{"id":125097,"date":"2024-12-17T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=125097"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:03:39","slug":"top-albums-ov-2024-w-gage-brock-samson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/top-albums-ov-2024-w-gage-brock-samson\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Albums ov 2024 w\/ Gage & Brock Samson!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh, you’re back for more lists? You epicurean. You glutton<\/em>! Very well, we are a kind and generous Toilet, even to the detriment of our audience. On this, LISTMANIA 2K24 DAY 2<\/strong>, we sacrifice your savings at the twin altars of Gage<\/strong> and Brock Samson<\/strong>. If you manage to sail through this soiled strait with funds intact, you didn’t read carefully enough. Back to the front!<\/p>\n

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This year has been an unusual one for me musically; at the beginning, I kept feeling like my library was getting stale and I was pigeonholing myself into a specific style that kept getting harder and harder to find more of. With that in mind, I decided to take a step back and start just listening to all kinds of things that I wouldn’t normally get to. I think my list reflects that well; as diverse and eclectic as my top 10 is this year, I think each album fully deserves its place.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Logic<\/b> –\u00a0Ultra 85
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Aight hear me out… I figure I’ll get this one out of the way first just because it’s the one the most people will shake their heads at, so let’s rip that band-aid off.<\/p>\n

I have never once in my life prior to the release of this album listened to anything Logic has put out and enjoyed it, but this album is special. This is a very introspective record with heavy emphasis on the struggles of growing up biracial and being outspoken about mental health in a crowd where that’s generally discouraged. Rather than continuing to chase the limelight offered by commercial success, he took a step back and made something more substantial, and even more importantly, something for himself. As a concept album, this one follows two main characters by the names of Captain Quentin Thomas and Private William Kai floating through space in search of a habitable planet due to the destruction of Earth. There are various skits throughout the album with the two characters coming to terms with their situations in a very campy, comic relief-heavy type of way, interlaced with songs from the album the captain is playing\u2014which happens to be the album we’re listening to. The production is fantastic, the lyrics are meaningful and impactful, and the campy skits give good comic relief for the emotional heaviness of the tracks in this record. You don’t need to agree with me that this album is good, but I seriously recommend giving it a chance. It may not be the type of thing you’d normally listen to (it isn’t for me either) but you may just end up liking it. I know I did.<\/p>\n