Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2024 So Far (Part 1 of 2)

Hello there, and welcome to the midway mark of 2024 (as measured by the music blog Rosy Overdrive, at least). That means it’s time for the blog to select forty records we’ve loved more than anything else so far this year. It’s been the busiest year for the blog yet, which means there’s a bunchContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2024 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”

New Playlist: April 2024

Another month wrapped up neatly in a bow, thanks to the Rosy Overdrive April 2024 Playlist/Round-Up. There’s a ton of new music here: some of which are from records I’ve written about on the blog already, some are from records I will write about on the blog, and some are completely new faces. Fun fact:Continue reading “New Playlist: April 2024”

Pressing Concerns: Cloud Nothings, Ekko Astral, Sun Kin, The Juniper Berries

Today, Rosy Overdrive is closing out the biggest week on the blog in a while with the fourth blog post in as many days. Today, we’re looking at three albums that come out tomorrow, April 19th–new LPs from Cloud Nothings, Sun Kin, and The Juniper Berries–and an album from Ekko Astral that came out yesterday.Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Cloud Nothings, Ekko Astral, Sun Kin, The Juniper Berries”

Pressing Concerns: Fust, Arcwelder, Knowso, Still Ruins

We’ve got two different Pressing Concerns going up this holiday-shortened week, and the first one’s a heater, featuring new albums from Arcwelder and Knowso, a compilation of EPs from Fust, and a new EP from Still Ruins. In other news, you can now browse the website by record label, which is a neat new featureContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Fust, Arcwelder, Knowso, Still Ruins”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (50-26)

Hello! Welcome, and thank you either once again or for the first time for reading. Today (Tuesday, December 7th), Rosy Overdrive’s Top 50 albums of 2021 are finally revealed. There’s a longer year-end preamble from one of yesterday’s posts (which highlighted albums 51 through 100), but do you really need it to understand what’s goingContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (50-26)”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)

If you’re only just now joining us: this is part two of my list of my favorite forty albums of 2021 thus far, presented in reverse alphabetical order. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Listen to/follow a playlist of these albums here. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns Release date: January 22nd RecordContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”

New Playlist: February 2021

I present to you: the third brand new monthly Rosy Overdrive playlist, and the site’s fourth playlist overall. 2021 is in full swing in terms of new music, which is where the majority of these songs come from. My foray into 1991 (which started last month) continues—it’s been on the backburner a bit, but aContinue reading “New Playlist: February 2021”

The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 1 of 2)

One of the reasons I initially decided to put medium-effort into making this blog—other than gentle suggestions by acquaintances that this would be more productive than just talking their ears off whenever I had something to say—was to go through, share, and review all these old playlists I’ve been making the past half-decade. These playlistsContinue reading “The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 1 of 2)”

My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 1 of 4)

Congrats on randomly stumbling onto this list. All of these albums are worth a listen, but I’ve done you the courtesy of giving you a CliffsNotes version of all of them if you wanna be choosey. I will also note that I got a little better at doing this as I made it further along,Continue reading “My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 1 of 4)”