| brakence hypochondriac | 4.5 |
| Tinashe Joyride | 3.5 |
| Corbin Mourn | 3.5 |
| Sampha Process | 4.5 |
| 6LACK Free 6LACK | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Migration | 4.0 |
| Pink Guy Pink Season | 3.0 |
| The xx I See You | 4.5 |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story | 4.0 |
| For Every River Buried For Every River Buried | 5.0 |
| Yung Lean Frost God | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.5 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 4.5 |
| Enemies Valuables | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush Before the Dawn | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 4.5 |
| Banks The Altar | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 5.0 |
| Forest Of Harambe Under The Sign Of Harambe | 1.0 |
| Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes The Bride | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.5 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Night Lovell Red Teenage Melody | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Tory Lanez I Told You | 3.0 |
| 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. |
| David Sylvian Blemish | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive | 5.0 |
| David Sylvian Dead Bees on a Cake | 2.5 |
| TTNG Disappointment Island | 4.5 |
| Roy Woods Waking at Dawn | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.5 |
| Drake Views | 3.5 |
| Rihanna ANTI | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.5 |
| Nosaj Thing No Reality | 3.5 |
| Aurora (NOR) All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend | 3.5 |
| Supercar Highvision | 5.0 |
| dvsn Sept. 5th | 3.0 |
| TK From Ling Tosite Sigure Secret Sensation | 4.0 |
| Zayn Mind of Mine | 2.0 |
| Rome Fortune Jerome Raheem Fortune | 3.0 |
| BJ the Chicago Kid In My Mind | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 4.5 |
| Yung Lean Warlord | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack Ritual Spirit | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 2.0 |
| Supercar Futurama | 5.0 |
| 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. |
| Agraph Equal | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 5.0 |
| Shigeto Intermission | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 5.0 |
| Spangle call Lilli line ghost is dead | 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 |
| Lianne La Havas Blood | 4.5 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| 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. |
| Cal Chuchesta The New CALassic | 3.0 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 4.0 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| toe Hear You | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Suicideyear Remembrance | 4.5 |
| Mister Lies Shadow | 5.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Enigmatic Feeling | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino EP | 1.5 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 4.5 |
| SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Aquarius | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 5.0 |
| 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. |
| Yung Lean Unknown Memory | 1.0 |
| Banks Goddess | 4.0 |
| School Food Punishment school food is good food | 3.5 |
| Tinashe In Case We Die | 4.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.5 |
| Kimbra The Golden Echo | 1.0 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 | 5.0 |
| Pink Guy PINK GUY | 2.5 |
| Wife What's Between | 2.5 |
| Lo-Fang Blue Film | 3.0 |
| Wertheimer Brandished | 3.0 |
| Suicideyear Japan | 3.0 |
| James Blake Air & Lack Thereof | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic | 1.0 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Big Sean Hall of Fame | 2.5 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz | 1.0 |
| Kenji Kawai Ghost in the Shell: Original Soundtrack | 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. |
| Soundtrack (Anime) The End Of Evangelion | 5.0 |
| Shlohmo Vacation | 4.5 |
| XXYYXX Mystify | 4.5 |
| FKA Twigs EP2 | 4.5 |
| Shigeto No Better Time Than Now | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 1.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 1.0 |
| 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. |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs World Is Yours | 3.5 |
| Spangle call Lilli line PURPLE | 4.5 |
| Tinashe Black Water | 3.0 |
| 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.  |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey | 2.5 |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines | 1.5 |
| LAMA New! | 3.5 |
| 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 |
| Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband | 3.5 |
| 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/ |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
| Yoko Kanno Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Trilogy | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 3.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| 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 Prog-Roid | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 5.0 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 5.0 |
