 33. Have Mercy- Make the Best of It* 34. Stone Sour- Hydrograd 35. The Early November- 15 Years 36. BTS- You Never Walk Alone* 37. Gardenside- Gardenside THE OKAY 38. As It Is- Okay 39. Miss May I- Shadows Inside 40. Rise Against- Wolves 41. Rancid- Trouble Maker* 42. Flume- Skin Compilation 2 43. John Mayer- The Search For Everything Part 1 [Still need to listen to full album] 44. Bea Miller- Chapter 1/2: Blue/Red 45. Born of Osiris- The Eternal Reign 46. Less Than Jake- Sound the Alarm 47. Imagine Dragons- Evolve 48. The Chainsmokers- Memories.... Do Not Open 49. Seether- Poison The Parish BOLD= NEW ADDITION Anytime: Hundredth Sorority Noise Chief Keef John Mayer Dire Fire Lower Than Atlantis? Papa Roach Michele Branch Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me Anticipating/Still Need to Listen To: The All-American Rejects- LP5 | TBD Angels and Airwaves- We Don't Need to Whisper (Acoustic) | TBD Avril Lavigne- LP6 (Hoping anyway) | TBA Bleachers- Gone Now | Out Chief Keef- Two Zero One Seven | Out Chris Brown- Heartbreak on a Full Moon | October 31 CHVRCHES- LP3 (Hoping anyway) | TBA Deep Purple- InFinite | Out Dire Fire- Dire Fire | Out Dreamcar- Dreamcar | Out Dropkick Murphys- 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory | Out Enter Shikari- The Spark | September 22 Foo Fighters- Concrete and Gold | September 22nd From First To Last- LP6 | TBA Hundreth- RARE | Out James Blunt- The Afterlove | Out The Killers- Wonderful Wonderful | September 22nd Knuckle Puck- Shapeshifter | October 13th Kygo- LP2 | TBD LANY- LANY | Out LCD Soundsystem- American Dream | September 1st Maddie and Tae- LP2 | TBD MIchelle Branch- Hopeless Romantic | Out MGMT- Little Dark Age | TBD Mount Eerie- A Crow Looked at Me | Out The National- Sleep Well Beast | September 8th Niall Horan- LP1 | TBD The Offspring- LP10 | TBA Passion Pit- Tremendous Sea of Love | Out A Perfect Circle- LP4 | TBD Phoenix- Ti Amo | Out Saint Asonia- LP2 | TBD Sam Smith- LP2 | TBA Schoolboy Q- LP5 | TBA Seaway- Vacation | September 15th Sleeping With Sirens- Gossip | September 22nd Sorority Noise- You're Not As_____As You Think | Out Thomas Rhett- Life Changes | September 8th 30 Seconds to Mars- LP5 | TBD Man Enter Shikari, The Killers, and Sleeping With Sirens all come out the same day. Going to be a crazy day. Foo Fighters the week before that. My body is not ready. Songs of the year: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/2yzOTkmqepOHTSfhFAoh2S
1- MisterWives - Connect the Dots: 10/10 2- Linkin Park - One More Light: 9/10 3- Starset - Vessels: 9/10 4- Allie X - CollXtion II: 9/10 5- PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell: 9/10 6- Astrid S - Party's Over (EP): 9/10 7- Fickle Friends - Glue (EP): 9/10 8- Vérité - Somewhere in Between: 8.5/10 9- Billie Eilish - dont smile at me (EP): 8.5/10 10- machineheart - Cruel World (EP): 8/10 11- The xx - I See You: 7.5/10 12- Transviolet - Kleidoscopes (EP): 7/10 13- Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa: 6.5/10 14- Oh Wonder - Ultralife: 6.5/10 15- Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom: 6.5/10 16- Theia - Theia (EP): 6.5/10 17- Silverstein - Dead Reflection: 6/10 18- Blackbear - digital druglord: 6/10 19- Julia Michaels - Nervous System (EP): 5/10 20- Katy Perry - Witness: 4/10 Lot of EPs Anticipating: Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine (September 8th) LIGHTS - Skin & Earth (September 22th) Wafia - VIII (EP) (October 13th) Tove Lo - Lady Wood (Phase 2) (TBD) 30 Seconds to Mars - LP5 Elohim - LP1/EP 2 Luna Shadows - LP1/EP 2 Purity Ring - LP3 (Hoping) CHVRCHES - LP3 (Hoping) Melanie Martinez - LP 2 (Hoping) My songs of the year.
1. The Smith Street Band - More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me This album, and this band, speak to me like nothing has since LP back when I was 12 or 13. It's insane to find an artist you can connect with like this at 25, I always think those amazing discoveries must be behind me by now.
Not updating my whole list for a while as I just did but I just want to say that this album destroys ever other album released this year by far. Brand New- Science Fiction
updating again TIER 1 Astrid S: "Party's Over" EP BROCKHAMPTON: "SATURATION II" Lastlings: "Verses" EP Linkin Park: "One More Light" Lorde: "Melodrama" Nine Inch Nails: "Add Violence" EP TIER 2 Flume: "Skin Companion EP II" Lana Del Rey: "Lust For Life" TIER 3 Halsey: "hopeless fountain kingdom" XXXTENTACION: "17" PENDING Angus & Julia Stone: "Snow" D33J: "Death Valley Oasis" Wolf Alice: "Visions Of A Life"
THE BEST BROCKHAMPTON - "SATURATION" * Father John Misty - "Pure Comedy" Linkin Park - "One More Light" Fleet Foxes - "Crack-Up" THE GREAT Coldplay - "Kaleidoscope" Kendrick Lamar - "DAMN" * Leprous - "Malina" * Pallbearer - "Heartless" Persefone - "Aathma" Chris Stapleton - "From A Room: Volume 1" Ulver - "The Assassination of Julius Caeser" Steven Wilson - "To the Bone" * THE GOOD Arcade Fire - "Everything Now" * Fen - "Winter" Harry Styles - "Harry Styles" Mastodon - "Emperor of Sand" Wintersun - "The Forest Seasons" * THE OKAY / DISAPPOINTING Thundercat - "Drunk" ANTICIPATING Algiers - "The Underside of Power" The Contortionist - "Clairvoyant" Gorillaz - "Humanz" Dave Kerzner - "Static" Ne Obliviscaris - "Urn" Nine Inch Nails - "Add Violence" The War on Drugs - "A Deeper Understanding" * = Ranking Change / New Addition[/QUOTE]