"This album is just firing on all cylinders and it's grabbing a bunch of other cylinders and having those cylinders cylind while the other cylinders are cyndiling at the same time" - Anthony Fantano, 2024
He isn’t wrong saying that Knocked Loose is top dog right now. With a genre like metalcore, everything almost sounds the same nowadays, but Bryan and the guys created a standout record with a lot of diverse song structures. That catch and release they mastered stands out, and cranking the raw heaviness up to 11 while being juiced with horse steroids.
===== TIMESTAMP ===== 01:07 // CINDY LEE - DIAMOND JUBILEE 02:04 // KIM GORDON - THE COLLECTIVE 03:04 // THE LAST DINNER PARTY - PRELUDE TO ECSTASY 03:40 // CHELSEA WOLFE - SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE 04:58 // QUADECA - SCRAPYARD 06:52 // MGMT - LOSS OF LIFE 07:58 // MOOR MOTHER - THE GREAT BAILOUT 09:10 // BEYONCÉ - COWBOY CARTER 10:25 // CIVEROUS - MAZE ENVY 11:29 // VAMPIRE WEEKEND - ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US 12:03 // KNOCKED LOOSE - YOU WON'T GO BEFORE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO 12:49 // BETH GIBBONS - LIVES OUTGROWN 13:33 // VINCE STAPLES - DARK TIMES 14:36 // CHARLI XCX - BRAT 15:16 // JOANNA WANG - HOTEL LA RUT
@@joaquin5929same here... Most probably it's because there wasn't enough space for another solo "artsy" female artist to make his list, in order to make it as diverse as possible, with Beth Gibbons taking that spot, which I think is acceptable. He gave Julia a strong 8 and Beth a strong 9 after all. There are obviously other solo female artists on this list, but they all kind of have a lot of different sounds, namely Chelsea Wolfe, Kim Gordon, Joanna Wang, Charli and I don't think all of them had a better score, and therefore he might have not loved as much, but are here for them standing out among the rest. That doesn't mean that Julia's latest didn't stand out, but maybe he felt there was a better album in the same vein sort of. He also left out The Smile, and last year he left out that Squid album in his mid-year list, then he included that in his year end, so maybe we'll have to wait for his year end list and hopefully Julia's will feature.
My faves that weren't included: Adrienne Lenker - bright future Mannequin Pussy - I got heaven Jessica Pratt - Here in the pitch Chief Keef - Almighty so 2 Marika Hackman - Big Sigh The Smile - Wall of eyes Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy English Teacher - this could be texas Lemon Twiggs - A dream is all we know
My 15 favourites so far (in no particular order): 1. She reaches out to she reaches out to she - Chelsea Wolfe 2. Girl With No Face - Allie X 3. Something in The room she moves - Julia Holter 4. Only God was above us - Vampire Weekend 5. All Born Screaming - St. Vincent 6. Harbour Century - Eunuchus 7. Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington 8. You Won’t go before you’re supposed to - Knocked Loose 9. Hit me hard and soft - Billie Eilish 10. Lives Outgrown - Beth Gibbons 11. Brat - Charli xcx 12. Samurai - Lupe Fiasco 13. Impossible Light - Uboa 14. Prelude to Ecstasy - The last dinner party 15. Where we've been, Where we go from here - Friko
In a particular order: 1. The Lemon Twigs- "A Dream is All We Know" 2. Francis of Delirium- "Lighthouse" 3. Lizzy McAlpine- "Older" 4. Aquilus- "Bellum II" 5. Caligula's Horse- "Charcoal Grace" 6. Imminence- "The Black" 7. Kacey Musgraves- "Deeper Well" 8. Benjamin Francis Leftwich- "Some Things Break" 9. ALMO - "Reconciliation" I0. Arooj Aftab- "Night Reign" 11. The Decemberists- "As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again" 12. MGMT - "Loss of Life" 13. Taylor Armstrong- "When it Rains" 14. Angus & Julia Stone- "Cape Forestier" 15. Andrew Bird- "Sunday Morning Put-On" 16. Hot Water Music- "VOWS" 17. JJ Grey & Mofro - "Olustee" 18. Waxahatchee- "Tiger's Blood" 19. Psychic Temple- "Doggie Paddlin' Thru The Cosmic Consciousness " 20. Tyler Ramsey- "New Lost Ages"
Top 5 for me so far: 1. Death's dynamic shroud- You like music 2. Joey Valence & Brae- No hands 3. Quadeca- Scrapyard 4. LustSickPuppy- Carousel from hell 5. Full of hell- Coagulated bliss
0. genre: sadboy 1. Vultures 1 2. The Tortured Poets Department 3. The Heart Part 6 4. Might Delete Later 5. Insano 6. C,XOXO 7. Facts by Ben Shapiro and Tom MacDonald
Some of my favorites: Charli XCX - Brat Knocked Loose - You Wont go before you supposed too Alcest - Les Chants Don Toliver - Hardstone Psycho Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human NeX GeN Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood.
The fact that this video barely scratches the surface of releases says a lot about 2024 being the year for music. Favourite album thus far is either Dostrotime or A Dream Is All We Know
My top 10: 1. Charli xcx- Brat 2. Vampire Weekend- Only God Was Above Us 3. Beyoncé- Cowboy Carter 4. Cheekface- It’s Sorted 5. Joey Valence & Brae- No Hands 6. Quadeca- Scrapyard 7. Nia Archives- Silence Is Loud 8. The Lemon Twigs- A Dream Is All I Know 9. The Last Dinner Party- Prelude To Ecstasy 10. MGMT- Loss of Life
1. A Dream Is All We Know - The Lemon Twigs 2. Where We've been, Where we go from here - Friko 3. BRAT - Charli XCX 4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis 5. ILION - Slift 6. Wall of Eyes - The Smile 7. Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend 8. BLUE LIPS - ScHoolboy Q 9. We Don't Trust You - Future x Metro Boomin 10. Hyperdrama - Justice
Mine: 1. Quadeca - Scrapyard 2 Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To 3. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future 4. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas 5. Raveena - Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain
my favourites: 1: britpop - a.g. cook 2: bright future - adrianne lenker 3: brat - charli xcx 4: still - erika de casier 5: vegyn - the road to hell is paved with good intentions 6: sarah - salami rose joe louis 7: loss of life - MGMT 8: cyan blue - charlotte day wilson 9: loukeman - esd2 10: empress of - for your consideration
My standout albums so far, in no order (subject to change lol) --Post Human Nex Gen by Bring Me the Horizon --Frog in Boiling Water by DIIV --Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons --Veritas by POD --empathogen by Willow --Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend --Cowboy Carter by Beyonce --The Collective by Kim Gordon --My Stupid Life by Brittney Spencer --Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney --Prelude to Ecstasy by Last Dinner Party Pretty sure the new Lola Young will be a contender for the first half, but it just released two Fridays ago and I actually haven't listened to it in full yet. But the singles have been awesome and I'm excited to actually do a front-to-back listen.
Dropping my top 10 here: - Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee - Two Star and the Dream Police - Mk.Gee - Underdressed at the Symphony - Faye Webster - Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves - WHY LAWD? - Nxworries - Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain - Raveena - Mika's Laundry - Matt Champion - Orquiedias - Kali Uchis - Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker - BRAT - Charli XCX I do have some bubbling up too through revisits and re-listens. But 2024 has been fantastic so far! I am not sure if I heard an explicitly bad album so far this year!! Happy BRAT summer bitches!!!
When cowboy Carter first came out I listened to it a lot to the point where I wondered if I just gassed it up for no reason. I took a break and listened to lots of pop and dance. Then I listened to it again recently and realized it’s actually really good. It sounds so good on the ears.
Top 10 of the year so far for me 1. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 2. NxWorries - Why LAWD? (not lord melon) 3. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 4. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream is All We Know 5. ARTMS - (Dall) 6. MGMT - Loss of Life 7. Charli XCX - brat 8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 9. The Decemberists - As it Ever Was, So it Will be Again 10. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
My favorites: 1. Live at Knockdown Center on 2024-02-24 - GY!BE 2. Lechyd Da - Bill Ryder-Jones 3. Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington 4. Harbour Century - Eunuchs 5. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace - Shabaka 6. Impossible Lights - Uboa 7. What Happend To The Heart - AURORA 8. Tidal Memory Exo - Iglooghost 9. Hyperdrama - Justice 10. Snow as a metaphore for death - SENTRIES
My top 4 so far 1 - The Maria’s ~ Submarine 2 - ScHool boy Q ~ Blue lips 3 -Vince staples ~ Dark times 4- Faye Webster ~ Underdressed at the symphony 5-The last Dinner party ~ Prelude to ecstasy
My top 3 so far: 1. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Literally 0 skips. The album did exactly what the title says, at least to me. 2. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Unlike Billie, this one hits HARD from start to finish. But also 0 skips. 3. Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn No this is no guilty pleasure, I enjoy this with pride. Found myself only skipping the OSTs. May Fantano steps on a lego for giving this one a 3. Other albums I enjoy, but not as much as the top 3, in no particular order: - Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown - Charli xcx - BRAT (somehow I enjoyed CRASH a bit more than this, might grow on me more further down the line tho) - AURORA - What Happened To The Heart? - KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS - Normani - DOPAMINE My disappointment of the year so far: - Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism It's just meh. Didn't grind any of my gears but couldn't scratch any of my itch. If it was made by any other artist I would just not care, but knowing it was from an artist who also made the great Future Nostalgia is disappointing. - Camila Cabello - C,XOXO This actually pissed me off because her 2nd album is actually one of my favorite pop albums of 2019. 2 albums later and now she's just a btec moombahton Charli xcx.
some of my favorites so far: paul bunyan's slingshot - liquid mike brat - charli xcx bright future - adrianne lenker only god was above us - vampire weekend silence is loud - nia archives to all trains - shellac triple digits [112] - ritchie what now - brittany howard dark times - vince staples it's sorted - cheekface
Some of my favorites: Bright Future, A Dream is All We Know, You Like Music, Tidal Memory Exo, Fearless Movement, Shoelace and Knot, Samurai, Conla's Well, Scrapyard, This Could Be Texas, and Blue Lips.
My Top 10: 10. Thou - Umbilical 9. Malignancy - ...Discontinued 8. Jazmin Bean - Traumatic Livelihood 7. Alligatoah - off 6. Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion 5. Vitriol - Suffer & Become 4. Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness 3. Aurora - What Happened To The Heart? 2. Orgone - Pleroma ... 1. Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God Cheers and have a good one!
My top 5 albums this year: 5. The Secret of Us 4. XOXO, C 3. The Tortured Poets Department (UK Omicron Variant) 2. Eternal Floptism by Ariana Lipa 1. Dear Joe by Jax
I do absolutely need the Ulcerate review from him. He could still be digesting it, it is very dense (hell, I've heard it 5 times and still need a lot more time with it)
Guess we all have our own tastes but I find it hilarious almost none of mine overlap with Melon's. 1. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 2. IDLES - TANGK 3. BIG SPECIAL - POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES 4. Brittany Howard - What Now 5. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 6. Master Peace - How To Make A Master Peace 7. Elbow - Audio Vertigo 8. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW 9. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 10. KMFDM - Let Go
Charli Xcx - Brat Allie X - Girl with no face Beyonce - Cowboy Carter Kali Uchis - Orquideas MGMT - Loss of Life Twenty One Pilots - Clancy Yeat - 2093 Future, Metro - We Don't Trust You
Agree. I pray to god that Freddie Gibbs and Madlib deliver on their third collab album (Montana). It supposedly be the final collab album, so I hope they end it off with a bang🤞
My top ten is probably 1. Julia Holter 2. Julia Holter 3. Julia Holter 4. Julia Holter 5. Julia Holter 6. Julia Holter 7. Julia Holter 8. Julia Holter 9. Julia Holter 10. Julia Holter
I've been absolutely obsessed with the new Knocked Loose album. I've been listening to it almost weekly since it was released. Such a bone-crunching and explosive piece of music.
My personal top 5 so far has to be: 1.- Por Cesárea (Dillom) 2.- Brat (Charli xcx) 3.- Blue Lips (ScHoolboy Q) 4.- Descartable (Wos) 5.- Dark Times (Vince Staples)
Here are some of my favorites. Definitely not final, but I love these. 1. Chelsea Wolfe - "She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She" 2. Sylvaine - "Eg Er Framand" 3. Knocked Loose - "You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To" 4. Full of Hell - "Coagulated Bliss" 5. Charli xcx - "brat" 6. Cave Sermon - "Divine Laughter" 7. Allie X - "Girl With No Face" 8. Julia Holter - "Something in the Room She Moves" 9. Thou - "Umbilical" 10. Knoll - "As Spoken" 11. Iglooghost - "Tidal Memory Exo" 12. Dua Lipa - "Radical Optimism" (I know this one flopped, but I still like it. The extended version did help a bit, too) 13. Ulcerate - "Cutting the Throat of God" (This will almost certainly be higher, but I need more time with it) 14. Eivør - "Enn" 15. Kelly Moran - "Moves in the Field"
my 10 favourites (kind of in order): - Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color In The Valley Of Night: Part II - Greyhaven - Stereo Grief - ERRA - Cure - Bilmuri - American Motorsports - Ghost Atlas - Dust of the Human Shape - Softcult - Heaven - Dead Poet Society - FISSION - Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us - Maruja - Connla's Well - Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
My favorite albums of 2024 so far: - Cowboy Carter (Beyoncé) - Hit me hard and soft (Billie ellish) - Valedictorian (Ian) - GUTS (spilled) - Olivia Rodrigo
Scrapyard does have some great songs but I hope his next project leans towards his more vibey, RnB style rather than his industrial existential dread type beat, type-songs. imo easier is the best song on that project by far and some of the best songs on I didn’t mean to haunt you are the ones with clearer song structures.
Alright I think I'll do a top 10 so far: 1. Tems (Born in the Wild) 2. Beth Gibbons (Lives Outgrown 3. Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter) 4. Charli XCX (Brat) 5. Kali Uchis (Orquideas) 6. Metro Boomin X Future (We don't Trust You) 7. NxWorries (Why Lawd) 8. MGMT (Loss of Life) 9. Vince Staples (Dark Times) 10. Joanna Wang (Hotel La Rut) There's probably something I forgot lol. I'm not entirely sure about BITW being first because there are so many good records, but it's an insane debut. It kind of sucks that I can't put Lupe Fiasco's Samurai on this because I liked it a lot.
My top 5 is: 5: Death Is Little More, by Boundaries 4: Angel Killer Zero, by Diamond Construct 3: YWGBYST - Knocked Loose 2: Paper Lily Ch.1 OST - Various Artists 1: Half Living Things - Alpha Wolf
Although you and I have different tastes, Anthony, I really appeciate your thoughtful reviews. Thank you. I'm moticing several other UA-cam music reviewers are essentially using long clips from your reviews and commenting on them. I am curious about your take on this? Thank you, Anthony.
1.) Blue Lips 2.) Dark Times 3.) brat 4.) Samurai 5.) Why Lawd? 6.) Hit Me Hard And Soft This is kinda in no particular order, because i really don't know yet. It's hard. I really don't know if i will know my order at the end of the year, especially since we still get a Denzel, a Rocky, a Peggy, a Kendrick, another Childish Gambino and maybe even a Rihanna Album this year. _(Edit: Found out apparently Freddie x Madlib Album? Like uh..???)_ _(Edit 2: forgot Clipse prod. by Pharrell)_ However, it is kinda in a particular order, because this is the order how i feel at the moment. *But:* this order changed 4 times while writing this comment. So yeah. Lol. Honorable mentions: Lives Outgrown, Pulsar, Chambre 140, Atavista Honorable mention?: No Hands Disclaimer: Didn't listen to the $uicideboy$ Album yet Didn't listen enough to the raveena Album yet I don't know how to feel about might delete later Unpopular opinion: I don't like the Beyoncé Album Shoutout: Yeah shoutout to We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You, they had a few bangers and kicked this huge throwing hands off, plus without it, the kendrick concert prolly wouldnt have been like what happened in the end Last Disclaimer: Yes, i am such a type of person who only listens to Hip-Hop Yes, i know only listening to Hip-Hop is a bad music taste So please don't jump me in the replies that i am not listening to all of music, i am aware of that :(
my top 5 would be 1. blue lips - schoolboy q 2. 2093 - yeat 3. it’s us vol 1 - concrete boys 4. hardstone psycho - don toliver 5. bad cameo - james blake and lil yachty
my top 10 so far: I Lay Down My Life For You - JPEGMafia Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend Plastic Death - glass beach The Pilgrim, Their God, and the King of my Decrepit Mountain - Tapir! Britpop - A. G. Cook Scrapyard - Quadeca Cold Visions - Bladee She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She - Chelsea Wolfe Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker Something in the Room She Moves - Julia Holter and then BRAT is #11
Seeing TheNeedleDrop in the room where Fantano does his videos is surreal to say the least
Some might say they were even roommates... 😳
@@tokillahummingbird7616No? Cal is Fantano's only roommate 🤬
@@agora_the_rapperroommate? thats not all cal is...
I think this is the same guy
@boquifloja oh shit, you must be onto something ⁉️ we never saw them together in the same room so 🤯
"This album is just firing on all cylinders and it's grabbing a bunch of other cylinders and having those cylinders cylind while the other cylinders are cyndiling at the same time" - Anthony Fantano, 2024
He isn’t wrong saying that Knocked Loose is top dog right now. With a genre like metalcore, everything almost sounds the same nowadays, but Bryan and the guys created a standout record with a lot of diverse song structures. That catch and release they mastered stands out, and cranking the raw heaviness up to 11 while being juiced with horse steroids.
Waow you pointed out that a reviewer used words. That's so funny totally not lazy
@@redcomet_622you must be fun at parties
This is why I'm even here in the first place
@@redcomet_622yapping for yappings sake
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01:07 // CINDY LEE - DIAMOND JUBILEE
02:04 // KIM GORDON - THE COLLECTIVE
03:04 // THE LAST DINNER PARTY - PRELUDE TO ECSTASY
03:40 // CHELSEA WOLFE - SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE
04:58 // QUADECA - SCRAPYARD
06:52 // MGMT - LOSS OF LIFE
07:58 // MOOR MOTHER - THE GREAT BAILOUT
09:10 // BEYONCÉ - COWBOY CARTER
10:25 // CIVEROUS - MAZE ENVY
11:29 // VAMPIRE WEEKEND - ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US
12:03 // KNOCKED LOOSE - YOU WON'T GO BEFORE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
12:49 // BETH GIBBONS - LIVES OUTGROWN
13:33 // VINCE STAPLES - DARK TIMES
14:36 // CHARLI XCX - BRAT
15:16 // JOANNA WANG - HOTEL LA RUT
my hero
Surprised he didn’t shoutout Julia Holter
Thank you 🤩
@@joaquin5929same here... Most probably it's because there wasn't enough space for another solo "artsy" female artist to make his list, in order to make it as diverse as possible, with Beth Gibbons taking that spot, which I think is acceptable. He gave Julia a strong 8 and Beth a strong 9 after all. There are obviously other solo female artists on this list, but they all kind of have a lot of different sounds, namely Chelsea Wolfe, Kim Gordon, Joanna Wang, Charli and I don't think all of them had a better score, and therefore he might have not loved as much, but are here for them standing out among the rest. That doesn't mean that Julia's latest didn't stand out, but maybe he felt there was a better album in the same vein sort of. He also left out The Smile, and last year he left out that Squid album in his mid-year list, then he included that in his year end, so maybe we'll have to wait for his year end list and hopefully Julia's will feature.
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Such a great year for music so far, with so many more releases on the way
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Not for rap albums. It's been a very mid year so far for rap music
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@@iangarcia1585 Yeat, Lupe and Q all dropped good shit, plus Rocky later this summer, Gambino too .m
@@iangarcia1585nah man this is fantastic compared to last year’s drought
My faves that weren't included:
Adrienne Lenker - bright future
Mannequin Pussy - I got heaven
Jessica Pratt - Here in the pitch
Chief Keef - Almighty so 2
Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
The Smile - Wall of eyes
Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy
English Teacher - this could be texas
Lemon Twiggs - A dream is all we know
I’m sure these are great I personally haven’t listened but mannequin pussy is the most vile name I’ve ever heard 😭😭
mannequin pussy is still my #1
$10 Cowboy is soooooo good. Crocket is very underrated
Also Bright Future is my AOTY
@@kasenhicks9774 He's incredible live, highly recommend if you get the chance
My 15 favourites so far (in no particular order):
1. She reaches out to she reaches out to she - Chelsea Wolfe
2. Girl With No Face - Allie X
3. Something in The room she moves - Julia Holter
4. Only God was above us - Vampire Weekend
5. All Born Screaming - St. Vincent
6. Harbour Century - Eunuchus
7. Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington
8. You Won’t go before you’re supposed to - Knocked Loose
9. Hit me hard and soft - Billie Eilish
10. Lives Outgrown - Beth Gibbons
11. Brat - Charli xcx
12. Samurai - Lupe Fiasco
13. Impossible Light - Uboa
14. Prelude to Ecstasy - The last dinner party
15. Where we've been, Where we go from here - Friko
Great picks!!
This is an EXCELLENT list
Thanks🥹
Yes to Allie X
@@soaribb32 Yeah I definitely felt it when she sings “You Slept On Me”
In a particular order:
1. The Lemon Twigs- "A Dream is All We Know"
2. Francis of Delirium- "Lighthouse"
3. Lizzy McAlpine- "Older"
4. Aquilus- "Bellum II"
5. Caligula's Horse- "Charcoal Grace"
6. Imminence- "The Black"
7. Kacey Musgraves- "Deeper Well"
8. Benjamin Francis Leftwich- "Some Things Break"
9. ALMO - "Reconciliation"
I0. Arooj Aftab- "Night Reign"
11. The Decemberists- "As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again"
12. MGMT - "Loss of Life"
13. Taylor Armstrong- "When it Rains"
14. Angus & Julia Stone- "Cape Forestier"
15. Andrew Bird- "Sunday Morning Put-On"
16. Hot Water Music- "VOWS"
17. JJ Grey & Mofro - "Olustee"
18. Waxahatchee- "Tiger's Blood"
19. Psychic Temple- "Doggie Paddlin' Thru The Cosmic Consciousness "
20. Tyler Ramsey- "New Lost Ages"
Hell yeah Lemon Twigs supremacy
Top 5 for me so far:
1. Death's dynamic shroud- You like music
2. Joey Valence & Brae- No hands
3. Quadeca- Scrapyard
4. LustSickPuppy- Carousel from hell
5. Full of hell- Coagulated bliss
quirked up. w rizz
joey valence 😋
Went into No Hands based purely on the review and it absolutely slaps so hard
Very valid. You won’t get a girlfriend this year but very valid still.
Scrapyard is fire
Melon I get its the final day of pride month but you cant just list brat 100 times in a row !
It’s finally over 😩
It’s always great to see Quadeca getting his flowers, or in the case of this mixtape, wiltered flowers.
Nice list. My personal top 3 list until now is:
1 - Clancy (top)
2 - Hit me hard and soft (Billie)
3 - Cowboy Carter (Beyoncé)
W take
0. genre: sadboy
1. Vultures 1
2. The Tortured Poets Department
3. The Heart Part 6
4. Might Delete Later
5. Insano
6. C,XOXO
7. Facts by Ben Shapiro and Tom MacDonald
where is wah gwan delilah? :(
ngl Vultures is actually good compared to the others lmao
@@dimitrije018That’s an insanely low bar but true ig lol
the way Might Delete Later is legitimately good 😭
@@dimitrije018 FR at least Vultures had the best production honestly, the only thing that was really god awful and jarring were the lyrics
Some of my favorites:
Charli XCX - Brat
Knocked Loose - You Wont go before you supposed too
Alcest - Les Chants
Don Toliver - Hardstone Psycho
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human NeX GeN
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood.
omg alcest is mentioned !!!
The fact that this video barely scratches the surface of releases says a lot about 2024 being the year for music. Favourite album thus far is either Dostrotime or A Dream Is All We Know
My favorite album is deez nuts by Mary poppins. The deluxe edition
My top 10:
1. Charli xcx- Brat
2. Vampire Weekend- Only God Was Above Us
3. Beyoncé- Cowboy Carter
4. Cheekface- It’s Sorted
5. Joey Valence & Brae- No Hands
6. Quadeca- Scrapyard
7. Nia Archives- Silence Is Loud
8. The Lemon Twigs- A Dream Is All I Know
9. The Last Dinner Party- Prelude To Ecstasy
10. MGMT- Loss of Life
1. A Dream Is All We Know - The Lemon Twigs
2. Where We've been, Where we go from here - Friko
3. BRAT - Charli XCX
4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
5. ILION - Slift
6. Wall of Eyes - The Smile
7. Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend
8. BLUE LIPS - ScHoolboy Q
9. We Don't Trust You - Future x Metro Boomin
10. Hyperdrama - Justice
Twigs on top🫡
Mine:
1. Quadeca - Scrapyard
2 Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
3. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
4. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
5. Raveena - Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain
5 of my favorites from this year:
- Knocked Loose - YWGBYST
- Vampire Weekend - OGWAU
- Charli XCX - Brat
- Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
- Joey Valence & Brae - No Hands
my favourites:
1: britpop - a.g. cook
2: bright future - adrianne lenker
3: brat - charli xcx
4: still - erika de casier
5: vegyn - the road to hell is paved with good intentions
6: sarah - salami rose joe louis
7: loss of life - MGMT
8: cyan blue - charlotte day wilson
9: loukeman - esd2
10: empress of - for your consideration
all this and the truman show pfp you got some crazy taste
My standout albums so far, in no order (subject to change lol)
--Post Human Nex Gen by Bring Me the Horizon
--Frog in Boiling Water by DIIV
--Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons
--Veritas by POD
--empathogen by Willow
--Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
--Cowboy Carter by Beyonce
--The Collective by Kim Gordon
--My Stupid Life by Brittney Spencer
--Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney
--Prelude to Ecstasy by Last Dinner Party
Pretty sure the new Lola Young will be a contender for the first half, but it just released two Fridays ago and I actually haven't listened to it in full yet. But the singles have been awesome and I'm excited to actually do a front-to-back listen.
Didn't know that POD made an album. Heard Afraid to Die with Jinjer's vocalist, it sounds pretty good.
Dropping my top 10 here:
- Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee
- Two Star and the Dream Police - Mk.Gee
- Underdressed at the Symphony - Faye Webster
- Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
- WHY LAWD? - Nxworries
- Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain - Raveena
- Mika's Laundry - Matt Champion
- Orquiedias - Kali Uchis
- Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
- BRAT - Charli XCX
I do have some bubbling up too through revisits and re-listens. But 2024 has been fantastic so far! I am not sure if I heard an explicitly bad album so far this year!! Happy BRAT summer bitches!!!
When cowboy Carter first came out I listened to it a lot to the point where I wondered if I just gassed it up for no reason. I took a break and listened to lots of pop and dance. Then I listened to it again recently and realized it’s actually really good. It sounds so good on the ears.
Top 10 of the year so far for me
1. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
2. NxWorries - Why LAWD? (not lord melon)
3. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
4. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream is All We Know
5. ARTMS - (Dall)
6. MGMT - Loss of Life
7. Charli XCX - brat
8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
9. The Decemberists - As it Ever Was, So it Will be Again
10. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
My favorites:
1. Live at Knockdown Center on 2024-02-24 - GY!BE
2. Lechyd Da - Bill Ryder-Jones
3. Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington
4. Harbour Century - Eunuchs
5. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace - Shabaka
6. Impossible Lights - Uboa
7. What Happend To The Heart - AURORA
8. Tidal Memory Exo - Iglooghost
9. Hyperdrama - Justice
10. Snow as a metaphore for death - SENTRIES
in no particular order:
glass beach - plastic death
queef jerky - absolute madness
charli xcx - brat
kamasi washington - fearless movement
mother mother - grief chapter
shishamo - shishamo 8
jhariah - trust ceremony
necry talkie - torch
respectfully this channel has a lot of promising potential, hopefully you will become big soon Cheers Man Keep Up The Good Work
July has some absolute bangers albums in store too. Can't wait
entirely to judge a book by it's cover the art for Hotel La Rut is so cool I'll have to check it out
Yeat's 2093 is one of the best trap album of the last few years for me and I think it deserved a spot here.
Top 5 so far:
1. Brat - Charli
2. Scrapyard - Quadeca
3. Challengers OST - Reznor & Ross
4. Starkisser - Sucre
5. Hit Me Hard & Soft - Billie
My top 4 so far
1 - The Maria’s ~ Submarine
2 - ScHool boy Q ~ Blue lips
3 -Vince staples ~ Dark times
4- Faye Webster ~ Underdressed at the symphony
5-The last Dinner party ~ Prelude to ecstasy
My top 3 so far:
1. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
Literally 0 skips. The album did exactly what the title says, at least to me.
2. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Unlike Billie, this one hits HARD from start to finish. But also 0 skips.
3. Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
No this is no guilty pleasure, I enjoy this with pride. Found myself only skipping the OSTs. May Fantano steps on a lego for giving this one a 3.
Other albums I enjoy, but not as much as the top 3, in no particular order:
- Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
- Charli xcx - BRAT (somehow I enjoyed CRASH a bit more than this, might grow on me more further down the line tho)
- AURORA - What Happened To The Heart?
- KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS
- Normani - DOPAMINE
My disappointment of the year so far:
- Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
It's just meh. Didn't grind any of my gears but couldn't scratch any of my itch. If it was made by any other artist I would just not care, but knowing it was from an artist who also made the great Future Nostalgia is disappointing.
- Camila Cabello - C,XOXO
This actually pissed me off because her 2nd album is actually one of my favorite pop albums of 2019. 2 albums later and now she's just a btec moombahton Charli xcx.
Thanks Melon, I finally know what my favorite albums of the year so far are and I don’t have to keep listening to Vultures 1 on a loop.
Brat is an absolute modern classic
some of my favorites so far:
paul bunyan's slingshot - liquid mike
brat - charli xcx
bright future - adrianne lenker
only god was above us - vampire weekend
silence is loud - nia archives
to all trains - shellac
triple digits [112] - ritchie
what now - brittany howard
dark times - vince staples
it's sorted - cheekface
Triple digits stays underrated
i don’t get the brat hype tbh
@@Dinosaur12349Exactly, one of the best rap albums of the year so far
Surprised Brittany Howard didn’t make his list 😢
Bro the new MGMT album was so good!
Some of my favorites: Bright Future, A Dream is All We Know, You Like Music, Tidal Memory Exo, Fearless Movement, Shoelace and Knot, Samurai, Conla's Well, Scrapyard, This Could Be Texas, and Blue Lips.
My Top 10:
10. Thou - Umbilical
9. Malignancy - ...Discontinued
8. Jazmin Bean - Traumatic Livelihood
7. Alligatoah - off
6. Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion
5. Vitriol - Suffer & Become
4. Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
3. Aurora - What Happened To The Heart?
2. Orgone - Pleroma
...
1. Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
Cheers and have a good one!
Thou, Ulcerate, and Aurora are all up there for me, too 🙏
truly one of the biggest years in music in quite a while
Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Charli, Cindy Lee, The Smile, and Beyonce! What a year so far for music!
Surprised lemon twigs didn’t make it!
Looks like he personally differs in opinion significantly from the released review video of the channel
@@fa2lemuelm2Im pretty sure the caption of that review said that he also loves it
@@roman76bd yes he does. But not to the level that he includes it as a fave album of 2024 here
what happened to the heart by Aurora is my #1
My top 5 albums this year:
5. The Secret of Us
4. XOXO, C
3. The Tortured Poets Department (UK Omicron Variant)
2. Eternal Floptism by Ariana Lipa
1. Dear Joe by Jax
Guys it's satire
Yeah that Ariana Lipa album was great
Gave that Joanna Wang album a spin. What an incredibly versatile artist and great songwriter
My top 5 for the year so far:
1: Only God was above us
2: Brat
3: Dark times
4: Blue lips
5: Timeless
top 5 for me:
1. Scrapyard
2. You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed to
3. brat
4. Penalty of Leadership
5. Pinball
My vote for best album so far is Yummy by James. 40 years they’ve been putting out epic records. Also, their vinyl releases are always on point.
Underrated band. Best since laid from 1993.
bummed to not see Future Islands in here. the new record SLAPS
Agreed it’s another great release by them. Definitely one of my favorites in 2024
So glad to see vultures 1 on this list!
Seeing the Civerous is nice, great DM record
Review Ulcerate bro
I do absolutely need the Ulcerate review from him. He could still be digesting it, it is very dense (hell, I've heard it 5 times and still need a lot more time with it)
LUPE REVIEW PLSSSSS
Melon, you can't just scream Not Like Us for the entirety of the video and call that your favorite album of 2024
Woah that doesn‘t sound like a video I‘d enjoy watching. Thanks for the warning!
We found Drake’s burner account!!
lana pfp 😍
Guess we all have our own tastes but I find it hilarious almost none of mine overlap with Melon's.
1. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
2. IDLES - TANGK
3. BIG SPECIAL - POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES
4. Brittany Howard - What Now
5. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
6. Master Peace - How To Make A Master Peace
7. Elbow - Audio Vertigo
8. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW
9. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
10. KMFDM - Let Go
Dude, thank you so much for the Cindy Lee recommendation. I am fucking loving it!
Charli Xcx - Brat
Allie X - Girl with no face
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Kali Uchis - Orquideas
MGMT - Loss of Life
Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
Yeat - 2093
Future, Metro - We Don't Trust You
If Freddie and porter robinson deliver this is probably going to be my favorite year for music
I’m a bit nervous about the Porter one. Not sure I like the direction he took based on the singles that dropped
Agree. I pray to god that Freddie Gibbs and Madlib deliver on their third collab album (Montana). It supposedly be the final collab album, so I hope they end it off with a bang🤞
@@dkobolalmao this happens literally every time
@@iangarcia1585Wait Freddie album coming out?????
@@mequana Freddie and madlib linking up again for Montana 😼🔥🔥🔥
I would love to hear what your thouths are on the new DIIV!
My top ten is probably
1. Julia Holter
2. Julia Holter
3. Julia Holter
4. Julia Holter
5. Julia Holter
6. Julia Holter
7. Julia Holter
8. Julia Holter
9. Julia Holter
10. Julia Holter
I've been absolutely obsessed with the new Knocked Loose album. I've been listening to it almost weekly since it was released. Such a bone-crunching and explosive piece of music.
I’m really waiting for the new Opeth that has been hinted towards, hope you review that when it comes out
Great video man ❤
My personal top 5 so far has to be:
1.- Por Cesárea (Dillom)
2.- Brat (Charli xcx)
3.- Blue Lips (ScHoolboy Q)
4.- Descartable (Wos)
5.- Dark Times (Vince Staples)
finally someone mentions blue lips!
thanks for the recommendations
we gotta get a review for the new Thou album, you reviewed a couple of their singles but the whole record is incredible, aoty for me so far
Here are some of my favorites. Definitely not final, but I love these.
1. Chelsea Wolfe - "She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She"
2. Sylvaine - "Eg Er Framand"
3. Knocked Loose - "You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To"
4. Full of Hell - "Coagulated Bliss"
5. Charli xcx - "brat"
6. Cave Sermon - "Divine Laughter"
7. Allie X - "Girl With No Face"
8. Julia Holter - "Something in the Room She Moves"
9. Thou - "Umbilical"
10. Knoll - "As Spoken"
11. Iglooghost - "Tidal Memory Exo"
12. Dua Lipa - "Radical Optimism" (I know this one flopped, but I still like it. The extended version did help a bit, too)
13. Ulcerate - "Cutting the Throat of God" (This will almost certainly be higher, but I need more time with it)
14. Eivør - "Enn"
15. Kelly Moran - "Moves in the Field"
I’ve been bumping As Grande As a lot since you introduced it to me earlier this year
My favourites:
1. Nyssa - Shake Me Where I'm Foolish
2. Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
3. Nia Archives - Silence is Loud
my 10 favourites (kind of in order):
- Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color In The Valley Of Night: Part II
- Greyhaven - Stereo Grief
- ERRA - Cure
- Bilmuri - American Motorsports
- Ghost Atlas - Dust of the Human Shape
- Softcult - Heaven
- Dead Poet Society - FISSION
- Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
- Maruja - Connla's Well
- Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Night Verses are awesome! Saw them opening for TOOL not long ago, their drummer is an absolute beast 🤘
@@ravenj888 ye he's crazy, even though this album is a two parter that came out in different years it feels like a full album and it's sooo good
mgmt and vampire dropping the bests during the same year will never get old
Cindy Lee #1 spot
My favorite album of this year is bringing back all mankind, very underrated.
My favorite albums of 2024 so far:
- Cowboy Carter (Beyoncé)
- Hit me hard and soft (Billie ellish)
- Valedictorian (Ian)
- GUTS (spilled) - Olivia Rodrigo
Classic intro. The Cindy Lee album is special.
the knocked loose album make me like metal music again
Scrapyard does have some great songs but I hope his next project leans towards his more vibey, RnB style rather than his industrial existential dread type beat, type-songs. imo easier is the best song on that project by far and some of the best songs on I didn’t mean to haunt you are the ones with clearer song structures.
Thanks bro. Gonna hit up that Beth Gibbons album right now.
Nice. I would add Waxahatchee, Mdou Moctar, Diiv and This is Lorlei❤
So happy to see you put St Vincent in first place gotta love a change of heart
Alright I think I'll do a top 10 so far:
1. Tems (Born in the Wild)
2. Beth Gibbons (Lives Outgrown
3. Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter)
4. Charli XCX (Brat)
5. Kali Uchis (Orquideas)
6. Metro Boomin X Future (We don't Trust You)
7. NxWorries (Why Lawd)
8. MGMT (Loss of Life)
9. Vince Staples (Dark Times)
10. Joanna Wang (Hotel La Rut)
There's probably something I forgot lol. I'm not entirely sure about BITW being first because there are so many good records, but it's an insane debut. It kind of sucks that I can't put Lupe Fiasco's Samurai on this because I liked it a lot.
My top 5 is:
5: Death Is Little More, by Boundaries
4: Angel Killer Zero, by Diamond Construct
3: YWGBYST - Knocked Loose
2: Paper Lily Ch.1 OST - Various Artists
1: Half Living Things - Alpha Wolf
Now I can finally have opinions on all these albums, thanks Fantano!
lmao the lethbridge grain elevator on the cindy lee cover gave me a good chuckle as someone raised there to just see it as a music cover
Top 3 for me
1. If I Could Sing - Kirin J Callinan
2. People Who Aren’t There Anymore - Future Islands
3. brat - Charli
1 - Clancy, TOP
2 - brat, Charli XCX
3 - Silence is Loud, Nia Archives
4 - Hardstone Psycho, Don Toliver
5 - Unreal Unearth, Hozier
6 - Samuri, Lupe Fiasco
7 - MEGAN, Megan thee stallion
Although you and I have different tastes, Anthony, I really appeciate your thoughtful reviews. Thank you. I'm moticing several other UA-cam music reviewers are essentially using long clips from your reviews and commenting on them. I am curious about your take on this? Thank you, Anthony.
So freaking happy Knocked Loose is getting more praise for this album!
Lucky Daye - Algorithm deserves more love. Been on nonstop repeat for me this past week.
1.) Blue Lips
2.) Dark Times
3.) brat
4.) Samurai
5.) Why Lawd?
6.) Hit Me Hard And Soft
This is kinda in no particular order, because i really don't know yet. It's hard. I really don't know if i will know my order at the end of the year, especially since we still get a Denzel, a Rocky, a Peggy, a Kendrick, another Childish Gambino and maybe even a Rihanna Album this year. _(Edit: Found out apparently Freddie x Madlib Album? Like uh..???)_
_(Edit 2: forgot Clipse prod. by Pharrell)_
However, it is kinda in a particular order, because this is the order how i feel at the moment.
*But:* this order changed 4 times while writing this comment. So yeah. Lol.
Honorable mentions:
Lives Outgrown, Pulsar, Chambre 140, Atavista
Honorable mention?:
No Hands
Disclaimer:
Didn't listen to the $uicideboy$ Album yet
Didn't listen enough to the raveena Album yet
I don't know how to feel about might delete later
Unpopular opinion: I don't like the Beyoncé Album
Shoutout:
Yeah shoutout to We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You, they had a few bangers and kicked this huge throwing hands off, plus without it, the kendrick concert prolly wouldnt have been like what happened in the end
Last Disclaimer:
Yes, i am such a type of person who only listens to Hip-Hop
Yes, i know only listening to Hip-Hop is a bad music taste
So please don't jump me in the replies that i am not listening to all of music, i am aware of that :(
w for blue lips. listen to what you wanna listen to dawg don’t let others try and bring you down for that
It's safe to say that Beyoncé is the best artist in the mainstream with stable quality
if ttpd was called the tortured bald people department you would have given it a 10
I'll give it a strong 9 to a light 10.
If Hyperdrama was called Hyperbald he would have given it a 10
The ladies are killing it this year😎
So was The Lemmon Twigs album just a Giggens 9 or a Fantano 9?
vida - ana tijoux 👀 latam represent
Great content as always.
my top 5 would be
1. blue lips - schoolboy q
2. 2093 - yeat
3. it’s us vol 1 - concrete boys
4. hardstone psycho - don toliver
5. bad cameo - james blake and lil yachty
Love that vince is getting the love he deserves
Where's The Lemon Twigs album?😢
my top 10 so far:
I Lay Down My Life For You - JPEGMafia
Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend
Plastic Death - glass beach
The Pilgrim, Their God, and the King of my Decrepit Mountain - Tapir!
Britpop - A. G. Cook
Scrapyard - Quadeca
Cold Visions - Bladee
She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She - Chelsea Wolfe
Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
Something in the Room She Moves - Julia Holter
and then BRAT is #11
bright future?!