Tag: Messa
Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short
Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over …
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 – Zach Duvall: The Never-Ending Goldrush
Hello and welcome back to the heart of another List Season. Tired yet of seeing these things peppered all over the internet? Of course you aren’t! So below I present my top albums of the …
Best Of 2025 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot …
Messa – The Spin Review
[cover artwork by Nico Vascellari] Every artist worth a speck is destined to release at least one “divisive” record – you’ve heard a few in your day, I’m sure. The heavy-heeled stagger into stuffy acoustic …
Best Of 2022 – Dan Obstkrieg: In Which Foolishness Is Again Considered
The introduction, in which claims are made It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the vest …
Best Of 2022 – Zach Duvall: No Dung Ahead
Welcome all, to another view into my listening mind. As usual, I will surely regret the ordering of these items within the fortnight. Or maybe I won’t, because this is just a snapshot, and it …