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The Best Albums of 2025: Quarter 3
In the beginning of the year when I first started these quarter lists, I didn’t really know what to expect with the results or if they’d even be something that I kept for this site goin…
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Wrote about feeling like a perpetual 22 year old, DIY magic, slowcore studies, folk poetry, 2010s R&B, good and bad experimental music, shoegaze studies, hype-regret, countrified poetry, and why Wednesday is important for my third quarter list of 2025 💫
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you can tell I'm single because I spent the whole morning debating whether to buy Magic cards or a Wishy shirt
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
you can tell I'm single because I spent the whole morning debating whether to buy Magic cards or a Wishy shirt
even though it still has one of the ugliest album covers of the year, I think I'm finally coming around to the new Big Thief album.
I feel it man!
I feel it man!
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
even though it still has one of the ugliest album covers of the year, I think I'm finally coming around to the new Big Thief album.
I feel it man!
I feel it man!
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50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
screencrush.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
"...there is a strange beauty to... the movie’s imagery: a lymphatic system splayed on a wooden board...like the veins of a leaf; an early test subject crumpled across a table, in a gentle posture of submission; and the pallid, muscly power of the Creature himself..."
larsenonfilm.com/frankenstein-2
larsenonfilm.com/frankenstein-2
Frankenstein | Larsen On Film
... where del Toro’s gothic instincts flower into full-blown Romanticism.
larsenonfilm.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"...there is a strange beauty to... the movie’s imagery: a lymphatic system splayed on a wooden board...like the veins of a leaf; an early test subject crumpled across a table, in a gentle posture of submission; and the pallid, muscly power of the Creature himself..."
larsenonfilm.com/frankenstein-2
larsenonfilm.com/frankenstein-2
you gotta find the right banana bunch
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
you gotta find the right banana bunch
Uncut Gems-like bet on Wemby NOT getting the tip off
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Uncut Gems-like bet on Wemby NOT getting the tip off
seeing Kelly Oubre become such a better Sixer is genuinely heartening
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
seeing Kelly Oubre become such a better Sixer is genuinely heartening
Andy Milonakis meets ILoveMakonnen
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Andy Milonakis meets ILoveMakonnen
rewind and refine
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
rewind and refine
why can't I stop listening to Geess
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
why can't I stop listening to Geess
Wrote about feeling like a perpetual 22 year old, DIY magic, slowcore studies, folk poetry, 2010s R&B, good and bad experimental music, shoegaze studies, hype-regret, countrified poetry, and why Wednesday is important for my third quarter list of 2025 💫
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...
The Best Albums of 2025: Quarter 3
In the beginning of the year when I first started these quarter lists, I didn’t really know what to expect with the results or if they’d even be something that I kept for this site goin…
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October 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Wrote about feeling like a perpetual 22 year old, DIY magic, slowcore studies, folk poetry, 2010s R&B, good and bad experimental music, shoegaze studies, hype-regret, countrified poetry, and why Wednesday is important for my third quarter list of 2025 💫
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...
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WENDY AND LUCY director Kelly Reichardt interviewed by filmmaker Todd Haynes at BOMB Magazine.
bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
BOMB Magazine | Kelly Reichardt
Todd Haynes, the director of Safe , first met Kelly Reichardt during the making of his film Poison . They take five to compare notes upon the release of…
bombmagazine.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
WENDY AND LUCY director Kelly Reichardt interviewed by filmmaker Todd Haynes at BOMB Magazine.
bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
wrote about the most influential emo band of the last 20 years reuniting and being exactly that: the most influential emo band of the last 20 years 😭
#AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview
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#AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview
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Album Review: Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not to Have a Thought
Reunion albums, when they’re done right, have a tendency to rewrite history and re-contextualize great bands, even bands who’s place in music history has been well established and defin…
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September 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
wrote about the most influential emo band of the last 20 years reuniting and being exactly that: the most influential emo band of the last 20 years 😭
#AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview
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#AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview
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with Dijon, Blood Orange, and Nourished by Time all floating around a certain indie R&B fan is eating GOOD rn
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
with Dijon, Blood Orange, and Nourished by Time all floating around a certain indie R&B fan is eating GOOD rn
I generally don't mind that theaters have switched to reserved seating but once in a while someone will snag my usual spot a day ahead of time and all I can do is respect the flex that they also reserve their seats way too early
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I generally don't mind that theaters have switched to reserved seating but once in a while someone will snag my usual spot a day ahead of time and all I can do is respect the flex that they also reserve their seats way too early
Greg Freeman is your favorite alt-country artist's favorite artist
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#GregFreeman, #AlbumReview
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#GregFreeman, #AlbumReview
Album Review: Greg Freeman – Burnover
With the release of Bleeds just a few weeks away (and with the already crowded alt-country glut of 2025), it was tempting for me to put Greg Freeman’s newest album, Burnover, on the proverbia…
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August 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Greg Freeman is your favorite alt-country artist's favorite artist
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#GregFreeman, #AlbumReview
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#GregFreeman, #AlbumReview
It was my pleasure to write about a new Spike Lee joint, a film unfortunately being buried by its limited release. Yay for streaming!
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seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/f...
Film Review: Highest 2 Lowest
Even though I was more mixed than most on this month’s Weapons, there’s no denying that the film is genuinely exciting, and its release really put into perspective the broader summer mo…
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August 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It was my pleasure to write about a new Spike Lee joint, a film unfortunately being buried by its limited release. Yay for streaming!
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/f...
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/f...
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The Coen brothers changed my life. I can’t believe how bad Ethan’s movies are.
Two of Our Greatest Filmmakers Stopped Making Movies Together. It Has Not Gone Well.
The Coen brothers have been making movies separately for seven years. Only one has made anything good.
slate.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Coen brothers changed my life. I can’t believe how bad Ethan’s movies are.
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“These two films, with their fast-talking dames, cheerful vulgarity, twisty crime plots, and juicy supporting characters could’ve very well been Coen Brothers pictures… if they were just a little smarter and a little funnier,” @jasondashbailey.com writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-honey...
August 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“These two films, with their fast-talking dames, cheerful vulgarity, twisty crime plots, and juicy supporting characters could’ve very well been Coen Brothers pictures… if they were just a little smarter and a little funnier,” @jasondashbailey.com writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-honey...
TFW you need a new hydroflask but all your good stickers are on your old one
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
TFW you need a new hydroflask but all your good stickers are on your old one
"...Davis drifts from one studied and devastating observation to another, like a prophet suspicious of his own prophecy; and his songs’ longform structures, segueing from bridge to bridge and only sparingly returning to familiar melodic anchors, mirror his existential disorientation."
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band's "New Threats From The Soul" reviewed by Rohan Press. Out now via Sophomore Lounge.
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - "New Threats from the Soul" | Album Review — POST-TRASH
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats from the Soul isn’t just a collection of voluble country rock songs; it’s an entire psychic and existential landscape that’ll damn you and reveal you,…
post-trash.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"...Davis drifts from one studied and devastating observation to another, like a prophet suspicious of his own prophecy; and his songs’ longform structures, segueing from bridge to bridge and only sparingly returning to familiar melodic anchors, mirror his existential disorientation."
Every new Alex G album is my new favorite Alex G album
August 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Every new Alex G album is my new favorite Alex G album
These BCNR lyric videos have done a good job at reminding me that
A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released
and
B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape
youtu.be/3JxCnXFCW_U?...
A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released
and
B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape
youtu.be/3JxCnXFCW_U?...
Black Country, New Road - 'Nancy Tries to Take the Night' (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Black Country, New Road
youtu.be
July 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
These BCNR lyric videos have done a good job at reminding me that
A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released
and
B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape
youtu.be/3JxCnXFCW_U?...
A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released
and
B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape
youtu.be/3JxCnXFCW_U?...
Wrote about Cannes expectations, the blurring of the personal of the universal, right-wing extremism, left-wing capitulation, AI, performative social justice and virtually every other problem confronted in Eddington
#AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview
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#AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview
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Film Review: Eddington
It’s a very rare experience in 2025 (especially with such a fractured and flooded media environment) to go into a new film expecting it to be bad, or disjointed, or have any number of flaws b…
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July 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wrote about Cannes expectations, the blurring of the personal of the universal, right-wing extremism, left-wing capitulation, AI, performative social justice and virtually every other problem confronted in Eddington
#AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview
seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/f...
#AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview
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my Blusky feed is almost the perfect balance of wrong movie takes and doom and gloom progressivism, nature is healing
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
my Blusky feed is almost the perfect balance of wrong movie takes and doom and gloom progressivism, nature is healing