Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album)
60

They don’t really add to the originals, which I guess can be a good thing or a bad thing. Usually it evens out.

Favorites: Africa, Take On Me, Happy Together, Paranoid, Billie Jean

Worst: No Scrubs

The Twilight Sad - It Won/T Be Like This All the Time
60

The singing on this album is passionately expressive and the synth-sounding guitars brightly color in the back. Kind of reminds me of some 80s new wave.

Favorites: [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs], Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting, The Arbor, I/m Not Here [missing face], Auge/Maschine, Keep it All to Myself, Girl Chewing Gum, Let/s Get Lost, Videograms

Worst: VTr

Future - Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD
30

It's way too long for all the songs to sound like each other, so it's obviously bad for him to make songs that sound like other Future songs that have already been released. And yet he still does it. Amazing.

Favorites: Crushed Up, F&N, Talk Shit Like a Preacher, Promise You That, Servin Killa Kam, Unicorn Purp

Worst: Overdose (It's not necessarily the worst but it's the one that stands out the most as the worst)

Toro y Moi - Outer Peace
60

It's a fun album with bright and bouncy beats across the track list. However, the vocals usually falter between uncomfortable and unmemorable, with a few high points being in song topics like fashion or skateboarding.

Favorites: Fading, Ordinary Pleasure, New House, Freelance, Monte Carlo, 50-50

Worst: Miss Me

Alice Merton - MINT
50

The songs are pretty decent, but everything about this album reeks in the smell of generic adult contemporary pop, an already unintresting genre. There is nothing unique about this album to consider it apart from the Taylor Swifts and P!nks of the radio scene. Merton's vocal delivery and songwriting are just enough to get a passing grade.

Favorites: 2 Kids, Funny Business, Homesick, I Don't Hold a Grudge, Honeymoon Heartbreak

Worst: Trouble in Paradise

James Blake - Assume Form
60

It's okay. The production is okay. The singing is okay. The lyrics are okay. The track list is okay. The features are actually pretty good. The songwriting is okay. The overall atmosphere is okay. It's okay.

Edit: Same general opinions. but I'm more receptive of his artistic statement. Basically, it sounds the same but I like it more.

Favorites: Mile High, Tell Them, Barefoot in the Park, Are You In Love?, Where's the Catch?, I'll Come Too, Power On

Worst: Can't Believe The Way We Flow (an ... read more

Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
80

The influence is pretty apparent, but the songs are beautifully sung and produced. The whole album is a cohesive indie pop album with a variety of styles and production that seems unique while still in the same vein of pop and indie. The lyrics are heartfelt, but aren’t very complex or developed, and sound like what you’d expect to hear from contemporary music on the radio, or at church. Her music sounds like what the current trends of underground pop sound like, but she does it by ... read more

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - De Facto
80

A standout psychedelic rock album with some incredibly sticky riffs. I especially like some of the longer tracks like Unificado. The Spanish art pop vocals are mysteriously entrancing, and the seamless transitions on some of the songs make the whole project feel pretty cohesive.

Favorites: Ana, Acción Vaciar, Unificado, Inundación, “Lux, Lumina”, Resistir, La Maga

Worst: El Derrumbe

The Delines - The Imperial
50

The lyrics tell a beautifully damaged story, but the production and songwriting is lackluster across the album and the overall album feels basic and uninspired.

Favorites: Cheer up Charley, Let's Be Us Again, Holly the Hustle, That Old Haunted Place

Worst: The Imperial

You Tell Me - You Tell Me
60

Beautiful, lavish production, but the vocals are pretty much generic art pop, and the songwriting isn't that complex either, despite having some nice choruses and verses here and there.

Favorites: Enough to Notice, Get Out of the Room, Foreign Parts, Water Cooler, Clarion Call, Josuka, Kabuki

Worst: No Hurry

Los Niños Vudú - Ultravioleta
70

It's a little boring at times, but is still an entrancing fusion of indie and synthpop, with an interesting Spanish twist on the vocals.

Favorites: Infrarrojos, Índigos, La Apuesta

Worst: Ultravioleta

Sungazer - Sungazer, Vol. 2
40

Just because your music is weird an experimental doesn't mean it's automatically good. It's interesting and technically impressive but it's not that enjoyable or memorable.

Favorites: Ostinato, Electro

Worst: Drunk

Big K.R.I.T. - TDT
80

Sounds like a conventional mixtape with traditional rap songs; there isn’t much variety or experimentation in song structure, but he has interesting flows and speaks on many subjects, and the whole thing bangs without any egregiously bad tracks.

Favorites: Energy, Learned From Texas, Pick Yourself Up, 1 Oh Oh, Look What I Got, 4 Tha Three

Worst: Higher (King Pt. 6)

에이핑크 [Apink] - PERCENT
30

As generic, basic, and uninspired as the reviews I put out. The only reason why I don’t write more about this is because I can’t be bothered to listen to this more than twice. The abuse suffered by K-Pop groups from the industry is evident in the music. This is a cry for help. Save APink.

Favorites: What Are You Doing? (Which is what I find myself asking)

Worst: Memories (Which I hope this won’t be)

The Scary Jokes - Burn Pygmalion!!! A Better Guide to Romance
50

The lyrics and vocal inflections are cute, and the production is bright and pretty decent, but the album is way too long for 16 songs that are essentially the same, and it gets annoying quick.

Favorites: Community Gardens, "Death, Thrice Drawn", Do You Believe Me, Starstruck, Admire the Architecture, Jeannie... You're a Tragedy, Sleepeyhead

Worst: No Leverage / No Pleasure

Marc Mac - All Power To The People
90

Great old-school hip-hop production mixed with intriguing sound clips about the Black Panther Party. Good flow throughout and can be listened to passively through the beats and actively through the samples.

Favorites: Intro Peace, We Gonna Be Heard, Problems Of The Poor, High On the People, Open Season, I Am Fred Hampton, Cointelpro, Tear For A Panther, Only People Can Save The World, Violent Government, Brother's Pride (Hear My Plea), Geronimo, Sense of Protection, Feed the Babies

Worst: ... read more

Rosetta - Sower of Wind
50

It's cool if you want to set an atmosphere, but your songs still have to have some progression in it.

Favorites: North

Worst: South

Hollow Comet - Hollow Comet
60

Not very memorable, but the songs were kinda cute, and the guitar work is cool, I guess. Very lacking on the song writing front

Favorites: Blue as I Go By, Movies, With You, Wait and See, Little Flowers

Worst: Now It’s So Late

Chrome Sparks - Be On Fire
80

It's short, but the songs are high quality, with bright and light-hearted production.

Favorites: In2 Your Love, Ultraviolet Rainbow, I Could Be the Voice Inside Your Head

Worst: Juno Lion

99 Neighbors - Television
70

A bunch of fun, laidback, rap songs, but the production is way to simplified.

Favorites: Champion, Fly, Facts, Work, Bangarang, Mercy II

Worst: Coughing Up Smoke

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