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The Week- sorry, I mean: Abel Testfaye concludes both a gripping and insanely immersive era and persona with a look backwards and a solid "fuck you" to the hell he climbed out of. Couldn't ask for a better sendoff of the Weeknd character. XOTWOD.

fav tracks: Wake Me Up, Cry For Me, Baptized In Fear, Open Hearts, Enjoy The Show, Niagara Falls, Take Me Back To LA, Drive, The Abyss, Red Terror, Without A Warning, Hurry Up Tomorrow
least fav tracks: Reflections Laughing, Given Up On ... read more

COIN's fifth studio album paints them in their final form, with snappy and punchy, but heartfelt and honest lyricism and crunchy COIN-rock production. The energy has been ramped down a bit, but it's still a jam-worthy album.

fav tracks: Slack, Along For The Ride, Growing Song, Bloodtype, Olivia, Strawberry Jam, Leaving a Light On
least fav tracks: It's Hard to Care About Everything, Blueberry Smoothie

Definitely more thought-out lyrically, but only by a hair. Other than that, same shitty, nasally, grating, deafening, Chipettes child voice on every fucking facet of this album. Seriously, this chick really needs some sort of procedure done on her larynx or her recording contract should be dissolved. Absolutely awful.

fav tracks: hell no
least fav tracks: all of them

The production is fresh and spunky, the writing is authentic, ROSE's vocal performance is raw and compelling, and it just brings me back to 1989/Red era Taylor Swift. For a first album, this is a very strong and promising start for ROSE.

fav tracks: number one girl, 3am, toxic till the end, APT., gameboy, stay a little longer, call it the end, too bad for us
least fav tracks: not the same, dance all night