Album of the Day #97 Hum - You’d Prefer An Astronaut (1995) This must be what going to space feels like. The whole album is heavy as hell. Thick fuzzed out guitars creating a sound so massive you almost get lost listening to it.

Album of the Day #96 Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (2025) This was an intense, beautiful album to listen to. Incredibly dark to the point where sometimes it felt like it was too much emotion.

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Album of the Day #95 The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (1977) The energy on this album is so fucking good. I mean that in both that it was energetic and exciting but also the energy it was giving off, the vibes, were impeccable. It was upbeat, fun and flowed effortlessly.

Album of the Day #94 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972) This album sounds so perfect that it makes you stop and listen. Every song surprises you with its depth and its simplicity. I had to stop it multiple times just to think about what I’d just heard.

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Album of the Day # 93 Divide and Dissolve - Insatiable (2025) This album feels like it’s speaking to you from beyond the veil. Like it is of another world, similar to this one, that exists in the shadows.

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"Easter Bunny on the Train" By German artist Michael Sowa (1996)

Album of the Day #92 Wake of Humanity - FIGHT/RESIST (2018) This album felt like music for a spiritual war (compliment). It was fierce, aggressive and relentless in its demands and its message.

Album of the Day # 91 Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance (2001) Everything about this album is so catchy. It’s smart, funny, witty and really everything you want out a rock album. It feels like something you’ve heard before, something you’re familiar with.

Album of the Day #90 Maggie Rogers - Heard it in a Past Life (2019) So, like most people probably, I really only knew Maggie Rogers from the viral video with Pharrell (really happy that song made it to this album it is still very good).

Album of the Day # 89 Puma Blue - Swum Baby (2017) Listening to this feels like what goes on in your head when it’s really late at night and your maybe on a couch at a party surrounded by people but you feel so alone, the most alone anyone has ever felt.

Album of the Day #88 Good Old War - Broken into Better Shape (2015) This is like if a mad scientist created an album in a lab that was designed to get stuck in your head and never leave (compliment). It’s not quite indie pop, roots rock or alt country but a healthy blend of all that.

Album of the Day #87 Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-Mail (2018) Have you ever been in love before? Have you ever been haunted by regrets? Your insecurities? Do you get in your head and relive everything that’s happened in your past?

Album of the Day #86 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (2021) As much as we glamorize youth, being 17 sucks shit and you could not pay me to go back to being that age. The insecurity, the pressures that we put on ourselves, other people or even situations themselves.

Album of the Day #85 Burial - Untrue (2007) The imagination required to make an album like this is really hard for me to wrap my mind around. It is dark and deep and intense and light and refreshing on the ears and at times it just kind of breathes with you. Perfect music to just vibe out to.

Album of the Day #84 Chris Acker - Famous Lunch (2024) This album felt like it was haunted by everyday life. Like every tiny moment had been magnified in to a spectre that was slowly consuming you. Everything is important.

I’m definitely not perfect but I don’t bring up my Tesla while defending the Harry Potter series after authoring a book with Megan McCain

Album of the Day # 82 City of Caterpillar - self titled (2002) What a joy it is to keep coming across albums that I’ve never heard before that feel essential to some version of me that has existed in the past. This was such a vast, intense listening experience.

Album of the Day #81 Hanson - Shout it Out (2010) Hanson on this album has gotta be up there with the tightest a band has ever sounded. Just ridiculously locked the fuck in. It feels like a blend of 50s/60s pop and soul that has been elevated and polished to a modern sound.

Album of the Day #80 Helmet - Meantime (1992) This must have ripped so hard when it came out. It feels like such a prototype to all kinds of late 90s/early 2000s metal and hardcore music that I loved when I was young. Listening to this felt like discovering a missed part of my cultural heritage.

Album of the day #79 Gladie - No Need To Be Lonely Originally I had a rule that I wasn’t going to write about any new releases. I don’t know why I had the rule but I’m breaking it because what’s the point of loving something so much if you don’t get to share it

Album of the Day #78 Tegan and Sara - So Jealous (2004) The first thought I had with this album compared to the other two I’ve listened to is that, right from the top, this one feels like FUN POP ALBUM.

Album of the Day #77 Chat Pile - God’s Country (2022) This album was intense. It permeates with a sense of hopelessness, a bleakness that feels specific to the middle American experience.

Album of the year Day #76 Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math (2011) This album felt like it had an addictive quality to it. The way it hooks you in from the start and then continues to hook you in over and over again.

Album of the Day #75 Slint - Spiderland (1991) First thing, this album is great. It is also borderline uncomfortable to listen to. The album has a feeling of inescapable darkness that at times is hard to sit in.

Jack Harlow is an embarrassment and Marty Supreme went 0 for 9 at the Oscar’s. Whiteboy morale is at an all time low.

Album of the Day #74 Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (1982) This was a bizarre and surprising listen (complimentary). I’ve been trying to go in to these blind if I’ve never heard of the artist and I’m not sure what I expected but it was not this.

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Album of the Day #73 Greet Death - Dixieland (2017) This feels like indie pop mixed with hardcore. I wanna dance dance but also fight fight, which is different than dance fighting. Shoegaze but make it dark and stormy. Fuzzy riffs that fill the whole field of sound backed by just massive drums.

Album of the Day #72 Big Star - #1 Record (1972) This feels like a “your favorite bands favorite band kind of situation”. Can’t believe I’ve never heard this fucking record, gotta be some of the best pop music ever produced.

Album of the Day #71 The National - Sleep Well Beast (2017) This was a deep and somber, wonderful album to listen to. As I was listening I kept feeling like the album was constantly folding in to itself.

Album of the Day #70 Tegan and Sara - If It Was You (2002) It was requested that I listen to Tegan and Sara’s first three albums in order, pretty close together. This is the second one and I think it is a marked improvement from the first (which I loved).

Album of the Day #69 Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (2011) Listening to this feels like you are drowning. Literally drowning in sound. Drowning in the past. Drowning in nostalgia. Drowning in hope. Drowning in possibility. Drowning in the sense of what has been and what has yet to come.

Album of the Day # 68 Jean Dawson - CHAOS NOW* (2022) This has gotta be the most interesting album I’ve heard all year. No idea what to call it. Defies genres. It’s genre-less. Industrial. Grunge. Hip-hop. Indie. Folk. Electronic. It is alternative. Theres ballads.

Album of the Day #67 Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015) What stuck out to me most on this album was the songwriting. It was highly emotional and complex. It comes across like he is wildly cynical or genuinely a man that doesn’t trust himself,

Album of the Day #66 Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (1996) I don’t know how else to say it but this is riding on the subway music. The experience of sitting down or be able to move slowly through a space while at the same time traveling faster and faster with the world flying by you,

Album of the Day #65 Aldous Harding - Warm Chris (2022) I loved listening to this album so much. The best way I can describe it is classic folk sounds with modern flourishes. There are (at times) driving beats, odd instrumentation and sometimes the songs take you places you don’t expect.

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Album of the Day # 64 Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art (2000) This album instantly gives me 90s nostalgia (because I’m old). I love the vocals on it so much. The mix of really hard raspy heartfelt singing with seamless harmonies works so well.

Album of the Day #63 Off Minor - Heat Death Of The Universe (2003) I think that all Jazz music kids should be funneled in to hardcore bands as soon as possible. Once I am elected president this will be one of my first priorities. This is our only path forward as a nation.

Album of the Day #62 Taylor Swift - folklore (2020) You ain’t ever gonna catch me saying anything bad about Taylor Swift on the lords internet. She is an American God.

Album of the Day #61 The Heavy - The Glorious Dead (2012) Listening to this album like stepping into the past while living in the future. Like I don’t know where I am. I could be in a Liverpool pub in 1975 or a bar in New Orleans in 2077.

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Album of the Day #60 Future Teens - Hard Feelings (2017) I wish I would’ve had this album when I was I was a younger man. The songwriting is just so fucking good. Every track hits.

Album of the Day #59 Domo Genesis & Graymatter - Scram! (2025) Man this was such a chill listen. I go back and forth on the no drums era of underground hip hop that we’ve been in for like the last decade but when it’s done well it really hits the mark and this album is musically exceptional.

Album of the Day #58 Bleachers - Strange Desire (2014) Listening to this feels like I’m inside a movie. Or maybe a novel. It’s either a John Hughes movie or a Nick Hornby novel and either way I’m here for it because man I love romantic nostalgia and this album is just bleeding it out.

Album of the Day #57 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975) Everything about this album feels massive. Its scope, length, tones and the aura that it projects. I imagine that when it came out this was the biggest thing anyone had ever heard.