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Assertively quick and whimsically fun, Tyler’s party hosting is top of the line, and he made damn sure you were having fun.

Best Tracks - SUCKA FREE, STOP PLAYING WITH ME, RING RING RING, DONT TAP THE GLASS/TWEAKIN’, DONT YOU WORRY BABY, ILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

Worst Tracks - BIG POE

It's as cold, brooding, and desolate as it's depicted on the cover, and the band returns with an even weirder and off-kilter sound, a sound that slowly cooks your brain with every cold, empty space interrupted and pummeled with oddly tuned guitars and feedback. Probably the least friendly TFS album on its surface, but under its slow burn are heartfelt tracks that are just really odd-sounding.

Best Tracks - IRUKANDJI SYNDROME, GOON SHOW, STEPPING ON A RAKE, TEETH MARCHE, FAIRYLAND ... read more

Maybe if we make it longer and darker than “The Lamb As Effigy,” Anthony Fantano will give us another yellow flannel, Alex Kent thought to the band. Post-rock for Imagine Dragon fans, honestly, nothing inspiring or new, should’ve kept it under Sprain because its more or less this strain of post-rock that sounds too on-the-nose with contemporaries.

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Jane returns to the harsh and frenzied blends of digicore and hyperpop known from their retired projects, freshens them up with even more sounds, and creates a maximalist fury of a multi-genred rage experience. While it can be a little overbearing in terms of the compressors fighting every other compressor to land at the top of the mix, leaving an instead buried low-midrange, when the mix hits, though, it hits hard.

Best Tracks - PSYCHOBOOST, STAR PEOPLE, EXPERIMENTAL SKIN, DREAMFLASHER, TURN ... read more