Album of the year material right here.

Great post-hardcore from a new Portland band. I think they played their first show a little over a month ago.

Forty Nine Hudson was a band from Salt Lake City that "peaked" in 1997 and broke up, only to reunite (everyone does) and put out this fantastic slowcore release.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm too old to still like stuff like this? Poppy, jangly, really catchy Midwest emo with some shouting feels like a young man's game, but I keep coming back.

Like the music you like, even if you are 15 years older than the oldest person at the show.

So filthy.

Midwest emo from Canada's one great city, Winnipeg.

This band never did anything for me. I'd get into a song, and then the yelling would turn into clean-singing garbage and just ruins it for me. A lot of their discography hits like that for me. This song, though, this song goes hard. It might be the only ETID song that I've intentionally played more than once.

An absolutely great album from Lawrence English and Liz Harris. I've been listening to it for years and never get tired of it.

Sad and dark without being goth in the slightest.

Despite more or less being fundamental to a large section of the music I listen to, Godflesh just never made a lasting impression. Never hated it, just never loved it. It's hard to put a finger on something like that when my tastes have grown and changed so much over the years. But, I think it's the industrial edge to their music, but who knows.
All that said, Living/Ending absolutely rips. I probably need to revisit at least the last few releases.

I really want to see this band live. The one chance I've had, I got to the show late, and they had just finished.

I listen to a lot of heavy and/or noisy stuff, but I always come back to the Constantines.