can't wait until Anthony reaches the 1810s and tells us that Beethoven was actually pretty mid

I feel extremely bad for the people who choose not to listen to the Mid-Air Thief album because of this video

I'm a simple person. I see Mid Air Thief in the thumbnail, I click Edit: NOOOOOOO FANTANO WHY

im genuinely shocked about the mid air theif being overrated..... crumbling was genuinely life changing

As someone who has never heard of or listened to anything by Mid Air Thief, I am outraged. Outraged I tell you!

This mid air thief take is fucking insane. Easily one of the most enchanting albums ever made.

Fantano giving us a proper example of what a hot take is

I never ever thought I’d hear melon talk about Crumbling, and never thought he might not be crazy about it, damn

As someone who loves crumbling, I'm looking forward to listening to the suggestion of better versions of this album Melon has given

seriously how could you listen to a song like “Protector” and say that Crumbling is lacking in melodies

I honestly thought mid air thief would be on the underrated albums, I didn't know it was so well rated and known lol

Now I know what to say if I'm ever in a "what's my worst take" video with Fantano

Dude wtf, Crumbling is amazing.

i will never forgive you for what you said about mid air theif

The outrage at the Mid Air Thief restores the sanity that Melon drains from me

This Mid-Air Thief take is wild. I never usually care but man, it's one of the most creative songwriting I've heard in the decade easily. One of the very few 10s I have Good shout on the Books though

well, if you're not a big fan of crumbling, I'd suggest checking out their previous album "Gongjoon Doduk" It's a lot more folkier, but the songs are very catchy and the way it blends psych pop and folk is wonderful. It's also a lot more lofi but that's what really gives it it's magic. White Room and Moon, and the Knot are some incredible tracks on the project you should check out.

Everyone listen to the mid air thief album. Genuinely life changing for me, helped me realize that there is no ceiling to how beautiful music can get.

was curious to see why so many people were upset about the Crumbling take (never heard the album before), so I went to listen to the first two songs and well, had to comeback and say yeah THAT WAS AN L TAKE melon

surprised to see that Melon rounded out his list with Yeat’s Up 2 Më as the most underrated album of all-time

Knew Crumbling would obviously be in this video from the thumbnail, didn't come into this expecting to defend Crumbling, but... after watching it, I wanna hear what you think are better versions of the same thing, because while most songs on Crumbling don't really impress me, I've been looking for something that scratches the same itch as These Chains, and Sufjan and The Books are absolutely not gonna cut it lmao.

No way melon finally mentioned mid air thief and preceded to absolutely trash them😭

People seem to critique the vocals on Crumbling along with Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time but these albums in their own rights are niche yet detailed soundscapes that show lots of color through it's fluidity in layering and harmonics. I don't know much abt painting, or even theory, but listing to these 2 is what I imagine it's like in front of a Van Gogh piece off of mescaline. Prolly sounds like some theatrical fused mess to most, but against some other 2010 records in their own similarly fused genres, these records stand out in what makes that more mainstream electro/art/pop sound not redundant. It's something more loose and human natured. Idk, Crumbling deserves it's recognition

I feel like if your going to continue this series you should also cover mixtapes and eps for each respective decade

I know people aren’t loving the mid air thief take, but Boarding House Reach being the most underrated is so so valid. One of the most extreme, weird rock albums I’ve ever heard and probably personal top 5 of the 2010s

Damn, Crumbling is one of my favs of the 10s, I'm shocked

Tbh the moment that jack white album came out I didn't saw any review or nothing, i listened completely blind and it's one of the most crazy uniquely experiences I had with music, because was really challenging in a way that i didn't even know if I liked the album or not and coming back to the album in the present it holds its crazy and weird factor, and i can't do nothing but praise that experience

Crumbling is a 10/10 album imo. I'm shook

Really thought he would say Crumbling was underrated

Mid Air Thief's Crumbling is easily a 10/10 for me. Every single track is as ethereal, dreamy and spellbinding in its own ways. The production is unique and the sound play makes the already catchy music even more gorgeous. Sorry Anthony but Mid Air Thief is goated.

You broke my heart Anthony, first you break up with me and then you overrate my fav album?

IDK, what sticks out to me about crumbling isn't that it's adventurous or new, but that it just sounds really damn good. Mid air thief's first album was my introduction into the genre, and I can't see anything else really capturing my interest like it did.

dude, crumbling is one of the most stunning and well crafted pieces of music i’ve ever heard !!! still remains one of my very few 10s. i would personally say maybe dean blunt’s black metal or armand hammer’s paraffin are some of the most underrated compared to just how incredible those records are

I just decided to listen to crumbling because you said it sounded like broadcast, and it's actually great-it's like if loving made an album with candy claws

3:23 I'm always exicted to hear Melon mention a favorite band of mine that doesn't seems to get mentioned/talked about that often. I'd love to hear more of his thoughts/analysis on Broadcast!

none of the other music he recommended scratches anywhere near the same itch crumbling does prob bc most music just doesn't get as beautiful and otherworldly as that album does a part of the beauty of crumbling is how progressive and dynamic and textured everything is without seemingly throwing a whole lot of disjointed and goofy 'avant-garde' ideas at you and how it doesn't rely so much on constant change/evolution or even lyrics/vocals and instead just focuses on the bare beauty of the instrumentals and chord progressions themselves (like another comment said his "lacking on melodies" thing is absurd to me because right after how alien yet perfectly natural the sound design is it's the bare melodies and chord progressions that pull me into these songs the most) it's both incredibly simple and homely yet massive and hard to untangle in a way most albums aren't as they're either too busy and tight or too loose and chaotical i genuinely believe he's too jaded and overexposed to boring ass hipster indie psychedelic/electronic bullshit to appreciate actually beautiful bands like fishmans and mid-air thief like the rest of us do same deal with the ghost pop tape and alvvays though for different genres and types of overexposure i hope he hasn't said things too awful about cornelius broadcast tujiko noriko life without buildings or susumu hirasawa is all i can say

Almost two years ago on July 28, 2021, Anthony Fantano put the three AJR albums in an under ground dungeon when he made his 0/10 tier list video. (time stamp for that video is 8:47). And here we revisit that dungeon and add in MBDTF and Yeezus. You can even see the AJR albums still there in the background. I wonder what Anthony means by this.

"RateYourMusic forever" horrifying proposition

New fantano worst take just dropped🙀

The Reviewbrah mention warmed my heart for a week in advance, thank you, Anthony ❤

You better not diss Fishmans in the 90s, Anthony. I'm watching you.

was sentencing yeezus to the AJR chamber really necessary, Melon?

Please do a disturbing/unsettling albums tier list 🤘been seeing a few suggested videos and wanted to see which ones hit for you. Thx!

Got an idea for another video series: Go over different genres and sub genres of music and pick one album that is either your personal favorite from that genre, or the best album as an introduction to that genre.

I’m definitely not as high on Mid Air Thief as the rest of RYM, but I’m surprised that the criticism Anthony had of the record was that it wasn’t adventurous, because I’d say that’s the most obvious strength of that album. I would listen to Rounds or The Lemon of Pink over Crumbling near any day but I think it stands up as being just as bold and creative as either of them.

melon casually dropping his worst take lmao

have you listened to finally we are no one by múm? one of the best albums ever if we're talking folktronica

I think you could get more mileage out of this by going year to year and I would love to hear your opinions with that expansive stipulation

Didn’t realise Mid Air Thief was that popular. Only found out about the project last year. Thought it was great!

this man listened to Ahhhh, These Chains! and still said the album is overrated. How

What’s the album between yeezus and MBDTF at the beginning?

My pick for the most underrated album of that decade is Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns from 2010. LP decided to make a concept album with heavy electronic influences and less metal and I feel like their fanbase wanted nu metal or had outgrown them and critics straight up ignored it because, well, it was Linkin Park, well past the nu metal era. But in my opinion, not only is it the best album LP ever made, but it has aged a LOT better than one would expected. It's catchy, sounds fantastic and flows really well, and sticks the landing too. It's not FLAWLESS, especially due to some of the rap elements (although they're still incredibly catchy, some lyrics aside), but it's certainly underrated.

never heard anything like crumbling before or since, absolutely mind blowing, definitely a solid 10 imo, groundbreaking composition, sound, atmosphere, really just everything is so perfect about that record

Hi Anthony you should check out the L’Impératrice album Tako Tsubo. It’s one of my favorites and I think you’d appreciate it

One of my fave albums is Sundrenched Elsewhere by Echo and Drake, which came out in 2012 Pretty obscure alt rock group from New England.

The most underrated album of the 2010s is actually Junk by M83 but nobody’s ready for that conversation

I am a huge Jack White stan and I feel like I'm frequently on an island in loving Boarding House Reach. Super cool album.

Yo this is a really awesome video concept but it’ll over soon, do it by year rather than decade please

I’m so happy he said Jack white. That record really stood out to me when it came out and still does today. I don’t see how anyone could hate it

A couple of underrated 2010s albums that I recommend Somi- Petite Afrique The Armed- Untitled Gang Gang Dance- Eye Contact Ondotropica- Ondotropica Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution Wreck and Reference - Youth Absu - Abzu

yo that crazy frog album underrated as hell

Mid Air Thief being called overrated is the worst opinion ive heard from this guy woah

Mid-Air theif hits different, I've never hard any music like it. Please share recommendations

Understandable about not personally liking the mid air thief album as much as other people, but those were some pretty surface level critques and unnecessary comparisons. If the most you took away from that album is that "sufjan did it better" or "phil elverum did it better" then that is a terrible mindset to have, because I think those artists and the albums theyve made are CLEARLY not only in a completely different sound and genre, but are trying to convey different conceptual and emotional objectives. Especially the comparison to Age of Adz, complerely missing the mark on both those albums and what they are achieving. The only two things those albums have in common is that they both fuse elements folk and eletronic music, even though clearly sufjan is pulling from a more glitchy idm world where as MAT is pulling from psychedelic electronic production ala Animal collective possibly even some prog electronic. TLDR: its ok to not like album obliviously, but if your major criticism of it is based mainly off comparing it to other artists which are not relevant to the album at all, then its a poot mindset based off biased preconceptions.

I'm tired of holding it in. I can't keep it inside anymore. I need to proclaim that one of the most underrated records of the 2010s is the self-titled Casualties of Cool. It's like an old jukebox floating through the emptiness of space. It's beautiful desolate country music consumed by death.

literally my favorite album of all time, this Crumbling take is hedious

A Thousand Suns is the most underrated record i can think of rn. Linkin Park's absolute best, im glad to see that people are starting to appreciate it more

has Anthony ever called himself Cannedthony Spamtano? i think he should

Crumbling is like a top 20 album of all time for me.

Anyone know the song playing during the overrated screen

Does anyone know what shirt Anthony is wearing here?

Id say that Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never is an underrated masterpiece.

Boarding House Reach is fuckin incredible. I'm surprised it isn't well loved yet.

When you told me 'Commence discourse,' I didn't think you would pick an album I like. To be fair, I think Mid Air Thief is promoted by Spotify's algorithm, but I find the band very listenable when I work or exercise.

Fantano can you please explained the concept of underrated one more time to my son billy he's still dont understand

new worst fantano take?????

I’d argue that Milky Chance’s first release, Sadnessecary, was a pretty groundbreaking folktronica album, one of the first to do it, being released in 2013

Please help me get Fantano to review the new Christine and the Queens album!

i just did such a double take?! it's the first time ive heard somebody else talk about The Books they're excellent

cannot believe the mid-air thief take. absolutely awful

As much as I love Crumbling I definitely see where Anthony’s coming from. I don’t really love the album as a whole so much as I love certain parts of it and, more importantly, the sound of it. It sounded super unique to me when I first heard it awhile back, and still does. But I’m definitely not in love with a lot of the songwriting choices made on the album and actually find em to be questionable sometimes. Yet, it was a big part of my college experience and I still love it now!

The second song for crumbling, the chains, might be the greatest song of all time.

Now i know what it feels like for Fantano to hate one of my favourite albums 😢

Continue this series. Very entertaining.

What an absolutely confounding take. The vocal harmonies are one of my favourite parts of Mid-Air Thief’s stuff. The vocal performances are relatively under-stated, there’s no power-ballad style belting, but that’s also not the vibe the album is going for. Also, as for not being an innovative folktronica album, I hardly consider it to be part of that genre despite what it’s listed as on RYM (as someone who likes that genre). Yes, it uses acoustic instrumentation mixed with electronic music, but so does Jockstrap and I don’t think many people would consider them folktronica. I wouldn’t say any of his songs have the structure or sound I’d associate with British, American or Korean folk music (although I’m not an expert on Korean folk). Mid-Air Thief’s musical philosophy is instead, more in line with a new set of bedroom producers who focus less on genre conventions and more on using the best instrument for the job, be that electronic or otherwise. Mid-Air Thief is spacey and ethereal but also surprising and off-kilter whilst remaining down to Earth and emotional and human. The works are great compositions not just as pop tracks. And, despite being well rated on Rate Your Music, Mid-Air Thief is still relatively obscure, and so calling them overrated is a bit ridiculous, as well as being wrong.

i don't go to a mid-air thief album for groundbreaking production

Based on what hes said in a livestream he will eventually get to F♯ A♯ ∞ in calling it very overrated/not a ten

Massive L on Mid Air Thief

Now I have to listen to Mid-Air Thief, never even heard of them/him before

I'm genuinely sad to say that I didn't even give Boarding House Reach a chance. I absolutely LOVED the White Stripes, The Dead Weather & The Raconteurs (in that order) Blunderbuss was pretty solid but took a noticeable step down; Lazaretto absolutely lost me and thus I didn't even give Boarding House Reach a chance. I'm going to listen to it today. Based on what you said (and what Jack named as his influences for the album) I feel like it might be an all time favorite that has just been lying in wait for me to discover it.

Personally, I like Crumbling way more than all of the comparisons you gave. Good video though, it's fun to hear your opinions even if they might be controversial.

MID AIR THIEF IS FUCKINF GOLD

One of the most underrated albums of the 2010s was Grizzly Bear's 'Shields.' I don't think enough people talk about this album. Also Jeff Tweedy's 'Warm' had some of his best songs ever. It eclipses a lot of Wilco's stuff from the 2010s.

Rate Your Music doesn’t even have an entry for the Evens “the Odds”. If that isn’t the definition of underrated, I don’t know…

i mean, idk if its 'underrated' per say, but Janelle Monae's The ArchAndroid is - and will always be - unbelievable to me. That album is like a full length movie, its truly incredible she managed to pull it off as her debut record. So many instruments and sounds and genres all spanning across an hour long concept album about a robot from the future, it just blows my mind.

...crumbling :(

Melon underrated Jack White himself when he gave it a rating of a decent to strong 9, but he ranked it lower than many albums with ratings of 8 in his list of the best albums of the 2010s

Mid Air Thief, a band melon admittedly called "anonymous", is who he chooses to call overrated, when he quite plainly skipped past Kanye West, AND THEN MENTIONED AGE OF FREAKING ADZ from every music snobs fav chicago indie darling, Sufjan Stevens and then said that jack white was underrated. I am not a fan-tano of this opinion.

the fact that you chose an independent korean artist album to call it the MOST overrated album from the 2010s is WILD like lmaofjdk how could this be overly rated if it's a niche loved album on a very niche side of the internet 🥴 some of the songs are barely touching 1M listens on Spotify, i was expecting someone like Drake to have the most overrated album, or Taylor Swift. taking the comment section i'm actually inclined to give Crumbling a listen now lol

Damn, finally we hear Melon talk about Mid air thief. Excited to get him more exposure