Wordle 221 6/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, that shaved a few years off my life

"There’s very little on Spoon's Lucifer on the Sofa, if anything, that could be deemed weird... A lot of this feels safe and comfortable" - fka_tmc reviews the Texans' new album: bit.ly/3Jz8Y1x

I wrote about Interpol's 'Stella was a diver and she was always down' for Beats Per Minute's 20th Anniversary Retrospective feature on Turn on the Bright Lights. It's a weird song, or maybe I'm weird for interpreting it that way. Who knows?!

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Came out of semi-retirement to jot down a few thoughts about MorMor 's debut, Semblance, an album I've been looking forward to ever since I first heard that opening scream on Heaven's Only Wishful

Here's what I submitted as my nominations for Beats Per Minute's writers' albums of 2022 list. Tell me how right/wrong/confused/pathetic I am

I asked OpenAI 's chatbot to review EverythingEverything 's latest album Raw Data Feel. It let me down...

I wrote this. Screamo/emoviolence/skramz fans (or anyone who enjoys passionately felt music) should check out soastasphrenas soastasphrenas.bandcamp.com/album/moirae

Iconic album cover from Rage Against The Machine

My colleague: hey man, whatchu listening to? Me: Devil music *Gets fired*

Came on here just to share my unbridled ecstasy that Infant Island are back and I've listened to 'Another Cycle' over a dozen times and it's the best thing I've heard this year and I know that of anyone Ontological Crustacium surely feels the same way. k bye

Blackened screamo outfit Infant Island release brutal and brilliant "Another Cycle" Listen/Review: bit.ly/49qOzcG Infant Island have also revealed that their new album will be out in January via Secret Voice

What's a perfect album that came out when you were 16? (I'm not sticking with one)

My BeatsPerMinute colleagues wrote amazing words about our democratically elected picks for the best songs of the year, and I wrote middling/passable ones about OLTH's 'sOng fOr jOrdan' and my personal favourite song of the year, 'Old Death' by car colors

Another Listember post. The lovely folks over at BPM have released their take on the best albums of the year. I wrote about protomartyr Home Is Where and Jessie Ware ! Check it out for my words and lots of better ones by other people!!

"Infant Island's Obsidian Wreath is ferociously heavy music tinged with melancholic beauty... it's the kind of music that thrills, exhausts, disturbs and uplifts" - fka_tmc reviews Infant Island RECOMMENDED new album: bit.ly/48pE9ci It's out today on Secret Voice