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5.0 classic
Boring Bathtimes Loss
Cornelius Fantasma
Culprate Deliverance
Daughters Daughters
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death
Everything Everything Get to Heaven
Food for Animals Belly
IDYLLS The Barn
Kishi Bashi Lighght
volcano! Paperwork

4.5 superb
Black Midi Schlagenheim
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun
Busdriver Electricity Is on Our Side
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
clipping. Midcity
Comets on Fire Field Recordings from the Sun
Culprate Colours
Death Grips Exmilitary
Food for Animals Scavengers EP
IDYLLS Farewell All Joy
Injury Reserve Floss
James Blake Assume Form
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.
I think I still have goosebumps from listening to this. Jeff Rosenstock does a fantastic job of writing happy, upbeat songs about subjects that make people literally want to kill themselves. The whole album is one existential crisis. It's Rosenstock singing about how he shitty feels all the time. I don't think I can say anymore great things about this album since they've already been said plenty of times. But WORRY. is a must-listen.
Joanna Newsom Ys
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Lingua Nada Snuff
Lost Salt Blood Purges / Volcanic Queen Movements Viewed Through a Variety of Lenses
NOISIA Split The Atom
Noname Room 25
Radiohead The Bends
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Rosehall The First Requisite Is Life
Squarepusher Ultravisitor
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation
One thing Disassociation does particularly well is stick with the listener. Typical metal songs tend to blend together into a mush, which is why I don't really listen to metal anymore. This album, though, has songs like Limerent Death and Honeysuckle with are catchy as hell. TDEP even put songs like Fugue on here, which branch off entirely from the metalworks on the majority of the tracks here. It's a great album. Only downside for me is that metal is just not my cup of tea anymore.
Three Trapped Tigers Numbers: 1-13
Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree
uSSSy uSSSy

4.0 excellent
Aesop Rock Skelethon
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid
Amnesia Scanner Another Life
Anderson .Paak Oxnard
Andrew Huang Lip Bomb
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Last time I checked in with Animal Collective, I listened to Feels. That was my favorite album by them, so as I kept listening to all their albums in reverse chronological order, I was very excited for Sung Tongs. Unfortunately, I was a bit let down. After listening numerous times, I could pick out several tracks that I really enjoy, like We Tigers and Visiting Friends. However, the rest of the songs on here fall flat for me. My friend Nathan expected this, though. My favorite band is Radiohead, and he described this album as "the opposite of Radiohead".
Animal Collective Ark
I've been working backwards through all the AC albums. Feels didn't blow me away, but it was my favorite at the time. Then came Sung Tongs, and I felt disappointed by that. This one. This one caught me by surprise. It's one solid piece, the instrumentals always sound catchy and almost fruity, it does such a good job of painting a mental picture, while tightly packaging all of this chaotic energy into itself. Absolutely stunning.
Anton Eger AE
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next
B. Fleischmann Welcome Tourist
Baauer Planet′s Mad
Beardyman Distractions
Bedwetter Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth...
Black To Comm Seven Horses For Seven Kings
Blarf Cease & Desist
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Boris Pink
Brockhampton SATURATION II
Burial Untrue
Cameron Vale Jouska
CAUSTICS Touch
Child Abuse Cut and Run
Circuit Des Yeux Reaching For Indigo
Clarence Clarity THINK: PEACE
clipping. CLPPNG
Comets on Fire Comets on Fire
Complexive Definition
Container Scramblers
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Jane Live
Converge Beautiful Ruin
Crisis Sigil Crisis Sigil
Culprate 5 Star
Daft Punk Discovery
Daft Punk Homework
Daft Punk Alive 2007
Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar
Daughters Canada Songs
Daughters Hell Songs
David Bowie Blackstar
David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
Death Engine Mud
Death Grips The Money Store
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon
Denzel Curry Zuu
Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors
that was some stupid shit
Disclosure Settle
Disclosure Moonlight
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall
Dope Body Home Body
Earache Records The World's Shortest Album
Emptyset Emptyset
Everything Everything Man Alive
Faxada Cohost
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Fire! Orchestra Ritual
Floating Points Elaenia
Floating Points Kuiper
Floating Points Reflections - Mojave Desert
Floating Points Crush
Flying Lotus Los Angeles
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Forss Soulhack
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow
Gezan 狂(KLUE)
Gilla Band The Early Years
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Hakushi Hasegawa Air Ni Ni
Hambling Oh Babes / Harsh Truthz
I'm probably biased because my personal friend made this EP. But I'm still really proud of him.
Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space
Hella Hold Your Horse Is
Hella Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard
Holly Herndon Movement
I don't even know how to touch this album in a review. Everything is so experimental and out of my reach. How does one even describe a track made entirely out of breathing noises? There's no beat to hold on to, not a lot of vocals to appreciate, but it's still so good. That's all I can say right now. It's so damn good.
Holly Herndon Platform
Dear god, this album is so complex and intricate and so beautiful as well. I bet that if Lonely At The Top wasn't on here (that track makes me feel uncomfortable to the core) this would be a 5.
Holly Herndon PROTO
I Am Legion I Am Legion
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism... iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook
IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene
Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom
Igorrr Savage Sinusoid
Injury Reserve Injury Reserve
Ivy Lab Death Don't Always Taste Good
J Dilla Donuts
Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush
James Blake James Blake
Jason Crumer Ottoman Black
Jay Electronica A Written Testimony
Jay-Z 4:44
Jerobeam Fenderson Oscilloscope Music
Jerry Quickley (american) FOOL
Jon Hopkins Immunity
Jonathan Coulton Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow
Joseph Nothing Dreamland Idle Orchestra
Justice
Kanye West Yeezus
Kanye West The Life of Pablo
katie dey flood network
Katie Gately Katie Gately
Katie Gately Color
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe
Kishi Bashi 151a
Kishi Bashi Omoiyari
Koi Child Koi Child
Lali Puna Faking The Books
Laurel Halo Dust
LCD Soundsystem American Dream
Le Perche Oreille Obsessive Lacework
Led Zeppelin Untitled
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel
Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access
As long as the listener keeps that mindset, the idea that this album isn't supposed to be pretty,
they'll get something interesting. It's not all great, not by a long shot, but it's worth a listen.
Lingua Nada Shapeshift
Lingua Nada Djinn
Liturgy H.A.Q.Q.
Lord Snow Solitude
Lorde Melodrama
Lvers Escha
Mac Miller Faces
Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Matmos Ultimate Care II
It took time to really appreciate how magnificent this is. Once I learned that /every/ sound was from a washing machine, and the kind of things Matmos did to it to make certain noises, I was thoroughly impressed. It's unfortunate I could only get into Matmos now.
Matmos Plastic Anniversary
Medslaus Poorboy
Meira Asher Spears Into Hooks
Melt Yourself Down Melt Yourself Down
Metz Metz
Mi Ami Steal Your Face
Miles Davis In a Silent Way
MK-1 Terabithia
Muse Origin of Symmetry
nobodyis lifting awake,
Noer the Boy Forlorn Hope
Osees Orc
Osees Face Stabber
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Part Chimp Thriller
Perfume Genius No Shape
Phuture Doom Phuture Doom
Prurient The History of AIDS
R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead In Rainbows
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Ricco Harver Tourmaline
Rob Scallon Anchor EP (Tour Edition)
sakuraburst deconstructing nature
Sd Laika That's Harakiri
Sd Laika Lost Files
SebastiAn Total
Shye Woolgatherer's Pond
Sigur Ros Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Slipknot Slipknot
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Squarepusher Venus No. 17
Standing On The Corner Red Burns
Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium
*tries to give it a 1*
"Please do not rate albums before they are releasedNo"
*tries to give it a 5*
*sputnik accepts the rating with no hesitation*

Great, it has been out for a day and it is already a classic.
Sweet Valley Eternal Champ II
System of a Down System of a Down
Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail
Actual rating because I'm not a staff member: 4.2

I found it interesting that, despite the incredibly gorgeous chord progressions and happy melodies throughout the entire album, some lines are dark as hell. "The world you know is gone", for example. The whole album truly sounds like it's coming from the heads of mad scientists, which appears to fit a story the album is telling that I've yet to fully piece together. If there was a downside, it's that there isn't a radio-friendly song in sight. There's nothing I can put on a playlist for quick groovy songs, because so many tracks here change wildly overtime, and they can be up to 9 minutes long.
Thank You Scientist Terraformer
The Chariot Long Live
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Garden Kiss My Super Bowl Ring
The Haxan Cloak Midsommar (Original Score)
the i.l.y's scum with boundaries
The Koxx Enter
Tiny Room PERPLEXAGRAM
Tsuruda Unlimited Data
Tunic Complexion
Two Fingers Fight! Fight! Fight!
uSSSy Oko
uSSSy ud
uSSSy Voyage
volcano! Beautiful Seizure
Weezer The White Album
If you combine this The White Album, and The White Album from The Beatles, you get The White Album.
Young Montana? Limerence
Zammuto Anchor

3.5 great
100 Gecs 1000 gecs
6ix9ine DAY69
Aaron Dilloway The Gag File
Adam Betts Colossal Squid
Aesop Rock Labor Days
AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass
AJJ The Bible 2
I came very close to loving this album. The fast-paced and radio-friendly style of songs like Golden Eagle and Terrifyer is something I adore. However, there are more than a couple tracks on here I really don't like. Those songs would be American Garbage and My Brain Is A Human Body. It seems like AJJ was trying to add a concept of childlike anger and rebellion throughout the album, but it's only clear on a few tracks. Despite that loose concept, this record is still enjoyable for the most part.
Anderson .Paak Ventura
Animal Collective Feels
My friend Nathan has been turning me onto AC slowly. I've been listening to their albums in reverse chronological order, and this is my favorite so far. I have a good feeling they're only going to get better as I keep going backwards. Feels occasionally falls flat, like on the track Bees, but this album is the most consistent one I've heard so far. An excellent record overall.
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Hey, what do you know? The only songs on this album I like are the singles. That's an exaggeration, but it still has merit because it's basically true. All the singles are only standout songs on this album. Nothing is excruciating, but it's also not worth any replay value. Woops. I don't like AC's most popular album very much.
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
This reminds me quite a bit of Strawberry Jam, in that it feels based around guitars and distortion. It has this sort of electricity to it, as well. At first listen a year ago, I didn't appreciate it for what it really was, but now I love about 80% of Centipede Hz. Every AC album has 1+ forgettable track. Here, that would probably be Father Time or New Town Burnout. Everything flows together beautifully, though, and it sticks out as a personal highlight.
Anteloper Kudu
Avey Tare Cows On Hourglass Pond
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks Enter the Slasher House
It takes a lot of skill to be able to make 6-minute songs that don't even a little bit make an impression on me.
Barberos Barberos
Battles Juice B Crypts
Benny The Butcher Burden Of Proof
Beyonce Lemonade
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Vespertine
Black Eyes Black Eyes
Blanck Mass World Eater
Blu York
Bon Iver i,i
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
Brockhampton SATURATION III
Buke and Gase Scholars
bygones by-
Calva Louise Rhinoceros
Car Bomb Mordial
Charli XCX Charli
Child Abuse Trouble In Paradise
Child Abuse Imaginary Enemy
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
JUST LISTEN, PLEASE
Childish Gambino 03.15.20
CHON CHON
clipping. dba118
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
clipping. Double Live
Collider -><-
Converge You Fail Me
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing
Converge No Heroes
Culprate Nightmares In Reality
Culprate The Great Expedition
Daedelus/Kneebody Kneedelus
Daft Punk Human After All
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Dakim youdecide
Danny Brown XXX
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
I will admit, this album can be very depressing and emotional. It does a very good job of showing the dark side of drug use. It does an even better job at showcasing the most experimental beats any rapper has spat on in years. The biggest problem here is that the same lyrical themes appear over and over again, making Atrocity Exhibition far too long. They're all 'don't do drugs because this will happen to you'. I would rather have that message be shown over a much shorter duration of time. On top of this, some songs just suck. Get Hi, for example.
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿
Death Grips Death Grips
Death Grips Bottomless Pit
Deftones Ohms
Denzel Curry TA13OO
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
Disclosure Energy
Djrum Portrait with Firewood
Dos Monos Dos City
DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human
Dreamcrusher Suicide Deluxe
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
It's just so...forgettable. It's too short to leave much of an emotional impact on me. There are some clever lines, Off Top is pretty good, but this isn't anything spectacular. It doesn't stand out to me at all, I'm sorry. But it still comes off as very respectable. Nothing on this album is bad or poorly produced, I guess it's just not my cup of tea.
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead
El-P High Water
Everything Everything A Fever Dream
This just might need one more listen. I don't think I've fully digested it yet. But for now, I'll place it here.
Exist Strategy Dreamcatcher
Father Electricity Boundless Faith, Finite Men
Feed Me Death By Robot
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
FKA Twigs Magdalene
Floating Points Shadows
Flume Hi This is Flume
Flying Lotus You're Dead!
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this. It reminds me of End Position by Street Sects which came out last year. There isn't any song I really dislike, and I enjoy listening to it from front to back. But it feels like it comes in one ear and out the other. Except for the last track, the title track. and Crawling Back To God, there isn't very much that sticks with me. Maybe in a while I'll bump up this rating, and it will land on my loved list. But I'm not sure.
Gilla Band Holding Hands With Jamie
Hella The Devil Isn't Red
Hemlock Ernst, Kenny Segal Back At The House
Hermit and the Recluse Orpheus vs. The Sirens
Himuro Yoshiteru View From Bottom
Huxley Anne Ilium
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office
This album contains the amazing songs like Yo, Wow, and Everybody Knows. However, I think the amount of effort put into all the songs here tends to fluctuate. The aforementioned songs have spectacular, detailed beats just like any other song on here, but on those songs, they also have cleverly-constructed verses and hooks. The last two tracks on here don't have that. Washed Up is the same way; nice beat, low-quality lyrics. Still, though, the whole album flows together sort of like one cohesive piece. It's worth coming back to.
Injury Reserve Drive It Like It's Stolen!
IRM Closure
While it still manages to be encapsulating at times and it has a great narrative, it's still pretty low quality noise music. And one of the stories on the album is told twice for some reason.
Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 3
Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM
Jon Hopkins Insides
Jupiter One Sunshower
Ka Descendants of Cain
Kai Whiston No World As Good As Mine
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Katie Gately Pipes
Katie Gately Loom
Kidkanevil and Daisuke Tanabe Kidsuke
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts
Kim Gordon No Home Record
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland
I, too, am coming along for the ride.

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King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest
Kishi Bashi Sonderlust
Knxwledge 1988
KOAN Sound Polychrome
La Dispute Panorama
Lauren Bousfield Palimpsest
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Get Monotonous!
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt Ride The Skies
Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies
Lord Snow SHADOWMARKS
M.I.A. Maya
Malibu Ken Malibu Ken
Matmos Quasi-Objects
Melt Yourself Down 100% Yes
messFX Eleven
Michul Kuun GREAT​(​then after awhile...)
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
NOISIA Outer Edges
DEVIANT WE MISS YOU

I was trying to review this one, but I realized that it was impossible for me to stop comparing it to their 2010 album. That's one of my favorite albums ever, and because this one fell so short of that, I can't talk about it without a negative bias. I still do thoroughly enjoy this album though. I wish it had more vocal features, and I wish some of the songs were longer. It feels like half the album is filler. Despite that, it has tons of enjoyable and interesting moments, and I recommend it to DnB fans.
Osees Live In San Francisco
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Radiohead Amnesiac
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Ruby My Dear Brame
Say Anything Oliver Appropriate
Shabazz Palaces Black Up
Shye Venn
Squarepusher Be Up a Hello
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Black Keys Let's Rock
The Carters Everything Is Love
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Final Age The Final Age
Three Trapped Tigers Route One or Die
Tipper Tip Hop
Tipper Jettison Mind Hatch
Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Tsuruda FUBAR
Two Fingers Six Rhythms
uSSSy Afghan music house party
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
volcano! Piñata
Xiu Xiu Forget

3.0 good
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019
Air Max '97 Nacre
Alix Perez and Ivy Lab Arkestra
Amnesia Scanner and Bill Kouligas Lexachast
Amon Tobin ISAM
Andrew Huang Ganglia
Arca &&&&&
Avey Tare Eucalyptus
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Beherit The Oath Of Black Blood
Big Ups Before a Million Universes
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild
Boris Flood
Boris Dear
Brockhampton SATURATION
Brockhampton Iridescence
Chance the Rapper 10 Day
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book
Charli XCX Pop 2
Child Abuse Child Abuse
Circuit Des Yeux In Plain Speech
Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room
clipping. Splendor and Misery
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Coachwhips Bangers Vs. Fuckers
Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
Culprate Flatline
Dabrye Three/Three
Daniel Wohl État
Deakin Sleep Cycle
Death Grips Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
Death Grips Year of the Snitch
Deft Cracks
Dorian Concept The Nature of Imitation
Dos Monos Dos Siki
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
Everything Everything Arc
Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR
FACS Negative Houses
Fire! Orchestra Arrival
Fishdoll Noonsense
Flying Lotus 1983
Foot Village Make Memories
Four Tet Dialogue
Gang Gang Dance Kazuashita
Gilla Band The Talkies
Glassjaw Material Control
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
Hella Tripper
Homeboy Sandman Dusty
Homeboy Sandman and Edan Humble Pi
IDLES Ultra Mono
IFE IIII​+​IIII
Irk Recipes from the Bible
Ithaca The Language of Injury
Ivy Lab Twenty Questions
Jeromes Dream LP
Jon Hassell Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Jon Hassell Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)
Jon Hopkins Contact Note
Jon Hopkins Singularity
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Kanye West ye
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies
KOAN Sound Max Out
Lali Puna Scary World Theory
Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights
lojii lofeye
Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Matmos Matmos
Mavi let the sun talk
Mechanical Museum Hex Winter
mewithoutYou [Untitled]
Mi Ami Watersports
Mid-Air Thief Crumbling
Mouse on Mars Iaora Tahiti
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch
Nostrum Grocers Nostrum Grocers
Objekt Cocoon Crush
Odd Nosdam Like When You Ain't
Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
Osees Sucks Blood
Osees Protean Threat
Panda Bear Buoys
pg.99 Document #8
Phantomsmasher Phantomsmasher
Pharmakon Abandon
Pharmakon Devour
Plaid Polymer
Posij Cocoon
Posij and Former Sun Tracker
Pusha T DAYTONA
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Ras G and The Afrikan Space Program Stargate Music
Rival Consoles Articulation
Say Anything I Don't Think It Is
Sd Laika Unknown Vectors
SHADES In Praise of Darkness
Shlohmo The End
Show Me The Body Body War
Show Me The Body Corpus I
Show Me The Body Dog Whistle
Shye Obscura
Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds
Sote Parallel Persia
Sunflowers Castle Spell
Sunflowers Endless Voyage
Tera Melos Untitled
Tetema Necroscape
The Flashbulb Réunion
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
The Paper Chase Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know
The Strokes The New Abnormal
The Weeknd Starboy
It took some time to grow. I didn't expect to enjoy this at all, especially since Party Monster feels like a huge nosedive in quality when it comes right after the title track. However, a lot of the songs on Starboy prove to be very catchy, like Rockin' and Sidewalks. There isn't much else to say, but it's worth a listen or two.
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
The xx I See You
Thom Yorke Anima
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore
Toro Y Moi Outer Peace
Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops
Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life
Woolymammoth Filling Spots
Wristmeetrazor Misery Never Forgets
Wyxz YiY
Yves Tumor Serpent Music
Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love
Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind
Zebra Katz Less Is Moor

2.5 average
A.G. Cook Apple
Amon Tobin Fear In A Handful Of Dust
Andrew Huang Alabaster
Animal Collective Campfire Songs
Ehhhh. I understand what this record is trying to do. It's cold, but not in a chills-down-your-spine way. It's far more peaceful than that. However, listening to it made me feel like I didn't have any warmth. Like I was in a snow-laden field. I don't necessarily like that feeling. The fact that it's hard to understand most of the lyrics makes this album feel like a sort of code that I can't decipher.
Animal Collective Painting With
FLORIDADA IS SO GREAT, that is by far the best track on here. Nothing else really sticks out that much.
Babii Hiide
Beck Colors
Big Ups Two Parts Together
Black Dice Beaches and Canyons
Brett Naucke The Mansion
clipping. Wriggle
Czarface and Ghostface Killah Czarface Meets Ghostface
Dalek Absence
Dawn of Midi Dysnomia
Death Grips No Love Deep Web
Death Grips Government Plates
Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
Derek Piotr Avia
Doon Kanda Labyrinth
Emptyset Borders
Emptyset Blossoms
EOB Earth
Glenn Branca The Ascension
How to Dress Well The Anteroom
Ital Tek Outland
Jlin Black Origami
Jon Hopkins Opalescent
JPEGMAFIA Veteran
Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup
Little Snake YATDC
MaidaVale Madness Is Too Pure
MC Paul Barman (((echo chamber)))
MGMT Little Dark Age
MIKE Tears of Joy
Moodie Black FUZZ
Moor Mother Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Newaxeyes Black Fax
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
I feel like the people who are giving this very high ratings have some thin skin.rYes, Skeleton Tree does come right after the death of Nick Cave's son. Yes, it's all very emotional and touching, and it does deserve some for having these deep lyrics and interesting instrumentals. However, I agree with Trey on this. It sounds like poetry that was written as a school assignment. It's sad, but it's wallowing in what almost sounds like self-pity. This could easily be Sputnik's 2016 AOTY, and I'm okay with that, but this didn't hit me very well. Sorry.
Osees The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In
Oval Scis
People Under the Stairs Sincerely, The P
Pharmakon Contact
Psychedelic Ensemble. Live at the Clinic
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Renaissance Man The Renaissance Man Project
Shabazz Palaces The Don Of Diamond Dreams
Signor Benedick the Moor Spirit Realm.Final
Strange U LP #4080
I might review this, I might not. I'm pretty lukewarm on this, though, because the songs get stale fast. On top of this, the album is extremely political, trying to conquer topics such as corrupted government officials (like the character Mr. Kill present on the album) and global warming. There are also guest performances that are very flat, and there's production that's so messy, there's barely a rhythm at all.
Swans The Glowing Man
I'm sorry, but I just don't understand. This album bored me to death after an hour, and the only reward I get for sitting through that whole thing is a nice groove in the latter half of the titular track, and some cheery sing-along on the last track. Everything but When Will I Return is way too long, and there wasn't a single moment on the first disc in which I enjoyed myself.rI just don't understand all the hype. But it's okay. I tend to love albums everyone else hates (case in point: latest Macklemore/Ryan Lewis album)
Tera Melos Trash Generator
The Skull Eclipses The Skull Eclipses
The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign
This Heat This Heat
Vince Staples FM!
Weezer Pacific Daydream
Weezer The Black Album
Wiki Oofie
XXXTENTACION ?
Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar
Yugen Blakrok Anima Mysterium

2.0 poor
Animal Collective Tangerine Reef
Aphex Twin Cheetah EP
I should not have been so bored by this EP. Aphex Twin has proven in the past how spontaneous he can be while still producing amazing music. We all know how intricate his music can be, but the Cheetah EP isn't anything like that and it doesn't really have any justification for that. This sounds like it should be older than albums like I Care Because You Do. The EP itself is okay but it's massively underwhelming given what Aphex Twin has done in the past.
Brockhampton Ginger
CZARFACE and MF DOOM Czarface Meets Metal Face
Destroyer Ken
DIIV Is the Is Are
Everything Everything A Deeper Sea
Fever Ray Plunge
Flying Lotus Flamagra
Homeboy Sandman Veins
Last Sons Chekhov's Gun
M.I.A. AIM
Dammit. M.I.A took a nosedive in quality so much faster than I expected. I like All My People, and there one or two other tracks on here that don't get as stale as the others. But it's so painfully /boring/. I can't stand songs like Borders or Survivor or Ali r u ok?. I even took listen to her previous two albums, to make sure she wasn't always like this and I'm just listening to it differently now.
I'm not. MAYA was good, Matangi was great, this is crap.
Mi Ami Decade
Mi Ami Dolphins
Mount Eerie Now Only
Pink Siifu NEGRO
The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody
The Third Mind The Third Mind
Theoretical Girls Theoretical Girls
Zs XE

1.5 very poor
Bloc Party Hymns
"And I'm a fool for the sight
Of all the gold between your thighs" OH MY GOD
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
SHADI You Can’t Hear Me
White Suns Psychic Drift

1.0 awful
Chrishop The Utopia
Dodge and Fuski The Greatest Album of All Time
Meghan Trainor Thank You
At least it's over quickly.
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