Favorite Tracks: Say You Will, Heartless, Amazing, Love Lockdown, Paranoid, Coldest Winter
Least Favorite Track: See You In My Nightmares
Favorite Tracks: Last Living Souls, Kids With Guns, O Green World, Dirty Harry, Feel Good Inc, El Mañana, November Has Come, All Alone, DARE, Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head, Demon Days
Least Favorite Track: Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
Summary:
Balancing a diverse set of genre influences with a cohesive songwriting ability is not easy, but Gorillaz demonstrates their capabilities on their seventh LP by arranging these distinct tracks into a remarkable experience, with an admirable list of features of course.
Full Review:
Gorillaz once again proves that they will not shy away from any collaboration opportunity that is offered. 'Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez' is a sharp turn from the pleasant, but ... read more
Hobo Johnson turns his diverse array of genre influences, sentimental lyrics, and distinctive vocal performances to great account on his most impressively written LP to date.
Favorite Tracks: Typical Story, Mover Awayer, Ugly Kid, Subaru Crosstrek XV, Happiness, All In My Head, Ode to Justin Bieber, Sorry My Dear
Least Favorite Track: February 15th
With an unclear direction and sonically messy set of songs, Twenty One Pilots attempts to win over the charts without knowing who to appeal to.
Favorite Tracks: The Outside, Redecorate
Least Favorite Track: Bounce Man
Favorite Tracks: On Sight, Black Skinhead, I Am A God, New Slaves, Hold My Liquor, Bound 2
Least Favorite Track: I'm In It
Favorite Tracks: Cracker Island, Silent Running, Baby Queen, Tarantula
Least Favorite Track: Tormenta
Kendrick Lamar's masterful storytelling, thought-provoking lyricism, and ingenious samples are executed flawlessly on his second studio album to tell the story of discovering oneself in early 2000s Compton.
Favorite Tracks: Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter, Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, Backseat Freestyle, The Art of Peer Pressure, Money Trees, good kid, m.A.A.d city, Swimming Pools, Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst, Real, Compton
Least Favorite Track: Poetic Justice (If I had to pick ... read more
The dichotomy of it all.
Favorite Tracks: Wesley's Theory, For Free? (Interlude), King Kunta, Institutionalized, These Walls, u, Alright, For Sale? (Interlude), Hood Politics, How Much A Dollar Cost, The Blacker The Berry, i, Mortal Man
Least Favorite Track: Momma
Favorite Tracks: Orchestral Intro, Welcome To The World of the Plastic Beach, White Flag, Rhinestone Eyes, Stylo, Superfast Jellyfish, Empire Ants, Some Kind of Nature, On Melancholy Hill, Broken, Sweepstakes, Plastic Beach, To Binge
Least Favorite Track: Pirate Jet
My Chemical Romance aims their energetic and imposing song-writing ability towards developing a theatric narrative exploring themes of death and war on their most ambitious project to date.
Favorite Tracks: The End, Dead, This Is How I Disappear, Welcome To The Black Parade, I Don't Love You, Cancer, Mama, Sleep, Teenagers, Famous Last Words
Least Favorite Track: Disenchanted
Twenty One Pilots wastes no time in fusing influences of hip-hop, rock, reggae, and electronic music into their sound with catchy choruses and introspective lyrics, but their radio-hit approach leaves little room for the cohesive concept they were going for.
Favorite Tracks: HeavyDirtySoul, Stressed Out, Ride, Tear In My Heart, Message Man
Least Favorite Track: Not Today
Favorite Tracks: The Fever, Lost Boys, Blackjack, I've Seen Footage, System Blower, The Cage, Punk Weight, Bitch Please, Hacker
Least Favorite Track: Fuck That
Favorite Tracks: Ode To Sleep, Holding On To You, Migraine, Car Radio, Screen, Guns For Hands, Truce
Least Favorite Track: The Run and Go
Favorite Tracks: She Works Out Too Much, Little Dark Age, When You Die, Me and Micheal, TSLAMP, One Thing Left To Try
Least Favorite Tracks: James
Favorite Tracks: Jumpsuit, Levitate, Morph, My Blood, Chlorine, Smithereens, Neon Gravestones, Nico and the Niners, Cut My Lip, Legend, Leave The City
Least Favorite Track: Bandito
Favorite Tracks: GOLD, STAR, BOYS, FAKE, BANK, SWIM, BUMP, MILK, FACE, WASTE
Least Favorite Track: 2PAC