The Daily Spin II

LANNDS | Music For The Future

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

Some changes from last time: instead of a decimal-point scale, I’ll be moving to a full-point scale. Simpler, less stress, and it’s easier for me to cross-post over to RateYourMusic, where I’m slowly aggregating all of my musical ratings. Each day, I’ll add one of the albums that I rated in 2023 and the one I rated in 2025. With time, there’ll be 730 albums ranked on there by the end of the year.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: Music For The Future (2023)

Artist: LANNDS

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LANNDS describe their debut as a journey into the spiritual, formed from the connections developed during an odyssey to a rural Georgia while developing their debut full-length EP, the album we’re looking at today.

In some sense, that feels entirely accurate, with airy synths and vocals giving way to pleasing, unintrusive production that rings of forward-facing sentiment. Tracks like ‘everything, everything’ and ‘Overseas/BACK 2 U’ are the backbone of this ideal, floaty and weightless over pleasantly sparse trap production.

It’s not where the band is at their best, though. That comes right at the tail end of the record, when ‘Bonfire’ strikes lightning by moving, kinetic energy dispersed throughout. It’s most evident about two-thirds of the way through, when the first chorus ends and these little drum chops make their way into the soundscape. Even as the vocals trail off, the rise of a brassy accompaniment and these tiny noises build into a swirling, transcendent, beautiful climax.

Were the whole album full of this energy, I think it would resonate a bit more strongly, but it falls a little flat in the wings, especially in observation of so many contemporaries.

Rating: 6/10

Best Tracks: Bonfire, K TOWN

Worst Tracks: Forts