Best of Month: AotY #17: The Callous Daoboys' "Celebrity Therapist" via MNRK
One of my goals in starting to write about music was to be more up to date with new releases. There were so many points in time pre-2020s where I felt like I missed out on major moments in music history happening before my eyes because I just refused to listen to anything outside of what I myself wanted to hear. That moment this year was The Callous Daoboys. Seemingly everyone, even people so outside of heavy music, were talking about this record. The community around the scene, as it turns out, can feel really good sometimes.
I tried, during the blog’s hiatus this year, to put together an AsterTracks episode or at least a review together for this one and while I didn’t get to there was so much to praise. There is an element of the band finishing each other’s sentences in a hive mind-like flow. There’s moments like the alarm on “A Brief Article Regarding Time Loops” which invoke something in me every single listen, even if what they invoke in me is thinking I’ve been asleep and it’s my alarm trying to wake me up. The lyrics here are all incredible and have this way of stopping you in your tracks with examples like;
“Your bank account doesn’t care if your friend dies.”
From the “Title Track” and while I never really want to take a single slice of the pie that is this record and instead want to consume the entire thing every time, “Star Baby” is another one of those songs that could be my single favorite song from the entire year for me.
On a more personal note; On last year’s album of the year write up I talked about how Spiritbox revived a long lost love of heavy music for me. This year the Daoboys are keeping that alive and thrashing and I hope I continue to find these gems among the heavier genres as time goes on.
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