Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
60

Beastie Boys underdelivering with a grouped couple of tracks in the back-end to finish an utterly unfinished LP.

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
95

No one can do this and pull it off. It's so fun, multi-layered and terrifying. It deserves its praise.

Weather Report - Heavy Weather
80

Kicks off great with Birdland, and then polishes its modern jazz-funk vibe, venturing into the 1980s even (I mean that it was ahead of its time sonically).

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
90

It's amazing, the songs are very memorable and the story-concept is great, but it's just too bloated with freaking skits. By the middle point the skits become longer and longer, adding up to 11 minutes of the full 68 the record lasts, which makes up to 16% of the thing.

Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky
70

It's from a good era in Miles' career but it feels empty of any actually genius ideas.

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
90

It doesn't get better for the Rolling Stones.

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
80

The most 8/10 record I've ever heard.

Drake - Thank Me Later
40

Very inexperienced, always going at the tracks in the same pose. He would get better, tho.

David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar]
80

Only Bowie could pull off a literal own swan song.

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
75

Very comfortable, especially the first track.

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
90

Kendrick's sharp one-word tracklist that runs like a series of self-educating vignettes of things Kendrick can't wrap his head around. Watching him deconstruct himself in a more direct way than in To Pimp a Butterfly makes it perhaps K-Dot's most personal album.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
80

Slightly less consistent than Piñata.

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
80

Wayne at the height of his powers.

Mac Miller - Faces
80

How is it a mixtape if it's 95 minutes long? In any case, there are many smooth, likeable beats throughout it.

Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
80

Revolutionary influential. (But have you heard RoboCop? My God.)

Sun Kil Moon - Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
60

2 hours?! Please, there's only so much Kozelek the body can take.

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