this album is so ****ing wild and includes Spikes which is a damn jam
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with a sound that shows a LOT of growth from their debut, Glass Animals places themselves as an indie rock band that likes experimentation like Animal Collective but in a more accesible way
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this record is cohesive and ALSO has a lot of replay value, with songs like Touch and Nothing's Real this is a super solid pop record, maybe one of the best pop records in of the decade
Deep and explosive, both sides of the coin with a record that barely goes to the 30 minutes, the record's lack of lenght it's compensated with a lot of songs that could compete for the best of the year
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Beyoncé gets to mix a lot of genres in one of her most cohesive pieces of work, works as a conceptual album but yet, like every good conceptual album it can be taken piece by piece and still mean as much as it means altogether
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David made us all tear a little bit on Blackstar, an honest work from an honest artist that wanted to end with a master work behind him, and he did, he at the end teaches lessons in a self-reflective way about life and death.
Olga Bell not only made one of the most important records of the year, but maybe one of the most important records of the decade, with lyrics about the relationship between humans an technollogy and how these two are changing how we present and interact with each other, there was a lot to talk about on that alone, but also, Olga chose to depart from her previous record Krai (with a more folk sound) to a quirky techno-avant-pop side and mixing vintage hip-hop influences with more contemporany ones (like Portishead) making a pop record that sounds exactly how anxiety and the internet sounds. With songs that represent a conversation about the use of social media (Doppio) to songs that are shapen to be a discussion about the issues of a whole country based on online comments (America) with chaotic choruses (America, Power User and Stomach It) to ballad-ish tracks that deal with insecurity (Regular) to house-influenced filled tracks (Ritual), Tempo is a record that moves from one way to another but always keeping the same clean feeling that Olga has been working since her days as 'Bell' (her past duo project). Tempo rises from any other electronic, pop and indie record being unique and showing that the conversation about the future of the relationship human-machine is not done yet... and seems to have a long way ahead.
También amé ver a Christine, Grimes, Flume, Carly, BANKS y MØ. 
