The Syndicate

2nd place: marmot Shackleton - Primal Drones This is sublime. One of those songs where I can just close my eyes and completely space out into the soundscape. I can imagine the scene, if really want to, but it's so much easier to let the experience take me there directly--to become a part of it. It'...

3rd place: BLOODYRAIN10001 Midori - Swing (If Takuya Were In Midori) Mariko Gotō's vocals grew on me just as much as I knew they would during my first perplexed listen. The intensity of her voice and the frantic guitar and drums pair with the relative calm of the piano to really grasp the scene, at...

4th place: KnightsofCydonia Yoshida Brothers - Frontier This is some pretty transcendent Enyacore. The accompaniment is fabulous from start to finish. There's maybe a moment where I wish the shamisen did more to capitalize on its eternally staccato texture, but the rock inclinations that come out a...

5th place: Ampharos Jizue - Shiori lol jizu This made for a beautiful background piece for quite a while before the repetitive arpeggios started to gnaw at me, and the jazzy minute they bust out at 2:25 never got old. The climax doesn't stand out much to me, but not in a bad way. It gives the song ...

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Ampharos
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
KnightsofCydonia
marmot

6th place: shubaka17 Percival - Percival - Dziewczyna Swarożyca It's like cat 3 except it's cat 7 and I am completely fine with that. The not post-rock or ambient approach had a lot of opportunity to distinguish itself. This could have just as easily filled a lot of other hypothetical themes, but I...

7th place: Psycho666Soldier Melvins - Hung Bunny Speaking of meaty... Hope you like Melvins, because we're in for a DrOnE sUb. I fucking love this. Maxed out volume highly recommended. It's weird how one of the most pioneering bands in metal was lumped into the grunge bin in their prime. I blame Ku...

8th place: Ace Marvel 유아(YooA) - 숲의 아이 (Bon voyage) Whatever the appropriate term is for afro-disney choirs, they work for me here. The video feels awkwardly displaced from the song at points, like sterotype kpop directing is incapable of grasping deeper visual art than show me sexy, but I don't sc...

9th place: ladd Television - Marquee Moon Kind of surprised myself with this placement, but it didn't trend here. This was one of the few tracks that I slotted in the top 10 on my first play through and actually kept there the whole way through, in a category that saw a ridiculous amount of shiftin...

10th place: Logic Jeremy Soule - Over the Shiverpeaks After all that, a 2 minute sub makes the top 10. Isolated peaceful majestic, soaring alone above everything. This is an incredibly vivid piece for its minimalism, and a Soule track I've managed to never hear before. I love how evocative it is. I...

TOP 10

Ace Marvel
Ampharos
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
KnightsofCydonia
ladd
Logic
marmot
Psycho666Soldier
shubaka17

11th place: soah Kauan - Akva I grabbed another link that didn't cut off the last second of the song. It still ends extremely abruptly, but this one's a bit less jarring. I liked it enough that I considered just tacking the next song from the album on at the end for a smooth transition, but I event...

12th place: tane Emerald Web - The Dragon's Gate I'm not sure if I'm on top of the mountain or catching my first glimpse of Mordor across some barren hellscape, but God I love this style of music and they pull it off so well. I would call it dungeon synth but it somehow was released in 1981. Wild. ...

13th place: Keldeo Seirom - Strands of Golden Light These are some bleak peaks. I love how the song progresses into a full noise and blast beat wall so gradually that there's never a remotely jarring transition until it ends around 6:10. It's a satisfying background experience for sure. What I love...

14th place: birdwithteeth11 Isis - In Fiction Isis is a band I would place in my top 10 all time more often than not if put to the question. I've listened to Panopticon a fair bit, but not enough to know every note by heart like Oceanic, and it's been a while. I still got to enjoy this in a fresh w...

15th place: Tangrowth Carl Stone - Banteay Srey mmm... this is a very peaceful journey. I click play and I'm instantly in the zone and never leave it. I don't know if it's taking me up into an all-encompassing everything or just floating along. I'm definitely absorbed into it, spread through it, im...

TOP 15

Ace Marvel
Ampharos
birdwithteeth11
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Keldeo
KnightsofCydonia
ladd
Logic
marmot
Psycho666Soldier
shubaka17
soah
tane
Tangrowth

16th place: Owner Nitin Sawhney - Homelands I love this so much ahahaha. The vocals are delicious. Everything's vibing Spanish with an Indian flare and it's so tight and just mmmmmm. Does this actually have anything to do with the category? I don't know, something something the cello, let's just sa...

17th place: MyNameIsNothing James Holden - Spinning Dance The sustained deep buzzy tone and hand claps make it feel like the song is raining all around me. That flute style is enchanting, whatever it's called; I run into things that sound like it from time to time and my gut assumption is it's some...

18th place: vanity. 3nd - ハルオト My son insists on saying "threeth" instead of third. I thought I could combine the two and give you 33rd, but unfortunately I really like this. The feeling is an intense sweetness with perhaps a bit of longing for me, a sort of modesty lurking beneath the ta...

19th place: Marcher Jovian This Will Destroy You - The Mighty Rio Grande lol you thought we'd get back to normal walrus subs. The average track length from here is pushing 8 minutes, so buckle up. The usual quip of I first discovered This Will Destroy You as a local opening band aside, wow, 2.2 mil...

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Ace Marvel
Ampharos
birdwithteeth11
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Keldeo
KnightsofCydonia
ladd
Logic
Marcher Jovian
marmot
MyNameIsNothing
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Psycho666Soldier
shubaka17
soah
tane
Tangrowth
vanity.

20th place: Aladyyn Midnight Odyssey - Starlight Oblivion It starts out feeling like a closer, which is a promising sign for this category. I looked it up and this is... kind of smack in the middle of the album actually, but I'm not going to check out all two and a half hours of that one in the pro...

21st place: schadd Mary Lattimore - Til a Mermaid Drags You Under This track and the original version of the The Sight Below sub both had a ghostly.com logo, so I'm thinking that's a label I need to explore. The bass that joins in at 1:58 is the big selling point for me here. The song is nice from ...

22nd place: Zarathustra Masayoshi Soken? - Endwalker Trailer Theme Having never actually played Final Fantasy XIV, I'm always caught off guard by how.... not fantasy its music tends to be. I'm not sure if an official credit for this song even exists yet, but I'm going to guess Soken, and that compr...

23rd place: Adam Keiichi Okabe / Kakeru Ishihama / Keigo Hoashi / Takafumi Nishimura - Song of the Ancinets ~ Fate This starts out like it's going to build and build but hits a sort of stagnation point early on, content to ride out the vibe established in the first minute for another four without a...

24th place: Zack Novo Amor - Repeat Until Death The backdrop to this is interesting. The banjo is mixed so low that I barely notice it's playing--a subtle flavor that enhances the taste without ever letting you know it's there. The view thickens up from just a piano to its many-layered peak with go...

25th place: PunchyTheCat Taylor Swift - The Lakes Ok you found a Taylor Swift song I enjoyed. The lyrical pseudo-tryharding that rubbed me in prior Swift subs didn't weigh so heavily on this one because it's laced with creative introspection. I'm gathering the romantic partner she keeps referring t...

26th place: Visorslash The Sight Below - At First Touch (Yagya Rework) I listened to this on repeat for a really long time. It's chill. It's relaxing. I like it with that purpose in mind. it didn't elevate me or bliss me out, just gave me a really satisfying pulse to ride while I went about my busi...

27th place: staypositivefriend Modest Mouse - Third Planet Ok yeah sure it's the most famous indie band of the turn of the century, but this is really pretty. I didn't listen to The Moon & Antarctica nearly as much as Good News For People Who Love Bad News back in the day anyway. It's nice. Tha...

28th place: gbsfranca 파란노을(Parannoul) - 아름다운 세상(Beautiful World) This is sad pretty in an encompassing way. I think it definitely grasps the category, and I like the energy it comes back with at 3:35 after repeating itself a while. As a song, I absolutely love it. As a recording, something is jacke...

29th place: nutella British Sea Power - Red Rock Riviera What an odd track to put in 29th place. This is such an easy sell for me and feels like something I would always slot in near the 8.0 tier in smaller walruses gone by. Pretty much every placement decision from this point on was painful. Post-...

30th place: Made Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me ft. Kendrick Lamar I always love Kendrick's voice, and I think this song had a ballpark right idea with the fluttery synth giving it a floating feel at times. The bass bloops are delivered in a really unique and enticing way. But it's bouncing around o...

31st place: Kane Jason Hayes & Glenn Stafford - A Call to Arms remix Aaaaand at 31st place we are now counting down from 10 by 0.1... I spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the hell this version is from before I realized it isn't from anywhere. This is a fan remix featuring the Warcra...

32nd place: Newcomb Ben Frost - Venter A ton of subs took the slow build-up approach, and it makes a lot of sense. But I'm not sure what about this is supposed to resonate mountains. It has a mix of spacey swooshes and mechanical beats that could place it in any number of post-modern worlds, but it...

33rd place: BoKnows Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain This does not sound like a 1928 recording to me at all, but I think that's just indicative of how well suited it was for the recording capacity of its day. It's on the short list of songs I would cover if I was ever in a proper band, an...

34th place: LordQuas Ruby the Hatchet - Lightning Comes Again I'm kind of conflicted on this one. I don't enjoy her vocals in much the same way that I don't enjoy male vocalists in heavy metal who can sing well in a classic sort of way but maybe probably shouldn't. She's a pretty dominant factor th...

35th place: Relm Yuzo Koshiro - Reset Bomb Forest Mmm, another modern Koshiro tune. He was literally the last thing I was binging before I started listening to walrus subs. I dug this a lot on my first spin through everything, but as I really sit down to it I'm struggling to find category relevance...

36th place: Cory Trace Mountains - Absurdity Well, the band name contains the word mountains. The lyrics describe walking up a hill at some point. I think the relevance stops there. I really dig that saw-like electronic tone solo from 3:40. His vocals are... unique. I have to make a really awkward ...

37th place:

roro__b

Pogo - I Hate You, Dear

I don't get it.

Why didn't you sub this to cat 2? It could have been modestly functional in 4 too. Here I just don't get it, although I do like it.

5.0

38th place:

Moose

BroEdits - Super Undertale Bros - Super Show

Huh... I got the two most wtf and done Moose subs of the walrus in the same category. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3.0

39th place:

Frog

The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster

Ok.

2.0

7. Beyond time at the peak of a mountain worshipped by anthropomorphic bears Constant touring is the true realization of non-self, and our journey is nearing a close. We unload the yaks and levitate to the height of serenity to perform as one with the gods, eternity stretching out all around us fro...

Scoring through 6 39. 28.4 PunchyTheCat 38. 36.7 Moose 37. 39.0 Relm 36. 40.1 Logic 35. 41.1 Cory 34. 41.2 ladd 33. 42.4 Frog 32. 43.0 BoKnows 31. 43.6 vanity. 30. 43.7 gbsfranca 29. 44.7 Ace Marvel 28. 44.9 roro__b 27. 45.1 soah 26. 45.5 Visorslash 25. 46.0 nutella 23. 46.4 Bloobird 23. 46.4 Kelde...

1st place:

Kane

Passenger of Shit - Staple Tapeworms On My Penis

The lyrics really takes me back to my college days.

10.5

2nd place:

Bloobird

beachday - r1de

Children shouldn't cuss this is not appropriate.

10.4

3rd place:

PunchyTheCat

Glitch Gum - Kyoto (Phoebe Bridgers Cover)

gec?

10.3

4th place:

Aladyyn

GIRL'S DAY(걸스데이) - Ring My Bell(링마벨)

I did not see a single bell in that video.

10.2

5th place:

LordQuas

Lil B - Fuck KD

This is the best song I have heard since War on Drugs: Suck My Cock.

10.1

TOP 5

Aladyyn
Bloobird
Kane
LordQuas
PunchyTheCat

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