Take a Tylenol before you spin this one.

MORE MORE MORE!'s mature older sister, Player has some major hitters. Player, The Music (far superior to their other track, MuZiC), and Can I have a Word are highlights (the latter finding it's infinite fame in Madeon's viral sample-crusher, Pop Culture). Is it their best? Nope. But it's definitely better than anything they've released since.

Their most commercial album, which is still ironically too on the fringe for mainstream electronic at the time. It's glitchy, loud, and unabashedly designed to deliver dopamine direct to your cerebral. The stock vocals are...questionable, but Toshiko's vocals produce earworms galore, particularly with Adventure, More More More, and Mutations of Life. Jumper is a supersonic grenade of a song, 7 minutes of pure head-spinning grandiose; it might be their definitive track.

The most conceptual of all of their post-lounge albums, Fruits is a journey through a cyber-futuristic city that feels like a really great video game in your ears. Their first official electronic release, and probably their best. Super Speeder Judy Jedy, Jelly, and Dreamin Dreamin are some of their absolute catchiest tunes, and Jelly might be their magnum opus.

EDIT: The remaster is a sonic joy. He took out a lot of the higher, shrill tonal qualities and brought forward vocals throughout. ... read more

If you're going to kill your lounge sound, you might as well go out with a bang, and boy did YSTK nail it on this one. Their best lounge sounds are here, and their first forays into the fringes of electro are some of their best.

An album that never veers too far from the established canon of the post-Impala, but manages to overcome the hurdles of many of their contemporaries by melding all of the references into something refreshing. Lyrical loops, earworms galore, and a nonstop flow of good vibes, the first 8 tracks in particular ooze with energy. It's aged remarkably well, and their follow-up struggles to reach the altitude they touched with this.

Like a great switcheroo remake from another characters perspective, Parrot and Róisín swap driver and passenger seats to great success. It's darker, deeper, and more twisted than its former, with Parrot crafting the vocals into textures and instruments to be explored more than formulaic equations.

Throughout, the re-contextualized tracks work wonders to show the other side of an album that already stood on incredibly high marks for production. To identify this as a remix album ... read more

I guess I'm not hearing what the critics are, I think Deafman Glance and Primrose Green outshine this one significantly.

To make such an earth-shattering record in your late teens is a feat very few can claim. To retake your own independence with it over a decade later is unheard of until now. A record that captures the essence of the highs and lows of youth better than maybe any of the 21st century takes on an entirely significance when it is re-imagined and revisited.

I'm sure that Taylor's flashbacks and emotional connections to these songs run deep, because I know that for me and many, many others they do ... read more

All the hateration by the press and for what! This slapped

Seeing this tour live is my answer to the question "if you had a time machine, what would you do with it?"

I'm probably biased because this was one of the first albums I ever heard that was "secular" but wow is this a masterpiece of pop-country perfection. Becoming a full-fledged popstar on your fourth go-round is no easy feat, but with ammunition like this, she was destined to succeed.

Sprawling, campy, and instant-mood-boosting, her and Mutt push their earworm twang to the utter extremes. 19 tracks here is a lot, but it's easy to understand why it wasn't edited down. There's moods for ... read more

Why is this getting rated so low? This is pretty flawless, a sweeping joyride of a record filled with silky smooth production, great features, and a tracklist that is put together in a way that never gets tired.

Can't believe how little this has been rated and how low! This album is pretty fantastic, seamless, it feels like a never-ending euphoria.

As a big fan of his last album, Jardín, I had high expectations with this one. Here, the tropical winds and aromas of fruits that he embellished into that album feel interspersed around pretty run-of-the-mill Latin radio trends of right now, leaving the whole thing feeling a bit cobbled together.

Aguita, the best of his attempts at a playlist-placement smash, is sandwiched in between two of the most beautiful moments on the record, Bloom and Blue Dot, leaving all three tracks ... read more

More cohesive than their first two records, but Ferris Wheel is by far the standout here still.

This one is just utterly mindblowing. The production is terrifying and welcoming at the same time, her voice raw and lyrics sharper than anything she'd done to this point. Definitely a hidden gem, an album to walk in the cold rain to. Feels like excising a family curse through dance music.

They may stick to a formula, but damn is it a good one. They kept it short and sweet here, which is an advantage. Their previous work has always been so lengthy, but keeping a shorter tracklist lets each track breathe, and breathe they do. Top-of-the-crop production, incredible earworms, and precision galore, it's bittersweet genre-melting goodness.

but wow what a moment

(Long rant because my expectations were so high)

What a mess. A semi-decent collection of remixes becomes an awkward, muddled mis-mix at the hands of The Blessed Madonna.

Producing a seamless and energetic set live is a challenge, but in a studio environment, it should never result in such a lackluster effort. Transitions feel forced or often just fall apart. Haphazard samples of Neneh Cherry, 69 Boyz, Gwen Stefani, and Stevie Nicks fail to act as the glue between tracks from an ... read more