Albums Reviewed in 2022 Tierlist

 This blog received no attention in the last quarter of 2022. I plan to do better in 2023 and already have an album selected. Here's the tierlist with the S and A albums being quite good.

Zimdiana - Demo 2013 (November 2013) [West Lafayette, IN]

We have a world music band with marimbas here. Figured I'd post something quite different than usual. Enjoy!

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Derek & Brandon Fietcher - Dinosaurs (September 2022) [Bluffton, IN]

Distinguished composers Derek and Brandon Fietcher are back with this gem. It would make a brilliant soundtrack for The Isle or any other dino game. Serves as great background music too.

Definitely check this album out!

Bandcamp 

São Salvador - Rio (March 2022) [West Lafayette, IN]

This trio has members spanning three continents, including an American, Brazilian, and the third member is from the Netherlands. The Bandcamp page summarizes this album well:

"Made with ❤️, angry shoegaze guitars and failed bossa nova attempts."

BANDCAMP / INTERNET ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE 

Tier list (July & August 2022) - Added Missing Albums

Monthly Ratings:

July - 3.5 (A-/B+)

August - 2.7 (B-)

Favorite Album of the Month (& 2 Runner-Ups):

August -

(1) Itty Bity MIDI Committee - Vial Witchcraft (2020)

(2) Michelle Qureshi - Seventh Wave (2017)

(3) Animal Hero - Burn Pile (2021)

July -

(1) Traveling Broken & Out of Gas - Bastard Americana (2018)

(2) A Caesar Holiday (2008)

(3) Burt Orange - Selections from the Produce Section (2022)

S-Tier:

Burt Orange - Selections from the Produce Section (2022)

A Caesar Holiday (2008)

Traveling Broken & Out of Gas - Bastard Americana (2018)

A-Tier:

Empyrean Frost - Dreamweaver (2022)

Itty Bity MIDI Committee - Vial Witchcraft (2020)

B-Tier:

Calendar Year - s/t (2021)

Kyle Kovachic - Chair (2020)

Lights Strung Like Stars - It Gave Way to More Than You Could Imagine (2021)

Michelle Qureshi - Seventh Wave (2017)

Some Dogs - Somewhere Sunny (2020)

C-Tier:

Animal Hero - Burn Pile (2021)

Aar2367 - Electropogenic (2013)

Cult of Jester - Funkatron Remastered (2017)

Israeli Murder Planes (2021)

Pat & the Pissers - Soil (2022)

Wolf Woolf - Frankie Greenwood Sings A Boston Marriage (2010

new.(consume) - 4 track EP (2005)

Here's a 4 track EP from the Williamsport & Attica, IN area. It could probably use  remastering, but it's not bad for a home recorded, local metal band recording from the mid-2000s.

BANDCAMP / INTERNET ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE 

Hoosier Music Tier List 2022 (July & August)

Monthly Ratings:

July - 3.4 (B+)

August - 2.7 (B-)

Favorite Album of the Month (& 2 Runner-Ups):

August -

(1) Itty Bity MIDI Committee - Vial Witchcraft (2020)

(2) Michelle Qureshi - Seventh Wave (2017)

(3) Animal Hero - Burn Pile (2021)

July -

(1) A Caesar Holiday (2008)

(2) Burt Orange - Selections from the Produce Section (2022)

(3) Kyle Kovachic - Chair (2020)

S-Tier:

Burt Orange - Selections from the Produce Section (2022)

A Caesar Holiday (2008)

A-Tier:

Itty Bity MIDI Committee - Vial Witchcraft (2020)

B-Tier:

Calendar Year - s/t (2021)

Kyle Kovachic - Chair (2020)

Lights Strung Like Stars - It Gave Way to More Than You Could Imagine (2021)

Michelle Qureshi - Seventh Wave (2017)

Some Dogs - Somewhere Sunny (2020)

C-Tier:

Animal Hero - Burn Pile (2021)

Aar2367 - Electropogenic (2013)

Cult of Jester - Funkatron Remastered (2017)

Israeli Murder Planes (2021)

Pat & the Pissers - Soil (2022)

Wolf Woolf - Frankie Greenwood Sings A Boston Marriage (2010)

Itty Bitty Midi Committee - Vial Witchcraft (2020) [Lafayette, IN]

Itty Bitty MIDI Committee is a solo electronic project by Shevanel of Lafayette, Indiana. This album combines drum & bass, synth, hardstyle, and other genres of electronic music to create a complex yet accessible music that sounds wholly unique. Definitely check out the other albums offered on Bandcamp!

BANDCAMP  /  INTERNET ARCHIVE  /  YOUTUBE 

Animal Hero - Burn Pile (2021) [Mishawaka, IN]

Animal Hero is an alt-rock / indie rock group out of Mishawaka, IN. This album has an amateurish quality to it but with a lot of potential. Hopefully they continue making music.

BANDCAMP

Israeli Murder Planes - self-titled (2021) [Anderson, IN]

This is the self-titled release from 2019. It's a fairly straightforward post-punk / grunge album. It's nothing revolutionary. It's also name your price including free on Bandcamp.

Bandcamp

Michelle Qureshi - Seventh Wave (2017) [Carmel, IN]

Michelle Qureshi's Seventh Wave (2017) fits somewhere in the intersection of ambient, new age, and neo-classical. This would be a fitting album for an adventure- and exploration-centric role playing game or as ethereal background music for a movie.

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NOTE: There's a Michelle Qureshi who was married to Christian apologist who converted from Islam. It's a different person 

aar2697 - Electropogenic (2013) [west lafayette, in]

BANDCAMP / INTERNET ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE 

Kyle Kovacik - Chair (2020) [West Lafayette, IN]

Someone posted a Metallica album tier list on Facebook. Metallica > Lulu > "I am the table" > Kyle Kovacik's Chair. This album is about as far removed from Lulu as you can get. Purely instrumental with a straightforward music. I'd call it synth jazz, but there's many more instruments in the mix. Definitely worth checking out!

BANDCAMP / INTERNET ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE

Cult of Jester - Funkatron Remastered (2017) [west lafayette]

Cult of Jester is a 90s solo industrial project, 6drawing a lot of influence from electronic dance music of the time. I've never heard the original album, but the remaster sounds great in its own right.

BANDCAMP / INTERNET ARCHIVE / YOUTUBE

Lights Strung Like Stars - It Gave Way to More Than You Could Imagine (2021) [west lafayette, in]

Their Bandcamp page states this music is for a time in their lives that makes little sense.  IWW is listed on LSLS or CY's profile. If it was someone from my generation making that page, they would have forgotten to upload the music yet remembered to post an incoherent diatribe about politics. Gen Z folk are just better than boomers and millennials. Facts. 

Calendar Year and LSLS share at least one member. Blake M? (I'll ask and correct this.)

BANDCAMP  /  INTERNET ARCHIVE /  YOUTUBE