Songs of the year:
Jerome's Dream, "On Holiday With Infinity"
Gorod, "We Are The Sun Gods"
Grant The Sun, "Death Is Real"
Mycorrhizae, "Dormant" / "Transverse Highways" (kinda sound the same)
Sisters, "Dead To The World"
Gridlink, "Revenant Orchard" Just, like... WOW.

I can be alone with my thoughts, too:
A Winged Victory For The Sullen | All Our Friends Are Vampires – More from Stars Of The Lid break-off/successors. Which is to say: beautiful and precise complex drone/neoclassical
Tim Hecker | No Highs – Melodic, haunting, noisy, similar to his mid-career stuff

Melodic stuff:
Loma Prieta | Last – Incredibly lush screamo
Sisters | Leecheater – Depressive heavy rock/shoegaze; reminiscent of early-half Failure
Cave In | Until Your Heart Stops – Worthy reissue of metalcore classic w/ totally wild demos/b-sides
Gridlink | Coronet Jupiter – Rapturous tech grind

More great hardcore:
Big Laugh | Consume Me – Disparate HC influences converging fluidly
Drip-Fed | Leap For The Fountain – More excellence that sounds like Fucked Up's much less pretentious cousin
Wreath | The Land Is Not An Idol Gods – Impactful, FFO Tragedy
80HD | Destabilize – Ridiculously fun

Gorod | The Orb – Fav technical death metal album. Strangely fun and catchy
Majesties | Vast Reaches Unclaimed – The ultimate tribute to golden years of Gothenberg death metal. Gorgeous

Mycorrhizae | The Great Filtration – Fast, catchy, no-filler black metal
Stress Positions | Harsh Reality – Best hardcore album I've heard in years
Grant The Sun | Voyage – Post-metal mishmash, some combo of Hum, Isis, Meshuggah
Jerome's Dream | The Gray In Between – Screamo way better than expected

I'll draw on your strength, have one just like it in my drafts

For the first sentence there I thought I was reading a vintage David Simon tweet.

He's running.

Bad news. Since it's also Harvard Book Store sale time: hbswarehousesale.com

What the phone sees:

GLOSS were so good. I've given that Ashenspire some time but bounced off. How did you find it?

Amen, amen, and hallelujah!

Jenga!

Oh man - if they’re new to you, check out Houses of the Unholy!! New one was a little disappointing for me, but they’re remain of my favorite Sabbath cover bands! 😝

How are you finding that new CoM?

It'd be a tidy mashup of his "Never draw what you can swipe" wit and "Is this all there is" despair

Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Super-harsh noise, but extremely structured; I always think Trent and Atticus explored some of the ideas in the melodic undercurrents for The Social Network
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu9b...

She's got a bit of his hairline in The Player actually