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| July 2016 resumé PART 2
The original list ran out of space, so I'm making another one. As always, if you indeed arrived on this thread not accidentally, but by your own decision and you indeed intend to read these amateur ramblings of a lonely cannibalistic tambouret enthusiast (tambouret=a combination between tambourine and clarinet), write "I like your big hairy cat, mate." in the comment section, so that I could keep track of how many people are actually reading these lists of mine. This is no best-of list, it is just a bunch of records I've heard, that were RELEASED this month. Not the ones I've heard this month, but ones that were RELEASED this month that I've heard. Therefore, as the time goes, I'll be adding more items on the list, since I listen to stuff constantly. By the way, the names occasionally written under the comments are titles of songs that I recommend. If there are none written, it's either because I didn't like enough of them or because I can't point out a highlight. And now a score guide: 10/9 - 5; 8 - 4.5; 7 - 4; 6 - 3.5/3; 5 - 2.5; 4 - 2; 3 - 1.5; 2/1 - 1 | | 8 |  | All Your Sisters
UNCOMFORTABLE SKIN
Although the band goes into an interesting direction with the electronic production, the songwriting, instrumentation, pasting and vocals leave a lot to be desired. It's just becomes redundant really quick, but I do appreciate the dark nature of the record. 6/10 | | 7 |  | Big Business
Command Your Weather
Exciting, energetic and rapidfire Lo-Fi Punk-Rock with a lot of personality and colour. The music may get a little simplistic and samey at times, but the musical finesse and the overall catchiness eventually surely manages to win any listener over. It's a wortwhile and fun listen, give it a shot. 7/10
Father's Day, Blacker Holes, Own Throats, Send Help, partially Horses | | 6 |  | Gensu Dean and Denmark Vessey
Whole Food
A concept Hip-Hop album about eating well...yeah...aight. 6/10 | | 5 |  | Veldes
Ember Breather
This is really well performed, with explosive crescendos and damn ripping riffs, but also with a somewhat underwhelming production that makes the music sometimes drown into just noisy muddiness. 7/10 | | 4 |  | DJ Drama
Quality Street Music 2
Admittedly, some of the bars and delivery of the guests on this record may be subpar, but when it hits, it hits, together with DJ Drama's dramatic (heh) production most of the time. Yeah, it's a decent mixtape, that's that, nothing more, nothing less. 6/10
Intro (feat. Lil Wayne), Onyx (feat. Ty Dolla Sign, Trey Songz and August Alsina), Back and Forth (feat. Skeme and Yakki) | | 3 |  | Zodiac
Grain of Soul
Some of these songs are a testament of greatness. Both explosive and moving, they manage to get instantly stuck in your head with their emotional and overwhelming atmosphere. BUT there are also such precedents that indeed display all the same attributes, but come off much cockier and uglier in the longrun. 7/10
Animal, Follow You, Down, Grain of Soul | | 2 |  | Sugar Candy Mountain
666
Sweet and relaxing Psychedelic Pop with some profound instrumental undertones full of life and charm. On the other hand, the songs do tend to sound rather similar, because of the lack of innovation or variety in sound; you might even be bored eventually. 6/10
666, Atlas, Eye on You | | 1 |  | Michael Kiwanuka
Love & Hate
Hell yeah I loved it! I keep discovering these records that I have absolutely no interest in at first, but then end up loving them. 2016 was full of such precedents. And now I am happy to add Michael Kiwanuka's masterfully smooth and sexy, yet oddly moving tear-jerker that is Love and Hate. Although admittedly lyrically it does kind of drift into rather unnecessary and unintentional silliness and peculiar philosophical stances I don't side with. Still, this might be the prettiest of the simples and the most musically complex of the pretties in 2016. 8/10
Cold Little Heart, Falling, Place I Belong, Love and Hate, One More Night, Rule the World, The Final Frame | |
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