Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What’s your adventure? May brought a ton of new music, a few games, and a few TV shows! Unfortunately I haven’t gotten to Cruella yet considering it just came out and I am spending time with family but it will be added to the end of the year list, if it’s any good! So anyways, lets get into the Top 10 list of May 2021!
10. Subnautica: Below Zero is a sequel game in a franchise that I’ve overlooked and shouldn’t have. Even though I only played the first 10 minutes of this game I think it’ll be great game and deserve to be on the list.
9. January Flower by Matt Kearney a solid album from an underrated artist but nothing really here to get super excited about. I’ve listened to a bit of his music before and thought he was more of an acoustic artist but this one felt more processed and poppy. I feel like he fell into the trap that many artists have fallen into the past year of trying to sound “popular” rather than making your own music. Some notable tracks are “Pontiac” and “Grand Canyon”
8. SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo is the debut album from the Disney Channel star... and yes the album sounds exactly like you think it sounds. I really like her sound and her voice but I couldn’t get past the fact that every song talked about the same thing. I’m sorry your ex boyfriend found a new girlfriend right after you breakup, people deal with things differently so get over it! Anyways, some highlighted tracks are “Deja Vu” and “Jealousy, Jealousy”.
7. Daddy’s Home by St. Vincent released three songs before the release and had me convinced that this was going to be the album of the year. Unfortunately those were the only three songs on the album that I liked. So this has been moved to the lower end of the list. Those three songs were “Pay Your Way In Pain”, “Melting of the Sun” and “Down”.
6. The Bad Batch is a Star Wars Disney+ original which began streaming on May 4th. It follows the Bad Batch which was a team of defective clones introduced in season 7 of The Clone Wars. The show is decent enough and has some really great cinematography and characters but my issue is the show’s tone. Sometimes it’s a really intense action show, sometimes it’s a kids show, and sometimes its a Sci-Fi show. We’ll see how the show progresses.
5. Mighty Ducks: Game Changers is another Disney+ original that is a reboot of the Mighty Ducks movie trilogy. The season finale was just released and the ending was... interesting. Not to spoil anything, but I felt the finale actually took away everything the show built up. It’s a really fun and corny show but I think it could have ended much differently and more cathartic.
4. Resident Evil: Village is one of the first big “Next Gen” games that I played on Stadia. It’s a fantastic game for visual storytelling! The characters and settings are crazy and out of the ordinary that goes back to the classic Resident Evil style and it feels like a horror game rather than an action game which is exactly what it should be!
3. Mythic Quest season 2 is absolute gold. It’s characters are the driving force behind the story of this show and that really shows in Season 2. The latest episode with the signing of the papers really shows how well this show knows and loves it’s characters... it’s also hilarious! I can’t wait to see where this show goes next!
2. Famicon Detective Clubs had two releases on the same day so I decided to bring them together on the list. Both are games that remastered from the NES in the 1980’s that were originally released only in Japan. These two visual novels follow a teenager with amnesia who becomes a detective to solve some mysteries. I played the “Girl Who Stands Behind” which was the start of his story and first big mystery solved and then then the “Missing Heir” which answers more questions about the main character. I preferred the girl who stands behind because the setting a mystery were a little more believable and more creepy which I really loved! These two are diffidently contenders for the game of the year!
1. Scaled and Icy by 21 Pilots is the band’s 6th studio album and sound wildly different from anything else they’ve ever released. It’s a fantastic album that shows Tyler Joseph’s writing chops and Josh Dunn’s drumming chops. With some songs sounding like a Beach Boys shuffle, others sounding like modern rock music, and some sounding like hip hop it really shows the band’s ability to change. Some of the highlight tracks are “Good Day”, “Shy Away”, “The Outside”, and “Never Take It”. If you wrote off this band because you’re sick of hearing “Stressed Out”, I would consider giving them a second chance!
There we go with May! Hopefully I’ll catch up with Cruella and new albums from Dispatch and DMX. But they will be accounted for in the end of the year Best OF 2021 list!
All the Best, Ross
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