Yeah, you've escaped that duty for too long now...

yes. can't stress how great their final album was.

The album was pretty gnarly. Sad it's their last one.

Also guys, these are my honorable mentions of the year. Loved all these albums, just didn't quite crack my top 25. Let me know if there's something killer I missed out on and I'll give it a mini-review here.

Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
Swans - The Glowing Man
Astronoid - Air
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Mitski - Puberty 2
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Mondo Drag - The Occultation Of Light
St. Lucia - Matter
Haken - Affinity
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
The Veer Union - Decade
Fm-84 - Atlas
Childish Gambino - Awaken My Love
DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Akira Jimbo - Jimbo de Jimbo 80's
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
King - We Are King
Devin Townsend - Transcendence
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
Bill Laurance - Aftersun
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
Submotion Orchestra - Colour Theory
Alcest - Kodama
Ray Wilson - Makes Me Think Of Home
Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures

^YES! Someone else with Life of Pablo on their list. I know it's honorable mentions but still.

Life Of Pablo is a great album. Better than Lemonade and a lot of other stuff that ended up getting lauded over it IMO, but I digress. It was honestly pretty hard to do a top 25 this year. So many great albums. If I had done different lists organized by genre or something it might have been easier to be even more inclusive, but yeah.

Let me know if you want any .zip files of any of my top 25 or any honorable mentions. I think you'd like Astronoid, The Midnight, etc. I rip almost all my stuff from FLAC or CD to 320 CBR MP3, which is about as good as it gets for that format.

I'll let you know. I might be doing a AOTY by genre in my main journal today.

Would you please write a review of this record in my Lamp Lighter journal, please