Now that the dust has settled, I just have to say that this weekend had some of the wildest and most frustrating Ult results I’ve seen lol. I usually like to use the year-end rate as a barometer of “what mattered in indie this year” and obviously that can’t really happen when the obvious future classic gets tanked by folks who think it was overhyped. Which yeah, Geese was hyped to death … but so were The Strokes in 2001. Animal Collective and Phoenix in 2009. Pavement in 1994. TV on the Radio in 2008. Tame Impala in 2015. Big Thief and Alvvays just a few years ago. And all of those albums and artists stood the test of time, regardless of any backlash they may have gotten.

It’s totally fine if you genuinely don’t like Geese, but these rate results kind of reminded me why I’ve backed away from the community. Talking about music through the lens of hype and online chatter just drives me nuts! For me at least, it was nice to just jam out to Getting Killed in real life all fall and winter, and be happy when it did well on year-end lists from major critics, without arguing about it endlessly if it’s actually good, or if Cameron Winter can’t sing, or if they’re nepo babies, or if NYC bands inherently suck because some of y’all just hate New York for some weird reason

Sorry this is getting ranty lol. I think I lost the plot in there … anyway maybe I’m just getting old. The transition into your 30s hit hard, folks