Tommy

Bruit ≤ - Apologie du temps perdu, Vol. 1
CADY – Forged From The Sun
Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean - Obsession Destruction
Closetwitch - Chiaroscuro
Cursetheknife - There's A Place I Can Rest
Deathcrash - Less
Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust
Drop Nineteens – Hard Light
Explosions In The Sky - End
Godflesh – Purge
Great Falls – Objects Without Pain
Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between
King Slender – Gold Days
Loma Prieta – Last
M83 – Fantasy
Mizmor - Prosaic
MSPaint – Post-American
Øjne – Sogno # 3
Open City – Hands In The Honey Jar
Ostraca – Disaster
Parannoul – After The Magic
Regarding Ambiguity - Abyss
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
Soft Kill – Metta World Peace
Wreath – The Land Is Not An Idle God
Yuragi – Here I Stand
 
Splits / EPs / Comps
Chat Pile / Nerver
Graf Orlock – End Credits
Habak / Lagrimas
In Loving Memory – A Gentler Sun
VA -  Balladeers, Redefined
 
I'm sure the new Celeste and Panopticon will be making my list as well once they're released.
 

I wish Discogs had a numerical rating system which would be more sophisticated than just the star ranking (or do they and I don't know about it?).
This way you could sort through a title's variants by ranking and hopefully find the general consensus on the best sounding pressing.

I prefer dry cereal and I'm prepared to die on this hill. 

thanks for sharing this. had no idea this existed and have only based opinion off of what others have said online. 

Side note from the main topic of this thread (which is drama, of course).... but this album holds up really well IMO.
Just gave it a full spin for the first time in probably 10 years and really enjoyed it. 

Correct, correct and correct. I spent a fair amount of time with NFG during my AP days; I even wrote a cover story on the band in 2011. I considered some members of that band to be friends of mine, though that number has dwindled over the years. I do believe Steve showed poor judgment and got absolutely railroaded for it due to the public perception of the scene at large at that time (this all happened shortly after Ian Watkins from Lostprophets was arrested for being an actual pedophile who was abusing an infant).
Remember, there is always more to the story than what makes it out to the internet.

not gonna lie, this paragraph is very sad:
 

Ahhhhh the cancel warriors have arrived.
How do you propose we fix the graphics and liner notes on this one?

Ahhhhh the cancel warriors have arrived.
How do you propose we fix the graphics and liner notes on this one?

the absolute hilarious irony of their biggest and earliest hit being "my friends over you"

Im a big SJW and i think it’s revisionist history to scrub Steve’s involvement from this. 
if you want to be appropriately petty, do what Paramore did with their new s/t album art. They tastefully made a subliminal fuck you statement.  

This. I'm not pro Steve by any means, but that dude wrote those songs. If it bothers you, stop listening to them and buying the damn albums. And if you can separate the art from the artist, enjoy them for what they are, that's fine too (I bought this 🤷‍♂️).

But acting like he wasn't involved in something he very much was involved with seems a little odd to me. 

Scott has been around a long time. Has worked for various reputable companies involved with this type of music as long as I've known of him (20ish years). Scott correct me if I'm wrong but I think you worked for Alt Press many years ago when I met you through Jordan (monk0nuggets) at a show at Grog Shop. 

I'm sure he has more info than your average Joe lurking the message boards. I wouldn't say he's a fan of Steve, he probably just knows more than us and choosing to remain professional about the whole thing. 

All he said is it's kind of crazy Steve doesn't get acknowledged writing credits on modern pressings for the songs he wrote. Which is in fact, kind of strange. Shitty dude or not, those are still songs he wrote, like it or not. 

you can read his statement here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tR8q_7iQLqFjAnbhsowU8mhgTHDJR4tp0RMsSdPQ8uE/mobilebasic

based on the info that's out there seems like he got pretty screwed by this whole thing, yeah he showed some pretty terrible judgement jerkin his gherkin to rando's on the internet, the fact is he didn't did get convicted of anything other than indecent exposure. court of public opinion destroyed this guys life.

I don't think you actually know what happened, but okay.

It's crazy to me how on these recent reissues they've completely erased Steve from the artwork/liner notes/song credits. Like, if you didn't know the band's history and just bought one of these records, you'd assume they were a four-piece when in actuality the guy who wrote 99% of the songs on these reissues has been Thanos-snapped out of existence.

lol $50 shipped non-gatefold 2LP. What a time to be alive

No order yet, but some records that have been blowing my mind this year:
LITURGY - 93696 BODY VOID - Atrocity Machine USNEA - Bathed In  Light FIDDLEHEAD - Death Is Nothing To Us NIGHTMARER - Deformity Adrift OAK - Disintegrate THE ACACIA STRAIN - Failure Will Follow BELL WITCH - The Clandestine Gate GREAT FALLS - Objects Without Pain BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS - Rejecting Obliteration DOWNFALL OF GAIA - Silhouettes of Disgust BIG BRAVE - nature morte

We are
I PO’d 3 records this week, all $48-50 shipped in the states. 

Probably gonna wait a couple more months to do my list because there’s a few more releases I’m anticipating but man.  There were so many great releases this year.  Gonna be hard to narrow it down to even a top 10

My top two right now are Big Thief and Cheekface. Can't get enough of those.

Holy Fawn
AA Williams
Crosses
Lowercase Roses
 
All good stuff the back half of the year.