9/10
-
Weyes Blood comes through with an immaculately produced and performed baroque pop album in Titanic Rising.
-
Though GREY Area isn’t the most cutting-edge rap album out there, there’s not a spot on it where Little Simz falters even slightly.
-
Xiu Xiu delivers what might be its most adventurous and harrowing album to date… which is saying a lot.
-
Horrendous takes a mighty step forward with the visceral and multi-faceted compositions that make up Idol.
-
UK punk outfit IDLES return with an album that improves on the brutal and politically charged style the band delivered on their debut last year. One of the best punk albums of the decade without question!
-
-
Not only is Wide Awake! better performed and written than any Parquet Courts album thus far, but on it the band consistently manages to make interesting artistic statements on some very difficult topics.
-
Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is his most unorthodox stroke of genius since going solo.
-
Nicolas Jaar’s full-length debut as Against All Logic is one of the funkiest, most entrancing, and most cutting-edge collections of house music ever produced.
-
Horrifying! Portal’s Ion is one of the most dystopian and sound-rich technical death metal records of the decade.
