Animals
TTNG ‧ 2009favorite track: Baboon
I love the acoustic version of this album, too! I just have a sliiight preference for this one. I flip back and forth between them depending on my mood. They’re both brilliant.
100 Cowboys
Carter Vail ‧ 2024favorite track: Arizona
Carter Vail is the only concert I ever went to with my dad! So this album has a special place in my heart. I once looped Arizona for several days. Yeehaw.
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance ‧ 2006favorite track: Dead!
Now what the actual hell am I meant to say about the Black Parade. Have you been keeping up with their tour? They're doing live theater.
Departure Songs
We Lost The Sea ‧ 2015favorite track: The Last Dive of David Shaw
This album is a really heavy listen. It's a concept album — each song is about a different real-world story of death and loss. I highly recommend reading this article.
Finally We Are No One
múm ‧ 2002favorite track: Faraway Swimming Pool
I found this album via a Google Music radio station when I was like 14! Faraway Swimming Pool came on and I remember stopping reading and just sitting in the dark to listen.
Hesitant Alien
Gerard Way ‧ 2014favorite track: Millions
I’m allowed to have as many Gerard Way albums here as I want. Hesitant Alien feels like living in a small town that’s eating you.
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens ‧ 2005favorite track: Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition / Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream
The better the song is, the longer the title will be. So you can imagine the level of quality we're dealing with, here.
Morbid Stuff
PUP ‧ 2019favorite track: Scorpion Hill
PUP is one of my favorite bands ever. Maybe my favorite band, but that's hard. MCR is doing their sex hospital execution tour as we speak. But PUP is the kind of band I can listen to all the time, no matter what. Sad? Cheers me up. Happy? Now I'm happier! Morbid Stuff was the first of their albums that I listened to in full. I found it while I was working on my thesis in 2024, and looped it 'till I had it memorized. It's the kind of loud, fun melodrama that I feel in my bones. It was really difficult to pick a favorite track. Scorpion Hill and City make me wanna throw up (I always mean that as a good thing.)
My Little Ghost
kidkanevil ‧ 2014favorite track: Inakunaru
I found this album through a remix of Inakunaru on YouTube like a billion years ago!
おくりもの (Okurimono)
百景 (Hyakkei) ‧ 2009favorite track: ほんをよむ (Reading)
This album feels like summer to me. It’s got this feel to it that’s sort of sweet and sad — like yearning? For what, I dunno. I think that’s something I look for a lot in music I like.
Pretty. Odd.
Panic! At The Disco ‧ 2008favorite track: She Had the World
This is my favorite Panic! album! I found it when I was in a pretty rough depressive episode between I thiiink 9th and 10th grade. Summer always bums me out. So to me this album tastes like summer. It got me through it!
recently
Liana Flores ‧ 2019favorite track: recently,
This is like a collection of lullabies for my soul.
Sweet FA
Peach Pit ‧ 2017favorite track: Seventeen
The music video for Seventeen makes me really happy. I found it before I turned seventeen and I remember thinking “I wonder if this song will be right. Like, is this what being seventeen feels like?” It was!
Tales of the Night Forest
Black Hill & Silent Island ‧ 2018favorite track: A wild river to take you home
I always listen to this album in order. It really does feel like going on a walk through some dark spooky woods.
Tourist History
Two Door Cinema Club ‧ 2010favorite track: Undercover Martyn
Another album I have a really hard time picking a favorite track from. I tend to fixate on one track or another at any given time.
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Unicorns ‧ 2003favorite track: I Don't Wanna Die
Waiter! Oh waiter! More static and screeching, please!