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THE 14TH ANNUAL "RUSTY NAMES HIS TOP 50 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR," 2014 EDITION

Fun facts that no one cares about. I have this Google doc that has been in use for the past four years as my method of keeping track of my favorite albums and songs that come out in a 365 day period. There's a page with all the albums, a second with all my favorite songs. About halfway through the year I'll create a second page, one that shows the clear front runners from the ones on the fence, all the way down to the ones that have died a dignified death in this pool I keep all to myself. There's also a bunch of symbols and letters that act as my own secret code as to how I keep points, which albums hold more merit when stacked side by side. This year, I needed none of that. On any given year, the pool of albums I was compiling my Top 50 from would be anywhere from 131-156. This year, there were precisely 60 albums that I spent enough time with to include on the short and long list, and the 10 that didn't make the cut stuck out like a sore thumb (sorry Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, last in the alphabet and one of the first to get the axe.) I don't know if this is because I had less time to devote to it, or maybe there just wasn't as much good music this year, but I was kind of shocked and sad that I had only heard that many albums in 2014 (OK, 61; I listened to Monuments To An Elegy but had already written it off after hearing "Tiberius.")

#Top 50 Albums of 2014

THE 14TH ANNUAL "RUSTY NAMES HIS TOP 25 SONGS OF THE YEAR," 2014 EDITION

When it starts, you think the CD is skipping, but then you remember you're listening to it on MP3, or you're a purist listening to it on heavyweight vinyl. Regardless the situation, it's a hi-hat loop that sets the tone as the languid guitar enters the scene. That lead guitar that enters with that steady 4/4 march, yeah yeah it sounds like Dire Straits, but we've all known about Adam Granduciel & The War On Drugs affinity for great heartland rock of the 80s that Mark Kozelek isn't so fond of. Being the lead track off a highly anticipated album that much sweat and tears was put into, Granduciel probably was feeling "Under The Pressure," but it sure doesn't sound that way. 'Oh the come down here was easy / After the arrival of a new day' he sighs relief as he paves the way for this nearly nine minute blast of bliss. The song continually chugs and chugs, but all of a sudden it derails into this oh-so euphoric moment north of five minutes. Where the drums pan to the left, filtered to the point they sound like a demo take, as a sea of saxophones that have been building finally crash on the land, leading to minutes of wondrous ambiance that some may find rather annoying and wish to skip, while I find it to be calming, peaceful. If you have somehow not heard what is the Best Song of 2014 just yet, I challenge you to make it through the whole thing before asking yourself: could this also be the best Side 1, Song 1, of all-time?

14th Annual Top 25 Songs List, 2014 Edition

1. "Under The Pressure" // The War On Drugs // from Lost In The Dream 2. "Inside Out" // Spoon // from They Want My Soul 3. "Seasons (Waiting On You)" // Future Islands // from Singles 4. "Another Night" // The Men // from Tomorrow's Hits 5. "Spinners" // The Hold Steady // from Teeth Dreams 6. "Era" // Fiance // from EP1 7. "Diamond Mine" // Pillar Point // from Pillar Point 8. "Bad Law" // Sondre Lerche // from Please 9. "Philadelphia Raga" // Peter Matthew Bauer // from Liberation! 10. "Skate Or Die" // White Laces // from Trance 11. "Academy Award For Best Actor In A Supporting Role" // Swearing At Motorists // from While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth 12. "Let Her Go" // Mac DeMarco // from Salad Days 13. "Shut In" // Strand Of Oaks // from Heal 14. "Talking Backwards" // Real Estate // from Atlas 15. "Thunder Glove" // Gardens & Villa // from Dunes 16. "Sunbathing Animal" // Parquet Courts // from Sunbathing Animal 17. "In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition Of Passing)" // A Sunny Day In Glasgow // from Sea When Absent 18. "Upper Hand" // Doug Gillard // from Parade On 19. "Springful" // Adult Jazz // from Gist Is 20. "We Are Siamese" // The Lees Of Memory // from Sisyphus Says 21. "Love Letters" // Metronomy // from Love Letters 22. "Lariat" // Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks // from Wigout At Jagbags 23. "Sand + Silence" // The Rosebuds // from Sand + Silence 24. "Not Gambling" // Shocking Pinks // from Guilt Mirrors 25. "Come & See" // Protomartyr // from Under Color Of Official Right

THE 13TH ANNUAL "RUSTY NAMES HIS TOP 50 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR," 2013 EDITION

25. Kanye West // Yeezus // Def Jam 24. Minor Alps // Get There // Barsuk 23. Superchunk // I Hate Music // Merge 22. Local Natives // Hummingbird // Frenchkiss 21. The Dismemberment Plan // Uncanney Valley // Partisan 20. Radiator Hospital // Something Wild // Salinas 19. Eleanor Friedberger // Personal Record // Merge 18. Small Black // Limits Of Desire // Jagjaguwar 17. !!! // Thr!!!er // Warp 16. Washed Out // Paracosm // Sub Pop 15. The National // Trouble Will Find Me // 4AD 14. The Flaming Lips // The Terror // Warner Bros. 13. Luke Temple // Good Mood Fool // Secretly Canadian 12. Pearl Jam // Lightning Bolt // Monkeywrench/Republic 11. Kurt Vile // Wakin' On A Pretty Daze // Matador 10. Vampire Weekend // Modern Vampires Of The City // XL 9. Nine Inch Nails // Hesitation Marks // Columbia 8. Caveman // Caveman // Fat Possum 7. Yo La Tengo // Fade // Matador 6. Queens Of The Stone Age // ...Like Clockwork // Matador 5. Arcade Fire // Reflektor // Merge 4. No Age // An Object // Sub Pop 3. The Love Language // Ruby Red // Merge 2. Ducktails // The Flower Lane // Domino

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds // Push The Sky Away // Bad Seeds LTD. It starts on a hot summer's night in Boston in an non-air conditioned second floor apartment. It goes further back then that. It actually started in college, the seeds were planted in my mind then. Trevor, he played the piss out of "There She Goes, My Beautiful World." At that point, I still didn't get Nick Cave nor his Bad Seeds, but somewhere it was filed away in my mind that I would someday.

Fast forward that balmy Sunday night, my ritual viewing of 120 Minutes on VH1 Classic. "The Mercy Seat" video sold me on maybe giving Mr. Cave a second shot. And that's when I got into Tender Prey, that's when I got into the languid The Boatman's Call, the album that's the real predecessor to album of the year, Push The Sky Away.

It's only nine songs, it feels like each side is a calculated EP. Each song built on nerves and wires, intricate loops from Warren Ellis. "We No Who U R" with it's swirly wurlitzer and the woozy flute. "Wide Lovely Eyes" with its tick-tock guitar and electric piano abuzz. Cave ruminating about his wife. The violin comes in big down by the "Water's Edge", where the local boys go to get their fix. It all builds to "Jubilee Street", a song where the sonic flood gates finally open and the band doesn't restrain anymore, letting the song explode and flourish, before it comes back down where the "Mermaids" lay.

The second side builds up the same way, to the classic "Higgs Boson Blues", and recedes in the title track finale. Mr. Cave is such the wordsmith, as you'll find "Wikipedia" not far from "Hannah Montana" and "Miley Cyrus". It's such a nervous, nerve wracking collection of songs, songs that require patience, for each song sits on the edge of a turn, a turn where the songs cloud blast like Cave's past, but they don't. That is the challenge, one I accepted back in February, one that stayed with me through a few weeks ago when I declared Push The Sky Away the album of the year.

#Top 50 Albums of 2013

THE 13TH ANNUAL "RUSTY NAMES HIS TOP 25 SONGS OF THE YEAR," 2013 EDITION

If you ask me, this has been a weird year musically. When it came time to really start to mull over my annual lists that note my Top 25 Songs and Top 50 Albums, I was kind of at a loss. I had no clear front runner for the album list; my top 5 albums each sat on the top spot for a moment or two just to see what it looked like until it was sufficient enough. This here Top 25 Songs list, though, was a lot easier to assemble. For the majority of the year only two songs really stood out in a way that they deserved the highest of honors that yours truly would ever dole out. And what came in to win the crown jewel, the Best Song of 2013 as appointed by Rusty, has been the winner all along if you ask me. A song that came out in January, and just ran with it all the way to the finish line that is December.

365 SONGS, #SONG143: "Everything" by Nine Inch Nails

This is about as right field as it gets when it comes to Trent Reznor. He wins a Golden Globe, then an Oscar for his score to The Social Network. Man deserved those, earned them to add to his already storied musical career. He waved goodbye tfrom Nine Inch Nails in 2009, forms How To Destroy Angels with his wife, and eventually becomes infatuated once again with his true love.

Reznor started writing and playing around with a few new songs last year for a proposed greatest hits album to finish out his old contract in Interscope. One of the two confirmed songs he wrote for inclusion was "Everything". Released as the third single from the upcoming Hesitation Marks, it makes sense knowing it would've been on the greatest hits set that now won't be happening thanks to the new LP he was inspired to create. "I have tried / Everything" he proclaims, and it seems what inspired his musical muse to create more NIN music came out in a completely different direction.

The word "pop" has been used to describe "Everything" and people are right to do that. It's major chords, quaintly auto-tuned vocals are atop a chugging 1-2 guitar that is a mere note away from "American Idiot". It's jarring, disorienting, polarizing even. But then the chorus comes in and its just as aggressive and as epic as any song the man has done in the past. "March Of The Pigs" it isn't, but they guy wanted to try everything he hasn't done, and you know what, it's a successful song. Surprising to come from the man who once proclaimed he wanted to fuck one like an animal, but it's been trapped in my head for days, so once again he succeeds at crafting a great tune, pop or not.

Hesitation Marks is out September 3rd.

#365 Songs #Nine Inch Nails #Hesitation Marks #Columbia

365 SONGS, #SONG141: "Jesus" by Dom

It was late last night, and I had almost cross the Mason Dixon to enter Pennsylvania from Maryland. Armed in the car stereo was one of the multiple discs of songs for last year's Preserving The Largehearted Rust IV, three CD-R's filled with an equal number of songs that did and didn't make the airwaves that day.

There's a bunch of shit on there I really wanted to play, and a few songs are easily partitioned on the every growing list for the day we do PLHRV. One of them would be the weird and woozly warble of Massachusetts band Dom. "The tears about to begin / and the ecstasy is kickin' in" is the first line of the trippy "Jesus", and it seems that this song is quite possibily the musical equivalent to a drug trip. It's a song I was rather obsessed with upon my first discovery, multiple repeat doses in succinct yet powerful two minute doses. That guitar part is so simple and nothing fancy, yet truly is the haziest part for being the equally cleanest. As every last piece of the song's puzzle sets in, the trip really is about to begin, but with the song only going so far as you get there. Once you get to said destination, its up to you to stay on the ride or not. If you're like me, you're in it for the long haul 120 seconds at a time.

#365 Songs #Dom #Sun Bronzed Greek Gods #Astralwerks

365 SONGS, #SONG140: "Didn't I Warn You" by Golden Suits

...And while we all wait for a third Department Of Eagles album that may not ever come to surface, we have the principles doling out songs in other directions. Of course there's Daniel Rossen, who equally soars as one of the members of the illustrious Grizzly Bear. He also release a solo EP last year of songs that he was sitting on, not sure what to do with them save to compile as one singular solitary effort.

That leaves other DoE defenseman Fred Nicolaus, who is about to drop his first solo LP under the moniker Golden Suits. First single "Didn't I Warn You" doesn't sound all that far off from the pretty indie folk blends he crafted with Rossen, but given the chance to be at the forefront shows a confidence we weren't necessarily shown previously. His voice is powering, as soaring as an eagle itself. Handclaps juxtaposed the lush acoustics and anthemic drum work. It builds and builds, the eagle it gets so close to the sun, and just when you think you lose it in your eye sights, the eagle it returns to a view, away from the blinding brightness of sunlight. Let the Department Of Eagles be suspended, so long as there's Golden Suits to keep us company I'm sure we will all survive this musical furlough.

Golden Suits is out August 20th on Yep Roc.

#365 Songs #Golden Suits #Yep Roc

365 SONGS, #SONG138: "You've Got Me Wonderin' Now" by Parquet Courts

It was the morning of Black Friday, and I had been engaged to my fiancee for around 12 hours. I was running on no sleep thanks to my now annual midnight shift at the job, ringing up the legions of people who want to spend all their money on the products my store sells. So, we're driving (that's where this story is going) and the only thing that could keep me awake for the roughly 90 minute drive was Light Up Gold by Parquet Courts, the great post punk/early00s indie sounding gang from Brooklyn by way of Austin or some other city in Texas.

Everybody loves Light Up Gold, you should, too. And not even a year after that snappy collection of songs comes the amusingly titled EP Tally All The Things That You Broke. The title is a lyric in the song "You've Got Me Wonderin' Now", a ferocious little ditty that's got just as much frollicking forceful guitar as it has a heinous recorder solo as its outro. The band continues to use such simple methods as a driving 4/4 beat, and guitars the chime and drive with a force that reminds me of my great friends The Oranges Band. Honestly, I think PC is indebtted to Roman and co. for life and that's not a bad thing, as I'm sure The Oranges are indebtted to their influences, too. I'm not saying The Oranges directly influenced Parquet Courts, there's just a handful of similarities. Jack White gets pissed that people rip him off, I get stoked when bands remind me of other bands. Isn't that the key to finding new music you like anyway?

Tally All The Things That You Broke is out October 8th on What's Your Rupture?

#365 Songs #Parquet Courts #Tally All The Things That You Broke #What's Your Rupture?

365 SONGS, #SONG137: "Neptune Estate" by King Krule

Sometimes you have to wait until the right time to write about a song. Sometimes it is because you have to wait until it has its most maximized impact as the muse. Sometimes it is because the night time is the right time. I have always been a proponent of making chill mixes, padded with songs that soundtrack the most innocent and most intimate times, all the hours after midnight. Mixes where the songs bleed into one another so much that its deliberate that its three in the morning and you don't know if the songs have changed or its all been the same all along.

I've been waiting all day to write about King Krule, the super British, super deep voiced kid whose real name is Archy Marshall. For a minute he went by Zoo Kid, but even he knew what he was up to deserved a type of royal anointment. That unique voice soaks up all the space of his songs, save for the little bit of room left for his jazz guitar pickings and trip hop dubbings. "Neptune Estate" is the second single from his upcoming 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, a song that works best after hours. I live in a city now but I have car, but back in Boston I would purposefully leave my old second story apartment to walk the streets with this song, album emitting from the earphones. The dub loops carry you down the sidewalks, as the cars honk at you as you walk out of turn in the form of free-form sax blares. And then there's the words that also fit a love lost at found at a messy party. It's a neurotic, narcotic tune to get lost in, one best to just let soak in on the multiple listens you'll have once you put it on the first time.

6 Feet Beneath The Moon will be out August 20th on True Panther.

#365 Songs #King Krule #6 Feet Beneath The Moon #True Panther

365 SONGS, #SONG136: "Future Folklore" by Crystal Stilts

The one thing that hasn't changed over the three albums and one EP of Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts is that of the voice of lead singer Brad Hargett. It's all gloom and doom, a deeply registered and deeply affecting vocal. You can identify any and every song of theirs the second he opens that mouth of his. The first song that drew me in, the titular anthem "Crystal Stilts", found Hargett's voice not being too far off from a panned and bored Thurston Moore, moping about as the chug-a-lug four track corralled its way through the Williamsburg lo-fi fuzz and sludge.

And with each album, they've seemed to clean things up a little bit. "Future Folklore" finds the band sounding as crisp and clear as ever in the present. The 4/4 drum packing so much punch, the noodling guitar riff, and that clang clang piano, these guys really missed their calling as being The Velvet Underground 2.0. In the 156 seconds it takes to get from the start to the finish, the "Folklore" doesn't make any crazy detours, doesn't show off any flashy minutes-long jam freakouts, it goes exactly where you expect it to, keeping its no fuss pace the entire time. And like I'm certain I've ended a post or two on here before, it's never a bad thing getting what you expect, for sometimes you need this dependence because its what you've always liked about an artist. Sometimes change is good, but this time keeping up their act and being this few-trick pony is fine by me.

Nature Noir is out September 17th on Sacred Bones.

#365 Songs #Crystal Stilts #Nature Noir #Sacred Bones

365 SONGS, #SONG135: "Kim Chee Taco Man" by Kelley Stoltz

Horrible first sentences:

I almost wrote about a song by The Dead today. Yes. The. Dead. It might happen in the near future.

I know, I've been neglecting this thing, life and work get in the way, but that's neither here nor there, am I right? Eventually, in 2014, we'll address the songs that are missing from the slate so far, promise promise.

I can't remember, for the life of me, who the voice of Kelley Stoltz has always reminded me of. I hope that it comes to me by the end of this post. His album Below The Branches came out in 2006, and lead track "Wave Goodbye", full of such buoyant piano, was a staple track through the final episodes of The Largehearted Rust Radio show. I skipped over his next two records, but the upcoming Double Exposure won't be one I sleep on. "Kim Chee Taco Man" is a title that is as clever as every delectable moment of this pop song. Strings have a twinkly twang of a Korean sunrise, quickly colluding with a persistent and infectious bassline, and Kelley's great voice. The song just continues to blossom through the peaks and valleys of his own calls and responses, his harmonizing loops that glisten through the eight tracks and sun kissed bliss that is a song nothing more than a tale of a food truck.

Everybody loves the psych/power pop/lo-fi scene of San Francisco because of people like Mikal Cronin and Ty Segall as of late, but they all seem to forget that Stoltz is from there, too. I think we should all hope this new single gives Kelly the exposure he deserves.

Double Exposure is out September 24th on Third Man.

#Kelley Stoltz #Double Exposure #Third Man Records

365 SONGS, #SONG128: "Byegone" by Volcano Choir

Justin Vernon finally feels like he is in a rock and roll band. After two phenomenal records under his assumedidentity Bon Iver, he's back with his friends in Collections of Colonies of Bees. One Vernon + Four Bees = Volcano Choir, a band that made their first album like a Death Cab singer's side gig. No longer relying on distance, the men holed up in Vernon's April Base studio in Wisconsin to record the colossal and confident Repave.

Triumphant and anthemic in ways that Bon Iver, Bon Iver slyly hinted at, "Byegone" finds Vernon's vocal register a bit lower but stronger than ever. Setting sail on a soothing sea, the gentle guitars that are at the start are quickly destroyed by defining drums and alarming string chimes. Those gentle acoustic picks are reminiscent of many a Bon Iver moment, but the rest of the song is a true Volcano Choir song. Unlike their unnerving and electronically fused debut, "Byegone" paves the way for Volcano Choir to be the rock and roll band Vernon now fronts, a band that stands on its own without depending on another man's famous guise.

Repave is out September 3rd on Jagjaguwar.

#365 Songs #Volcano Choir #Repave #Bon Iver #Jagjaguwar

365 SONGS, #SONG125: "On Fraternity" by Default Genders

When the EP Stop Pretending was released this week, it was by Dead Girlfriends. Days later amid much controversy, James Brooks has changed the name of this project to Default Genders due to the looming concerns and criticisms of the internet.

I, by no means feel that I can even attempt to speak about the issues at hand that came about with this release. Take a minute and read this to really understand what's going on. This piece of pop noise that goes by "On Fraternity" is very satisfying to these ears though. There's the contrast of the walls of white static giving way to the sincere Brooks telling this tale. It's catchy as all hell, one of the catchiest songs I've come across this year, and the lyrics are shocking and thought provoking. Again, I'd say more, but I think you should read along while you listen.

the way your heart speeds up when you notice someone walking behind you- well, that's why. the way they're all watching for your guard to drop at the end of the night now- well, that's why. it's like you have to wear black in places like this in their opinion you were always kind of asking for it all along who cares if it's right as long as it's fun? so if someone gets hurt and then the cops come, then no one talks. the way they act like even bringing it up means you're the one with a problem- well, that's why. the way they say they can't just stop being friends with him because of what happened- well, that's why. it's like you have to wear black in places like this did you not see them roll their eyes every time we walked in all along? who cares if it's right as long as it's punk? so if someone gets hurt and then the cops come then no one talks. this is why i wanted out

#365 Songs #Default Genders #Elite Gymnastics #Stop Pretending

365 SONGS, #SONG124: "Dance Yrself Clean" by LCD Soundsystem

The other night the condo was empty: It was just me and the Netflix queue. I was looking for something to watch that wasn't Orange Is The New Black since the fiancee wasn't around, and the first eight episodes of season five of Breaking Bad weren't up just yet either. Scouring the internet for ideas as to what was added this week, I was delighted that Shut Up And Play The Hits made it to instant stream. The documentary chronicles the final days before, and few days after LCD Soundsystem played their final, epic, Aziz Ansari crowd surfing three hour show at Madison Square Garden. Over their years of existence, I was able to see them perform three times: once in Boston, once at Lollapalooza, and once at the Virgin Mobile Freefest.

Watching Hits, seeing multiple members surround themselves with multiple rigs of equipment as James Murphy made his lyrical declarations with his trademark announcer's mic, I was reminded that LCD is one of the greatest bands to come out of the past decade. And it made me realized that as the music community is immersed in a new culture of bands reuniting, Murphy was at the top of his game and made his polite bow from the stage. I love him for that, I love that he has made it so LCD Soundsystem made three, more or less perfect albums, and said that's enough. He says they won't reunite for now, and I surely hope they never do because everything they have done has been so neat and organized and in history leaves us with a pristine representation of how bands should act this day in age.

We're two years removed from that show that took place in April 2011, and I know we'll never see them again and I'm at peace with that. It's because of those three albums, their self-titled effort, the impeccable Sound Of Silver, and the final chapter This Is Happening, albums that I can put on and relive significant moments of my life in the 2000s and know that they stay with that era of my life and not with anything else for now. For being a swan song, Happening has the grandest of entrances with the 9 minute opening salvo, "Dance Yrself Clean". I know I've rambled a lot about the band and only scratched the surface of what certain songs of Murphy's have done for me over the year, but a song like "Clean" is one that should be ingested in the moment. It reminds me that this music has helped me wash away sins, to dance like nobody is looking, to live the life I've have chosen to live all these years. It's a great song, one that everyone and their mother should jump up and down and lose their shit to the second the drums enter the scene. In this song, I can hear every moment this band was involved with in my life. It's their anthem, and it's my anthem, too, now and again.

#365 Songs #LCD Soundsystem #This Is Happening

365 SONGS, #SONG123: "Let Me Show You" by Cut Copy

The last song on Zonoscope, the third album from Australia's electronic rave machines Cut Copy, is called "Sun God". It's 15 minutes of tripped out bliss, a ending of biblical proportions indeed. At about the five and a half minute mark, the song begins the final journey, the 10 minute outro where its goal is to give the listener a moment to reach the most euphoric state possible. A few keyboards reach the peak of the mountains where the sun meets the horizon line, and the drums trudge along as your hike up the mountain to see this thing of beauty for yourself.

And when you get there, their new single "Let Me Show You" easily works as what's next. The drum beats are somewhat similar, the pitch of Dan Whitford's vocals seem to have the same slouched adjustment. But if "Sun King" is reaching the top of the summit, then "Let Me Show You" is the orbit into outer space. A kinetic piece of electronic pop bliss, those opening keyboards work as the planets and stars twinkling, as Whitford says we're all the true believers when the sun goes down. The sun sets in "God", and the solar heat rises in "Let Me Show You". If you like electronic music, skip over Skrillex or any other EDM band that's out there and stick with Cut Copy. No need to stray from what they have to show you, what they have to offer.

"Let Me Show You" will appear on their forthcoming fourth LP, due this fall on Loma Vista.

#365 Songs #Cut Copy #Let Me Show You

365 SONGS, #SONG122: "It's Over" by Roses

It's taken me awhile, but I think I've finally accepted the fact that I may never hear another album by Abe Vigoda. No, not the actor who played Fish, or more notably John Travolta's grandpa in Look Who's Talking, I'm talking about the LA 20-somethings who were a big part of The Smell scene. They of No Age's caravan of stars on the PPM label. Ever since 2010's solid Crush and some dates opening for Vampire Weekend, not a peep not a word.

Maybe the topic of "It's Over," a new single from Roses, is about the dismantling of this group? Oh wait, how are these two bands connected you ask? Guitarist Juan Velasquez also strummed the noisy ramshackle strings in AV, and the synth pop teased on Crush has come full throttle on this excellent piece of 80s synth soaked romanticism. The vocals aren't buried, there as clear as day, as Marc Steinberg sings of choices, ways of life, decisions we make everyday. All the while Velasquez surfy and airy guitar warbles ride the collected cool sounds of the drum machine. If you're a fan of Future Islands you'll love this, and if you're like me hoping for another Abe Vigoda album someday, this seems to work as a placeholder or future permanent replacement.

#365 Songs #Roses #Abe Vigoda

365 SONGS, #SONG117: "Bathroom Laughter" by Pissed Jeans

I don't really ever enjoy punk rock, not that I ever go out of my way to really spend the seconds it takes to enjoy some of its finer moments. But for some reason, I have thoroughly been enjoying "Bathroom Laughter" from Allentown, PA's own Pissed Jeans. The drums chug beyond something as simple as a locomotive churning, the bass is as furious as it could be. But nothing can be as demanding and chaotic as Matt Korvette's demented vocals. Coming off with a very much "fuck you" attitude and higher rates of the speed than his bandmates, he spits out truths of people crying and moaning in every corner of the office, probably what Korvette's insurance office co-workers might do if they heard this song. One of my co-worker's heard it the other day and demanded it be turned off, I just let it play with a smile and a nod.

"Bathroom Laughter" is from Honeys, and it's out now on Sub Pop. As a bonus, watch the hilarious and quasi-violent music video while you're at it.

#365 Songs #Pissed Jeans #Honeys #Sub Pop

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