| 6LACK Free 6LACK | 3.5 |
| Agraph Equal | 4.0 |
| Agraph The Shader | 4.5 |
| This is a very good album. It's definitely meant to be taken as a whole, but it moves in such a way that it's not hard to listen to the whole thing. The tracks stand on their own in a way that Agraph's prior tracks haven't. If you're looking for a definitive artistic statement, The Shader almost without rival. |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 5.0 |
| Aurora (NOR) All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 1.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 1.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
| Banks The Altar | 3.5 |
| Banks Goddess | 4.0 |
| Banks London | 4.5 |
| I really meant to add better paragraph breaks, but when I pasted it from Word they kinda died. Anyway, this EP is really good and every track is worthy of a good listen or 60, especially 'Waiting Game' and 'Change.' rHere's the video for 'Waiting Game': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaI5JCxOCdw&feature=kp |
| Bat For Lashes The Bride | 3.5 |
| Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica - Season Two | 4.5 |
| "Something Dark Is Coming" is the only track you need to listen to to know just how good this soundtrack is. All the other tracks are well worth your time too, but if you're lazy or lack time, this track'll tell you where to put your money. |
| Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica - Season Four | 4.5 |
| Really nice, especially that tracks that score the finale. Poignant, and some of McCreary's best work. |
| Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica - Season Three | 5.0 |
| Immensely enjoyable, both inside and outside the context of the show. "All Along the Watchtower" is a prime example of a perfect cover, taking the best parts of Hendrix's original and improving upon them with oriental/Middle Eastern instrumentation and a palpable sense of atmosphere. 10/10 work here by McCreary. He surely deserved some kind of Grammy/Emmy nod for this. |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.5 |
| Big Sean Hall of Fame | 2.5 |
| BJ the Chicago Kid In My Mind | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 5.0 |
| An immaculate collection of glitchy electronics and elegiac strings that ultimately coalesce into Bjork's most personal album in nearly two decades. |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 5.0 |
| Bonobo Migration | 4.0 |
| brakence hypochondriac | 4.5 |
| Cal Chuchesta The New CALassic | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino EP | 1.5 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.5 |
| Corbin Mourn | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake | 2.5 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Blemish | 5.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.0 |
| Drake Views | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 4.5 |
| dvsn Sept. 5th | 3.0 |
| Enemies Valuables | 4.5 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs EP2 | 4.5 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 | 5.0 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 5.0 |
| For Every River Buried For Every River Buried | 5.0 |
| Forest Of Harambe Under The Sign Of Harambe | 1.0 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| Freddie Wilson Northern Lights | 3.0 |
| This is a good project, but Freddie probably shouldn't be commenting on his own album. Double-dipping isn't proper, mate. |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic | 1.0 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 4.5 |
| James Blake Air & Lack Thereof | 3.5 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 5.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush Before the Dawn | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Kenji Kawai Ghost in the Shell: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon | 2.0 |
So sorry about some of the mistakes here, like "if" instead of "is" and "here" instead of "hear." I won't mess up again.  |
| Kimbra The Golden Echo | 1.0 |
| LAMA New! | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey | 2.5 |
| Lianne La Havas Blood | 4.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Enigmatic Feeling | 4.5 |
| Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband | 3.5 |
| Lo-Fang Blue Film | 3.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.5 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs World Is Yours | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz | 1.0 |
| Mister Lies Shadow | 5.0 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 4.0 |
| Very good album. I'm probably gonna write a hyper pretentious review for this in the near future, so get hyped for that. |
| Night Lovell Red Teenage Melody | 3.5 |
| Night Lovell Concept Vague | 4.5 |
| Following in the vein of other popular internet rappers like Bones, Night Lovell transposes the hard-in-the-paint trap production of mainstream artists like Gucci Mane onto the icy electronic synthscapes of artists like James Blake and Oneohtrix Point Never. In terms of flow, Lovell is more in line with lowkey but technical rappers like Vince Staples and Earl Sweatshirt. There's an element of cool Drake-style crooning on some parts of the album ("Lights from the Car") but for the most part, this album is bars on bars. r |
| Nosaj Thing No Reality | 3.5 |
| PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3) | 3.5 |
| Markedly better than his prior output, PND3 has him pulling back the narcotized warbling in favor of legit songcraft. It still hews a bit too close to Drake (many of the sunnier tracks are probably "Views" scraps), but it's probably the best argument for PND's existence yet. |
| Pink Guy PINK GUY | 2.5 |
| Pink Guy Pink Season | 3.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
| The second best album released this weekend, and a definite album of the year contender. Not as gripping a listen as any of their previous albums, but it's got a lot of good lyrics and instrumentation (especially orchestration). Sometimes it's a bit too pretty and I often miss the days when Radiohead would simply write a nice punchy rock song (like they did with In Rainbows), but I'm happy with what they produce here. "True Love Waits" is gutwrenching. Song of the Year for sure. |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Rihanna ANTI | 3.5 |
| Rome Fortune Jerome Raheem Fortune | 3.0 |
| Roy Woods Waking at Dawn | 2.0 |
| Sampha Process | 4.5 |
| SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land | 3.5 |
| School Food Punishment school food is good food | 3.5 |
| School Food Punishment Prog-Roid | 3.5 |
| School Food Punishment amp-reflection | 4.0 |
| As a band, school food punishment has evolved tremendously from their debut mini-album "school food is good food." Over the course of a couple years, their jazz-inflected post-rock sound has seen many refinements, best seen on their two subsequent mini-albums "air feel, color swim" and "riff-rain." But it wasn't until amp-reflection that the band truly hit its peak. Featuring the remarkable singles "futuristic imagination" and "butterfly swimmer," amp-reflection is a wonderful collection of perfectly constructed rock songs that have just enough of a pop angling to be accessible. The aforementioned tracks are clear standouts, but other tracks such as "04:59" and "goodblue" also serve as highlights. In fact, these two tracks, as well as "futuristic imagination" showcase the band's two biggest strengths: Yumi Uchimura's vocals and the keyboard work of Masayuki Hasuo. These two points help to gloss over some of the album's dull points, namely "future nova" and "line." |
| School Food Punishment Riff Rain | 4.5 |
| School Food Punishment Air Feel, Color Swim | 5.0 |
| I totally messed up the recommendations. The Tori Amos album in question is "Little Earthquakes" not "Tiny Earthquakes." Also, the Lama album doesn't seem to be here, I guess I'll add it in the future of today.rI tried to form paragraphs like y'all suggested, criticism is welcome and such. Enjoy. |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty | 4.0 |
| Shigeto Intermission | 3.0 |
| Shigeto No Better Time Than Now | 3.5 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 4.5 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Anime) The End Of Evangelion | 5.0 |
| Spangle call Lilli line ghost is dead | 3.5 |
| Spangle call Lilli line PURPLE | 4.5 |
| Spazzkid Desire 願う | 4.0 |
| I guess it's my plight in life to get album names wrong in the recommendations. Apparently Mount Kimbie's album is spelled with an ampersand (&) and I typed something wrong with Modal Soul. No matter, here are the links:rModal Soul: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/37609/Nujabes-Modal-Soul/rCrooks & Lovers: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/38534/Mount-Kimbie-Crooks-%26-Lovers/ |
| Suicideyear Japan | 3.0 |
| Suicideyear Remembrance | 4.5 |
| Supercar Highvision | 5.0 |
| Supercar Futurama | 5.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 3.5 |
| As a mature and self-aware pop album, Beauty Behind the Madness soars. It's better than anything Abel's put out since 2012, and takes his sonic image to a different, but not bad, place. |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 5.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| The xx I See You | 4.5 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 3.5 |
| A glitchy, anxious and unwaveringly indirect electronic record from Thom Yorke. Just like The Eraser. While it has its moments of aural bliss (A Brain in a Bottle, The Mother Lode, Nose Grows Some), more often than not the record lapses into listless electronic noise. Any other producer or musician (James Blake, FlyLo, Aphex Twin) could make it work, but with Yorke it's just so boring and uninspiring. The sounds are experimental and pretty enough, but something about how they just loop forever makes it tantamount to an ambient record. All in all, the album is great (hence the rating), but it requires a certain mindset going into it to be enjoyed. |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Tinashe Black Water | 3.0 |
| Tinashe Aquarius | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Joyride | 3.5 |
| Tinashe In Case We Die | 4.5 |
| TK From Ling Tosite Sigure Secret Sensation | 4.0 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| toe Hear You | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines | 1.5 |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.5 |
| Tory Lanez I Told You | 3.0 |
| Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight | 3.5 |
| TTNG Disappointment Island | 4.5 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.5 |
| Wertheimer Brandished | 3.0 |
| Wife What's Between | 2.5 |
| XXYYXX Mystify | 4.5 |
| Yoko Kanno Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set | 4.0 |
| Yung Lean Unknown Memory | 1.0 |
| Yung Lean Warlord | 2.5 |
| Yung Lean Frost God | 3.5 |
| Zayn Mind of Mine | 2.0 |
| Zedd Clarity | 3.0 |
| Good enough. The singles are the best tracks, but at least it's consistent. Zedd's clearly got at least some musical leanings, unlike contemporaries Krewella and Skrillex. |
