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TouKang16 || All done <3
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Originally posted by madonnas
ASATT is a good album but is elevator music at POINTS. I just am not a huge fan of 15-20 track albums. It's tew much. LESS IS MORE.
Jeffrey is like, really really good.
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but most are interludes tho (which actually have some relevance)! i've never got the connections to elevator music, it undersells it so much
love this set anyway. konnichiwa (nice connection to dizzee), solange (should be higher imo! but i like your descript) and jeffrey is full of BOPS
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red crosses on wooden doors
if you float you burn
loose talk around the tables
abandon all reason
avoid all eye contact
do not react
shoot the messengers
11. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
In which the Most Important Band in the World™ wakes up from a power nap to confront not just political/environmental catastrophe, but also the personal. Their subject of ridicule changes at different points across the album (this can happen when you arrange your tracklist in alphabetical order), but a lot of the big highlights here i.e. Daydreaming & True Love Waits convey the 'broken man just tryna pick up the pieces' vibe much more effectively than your standard breakup fare. And they've done this before in spots, but what stands out to me at this stage in their career following the often-lifeless-seeming dance music on TKOL is the real human pulse that comes across all throughout despite a generally slow tempo. I've said this before and I will say it about others before this list concludes but additionally it's just a really pretty album, and after all the crazy **** they've put out in their quarter-decade together, I will gladly take that alongside whatever bonus qualities they wanna throw in with it.
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Tbh it wasn't really protest music at all;
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ahh this. The point was to not make it tackle the issues head on, but rather inter-weave them with her own personal narrative, and I think she did that in the most perfect way. It's a beautiful album, and even the interludes feel purposeful (if not making the album proper a better and more profound musical statement). Very glad to see it on your list.
I will listen to Jeffrey!
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ASATT did sound more like conversation rather than "protest". I could've lived without an interlude or two but they're not useless. I don't mind side Rostam material but at this point I'd rather have another Vampire Weekend album. Jeffery was cool but I think I prefer Slime Season 3 over it. I did like his slight change of style tho. AMSP required patience for me but with that, some of the tracks do hit hard.
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ASATT and A Moon Shaped Pool are both solid.
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Originally posted by Tom Vercetti
Jeffery was cool but I think I prefer Slime Season 3 over it. I did like his slight change of style tho.
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the # of projects he released this year I think that was the only one I never got around to but With Them was >>>. Glad I seemed to be on the same track as most of yall w/ what Solange was trying to do
I want to start the t0p 10 on the next page? But I guess I'll just hope we get there by the time I return home from doing stuff
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IHADTYWM was basically a The Walkmen album with Vampire Weekend-esque production, which sounds good on paper, but in reality it was such a borefest I like the other 4 albums tho I said it somewhere before, but I already lowkey regret not putting ASATT on my album list
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Eek I'm tanking!
Let me start
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Moon shaped poop was serviceable in every way. I'm glad they stopped trying to do the most and just played ****ing music man. ASATT is a solid pick and jeffrey is also a slay
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got so many bodies the world knows, ****
don't worry 'bout no witness, your homies go under oath
but our dreams was big, homie
the world done flipped on me, took my soul then clicked on me
10. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
Menacing, psychedelic, groovy af – but in a way that lets you know in no uncertain terms that it might snap your neck just for standing too close. Schoolboy can get away with an overlong album more than most because he has a way of drawing you into the world of the music. He can talk about his hustling past for 72 minutes straight and still leave you feeling like there's more to explore in terms of regrets, lessons learned, ways he can threaten to beat your face off, etc. With this kind of rap it's all about playing the part, and BFLP is Q's most convincing statement yet, as well as his most solid argument that he shouldn't have to play second place to anyone.
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aka TPAB only wishes
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Originally posted by Kang.
No the reason I laugh is bc she attacked Jay-Z in an elevator lmao
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Wait, I never thot of it like that.
ASATT is a little low, but stan for Don't WIsh Me Well. Love it, sounds nothing like elevator music,
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everywhere you look
children run like crayon colours into the sun
and in the wind, I can see
one by one, wildflowers dance with me
9. The Avalanches - Wildflower
Since I Left You ( ) is another one that understandably has gotta be hard to follow up. Partly because of how absolutely perfect it is, partly because you know Avalanches songs take time but then the longer we waited the higher our expectations got, and then you also have to consider how much the music industry has changed since 2000 to where the idea of releasing an album entirely constructed out of samples today seems totally laughable. So even after rulez + regulationz set restrictions on how the band could create its music, it was so reassuring to find they were still capable of recreating the same sense of innocence and joy that made SILY such a pleasure using just a few samples per track and some special guest vocals. Yeah it's a lil corny in spots, but overall there's so much ground covered (+ if you're like me & Halsey, so many colours delicately painted with their sensual brush) that by the time the journey's over, it's pretty much all positives that stick around my memory. Now here's hoping we don't have to wait 16 years for the next one.
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Jeffrey slays! Young Thug gets better and better with every release.
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Originally posted by Αnt
Jeffrey slays! Young Thug gets better and better with every release.
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****in trooo. just thinkin about how lit Slime Season 12 gawn be
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Originally posted by Kang.
10. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
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Originally posted by Kang.
9. The Avalanches - Wildflower
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she can almost be the worst of me
too bad she's just eating off your dreams
let me know when you're ready to bleed
baby you just need to send for me
8. Rihanna - ANTI
There are enough posts on their very site that'll show you I've always liked and rooted for Rih as a pop star (shoutout to #archive17!) but even I never considered it a strong possibility that she cared enough to release a front-to-back great album, much less after the slow-motion train wreck that was the R8 pre-release promo campaign. But I guess her extended break from schedule worked as a strong enough motivator upon returning, bc I rihly do have to applaud her for coming back with something that varies so drastically from the formula that defined all of her projects up until this one. She's singing about her life as a sexually frustrated twenty-something who hasn't been able to escape the spotlight in ten years, but she's picked interesting ways of doing so. From spiked-up walls of sound to 50s soul balladry to a more representative take on 'tropical' than anything else that hit the Hot 100 all year to yes, even Tame Impala karaoke, there was something for everyone, and it was all held together by the sheer force of her personality. Finally it felt like we were getting the rihl story. And to her credit again, big ups for putting out the least obviously singles-driven album of her career and still finding a way to light up the Hot 100 with it anyway, not everyone has that.
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see, i don’t play that sh-t, i don’t ever forget
and don’t forget that .dot, n--gga you paid for it
i spent years being called out my name
living under my greatness
but what don’t kill me is motivation
7. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
He was basically MVP of the year just based off his contributions to others' work, but nowhere did .son shine brighter than on his first of two albums released in '16, out just 2 weeks into the year damn. In some ways his work feels like a continuation of a long line of classic soul stars, but just as true/exciting is the way he comes off as such a fresh and unique perspective – both literally in terms of his singing voice, and the way he blends styles and genres all over with such little apprehension. He's like D.R.A.M. in being one of those R&B singers that carry themselves like rappers, and the swagger is just so palpable. Just like ... 75% of the other albums in this set, yes it's too long but it also feels like a very meticulously crafted journey, and I'm glad I had it around to start my year off so strong, at least from a musical perspective.
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Rih is... high.
I just started listening to Since I Left You this year and sadly did not spend enough time with Wildflower to have a take on it.
Jeffrey def feels like Young Thug's strongest release to date.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Solange's release and it is totally more personal than political.
I've never heard of this Hamilton + Rostam thing??? I'll have to give it a try soon.
Malibu + AMSP are INCREDIBLE!
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Originally posted by Penk
Rih is... high.
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****ing me too bruv, just lmk if you want a slice ayy
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rather see we in a three-by-three structure with many bars
leave us where we are so they can play among the stars
they taking off to mars, got the space vessels overflowing
what, you think they want us there? all us n-ggas not going
6. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
That November 11th release date... mannnn, I don't know if they a had a feeling of what was about to happen or whatever, but I swear it was this album that got me through a solid stretch of time back there. Just the existence of a Tribe Called Quest album in 2016 on its own is a bit of its own little miracle, but as always it's the details that make it what is. For one, it being a real Tribe release with Phife getting the chance to reunite with his bandmates and get his bars recorded before his untimely passing is a happy story wrapped up in a sad one – a story that was freakishly common this year for whatever reason. But nothing about this plays like a memorial project; in fact it's 100% more alive-sounding than their two preceding releases, absolutely no doubt. They get political in spots and that feels necessary, but it's also nothing new for them; ultimately the greatest payoff comes from just hearing gang back together, bouncing rhymes off each other like it's 1993 again. Old friends like Busta & Consequence know better than not to bring their A-game, and new ones like Kendrick & 3 Thou do the same. The presence of those guys doesn't necessarily seal the deal (it doesn't have to), but it's enough to make the album as a whole feel like something bigger, like a party that everyone's welcome to. These are songs that I'll be able to enjoy as long as I live, but as I saw the week it first came out, they're also a perfect example of music's power to be something bigger than that. And I very much don't think I'm alone there. Not sure to be honest if we as a species got it from here, but I do thank them for their service.
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