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Iron's 2023 - Bangers & Pastoralia My favorite albums of 2023. Such a great year for chamber folk, and not bad for pop bangers either.
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Created by IronAngel
on 28.07.2023
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Iron's 2022 Stuff I listened to and liked in 2022. WIP.
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Created by IronAngel
on 12.03.2022
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Iron's 2021 - Throwbacks And New Frontiers WIP
A selection of music I listened to enough to have an opinion about. As the title suggests, my year seems to have featured a lot of throwbacks: a new Stereolab compilation of archival material; a glorious Helloween reunion of all things; Sleigh Bells actually making a great album again; and Pearl Charles channeling first ABBA and then Fleetwood Mac like it's 1977. (And that's not including the ABBA comeback which, unfortunately, won't make it to this list.)
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Created by IronAngel
on 16.11.2021
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Pop Stars And Nerd Metal - Iron's 2020 Reviving the old tradition of yearly lists. I was uncertain, because my lists have barely any metal and certainly none that MSers don't already know about, but there's nowhere else to publish this shit, either!
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Created by IronAngel
on 16.07.2020
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Iron's 2010s Very little metal here! My favorite albums from each year of the 2010s, roughly in order of preference annually. I include several albums from the same artists because some of them (e.g. Susanne Sundfør, SubRosa and Litku Klemetti) released pretty much AOTYs every time they released anything.
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Created by IronAngel
on 25.01.2020
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Less Is More - Iron's 2014 This year, I will try to listen to less music more. That is, I won't go out of my way to hear and list every possible album I sort of dig on the first spin, and the ones I do include I aim to know thoroughly. A lot of the albums I include tentatively will probably get deleted, too. Without further preamble, interesting albums in no particular order:
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Created by IronAngel
on 26.03.2014
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Hipster Heart - Iron's 2013 As usual, interesting albums of the year to be ranked and reviewed.
This time I'll make it easier for myself, and group weaker releases by genre as soon as I rate them. Expect only 5-3,5/5 to be ranked in order of preference, and possibly a 3,25 category if it's needed.
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Created by IronAngel
on 19.01.2013
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Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons: 1) I stick to one album per band, unless there's been a drastic style shift (like Katatonia's). 2) I try to cover all major subgenres fairly, so I have something for everyone. It counterbalances the tendency to list all the cool bands in a style I'm into right now (like drone or epic doom).
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Created by IronAngel
on 11.09.2012
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The Pussiest Poser Guide To 2012 - Iron's Favorites A list of 2012 albums I found good, interesting or just worth checking out - and some I reviewed that turned out to be crap.
The albums are in order of preference down to and not including those ranked 3/5. Those and below are grouped by style, so that you can easily find similar recommendations. You can find several full reviews on my RYM list. Check it out.
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Created by IronAngel
on 18.02.2012
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Iron's Post-Rock Essentials What follows is an introductory list to some of post-rock's essential classics, contemporary landmarks as well as a few recent personal favorites - especially the kind I think can show the genre's potential for diversity. If you don't know what post-rock is about, listening to these albums should give you the cultural competence to evaluate new albums and avoid embarassing yourself in dinner party conversations. Post-rock is a controversial and vague term that even some of the genre's central figures refuse to identify with. I've used it in a fairly loose sense, including a wide spectrum of bands that all forgo rock convention.
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Created by IronAngel
on 24.10.2011
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Iron's 2011 - Top 50 And More This is a list of my favorite releases of 2011. The top 50 is in order of preference, the rest are in random order. I have ranked 150 albums in order of preference on RateYourMusic, but I cannot be bothered to do twice the work. Check my profile there for more rankings and reviews.
My reviews Top 150 and more.
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Created by IronAngel
on 15.10.2011
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