You and I have a lot in common (mine is going to posted sometime today), I wasn't big on the Death Grips or Cymbals Eat Guitar albums though. +1 for Sorority Noise in particular, those guys are great and fly way under the radar. It's interesting that TWIABP made your top songs and shows list, but not albums. Again, wasn't a big fan of Between Bodies. Spoken word is great in parts of a song, or for a whole song, bu they way overdid it with that album. That Old Gray / Tiny Moving Parts split is amazing. We also saw a decent amount of the same bands. Great list!
Thank you! I put Between Bodies under EPs, since the band refers to it as such. I thought the whole affair was a bit hit or miss, but I do enjoy the spacier parts of TWIABP's catalog so I liked it overall. Obviously I thought "Thanks" was a fantastic song, and I really liked the lyrics on "Space Exploration to Solve Earthly Crises" and "Shoppers Beef". I actually saw TWIABP twice this year, once in April and then again in September, which was the show I refer to on my list. Interestingly, they played Between Bodies material at the April show but not the September show. They didn't have Chris Z in September which didn't help, but they certainly could have played "Thanks" or "$100 Tip", which doesn't have him on them. As for the Old Gray / TMP Split, I used to be a big fan of Old Gray but I'm just not into them anymore. I liked their half of the split but again, I just couldn't get into it. I liked TMP's half of course. What did you think of TMP's album? I liked a few songs off it but for whatever reason it just didn't stick with me. Maybe it was the cleaned up production?
Ah, I'm still an Old Gray fan but I think that Sorority Noise is the better of Cameron's bands. As for TMP, I think that was a part of my issue with it. All of the songs also sounded same-y to me, from the themes to the tempo they were played it to the song structure. It wasn't as varied as the previous releases and getting through the middle of the album was a bit of a struggle.