Hey. Hi. Hello everyone. Anthony Fantano here, Internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you are doing well and it's time for a quick and brisk great albums video where I go over some recently released and reviewed records and just kind of highlight my favorites of the month.

Just so none of these albums go through the cracks on you. That's it. And let's get into it.

Starting with the new Quadeca record, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper.

Producer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist Ben Lasky. He is back and he's done it again with an epic and cinematic collection of songs that bring together elements of baroque pop and singer, songwriter music, and hip hop in just a grandiose display that explores elements of God as well as existentialism and aging and love. It's an immense record. It's a touching record. It's really Ben's best crop of songs to date, in my opinion, on such a holistic project and I think you should listen to it.

Next I want to shout out the new Clipse album, Let God Sort Em Out.

Gave this thing a 10 out of 10 because I think it's just an amazing, mind-blowing project with just everyone involved at the top of their game. Pharrell's beats are absolutely insane. Pusha T and Malice's lyrical chemistry is just everything it used to be and more. They pretty much continue giving you that classic coke-dusted wordplay with some of the best rap songwriting we have heard in 2025 or really this decade so far. And it's records that are just proof of why hip hop is such a special art form.

Okay, following this shout out to the new Sumac and Moor Mother record, The Film.

Which if it is in fact a film, it is a very dark and harrowing one. One that depicts just how grim and nasty and disturbing modern society is. As Moor Mother's perceptive, intense, one of a kind poetry tops all of these heavy crushing, sludgy noise metal instrumentals in a series of tracks that are equally disturbing and captivating. But yeah, excellent release there.

And also shout out to Tyler, The Creator with Don't Tap the Glass.

Tyler came through with kind of a streamlined sound this time around, a bunch of tracks that, yes, are distorted and rough around the edges. It feels like he's almost giving us a bit of a Cherry Bomb throwback at this point, but through all of that he's filtering some really great songwriting, some good R&B touches, some amazing and undeniable dance grooves. But yeah, even though it's tight and direct and to the point and not quite as personal or as ambitious as his recent Chromakopia album, it's still a fun, snappy project and easily one of the better hip hop records of the year.

Now toward the end of this video, I also want to shout out a few smaller releases, namely the new Dog Race EP.

This is an up and coming band that I've been shouting out for quite a while now and they just bring such a great solid sound to goth rock right now, and just a really good collection of songs on these five tracks here. These tracks are catchy, they are creepy, they have an aura about them, and I just really like how unnerving the instrumentation is too.

I also want to give a shout out to the new Missouri Executive Order 44 split.

Which, if you're looking for some gnarly, fast and intense noise, rock and noise core, this is going to be where you want to end up.

Thank you again for watching.

Anthony Fantano. Music. Great albums. Forever.