take 5 in 2025
Welcome to a whale of a wacky tale this week! Well, not much of a tale, just a challenging couple of weeks over here at the WMW shack. You see, I have locked myself away for the last 17 days in order to not only create a top albums list (NEAR IMPOSSIBULL) but also create a top 5 favorite tracks list!! Gather around, hit play on some of these tracks and read my words! Are you sitting? Are you cozy? Good- ok... So I've always looked at albums like I look at cinema or a story. A lot of albums have songs that don't necessarily stand out, but you're damned sure that you love certain vibes after a rad banger of a track, and I have always respected artists in the way they piece together records in ways to share an experience or theme. I think of the Beatles, Metallica, Type 0 Negative, Opeth and Amorphis as perfect examples. I almost always want to dive into entire albums after hearing certain works, just to sink back into that feeling of hearing the entire story again...
