Five Stars: Top 10 albums of the year. I will be listening to these for years.
- Fantastic Negrito, White Jesus Black Problems
- Kendrick Lamar, Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
- Tears for Fears, Tipping Point
- June Jones, Pop Music for Normal Women
- Fontaines DC, Skinty Fia
- Bitch, Bitchcraft
- Sarah Mary Chadwick, Flipped It
- Backxwash, His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
- Bob Vylan, Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life
- Ethel Cain, Preacher’s Daughter
Four Stars: Really good stuff. Play that one again - quinn, quinn
- Björk, Fossora
- caroline, caroline
- Astrophysics, Hope Left Me
- Porridge Radio, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
- Beyonce, Renaissance
- Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
- Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen
- Petrol Girls, Baby
- Claire Rousay, A Crying Poem
- Rosalia, Motomami
- Brittany Davis, I Choose to Live
- Bambara, Love on My Mind
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Blonde
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Dahmer
- Peter Broderick, Piano Works Vol 1
- Sault, Earth
- Sault, Aiir
- Sault, UNTITLED (God)
- Sault, Today and Tomorrow
- Sault, 11
- Spanish Love Songs, Brave Faces Etc…
- yeule, Glitch Princess
- Ezra Furman, All of Us Flames
- Dry Cleaning, Stumpwork
- Lucy, Telepathic Humans
- RZA and DJ Scratch, Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater
- Marvin Tate’s D Settlement, Marvin Tate’s D Settlement
- Joe Rainey, Niineta
- Quinn Christopherson, Write Your Name in Pink
- Anna Butterss, Activities
- Anna Von Hausswolff, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
- OHYUNG, Imagine Naked!
- The Cool Greenhouse, Sod’s Toastie
- Tom Waits, Grave Diggers
- 070 Shake, You Can’t Kill Me
- 700 Bliss, Nothing to Declare
- Girlpool, Forgiveness
- Burial, Antidawn
- Ibeyi, Spell 31
- Clarice Jensen, Esthesis
- Park Jiha & Roy Claire Potter, To Call out into the Night
- Tess Parks, And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
- Hagop Tchaparian, Bolts
- Danny Elfman, Bigger, Messier
- Ian William Craig, Music for Magnesium_173
- The Garden, Horseshit on Route 66
- Special Interest, Endure
- Oneida, Success
- Loyle Carner, hugo
- Lambchop, The Bible
- Various Artists, Music for Ko
- Alphaville & Deutsches Filmorchester Bablesberg, Eternally Yours
- Angel Olson, Big Time
- ShrapKnel, Metal Lung
- Francis Lung, Short Stories
- Lung, Let It Be Gone
- Horse Lords, Comradely Objects
- Teri Gender Bender, caundo yo era una nina
- Teri Gender Bender, i suddenly remember that i am not
- Teri Gender Bender, olivia she wanted me to leave her alone
- Teri Gender Bender, you were truly the one that made us
- Teri Gender Bender, madre would not allow it though
- Teri Gender Bender, x rays were taken to make sure i am there, that i exist
- Teri Gender Bender, erik, even he found it to be obscene
- Teri Gender Bender, Saturn Sex
- Teri Gender Bender, leaving her to be was just not an option
- Teri Gender Bender, pestering became a virtue
- Teri Gender Bender, funny
- David Bachman, Almanac Behind
- Gilla Band, Most Normal
- Willow, <COPINGMECHANISM>
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse, World Record
- Stormzy, This Is What I Mean
- Pusha T, It’s Almost Dry
- Sea Moss, Seamoss2
- Flume, Palaces
- Max Richter, The New Four Seasons, Vivaldi Recomposed
- John Luther Adams, Houses of the Wind
- Why Bother? Lacerated Nights
- Why Bother? Lovers and Addicts
- Why Bother? There Are Such Things
- Honey Dijon, Black Girl Magic
- The Armed, Ultrapop (Live)
- Al Qasar, Who Are We?
- Astrophysics, Selected & Tragic
- Hatis Noit, Himbrimi
- Grace Davidson, Sacred Chants
- Florist, Florist
- Bubble Tea and Cigarettes, There’s Nothing but Pleasure
- Thee Oh Sees, A Foul Form
- Post Malone, Twelve Carat Toothache
- Kali Malone, Living Torch
- Yard Act, The Overload
- black midi, Hellfire
- S. G. Goodman, Teeth Marks
- Agender, No Nostalgia
- David Bowie, Toy
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters, The Boy Named If
- Julie Cooper, Continuum
- Jake Blount, The New Faith
- Young Jesus, Shepherd Head
- The Weeknd, Dawn FM
- DJ Khaled, God Did
- Lucrecia Dalt, ¡Ay!
- Automatic, Excess
- Zeal & Ardor, Zeal & Ardorgeta
- The Beths, Expert in a Dying Field
- J Zunz, Del Aire
- Kelly Lee Owens, LP.8
- Park Jiha, The Gleam
- The Crystal Method, The Trip Out
- The Crystal Method, The Trip Out (Remixes)
- Raymond Byron, Bond Wire Cur
- Lacing, Never
- Bella Poarch, Dolls
- Chat Pile, God’s Country
- Organ Tapes, 唱着那无人问津的歌谣
- Sonic Youth, In/Out/In
- Editrix II: Editrix Goes To Hell
- Jack White, Entering Heaven Alive
- Wasted, Modern Lie
- Jack White, Fear of the Dawn
- FKA Twigs. CAPRISONGS
- Hammered Hulls, Careening
- Röyksopp, Profound Mysteries Remixes
- Röyksopp, Profound Mysteries III
- Röyksopp, Profound Mysteries II
- Röyksopp, Profound Mysteries I
- Klein, Star in the Hood
- Klein, Ghost Frontiers
- Locrian, Ghost Frontiers
- Locrian, New Catastrophism
- Billy Idol, The Cage
- Masonna & Prurient, Annihilationism
- Prurient, Creationist
- Boris, W
- TV Priest, My Other People
- Spider God, Black Renditions
- Elaine Howley, Silent Talk
- Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Cheat Codes
- Pussy Riot, Matriarchy Now
- Upchuck, Sense Yourself
- Stereolab, Pulse of the Early Brain
- Pixies, Doggerel
- Orville Peck, Bronco
- Denzel Curry, Melt My Eyez See Your Future
- Shove, Shove 2
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cool It Down
- Midnight Oil, Resist
- Demi Lovato, Holy Fvck
- Ocean Child, Songs of Yoko One, Various Artists
- Caroline Shaw, Evergreen
- Diamanda Galás, Broken Gargoyles
- The A’s, Fruit
- Raum, Daughter
- Snooper, Town Topic
- Free Time, Jangle Jargon
- Tunnel, Vanilla
- Florenece + the Machine, Dance Fever
- Caterina Barbieri, Spirit Exit
- Linda Ayupuka, God Created Everything
- Sahel Sounds, Music from Saharan WhatsApp
- Jana Horn, Optimism
- Beth Orton, Weather Alive
- Hudson Mohawke, Cry Sugar
- Weak Signal, War & War
- Honningbama, Animorphis
- Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci, Winds, Bells, Falls
- Christian Lee Hutson, Quitters
- Conan Gray, Superache
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Let’s Turn It Into Sound
- Pan Amsterdam, Eat
- More Ease & Claire Rousay, Never Stop Texting Me
- Joan Shelley, The Spur
Phil & The Tiles, Phil & The Tiles- Alt J, The Dream
- Sault, Air
- Spoon, Lucifer on the Sofa
- Spoon, Lucifer on the Moon
- Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka, Languoria
- The Casual Dots, Sanguine Truth
- NOBRO, Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar
- Emmanuelle Parrenin, Targala, la maison qui n’en est pas une
- Living Hour, Someday is Today
- Doechii, she/her/black bitch
- Incapacitants, As Loud as Possible
- King Hannah, I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
- Metric, Formentera
- Katie Alice Greer, Barbarism
- Julian Eastman, Joy Boy Vol 2
- Muna, Muna
- Mabe Fratti, Se Ve Desde Aqui
- Stabat Mater: Tallis, Dowland, Byrd, von Bingen and Ruiz del Corra
- ArrDee, Pier Pressure
- Craig Finn, A Legacy of Rentals
- Mdou Moctar, Afrique Refait
- Pool Kids, Pool Kids
- Seth Kasselman, Analogous Fools
- Lyzza, Mosquito
- The Suffers, I’m Not Afraid
- Sniffany & the Nits, The Unscratchable Itch
- Red Gaze, Healing Games
- Beach House, Once Twice Melody
- CMAT, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead
- Gang of Youths, Angels in Realtime
- SCUDFM, Innit
- Blood Incarnation, Timewave Zero
- Rolo Tomassi, Where Myth Becomes Memory
- Courting, Guitar Music
- Bill Orcutt, Music for Four Guitars
- Cordae, From a Birs Eye View
- Otoboke Beaver, Super Champon
- Maria BC, Hyaline
- Camp Cope, Running with the Hurricane
- Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena, West Kensington
- Cheryl B. Engelhardt, The Passenger
- Lalalar, Bi Cinnete Bakar
- Kee Avil, Create
- Pan Daijing, Tissues
- The Chats, Get F***ed
- renforshort, dear amelia
- Ben Lukas Boysen, Clarion
- Black Country, New Road, Ants From Up Here
- Big Joanie, Back Home
- Barre Phillips & György Kürtág Jr., Face à Face
- Concerto Mediterraneo, Sixteen Seasons
- Shamir, Heterosexuality
- Horsegirl, Versions of Modern Performance
- Lamb of God, Omens
- Young Prisms, Drifter
- Whatever the Weather, Whatever the Weather
- Whatever the Weather, Beats in Space 012
- The Soft Pink Truth, Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?
- Joey Bada$$, 2000
- 200 Stab Wounds, Slave to the Scalpel
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Return of the Dream Canteen
- Sam Prekop and John McEntire, Sons of
- Destroyer, Labyrinthhitis
- A Place to Bury Strangers, See Through You
- Show Me the Body, Trouble the Water
- Linda Smith, Love Songs for Laughs
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Omnium Gatherum
- Armani Caesar, The Liz 2
- Pedro the Lion, Havasu
- Ty Segall, Hello, Hi
- Dawn Richard, Pigments
- Arooj Aftab, Vulture Prince
- TSVI & Loraine James, Gloom
- Debit, The Long Count
- Boris, Split
- Peppadavid13, Iannis Xenakis: Electroacoustic Works
- Jitwam, Third
- Sam Henshaw, Untidy Soul
- Gavilán Rayna Russom, Trans Feminist Symphony
- Katie Dey, Forever Music
- Tanya Tagaq, Tounges
- Spread Joy, II
- Pigeon Pit, Feather River Canyon Blues
- Claire Rousay, Everything Perfect Is Already Here
- Kendraplex, Two Rivers
- Pup, The Unravelling of Puptheband
- William Basinski & Janek Schaster, “…On Reflection”
- Cat Power, Covers
- Beechwood, Sleep Without Dreaming
- Trupa Trupa, B Flat A
- Johann Johannsson, Drone Mass
- Bright Eyes, Letting Off the Happiness: A Companion
- Alex Cameron, Oxy Music
- Alex G, God Save the Animals
- Avril Lavigne, Love Sux
- Guerilla Toes, Famously Alive
- Leikeli47: Shape Up
- Meat Wave, Malign Hex
- Hinako Omori, A Journey
- SOAK, If I never know you like this again
- Eli Winter, Eli Winter
- Che Noir, Food for Thought
- Summer of Soul Soundtrack
- Juile Doiron & Dany Placard, Julie & Dany
- Yungchen Lhamo, Awakening
- Springtime, Night Raver
- Ezmeralda, En Átomos Volando
- The Weather Station, How Is It that I Should Look at the Stars
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra, Media Dreams
- RiskR, Staring Aimlessly Into the Sea’s Heart
- Interpol, The Other Side of Make-Believe
- Polyphia, Remember That You Will Die
- Broadcast, Mother is the Mily Way
- Sharon Van Etten, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
- Black Dresses, Forget Your Own Face
- Sofie Birch, Holotropica
- Quelle Chris, Deathflame
- Max Richter, Max Ukulele
- Anna Tivel, Outsiders
- Cypress Hill, Back in Black
- Beast Nest, Sicko
- Pan American, The Patience Fader
- Chronophage, Chronophage
- Croatian Armor, Remember Rainbow Bridge
- Max Richter, My Brilliant Friend
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Exception
- Straw Man Army, Sos
- Julmud, Tuqoos
- Anouar Kaddour Cherif, Djawla
3 Stars: A good listen, not a heavy rotation. - Sweet Knives, Spirtzerita
- Sea Power, Everything Was Forever
- Malibu, Palaces of Pity
- Alvayys, Blue Rev
- SZA, SOS
- Amber Mark, Three Dimensions Deep
- Run the Jewels, RTJ Quatro
- Starcrawler, She Said
- RZA, Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes
- Sun Ra Arkestra, Living Sky
- Muse, Will of the People
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Summer
- Foals, Life is Yours
- Bartees Strange, Farm to Table
- The Waterboys, All Souls Hill
- Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss
- Mizmor, Wit’s End
- Just Mustard, Heart Under
- Placebo, Never Let Go
- ELUCID, I Told Bessie
- The Linda Lindas, Growing Up
- The Mountain Goats, Bleed Out
- Jarv is, This is Going to Hurt
- Rival Consoles, Now Is
- Kevin Morby, This is a Photograph
- Goatwhore, Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
- Black Eyed Peas, Elevation
- Mobley, Cry Havoc
- Kiwi Jr, Chopper
- Boldy James & Real Bad Man, Killing Nothing
- Mykki Blanco, Stay Close to Music
- The Stroppies, Levity
- Orion Sun, Getaway
- Omar Apollo, Ivory
- Green/Blue, Paper Thin
- Sonja, Loud Arriver
- Maggie Rogers, Surrender
- Undirheimar, Vardlokkur
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Made in Timeland
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Changes
- Biosphere, Shortwave Memories
- Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer, Recordings From the Åland Islands
- Mydreamfever, Rough and Beautiful Place
- Lets Eat Grandma, Two Ribbons
- Nia Archives, Forbidden Feelingz
- Kendra Morris, Nine Lives
- Empath, Visitor
- Flume, Palaces the Remixes
- Momma, Household Name
- Molly Nilsson, Extreme
- Stella Donnelly, Flood
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin, Ghosted
- Sasami, Squeeze
- Daphni, Cherry
- Karate, The Bed is in the Ocean
- Mo Dotti, Guided Imagery
- Ty Segall, Whirlybird
- Cass McCombs, Heartmind
- Glorilla, Anyways, Life’s Great
- They Hate Change, Finally New
- Rammstein, Zeit
- Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, Topical Dancer
- Jenny Hval, Classic Objects
- Drive by Truckers, Welcome 2 Club XIII
- Rick Ross, Richer Than I Ever Been
- Future, I Never Liked You
- Vince Staples, Ramona Park Broke My Heart
- Mint Julep, Covers
- Arcade Fire, We
- Dreamville, J. Cole, D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape
- Anais Mitchell, Anais Mitchell
- The Lumineers, BRIGHTSIDE
- Palace, Shoals
- Yumi Zouma, Present Tense
- The Reds, Pinks, and Purples, Summer at Land’s End
- Mitski, Lauren Hill
- Earl Sweatshirt, SICK!
- Sleaford Mods, Live at Nottz Arena
- Big Thief, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
- Hurray for the Riff Raff, Life on Earth
- Oso Oso, sore thumb
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Toast
- Belle and Sabastian, A Bit of Previous
- Soccer Mommy, Sometimes, Forever
- Black Keys, Dropout Boogie
- Vince Staples, Ramona Park Broke My Heart
- Romero, Turn It On
- Roedelius & Tim Story, 4 Hands
- Nyokabi Kariuki, peace places: kenyan memories
- Nilüfer Yanya, Painless
- Camila Cabello, Familia
- Ryan Cassata & Rillakill, Everything Changed
- Big Nothing, Dog Hours
- Stromae, Multitude
- Undeath, It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave
- Messa, Close
- Bonobo, Fragments
- Carmen Villain, The Midnight Demon Club
- Ravyn Lanae, Hypnos
- Galcher Lustwerk, 100% Galcher
- Nicfit, Fuse
- Logic, Vinyl Days
- Scuti, Intoxication
- Jeff Tobias, Recurring Dream
- Partner Look, By the book
- Colin Hay, Now and the Evermore
- Charlie XCX, Crash
- Namir Blade, Metropolis
- Dean Hamilton, Limina
- Krallice, Crystalline Exhaustion
- Grace Ives, Janky Star
- Shinichi Atobe, Love of Plastic
- 2 Chainz, Dope Don’t Sell Itself
- Father John Misty, Chloë and the Next 20th Century
2 stars: I am not sure what happened here, but something went wrong, - The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language
- A-ha, True North
- Simple Minds, Direction of the Heart
- Abba, Voyage
- Fishbach, Avec les yeux
- Cate Le Bon, Pompeii
- Superchunk, Wild Loneliness
- Véhémence, Ordalies
1 Star: Turn around now, don’t listen. You can’t unhear what you have heard - Gunna, Drip Season 4ever
- Bladdee & Ecco2K, Crest
- Bad Bunny, Un Verano Sin Ti
- The Smile, A Light for Attracting Attention
- Jack Harlow, Come Home the Kids Miss You
- AWOLNATION, My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
- Bruce Springsteen, Only the Strong Survive
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