2/13/2023 0 Comments Best metal albums 2019![]() Technically, X 100pre is an awkward fit on this list: Bad Bunny’s debut studio album arrived last Christmas Eve - though it debuted on the Billboard 200 in early 2019, hence its misfit inclusion here. “Mercury must be in retrograde again,” he sings on the second-to-last song, “but at least it’s not just hanging around, pretending to be my friend.” - DAVE BROOKS ![]() ![]() By the end of the record, he concedes the violent fantasies are an escape from the attention he draws writing deeply personal songs - and the disappointed faces of s–t-grinning music types constantly asking the meaning of his lyrics. ![]() While Simpson brags about carrying “a couple severed heads in my bug out bag,” the psychosis of Sound and Fury (and the accompanying ultra-violent anime from Jumpei Mizusaki on Netflix) is merely how Simpson’s wandering-mind deals with his own disillusionment over fame. Playing on Trump’s threat of “Fire and Fury like the world has never seen,” Sturgill Simpson’s fourth album is a dark concept record that doubles as a country crossover, hard-charging with blues-driven psychedelia and disorienting pedal effects that wail like a screaming V2 engine on an in-bound scud missile.
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