#ewiniar

AghonPH (Ewiniar) — the island-hopping storm. It made nine landfalls in these areas in the Philippines:

Friday, May 24

Homonhon Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar – 11:20 pm

Saturday, May 25

Giporlos, Eastern Samar – 12:40 am

Basiao Island, Catbalogan City, Samar – 4 am

Cagduyong Island, Catbalogan City, Samar – 5 am

Batuan, Ticao Island, Masbate – 10:20 am

Masbate City, Masbate – 10:40 am

Torrijos, Marinduque – 10 pm

Sunday, May 26

Lucena City, Quezon – 4:30 pm

I had a ton of favorite albums/EPs and honorable mentions this year, more than I've ever had in a single year. I've just listed them alphabetically because I can't possibly put them in order of preference.

Attic Ocean - the heavy blue and then after [Les Yeux Fermés, Fall]

Bleach Lab - Lost in a Rush of Emptiness [Nothing Left to Lose, Everything at Once]

Esben and the Witch - Hold Sacred [The Well, Petals of Ash]

Ewiniar - Another World [Cyanide, Sister Moon]

Fragile Animals - Slow Motion Burial [December, Glass]

Frankie Rose - Love as Projection [Saltwater Girl, Come Back]

Glazyhaze - Just Fade Away [The Other Side, Saltless]

Maraschino - Hollywood Piano [Illusions, Venus' Kiss]

Paramore - This Is Why [Thick Skull, This Is Why]

Pia Fraus - Evening Colours [Cloud Winterland, Who's the Envelope-Man?]

Pony - Velveteen [Sick, French Class]

Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing [Cellar, Breakdown]

seablite - Lemon Lights [Melancholy Molly, Monochrome Rainbow]

Soft Science - Lines [Sadness, Kerosene]

Softcult - See You in the Dark [Drain, Someone2Me]

Taleen Kali - Flower of Life [Tomorrow Girl, Only Lovers Left Alive]

Some comments:

Bleach Lab, Fragile Animals, Glazyhaze, Maraschino, and Taleen Kali are all debut albums, and Attic Ocean is a debut EP.

I listened to Esben and the Witch a lot while playing Tears of the Kingdom, especially while running around in the depths. Coincidentally, there's a song on the album called The Depths.

Ewiniar and Fragile Animals came out less than two weeks ago, so I haven't had as much time with them as a lot of the other releases on this list. They're why I didn't make this list sooner. I wasn't expecting either of them until early 2024.

The Other Side by Glazyhaze and Sick by Pony are two of my top favorite songs of the year. I've binged both of them a lot.

I didn't know Maraschino released a video for Illusions a few weeks ago until I went to grab a link for this list. It's my favorite song on the album.

Maraschino is the solo project of the vocalist of Puro Instinct. The album feels like a fairly natural progression from Puro Instinct's second album.

Evening Colours by Pia Fraus is such a solid album. I had trouble picking a couple favorite songs because all the songs are great. This album is definitely in the upper half of my favorites.

Velveteen by Pony is the other main album I was listening to a lot while playing Tears of the Kingdom. It was more my surface album while Hold Sacred was my depths album.

Velveteen is also in the upper half of my favorites. Seriously, this album is super catchy and addictive.

Melancholy Molly by seablite has an actual video, but it's very flashy, so I didn't link it as part of the main list. If you want to watch the video: Melancholy Molly. Beware of the strobing.

There's a lot of dreampop and shoegaze in my list because earlier in the year I started listening to a dreampop/shoegaze online radio station called DKFM. Before then, I struggled to find new(er) shoegaze and dreampop despite it being one of my favorite areas of music.

Now on to my honorable mentions:

Acid Wave - heart2heart

Atrium Carceri - Forgotten Gods

Bodywash - I Held the Shape While I Could

Dream Wife - Social Lubrication

Duga-1 - Abyss

Eloise Chamber - Departure

The First Eloi - Low Glow

GEL - Only Constant

Ghost and Tape - Freeform

Glixen - She Only Said

Gorillaz - Cracker Island

Hazel Mills - The Embrace

Helios - Espera

Isadora Eden - forget what makes it glow

Johnny the Boy - You

KEN mode - VOID

Sanguine Glacialis - Maladaptive Daydreaming

Screaming Females - Desire Pathway

She's Green - Wisteria

Skrika - Vyeltyra Vortex

Soulmass - Let Us Pray

Speedy Ortiz - Rabbit Rabbit

Tim Hecker - No Highs

Yaeji - With a Hammer

I'm not expecting to find any other new albums this year, so here are my favorites of 2021.

Jinjer - Wallflowers [Disclosure!, Dead Hands Feel No Pain]

Ewiniar - Burning the Night [Years of Heaven, Under the Stars]

Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell [Body, Return]

LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY [MANY HANDS, I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES]

Dying Hydra - Of Lowly Origin [Earliest Root, Rootborn]

And honorable mentions:

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos

King Woman - Celestial Blues

Poppy Ackroyd - Pause

Skrika - Fifth Nature

Softcult - Year of the Rat

Sophie Hutchings - Echoes in the Valley

Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers

Tim Hecker - The North Water

Wizardthrone - Hypercube Necrodimensions

Honestly, this year was kind of a dud. There just weren't very many albums that really grabbed me. Jinjer, Ewiniar, and Emma Ruth Rundle are the ones I've revisited the most.

I like LINGUA IGNOTA, but it's something I really have to be in the mood for.

I liked but didn't love Jinjer before Wallflowers, but this album really really struck a chord with me. It's easily my most played album from this year.

Ewiniar is a new gothic metal band that just self-released their debut album three weeks ago, and I'm already hooked on it.

Emma Ruth Rundle... I didn't think I'd get all that into Engine of Hell because it's so much more stripped down than I normally prefer and I absolutely love her normal style, but I guess it kind of came at a time when I really wanted something more low key to listen to without turning to instrumental stuff like I usually do.

Dying Hydra is another debut album. They're sludge doom from Denmark.

Since I've only got five favorite 2021 album, I'll include some non-2021 albums I listened to a lot this year.

Frankie Rose - Herein Wild [Sorrow, Question/Reason]

Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death [Medusa, Furious Angel]

Frankie Rose - Interstellar [Know Me, Gospel/Grace]

CV & JAB - Landscape Architecture [Empty Courtyard, Phantom Tunnel]

Aenima - Sentient [Silently There, Lilith]

Faith and the Muse - Elyria [Mercyground, Iago's Demise]

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest [Nothing Is Real, Reach for the Dead]

The Birthday Massacre - Diamonds [The Sky Will Turn, Enter]

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