JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
75

Clearly overhyped by recent bias, there is no world where this is 88.
I don't completely hate this album but there is some points that have absolute cringe corny lines, weird mixing choices, choppy transitions. Unnecessary options where JPEGMAFIA usually excels. He ditches his incredible melodic riffs and leaves them for the last 4 tracks instead of giving a great first impression.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
95

Enthralling masterpiece

Jai Paul - Jai Paul
90

Demo album still is better than your favorite artist's discography.

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
80

Favorites:
Safe from Harm, Be Thankful for What You've Got, Five Man Army, Lately

Least favorite: Hymn of the Big Wheel

Invisible - El jardín de los presentes
90

I know I rate every album I listen to a 90, but this was incredibly enjoyable. This is the first Luis Alberto Spinetta album I've listened to and it is just simply incredible. Vibrant sound and never boring, track 7 sounds operatic, track 3 sounds jazzy, track 2 is very poetic. Super cool, love argentinian music. Singer has a soft voice with complex riffs. Track 7 sounds like Freddie Mercury.

Favorite tracks: All

Death Grips - Exmilitary
85

From the ritualistic "Beware" to the aggressive "Takyon", Exmilitary is definitely one of the grimiest rap albums I've heard. The instrumentals are rooted in industrial and rock genre, the lyrics from MC Ride are very well written and funny at some times. The production is harsh but tight and the same time. Incredible.

Favorite Tracks: Beware, Guillotine, Spread Eagle Cross the Block, Takyon, Klink, Culture Shock, Thru the Walls, Known for It, I Want It I Need It, Blood ... read more

Pharoah Sanders - Karma
95

Everything I love about A Love Supreme, the spirits surrounding me while listening, the mantras, all of the chakras were aligned for this recording.

It starts with a grandiose introduction, and then the theme/ostinato with a repeating flute over and over, and then it changes to another section, repetitive but chanting and marching. Then it all breaks loose and manages to bring it all back together. Leon Thomas's haunting vocals is truly one of the greatest things I've listened to.

I am not ... read more

100

Scatterbrained and dystopian is what The Money Store is. Some tracks are truly outstanding like Get Got, The Fever, Hustle Bones, I've Seen Footage, System Blower, Punk Weight and Hacker but the other tracks felt a tiny bit like filler, but it's inching towards a 90. Feels like pop with an industrial, electronic, hip hop twist.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85–92
85

Cool album with interesting passages like Xtal or Heliosphan but towards the end this album felt like a giant drag. I couldn't finish after track 9. If the tracks were shortened this would be very high.

Favorite Tracks: Xtal, That, Pulsewidth, Ageispolis, Green Calx, Heliospan

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
100

Exceptional, literally blew my mind and suffice to say this is the greatest jazz album of all time.

Kanye West - The College Dropout
NR

Kanye's Debut might be one of the most raw, hungry releases of all time. Invents a new style of music and delivers it with great charisma and confidence.

Favorite Tracks: We Don't Care, All Falls Down, Spaceship, Jesus Walks, Slow Jamz, School Spirit, Two Words, Through The Wire, Last Call

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
90

Intimate, personal and depressive is what can describe Nick Drake's last album. I expected it to sound all samey-ish but all the songs are great.

Favorite Tracks: Pink Moon, Place to Be, Things Behind the Sun, From the Morning

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
90

Blew my mind on first listen, crazy passages like Mirrors or track 3 and 5. Moonchild was a bit of a letdown but still good.

Favorite tracks: 21st Century Schizoid Man, I talk to the wind, Epitaph, The Court of the Crimson King

Least favorite: Moonchild

JPEGMAFIA - Communist Slow Jams
80

This is a tiny bit scattered alll over but it's still good. Some tracks threw me off like Lee Daneils Freestyle or Swirl. Great overall debut

Favorite tracks: Stoop, I Used To Be Into Dope, Polly, Wavves, I’ll Never Forgive Hipsters.., Japan, Bitcoin Assassination, Mothers Milk, Lemmy, The Last Of Us

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
90

Incredibly funky release, dense rhythms and varied instruments. Perfectly crafted.

Favorite Tracks: Chameleon, Watermelon Man, Sly, Vein Melter

J Dilla - Donuts
100

Conceptually, it's amazing. Sonically, it's amazing. Technically, it's amazing.

Incredible, never gets boring, interesting, wild.

Favorite tracks: Donuts (Outro), Workinonit, Waves, Light It, The New, Stop, People, The Diff'rence, Mash, Time: The Donut of the Heart, Glazed, Airworks, Lightworks, Stepson of the Clapper, The Twister, One Eleven, Two Can Win, Don't Cry, Anti-American Graffiti, Geek Down, Thunder, Gobstopper, One for Ghost, Dilla Says Go, Walkinonit, U-Love, Hi., Bye., Last ... read more

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues
85

Incredible, full of emotion and passion and joy/grieving
Best tracks: Nobody Knows You, Ain't No Use, Strange Fruit, Sinnerman

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
85

WOW! danny brown ATROCITY EXHIBITION "exhibits" incredible tracks and incredible production, sometimes depressing and sad over his addictions his struggles, first release under WARP, really loved this but towards track 13 it got a bit boring best tracks: TELL ME WHAT I DONT KNOW, REALLY DOE, LOST, AINT IT FUNNY, PNEUMONIA.WHEN IT RAIN

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
100

This album is a movie album. You don't need visual cause it is all transmitted in your ears. That's how great it is.

Dream - to whoever wants to hear
5

wow that was painful

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