Weekly Recap (Aug 11th-17th, 2025)

On Monday I listened to God Does Like Ugly by JID. I liked it more than I thought I would. 87/100.

I also decided to create a Release Radar Backlog playlist. I might not have time to listen to the list in one sitting and I hate how it shuffles if I come back to it. Now I can just add everything on the Backlog list, shuffle that and listen to it little by little, removing songs as I go.

At work I listened to:

Madonna - Veronica Electronica. Seems to be just remixes of her old songs. That's a bummer. They're not even that interesting of remixes... Don't bother wasting your time on this. 

On my way home I listened to Everest by Halestorm. I was just watching some news from America and I think I'm in shock or something... My brain feels like it's boiling and I just want to scream and break stuff... I'm having a hard time focusing on the album.

Halestorm is a bit soft for me anyway, and today it sounds even more soft and safe, since I'd need some proper screamy-scream music rn...

Ps. Does K-I-L-L-I-N-G count as rap? 😄 Maybe not. Just fast singing.

Tuesday

On my way to work I listened to METAL FORTH by BABYMETAL. This is awesome. If you disagree, you're wrong. These collabs alone, not to mention how talented the girls are and how catchy these songs are...

Wednesday 

On my way to work I listened to lost americana by mgk. That was mostly cringe. Idk who in their right mind decides to switch TO post-punk... I liked the rap songs, indigo and tell me whats up.

Thursday

On my way to work I listened to Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Appendices EP. I missed most of it, though, tbh. Was messaging with my best friend. ❤️

Good music, from what I heard. Very Paradise Lost.

At work:

- Jätkäjätkät - Norsun selässä (2025). Yeah, it's a vibe. I've never listened to an entire album by Jätkäjätkät before.

- Kaisa's Machine - Moving Parts (2025). No idea who this is, some critic just gave it a great score (4-5 stars out of 5). Jazz, instrumental apart from Satama (Harbor). Not my usual thing, but worked well as background music at work. Also, officially the 200th album I've listened to this year, woo! 100th was Witchouse 40k's GHOSTLANDS in late May.

- Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1 (2025). Apparently they like mixing up the genres up a lot. I've only heard Blood and Glitter (their Eurovision song) and their cover of Cha Cha Cha. I followed them after the cover, I want more of that kind of energy in my life. People uplifting other people, i.e. people competing against each other in a competition and being like "your song is so awesome as well!" And this album is great as well. A mix of power metal and goth metal, I'd say. Gets very heavy occasionally, the songs are catchy and versatile... Awesome!

On my way home I continued Sardinista! by The Clash. Almost finished, I got to the end of Version City.

Friday

On my way to work I finished Sardinista!. It's a good album. Waaaaay too long, but surprisingly versatile. Didn't know they did so many genres! I just thought they were a punk band.

Then I started Duke Ellington's Ellington At Newport 1956. Read on the book (1001 Albums), that this isn't actually the live performance. Something went wrong recording it and they faked it, using other live performances and studio recordings. They reveiled it decades later.

Got to Part I-Festival Junctions. So far, I'm not a fan. I can't really say anymore that I don't like jazz at all, but I can say that I don't like this kind of jazz, whatever it's called, that's very trumpet-focused. I don't like the sound of trumpets.

At work I listened to:

- Machine Girl - MG Ultra (2024). Oof. I love it. So alternative. I've missed this kind of music <3 

- Oscar Jerome - The Fork. This is great! A lo-fi, kinda indie, but interesting vibe! (2025, 15.8., 98/100, A tier.)

Getting home from work, I finished the first disc of two on the Duke Ellington album. That was fucking torture, I hate trombone...