that money is the only thing i'm chasin'
...and some dope dimes on some coke lines

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Well. He wouldn't have been my first prediction for ~~waning dark R&B sngr who makes the jump to absolutely being a huge deal in every sense~ of 2015~ (when u make it so specific like that he definitely would've been) but **** I'm glad he was and this was no doubt the album made to do it. But it's a genuine move and one that just makes sense, and the songs he came prepared with are ones that play to his small scale strengths and his big ones sometimes separately but more often than not at the same time. And let's give it up for overarching narratives, what we got like a concept album here or some ****? It's one of the albums I listened to the very most this year and it feels a little weird having it down here with the others I just touched on but liked a lot, the reality is the bulk of it doesn't match up to the HIGH HIGH HIGHS that it peaks at for only so long but that still doesn't mean the rest isn't its own meaningful step forward that deserves to be explored.

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Aww, so she's back and she's doing the same thing she was doing last time, just dispensin' her wisdom and draggin' the haters! You can tell based off 10 seconds of any song here that Kacey hasn't drastically changed her approach lyrically or musically, but that's not something it was necessary for her to either yet -- not when she still comes off as so likable and well-meaning and when she's still so good at articulating those little half-emotions you had never really thought about as existing on their own before. So she's 2 for 2. Just wish she would take all dat good advice and get herself into that happy place but nah. She'll be fine

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Like I said I listened to a lot of Blur this year actually independently of them coming back with their first album in 12 years, and that's not because the new release was weak but because it's just such an entirely different beast from their core 90s stuff that I bumped the most that I barely subconsciously recognize it as the work of the same band. Cuz it is good! The Magic Whip isn't frantic and it doesn't really care about projecting itself onto the world and coming back with analysis and criticism and character skits. It's more of a look inward, with a subject/object focus and it's very chill, kind of how I would have imagined the next Gorillaz album to sound (I mean wonder why) just a little bit more....bandy. But it's tasty and swirly and nice an cold and sometimes it just hits that spot, do you feel?

yeah that last tidbit sums up how everybody feels about Abel's album this year.
I;'ve been meanin to check out Blur

3 amazing albums

Kacey Musgraves is perfect

BBTM had some nice songs
Revival is good, HTM, the title track and M&MG

eye feel like i should have checked out blur's

listened to pageant material a few times, it's cute, v easy going. wish i spent more time with it tbh

I still haven't heard the Blur album. I'm a sinner.

Weeknd/Kacey both delivered solid albums, albeit a little underwhelming considering their previous outputs.

Shamir/Le1f are cool too, not really the kinda thing I'd listen to but I get the appeal.

Love the Blur album cover!

Kacey's album was okay, I was hoping for something more but there were good songs on it, and I'm so glad you mentioned "Fine". I can't get into tThe Weeknd at all, I find him...idk, but I'm happy for him making this random crossover into full pop stardom

I like BBTM. Pageant Material is pretty good, but I prefer STDP.

Blur I need to check out Beauty Behind the Madness, love the singles

Haiiiii!

Hoping every1 had a good chrussmas/Non-Denominational Snowflake Day and thanks for the comments as always

I'm usin the worst computer ever there's no way I'll be able to pull up spotify links or anything fancy but let me do my best to continue on giving the gift of good taste

i got more style than stylists
i like that money is money is piling

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Oh, forgot to mention this list is 1 gonna be artist per (cuz this was very much a concern this year), aand it just so happens this project lets me kill 2 big birds with 1 stone. From my viewpoint this year Drake had the tendency to veer a little 'Drakey' and Fewtch a little '''''depths of addiction''''' over the course of a full-length, but IMO this lil one-off was the best reflection of what they each would still do really well. It's nice kinda seeing them trying each other's shticks on for size as well. Not too memey, not too much of the ~male asshole~ display, not annoyingly brooding or more generally depressing, it's just all ****in hype yo.








j that was so annoying to type out.
We will see if I have time to do the follow up

The Weeknd

Pageant Material

chile I had to get rid of the spoty links for me too, it was slowing me down

I have no intentions on listening to What a Time to Be Alive besides Jumpman.

I need to check out that one, but I really like Drake!

Sorry, I have my life together more now I promise

does this album have any real words?
i would like to figure out his formula for how many z's to put at the end of each song title
most def

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Rustie's surprise third album took back some of the elements of experimentation from his last release that not everyone loved and swapped em out with more of the big huge fluttering explosions that he introduced us to on his debut Glass Swords. Maybe it's cuz of that innate familiarity that this doesn't come out the same classic that that album was, but it's still great, predictable fun all the way through and for anyone with any interest at all in big huggy EDM (BHEDM), I dare you to let it not put a smile on your face.

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The best Florence song by a ****ing mile -- maybe really the only GREAT one -- is Shake It Out, and I think the reason for that isn't that it does away with all her usual bombast, because it doesn't at all. But when it does come, there's something in the air that makes it feel genuinely earned, and it just sparks this magic reaction. There's moments like that on this album too, but also ones of that other kind, where it feels like she's finally learned how to keep those explosions she loves so much under control. Like ay, it's a battle between the quiet + the loud but maybe each side actually has a chance at winning! And Guess What? This Way Th;;e Listener Wins Too ;]

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So, the 2nd week of December 2015 was the week Kang got into full-on PC Music, and he's glad he did cuz even though he made fun of them in the past they weren't shy about showing him a different side of pop music that for all its focus on unbreaking aesthetic was really just as fun, and they made his awful, awful finals week a little more manageable. Like I think the criticism is that this **** is supposed to comment on pop music... more than it is supposed to register as it? But if that's the excuse that lets these guys just say **** it and go on making stuff without regard for marketability/listenability/WHATEVER then I stay in full support because more often than not it comes out going hard as **** anyway, ironically in a way that I think would be extremely difficult to replicate in the way that some of these songs are supposed to come off as 'replicas' of other things. And like sometimes.... ok you're giving fake emotion but I feel it like it's real!! It just blurs so much truth!!! I acknowledge that I have exclusively heard the stuff that they've put out on Spotify and nothing else so maybe this is the best they have to offer and maybe it's not, but isn't the idea of an album-as-endpoint the goal anyway? It used to be