Mastodon, "The Motherload" Once More Around The Sun is definitely a Mastodon album, what with all their stylistic tics being present. But for the most part, it's all packaged in a much more accessible way. Much of this song, for example, really is just a...
Bim Skala Bim, "Set Me Up" This is another one of those songs that has a tremendous sense of place about it in my memory. This came out early in 1995, in my last year of college, and my friend Miranda and I listened to...
Swans, "Half Life" It's stuff like this, from the early Swans career, that really drives home how appropriate the "no wave" label was for this. It just oozes nihilism. Mos Def, "Mr. Nigga" From Mos Def's great first solo record, part of one of rap's...
Skinny Puppy, "Killing Game" This is what passes for a tender song from Skinny Puppy. It works probably way better than it should, which really shows how good cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie were at their jobs. Last Rights was the last album from them...
Moses Sumney, "Lonely World" Sumney's Aromanticism pivots around "Lonely World", a song that goes from gauzy and shimmery and gradually ramps up to a frenzied finish, reflecting the inherent duality in this album. It's an album that sounds like a love album but is all...
