12/26/21 BEST OF New Noize 2021 -YEAR OF THE SAVAGE- 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock
1. Japanese Breakfast "Be Sweet" Dead Oceans
2. Tyler The Creator "MASSA" Columbia
3. Dry Cleaning "Unsmart Lady" 4AD
4. Jazmine Sullivan "Put It Down" RCA
5. Madlib "Loose Goose"
6. Eyedress "Brain Dead" Lex
7. SILK SONIC (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) "Smokin Out The Window" Aftermath
8. Arca "Electra Rex" XL
9. Modeselektor "Mean" Monkeytown
10. LSDXOXO "Mutant Exotic" XL
11. Flying Lotus "Pain and Blood" Warp
12. TURNSTILE "HOLIDAY" Roadrunner
13. Amyl and The Sniffers "Laughing" ATO
14. Deafheaven "In Blur" Sargent House
15. IDLES "Stockholm Syndrome" Partisan
16. tUnE-yArDs "be not afraid." 4AD
17. Chad VanGaalen "Inner Fire" Sub Pop
18. BADBADNOTGOOD "Beside April" XL
19. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE "I SUCK THE DEVIL’S COCK" Saddle Creek
20. Lingua Ignota "MANY HANDS" Sargent House
21. CHAI "PING PONG" Sub Pop
22. Dj Muggs the Black Goat "The Chosen One" Sacred Bones
23. Crumb "Retreat"
24. Little Simz "Two Worlds Apart" AWAL
25. NO NO NO "no control" KiliKiliVilla
26. MONO "Riptide" Temporary Residence
27. Mogwai "Ritchie Sacramento" Temporary Residence
28. Failure "Headstand"
29. Quicksand "Katakana" Epitaph
30. Kanye West (with Andre 3000) "Life of the party" Def Jam
31. Cartel Madras "Dream Girl Concept" Sub Pop
32. St. Vincent "Down" Loma Vista
33 Squid (ft. Martha Skye Murphy) "Narrator" Warp
34. Megan Thee Stallion "Eat It"
35. Pom Pom Squad "Head Cheerleader" City Slang
36. Zack Fox "FAFO"
37. KUNZITE "FROSTY" Lowly / Wilder
38. Ora The Molecule "Creator" Mute
39. Alice Longyu Gao "Kanpai"
40. Bummer "JFK Speedwagon" Thrill Jockey
41. DARKSIDE "Liberty Bell" Matador
42. Arlo Parks "Too Good" Transgressive
43. Mndsgn "Slowdance" Stones Throw
44. Kero Kero Bonito "When The Fires Come" Polyvinyl
45. Koreless "Black Rainbow" Young
46. ??? Park Hye Jin "Let’s Sing Let’s Dance" Ninja Tune
47. Sundur "Time Is Now" Needle to the Groove
48. Amon Tobin "Rise To Ashes" Nomark
49. TEKE::TEKE "Barbara" Kill Rock Stars
50. Hiatus Kaiyote "Chivalry Is Not Dead" Brainfeeder
51. Lala Lala "DIVER" Hardly Art
52. Gojira "Amazonia" Roadrunner
53. The Linda Lindas "Racist, Sexist Boy" Epitaph
54. Daisuke Ishiwatari "Smell of the Game" Guilty Gear Strive ARC SYSTEM WORKS
55. Joel Corelitz "Heretic Frypan" Eastward original soundtrack
56. Goat Girl "Badibaba" Rough Trade
57. JADAKISS "Verzuz Freestyle (Who Shot Ya) LIVE" Def Jam
58. HEALTH & Nine Inch Nails "ISN’T EVERYONE" Loma Vista Recordings
59. Hikaru Utada "One Last Kiss" Theme Song for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Sony
60. TWICE "The Feels" JYP Entertainment Company
WE DID IT. If you are reading this we survived 2021. SO MUCH noise about how this year was not that great but that's impossible, I mean do you see this best of NEW NOIZE 2021? It was truly the year of the savage and so many amazing things came out and did happen.
Let us start with the obvious. Japanese Breakfast took the #1 spot on the Best of New Noize 2021 with their album Jubilee. Japanese Breakfast also did all the music to Sable, a fantastic video game with an even better soundtrack. Michelle Zauner also also (I did the "also also" on purpose so relax) released my favorite book of 2021, Crying in H Mart. This book made me miss mom so much that the frequency of me calling here went up dramatically. My mom says thanks Michelle. 4thly I got see Japanese Breakfast at the Madonna in and it was RAD.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time finally came out & I didn't get to see it in Japan like I wanted to but it was still a magical time in my apt.
Metroid Prime 4 has didn't come out BUT we did get the 5th Metroid game in the 2D series aka Metroid Dread. It was my favorite game of 2021 (although I still have not played Death's Door) and I just beat the game on Christmas Day.
My favorite sneaker drop was that I made custom sneakers and it's a hobbie that I enjoy plus my footware is fly as fuck now.
TV shows were great 2021. My pick as #1 was Loki, how is Marvel making me like everything Thor related is beyond me but holy Galactus this series was glorious in every aspect down to Loki falling in love with umm Loki.
2021 was a monster year for anime, so many standout shows that I could have done a top 10 easy BUT MY FAVORITE was Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. It's mature, the story touched the cold void where my heart used to be, the animation style is unique and the world building happens at the perfect pace. The Isekai sub genre has saturated the anime landscape for a decade now and this show takes one of the best approaches to this concept. Plus you can stream this on Hulu.
My favorite concert was hard because I didn't see a lot, but I did see more shows than most and all of them stood out in their own unique way. As much as I loved watching Japanese Breakfast at the Madonna Inn there was another gig that did take my #1 spot (Sorry Michelle, you and your band are still my #1 album of the year) My pick hands down is St Vincent at the Vina Robles Amphitheater. The Daddy's Home tour left a lasting impression on ya boy and Anne shredded my face off whilst melting the cold void where my heart used to be. (Yes I know I used this turn of phrase twice, I am dramatic at times)
And the best thing about 2021 is you! Yes you! You made it.
On a personal note I love doing this show and want to thank everyone who has to deal with my madness.
See you in 2022 & until then, peace out my peoples.
