#chicago is so two years ago…..lake effect kid……city in a garden……

[hazardsoflove]

fall out boy has the unique ability of writing songs that make you feel like you’re from chicago

[tombstoneswerewaiting]

parallels in fob songs no. 63942

[falloutboylyricss]

Fall Out Boy and Places

note: this post only includes names of specific places, both real and fictional

Evening Out With Your Girlfriend

"I'm deep with futures like Chicago / No, Glenview never meant a thing to me, she never meant a thing to me" - Growing Up

Take This to Your Grave

"Pete and I attacked the laws of Astoria with promise and precision" - Saturday

"Landing on a runway in Chicago, and I'm grounding all my dreams of ever really seeing California" - Homesick at Space Camp

Chicago Is So Two Years Ago (title only)

"But there's a light on in Chicago, and I know I should be home" - Chicago Is So Two Years Ago

From Under The Cork Tree

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Infinity On High

"Put love on hold, young Hollywood is on the other line" - The (After) Life Of The Party

"And everyone's looking for relief, United States versus disbelief" - You're Crashing, But You're No Wave

"New York eyes, Chicago thighs, pushed up the window to kiss you off" - I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

Folie à Deux

"Erase myself and let go, start it over again in Mexico" - I Don't Care

"Let's hear it for America's suitehearts, but I must confess, I'm in love with my own sins" - America's Suitehearts

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet (title only)

"Plant palm trees on Lake Michigan before it gets cold" - The (Shipped) Gold Standard

"Said, 'I'll be fine 'til the hospital or American embassy'" - What A Catch, Donnie

"And you're a bottled star, the planets align, you're just like Mars" - 27

"A Roman candle heart, keep us far apart" - Tiffany Blews

"Have you ever wanted to disappear and join a monastery, go out and preach on Manic Street?" - 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

West Coast Smoker (title only)

"Got my degree in the gutter, my heart broken in the dorms of the Ivy League" - West Coast Smoker

Save Rock And Roll

"Did you trip down twelve steps into Malibu?" - The Mighty Fall

"Bel Air baby, did you get dressed up?" - The Mighty Fall

"But we are alive here in Death Valley, but don't take love off the table yet" - Death Valley

"When Rome's in ruins, we are the lions, free of the Colosseums" - Young Volcanoes

"Americana, exotica, do you wanna feel a little beautiful, baby?" - Young Volcanoes

PAX AM Days

"Cargo and despair, all American made" - American Made

American Beauty/American Psycho

"You know you look so Seattle, but you feel so L.A." - Irresistible

"She's an American beauty, I'm an American psycho" - American Beauty/American Psycho

"Take me down the line, in Gem City, we turn the tide" - Uma Thurman

"In between being young and being right, you were my Versailles at night" - Fourth Of July

"There's a room in a hotel in New York City that shares our fate and deserves our pity" - Twin Skeleton's (Hotel In NYC)

MANIA

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So Much (For) Stardust

Heaven, Iowa (title only)

"6 AM, Mulholland Drive, Moonlight Sonata and I" - Heaven, Iowa

Misc.

"I wanna put the Midwest home again" - Alpha Dog

"Sometimes, when I'm in Heaven, I get forgetful of the Earth" - Lake Effect Kid

"And joke us, joke us 'til Lakeshore Drive comes back into focus" - Lake Effect Kid

"I love you, Chicago, you make me feel so summer fling" - City In A Garden

"You know the world can get my bones, but Chicago gets my soul" - Super Fade

"Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan / Crimean peninsula, Cambridge Analytica" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again / Obama, Spielberg, explosion, Lebanon / Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, Bombing, Boston Marathon" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Great Pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens / Mars rover, Avatar, self-driving electric cars" - We Didn't Start The Fire

[questwithambition]

Chicago + Fall Out Boy

Chicago Is So Two Years Ago // View from the 12th Floor Terrace of the University Club, Chicago, Terry Evans // City in a Garden // Fall in Chicago, Michael Goro // Lake Effect Kid

[wentzsmatchacup]

whats the best and worst song off of each fob album/ep :)

and whats the best and worst song off of each patd album :)

(bonus tracks can be picked but i also want regular tracks picked for each best/worst option too <3)

DISCLAIMER: when I say “best” or “worst,” I mean “favorite” and “least favorite”

FOB

EOWYG: best: The World’s Not Waiting or Honorable Mention worst: Short Fast and Loud

TTTYG: best: Chicago Is So Two Years Ago worst: maybe Reinventing The Wheel?

FUTCT: best: Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying worst: 7 Minutes In Heaven

IOH: best: The Carpal Tunnel Of Love worst: It’s Hard To Say I Do When I Don’t

Folie: best: Tiffany Blews worst: agh- I guess 20 Dollar Nosebleed

SRAR: best: The Mighty Fall or Where Did The Party Go worst: aaaa I can’t choose- maybe My Songs Know…

PAX AM Days: best: Caffeine Cold worst: The Art Of Keeping Up Disappearances

Lake Effect Kid: best: Super Fade (I’m forever A Super Fade lover idec what u say) worst: City In a Garden

AB/AP: best: Novocaine or The Kids Aren’t Alright Worst: Centuries (it’s not the worst, I’ve just heard it so much it’s my least favorite to hear)

MANIA: best: Bishops Knife Trick worst: Champion

SMFS: best: Fake Out or So Much For Stardust worst: I wanna go with easy and say the Pink Seashell, but if it’s SONG song, then Heartbreak Feels So Good

P!ATD

AFYCSO: best: Camisado worst: Nails For Breakfast Tacks For Snacks

Pretty Odd: best: Behind The Sea or Pas De Cheval worst: Do You Know What I’m Seeing

Vices & Virtues: best: Hurricane or Nearly Witches worst: Ready To Go (this was a tough pick cos this album is so good)

TWTLTRTD: best: I LOVE THE LAST 4 SOSO much but Collar Full or Far Too Young To Die worst: Girls/ Girls/ Boys (I’m sorry, song that made me cry live)

DOAB: best: Impossible Year or LA Devotee worst: House Of Memories

PFTW: best: Old Fashioned or The Overpass worst: Fuck a Silver Lining

VLV: best: Don’t Let The Light Go Out worst: Star Spangled Banger

This actually made me think a lot lol- thx for the interesting ask, Malaya :3

[magicaplin]

Fall Out Boy & Chicago

Chicago is So Two Years Ago / City in a Garden

[houseofwolvcs]

chicago is so two years ago / city in a garden

[shouldntdaresleep]

What’s your favourite fob song? (Or songs if you can’t choose)?

okay. this is important, so I’m going to make a few lists:

my fav fob songs of all time:

1. GINASFS

2. Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

3. Saturday

4. Hum Hallelujah

5. XO

the fob songs that I’m most into right now:

1. My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon (the acoustic version from My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side is my favorite but both can stay)

2. “From Now On We Are Enemies”

3. Alpha Dog

4. Chicago is so Two Years Ago

5. Lake Effect Kid

additionally, a list of songs that aren’t in either top five but which I love very much (and feel bad about excluding):

Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash, Calm Before the Storm, Grand Theft Autumn, It’s Not A Side Effect of the Cocaine, Sugar We’re Going Down, Sophomore Slump, 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen), Bang the Doldrums (though I ruined it for myself by making it my alarm), I’m Like A Lawyer, Fame < Infamy, You’re Crashing, She’s My Winona, Headfirst Slide, (Coffee’s For Closers), 27, Where Did The Party Go, Death Valley, The Kids Aren’t Alright, Novocaine, Twin Skeletons, Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea, City In A Garden

(the first list is songs that I’ve loved for long periods of time and which I think are objectively going to be the songs that will always be some of my favorites of theirs. the second is the songs that I love now; I’m listening more heavily to the songs that I’ve neglected in the past, which are mostly the songs that aren’t on their 7 full-length albums. the last ones are mostly songs that I’ve been attached to in the past and then moved away from, and the italicized ones are the ones I love extra!)

[anthonycrowleymoved]

ok here’s my clearly unbiased and very much correct ranking of every single fall out boy song i am ready to wake up to a good roasting tomorrow (also i feel like some of you may think some of these were an error or possibly a joke but i promise all of these are dead serious my opinions are just that bad)

Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

Golden

Miss Missing You

G.I.N.A.S.F.S

Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year

Bang The Doldrums

(Coffee’s For Closers)

Heaven’s Gate

Alone Together

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (demo, in the words of Guillermo del Toro, “VERY different”)

Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner

I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me

You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave

The (After) Life Of The Party

Save Rock And Roll

Tiffany Blews

Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy

Hum Hallelujah

Snitches And Talkers Get Stitches And Walkers

A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”

Sugar, We’re Goin Down

Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Short, Fast, and Loud (yes, seriously)

Thnks fr th Mmrs

“The Take Over, The Breaks Over”

She’s My Winona

What A Catch, Donnie

Pretty in Punk

Young Volcanoes

Twin Skeletons (Hotel in NYC)

Church

West Coast Smoker

27

Dead on Arrival

The (Shipped) Gold Standard

I’ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)

20 Dollar Nose Bleed

Chicago Is so Two Years Ago

America’s Suitehearts

w.a.m.s.

Where Did The Party Go

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)

Jet Pack Blues

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)

Pavlove

Switchblades and Infidelity

Young And Menace

The Pros and Cons of Breathing

The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes

Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (But I’m Gunna Give It My Best Shot)

The Music Or The Misery

City In A Garden

HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T

Fourth of July

Calm Before The Storm

7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)

Of All The Gin Joints In All The World

The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van)

Dance, Dance

It’s Hard To Say “I Do,” When I Don’t

Thriller

I Don’t Care

Bishops Knife Trick

The Last Of The Real Ones

Lake Effect Kid

I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

Lullabye

I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me And You)

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)

XO

My Heart Is The Worst Kind Of Weapon (Demo)

The Phoenix

Saturday

Uma Thurman

Favorite Record

American Beauty/American Psycho

Rat A Tat

Champion

Moving Pictures

From Now On We Are Enemies

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

The Carpal Tunnel Of Love

Centuries

Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here)

Sunshine Riptide

Homesick at Space Camp

Immortals

The Mighty Fall

Death Valley

Honorable Mention

This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race

Novocaine

Fame < Infamy

Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am

Reinventing the Wheel to Run Myself Over

Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today

Just One Yesterday

Irresistible

Alpha Dog

Super Fade

Hand of God

Grenade Jumper

Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea

i could group these in like, songs i like songs that i think are meh and songs i don’t like but i’ll keep u guessing on that know that i do actually like MOST of their songs. also i don’t want to do Pax Am Days or My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue but my general Feelings™ on them are Heart good, Pax Am bad.

[dustedmagazine]

Dust Volume 6, Number 8

Angel Olsen

Now half a year in the pandemic, we’re starting to see the emergence of quarantine records, whether in the trove of reissues hastily assembled to stand in for new product or home recorded projects made with extremely close friends and family or albums that are conceived and written around the concept of isolation. Music isn’t real life, exactly, but it lives nearby. And in any case, it’s still music and can be good or bad whether it’s been unearthed from a forgotten box of tapes, recorded at home without collaboration or side people or technologically gerry-rigged so that distanced partners can work together. So, as long as you all are making music, we will continue to listen and find records that move us, as the world burns all around. This edition’s contributors included Patrick Masterson, Andrew Forell, Tim Clarke, Jennifer Kelly, Bill Meyer, Jonathan Shaw, Justin Cober-Lake and Ray Garraty. Enjoy.

+ — #playboy (Deluxe Edition) (self-released)

#playboy (deluxe edition) by +

One of the most genuinely confounding records I’ve heard this year comes courtesy SEO-unfriendly artist + aka Plus Sign fka Emanuel James Vinson, a Chicago rapper, city planner and all-around community activist who spends his time helping with the city’s Let’s Build Garden City initiative when he’s not making music (which is frequent, by the way — take a look at the breadth of that Bandcamp discography). The concept with #playboy, originally released in April but deluxed in late May, is simple: Two kids find a music machine called #playboy in their basement and start tinkering with it. Its childlike whimsy is conveyed in the song titles (“Getting the Hang of It,” “Wake Up Jam (Waking Up)”) every bit as much as it is in the music, with occasionally grating indulgences, the odd earworm and a brief appearance by borderless internet hip-hop hero Lil B that makes perfect sense in context; the kindred spirit of that community-building cult auteur is strong here. You may wind up loving this record or you may wind up hating it, but I can promise you this: You’ll be thinking about it and the artist behind it long after it’s over.

Patrick Masterson

 Actress — Mad Voyage Mixtape (self-released)

I once suggested Darren Cunningham mucks about with his music because he can’t help himself. That was about six years ago on the occasion of his purported “final” album Untitled; with the benefit of hindsight, we can see he was (like so many others, to greater or lesser consequence) just pulling our leg with that PR. Hell, he’s released two albums worth of music in July alone: The first was the mid-month surprise LP 88, which follows in the vein of his acclaimed high period as an often brilliant, occasionally frustrating patchwork of submersible beats best played at high volume with a low end. The second came at the end of the month in an m4a file shared the old fashioned way on a forum via Mediafire link, nearly an hour and a half long, and per the man himself, “All SP-303, sketchbook beats, recorded this past week [the first week of July] straight to recorder or cassette.” It feels very much like a homespun Actress mixtape and is probably best thought of as livelier accompaniment to 88 but, even still, there’s no noticeable drop in quality — once Actress, always Actress. If headier lo-fi beat tapes are your beat, this will slot comfortably in line.

Patrick Masterson

  bdrmm - Bedroom (Sonic Cathedral)

Hull five-piece bdrmm play a satisfyingly crepuscular version of shoegaze on their debut album Bedroom. Ryan Smith, his brother Jordan on bass, guitarist Joe Vickers, Danny Hull on synths and drummer Luke Irvin combine the widescreen sound of Ride with a cloak of gothic post-punk. Like the late, lamented Girls Names, bdrmm find a sweet spot where atmosphere and dynamics either build to euphoric crescendos or bask in bleak funereal splendor. Bedroom seems deliberately sequenced from celebration to lament. “A Reason To Celebrate” evokes Ride at their most anthemic, the tripping staccato driven “Happy” summons the spirit of The Cure of Seventeen Seconds before the pace drops for the second half, the songs become quieter and darker as the band finds a more personal voice. “(The Silence)” is an ambient whispered wraith of a thing, “Forget The Credits” impressively mopey slowcore. bdrmm don’t always transcend their influences, but this debut is an atmospheric treat if your taste runs to the darker end of the musical buffet.

Andrew Forell  

 Circulatory System — Circulatory System (Elephant 6 Recording Co.)

Circulatory System by Circulatory System

Nearly 20 years after its initial release, the excellent eponymous debut album by Will Cullen Hart’s psychedelic chamber-pop band Circulatory System gets a long overdue vinyl reissue. While his previous project, the undeniably great Olivia Tremor Control, tended to lean more towards classic psych-pop’s traditional tropes — hard-panned drums, loads of disorientating tape effects, wonky harmonized vocals — Circulatory System taps into something utterly uncanny. Both Signal Morning (2009) and Mosaics Within Mosaics (2014) have their moments, but this is front-to-back brilliant, conjuring a sublime atmosphere of reflective estrangement. The music is a thick, grainy soup of shimmering instrumentation, from the eerie (“Joy,” “Now,” “Should a Cloud Replace a Compass?”) to the joyful (“Yesterday’s World,” “The Lovely Universe,” “Waves of Bark and Light”), but part of the album’s magic is the way everything flows into a seamless whole. As is vinyl’s tendency, the rhythm section really comes alive here, the fuzz bass and tom-heavy drum parts booming out, with plenty of vivid details in the mix swimming into view. A worthy reissue of an essential album.

Tim Clarke

 Cloud Factory — #1 (Howlin’ Banana)

Cloud Factory #1 by Cloud Factory

Cloud Factory, from Toulouse, France, overlays the serrated edges of garage pop with a serene dream-pop drift. It’s an appealing mix of hard and soft, like being pummeled to death by pillows or threatened gunpoint by a teddy bear. “Amnesia,” for instance, erupts in a vicious, sawed off, trouble-making bass line, then soars from there in untroubled female vocals. Later, “No Data,” punches hard with raw percussion, then lays on a liquid, lucid guitar line that encourages middle-distance staring. None of these songs really up the ante with memorable melodies, sharp words or that intangible R’NR energy that distinguishes great punk rock from the so so. Not loud, not soft, not great, not bad. Cloud Factory resides in the indeterminant middle.

Jennifer Kelly

 Entry — Detriment (Southern Lord)

Detriment by Entry

Nuthin fancy here, folks. Just eight songs — plus a flexing, fuzzing intro — of American hardcore punk. Entry has been grinding away for a few years now, and Detriment doesn’t advance much past the musical terrain the band marked off on the No Relief 7-inch (2016). That’s OK. The essential formula is time tested: d-beat rhythms, overdriven amps and Sara G.’s ferocious vocals delivering the necessary affect. That would be: pissed off, just this side of hopeless. Detriment sounds like what might happen if Poison Idea (c. 1988) stumbled into a seminar on Riot Grrrl; after everyone got tired of beating the living shit out of one another, they’d make some songs. “Selective Empathy” is pretty representative. Big riffs, a breakdown, and more than enough throaty yelling to let you know that you’re in some trouble. You might recognize the sound of Clayton Stevens’ guitar from his work with Touché Amoré — but maybe it’s better if you don’t. This isn’t music for mopery. Watch out for the spit, snot and blood, and flip the record.

Jonathan Shaw  

 Equiknoxx — VF Live: Equiknoxx (The Vinyl Factory)

There’s nothing like a little roots music to get you through the sweltering summer heat, and this early July mix by Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair (half of forward-thinking Kingston dancehall unit Equiknoxx) was a personal favorite of the past month for hitting that spot. The group tends to throw curveballs at the genres it tinkers with, and Blair’s mix highlights why they’re so good at it: The crates run deep. Spanning everything from legendary producer and DJ Prince Jazzbo to in-house music fresh out the box (e.g., “Did Not Make This For Jah_9” was released in late May), Blair sets the mood and educates you along the way. Like everything else these cats do (and that includes the NTS show — support your independent radio station!), it’s hard not to give the highest recommendation.

Patrick Masterson  

 Ezra Feinberg — Recumbent Speech (Related States)

Recumbent Speech by Ezra Feinberg

Knowing that Ezra Feinberg is a practicing psychoanalyst, it’s tempting to read meaning into the name of his second solo album. But be careful to think twice about the meaning you perceive and ask yourself, is it the product of Feinberg on the couch or your own projection? His choice to name one of the record’s six instrumentals (there are voices, but no words) “Letter To My Mind” certainly suggests that there’s an internal dialogue at work, but the music feels most like a layered deployment of good ideas than an exchange of intrapsychic forces. The synthesizers shimmer and cycle like something from a mid-1970s Cluster record, resting upon a pillow of vibraphone and electric piano tones, which in turn billow under the influence of undulating layers of drums. Feinberg’s guitar leads are bright and pithy, like something Pat Metheny might come up with if he knew he was going to have to pay a steep price for every note he played. Ah, but there I go, projecting an implication of adversary process where there may be none. Might it be that Feinberg, having spent a full work week immersed in the psychic conflicts of others, wants to lay back on the couch and exhale? If so, this album is an apt companion.

Bill Meyer  

 Honey Radar — Sing the Snow Away: The Chunklet Years (Chunklet)

Sing the Snow Away: The Chunklet Years by Honey Radar

Jason Henn of Honey Radar has a solid claim at being his generation’s Bob Pollard, a prolific, absurdist songwriter, who tosses off hooky melodies as if channeling them from the spirit world. His least polished material glints with melody hidden beneath banks of fuzz, whispery and fragile on records, but surprisingly muscular in his rocking live shows. This 28-song compilation assembles the singles, splits, EPs and bonus tracks Henn recorded for Chunklet between 2015 and the present; it would be a daunting amount of material except that it goes down like cotton candy, sweet, airy, colorful and gone before you know it. Like the Kinks, Henn has a way of making strident rock and roll hooks sound wistful and dreamy. In “Lilac Pharmacy,” guitar lines rip and buck and roar, but from a distance, hardly disrupting Henn’s placid murmur. “Medium Mary Todd” ratchets up the tension a bit, with a tangled snarl of lick and swagger, but the vocals edge towards quiet whimsy a la Sic Alps; a second version runs a bit hotter, rougher and more electric, while a third, recorded at WFMU, gives an inkling of the Honey Radar concert experience. A couple of fine covers — of the Fall’s early rant “Middle Class Revolt” and of the Monkees rarity “Wind-Up Man”— suggest the fine, loamy soil that Henn’s art grows out of, while alternate versions of half a dozen tracks hint at the various forms his ideas can take. It’s a wonderful overview of Honey Radar so far, though let’s hope it’s not a career retrospective. Henn has a bunch of records left to make yet if he wants to edge out Pollard.

Jennifer Kelly

 Iron Wigs — Your Birthday’s Cancelled (Mello Music Group)

Your Birthday's Cancelled by IRON WIGS

As an adjective, “goofy” had gotten a bad rep in hip hop. Anything that is unusual, inventive and not in line with “keeping it real” is immediately stigmatized as goofy, weird, nerdy and bad. Iron Wigs is goofy but hold the pejorative connotations. Chicago representatives Vic Spencer and Verbal Kent team up here with Sonnyjim from the UK to do some wild rhyming. They collaborated before, but Your Birthday’s Cancelled is a complete, fully fleshed project, masterfully executed from start to finish. Instead of the usual gun busting you get a fist in the ribs. Instead of drug slinging, a blunt to activate your rhymes. Each member of the group has a distinctive delivery which makes you to listen carefully for every verse, no skipping. It’s a relief to listen to rap artists who don’t pretend they’re out in the streets while they’re at home enjoying a favorite TV series. The standout track here is “Bally Animals & Rugbys” with Roc Marciano dropping by for a verse.

Ray Garraty  

 Levinson / Mahlmeister — Shores (Trouble In Mind)

Shores by levinson / mahlmeister

Jamie Levinson and Donny Mahlmeister’s Bandcamp page indicates that they’re based in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. This goes further towards explaining their association with Trouble in Mind Records, which is located in the same county, than their music, which brings to mind something much further north. The duo’s music is mostly electronic, with modular synthesizers setting the pulse and sweeping the pitch spectrum while lap steel guitar adds flourishes and a shruti box thickens the textures. The album is split into two, with each track — one is named “Ascend,” the other “Release” — taking up one side of a 50-minute cassette. The first side trundles steadily onwards, and the second seems to bask in a glow to that never totally fades. Since there’s no “Descend,” it’s easy to imagine this music sound tracking a drive into the Canadian north, the journey unspooling under a sky that never darkens, its progress towards Hudson Bay unhindered by other traffic or turns in the road. Perhaps that’s just one listener’s fantasy of easy social distancing and escape from the present’s grim digital glare into a retro-futurist, analog dream. But in dreams we’re free to fly without being seated next to some knucklehead with his mask over his eyes instead of his mouth, so dream on, dreamers. This tape is volume one of the Explorers Series, Trouble in Mind’s projected program of limited edition cassette releases.

Bill Meyer

 Klara Lewis — Ingrid (Editions Mego)

Klara Lewis’s latest recording shows a narrowing of focus. Previously she seemed to be trying ideas and methods on for size, investigating ambient electronics or hinting at pop melody without completely committing. Given the approach to music modeled by her father, Graham Lewis of Wire and Dome, she probably does not feel the need to do just one thing, and that’s a healthy angle if one wants to stay interested and flexible. But there’s also something to be said for really digging into an idea, and that’s what she has done here. Ingrid is a one-track, one-sided 12.” Burrowing further into one-ness, it is made from one looped cello phrase, which gets filtered and distorted on each pass. The effect suggests decay, but not so much the gradual transformation of a William Basinski piece as the pitiless abrasion of a woodworker going over a plank with sander. The combination of repetition and coarsening hits a spot closer to one that Tony Conrad might reach, and that’s an itch worth scratching.

Bill Meyer

Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet — Believe, Believe (Clean Feed)

The cruel economics of contemporary creative music-making favor an ensemble like Humanization 4tet. At a minimum, the filial Texan rhythm section of Stefan and Aaron Gonzalez (drums and bass respectively) and Lisbon-based duo of Rodrigo Amado (tenor saxophone) and Luís Lopes can each count on having the other half of a band on the other side of the Atlantic. But any project that’s on its fourth record in a dozen years has more going for it than the chance to save on plane tickets. For the Portuguese musicians, it’s an opportunity to feel an unabashedly high-energy force at their backs, as well as a chance to drink from a deep well of harmolodic blues. And for the Gonzalez brothers, it’s the reward of being the absolute right guys for the job; it has to be a gas to know that the heft they put into their swing is so deeply appreciated. While Lopes’ name remains up front, everyone contributes compositions, and everyone gives their all on every tune.

Bill Meyer  

 Joanna Mattrey — Veiled (Relative Pitch)

Veiled by Joanna Mattrey

This solo CD, which closely follows a collaborative cassette on Astral Spirits, is only the second recording with Joanna Mattrey’s name on the spine. But Mattrey is no newcomer. The New England Conservatory-trained violist has been playing straight and pop gigs for a while. If you caught Chance the Rapper on Saturday Night Live, Cuddle Magic with strings or a host of classical gigs around New York City, you’ve seen her. But if black dress and heels gigs pay her bills, improvised music nourishes her heart. And if sounds raw enough to scrape the roof of the world nourish yours, this album is new food. The premise of Veiled is finding veins of concealed beauty concealed, and that search impels Mattrey to tune her viola to sound like a horse-haired Tuvan fiddle, clamp objects to the strings and blast her signal through some satisfyingly filthy amplification. And whether it’s a slender tune or a complex texture, the reward is always there.

Bill Meyer

  Angel Olsen — “Whole New Mess” single (Jagjaguwar)

Everyone processes a breakup differently (though, to be fair, that’s probably less true now than ever). For Angel Olsen in 2018, it meant retreating to The Unknown, a century-old church in Anacortes, Washington, that Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum and producer Nicholas Wilbur made into a recording studio. What ultimately came from those sessions was All Mirrors, but Whole New Mess is a chance to revisit that album (fully nine of these 11 songs are ones you’ve heard before; only the title-track and “Waving, Smiling” are new) in a more intimate framework — just Angel, a guitar, a mic and her reverberant heartache. The most cynical view to be taken here is that it’s a stopgap capitalizing on people’s vulnerability amid a pandemic quarantine, but it could also be a corrective for the bloat of All Mirrors, a record I listened to once and haven’t thought about since. Late Björkian excess doesn’t suit her nearly as well as the light touch delivered herein, and your interest will similarly hinge on how much Whole New Mess sounds like the old one.

Patrick Masterson   

 Ono — Red Summer (American Dreams)

Red Summer by ONO

Ono, the long-running noise-punk-poetry-protest project headed by P Michael Grego and travis, tackles the Red Summer of 1919, evoking the brutal race riots that erupted as soldiers returned from World War I. During that summer, conflicts raged from Chicago to the deep south, as white supremacists rioted against newly empowered returning Black veterans and an increased number of Black factory workers employed in America’s northern factories. Ono captures the violence—and its links to contemporary race-based conflicts—in an abstract and visionary style, with travis declaiming against an agitated froth of avant garde sound. “A Dream of Sodomy” lurches and rolls in funk-punk bravado, as travis declaims all the nightmarish scenarios that haunt his nocturnal hours, while “Coon” natters rhythmically across a fever-lit foundation of hand-drums, mosquito buzz and flute. “26 June 1919” wanders through a blasted, rioting landscape, sounds buzzing and pinging and roaring around travis’ fractured poetry. “White men, red men, Manchester town, send ‘em home, Oklahoma, send ‘em home, in a Black man house, send ‘em home, send ‘em home,” he chants, ominously, vertiginously. The center isn’t holding, for sure. The disc closes with the uneasy truce of “Sycamore Trees,” where steam blasts of synthesizer sound rush up and around travis’ vibrating, basso verses about meeting under the sycamore trees, a metaphor like the blues and gospel and nearly all Black music is full of metaphor about reuniting in a better place. Powerful.

Jennifer Kelly

 Julian Taylor — The Ridge (Howling Turtle, Inc.)

Singer-songwriter Julian Taylor does the little things well. That's not to say that he doesn't do the obvious things well, too, on his latest release The Ridge. His easy voice fits his songs, letting autobiography come with comfortable phrasing. As a writer, he tends toward the straightforward, avoiding extended metaphors or oblique references. The title track considers a particular form of life, and Taylor sticks to the tangible, singing about the stable, “Shovel manure, clean their beds, and prepare the feed for the day.” Taylor's songs make sense of the immediate world and relationships around him, but they avoid woolgathering. The album feels a bit removed from the current climate, but that's no complaint when Taylor's developed a welcoming place to visit. It isn't always easy here, but it's always companionable.

But back to those little things. Each song has carefully detailed orchestration and production. The record goes down easy whether tending toward James Taylor, Cat Stevens or something closer to country, and much of that easiness comes from the precise placement of every note. Burke Carroll's pedal steel, for instance, never exists for its own sake, but to serve the lyric that Taylor sings. The album contains enough space to feel like a rural Canadian ridge, with details drawn into to support Taylor's direct stories. The Ridge could easily go unnoticed (unobtrusiveness not being a highly rewarded trait), but its subtlety and care make it worth taking your boots off and sitting down for a minute.

Justin Cober-Lake  

 Various Artists — For a Better Tomorrow (Garden Portal)

For A Better Tomorrow by Various Artists

Compilation albums loom large in the American Primitive Guitar realm. Takoma, Tompkins Square and Locust all had larger ambitions than merely offering a sampling of wares, and to them, Garden Portal says, “hold my beer. I’ve got some collecting and playing to do.” For A Better Tomorrow started out as a Bernie Sanders fundraising endeavor. But when Bernie bailed and COVID-19 came on the scene, Garden Portal pivoted to support Athens Mutual Aid Network, an umbrella organization that coordinates aid to the underserved in this trying time. But in addition to good works, there’s some good work going on here. Not all of it is guitar-centric, but even the tracks that aren’t are close enough to the strings and heart template of the aforementioned parties to merit consideration under the same rubric. Joseph Allred’s been ultra-productive recently, so it’s actually helpful to be reminded of the spirit that infuses his playing by listening to it one track at a time. Rob Noyes’ “Diminished” takes the listener on a deep dive into the construction of sentiment and sound. And Will Csorba’s Pelt-like blast of fiddle drone, “Requiem for Ociel Guadalupe Martinez,” will put your hair up high enough to make that self-inflicted quarantine do a bit easier to execute.

Bill Meyer

  Various Artists — The Storehouse Presents (The Storehouse)

The Storehouse Presents by The Storehouse

The coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on many things. You doubtless have your own list of loss, but for the proprietors of The Storehouse, the catalog of things kissed goodbye directly corresponds to their endeavor’s inventory of reasons to be. Over the past few years, the Storehouse has invited audiences out to a West Michigan farmhouse to enjoy a potluck meal and a concert played by some musicians of note. If there had been no lockdown, listeners could have enjoyed the Sun Ra Arkestra last April. Instead, no one’s playing, and no one’s getting paid, so the Storehouse has compiled this set of live and exclusive studio tracks to sell on Bandcamp in order to benefit the musicians and the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The cause, is good, but so are the tunes. Want to hear Steve Gunn and William Tyler in sympathetic orbit? Or Joan Shelley pledging her love? Or the first hints of Mind Over Mirrors’ new direction? Step right this way, preferably on one of 2020’s first Fridays.

Bill Meyer

 Z-Ro — Rohammad Ali (1 Deep Entertainment / Empire)

On one of his previous tracks, Z-Ro admitted that he’s basically just writing the same song over and over again (that’s how meta he is now, writing songs on writing songs). While he exaggerated a bit, he was not that far from the truth. In the last half dozen years he’s been writing the same three or four songs in various combinations, reconfigurations and forms. Rohammad Ali follows the same template: haters hate him, but he’s OK and is counting his money. Multiply this by 17, and here is the album. Despite this self-cannibalizing (lots of poets did that), Z-Ro with every new album sounds fresh and far from tired. The self-repeats just fuel him. Rohammad Ali has only one rap guest, and it’s Shaquille O’Neal whose rap career didn’t jump off in the 1990s. A lack of guests only proves that Z-Ro can self-sustain without support from the outside. The only thing from the outside he needs is hate.

Ray Garraty

[thekidsarentalright]

i hope he sings something from the lake effect kid ep like city in a garden acoustic or something to show his love for chicago but honestly he could just strum a guitar and scream “CHICAGO” for five minutes and i’d be cool with that

fkdjfkdkd but bro omg that would be so cool i hope he does do smthin from that ep bc like its 100% chicago-love thru and thru or chicago is so two years ago....

[lastofthelovesongs]

Fall Out Boy Songs Sorted

Gryffindor:

Alpha Dog

American Made

Bad Side of 25

Bob Dylan

Calm Before the Storm 

Coast (It’s Gonna Get Better)

Dance, Dance

Demigods

Fame < Infamy 

“From Now On We Are Enemies” 

Grenade Jumper

Growing Up

Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside

I'Ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)

Immortals

Just One Yesterday 

Love, Sex, Death

Miss Missing You

Novocaine

The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes

Saturday Night Again

Spotlight (New Regrets)

Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea

Super Fade

"Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today"

Thnks fr th Mmrs

W.A.M.S.

XO

Young Volcanoes 

7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)

Hufflepuff:

The (After) Life of the Party 

Allie

Bang the Doldrums

Bishops Knife Trick

Caffeine Cold

Champion

Chicago is So Two Years Ago

Death Valley

Deep Blue Love

Eternal Summer

Everybody Wants Somebody 

Fourth of July

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)

Golden

Homesick at Space Camp

I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me

Irresistible 

I've Been Waiting

A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"

Mad at Nothing

Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner

Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued

The Pros and Cons of Breathing 

Reinventing The Wheel To Run Myself Over

Save Rock and Roll

She’s My Winona

“The Take Over, the Break’s Over”

Thriller

Uma Thurman 

What a Catch, Donnie

You’re Crashing, but You’re No Wave

Ravenclaw:

Alone Together

Art of Keeping Up Disappearances 

Beat It

The Carpal Tunnel of Love

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

City in a Garden 

(Coffee’s for Closers)

Dead on Arrival 

Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?

Favorite Record

Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet

Hum Hallelujah 

I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me + You)

Jet Pack Blues

Lake Effect Kid

Of All the Gin Joints in the World 

People Never Done a Good Thing

Rat a Tat

Saturday 

Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here)

Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year

Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down

This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race

Twin Skeleton’s (Hotel in NYC)

West Coast Smoker

When I Made You Cry 

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)

Yule Shoot Your Eye Out

20 Dollar Nose Bleed 

Slytherin:

America’s Suitehearts

American Beauty/American Psycho

Back to Earth

Centuries 

Church

Dance Miserable 

Dear Future Self (Hands Up)

Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

Explode 

Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)

Greed

Heaven’s Gate

Hold Me Tight or Don’t 

I Don’t Care

I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

The “I” in Lie

The Kids Aren’t Alright 

Last of the Real Ones

The Mighty Fall

My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)

The Phoenix 

Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers)

The (Shipped) Gold Standard 

Sunshine Riptide

This City

Tiffany Blews

We Were Doomed From The Start (The King Is Dead)

Where Did the Party Go

Young and Menace

27

[indetriment]

project masterlist

completed: 9/123

below is an exhaustive list of every fall out boy song that i will be making art for.

i believe this list to be complete but if you notice something i dont, my ask is open!

also open to lyric suggestions/requests :)

songs that are crossed out are completed

20 dollar nose bleed

27

7 minutes in heaven

a little less ”Sixteen Candles”

Alone together

Alpha dog

America’s suitehearts

AB/AP

American made

Art of keeping up disappearances

Austin, we have a problem

Back to earth w/ Steve aoki

Bang the doldrums

Bob Dylan

Bishops knife trick

Caffeine cold

Calm before the storm

Church

Centuries

Champion

Champagne for my real friends

Chicago - Gym Class Heroes

Chicago is so two years ago

City in a garden

Coffee for closers

Dance dance

Dead on Arrival

Dear future self (Hands Up)

Death Valley

Demigods

Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

“Don’t you know who I think I am?”

Eternal summer

Fame < infamy

Favorite record

Fourth of July

“From now on we are enemies”

ginasfs

Get busy living or get busy dying (do your best to save the scene and stop going to shows)

Golden

Grand theft autumn

Grenade jumper

Growing up

Hand of god

Headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet

Heaven’s gate

Homesick at space camp

Honorable mention

Hold me tight (or don’t)

Hot to the touch

Hum hallelujah

I don’t care

I slept with someone in fall out boy and all i got was this stupid song written about me

I’m like a lawyer with the way im always trying to get you off (me+you)

Ive been waiting - lil peep

Ive got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song)

Ive got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers

Immortals

Irresistible

It’s hard to say I do when I don’t

It’s not a side effect of the cocaine, i am thinkingbit must be love

Jet pack blues

Just one yesterday

Love sex death

Lullabye

Miss missing you

Moving pictures

My heart is the worst kind of weapon

Light Em up

Nobody puts baby in the corner

Novocaine

Gin joints

One and Only - Timbaland

Out lawyers made us change the name of this song so we wouldnt get sued

Parker Lewis cant lose

Pavlove

Reinventing the wheel to run myself over

Rat a tat

Saturday

Save rock and roll

She’s my Winona

Short fast and loud

Sending postcards from a plane crash

Snitches and talkers get stitches and walkers

Star *67

Stay frosty royal milk tea

Stayin out all night - Wiz Khalifa

Sophomore slump or comeback of the year

Sugar were going down

Sunshine riptide

Super fade

Switchblades and infidelity

Carpal tunnel of love

The kids aren’t alright

Tell that Mick he just made my list of things to do today

The afterlife of the party

The shipped gold standard

Take over breaks over

Lake effect kid

Last of the real ones

The mighty fall

The Phoenix

The music or the misery

Pros and cons of breathing

The worlds not waiting

This ain’t a scene

Thnks fr th mmrs

Patron saint of liars and fakes

Thriller

Tiffany blues

Twin skeletons

Uma Thurman

w a m s

We were doomed from the start

west coast smoker

What a catch

Where did the party go

Wilson

XO

Young and menace

You’re crashing but you’re no wave

Young volcanoes

Yule shoot your eye out

[archofthedoor]

my favorite fob songs

wow i made this post on my laptop then added a tag on mobile and it deleted everything save the title. anyway i made a sorter for my favorite fob songs. its pretty accurate toward the top, but bc there are so Many it gets less accurate as it goes down (there’a 131 songs in total, so my judgment got impaired after a while lol. a quicker one would be the album sorter, but there’s like 12 others too). anyway here’s all 131 fob songs ranked 

Miss Missing You

Coffee's for Closers

Hum Hallelujah

Bang the Doldrums

From Now on We Are Enemies

Sugar, We're Going Down

Calm Before the Storm

Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year

Moving Pictures

Honorable Mention

G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet

Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

City in a Garden

Alpha Dog

The Music Or the Misery

Lullabye

Switchblaades and Infidelity

Chicago Is So Two Years Ago

Homesick At Space Camp

7-9 Legendary

Fellowship of the Nerd

Caffeine Cold

Star 67

Pavlove

Young Volcanoes

27

Tiffany Blews

W.A.M.S.

Of All the Gin Joints In All the World

Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To DO Today

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

It's Not a Side Effect of the Cocaine, I Am Thinking It Must Be Love

She's My Winona

Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

The (After) Life of the Party

Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside

Lake Effect Kid

America's Suitehearts

Catch Me If You Can/Proclamation of Emancipation

The Kids Aren't Alright

Back to Earth

Wrong Side of Paradise

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)

I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers

20 Dollar Nosebleed

Where Did the Party Go

Rat a Tat

What a Catch, Donnie

You're Crashing, But You're No Wave

Hand of God

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Save Rock and Roll

Bishops Knife Trick

Pretty in Punk

It's Hard to Say 'I Do', When I Don't

Favorite Record

Golden

Fourth of July

Jet Pack Blues

Yule Shoot Your Eye Out

Footprints in the Snow

The Last of the Real Ones

Just One Yesterday

Death Valley

Alone Together

I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

Immortals

American Beauty/American Psycho

West Coast Smoker

Fame < Infamy

Super Fade

Church

The Pheonix

Growing Up

The (Shipped) Gold Standard

Champion

Beat It

7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)

Grand Theft Autum/Where Is Your Boy

Dead on Arrival

Nobody Puts Baby In the Corner

I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)

Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued

Xo

I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)

This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race

Thriller

Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers

The Pros and Cons of Breathing

Grenade Jumper

Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows)

A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More Touch Me

My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon

The Take Over, The Breaks Over

Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends

I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and ALl I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me

Heaven's Gate

Bob Dylan

Dance, Dance

Saturday

Sending Postcards From a Plane Crash

Young and Menace

Dear Future Self (Hands Up)

The Mighty Fall

The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes

Reinventing the Wheel to Run Myself Over

My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)

Past Life

Novacaine

Uma Thurman

Twin Skeletons (Hotel in NYC)

Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea

Hold Me Tight Or Don't

Art of Keeping Up Disappearances

We Were Doomed from the Start (The King Is Dead)

Sunshine Riptide

Centuries

Irresistible

American Made

Short, Fast, and Loud

The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van)

Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gunna Give It My Best Shot)

Eternal Summer

I've Been Waiting

Demigods

Love, Sex, Death

We Don't Take Hits, We Write Them

Start Today

The Carpal Tunnel of Love

Guilty As Charged (Tell HipHop I'm Literate)

lots of evening out songs r higher atm bc ive been a Big evening out mood