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New Alan Sparhawk album in May!

Staying up til midnight to check it out?

Wow, thought that was dropping tomorrow.. *puts earbuds in Edit: just got a full listen in. Some great moments. Felt a little thrown together, though. Decent, but likely won't return to it, aside from a track or two.

Listened to it three times in full this afternoon 🎧

Beautiful voice! Enjoying it so far, thanks for sharing! Edit: yeah, this is definitely making my favorite albums from March list.

All good! That's why I was curious 👊

Wow, feels like I have a twin out there 🤔😃 As in Warren Zevon? Also, what's the significance of Zevon as opposed to any other lyricist? Is he your benchmark for lyrical prowess? Or was he just given as one example? Just curious as there are many amazing lyricists out there..

Agreed 💯% (unfortunately)...

Discussing the strength of the album bookends reminded me of my AOTY blog post from last year, and in it I had noted what makes a "10 out of 10" album for me. I listed 10 criteria that I focus on: Production Quality Strength of opening and closing tracks Vocal performance Instrumental...

My thoughts: https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/threads/new-music-friday.93/post-929905 https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/threads/rank-the-albums.335/post-930166

SAAAAAAMMMMEEEE!

The beautiful thing about music (and all art). Same. The feelings that music evokes play a huge role in where an album lands come the year end aoty list. That's very interesting! Same. If those specific boxes get checked right away, it's usually a sure thing that I will be positively affected...

Hmm.. maybe I should.. paste.. them on to my radar list as well 🤔😎

🍀☘️ List Of The Radar Variety🌱🌿 3.21.25 Ariane Roy -  Douge (Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter) Aversed - Erasure Of Color (Melodic Death Metal) Burning Palace - Elegy (Dissonant Blackened Death Metal) Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal (Death Metal) Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries...

This WAS on my list. And I, too, enjoyed it.

I've seen a lot of hype (both on N&G and on other sites) for the new  Spiritbox album, Tsunami Sea (dropped March 7th). So I, somewhat reluctantly, decided to check it out. The "somewhat reluctantly" is my tendency to steer away from the metalcore scene, as it's not a subgenre I'm particularly...

5-7 are interchangeable right now. But I feel TFB is his weakest solo album 🤷‍♂️