sleeplog24(12): twentytwentyfourpointtwo
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| 1 |  | Fallujah
The Flesh Prevails (Remixed & Remastered)
1st December 2024
Tech Death [2024]
A chunky monkey remix for an album I’m sure I’ve heard before but not rated it goes chugachugachugachuga very quickly and my monkey mind is satisfied. [3.5] |
| 2 |  | Apollo Bitrate
Despectral Maid
2nd December 2024
Drill and Bass / Chiptune [2024]
Cute quirky soft plastic and gummy worms [3.5] |
| 3 |  | Bagel Fanclub
Encore County Ground
3rd December 2024
Drill and Bass / Chiptune [2024]
More cute quirky soft plastic and gummy worms [3] are we going of album art only atm yes we are |
| 4 |  | Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
3rd December 2024
Jazz Fusion [2024]
Way so way very not way i mean what this wasnt what i was expecting what. The shortest thing he's done? And yet somehow feels too long? Some of the stuff on the second half is fantastico but im already kind of done due to some of the dud cuts on the first half (computer love ew). Makes for a weird listen that I struggle to love but also am kind of enamoured by for its character, robust creative decisions and big old balls. [3.5] |
| 5 |  | Poppy
Negative Spaces
4th December 2024
Metal meme sauce but like actually good [2024]
This is BMTH it’s Knocked Loose it’s Deftones it’s Slipknot it’s Disturbed it’s a lot of fun. [3.5] |
| 6 |  | The Cure
Songs of a Lost World
6th December 2024
Gothic / Alt Rock [2024]
Was putting this off (having not heard any of their earlier stuff, except for a cursory spin of Disintegration like 10 years ago, and wanting to retry before trying this) but the grip of the fomo hype got to me and so I cheques and it was a good chek decision this is good heck. Attracts horrid descriptors like tasteful and subtle but nah mate it’s spiritual it’s worship it’s life. [4] |
| 7 |  | Candy (USA)
It's Inside You
6th December 2024
Metalcore / Hardcore [2024]
Borderline between forgettable but fine and fucking awful plastic wrapper faux-experimental bollocks. [2] |
| 8 |  | Beth Gibbons
Lives Outgrown
7th December 2024
Chamber Folk [2024]
There’s a ghost on my couch. [4] |
| 9 |  | Crippling Alcoholism
With Love From a Padded Room
7th December 2024
Noise Rock / Gothic Rock [2024]
Equal parts daft/cartoonish and genuinely striking/stirring/scary. Has some of the best tracks of the year. Has some other tracks which are certainly tracks of the year. Want to unpack lyrics and return. [3.5] |
| 10 |  | Kings of Leon
Can We Please Have Fun
9th December 2024
Indie / Alt Rock [2024]
Jammed due to a friend of a friend insisting on it and it is quite nice! Not listened to anything except the sexy fire song but this has hooks that hook and croons that soothe. [3] still dull as old boots though |
| 11 |  | Alva Noto
Xerrox Vol. 5
10th December 2024
Ambient [2024]
Solid gold lil nugget of ambience. Feel asleep to it on train to work. Useful accompaniment to doing actual work. Just an all round big hug (but not vapid). [3.5] probably underrating |
| 12 |  | Four Tet
Three
13th December 2024
Downtempo / Microhouse [2024]
It’s a Friday oh god. Gosh. Cosy album this. Wants to be a [4] but is probably a [3.5] but the thing is i Stan for Kieran so [4]. |
| 13 |  | Thou
Umbilical
19th December 2024
Doom / Sludge [2024]
Thicc. Happy list season got me behind on my jams. Thicc. [3.5] |
| 14 |  | Frontierer
The Skull Burned Wearing Hell...
20th December 2024
Mathcore / Noise [2024]
A great iteration on their staple. [3.5] |
| 15 |  | gyrofield
A Faint Glow of Bravery
23rd December 2024
Drum and Bass [2024]
I have weird connections connotations with drum and bass having tried to first jam it when I had Covid January 2023 it makes me feel feverish and dizzy and it’s a shame as it conjures judgementalism within me that I don’t think this album deserves. Closer recovered this from a bitter [2] taking the gas off a touch and leaning into its atmos elements. Idk I’m dumb and complaining about the bass in drum and bass rip me. [3] |
| 16 |  | Mike and Tony Seltzer
Pinball
23rd December 2024
Trap / East Coast / Cloud Rap [2024]
Staff top 50 why do you continue to do me dirty? This is fine. [3] |
| 17 |  | Better Lovers
Highly Irresponsible
23rd December 2024
Mathcore [2024]
I’m a suck(er) for this and the drama that surrounds it but who are we kidding it just ain’t either of the entities that spawned it. [3.5] |
| 18 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead
23rd December 2024
Post-Rock [2024]
At some point I’m sure I am going to come to the conclusion that this isn’t that good BUT godspeed tend to get a pass on first listing mystique and enamouration. [4] |
| 19 |  | Arooj Aftab
Night Reign
23rd December 2024
Chamber Jazz / Folk [2024]
So elegant damn. Songs you could listen to forever, the subtlest of brushstrokes, eyes deceived, nothing but night skies and deep pools here. [4] |
| 20 |  | The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
24th December 2024
Jazz-Rock [2024]
V messy, incoherent, inelegant, but fun, super fun, super super fun. [3.5] |
| 21 |  | Defeated Sanity
Chronicles of Lunacy
25th December 2024
Tech/Brutal/Slam DM [2024]
Merry Christmas ya filthy animal [3] |
| 22 |  | Slift
Ilion
25th December 2024
Stoner/Psych/Space Rock [2024]
Ngl I fell asleep but I enjoyed it! The song before the closer is dope. [3.5] |
| 23 |  | Ka
The Thief Next to Jesus
25th December 2024
Drumless/Abstract [2024]
RIP. Reflective musings on rap, community and faith to Ka’s iconic soulful spacious beat backdrop. [3.5] |
| 24 |  | The Necks
Bleed
27th December 2024
Ambient / Minimalism [2024]
I like looking at trees. [3.5] |
| 25 |  | Kazumoto Endo
At the Controls
28th December 2024
Harsh Noise [2024]
Like being processed through mechanical cheese grater made mostly of memes. [4] top 5 noise artist from the 2 albums I’ve heard throw your split atoms at the neighbours and ride amplifiers like death rocket to hell let’s go have some fun |
| 26 | | Aphex Twin
Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023)
29th December 2024
IDM [2024]
The hodge-est of podges. 2.5 hours aka 40 tracks (ish) of Aphex (essentially) b sides. Some absolute gold (both “no stillsons”, MT1T1, em2500, Spiral Staircase, and a bunch of others) and, naturally, a lot of fluff. First listen reeks of more than [3.5] upon familiarity, and thrives in a more than the sum of its parts kind of way (take this track by track and there are limited hits per misses, but take it as a whole and it is a massive vibe). For now, [3.5] and likely to be a 2025 dip in and out of jam. |
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