Average Rating: 3.74 Rating Variance: 0.48 Objectivity Score: 66% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAnimal Collective Sung TongsBelle and Sebastian If You're Feeling SinisterBjork HomogenicBjork VespertineIn the end, it's not really a surprise that minimal laptop techno never really reached the masses; although frequently beautiful, it could sometimes sound cerebral and subsequently detached. Leave it to Bjork, then, to inject some much-needed warmth into those microbeats and found sounds. Although Bjork herself calls Vespertine a "winter" album, the heartbreaking "Pagan Poetry" and stunning "Unison" burst with life. The wails and screams of her earlier material are not to be found here, but even when she's whispering, Bjork conveys more emotion than virtually every other chanteuse out there. When her voice cracks as she repeats "I love him" over and over again, you can feel something.. and even if you don't know what it exactly is, by god it's there.Burial UntrueDavid Bowie Hunky DoryKanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyMadonna The Immaculate CollectionRadiohead Kid A*boom chh boom chhh* *drones* who's in a bunker who's in a bunkerr women and children fiiiiiirst and the children fiiiirst and the childrenRobyn RobynSigur Ros Ágætis ByrjunSteve Reich Different Trains/Electric CounterpointThe Avalanches Since I Left YouThe Beatles The BeatlesThe Knife Silent ShoutThe Microphones The Glow pt.2I find myself listening to this album with my head pressed up between the speakers, lost in its magnificent sonic world. You try to comprehend it, or you try to just figure it out, but that doesn't fucking MATTER. This is music to LIVE IN, to FEEL with your heart, with your soul, in your bones, inside and out, everywhere, all around your body. It is pretty much the most intensely human record I've ever heard, and that's where I'm left, with my head between the speakers. Crying, laughing, swept away by something beautiful and stunning and haunting and moving and pretty fucking amazing.4.5 superbAnimal Collective FeelsAnimal Collective Strawberry JamAnimal Collective Fall Be KindAphex Twin Richard D. James AlbumAphex Twin WindowlickerArcade Fire FuneralBattles MirroredBeth Ditto EPBig Boi Sir Lucious Left FootBjork PostBjork MedúllaBjork BiophiliaNo I'm not a fanboy at all why would you ever say that whyBlue Hawaii Blooming SummerBoards of Canada Music Has The Right To ChildrenBoredoms Vision Creation NewsunBrian Wilson SmileBroken Social Scene You Forgot It In PeopleBurial BurialBurial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf ClubDaft Punk DiscoveryAfter the new millennium hit and good old George W. Bush was sitting on his fat ass in the White House, optimism seemed to be the hardest thing to come by, especially in the self-pitying music industry. That's where the robots of Daft Punk come in, with their superlative brand of cheesy, guilty-pleasure pop genius. Discovery might be moody in some parts, but the dominant emotion here is joy, and there's plenty of it to go around.Daft Punk Alive 2007Death Grips The Money StoreDeerhoof ReveilleDeerhoof Deerhoof vs. EvilDemdike Stare TryptychDirty Projectors Bitte OrcaDirty Projectors Swing Lo MagellanDJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 BluesDoldrums EgyptElliott Smith Either/OrEmeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here?Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...Flying Lotus CosmogrammaFour Tet RoundsFour Tet There is Love in YouFrank Ocean Channel OrangeGang Gang Dance Eye ContactGas PopGatekeeper ExoGrimes VisionsHEALTH HEALTH // DISCOHEALTH Get ColorHow to Dress Well Total LossJoanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed MenderJoanna Newsom YsJohn Zorn The Circle MakerJoni Mitchell BlueJulia Holter TragedyJulia Holter EkstasisKate Bush 50 Words for SnowKeith Jarrett & Charlie Haden JasmineKing Felix SpringLaurel Halo QuarantineLCD Soundsystem Sound of SilverBiting and humorous social critiques, seemingly effortless production, killer tunes, and addicting beats; what more could you ask for? The first five tracks are the best, ending with the quietly devastating "Someone Great" and dangerously catchy "All My Friends".LCD Soundsystem This Is HappeningIf your favorite LCD tracks are along the lines of "North American Scum" and "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House", there won't be much to love here. But if you fell in love with Sound Of Silver thanks to the rollicking slow build of "All My Friends" or the quiet heartbreak of "Someone Great", there's plenty of great stuff to be had here. There is not a single weak track here (even the slightly disappointing "Drunk Girls" works on record), and several of them are transcendental - the way the synths burst in at the three-minute mark in "Dance Yrself Clean" is incredible and the driving riff of "All I Want" gives the piano figure of "All My Friends" a run for its money.Lightning Bolt Wonderful RainbowLos Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...Los Campesinos! Hello Sadnessyou bitches are crazy that's right CRAZY. throwin' down here.M.I.A. KalaLess immediate but much more ambitious than Arular, Kala is a stunningly kaleidoscopic work that eschews funk for woozy, dubby tracks that are refreshingly unclassifiable. When M.I.A. spits out, "I put people on the map/that never seen a map," she could just as easily be talking about her listeners, because after listening to this record, you feel enlightened and exhilarated.M.I.A. Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1M.I.A. MayaMadonna Like a PrayerMetro Area Metro AreaMiles Davis Bitches BrewMr. Bungle CaliforniaOf Montreal Paralytic StalksLike a less self-serious and more palatable Age of Adz. Awesome, in every sense of the word.Oneohtrix Point Never ReplicaOOIOO Armonico HewaLa! Ooh! La! La! Ooh! La! Ooh! La! La! Ooh! La! La! Ooh! La! Ooh! La! La! Ooh! La! La! Ooh! La! Ooh! La!Panda Bear Person PitchPanda Bear TomboyPantha Du Prince This BlissPhantogram Eyelid MoviesPJ Harvey Let England ShakeRadiohead In RainbowsRobyn Body TalkShabazz Palaces Black UpSleigh Bells TreatsSteve Reich Music for 18 MusiciansSteve Reich Early WorksSufjan Stevens IllinoisSufjan Stevens The Age of AdzThe Books Thought For FoodThe Field From Here We Go SublimeThe Knife Shaking the HabitualThe Postal Service Give UpThe xx xxtUnE-yArDs w h o k i l lTwin Sister In HeavenWilliam Basinski The Disintegration Loops IWomen Public StrainYamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//STYellow Swans Going PlacesZammuto ZammutoZs New Slaves4.0 excellent2562 Fever4minute Volume UpActress SplazshAir Talkie WalkieAnamanaguchi Dawn MetropolisAndy Stott Passed Me ByAnimal Collective Merriweather Post PavilionAnnie AnniemalAntony and the Johnsons I Am A Bird NowAntony and the Johnsons The Crying LightAphex Twin Come To DaddyArca Stretch 2ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.Astor Piazzolla LibertangoAtlas Sound LogosAzari & III Azari & IIIAzealia Banks FantaseaBang On A Can All-Stars Renegade HeavenBat For Lashes Two SunsBattles Gloss DropBeach House Teen DreamBell DiamoniteBelle and Sebastian The Life PursuitBeyonce 4Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A DayBjork DebutBlood Diamonds Phone SexBlue Hawaii UntogetherBon Iver Bon IverOne of the most straight-up lovely listens I've had all year. Highly recommended.Born Gold BodysongsBraids Native SpeakerBrian Eno Ambient 1: Music For AirportsBritney Spears BlackoutBurial KindredCaribou SwimCass McCombs Wit's EndChromatics Kill For LoveColin Stetson New History Warfare, Vol 2: JudgesCults CultsListening to Cults, I'm reminded of Sleigh Bells' superb Treats - not because they're sonic relatives (although they both call summer to mind like few other bands) but because both records are filled with songs we've heard before. More than half of the tracks on this indie-pop outfit's proper debut record have been floating around the Internet for a while now, yet they sound so much better here than they ever did on their own. In a way, Cults is exactly what one might expect from the band, given what they've released thus far - the songs are still simple and delectably catchy slices of '60s-style indie pop bliss along the lines of their debut single, "Go Outside" - but that risks discounting the album's occasional sharp edges and, well, pure awesomeness.Cut Copy ZonoscopeDas Racist Shut Up, DudeDas Racist Sit Down, ManDeadbeat Drawn and QuarteredDeerhoof The Runners FourDeerhoof Apple O'Deerhunter MicrocastleDeerhunter Halcyon DigestFucking fantastic. Not much more to say than that.rOh, fine. Brandon Cox sounds better than he ever has, the arrangements are pristine, the production is appealingly hazy, and the songs are arguably more exciting than those on Microcastle.Destroyer KaputtDiplo Express YourselfDirty Projectors w/Bjork Mount Wittenberg OrcaDisasterpeace FEZDuke Ellington Money JungleElliott Smith Figure 8EMA Past Life Martyred SaintsEsperanza Spalding Chamber Music SocietyFall Out Boy From Under The Cork TreeFaltyDL EndeavourFaltyDL You Stand UncertainFarrah Abraham My Teenage Dream EndedFever Ray Fever RayFleet Foxes Fleet FoxesFleet Foxes Helplessness BluesFord & Lopatin Channel PressureFuck Buttons Tarot SportFucked Up David Comes to LifeGodspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas...Gonjasufi A Sufi and a KillerGrizzly Bear Yellow HouseGrizzly Bear VeckatimestGrouper A I AGrum HeartbeatsHEALTH MAX PAYNE 3High Places High PlacesHospitality HospitalityHow to Dress Well Love RemainsHuoratron Cryptocracyiamamiwhoami To Whom It May ConcernJames Blake James BlakeJames Blake's music isn't made up of sound, but rather of silence. It's the London producer's deft handling of negative space that makes his debut album so compelling and beautiful. The harmonies are lush but never suffocatingly so, and the melodies have an uncanny way of burrowing their way into your head and refusing to leave. Sublime.James Ferraro Far Side VirtualJanelle Monae Metropolis Suite I of IV: The ChaseJanelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV)Joanna Newsom Have One on MeJulian Lynch MareJulianna Barwick The Magic PlaceJustice CrossJustin Bieber BelieveKarantamba NdigalKaty B On A MissionKurt Vile Smoke Ring For My HaloLaurie Anderson HomelandLe1f Dark YorkLil B God's FatherLone Emerald Fantasy TracksLos Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are DoomedM.I.A. ArularBiting and incisive, Arular packs a wild punch. With a swagger that is rivaled by very few, Maya infuses her words with sarcasm and derision, and when she references the PLO in "Sunshowers" you can tell she's criticizing us for being the narrow xenophobes we are, naturally. She?s got the beats to make us bang, and bang we do.M.I.A. VICKI LEEKXMadonna Ray of LightMarnie Stern Marnie SternMemory Tapes Player PianoAn unexpectedly beautiful, ambitious, and coherent work, Player Piano gets rid of some of the more unconvincing moments of cheese found on Seek Magic and replaces it with a comparatively simple elegance. A contender for album of the summer, it's a slightly darker-hued record, but it's also a more sonically multifaceted one. Absolutely recommended.Meysell Quintana Miracle Of The SunMicachu JewelleryDefiantly quirky without having to try too hard, Micachu is a bona fide musical maverick, and if her debut album is a bit inconsistent, it?s the trade-off for a sound that?s refreshingly unclassifiable. And hey, anyone who can take a vacuum cleaner and make it something akin to a pop hook deserves kudos.Micachu Chopped and ScrewedMount Kimbie Crooks & LoversMount Moriah Mount MoriahMouse on Mars ParastrophicsMum Finally We Are No OneMum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OKNicolas Jaar Space Is Only NoiseOf Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?Oneohtrix Point Never ReturnaloOoOO oOoOOOST Invisible Ink For Sketching GhostsOwen Pallett HeartlandParades Foreign TapesPatrick Wolf LupercaliaPeaches The Teaches of PeachesPeaking Lights 936Pepe Deluxe Queen of the WavePictureplane Thee PhysicalRadiohead AmnesiacRadiohead The BendsRadiohead OK ComputerRicardo Villalobos AlcachofaRobyn Body Talk Pt. 1Royksopp Melody A.M.Royksopp JuniorSalem (US) King NightScissor Sisters Night WorkSebastiAn TotalFuck, yes. Total is every bit the loud and narcotic burst of absolute awesome I was hoping it'd be, filled with blown-out house track after blown-out house track. If you're after nuance, look elsewhere. Everybody else - join the party.Sepalcure SepalcureSigur Ros ( )Sigur Ros Takk...Soundtrack Katamari Damacy soundtrackSSION BentSt. Vincent ActorSt. Vincent Strange MercySufjan Stevens All Delighted PeopleSufjan Stevens Silver & GoldTaylor Swift RedTeebs ArdourThe 2 Bears Be StrongThe Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Books Lost And SafeThe Books The Way OutThe Dodos No ColorThe Field Looping State of MindThe Knife Tomorrow, In a YearThe National High VioletThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart BelongThe Psychic Paramount IIThe Rapture EchoesONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, KICK THAT FUCKER OUT THE DOOR!The Rapture In the Grace of Your LoveThe Shins Chutes Too NarrowThe Smiles Hermosa EPThe Strokes Is This ItThe Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion PictureThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntThe Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing BirdThe Trap's Jaw An Awful Lot of WiresThe Weeknd House of BalloonsThe Weeknd ThursdayThe xx CoexistToro Y Moi Causers of ThistUnE-yArDs BiRd-BrAiNsTyme. x Tujiko GYUValerio Tricoli / Thomas Ankersmit Forma IIVirtual Boy Virtual BoyWaka Flocka Flame FlockaveliWU LYF Go Tell Fire to the MountainYoko Ono Between My Head & The SkyYoung Galaxy ShapeshiftingZola Jesus Valusia3.5 great2NE1 To AnyoneActive Child You Are All I SeeAhnnu CouchAnimal Collective ODDSACAntony and the Johnsons SwanlightsAphex Twin Donkey RhubarbAraabmuzik Electronic DreamArcade Fire Neon BibleArcade Fire The SuburbsAtlas Sound Bedroom Databank, Vols. 1-4Atlas Sound ParallaxBalam Acab Wander/WonderBaths CeruleanBeach House BloomDon't listen to Sam, just listen to Lazuli over and over againBear in Heaven Beast Rest Forth MouthBear in Heaven I Love You, It's CoolBeirut The Rip TideBjork VoltaBjork Greatest HitsBjork Drawing Restraint 9Bjork TelegramBjork VoltaicBlondes BlondesBoris PinkBrian Eno Small Craft on a Milk SeaBroken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock RecordBurial and Four Tet Ego/MirrorCamille Le FilCamille Saint-Saens Danse macabreCharli XCX You're the One EPCharli XCX Heartbreaks and Earthquakes MixtapeChildish Gambino CampI'm a sucker for this sort of self-aware, clever-but-not-TOO-clever nonsense. Plus, the production is uniformly excellent. Yep.Clams Casino Instrumental MixtapeCloud Nothings Attack On MemoryCocoRosie La Maison De Mon ReveCocoRosie The Adventures of Ghosthorse and StillboCocoRosie Grey OceansCrystal Castles Crystal CastlesCrystal Castles Crystal Castles IICSS Cansei de Ser SexyCults Cults 7"Daft Punk HomeworkDaft Punk Random Access MemoriesDeath In Vegas Trans-Love EnergiesDeerhoof Friend OpportunityDeerhoof Offend MaggieDirty Beaches BadlandsDntel Life is Full of PossibilitiesDragonette Fixin to ThrillDum Dum Girls I Will BeDum Dum Girls He Gets Me HighElite Gymnastics RuinEvian Christ Kings And ThemFatima Al Qadiri Desert StrikeFeist The ReminderFeist MetalsFlying Lotus Pattern+Grid WorldFriendly Fires Friendly FiresFriendly Fires PalaGames That We Can PlayGotye Making MirrorsGrimes HalfaxaGusGus Arabian HorseHoly Other With UHTRK Work (work, work)Hyuna Bubble Pop!Jason Urick I Love YouJay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Thronejj jj n° 2jj KillsJonsi GoKyary Pamyu Pamyu Moshi Moshi HarajukuLa Sera La SeraLady Gaga The FameLady Gaga The Fame MonsterLana Del Rey Born to DieLana Del Rey's whiskey-soaked, tear-stained "debut" LP is shallow, excessive, poorly prioritized, slightly scattershot, and occasionally imbued with some inspired artistic gusto. That is, Born To Die is quintessentially American, and all the better for it.LCD Soundsystem 45:33Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy)Lykke Li Wounded RhymesM83 Saturdays=YouthMadonna Confessions on a DancefloorMajor Lazer Guns Dont Kill People... Lazers DoMarnie Stern This Is It and I Am It and You Are It...Miryo MIRYO a.k.a JOHONEYMNDR E.P.E.Nicola Roberts Cinderella's EyesNo Age Everything In BetweenNosaj Thing DriftOmar Souleyman Jazeera NightsOrcas OrcasPhoenix Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixPhoenix is nothing if not a great singles band ? songs like ?1901? and ?Lisztomania? have an undeniable appeal of their own ? but Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix fails to coalesce into a true album. There?s little sense of flow here; often I found myself feeling as if I was listening to a greatest hits compilation. There?s one crucial difference, however: on a greatest hits compilation every song would be as fabulous as ?Lisztomania?. And that?s not the case.Ponytail Do Whatever You Want All The TimePurity Ring ShrinesRash PurpleimageRihanna LoudRihanna UnapologeticRobyn Body Talk Pt. 2Rufus Wainwright PosesSantigold Master of My Make-BelieveSBTRKT SBTRKTSebastiAn Ross Ross RossSecret Beach Secret BeachSigur Ros ValtariSiriusmo MosaikSky Ferreira GhostSleigh Bells Sleigh BellsSleigh Bells Reign of TerrorMore dreamy and less punchy, Reign of Terror is a nice evolution from Sleigh Bells' visceral debut. It's also a bit less fun.St. Vincent Marry MeStars Set Yourself On FireSufjan Stevens Songs For ChristmasSun Glitters Everything Could Be FineTame Impala InnerspeakerTanlines Mixed EmotionsTeen Daze My Bedroom FloorTeengirl Fantasy TracerTelepathe Dance MotherTennis Cape DoryThe Depreciation Guild Spirit YouthThe Dodos VisiterThe Sugarcubes Life's Too GoodThom Yorke The EraserTOKiMONSTA Midnight MenuToro Y Moi Underneath The PineTV Girl TV Girl EPTV on the Radio Dear ScienceTwin Sister Color Your LifeYuck YuckIt's funny. Garage indie rock, once a symbol of rebellion and burning adolescence, now feels like a rthrowback to a more carefree time (read: pre-2000). With the recent rise of artists like Baths and oOoOO rmaking music that's almost painfully intimate, the sheer extroversion of bands like Teenage Fanclub or even rthe Strokes practically feels like a relic. So at this point, Yuck, a young four-piece (and sometimes five-rpiece) outfit with members from London, New Jersey, and Hiroshima, sound positively retro. Their debut is rfairly straightforward, often repetitive, and brutally effective, striking an uncanny balance between uplift and rfrustration. Yuck is inviting, immediately accessible, and flat-out rocks.Zola Jesus Stridulum II3.0 good2NE1 Ugly (2nd Mini Album)Adele 21Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden TreasuresAphex Twin DigeridooAvey Tare Down ThereBest Coast Crazy For YouBjork SelmasongsBjork Family TreeBjork Live BoxCharlotte Gainsbourg IRMCharlotte Gainsbourg's latest is kaleidoscopic and often beautiful, but it suffers from hosting too much filler. There is a truly great album in here, but terrible songs such as "Greenwich Mean Time" muddle it.Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 (1993-2005)Daft Punk Tron: LegacyDeath Cab for Cutie Codes and KeysThis is what I know about Death Cab For Cutie - they released a pretty good album in 2003, their lyrics have a tendency to induce vomit, and they occupy the "niche" of indie rock and pop that consists of cute flourishes like honky-tonk piano and playfully strumming guitar - which on paper reads like a parody of what indie pop means in this day and age. With all this in mind, Codes and Keys is a surprisingly enjoyable album - more of the same resolutely unremarkable stuff that you might hear in Urban Outfitters, sure, but at least this time, I don't need earplugs. Or, as Ben Gibbard might sing, "Boys like me write lyrics so rotten / that make you stuff your ears with cotton." Wow, that was so easy!Dinosaur Feathers Fantasy MemorialExplosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead PlaceFang Island Fang IslandGirl Talk Night RipperGirls AlbumGold Panda Lucky ShinerGrimes Geidi PrimesHoly Fuck LatinKeepaway Baby StyleLady Gaga Born This WayBorn This Way is actually shockingly bad, so bad that I find it incredibly hard to believe that it isn't meant to be an elaborate prank.M83 Hurry Up, We're DreamingMadonna MDNAWell, I mean.. it could be worse. "Gang Bang" is actually pretty good.Margot and the Nuclear So and So's BuzzardNicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman ReloadedPantha Du Prince Black NoiseGorgeous textures and enjoyable tracks, but ultimately something's missing.Passion Pit MannersPerfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 ItPictureplane Dark RiftPorcelain Raft Strange WeekendRadiohead The King of LimbsRegina Spektor FarRihanna Talk That TalkSavages Silence YourselfSmith Westerns Dye It BlondeSufjan Stevens The BQETamaryn The WavesThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at HeartThe Strokes AnglesYeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!Zola Jesus StridulumZomby Dedication2.5 averageAriel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before TodayBelle and Sebastian Write About LoveIn which Belle and Sebastian write about mediocrity and bring Norah Jones onboard to add a sheen of cheap furniture polish.Boris New AlbumColdplay Viva La VidaColor me surprised that these perpetually inoffensive Brits had it in them to deliver a legitimately good album. It?s not the "edgy" political statement that it was made out to be, but the melodies are solid and the production, courtesy of Brian Eno, is consistently beautiful. Sure, the lyrics are still awful, but kudos to all hands involved for making ?I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, roman cavalry choirs a-singing? something close to a catchy hook.Crystal Castles Crystal Castles IIIDuffy RockferryEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Up From BelowGorillaz The Falliamamiwhoami KinKe$ha CannibalThe first half of Cannibal is absolutely brilliant, loaded with fantastic beats and hooks, but the EP falters in its second portion, descending into cheap jokes like "Grow a Pear" that would be more suited alongside the excrement of Katy Perry. "Blow", however, is one of the best pop singles in recent memory.La Roux La RouxLaurel Halo Hour LogicMac Miller Blue Slide ParkMemory Tapes Seek MagicNicki Minaj Pink FridayRihanna Rated RRihanna is to be commended for her bravery in the face of public humiliation, but that doesn't make songs like "Stupid In Love" or "Te Amo" any less pedestrian and soggy. And can somebody please euthanize Will Dot I Dot Am already?Rufus Wainwright All Days Are Nights: Songs for LuluShe and Him Volume TwoShe and Him A Very She & Him ChristmasSmall Black New ChainTV on the Radio Nine Types of LightIs there a reason why Tunde and Co. sound completely euthanized throughout almost the entirety of Nine Types of Light?Tyler The Creator GoblinVampire Weekend ContraCould somebody remind me again what the fuss about Vampire Weekend was about? Not the praise, mind you, that was warranted (if overzealous). But I fail to understand why people felt so offended by these guys' insistent braininess. Yeah, "California English" is pretty fucking obnoxious, and the autotune is terribly employed, and Contra may burst at the seams with largely incoherent globetrotting references, but the musical sensibility at the heart of this hugely fun album trumps any overly fussy ideas at play.Washed Out Within and WithoutWavves King of the Beach2.0 poorBritney Spears Femme FataleBritney Spears' new album is hell of a lot better than the steaming shitpile that was Circus, which may be the result of pop wizard Max Martin being back in charge of the whole shebang, but it never reaches the heights of 2007's Blackout, Spears' best effort to date. At times, Femme Fatale seems to be trying desperately to sound "edgy" or - and this is even worse - weird, as in the atrocious "How I Roll", which opens with some legitimately interesting cut-and-paste electronics that wouldn't sound out of place on Body Talk, but proceeds to go absolutely nowhere, laying on FruityLoops presets and vocal effects frantically to cover up for the lack of, y'know, actual songwriting. Towards the end of the record, Spears sings, "This love isn't rational / it's physical". "Disposable" might be a better word, as it fits better with Femme Fatale as a whole - twelve cuts, none of them particularly memorable, filled with immortal gems of wisdom like "you could be my fuck tonight". Charming.fun. Aim and IgniteGirl Talk All DayHigh Places High Places vs. MankindJason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Thingsjj jj n° 3Keane Night TrainLmfao Sorry For Party RockingMGMT Oracular SpectacularMGMT CongratulationsMr. Oizo Stade 2Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium ArcadiumThey're on a mission to put us all to sleep, right?1.5 very poorBlack Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)Britney Spears CircusCeline Dion A New Day Has ComeJustice Audio, Video, DiscoKaty Perry Teenage DreamKe$ha AnimalSugarcult Start StaticSugarcult Lights Out1.0 awfulSimple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls
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