2025
Noob Heavy’s 2025 Mid-year Best Albums
Welcome to July 2025, folks. Shit’s, uh, shit’s tough out there. We get it. But the music is good, and we writing staff got our heads together and decided on a special feature to mark […]
Shoegaze
2024
Kep’s Best of 2024
Written by Kep Welcome in, folks! This year, I decided to mix things up in the interest of shouting out the maximum amount of albums that deserve it: rather than a standard ordered list, I’m […]
2024
Nifty November
Written by Kep, Westin, and Kirk After a bit of a break from our usual monthly roundups, we’re back again for the last one of the year. November was packed to the gills with good […]
2024
August August
Written by Westin, Kirk, Ellis, and Kep Welcome back to your regularly scheduled monthly roundup from Noob Heavy. We covered some kickass music this month and we’re about to cover more kickass music. Buckle up; […]
2024
The Best of 2024…So Far
Written by Kep, Westin, Ellis, Kirk, and Espi Kvlt Welcome to the midpoint of 2024! This year we’re mixing it up, and instead of a June release roundup, we’re doing individual quick-hit best album lists. […]
2023
January Gems
Written by Kep, Kirk, Westin, Rae-Aila, and Ellis Well would you look at that: not only is 2024 well underway, but a whole damn month is done already. And with one month down, that means […]
2023
Westin’s Top Albums of 2023
Written by Westin 2023 is drawing to a close and here I am to deliver another annual Album of the Year list for you. The musical underground continues to thrive and grow and once again […]
2023
Album Review: Champenoise – “Lost” (Emotive Post-hardcore)
Written by Kirk Champenoise – Lost> Emotive post-hardcore/indie rock/shoegaze> New Jersey, US> September 22> Syrup Moose Records In case you haven’t already heard, this is “The Year of the Moose.” No, I’m not talking about […]
2023
Album Review: Agriculture – “Agriculture” (Post-black Metal/Blackgaze)
Written by Rae-Aila Agriculture – Agriculture> Post-black metal/blackgaze > California, US> Releases July 21> The Flenser Every media icon has their catchphrase — from “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s “Austin 3:16” to DJ Khaled’s infamous “Another one”. Of course, […]
2023