Category: Best Of Lists
Best Of 2024: Captain – Can Your Rover Do Any Sweet Kickflips, Bro?
I anthropomorphize things too much. Not always to the point of birds with arms throwing deuces my way for rocking a Napalm Death longsleeve from 1991, but in varying degrees of that high water mark. …
Best Of 2024 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
Hi-de-ho, neighbors! Here we are! The closing ceremonies for 2024. Remarkable survival skills, friends. Let’s see some hearty pats on the back, and let’s take some time to reflect on all the good that’s happened …
Best Of 2024 – Top 10ish EPs & Demos
Hello and welcome back to yet another Last Rites List Season (copyright pending). Today we present our annual delve into our favorites of The Short Stuff: extended plays (that’s what EP stands for), 7-inch splits, …
Best Of 2024 – Our Album Art Favorites
So, the thing about art is… it’s weird, right? Music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, yodeling, all of it. A human urge to express the inarticulable? Sure, grandpa. A desperate attempt to wrest some sort of …
We Have The Power – The Top 25 Power And Power-Related Albums Of 2024
“You mock my pain!” “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” We Have the Power is a unique pain. One of life’s good pains, fortunately—like soreness from some good exercise. It …
Best Of 2023: Josh Heath – The Spirit Of Extraterrestrial Radio
Some years are better than others. Thankfully, 2023 was good to me. I got married, started a podcast, started writing alongside the fine folks here at Last Rites, and last but certainly not least, my …
Best Of 2023: Spencer Hotz – Get High With A Little Help From Your Friends
In thinking back on the year that was, the idea of journies is what most strongly comes to mind. I recently came to the realization that my wife and I spent a ludicrous amount of …
Best Of 2023 – Chris C: A Little Spicy
I thought that as I got older—accounting for the assumed wealth of experience I would undoubtedly have by this advanced age—my tastes would expand. I would become this living, breathing Encyclopedia of all things refined. …