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Ratings: 9=rock masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan.
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Note of July 2024: I am re-reviewing albums of the 2000s

Virus Carheart (Jester) post-metal 6/10
B. Fleischmann Welcome Tourist (Morr) glitch 7.5/10
B. Fleischmann Tmp (Charhizma) glitch 5/10
B. Fleischmann A Choir of Empty Beds (Fuzzy Box) glitch 6/10
Japancakes Waking Hours (Warm) post-rock 7/10
Japancakes The Sleepy Strange (Kindercore) post-rock 6/10
Japancakes If I Could See Dallas (Kindercore) post-rock 6/10
Merzbow Dharma (Hydrahead) noise 7/10
Merzbow Sha Mo 3000 (Essence Music) noise 7.5/10
Merzbow Magnesia Nova (ZSF Produkt) noise 7.5/10
Merzbow Rainbow Electronics (Alchemy) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow Venereology (Release) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow Pulse Demon (Release) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow Mercurated (Alchemy) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow Hybrid Noisebloom (Vinyl Communications) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow 1930 (Tzadik) noise 6.5/10
Merzbow Aqua Necromancer (Alien 8) noise 6.5/10
Prurient Pleasure Ground (self) noise 6/10
Jack Rose Raag Manifestos (VHF) instrumental 7/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg Forest Of Doom (Monolith) doom-metal 6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg Arcane Runes Adorn The Ice-Veiled Monoliths (Monolith) doom-metal 6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg Tolling Beyond The Tombs Of Ancient Grimnity (Monolith) doom-metal 5/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg Dark Clouds Blacken The Sky (Monolith) doom-metal 6/10
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg As the Fog Clears but for a Moment (Dungeon Tapes) doom-metal 7/10
Wolf Eyes Dog Jaw (Heresee) noise 6/10
Regina Spektor Home, Before and After (Sire) songwriter 5/10
Regina Spektor Remember Us to Life (Sire) songwriter 6/10
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch (Sire) songwriter 6/10
Regina Spektor 11:11 (self) songwriter 7/10
Los Natas Toba-Trance (Ektro) psych-rock 6.5/10
Hanne Hukkelberg Little Things (Leaf) songwriter 6/10
Burmese Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds (tUMULt) industrial 6/10
Hunches Hobo Sunrise (In The Red) garage-rock 6.5/10
Hunches Yes No Shut It (In the Red) garage-rock 7.5/10
Black Eyes Black Eyes (Dischord) noise-rock 7/10
Black Eyes Cough Cough (Dischord) noise-rock 7/10
Corrupted Paso Inferior (Frigidity Disco) drone metal 7/10
Corrupted El Mundo Frio (HG Fact) drone metal 7/10
Corrupted Llenandose de Gusanos (HG Fact) drone metal 6/10
Emit A Sword Of Death For The Prince (Total Holocaust) noise 6/10
Richard Hawley Late Night Final (Setanta) songwriter 6/10
Richard Hawley Lowedges (Setanta) songwriter 4/10
Richard Hawley Coles Corner (Mute) songwriter 5/10
Richard Hawley Lady's Bridge (Mute) songwriter 6/10
Richard Hawley Truelove's Gutter (Mute) songwriter 7/10
Richard Hawley Standing at the Sky's Edge (Parlophone) songwriter 6/10
Charming Hostess Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik) prog-rock 6/10
Charming Hostess Punch (ReR) prog-rock 4/10
Jewlia Eisenberg Trilectic (Tzadik) songwriter 6/10
Deathprod Morals and Dogma (Rune Grammofon) avantgarde 6/10
Deathprod Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha (dBUT interambience) avantgarde 7/10
Deathprod Treetop Drive 1-3/ Towboat (Metal Art Disco) avantgarde 6/10
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks (130701) chamber 7/10
Dani Siciliano Likes (K7) songwriter 6/10
Dani Siciliano Slappers (K7) songwriter 6/10
Sightings Michigan Haters (Psych-O-Path) noise-rock 7.5/10
Sightings Absolutes (Load) noise-rock 6/10
Sightings Arrived In Gold (Load) noise-rock 6/10
Sightings End Times (Fusetron) noise-rock 6/10
Sightings Through The Panama (Load) noise-rock 5/10
Sightings City Of Straw (Load) noise-rock 5/10
Sightings Future Accidents (Load) noise-rock 6/10
Sightings Terribly Well (Load) noise-rock 5/10
Sunburned Hand of the Man Trickle Down Theory Of The Lord (Eclipse) psych-rock 6/10
Sunburned Hand of the Man Jaybird (Qbico) psych-rock 7/10
Jens Lekman When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Service) songwriter 6/10
Death from Above 1979 You're a Woman I'm a Machine (Last Gang) hardcore 6/10
Riverside Out of Myself (Mystic) prog-rock 6/10
Riverside Second Life Syndrome (Mystic) prog-rock 6/10
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing (Roadrunner) metalcore 6/10
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache (Roadrunner) metalcore 6/10
Rusted Shut Rehab (Emperor Jones punk-rock 7/10
Shadow Huntaz Corrupt Data (Skam) hip-hop 6.5/10
Sage Francis Personal Journals (Anticon) hip-hop 7/10
Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph) hip-hop 6.5/10
Jneiro Jarel Three Piece Puzzle (Viberian) hip-hop 6/10
DJ Scotch Egg KFC Core (Adaddat) digital hardcore 6/10
Edan Beauty And The Beat (Lewis) hip-hop 7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Cross Pollinate (Imp) post-rock 7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Flat Fixed (Imp) post-rock 6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Fig. 5 (Road Cone) post-rock 6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Wow (Fisheye) post-rock 6/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Magick Fire Music (Ecstatic Peace) post-rock 7/10
Jackie-O Motherfucker Liberation (Road Cone) post-rock 6/10
Skaters Dark Rye Bread (Humbug) electronic 6/10
Skaters Receding Smokebath (self) electronic 6/10
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (Domino) dance-rock 6/10
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better (Sony) dance-rock 6/10
Arthur Russell Instrumentals (Crepuscule) instrumental 6/10
Arthur Russell Tower Of Meaning (Chatam Square) minimalism 6/10
Arthur Russell World Of Echo (Upside) songwriter 7/10
cLOUDDEAD Ten (Anticon) hip-hop 7/10
Odd Nosdam Burner (Anticon) hip-hop 6/10
Lamp Of The Universe The Cosmic Union (Cranium) psych-rock 5/10
Lamp Of The Universe Echo In Light (Cranium) psych-rock 7/10
Lamp Of The Universe Heru (Barl Fire) psych-rock 6/10
Lamp Of The Universe Earth Spirit & Sky (Cranium) psych-rock 5/10
Lamp Of The Universe From The Mystic Rays Of Astrological Light (Astral Projection) psych-rock 6/10
Lamp Of The Universe Arc Of Ascent (Astral Projection) psych-rock 6.5/10
Jasper TX I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You (Lampse) ambient 7/10
Jasper TX This Quiet Season (Slaapwell) ambient 6.5/10
Jasper TX Lungs (Under the Spire) ambient 6/10
Jasper TX Singing Stones (Fang Bomb) ambient 5/10
Jasper TX The Black Sun Transmissions (Fang Bomb) ambient 5/10
Ilyas Ahmed Between Two Skies (self) free-folk 6.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed Towards The Night (self) free-folk 7/10
Ilyas Ahmed Century Of Moonlight (Time-Lag) free-folk 6.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed Yahan Aur Wahan (self) free-folk 6/10
Ilyas Ahmed Goner (Root Strata) free-folk 4/10
Ilyas Ahmed With Endless Fire (Immune) free-folk 4.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed I Am All Your Own (Immune) free-folk 4.5/10
Ilyas Ahmed Closer to Stranger (MIE) free-folk 5/10
Ilyas Ahmed Behold Killers (Geographic North) free-folk 7/10
Ilyas Ahmed A Dream of Another (Geographic North) ambient 5/10
Vex'd Degenerate (Planet Mu) dubstep 7/10
Vic Chesnutt West Of Rome (Texas Hotel) songwriter 7/10
Vic Chesnutt Drunk (Texas Hotel) songwriter 6/10
Vic Chesnutt Is The Actor Happy (Texas Hotel) songwriter 7/10
Vic Chesnutt The Salesman & Bernadette (Capricorn) songwriter 6/10
Vic Chesnutt Silver Lake (New West) songwriter 5/10
Vic Chesnutt Ghetto Bells (New West) songwriter 6/10
Vic Chesnutt Dark Developments (Orange Twin) songwriter 5/10
Vic Chesnutt At The Cut (Constellation) songwriter 6/10
Why? Oaklandazulasylum (Anticon) pop 6/10
Why? Elephant Eyelash (Anticon) pop 7/10
Why? Alopecia (Anticon) pop 6/10
Chad VanGaalen Infiniheart (Flemish Eye) songwriter 7.5/10
Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane (Flemish Eye) songwriter 6/10
Chad VanGaalen Diaper Island (SubPop) songwriter 5/10
Chad VanGaalen Shrink Dust (SubPop) songwriter 5/10
Skygreen Leopards She Rode On A Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams (Jewelled Antler) acid-folk 6.5/10
Skygreen Leopards The Story of the Green Lamb & the Jerusalem Priestess of Leaves (Jewelled Antler) acid-folk 5/10
Skygreen Leopards One Thousand Bird Ceremony (Soft Abuse) acid-folk 6/10
Skygreen Leopards Life & Love In Sparrow's Meadow (Jagjaguwar) acid-folk 5/10
Tape Opera (Hapna) post-rock 6.5/10
Tape Milieu (Hapna) post-rock 5/10
Tape Rideau (Hapna) post-rock 7/10
Tape Luminarium (Hapna) post-rock 5/10
Coheed And Cambria Good Apollo (Sony) emopop 6/10
El Guapo Super System (Dischord) post-rock 7/10
Guapo Great Sage (Tumult) prog-rock 6/10
Guapo Black Oni (Ipecac) prog-rock 5.5/10
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island (Merge) alt-pop 7/10
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge) alt-pop 7/10
Keiji Haino Ama No Gawa (Mom'n'Dad Productions) noise 7.5/10
Keiji Haino Nijiumu (PSF) noise 7/10
Keiji Haino Affection (PSF) noise 6.5/10
Keiji Haino Beginning An End Interwoven (Streamline) noise 6/10
Keiji Haino Execration That Accept To Acknowledge (Forced Exposure) noise 6.5/10
Keiji Haino I Said This Is The Son Of Nihilism (Table of the Elements) noise 7/10
Dorine Muraille Mani (Fat Cat) glitch 7.5/10
Pita Seven Tons For Free (Mego) Genre 7/10
Flying Luttenbachers Gods Of Chaos (Skin Graft) jazz-punk 8/10
Dntel Early Works For Me If It Works For You (Phthalo) drum'n'bass 6.5/10
Dntel Something Always Goes Wrong (Phthalo) drum'n'bass 4/10
Dntel Life Is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research) drum'n'bass 7/10
Daryll-Ann Weeps (Hut) noise-rock 7/10
Charalambides Union (Siltbreeze) psych-rock 6/10
Charalambides Historic Sixth Ward (self) psych-rock 5/10
Charalambides Strangle The Wretched Heavens (Wholly Other) psych-rock 5/10
Charalambides Market Square (Siltbreeze) psych-rock 7.5/10
Simon Joyner Room Temperature (One-hour) songwriter 5/10
Simon Joyner The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll (Sing Eunuchs) songwriter 6/10
Simon Joyner Heaven's Gate (Truckstop) songwriter 6.5/10
Simon Joyner Songs for the New Year (Sing Eunuchs) songwriter 7/10
Simon Joyner Yesterday Tomorrow and In Between (Sing Eunuchs) songwriter 7/10
Simon Joyner The Lousy Dance (Truckstop) songwriter 6.5/10
YBO2 Alienation (Trans) noise-rock 6.5/10
YBO2 Kingdom Of Family Dream (Trans) noise-rock 4/10
YBO2 Pale Face Pale Skin (Trans) noise-rock 5/10
Ruins Stonehenge (Shimmy Disc) noise-rock 7/10
Ruins Vrresto (Sonore) noise-rock 6.5/10
Koenjihyakkei Hundred Sights of Koenji (God Moutain) prog-rock 6/10
Koenjihyakkei Viva Koenji (God Mountain) prog-rock 7/10
Koenjihyakkei Nivraym (Magaibutsu) prog-rock 5/10
Koenjihyakkei Angherr Shisspa (Magaibutsu) prog-rock 6.5 /10
Excepter Throne (Load) psych-tronica 6.5/10
Excepter Self Destruction (Fusetron) psych-tronica 5/10
Excepter Alternation (5RC) psych-tronica 6/10
Excepter Debt Dept (Paw Tracks) psych-tronica 5/10
Excepter Black Beach (Paw Tracks) psych-tronica 6/10
Excepter Presidence (Paw Tracks) psych-tronica 6/10
Excepter Zion (Skrot Up) psych-tronica 6/10
Excepter Maze of Death (Dog Daze Tapes) psych-tronica 6/10
Excepter Familiar (Blast First Petite) psych-tronica 5/10
Chris Clark Empty the Bones of You (Warp) dance 6.5/10
Deaf Center Pale Ravine (Type) ambient 7/10
Deaf Center Low Distance (Sonic Pieces) ambient 6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien Landscapes Of An Electric City (ZZZ) noise 6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien Il Segno (self) noise 6.5/10
My Cat is an Alien The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog) noise 7/10
Ocean Collective Fluxion (Make my Day) metal 6.5/10
Ocean Collective Aeolian (Metal Blade) metal 6/10
Ocean Collective Precambrian (Metal Blade) metal 7/10
Ocean Heliocentric (Metal Blade) metal 5/10
Ocean Anthropocentric (Metal Blade) metal 5/10
Ocean Pelagial (Pelagic) metal 6.5/10
Ocean Phanerozoic I (Metal Blade) metal 6.5/10
Ocean Phanerozoic II (Metal Blade) metal 6/10
Ocean Holocene (Pelagic) metal 5/10
Imogen Heap Speak for Yourself (Megaphonic) songwriter 6/10
Mountain Goats Bleed Out (Merge) roots-rock 4/10
Mountain Goats Dark in Here (Merge) roots-rock 5/10
Mountain Goats Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones) roots-rock 6/10
Mountain Goats Jenny from Thebes (Merge) roots-rock 4/10
Mountain Goats Nothing For Juice (Ajax) roots-rock 5/10
Mountain Goats Sweden (Shrimper) roots-rock 7/10
Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree (4AD) roots-rock 7/10
Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine (Ajax) roots-rock 6/10
Pinetop Seven Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (Truckstop) roots-rock 7/10
Circle Pori (Metamorphos) prog-rock 7/10
Circle Prospekt (Resonant) prog-rock 7/10
Au Revoir Simone The Bird Of Music (Moshi Moshi) dance-rock 7/10
Au Revoir Simone Verses Of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation (Moshi Moshi) dance-rock 6/10
Horse the Band R. Borlax (Pluto) metalcore 6.5/10
Horse the Band The Mechanical Hand (Koch) metalcore 7/10
P.H.O.B.O.S. Bleaker Beater (Megaton Mass) metal 6/10
DJ Speedsick Faces.Of.Death (self) techno 6/10
DJ Speedsick Blood Mixed With Shit Mixed With Blood (self) techno 6/10
Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back From the Discomfort (self) emo 7/10
Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers (self) emo 7.5/10
Wolvennest The Dark Path to the Light (Van) gothic 5.5/10
Wolvennest Temple (Van) gothic 4.5/10
Silent Strike Ghostophonia (Cinemaude) collage 6/10
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm (I Voidhanger) black metal 6/10
Spectral Lore 11 Days (I Voidhanger) black metal 4/10
Esoctrilihum Funeral (I Voidhanger) black metal 5/10
Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac (I Voidhanger) black metal 4/10
Disappears Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light (Vampire Blues) post-rock 4/10
Camera Prosthuman (Bureau B) post-rock 4/10
Camera Emotional Detox (Bureau B) post-rock 5/10
Camera Phantom Of Liberty (Bureau B) post-rock 6/10
38KEA Keeper (self) hip-hop 6/10
38KEA More Seeds? Take the Seeds! (self) hip-hop 5/10
38KEA Seeds Thy Divine Thresher (self) hip-hop 6.5/10
38KEA Into Your Eye, I've Found, My Everything (self) hip-hop 5/10
Rachika Nayar Heaven Came Crashing (NNA Tapes) ambient 5/10
Audry More Stretched by the Curtain (self) noise 6/10
Daniel Rossen You Belong There (Warp) songwriter 6.5/10
Joe Rainey Niineta (37d03d) songwriter 6.5/10
Caroline Caroline (Rough Trade) post-rock 6.5/10
Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Glitterbeat) free-folk 6/10
Sirom Svet Ki Spece Konju Cvet/ A Universe That Roasts Blossoms For A Horse (Glitterbeat) free-folk 6.5/10
Meute Taumel (Tumult) techno 5/10
Meute Tumult (Tumult) techno 6/10
Ikarus Plasma (Ronin Rhythm) prog-rock 6/10
Ikarus Mosaismic (Ronin Rhythm) prog-rock 5/10
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer (Deewee) dance-pop 6/10
Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) black metal 5/10
Fluisteraars Bloem (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) black metal 6/10
Dwarfs of East Agouza The Green Dogs of Dahshur (Akuphone) psych-rock 6/10
Dwarfs of East Agouza High Tide in the Lowlands (SubRosa) psych-rock 6.5/10
Broeder Dieleman Komma (Snowstar) songwriter 6/10
Broeder Dieleman Uut de Bron (Snowstar) songwriter 6.5/10
Broeder Dieleman Oh Mijn Ziel (Snowstar) songwriter 6/10
Colour Haze Sacred (Elektrohasch) stoner 4/10
Yikii Chorion (self) industrial 6/10
Yikii The Crow-Cyan Lake (self) industrial 6.5/10
Yikii Black Hole Ringdown (self) industrial 6.5/10
Raja Kirik Phantasmagoria of Jahtilan (Yes No Wave) industrial 7/10
Raja Kirik Rampokan (Yes No Wave) industrial 7.5/10
Black to Comm Before After (Thrill Jockey) noise 5/10
Black to Comm Seven Horses For Seven Kings (Thrill Jockey) noise 5/10
Black to Comm Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens (Thrill Jockey) noise 5/10
Black to Comm At Zeenath Parallel Heavens (Thrill Jockey) noise 4.5/10
Julie Byrne The Greater Wings (Ghostly International) songwriter 5/10
Mamaleek Diner Coffee (Flenser) blues-punk 6/10
Sewerslvt Sewer//Slvt (self) breakcore 6.5/10
Sewerslvt Drowning in the Sewer (self) breakcore 6.5/10
Sewerslvt The World Is Fvcked (self) breakcore 7.5/10
Sewerslvt Draining Love Story (self) breakcore 6/10
Stella Research Committee A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness (self) noise-rock 7/10
Stella Research Committee Killed Alive (self) noise-rock 6.5/10
Sewerslvt Skitzofrenia Simulation (self) breakcore 6/10
Sewerslvt We Had Good Times Together Don't Forget That (self) breakcore 7.5/10
Sewerslvt Tortvred Lesbians Ripped Apart (self) breakcore 7/10
Swans The Beggar (Young God) songwriter 5/10
Pan Daijing Tissues (Pan) electronic 7.5/10
Pan Daijing Jade (Pan) electronic 7/10
Nicole Dollanganger Married in Mount Airy (self) songwriter 5/10
The Smile Wall of Eyes (XL) pop 4/10
Monika Roscher Of Monsters and Birds (Zenna) prog-rock 7/10
Monika Roscher Witchy Activities and the Maple Death (Zenna) prog-rock 5/10
Monika Roscher Failure in Wonderland (Enja) prog-rock 6/10
Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country (Relapse) songwriter 6/10
HIRS Collective We're Still Here (Get Better) grindcore 7/10
Zach Bryan Zach Bryan (Warner) country 5/10
Zach Bryan American Heartbreak (Warner) country 7/10
Underscores Wallsocket (Mom + Pop) songwriter 6/10
100 Gecs 10,000 Gecs (Atlantic) hyperpop 6.5/10
L’Rain I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer) songwriter 5/10
Yeule Softscars (Ninja Tune) songwriter 5/10
Nourished by Time Erotic Probiotic 2 (Scenic Route) neosoul 4.5/10
Christine and the Queens Paranoia Angels True Love (Because) songwriter 7.5/10
Petra Hermanova In Death’s Eyes (Unguarded) songwriter 6.5/10
Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 3 (Decca) pop 6/10
Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 2 (Decca) pop 5/10
Jacob Collier Djesse Vol. 1 (Decca) pop 4/10
Sault 11 (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Sault Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Sault Untitled (Forever Living Originals) soul 4/10
Sault Earth (Forever Living Originals) soul 5/10
Oren Ambarchi Shebang (Drag City) post-rock 5/10
Oren Ambarchi Simian Angel (Editions Mego) post-rock 6/10
Oren Ambarchi Ghosted (Drag City) post-rock 5/10
El Marrano de la Razon Schadenfreude (self) noise 6/10
Behold the Arctopus Interstellar Overtrove (P2) post-rock 5/10
Blackie Catharsis Only (label) hip-hop 7/10
Wednesday Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) alt-country 6/10
Caroline Polachek Desire I Want To Turn Into You (Top Dawg) pop 5/10
Lil Yachty album Let’s Start Here (Motown) psych-soul 6/10
Celestaphone Paper Cut From the Obit (self) hip-hop 6.5/10
Acloudyskye What Do You Want (self) songwriter 7/10
Olivia Rodrigo Guts (Geffen) songwriter 5/10
Jason Isbell Weathervanes (Thirty Tigers) country 5.5/10
Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) hip-hop 5/10
Paramore This Is Why (Atlantic) dance-pop 4/10
Blondshell Blondshell (Partisan) songwriter 5/10
Victoria Monet Jaguar II (Lovett) soul 4.5/10
Amen Seat Amen Seat (Deathbomb Arc) electronica 6.5/10
Old Nick A New Generation of Vampiric Conspiracies (self) black metal 6.5/10
Old Nick Iam Vampire Castle (self) black metal 6/10
Old Nick Forest of Grief (self) black metal 6/10
Old Nick T.N.O.T.A.A.T.P.B.T.Q.A.S.F.A.B.O.O.T.D.O.S.S.T.T.E.V.H.S. (self) black metal 6/10
Neptunian Maximalism Eons (I Voidhanger) psych-rock 7.5/10
Moin Paste (AD93) post-rock 5.5/10
Moin Moot (AD93) post-rock 6.5/10
Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons (Transgressive) synth-pop 4/10
Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears (Transgressive) synth-pop 5/10
Let's Eat Grandma I Gemini (Transgressive) synth-pop 6/10
Lemon Twigs Everything Harmony (4AD) pop 4/10
Sufjan Stevens Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty) songwriter 6.5/10
Anohni My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross (Secretly Canadian) songwriter 4/10
Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure (Atlantic) songwriter 4/10
Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Interscope) songwriter 4.5/10
Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation (Columbia) songwriter 4/10
Bad Bunny Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana (Rimas) reggaeton 4/10
Drake For All the Dogs (OVO) hip-hop 4/10
Amaarae Fountain Baby (Interscope) soul 5.5/10
Travis Scott Utopia (Cactus Jack) hip-hop 5/10
Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream (Warner) prog-metal 5/10
Sprain As Lost Through Collision (Flenser) post-rock 6/10
Sprain The Lamb as Effigy (Flenser) post-rock 6/10
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