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Average Rating: 3.53
Rating Variance: 0.80
Objectivity Score: 78%
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5.0 classic
AJJ Christmas Island
alt-J Relaxer
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Cage The Elephant Melophobia
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
Gorillaz Demon Days
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Kanye West Yeezus
The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
The Decemberists The Crane Wife

4.5 superb
alt-J This Is All Yours
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Beyonce Lemonade
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Coldplay X&Y
Coldplay Prospekt's March
Crystal Fighters Star of Love
Daft Punk Discovery
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials
Glass Animals Zaba
Glass Animals How To Be A Human Being
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Gorillaz Humanz
Grimes Art Angels
Jamie xx In Colour
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Lorde Pure Heroine
Nicolas Jaar Sirens
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal
Pat Metheny Group Still Life (Talking)
Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud
Purity Ring Shrines
Sigur Ros Kveikur
The Civil Wars Barton Hollow
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea
The xx I See You
A beautiful and uneasy album of distortions. From the detuned strings in "Performance" to the warbling theremin in "Test Me" and even the chrome artwork which distorts the light and images around it, this is a haunting and beautiful work that brings out the best of the band. Jamie xx's production shines, especially in the sample-based songs. "Lips" is an obvious standout, sounding like a tropical-house version of the Bangles. If anything, this is music to be felt rather than analyzed. Pure magic.
Yaeji Yaeji

4.0 excellent
alt-J An Awesome Wave
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
BADBADNOTGOOD IV
Blur The Magic Whip
Bruno Mars 24K Magic
This album is so much fun. Mars is clearly trying to replicate the success of Uptown Funk, but nothing here seems clearly derivative of that. Instead, the album is a tight collection of throwback jams pulling from several decades and influences like James Brown and Midnight Star. It's also incredibly funny when Mars tries to act like a sex god (i.e., "Versace on the Floor"). Overall, pretty solid album.
Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy
David Bowie Blackstar
Diamond Rings Free Dimensional
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Foster the People Torches
Foster the People Supermodel
Gorillaz D-Sides
Gorillaz The Fall
Halsey Badlands
In Love With A Ghost Healing
James Blake Overgrown
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Despite a lack of the cinematic vision that made TPAB so great, this is still a worthy addition to the K-Dot canon. The relative lack of guest features helps put the spotlight on Kendrick and makes the album more personal. There's also a wonderful fusion of styles ranging from current trends (the trap-pop of "LOYALTY." and "LOVE.") back to more old-school styles displayed in "HUMBLE." and "DUCKWORTH." This is definitely Kendrick's most conventional release, but it's so well-crafted that it stacks up pretty closely with his previous work.
Lady Gaga Joanne
M83 Junk
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
Melanie Martinez Cry Baby
MGMT Congratulations
Mika Life in Cartoon Motion
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Paul White Accelerator
Portugal. The Man Evil Friends
Shintaro Sakamoto Love If Possible
Sigur Ros ( )
STRFKR Starfucker
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Glitch Mob We Can Make the World Stop
The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Weeknd House of Balloons

3.5 great
AJJ The Bible 2
Animal Collective Painting With
Animal Collective The Painters
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II
Crystal Fighters Cave Rave
Daft Punk Human After All
Damon Albarn Everyday Robots
Death Grips Bottomless Pit
Frank Ocean Blonde
Gorillaz G-Sides
Jack White Lazaretto
James Blake James Blake
James Blake The Colour in Anything
Kanye West The Life of Pablo
Lady Gaga Artpop
Little Dragon Machine Dreams
Little Dragon Ritual Union
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
My eardrums are bleeding and I want to go rob a bank
Sigur Ros Takk...
STRFKR Reptilians
STRFKR Being No One, Going Nowhere
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts
The Decemberists The Tain
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
The xx xx
Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City

3.0 good
Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Animal Collective Gnip Gnop/Hounds of Bairro
Big Bang MADE
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday
Coldplay Parachutes
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles Amnesty (I)
Daft Punk Homework
Diamond Rings Special Affections
Gorillaz Laika Come Home
Grimes Visions
Imagine Dragons Night Visions
In Love With A Ghost Let's Go
Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now
Inspired but wildly unfocused. Tracks like "Animal Kingdom Chaotic" and "Pegasi" are fantastic on their own but fail to help the record materialize into anything more than a collection of disparate moments.
Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
This was really great until he started talking about chemtrails and government conspiracies lol. Still solid production though, the first half of the record is substantially better than the second half.
John Paul White Beulah
Kero Kero Bonito Intro Bonito
Lady Gaga The Fame
Little Dragon Little Dragon
Maggie Rogers Now That The Light Is Fading
A lot of potential here; Color Song and Alaska are both fantastic Sylvan Esso-esque folktronica cuts that really highlight Rogers' voice. On + Off and Dog Years are also impressive tracks that see her transition into more of a pop anthem direction. If anything, this just gets me more hyped for a full album from Rogers.
Minotaur Shock Maritime
Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Pharrell Williams G I R L
Porter Robinson Worlds
Purity Ring Another Eternity
Shamir Ratchet
Skrillex Recess
SOHN Tremors
STRFKR Miracle Mile
Tame Impala Currents
The M Machine Metropolis Pt. II
The Ting Tings We Started Nothing
Thundercat Drunk
Despite being on his third LP, it still feels like Thundercat hasn't quite found his footing. His instrumental work has never been better, but it comes at the price of a weak concept and a clumsy narrative. It's enjoyable fun, though it's obvious that Thundercat is capable of so much more.

2.5 average
bansheebeat Techo Deluxe
Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams
Electric Guest Plural
Dear to Me is one of the best pop tracks I've heard in a while. The rest of it is just a Maroon 5-esque summer album (but artsier!), with some quality production despite some frequently uninspired moments. Listen to the singles, ditch the rest.
Father John Misty Pure Comedy
I used to like this guy but this new shit really kinda makes me wanna die
Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2
Little Dragon Season High
Ehhhhhhhhh. I was planning on writing a full review for this but there really isn't anything interesting to say about it. The two singles ("High" and "Sweet") are fantastic career-bests for the band, but pretty much everything else falls flat. Maybe I'm too accustomed to hearing Little Dragon being featured on other albums, but both this and Nabuma felt like overlong snoozefests. Yukimi's voice is as beautiful as ever, but you can only make it through so many generic tracks before you just give up. It's neo-soul without any soul.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis This Unruly Mess I've Made
mansionz Mansionz
i'm thinking about how "dennis rodman" is way better than any other song on this album
MGMT MGMT
Mika The Origin of Love
One Ok Rock Ambitions
A few bright spots (Jaded and Hard to Love) amidst a bunch of lifeless, unoriginal pop-punk. It's not horrible, but it's far from engaging.
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Sampha Process
Sampha's voice has never been more powerful and affecting, but I feel like the songwriting and instrumental ends of this project really don't hold up.
The Avalanches Wildflower
The Civil Wars The Civil Wars
The Glitch Mob Love Death Immortality
The M Machine Metropolis - Part 1
The Weeknd Starboy
The very definition of mediocrity. The only genuinely "great" songs are the ones produced by Daft Punk, but even their talent is clearly wasted. Maybe it's because Abel put out 68 minutes of music just one year after BBTM, but most of these tracks are half-baked pop-lite that lack the gravitas of his Trilogy-era work.
WHARFWHIT Evidently

2.0 poor
Animal Collective Meeting of the Waters
Ehhhh. "Man of Oil" is fantastic, but the rest of the collection tends to meander a bit. The songwriting is virtually nonexistent, and it seems like this is less of an EP and more of Avey & Geologist saying "hey, we recorded in the Amazon! hear those bird noises in the background? neat, right?"
Foxygen Hang
Insufferable Broadway-rock that's way too cheesy and maximalist to make any impact. It's clear that a lot of musical talent went into this, but it doesn't translate into an enjoyable listening experience.
Night Riots Love Gloom
Something about this makes me angry. Maybe it's the inclusion of multiple interludes with pretentious Latin titles, or maybe it's that they are trying way too hard to be Depeche Mode. It gets spared from a 1.0 rating just for Contagious, which is the only good song. But the rest of it sounds like a horrible Twilight fanfic.
SOHN Rennen
The M Machine Glare
Such a strange album. It's ambient, it's a new wave throwback, it's a weird comedy about eating worms and masturbating? I admire them going in a new direction but it seems like 50 different directions at once.

1.5 very poor
ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS
Bishop Briggs Bishop Briggs
Crystal Fighters Everything Is My Family
Shamir Hope
apparently this was recorded in only one weekend... wow, never would have guessed

1.0 awful
ANOHNI Paradise
"my mother's gentle touch, my father's hand on my throat" lol we get it, you really hate men and are trying desperately to be a beautiful woman. The music still sucks though.
Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core
Jacob Sartorius Last Text
This kid is singing about picking up chicks but he can't even drive?...
The Chainsmokers Collage
The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open
these trusty dance boys are always here to remind us how hard it is to be white and in love
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