Music lowkey sucks this year. There have been no good albums in 2026

RIP BOZO

2026 we gotta put a stop to Instagram Reels Hardgroove. Society has progressed past the need for Reels Hardgroove

🎶We are so cool and thoughtful 🎶

late breaking contender for my favorite footwork release of 2025 (not new, im just super late). Jazz chords + footwork + jersey club style vocal samples = fuck yes. fadarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ok

they shouldnt have spotify anthems in grindr profiles. i get it you’re gay i don’t need to see john maus and panda bear

Going to start referring to the Spotify music equivalent of top 40 pop as the Benson Booniverse

Gonna be rad when they finally move on to another book

I know that there’s no aesthetic that capitalism can’t subsume and reflect back Ala “how do you do fellow kids”, but it’s very surreal to hear a generic drill beat or a Playboi Carti needle drop in a dick’s sporting goods commercial or whatever

I know it’s a tired discourse but have you considered that the lack of year round Avatar fandom discourse is not evidence of their “lack of cultural impact” but rather a reason WHY people like them?

RFK jr hanging out with Diplo

Somehow missed this when it happened, but Cesar Alexandre aka Mount Shrine died of Covid in 2021. This was already on of my favorite ambient albums of recent memory but listening back now it has an even deeper sense of melancholy and loneliness cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shortw...

Smoking on that shit that made the grinch’s heart grow three sizes

Christmas carols <<< the RP Boo Christmas Footwork track on.soundcloud.com/GpDaFjbiwcyr...

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

The Trump post where he finally admits that he would rather be a “master of ceremonies” than president is full confirmation of my long held belief that we could have avoided this whole mess if we had just made him the host of E! News or those Andy Cohen reality show reunion episodes

Cat Power posted a lovely tribute to James Ransome that seems to imply that “Colors And The Kids” (and maybe also “Say”) from Moon Pix were about him. Oof! 💔

Life!

“i’m sad to be dead”

Will i ever get tired of tracks that sample “Short Dick Man”? The answer is no, of course not. jialing.bandcamp.com/track/glizzy

Obviously the decor is insanely garish but to me the funniest part of this is just the very concept of a massive penthouse estate in Ann Arbor. Even if you are a rich asshole, why do you need a “everything the light touches is your kingdom” type view of the Jimmy John’s on state street

It's your birthday, Duane.

For whatever reason — there are a lot of punctuation marks that serato dj doesn’t let you use, and I am irrationally mad that they’re preventing me from making a folder and/or playlist called “????????”. Why must they deny me the mystery door playlist

Given the growing popularity of “ethical hoops” as a term among basketball players, I’m excited for the first guy in the NBA who takes the “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” angle. “There is no ethical hoops in a Referee-ist society”, etc

A$AP Rocky in 2011: my music sounds like the feeling you get when you drink lean Me, 15, has never tried lean: That is probably how lean be like

The thing that makes Chalamet so special is that it never feels like he’s pandering, even when he’s pandering. No one else could shout out Susan Boyle and Fakemink in the same press tour answer and feel equally sincere about both

Beyond foundational. For pretty much my entire life, any time I encounter pre-show movie trivia, I immediately think about this set of lines

Victor Wembanyama

Organizing my library and lol. Lmao

Will be shouting this out whenever I get around to writing / finishing my AOTY list but this is my favorite ambient album of the year (Non Malibu / Ethel Cain / OPN division). Really special stuff tratratrax.bandcamp.com/album/memoria

2Hollis and Mark Hollis announce new podcast called “Talk Talk Two-ah”

and everyone is obsessed with sharing screenshots of this shit too. oh my god Scrumblo Meyer wrote a new article about wokeness in The UnCancelled, a magazine that cumulatively 400 people a year read. let's all click on it and argue

The GOAT (John Beltran under his Placid Angles project) is back!!!! Michigan excellence!!!! kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/track/that-f...

Increasingly becoming one of those “dub is the only genre that matters” people thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...

I’m not that into astrology myself, but I love showing astrology girlies my chart because they look and immediately go WHOA. It’s either positive or negative but it’s always a strong reaction

I’m 29 years old today; but my new face is 3 months old

I love the Los Thuthankas wave even if I didn’t connect with it as much as DJ E, but I also would love to see some of this energy redirected back at DJ E because that album fuckin rules

Keep the rhythm 🥁🥲❤️

Just a tiny bit more predictable than the tracks — but nonetheless excellent list. The chalk picks here are pretty hard to argue with, and still couple of inspired selections / great pulls / things I’m excited to check out ra.co/features/4482

Had been listening to this track for ages before I realized it was the same vocalist from Opus III “It’s A Fine Day” youtu.be/O2XuoVWrcgU?...

A hell of a start!!!! 200 picks (+360 alt picks). Could quibble with a few of the rankings / choices but overall it’s incredibly well put together

The RA century lists aren’t out yet but this decision is extremely cool. Lists are better (imo) with definitive choices and ranking so people understand how to prioritize the suggestions — but also lists are totally arbitrary and this is a great idea to bring additional recs / context

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a soul on this earth: My last remaining brain cell: “In limousines we have…… sex!” youtu.be/ouWAymYiUn8?...

As someone who loves DJing, the idea that you would want your non-DJ mix music listening to be auto blended by a robot is insulting and useless for people that like the DJ mix format and people who don’t. A true “who asked for this” type feature

Thinking about best dance tracks of the century in response to the quietus list / in prep for the RA lists tomorrow and was reminded that this still goes impossibly hard youtu.be/1aUl3mVId3w?...

The best grift in music is being an emo / hardcore band that pivots to another style of music, because a lot of their fans have no reference point for Neil Young or Joy Division or whatever they’re trying to imitate. Like selling stems and seeds to people who have never smoked weed before

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

it's broken into ten parts and each one starts with him leaving the hospital like when you keep dying in Grand Theft Auto

Dudes rock moment