I wrote my first AOTY list for 2018, which I thought was a great year. My list could have been very different depending on the day of the week I wrote it and the mood I was in however.

I don't agree with this entire list but I love some of it and thus will have to check out the records I haven't heard.

Props for putting Rolo Tomassi in there. I thought that album was great.

Thanks for having a read. It would be a boring world if we all shared the same opinions but I hope you find some new stuff there you enjoy.

Yeah, Rolo Tomassi are a band I saw when promoting their first album which I enjoyed. Some people that heard me listening to that album or who came to watch their set with me despised every little thing about it. Then I kind of lost track of them for a few years. They obviously continued to evolve.

Blarb:

Word up! This record is bad ass creepy af!!!

Again Blarb:

10/10

Grindy Frown Bat Mondo - if y’all ain’t heard this get to listening

Fan-****ing-tabulous

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(Honestly, super underrated album. It got TONS of attention and this immediately tons of hate because they have a ****ing sense of humor and made the album to make fun of Nazis... but actually, it's a great album and their ability to make really, really good lofi black metal is only matched by their ability to trigger actual white nationalists who fill the scene. I can't wait to see what they do next.)

if you think that's really really good lofi black metal then some actually really really good lofi black metal ought to come to you as godlike

intensely whatever

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He’s the most reliable source for metal recs on the board.

You and Bat are sort of like me with free jazz and ambient drone: so in love with the genre that we fail to be discriminating

His metal recs from 2018 unfailingly have some kind of extra spark that separates it from the pack