Ito

I hope he was at least doing something badass. Broken bones suck if you don't have an awesome story to go with them.

Psyched! I kind of thought they had dropped off of the face of the earth.

Honestly, I think my musical interest are just to narrow to really get anything out of pitchfork lists. The Deafheaven album is the only one I have listened to on the list, and I honestly doubt that there is anything that that I would really have wanted to look in to. Narrow minded? Maybe. But honest.

Day 17 - THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance posted!

Day 17: THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance Release Date: 2015-10-07 Label: MERZ Genre: Shoegaze, Indie, Rock Impressions from @CAT5: Impressions from @fitear1590: Impressions from @Ito: Impressions from @Zeus: Sample song: Buy the album: Bandcamp | iTunes

Well, let's look at our history lol The only thing I should not first staff list was 20 releases and not the 25 format we have been using for the past 3 years. Format has always involved voting from all of the staff members and it has staid roughly the same over the last 3 years - though as of 2014 we added the ORZ group to the voting process. Since we are a pretty varied group, VK has never been the dominating factor in our best of's. I think if that is more of what you are looking for, you will have to wait for individual lists lol. Ok, so let's do a bit of a stat breakdown: 2012 - 50% VK releases* 2013 - 36% VK releases* 2014 - 28% VK releases* Obviously this is a downward trend. I'm not so sure that this says anything about the recent quality of VK and has more to do with the diversity of the staff's listening habits. One person had 9 of the albums they voted for make it in to the final list and others only had 2...In a way a lot of this depends on the staff's commonality to what rises to the top. And frankly, I just don't think enough of us are listening mostly exclusively to VK so that these list could be a majority VK. What I can say (without spoiling too much) is that this year is ending that downward trend. I won't say the percentage or even if it is a small or large jump upwards, but it is upwards. *I use the term VK loosely here. Some of the bands like the god and death stars and lynch can be argued either not to be VK or no longer are, but I don't want to jump down that rabbit hole.

Day 16 - BLU-SWING - FLASH posted!

Day 16: BLU-SWING - FLASH Release Date: 2015-08-19 Label: Village Again Association / SILHOUETTE RECORDS Genre: Club, Jazz Impressions from @fictioninhope: Impressions from @Zeus: Impressions from @Ito: Impressions from @beni: Sample song: Buy the album: CDJapan | iTunes

Day 15 - BRADIO - Power of Life posted!

Day 15: BRADIO - Power of Life Release Date: 2015-06-03 Label: HERO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Genre: Rock, Disco, Funk, Soul Impressions from @doombox: Impressions from @beni: Sample song: Buy the album: CDJapan | iTunes

Day 14 - SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE posted!

Day 14: SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE Release Date: 2015-01-14 Label: Toy's Factory Genre: Pop, Rock Impressions from @beni: Impressions from @doombox: Sample song: Buy the album: CDJapan | iTunes (JP)

Nostalgia wise, this is easily my favorite as well.

Maybe it's like the same reason people put their name on their underwear? lol

If I had to pick my single favorite movie ever, it would have to be Princess Mononoke.

Day 13 - The fin. - Days With Uncertainty posted!

Day 13: The fin. - Days With Uncertainty Release Date: 2014-12-03 Label: HIP LAND MUSIC Genre: dream pop, shoegaze, rock Impressions from @fitear1590: Impressions from @beni: Sample song: Buy the album: CDJapan | iTunes

I wish I could feel this way - I do want to take a crack at this one with my speaker system and see if that changes my feeling about it...got to wait for a day the gf is gone since there is no way it would fly with her home lmao. As far as sounding like RC in terms of production, I would have to disagree with that. As someone who has listened to all together way too much of their music and am always going back to their work, their production has never bothered me in the same was Rigen did. Well, maybe Empros a bit, but even that one I like quite a bit more.

Day 12 - COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) posted!

Day 12: COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) Release Date: 2015-05-29 Label: Osmose Records Genre: Depressive Black Metal Impressions from @Zeus: Impressions from @Ito: Sample song: Buy the album: CDJapan | Bandcamp

Day 11 - DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) posted!

Day 11: DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) Release Date: 2015-04-25 Label: Mad Face Records Genre: Metalcore, visual kei Impressions from @Peace Heavy mk II: Sample song: Buy the album: As this was live-limited release at DEZERT's one man TSUTAYA O-WEST on 2015-04-25 and was limited to 1000 copies, there is no way to purchase this particular release.

I can agree with that - my first listen was kind of like "eh," but I have grown to love it. I suppose seeing them live certainly helps though.

Day 10 - Envy - Atheist's Cornea posted!