Bully – Losing (2017)
You can feel yourself cycle into mania as you Google “winona ryder haircut reality bites” while waiting in line to buy cigarettes at the gas station.
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The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me (2004)
It might just be the mushrooms, but you really think you could spend the rest of your life with the girl at the party using baseball cards to read your tarot after you explain to her that a “tequila suicide” is when you take a shot of tequila, snort a line of salt, and squirt lime into your eye.
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Dead Man’s Lifestyle – Gloomlurker (2018)
The traffic lights in an abandoned town still work and the idea of nuclear winter is driving them crazy.
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Cult Leader – A Patient Man (2018)
A bunch of zombies get into a dust-up while trying to rob the same pharmacy.
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- Mascis + the Fog – More Light (2000)
Some guy halfway through a guitar solo starts to talk in his sleep about hugs.
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Can – Tago Mago (1971)
What a human hears in their head as they transition into a shaman during a random burn-cruise in their lowriding Lincoln Continental with no doors.
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Implodes – Black Earth (2011)
A couple scuzzy sine waves stuck in an echo chamber.
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The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits (2010)
The Bad Religion shirt in the back of your closet is the same age you were when you got it and you can break out of the white frame of a polaroid picture whenever you think about it.
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Rozwell Kid – Precious Art (2017)
You’ve been meaning to make that unofficial tablature book for b-sides from the first two Weezer albums and get the excess sweet & sour packets from McDonalds out of your fridge, but time really slips away.
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Fu Manchu – No One Rides For Free (1994)
You use all your broken skateboard decks to make a mosaic of an anthropomorphic van smoking a bong.
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Adramelech – Spring Of Recovery (1992)
An A/V error plays all the audio of a Finnish belching competition at half speed except the crowd noise, which plays at triple speed.
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Melvins – Bullhead (1991)
A dinosaur in a flip-book starts killing people in really dumb ways to try to get caught.
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Lucero – That Much Further West (2003)
You get a stick-and-poke tattoo from an ex-girlfriend in every state you pass though on your long drive from Tennessee to California.
