5/10
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Shock rock legend Marilyn Manson returns with his 10th album, Heaven Upside Down.
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“Luciferian Towers” is the first Godspeed album we didn’t need.
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A Deeper Understanding is big on sound, but small on substance.
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King Gizzard makes an album with Mild High Club.
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Project Baby 2 offers a marginally improved Kodak Black, but mostly just more of the same.
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At over 90 minutes, Lil B’s “first official mixtape” is chock-full of freewheeling, creative highs; as well as lows that range from mundane to annoying.
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Ugly God’s debut mixtape is loaded with filler and bookended by two good tracks we’ve already heard.
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Portland’s own Aminé sells himself short on his mellow studio debut, Good for You.
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Shabazz Palaces return with deeply flawed twin concept albums.
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The Haim sisters return with a front-loaded sophomore album.
