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breakingjustxn · 6 months

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well i mean, not wrong // credits: @screamingemonight on Instagram

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breaking-justin · 7 months

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What’s the band called? // credits: @indie_alternative_emo_boy on instagram

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strawberryblondebutch · 4 months

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Back by unpopular demand, it's my top albums of 2023! While 2022 suffered a dearth of good artists that made it impossible to cobble together a top 10, I struggled this year to whittle my 50(!!)-album shortlist down to my top.

Same rules as always: everything on this list is a full-length album (no EPs) of largely previously unreleased material (no reissues, no cover albums, no Taylor's Version) arranged in an intentional manner (no B-sides or rarities albums). Now, behold!

10. DOG PARK DISSIDENTS - THE PINK AND BLACK ALBUM

I hope I'm not the only punk frustrated with the decline of queer rage in the music scene. Everyone's sad and no one is angry. If you're sick of being well-behaved, this is the album for you. I've been a Dog Park Dissidents fan for years now, and I'm thrilled to see them put out an LP, especially one as great as this one.

9. SINCERE ENGINEER - CHEAP GRILLS

Something everyone needs to know about me: I love a girlflop. There is nothing more endearing than an absolute disaster of a woman, and no one is flopping through life quite like Deanna Belos. Her third album brings her scratchy-voiced brashness into her early 30s, and as much as I hope for an end to her crisis, at least she has a good soundtrack going.

8. ALL GET OUT - ALL GET OUT

Wouldn't it be easy if I didn't listen to any albums? If I just put my favorite bands in the top ten and said "that's enough hard work, I think"? Well, I don't, because sometimes there's a surprise. All Get Out has frustrated me for a while, as their Southern-fried brand of rock and roll is something I should like, but they never seemed to put it all together... until now.

7. BLONDSHELL - BLONDSHELL

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum showed up at the eleventh hour to wreck my rankings. I was unaware of Blondshell until they opened for Liz Phair a month ago, and I was intrigued enough to follow up and listen to her debut. Her stage presence needs some work -- unlike, say, Foxing's latest album, which I learned to love once I heard it live, I think Blondshell is better recorded -- but if this is her first effort, I can't wait to see what she does next.

6. ZZ WARD - DIRTY SHINE

2023 was the year of blues rock artists going independent, and their music was all the better for it. The Record Company was a late cut for my honorable mentions, but ZZ takes the sixth spot here. There was a lot riding on Dirty Shine: she was independent and had been mostly silent since the pandemic. With some of the tightest production I've seen this year, she hasn't missed a step.

5. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - IN TIMES NEW ROMAN...

Talk about someone who's been through the wringer since their last album. Josh Homme battled cancer, alcoholism, and a bitter divorce, and his band's latest release is one of pent-up rage. It bears strong shades of 2007's Era Vulgaris, which was divisive in its own time, and as a result, some might hate In Times New Roman... for its looser, crunchier sound. For me? It's exactly what I like to hear.

4. SPANISH LOVE SONGS - NO JOY

I have a confession: I'm a terrible album reviewer. It takes me weeks or months to listen to something new, even for my favorite artists, like Spanish Love Songs. I didn't get around to No Joy until just before I went to see SPL open for Hot Mulligan, at which point I felt like the time had come. This album was an acquired taste, smoother and more polished than 2020's Brave Faces, Everyone, but like Frightened Rabbit's 2016 Painting of a Panic Attack, the sparser sound lets you focus on what Dylan et al. are trying to say, and you can soon tell No Joy is an album that needed to come out for his own sake.

3. HEART ATTACK MAN - FREAK OF NATURE

Speaking of "late on the draw," behold Heart Attack Man, a band I should have loved... if I ever got around to listening to them. They hang around all the same scenes my other favorite bands do (in fact, Hot Mulligan also brought them along on their most recent tour), and yet I never got around to exploring them until this June, when they played in Philly for $20 tickets. Good thing my impulses won out, because this album is what punk should be (and something it's been sorely missing).

2. HOT MULLIGAN - WHY WOULD I WATCH?

After shouting them out in the last two entries, I have to give Hot Mulligan their flowers. They're a strange band, having more in common with Dance Gavin Dance than, say, The Wonder Years. It's progressive post-hardcore for Midwest emos, and although the individual songs on Why Would I Watch? are on par with any individual song from a previous release, they do something here that elevates them above their other work: put out an album, rather than a collection of songs.

1. FIREWORKS - HIGHER LONELY POWER

It was always going to be Fireworks. They released this album on January 1 after a long hiatus, giving me an entire year to have this LP rattle in my brain and linger in my bones. Higher Lonely Power combines several trends found on the rest of this list -- a new sound that needed to grow on me, a need to shake off the rust of a hiatus, a band I took far too long to get to know. They're my favorite band's favorite band for a reason, and Higher Lonely Power is a gorgeous mediation on love, death, and aging. A worthy album of the year if ever there were one.

#fireworks #hot mulligan #heart attack man #spanish love songs #queens of the stone age #zz ward #blondshell #all get out #sincere engineer #dog park dissidents

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flashlight-smallknife · 1 year

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Niche genre unlocked: the intrusive desire to fling yourself in a body of water

#the wonder years #future teens #sincere engineer #My thoughts

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punkrockmixtapes · 5 months

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Listen/purchase: Library of Broken Bindings by Sincere Engineer

I got home sickness This Dramamine dose gets less and less and less effective And I don't feel alive when we're off shore I take one, I take two, I take three more I take three more

#bandcamp #Sincere Engineer #Library of Broken Bindings #Cheap Grills #2023

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sw0rds-and-p3ns · 5 months

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I am so late doing this, but @eckspress tagged me to shuffle ten songs on my "on repeat" playlist and to tag ten others to do the same. Thank you for the tag!

As always, only if you want to!! @l-o-s-t--hope @the-girl-who-always-smiled @nothing-i-wouldnt-give @silent-cha0s @sufficant @ghostcoochie @lenhy @can-i-get-away @anacondavice @orionfalls

#Spotify #the wonder years #saturdays at your place #spanish love songs #microwave #touche amore #bayside #title fight #mom jeans #sincere engineer #anxious #tag game

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sendmyresignation · 1 year

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Sincere Engineer Riot Fest 2022 Source

#thinking about this again..... SHES SO HOTTTTTTT #i regret not getting in that pit but we had to sneak out to get to dunes which was also incredible so whatever #sincere engineer

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awolfinpeopleclothes · 7 months

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Riot Fest 2023

Highlights were Frank Turner and The Gaslight Anthem (featuring Sincere Engineer during The 59 Sound)

#riot fest #riot fest 2023 #the gaslight anthem #frank turner #sincere engineer #say anything #mr. bungle #chicago

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sinceileftyoublog · 2 months

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Laura Jane Grace Live Preview: 2/16, Sleeping Village, Chicago

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BY JORDAN MAINZER

Laura Jane Grace's debut solo album Stay Alive was--and sounded like--a product of the pandemic. Her inability to record with her Against Me! bandmates resulted in an album full of great songs that you couldn't help but think demanded a bigger sound. Her second album Hole In My Head, out today via Polyvinyl, in contrast, exudes sheer purpose. With a mix of solo acoustic tunes and "full-band" songs inspired by 50's and classic rock (Grace sang, played guitar, and played drums alongside Drive-By Truckers bassist Matt Patton), Hole In My Head is at once reflective and worldly. Grace had the opportunity, post-pandemic, to workshop many of the songs live before recording them, and the result is a collection filled with a sense of place, vulnerability, and humor.

Yes, Hole In My Head has a lot of reference points. Grace wrote the songs in and sings about Amsterdam and St. Louis, and namedrops a beloved Chicago hot dog joint and an auditory phenomenon tourist attraction in Tulsa. She interpolates George Harrison and Cheap Trick and uses Elliott Smith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as emotional and cultural benchmarks. But they're all just part of her increasingly stellar storytelling and confessionals, fighting insular tendencies by embracing feeling. "Dysphoria Hoodie", released before the album was even announced, encapsulates the dichotomy well. Though the namesake clothing item is a trans person's go-to garment to prevent the world from speculating on their gender, Grace opens up her inner monologue: "When it says A.D.I.D.A.S on my chest / All day long I dream of sex / When I’m not thinking about Jesus," she sings. "Cuffing Season" and "Tacos & Toast", meanwhile, occupy two sides of the same coin, the former seeing Grace diving deep into a relationship, the latter featuring her crossing out an ex's tattooed name to celebrate her birthday.

All in all, Grace does a lot of looking back. "Punk Rock In Basements" doesn't quite yearn but remembers her start in the DIY scene, Grace singing over handclap percussion, guitar jangles, and backing shouts. On "Hard Feelings", she sings, "Mother, mother, mother I've ruined my brain / With alcohol, weed, porn, and cocaine / Staring out windows / Staring at screens / I've passed right by everything I've seen." It's not so much a downer as a reminder to live for now. Fittingly, the album ends with Grace standing at The Center of the Universe, screaming at god, unable to be heard by anyone else, existing for herself and nobody else, alone by choice.

Grace celebrates the release of Hole In My Head tonight at Sleeping Village. Deanna Belos opens with a Sincere Engineer solo set, as does local bedroom pop band CalicoLoco. Doors at 8:00 PM, show at 9. At the time of publication, you can still join the waiting list for a ticket.

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looselipssinkships-x · 3 months

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6.5km//4mi -> 35min:40sec

- snitches and talkers get stitches and walkers - fall out boy - i slept with someone in fall out boy and all i got was this stupid song written about me - fall out boy - california king - sincere engineer - the patron saint of liars and fakes - fall out boy - cinderblock garden - all time low - chicago is so two years ago - fall out boy - death valley - fall out boy - riot - daisy grenade - xo - fall out boy - bad side of 25 - patrick stump

A short shuffle run? By golly we are in a good mood this morning! Took off a little later because after I finished my resume/cl i decided to clean out my inbox? more time consuming than anticipated tbh. Anyways, two jobs have since been applied for and i am feeling cautiously optimistic. This might be a good thing.

#fall out boy #fob #patrick stump #running #soul punk #from under the cork tree #take this to your grave #all time low #daisy grenade #save rock and roll #sincere engineer #inside my head #future hearts #cult classic #off to the grocery store and then oh my god i need to shower

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sincereengineer · 1 year

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