Here are entries in my seemingly never-ending countdown of my favorite albums from the s! Tribulation β The Children of the Night And not only did the ambitious sextet make good on this promise, but they did it without lowering their standards. These records actually picked up steam as the year progressed, with the fourth one, Polygondwanaland, reaching a dizzying pinnacle of exquisitely arranged psychedelic rock. As we say goodbye to August and look to November, Joe Biden is maintaining his slight lead in the polls.
But it should be an 80 point lead. Americans are dying from a virus that our president has ignored, and from racist police officers and vigilantes that our president has encouraged. It makes me wonder, do we really hate each other and ourselves this much? Counterpoint: Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion topped the charts this month with a watershed of a song that celebrated the joy that human beings can give to one another.
We do love ourselves! Men will be rapping about their boners until the mountains crumble into the sea. But its blistering hook will get stuck in your head all the same. A seventh? A suspended fourth? I was too busy bouncing around my living room to look it up. A ballad about being alone in a room, waiting for a text from someone who betrayed you, that somehow feels like hope. Black Thought feat. This quartet of forty-something rappers might be over the hill, but holy shit are they gaining speed.
Here are my favorite tracks from October Nope, not even Junior Mints. Danny Brown might be the most versatile rapper working. Based on this advance track from its impending double album, Coldplay is getting back to doing what they do best β writing catchy, atmospheric songs that shamelessly, earnestly embrace us.
As sitars burble under the surface, this self-proclaimed New York giant casually raps about sipping Arnold Palmer. Damn, does it go down easy. Celebrate the early darkness of late fall by cranking this β a beautiful, billowing cold front of progressive Southern metal.
