Starset - TRANSMISSIONS, VESSELS, DIVISIONS and HORIZONS
HORIZONS gets a special mention because it's both the band's newest album and their most experimental. INFECTED is for sure my favorite Starset song, but the lyrics of DEVOLUTION are absolutely phenomenal.
Enter Shikari - Nothing is True & Everything is Possible similar to Starset's whole theme of rising against a greater power, Enter Shikari does the same in this one and the transition to each song is sooo worth it. I regret not seeing them live when I had the chance.
Nightclub - Die Die Lullaby, I have NEVER heard a Nightclub song I didn't like, and they blew it out of the water with this album. If I were to put my art into the form of a song-- it would be everything on this album.
Bring Me the Horizon - POST HUMAN SURVIVAL HORROR. This one. Cannot put into words how absolutely raw this whole album is, literally CANNOT not listen to the whole thing every time. If you're ever in Sheffield England, please pay your respects to Church-- Oliver Syke's pub named Church, I mean! If I had to pick a fav from this album... Obey. Obey for sure, but god do I love Parasite Eve thematically.
Mili - Millennium Mother, gotta be honest, I think I like the album Miracle Milk more rhythmically (I've been following Mili for a LONG ass time), but Millennium Mother just shows the growth of the band beautifully in so many more ways, and the variance of the songs is stronger than Miracle Milk. My bias may also be because this is the first album of Mili's I've ever had the honor of owning physically! (And all the beautiful art that comes with it!)
Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra - SCHACH. If you haven't heard of Alice Schach, a music duo of two very passionate girls, I urge you to do so. Every song is sung in their own chaos language, and watching them grow has been so extraordinary. QUEEN FLY takes the cake for the album honestly!
Blackdresses - WASTEISOLATION. Blackdresses has been a guilty pleasure band of mine for years, and I know it's a little overrated of me to pick this album over every other, but god, the lyrics the lyrics! A lot of Blackdresses' songs are about trauma and the effect it has on you, and WASTEISOLATION was the first album they had where the lyrics were focused on something external-- about having it out for those who have hurt you. It's raw, it's real, it's the definition of catharsis for me. Love this whole album.
and finally Keygen Church - ░█░█░░█░█░█░ (yeah that's the album name. the whole thing). Not really much to say about this one, as it's all instrumental tracks of the most goth organ you've ever heard totally bustin' out the tunes in an evil boss fight melody :) Every song on it goes crazy in its own way, I listen to it a lot while drawing.
That's all for now, I think.
