Katy Perry - One of the Boys
50

This has the banger-ballad ratio of Avril Lavigne's "The Best Damn Thing" from the previous year, with the bangers on here being better

Schemes Quartet - Embrace
NR

Love the ending of the final track, was hoping the whole record would sound like it

Haircuts For Men - 壊滅悲しみ
NR

Last track re-imagines Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker"

Faust - So Far
95

Magnum opus by the artist, IMHO

Jorge Drexler - Taracá
NR

Props to @hausenger for recommending me this impossible-to-twerk-to Spanish record as a response to my "review" of Valesuchi's
"Futuro cercano". I can only objectively appreciate this for what it is, since I unfortunately cannot enjoy such music a lot.
"Te llevo tatuada" reminds me a little bit of "Wish You Were Here".

Valesuchi - Futuro Cercano
NR

Latin Americans make music to which it's impossible to twerk challenge

John Zorn - Sing Me Now Asleep
NR

I wish there were sound effects akin to the ones in the final track here on all of his records

Gorillaz - The Mountain
NR

Мартин Џорлев-ahh музика

NR

"The Passover" samples "The End" by The Doors near the end

Behemoth - Evangelion
NR

Thanks to @Kacper for recommending me this! Ideally I can listen to something like this actually for as long as this record lasts and in theory I appreciate most metal styles, but generally am not huge on the genre as a whole for the lack of intensely dynamic diversity on its albums that I always so desperately crave. Nevertheless, the solos on this are dope - very retro.

Black Mouth of Spite - Destroyer
NR

I like the title track, a very solid interlude!

Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz
10

JPEGMAFIA for Drain Gang fans

NR

I love the instrumental passage near the end of "Bloodrape Ritual"

Zu - Ferrum Sidereum
NR

For fans of Neptunian Maximalism

Maldoror - She
100

Troll noise

Cromagnon - Cave Rock
NR

Thanks to @Ciwal for recommending me Cromagnon's self-titled record, I listened to this reissue since it's more easily available for streaming.
I would suggest Sun City Girls fans to hear this (the two vocalists screech in a very similarly unbearable fashion), but there was also one percussionist element on some of the beginning tracks that reminds me of the more folk-y releases by Test Dept.

Blast - Hope / Damned Flame
NR

Thanks to @Ciwal for recommending me this single! It's nice, the lore behind it is cooler.

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