5.0 classic |
Anderson .Paak Malibu |
Arcade Fire Funeral |
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
Beach House Teen Dream |
Brand New Deja Entendu |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 |
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
Brockhampton SATURATION |
Brockhampton SATURATION II |
Brockhampton SATURATION III |
Brockhampton Ginger |
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
Charli XCX Charli |
clipping. Midcity |
clipping. Splendor and Misery |
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
Danny Brown The Hybrid |
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
David Bowie Hunky Dory |
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
Disclosure Settle |
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
Everything Everything Man Alive |
Everything Everything Arc |
Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
Frank Ocean Blonde |
Fugees The Score |
Grinderman Grinderman |
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
James Blake The Colour in Anything |
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer |
Kanye West The College Dropout |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
Part 3 of the Wyoming Sessions sees Kanye West connect with long time collaborator and protege Kid Cudi. It can be said that both artists are perhaps five years late to the party, but oh boy...Kids See Ghosts is the best thing both artists have put out in a long time. There are hints and spades of both artists in this...808's, MOTM...all these albums are obvious points of references, but Kids See Ghosts doesn't ever feel like a mere continuation of those sounds, but rather a natural evolution. The rock elements are executed best here than on any of their solo projects. It really serves as a reminder of what made us fall in love with the Cudder and Yeezy in the first place. While it cannot be overstated how essential Cudi is to this project, holy shit...this is some of Kanye's best bars ever. He doesn't have a weak performance on any of these tracks. His verse on Cudi Montage is top 3 Ye for me. This is the best Wyoming project...it's cohesive, innovative, well produced, lyrically dense, grandiose, meditative and beautiful. This is their beautiful dark twisted fantasy. |
Lorde Pure Heroine |
Lorde Melodrama |
Mac Miller Swimming |
Mac Miller Circles |
Madvillain Madvillainy |
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
Nicholas Britell If Beale Street Could Talk: Soundtrack |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat |
Nirvana Bleach |
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
OutKast Aquemini |
Perfume Genius Learning |
Playboi Carti Die Lit |
Portishead Dummy |
Radiohead Kid A |
Radiohead OK Computer |
Radiohead In Rainbows |
Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
Sophie Bipp/Elle |
Sophie Product |
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
Sylvan Esso Free Love |
Talking Heads Remain in Light |
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense |
The 1975 The 1975 |
The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It |
The 1975 The 1975 (Deluxe Edition) |
The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships |
The Beatles Abbey Road |
The Beatles The Beatles |
The Clash London Calling |
The Cure Disintegration |
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement |
The Last Shadow Puppets Everything You've Come To Expect |
The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
The Smiths The Smiths |
The Weeknd House of Balloons |
The Weeknd Trilogy |
Weezer Pinkerton |
Weezer Weezer |
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
Weezer The White Album |
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
Xiu Xiu A Promise |
4.5 superb |
Anderson .Paak Ventura |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
Arctic Monkeys Brianstorm |
Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
Despite already having the opinion that Eilish is fake deep, I went into this with an open mind. For one because I generally love pop as long as it doesn't take itself too seriously. Not to mention there are countless other artists who have cringey public personas that I love once I checked out their music. rBut...this is not one of those instances. Billie Eilish's debut is just barely enough to stomach, which means it'll be hyped up for the remainder of the year like it isn't anything anyone could make. There are some interesting ideas in here, but it has all these unnecessary generic trap influenced beats and mindlessly dull lyrics. And that's not even mentioning Eilish's bored singing. Her bored voice would be fine if it had any kind of uniqueness to it, but it doesn't. In the end, Billie Eilish's debut record ends up being forgettable, generic, and downright cringeworthy. |
Blood Orange Negro Swan |
Blu and Exile Miles |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
Brand New Daisy |
Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror |
Brockhampton Iridescence |
Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
Charli XCX Vroom Vroom |
Charli XCX Focus/No angel |
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
Christine and the Queens La vita nuova |
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
clipping. CLPPNG |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
Danny Brown XXX |
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
Hot take: this isn't as much of a step down from Atrocity Exhibition as most people pretend it is. Maybe it's my more pop centric ear, but for my money, this is some of the best bars Danny has laid on a record and the hooooksss are so catchy. I really fail to find a dud in the entire tracklist and though the record is brief, it still feels incredibly cohesive. Sure there's not much of a narrative thread but that in and of itself is a narrative thread (since Danny is aware of the fact) and I think we give Atrocity Exhibition too much credit for its themes. Like sure, there are some significantly depressing hip hop tunes on there but there's also stuff like "Get Hi" which really don't feel like they add much to the album's themes. Also, every single feature on here is absolute heat. Obongjayer kills it on both his features, while Run the Jewels deliver two excellent, clever verses on 3 Tears, a big highlight. I particularly love El-P's "MMM...FOOD" reference. I just really fail to find anything here to critique honestly. If you're not going into this expecting something really heavy and deep, you're gonna enjoy this I think. |
David Bowie Blackstar |
Denzel Curry Zuu |
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters |
Frank Ocean Endless |
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana |
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo |
Gorillaz Gorillaz |
You know that feeling when you finally check an artist that pretty much everyone you know loves? You feel as if you've missed out on so many years with that artist, but you also feel so happy that you have a collection of excellent music to discover. That's how I felt upon listening to Gorillaz' debut for the first time. It's a collection of trip hop tracks that are catchy or despondent or sometimes both. And it's nothing short of a remarkable accomplishment. It's just so good...but you know that already. I wasn't expecting to love this album as quickly as I did but it's pretty much all I've been listening to this week. My only complaint is that I do think it could be a little shorter because of how vibey each song is, at times I do find myself starting to grow tired a little. But still...the highs are so high and so frequent. |
HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III |
HMLTD West of Eden |
IDLES Ultra Mono |
Injury Reserve Injury Reserve |
A significant improvement over their past two projects. While it may not have the highs of Floss (Bad Boys 3, S on Ya Chest), it is far more consistent. I'm kind of confused by the complaints of there not being that much Groggs? I feel like he's here a normal amount. There are some moments that I don't like, namely Groggs reusing the same line on a different song. It was most likely intentional, but it's not framed in a way that's obvious so it comes off as if it were unfinished. Similarly, detours like Hello?! and Qwerty Interlude come off as unnecessary and ruin the flow of the album. Some cuts also feel like they depend too much on their features rather than adding to the strength of the songs. rBest Tracks: Jawbreaker, GTFU, Gravy n Biscuits, Rap Song TutorialrWorst Track: Hello?! |
James Blake James Blake |
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
Kanye West Yeezus |
Kanye West ye |
Kanye West has basically done it at all at this point in his lengthy career. Ye arrives as one of his more introspective releases, touching on his marriage, his children, and his recent controversies. These sparse seven songs are all fantastic - some ranging from grandiose, others are BANGERS, and then there are a few sad boy ballads. As with almost all post-MBDTF Kanye releases, there's some bad lyricism, but most of it is pretty solid. While some of the Wyoming releases don't feel like an album, Ye feels like a complete journey with a great opener and a solid closer. Also...Ghost Town...so yeah. Phenomenal album, I think. |
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated |
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story |
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter |
Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas |
Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia |
M83 Saturdays=Youth |
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog |
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
This makes for a really great starting point with DOOM, in retrospect. It isn't the typical "I'm sitting on a bat, I'm sitting on a cat" rapping typical of KMD, but it also isn't quite the abstract rapping of Madvillainy. It's just the right amount of DOOM's character with accessible rapping. The thing most admirable about this album is just how lo-fi and unpolished it sounds. I find it admirable because it just gives you this feeling that Dumile just had this insatiable itch to rhyme. Every verse on this thing - not just from DOOM but also from his cohorts - sounds so vital, so gritty, and just so good. You don't get that sense on a lot of albums. The skits become a little too much at times, but I do like how they divide the album into different segments. Overall, a really excellent hip hop record that for my money doesn't really have any low lows, it's just not *quite* peak DOOM. |
Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts |
Mitski Be the Cowboy |
Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 1 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey |
Nirvana In Utero |
NxWorries Yes Lawd! |
OutKast ATLiens |
Paris Hilton Paris |
Perfume Genius No Shape |
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
Poppy Am I a Girl? |
Poppy finally finds her voice by not forcing it. Where Poppy.Computer was nothing more than a rip off of everything unique in pop, Am I a Girl? embraces itself by just being a simple pop album. Gone is the ultra forced references to computers and technology. rEven the detours into heavy metal all work. They're self aware, catchy, and even a little hard. This was easily the best pop album of the year, and eventually it'll be embraced as such. rBest Tracks: Aristocrat, Girls in Bikinis, Play Destroy, Hard FeelingsrWorst Track: Iconic (which still fucks) |
Poppy Choke |
Poppy's "Vroom Vroom" moment. Only wish it were a full length...but this is the shape of pop to come, I think? |
Radiohead Amnesiac |
Radiohead The Bends |
Ravyn Lenae Crush |
Rina Sawayama RINA |
Rosalia El Mal Querer |
Sampha Process |
Solange When I Get Home |
Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides |
Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Steve Lacy's Demo |
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension |
Taylor Swift Red |
The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form |
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
The Cure The Head on the Door |
The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
The Koreatown Oddity Little Dominques Nosebleed |
The Roots undun |
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 |
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
4.0 excellent |
070 Shake Modus Vivendi |
100 Gecs 1000 gecs |
100 Gecs 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues |
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
Adrianne Lenker songs |
Angel Olsen All Mirrors |
Arctic Monkeys AM |
Arctic Monkeys Crying Lightning |
Arctic Monkeys Cornerstone |
Bartees Strange Live Forever |
beabadoobee Fake It Flowers |
Bjork Debut |
Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe |
Blood Orange Freetown Sound |
Blood Orange Angel's Pulse |
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
Brockhampton WILDFIRE, TRUMAN, DIANA |
Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
Caroline Polachek Pang |
Charli XCX Number 1 Angel |
Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
No more metalheads. Society has progressed past the need for metalheads. |
Childish Gambino 03.15.20 |
Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour |
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
Coldplay Parachutes |
Common Be |
DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
I don't have much to say about The Mouse & the Mask except that it's pretty much as good as you can expect a DOOM album to be. People really overstate how annoying the Adult Swim references are because they really don't factor into DOOM's bars as much as they seem like they will (aside from A.T.H.F. of course...which is still a great song). I guess it helps that I grew up watching these shows but I'm sure that's true of a lot of people. Danger Mouse's production has nothing on DOOM's or Madlib's but hey, it's still one of the greatest rappers on a fine ass beat. Also, the feature list on here is insane - Talib Kwali, Cee-Lo Green, and Ghostface (and even Black Thought on a bonus track) and they all kill it. That hook on "Benzi Box" has to be one of the best hooks in DOOM's whole discography. This isn't quite S-tier DOOM but it's definitely A-tier for my money. Definitely recommend this one. |
Daniel Caesar Freudian |
Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
Dorian Electra Flamboyant |
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave |
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
fun. Aim and Ignite |
Gorillaz Demon Days |
IDLES Brutalism |
Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office |
James Blake Assume Form |
Jay-Z 4:44 |
Jean Dawson Pixel Bath |
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
Kali Uchis Por Vida |
Kanye West Late Registration |
Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY |
King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
King Krule The OOZ |
Lady Gaga Born This Way |
Lady Gaga Joanne |
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
Mac DeMarco 2 |
Megan Thee Stallion Fever |
Michael Jackson Thriller |
Mitski Puberty 2 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nocturama |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig! |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Live Seeds |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
Nirvana Nevermind |
Noname Telefone |
Noname Room 25 |
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
OutKast Stankonia |
OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
Paramore Paramore |
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately |
Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer |
Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
Porridge Radio Every Bad |
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
Solange A Seat at the Table |
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
Taylor Swift 1989 |
The Clash The Clash |
The Hotelier It Never Goes Out |
The Internet Hive Mind |
The Smiths Rank |
The Strokes The New Abnormal |
The Weeknd Starboy |
The Wonder Years The Upsides |
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
The xx xx |
Thom Yorke The Eraser |
Thom Yorke Suspiria |
Tierra Whack Whack World |
Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz |
Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
3.5 great |
Amine Good For You |
Beach House Depression Cherry |
Bleachers Strange Desire |
Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked |
Brockhampton All-American Trash |
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book |
Charli XCX Pop 2 |
Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
David Bowie "Heroes" |
Drake More Life |
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
Kanye West Graduation |
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen |
Lady Gaga Artpop |
Lady Gaga Chromatica |
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born |
Lizzo Cuz I Love You |
MGMT Little Dark Age |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial |
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) |
Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor |
Pusha T DAYTONA |
The first entry of Kanye West's Wyoming Sessions, Daytona is an impeccably produced and lyrically intricate album from Pusha T. These two things, however, feel at odds with each other. While Kanye West's production is once again captivating...I much prefer hearing Pusha T rap over Neptunes beats. Kanye cannot rap as well as Pusha, but there's no denying these are beats Yeezy would sound great over. And that's not to say Pusha T doesn't deliver BARS, he does, but every now in then there's a weird sample thrown in that throws off the track. Take for example, Come Back Baby, a track that has a banger beat but an old sample shoehorned in just for the sake of the song having a hook. Pusha's the kind of rapper who doesn't need to depend on a hook to latch on to a listener. Aside from that...I don't feel like the album has much of a theme to it. Not all albums need one, but this just feels like good song after good song. But...very few GREAT songs. I'd say Santeria and If You Know, You Know are the best. Don't get the hype for this...it's pretty well produced and rapped, but...that isn't enough :/ |
Radiohead Pablo Honey |
Radiohead The King of Limbs |
Rosalia Los Angeles |
Solange True |
Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Apollo XXI |
Compton bisexual singer-producer Steve Lacy seemingly struck gold on his debut Demos EP which featured sugary short lofi R&B tracks with some sweet guitar work. While that EP wasn't anything groundbreaking, it was enough to solidify Lacy as a voice to watch in the industry for me. Two years later, Lacy has dropped his debut album, Apollo XXI. Unfortunately, it played out just how I imagined...it isn't very good. I mean, it could've been a lot worse but there just isn't much here to latch on to. It feels like Lacy thinks writing a good hook means repeating the same phrase over and over again (N Side, Like Me). I also realize now how much the lofiness added to Lacy's music - with it gone, it feels like the authenticity is missing. But even still...this album is worth a listen, and I can probably see it growing on me as there's some nice instrumentation, vocals and hooks. Favorite tracks are Only If, Playground, Amandla's Interlude, and Basement. Worst track is probably N Side? |
SZA Ctrl |
The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
The Weeknd After Hours |
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Soul (Original Motion Picture Score) |
Weezer OK Human |