In this episode, in late fashion, I talk about my top 10 albums of 2021 along with some honorable mentions. 2021 was a phenomenal year of music, here's to many more!

Albums mentioned:

Chevelle - NIRATIAS

FACS -  Present Tense

Failure - Wild Type Droid

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

Gojira - Fortitude

Monobody - Comma

Quicksand - Distant Populations

Royal Blood - Typhoons

Thrice - Horizons / East

Trigg & Gusset - Black Ocean

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Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell

God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10

Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

Long Distance Calling - Ghost

Mogwai - As The Love Continues

The Physics House Band - Incident On 3rd

Shy, Low - Snake Behind the Sun

Soen - IMPERIAL

Starflyer 59 - Vanity

Still Corners - The Last Exit

Storefront Church - As We Pass

Welcome back to the podcast! I plan on trying to push out some new stuff soon, thanks so much for coming back to listen after a whopping NINE MONTH BREAK. Take care!

May has been a great month and healthy break away from school. I wanted to make sure to fit a ramble in before June, simple and straightforward like the older episodes! This is just me filling everyone in on how things have been going and what I've been up to along with some hopefully cohesive tangents scattered about.

Hey there! I'm back after a lengthy hiatus with four album reviews for my favorite albums of the year so far. Thank you so much for your patience, much love!

Chevelle - NIRATIAS:

1. Verrucky

2. So Long, Mother Earth

3. Mars Simula

4. Sleep the Deep

5. Self Destructor

6. Piistol Star (Gravity Heals)

7. VVurmhole

8. Peach

9. Test Test...Enough

10. Endlessly

11. Remember When

12. Ghost and Razor

13. Lost in Digital Woods

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space:

1. I Ain't

2. I Met The Stones

3. To Be Waiting

4. I Ran Away

5. Garden

6. Hides Another Round

7. And Me

8. I Expect It Always

9. Take It Back

10. N Say

11. Walking To You

12. You Wonder

Gojira - Fortitude:

1. Born For One Thing

2. Amazonia

3. Another World

4. Hold On

5. New Found

6. Fortitude

7. The Chant

8. Sphinx

9. Into The Storm

10. The Trails

11. Grind

Royal Blood - Typhoons:

1. Trouble's Coming

2. Oblivion

3. Typhoons

4. Who Needs Friends

5. Million and One

6. Limbo

7. Either You Want It

8. Boilermaker

9. Mad Visions

10. Hold On

11. All We Have Is Now <--- Forget to mention in the episode that this closing track is a cool departure from the preceding tracks as a piano ballad (not something royal blood does) apologies for missing that! 

Just throwing out a quick update for anyone who has been wondering where the podcast has been for two months. Apologies for the delay! Expect regular episodes to start appearing in late May heading into June/July/August, I am doing fine and I hope you are too! (This episode will likely be deleted once the podcast continues) Thank you! Much love.

Scott Smith returns to talk about all kinds of things, primarily with curiosity as to how different eras of music are viewed through people of varying generations. With my longest episode yet, I talk with Scott once again about a large variety of topics including way more than what is seen in the episode title. This episode is deeply routed in concepts of psychology and philosophy with many talks about our natural, subconscious functions as human beings, the rapid advancement of everyday technology, music through the ears of the many, and the autonomous functionality of life amongst micro-organisms. Come with us on our journey, and thanks again for listening!

Just wanted to check in with you guys and let you know what's been going on and what's to come along with a ramble. Simple and short episode this time around. I also have a brief tangent about my experience with online friendships and relationships and how they are indeed possible to maintain. More guest episodes coming soon! (Apologies for the rough audio here and there, I didn't have any pop filters set up today and I couldn't hear myself during this episode because I'm switching out some equipment, things should improve in future episodes, thank you for putting up with it)

In this episode I talk with my cousin and longtime family friend who is a fellow music lover, musician, cyclist, and deep thinker. We delve a little into memory lane and discuss the bitter-sweetness of remembering the past (or lack of memory) while additionally discussing the missing facts in our modern world and the resulting chaotic conformity of those who mistaken opinions/beliefs for the definitive truth. Additionally we tackle a variety of topics involving the vastness of space and the known universe, creative roadblocks that plague our cluttered minds, faulty automobiles and much more!

In this episode, I talk about my 10 favorite music releases that came out of the treacherous year of 2020 along with a variety of honorable mentions. While 2020 was one of the worst years in recent memory, I can't help but notice that it was a fantastic year for new music, it seems that so many artists have given it their all as of recent and it has to be recognized and commended. Also find out which band has finally managed to overtake Interpol as my favorite band ;) Happy New Year to my listeners! Here's to a much better year moving forward.

Artists & Releases Mentioned:

Top 10:

1. The Pineapple Thief - Versions of the Truth

2. Muzz - Muzz

3. Deftones - Ohms

4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 

5. Jaye Jayle - Prisyn

6. The Strokes - The New Abnormal

7. Puscifer - Existential Reckoning

8. Gone Is Gone - If Everything Happens For A Reason...Then Nothing Really Matters At All

9. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison

10. Joywave - Possession

Honorable Mentions:

Black Hill - The Buffaloes Will Never Die

Violent Soho - Everything Is A-OK

Ginger Root - Rikki

Khruangbin - Mordechai

Black Hill - The Buffaloes Will Never Die

KG&TLW - K.G.

Wang Wen - 100,000 Whys

Sorry - 925

Telepathy - Burn Embrace

Alpha Male Tea Party - Infinity Stare

Plini - Impulse Voices

The Smashing Pumpkins - CYR

Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen

SWEAM - Lounge Music for Cat People

Iress - Flaw

Everything In Slow Motion - Influence

Sprain - As Lost Through Collision

D.A.N. - LIVE ARCHIVE: STRAND

Shy Boys - Talk Loud

Nothing - The Great Dismal

Trigg & Gusset - The Way In

Adrian Young / Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 1,2,3,4,5 / Azymuth - JID004

Narrow Head - Far Removed

Vundabar - Either Light

O'Brother - You and I

I Hear Sirens - Stella Mori

Doves - The Universal Want

Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn

Pg.lost - Oscillate

Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengaest

Taylor Swift - Folklore

Deftones - Black Stallion

Ovtrenoir - Fields of Fire

Untitled With Drums - Hollow

Our Oceans - While Time Disappears

Future Islands - As Long As You Are

Gleemer - Down Through

The Neverly Boys - Dark Side of Everything

All Them Witches - Nothing As The Ideal

A.A Williams - Forever Blue

IDLES - Ultra Mono

Hum - Inlet

Jr. Clooney - Jr. 2

Gazpacho - Fireworker