Tag: EFfluence
Best of 2025: Seth Buttnam – All Bosses Rando No Hit Speedrun
Is this the final album I’m ever going to listen to? That has been on my mind a lot this year. Eventually, whether it be tomorrow or years from now, there will be a final …
Best Of 2025: Spencer Hotz – Slowly Smoothing Brain Syndrome
Dearest Reader(s?), I firmly believe the noodle soup in the can called my skull is starting to go bad. More than likely, you will agree with that sentiment when you finish reading this rather unhinged …
Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day
Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there …
Best Of 2025: Captain – Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em, Good Times!
“All good things come to those who wait” is a bit of an annoying idiom, but only if you interpret its meaning in a very passive and entitled way that amounts to, “Well, if I …
Best Of 2025 – Our Album Art Favorites
As the (Western Christocentric) world is presently drowning in the pablum of commercial Christmas music and with weeks yet to go, let us instead come together to celebrate the weird and wonderful world of Heavy …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2025 So Far, Vol. 1
Happy summer, folks! It’s become tradition here around LR HQ to spend part of July catching up with the things we’ve missed throughout the year, or at least the things we really dig that we …