Buckle up: this is the one that almost got away from me, and it’s my favorite non-metal album of the year.
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Scriv’s Favorite Albums of 2018: Beyond Creation, Algorythm
Since The Faceless started falling apart and Meshuggah had a brand-new genre label foisted upon them, Beyond Creation have been my go-to band for technical death metal. The Montréalais quartet don’t sound like every other tech death band, and honestly, given how samey tech death tends to be, that’s enough to get me interested. But Beyond Creation went beyond getting me interested and got me well and properly hooked.
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Snacko’s Favorite Games of 2017 Roundup
2017 was a fantastic year for video games. There was no shortage of exciting new properties both in the indie and AAA realms and older properties, such as Wolfenstein, Assassin’s Creed and Mario had new installments that reinvented those series in exciting new ways. This list could easily be twice as long and I plan to write longer pieces about certain games not on this list (most notably Nier: Automata) but these were the six games that most impressed me in 2017.
The Rest of Scriv’s Favorite Albums of 2017
Turns out I had a little more to say about each of these albums than I though. It also turns out that rapid-fire publishing nine posts over eight days isn’t a great idea, so I’m clumping most of my favorite albums of 2017 into this post on this final day of the year. Here are my takes on weirdo-pop icon Fever Ray, prog theatrics from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a slab of supermassive riffs from Ground, a lightning-fast thrash assault from Lich King, and Igorrr, dear god, Igorrr, what have you wrought?
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Scriv’s Favorite Albums of 2017: Lorde, Melodrama
It’s not every day that an album like Melodrama arrives. It’s not even every year.
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Scriv’s Favorite Albums of 2017: Nine Inch Nails, ADD VIOLENCE
Trent Reznor absolutely succeded with this EP; he wanted to make something difficult, and, well, here it is. But it rules, and if you like industrial music, it’s immediately clear that it rules.
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Scriv’s Favorite Albums of 2017: Neil Cicierega, Mouth Moods
Distinguished readers, here is the 2017 album that took BloodLetterPress by storm, the one that we’ve had playing at most of our in-person meetings this year, the latest offering from the man we’ve come to view as the voice of a generation. Neil Cicierega, perhaps best known as the creator of Lemon Demon, Potter Puppet Pals, and countless other internet follies, has graced us with a third mashup album.
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Snacko’s Favorite Games of 2017: What Remains of Edith Finch
Edie once told me that every Finch who ever lived was buried somewhere in the library. Continue reading Snacko’s Favorite Games of 2017: What Remains of Edith Finch