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Maybe the most haunting outro of all time, Angels and Fuselage ends the bands homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd in a devastating 8 mins. Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, these 2 will gut punch you with their lyrics.

I am not ready to write much of a review just yet, but this album is going to make every Best Of list of 2026. Stunning debut album.

What I love most about Paranoid is what it did to music in 1970. This wasn’t simply a heavy record; it helped define an entire genre. Tony Iommi turned a devastating workplace accident into a completely new guitar vocabulary, Geezer Butler made the bass gallop underneath it like something enormous coming toward you, and Bill Ward attacked his little jazz kit like it owed him rent. Underneath all that weight were lyrics about war, paranoia, alienation and political hypocrisy that still feel relevant. Few albums have had this much influence on everything that came after them.

So much has been written about this album, I love it so much I'm kinda stuck for words to describe what it means to me. I think it continues to inspire simply because it defied genre's, embraced new noise and lyrically remains ever present 4 decades later. And Topper is the shit, the absolute pulsing heart of the album.

There was nothing like Jeff Buckley at the time. He possessed the technique of a virtuoso, an almost unbelievable voice, and yet none of it felt like display. What made Grace extraordinary was his vulnerability. He could do things with his voice and guitar that very few musicians could, but he used that ability to reveal himself rather than hide behind it. How many people heard this album and thought, maybe I can just be myself ?

Madlib creates a strange new universe and invites DOOM inside—to unsettle him, to challenge a genius, and to build with him a landscape neither could have created alone. What inspires me most about Daniel Dumile is his fierce independence. As an only child and someone who has always been very independent myself, there is something powerful about hearing an artist who trusted his own imagination so completely. Madvillainy doesn’t compromise or explain itself. It creates its own language and its own world, and that creative force still inspires me today. This album is not designed to make DOOM easier to understand. He and Madlib create their own world and expect you to enter it. Thank you, DOOM and Madlib for the constant reminder to trust our own instincts and resist asking for permission.