Da fuck you mean Gorillas, these are some Orangutans if I’ve ever heard em.

FAVORITES:
> Clint Eastwood
> 19-2000
> Tomorrow Comes Today
> Rock the House
> 5/4
> Re-Hash
> Sound Check (Gravity)
> Latin Simone (Que Pasa Contigo)
> Slow Country
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Starshine

A messier and more sporadic album than “Heaven to a Tortured Mind”, but simultaneously one with a bit more daring.

FAVORITES:
> Noid
> Lifetime
> Licking an Orchid
> Recognizing the Enemy
> Economy of Freedom
> Faith in Nothing Except in Salvation
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Hope in Suffering (Escaping Oblivion and Overcoming Powerlessness)

Sturgill’s keeping up his streak of solid, well-performed country ditties.

FAVORITES:
> Turtles All the Way Down
> It Ain’t All Flowers
> The Promise
> Voices
> Living the Dream
> Long White Line
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Life of Sin

Not as sonically diverse as its predecessors, but still a nice jam.

FAVORITES:
> Velouria
> Dig for Fire
> Ana
> All Over the World
> Havalina
> The Happening
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Stormy Weather

THIS 👏 LADY 👏 DOES 👏 NOT 👏 MISS

FAVORITES:
> Sapokanikan
> Anecdotes
> Leaving the City
> Divers
> Time, as a Symptom
> Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
> Goose Eggs
> A Pin-Light Bent
> The Things I Say
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Same Old Man

Staying fuzzy with the band of Nielson.

FAVORITES:
> So Good at Being in Trouble
> Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)
> From the Sun
> Faded in the Morning
> Secret Xtians
> The Opposite of Afternoon
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Dawn

Damn, blues rock hasn’t sounded this good since… what, the White Stripes? Brittany Howard and company, hats off to you!

FAVORITES:
> Sound & Color
> Gimme All Your Love
> Don’t Wanna Fight
> Future People
> This Feeling
> Miss You
> The Greatest
> Guess Who
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Shoegaze

Boring in most spots but actually groovy in others.

FAVORITES:
> Alien Days
> Introspection
> An Orphan of Fortune
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Astro-Mancy

Good album, but Brian’s hairline on the cover is looking FOUL. Holy hell, lose the mullet, Brian!

FAVORITES:
> Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
> Taking Tiger Mountain
> Mother Whale Eyeless
> The Great Pretender
> The Third Wheel
> Back in Judy’s Jungle
> Third Uncle
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Put a Straw Under Baby

I don’t know much about this Paul White guy, but he and Eagle sure can collaborate on some bangers!

FAVORITES:
> Admitting the Endorphin Addiction
> A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night
> I Went Outside Today
> Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)
> Insecurity
> The Curse of Hypervigilance (In Politics, Romance, and Cohabitation)
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Dang Is Invincible

If Fear Fun was strongest in its individual songs, Honeybear is strongest in its larger scope, each piece of lyricism and instrumentation supporting another across the entire album.

FAVORITES:
> Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
> I Love You, Honeybear
> Strange Encounter
> Holy Shit
> When You’re Smiling and Astride Me
> Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow
> Bored in the USA
> The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt.
LEAST FAVORITE:
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The band’s mostly able to nail the dance punk sound they’re going for, but they miss the mark just often enough for this album to fall a little short of expectations. Nonetheless, they’re still able to make hits (get it?) and the cover art is absolutely killer!

FAVORITES:
> We Make Hits
> An Illusion
> Dream Job
> Grifter’s Grief
> When the Laughter Stops
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Fizzy Fish

Instrumentally mellower than Denzel’s previous work, but his sense of lyrical certainty and delivery is unchanged.

FAVORITES:
> Walkin
> Melt Session #1
> The Ills
> X-Wing
> Angelz
> Worst Comes to Worst
> Troubles
> Mental
LEAST FAVORITE:
> The Smell of Death

Crutchfield’s settling into her indie rock sound here, so not a lot of new but still not a lot of bad.

FAVORITES:
> La Loose
> Breathless
> Under a Rock
> The Dirt
> Air
> Half Moon
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Blue

If rap albums are restaurants, this here is frickin Gusteau’s.

FAVORITES:
> Rapp Snitch Knishes
> One Beer
> Deep Fried Frenz
> Vomitspit
> Hoe Cakes
> Kon Queso
> Beef Rap
> Potholderz
> Kookies
> Kon Carne
> Guinnesses
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Fig Leaf Bi-Carbonate

Tyler the Creator? More like… Tyler the INTROSPECTOR! In all seriousness, though, this album feels like the most personal he’s ever made, even on previous projects with themes about his life he still seemed to be embodying a different character. Musically, it’s smoother, jazzier, and more sensitive on some songs than even Flower Boy and Igor were.

FAVORITES:
> Like Him
> Darling, I
> St. Chroma
> Take Your Mask Off
> Thought I Was Dead
> Noid
> I Hope ... read more

Obviously he wasn’t gonna be able to match the quality of IGOR, but for what it’s worth, this is still a solid follow up and a fun listen.

FAVORITES:
> WUSYANAME
> HOT WIND BLOWS
> SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE
> CORSO
> SAFARI
> MASSA
> RISE!
> MANIFESTO
LEAST FAVORITE:
> MOMMA TALK

His crowning achievement.

FAVORITES:
> ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?
> GONE, GONE / THANK YOU
> EARFQUAKE
> NEW MAGIC WAND
> I THINK
> WHAT’S GOOD
> A BOY IS A GUN*
> IGOR’S THEME
> PUPPET
> RUNNING OUT OF TIME
LEAST FAVORITE:
> EXACTLY WHAT YOU RUN FROM YOU END UP CHASING

And thus Tyler enters his gorgeous instrumentation era.

FAVORITES:
> Where This Flower Blooms
> Boredom
> 911 / Mr. Lonely
> See You Again
> Foreword
> November
> Garden Shed
> I Ain’t Got Time!
> Pothole
> Glitter
LEAST FAVORITE:
> Droppin’ Seeds

More sonically inventive but has less standouts than Wolf.

FAVORITES:
> BUFFALO
> DEATHCAMP
> FIND YOUR WINGS
> PILOT
LEAST FAVORITE:
> KEEP DA O’S