20 year old Birdy has accomplished a lot at her young age. Beautiful Lies is one of them. An Alternative album with a bevy of melodic hymns bound to burst your ears with musical bewilderment.
Niykke Heaton, born Nicolet Aleta Heaton was discovered through Youtube like many other millennial acts today. The Bedroom Tour Playlist is a mixtape of urban pop jams, that will leave your toe tapping to the stylistic trap beats. A mixtape good enough to warrant us wanting an official album from the Illinoisan blonde songstress.
Gwen Stefani This Is What The Truth Feels Like
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Gwen releases her first solo album in 10 years. Truth is a solid pop record; one that bares Gwen pain over her divorce to Bush front man Gavin Rossdale, as well as fun sassy songs that we've come to grow to love from Gwen over the decades she been in the music scene.
Stream: Send Me A Picture, Make Me Like You, Asking 4 It, Rocketship
Celine's Encore is beautiful in every sense of the word. In her native tongue, the invariably pleasant French, Celine's voice is as flush and powerful as ever. The quality of Celine's latest few album's have become a lot more cohesive since the hit and miss ones of her 90's hey day. In which are an immense improvement for a artist so pronged in their career. Encore is the Creme de la Creme of French pop. A must for those who have adulation for the Oil Romance language.
Stream: Encore un soir, Si C'etait a Refaire, Odinaire
Zayn -Mind of Mine
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When former One Direction member Zayn Malik left the group suddenly sending fans into a frenzy, we waited to see what his solo career would entail. Mine of Mind is a pop/r&b record have shows Zayn sonic vocals and cheeky swagger. Zayn is a male pop star with humongous sex appeal; he most certainly will leave the ladies and fellas wanting more for years to come.
Regina Spektor -Remember Us To Life
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Russian born singer songwriter Regina Spektor shines bright on Remember, with her snarky anti folk lyrics and a florescent voice that drives this album up the lists of the best of the year.
Stream: The Trapper And The Furrier, Small Bill$ Tornadoland
Banks is an criminally underrated act. Her music is on the cutting edge of today's minimalist alternative music. Banks has a high pitched which is hauntingly pleasant and dynamic. You can't go wrong with The Altar. The transcendent beats delivers a soft blow to the ear. It's as a though sweet whisper tells you your in the zone, so just mute all the conundrum of your day and just chill.
Solange -A Seat at the Table
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Beyonce's little sister Solange shocked this year by releasing a album that was of equal quality of Bey's opus Lemonade. This album reinvents Solange as a mastered artist who can steer to a particular direction and guide the listener along to that inspired way. A seat at the table is a Pro Feminist Pro Black album that is socially conscious and musically satisfying.
The Altar was meh, only enjoyed around half the album.
Mind of Mine Awesome solo debut from ZAYN.
TIWTTFL Glad to see some Gwen appreciation, super underrated.
Beautiful Lies is the best Birdy's work to date
TIWTTFL
Encore un soir omg, so nice to see her
The Altar is flawless
Solo she really DID that this year
Britney serves her best album since Blackout. After a batch of mediocre albums esp the dreadful Britney Jean Glory is Britney's return to well glory and get deserves credit for showing she's capable of making good music again.
Stream: Man on the Moon, Just Like Me, Coupure Electrique
Radio Head A Moon Shaped Pool
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Legendary band Radiohead released Moon Shaped pool in 2016. The band has a reputation of sublime putting out sublime music Moon is a an example of that. It's as good as their classics Ok Computer and Kid A.
Stream: Burn The Witch, Day Dreaming, Present Tense
Santigold's 99¢ is a solid electronic album with amazing tracks and make you want you tap your feet. The album title is a commentary on consumerism in the day in age. Music is good when it makes you want to dance or sinng but also when it makes you think. 99¢ is all of that.
Stream: Brefore the Fire Outside the War, Rendezvous Girl
Alicia Keys HERE is an amazing album all around. Her most socially conscious album to date. Here tackles issues such as self worth discrimination and war. A cemented effort in bring both good quality of sound and positive message. It's also smart and profound and instead being sappy and preachy in witch some of the music that goes in this direction can sway to.
Stream: Illusion of Bliss, She Don't Really Care_ 1Luv, Work On It
Joseph I'm Alone Your Not
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Indie pop group Joseph does something many group just don't do anymore even Harmonize even one with harmony in their title. Joseph vocals blend together like Milk and apple and cinnamon. An extreme pleasure to listen to.
Tove Lo -Lady Wood
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Swede Tove Lo is one of the baddest female artists in the game fearless in every sense of the word. Lady Wood is a sexually charged album with fiery beats and lyrics filled with attitude.
Ariana Grande -Dangerous Woman
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Pop sensation Ariana Grande released her best work to date. Dangerous woman is a feisty hefty album which does not fail to give your ears a breezy and and smooth titillation The album does what it needs to do. It's fun sexy and cultivating. Ariana has cemented her self as a major player in the pop world.