Lav's Music Corner

As the year comes closer and closer to an end and the criteria for my rapid fire reviews narrows, it's always worth looking for outside the box categorization to put together some of the records I want to talk about the most. That's what we're doing here with 5 albums I didn't get the chance to review earlier this year, but ones that have landed high up on RateYourMusic's 2024 charts, and therefore have dominated quite a bit of music discourse online. Surely fans will be civil in reaction to all of my opinions on these various records, right? The New Sound  - Geordie Greep Somehow with the release of his new solo album, Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep managed to supersede the discoursing power of his post-punk outfit's entire 5+ year run with just one record. That's because The New Sound  has been a WILDY divisive record online. It's hard to knock the instrumentation and production anywhere on the record. Talented musicians weave a dizzying array of vi...