| 3.5 great |
| 808 State Ninety |
| Aaliyah Aaliyah |
| Aalon Cream City |
| Acid Pauli mst |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips |
| Action Bronson and Party Supplies Blue Chips 2 |
| Action Bronson and Statik Selektah Well-Done |
| Active Child You Are All I See |
| Actress Hazyville |
| Actress Ghettoville |
| Addison Groove Work It/Sexual |
| Airhead Wait |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Dizzy |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Frosted |
| Akkord AKKORD001 |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| Anderson .Paak Venice |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu |
| Andy Stott We Stay Together |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems |
| ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Araabmuzik Electronic Dream |
| Arca &&&&& |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 |
| Autre Ne Veut Anxiety |
| Azari & III Azari & III |
| Azealia Banks Fantasea |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Balam Acab See Birds |
| Beach House Bloom |
| BJ the Chicago Kid Pineapple Now-Laters |
| BNJMN Wanderlust |
| Bob James Sign Of The Times |
| Brian Eno Music For Films |
| Caribou Our Love |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape |
| Clams Casino Rainforest |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 2 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Corbin Black Silk |
| Craig David Born to Do It |
| Cranes Loved |
| Currensy Weekend at Burnie's |
| Currensy Here |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate |
| Currensy Saturday Night Car Tunes |
| Currensy The Carrollton Heist |
| Currensy and Smoke DZA The Stage |
| Currensy and Young Roddy 3 Piece Set: A Closed Session |
| Daniel Avery Drone Logic EP |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Daphni Jiaolong |
| Darkside Darkside |
| Darkside Psychic |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 |
| Disclosure The Face |
| DJ Rashad Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome To The Chi |
| Drake Thank Me Later |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| Drake Views |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine |
| Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh |
| Evian Christ Kings And Them |
| FaltyDL Atlantis |
| Feist The Reminder |
| FKA Twigs EP2 |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| Flava D More Love |
| Floorplan Paradise |
| Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World |
| Flying Lotus Ideas+Drafts+Loops |
| Fort Romeau Kingdoms |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic |
| Four Tet FabricLive.59 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Shame |
| Freddie Gibbs and The World's Freshest The Tonite Show |
| Future Monster |
| Future 56 Nights |
| Future DS2 |
| Ghostface Killah The Pretty Toney Album |
| Ginuwine Ginuwine...The Bachelor |
| Ginuwine 100% Ginuwine |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Gold Panda Trust |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer |
| Grooverider Mysteries Of Funk |
| Heat Wave I'm Fuckin You Tonight |
| Holy Other Held |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? |
| Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt Black Is Beautiful |
| Inner City Paradise |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Isolee We Are Monster |
| James Blake Air & Lack Thereof |
| James Blake Love What Happened Here |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| James Ferraro Marble Surf |
| James Ferraro Cold |
| James Ferraro Suki Girlz |
| Jeremiah Jae Bad Jokes Mixtape |
| Jeremih Late Nights With Jeremih |
| JMSN It Is. |
| Joey Badass 1999 |
| Jons Serfs of Today |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kaytranada 99.9% |
| Summer is officially here. 99.9% is maxin' and relaxin' personified. |
| Kelela Hallucinogen |
| Kelis Kaleidoscope |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| Kwes Meantime |
| Laurel Halo Quarantine |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Lee Gamble Koch |
| Leon Vynehall Music For The Uninvited |
| Levon Vincent Levon Vincent |
| LFO (UK) Frequencies |
| Lil' Kim Hard Core |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes III |
| Majical Cloudz Impersonator |
| Marvin Gaye I Want You |
| Merchandise Children of Desire |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Mick Jenkins The Water[s] |
| Miguel Wildheart |
| Millie and Andrea Drop The Vowels |
| Mirror Kisses Heartbeats |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Moodymann Moodymann |
| Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers |
| Mount Kimbie Carbonated |
| Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth |
| Mssingno Fones |
| Fones was the best song of 2016 hands down. The man has killed it. |
| Nas God's Son |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| New Order Low-Life |
| Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz |
| No Joy Wait to Pleasure |
| Nothing Downward Years to Come |
| NxWorries Link Up & Suede |
| Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It |
| oOoOO oOoOO |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| P. Morris Debut |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies |
| Prince Prince |
| Prince Around the World in a Day |
| Prince Controversy |
| Quasimoto Astronaut EP |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Rihanna ANTI |
| Rome Fortune Small VVorld |
| Royal Trux Pound For Pound |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Rustie Glass Swords |
| Ryan Hemsworth Last Words |
| Infusing electronic music with hip-hop, I find Ryan Hemsworth's tracks here to be interesting, imaginative, and, at various points, captivating. Perhaps most interesting is that Ryan's music has a melancholy, almost mournful, feel to it, best exemplified by the delicate 'Colour & Movement' and the stunning coda of 'Overthinking'. My main problem with Last Words however, is that in comparison to Ryan's original tracks the four remixes at the end of the EP are somewhat uninspiring. Shlohmo's woozy remix of 'Colour & Movement' and Supreme Cuts' airy remix of 'Overthinking' are both pleasant without adding much to the EP, while I find Baauer's trap remix of 'Slurring' and Sam Tiba and Canblaster's 'Charly's Mask Shop' to be pretty boring. All in all, Ryan Hemsworth's songs on Last Words are great and deserved to be listened to. Just do not expect much from the accompanying remixes. |
| Sand Circles Motor City |
| Sango North |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions |
| Sepalcure Eternally Yrs |
| Shigeto No Better Time Than Now |
| Shlohmo Vacation |
| Shlohmo Shlo-Fi EP |
| Shlohmo and Jeremih No More |
| Sir Michael Rocks Lap Of Lux |
| Sir Michael Rocks Banco |
| Sir Michael Rocks Premier Politics |
| Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney |
| Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock |
| Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| SpaceGhostPurrp NASA: The Mixtape |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Mysterious Phonk |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Mysterious Phonk (Instrumentals) |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Sugar Copper Blue |
| Suicideyear Japan |
| Susumu Yokota The Boy and the Tree |
| Talaboman The Night Land |
| Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime - The Best Of... |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Drums The Drums |
| The Drums Portamento |
| The Housemartins London 0 Hull 4 |
| The Neptunes The Neptunes Present... Clones |
| The Virgins The Virgins |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| Thundercat Apocalypse |
| Tinashe Aquarius |
| Toro Y Moi Causers of This |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Towkio .Wav Theory |
| Valentin Stip Anytime Will Do |
| Vic Mensa INNANETAPE |
| Viktor Vaughn (VV:2) Venomous Villain |
| Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Whirr/Nothing Split |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles |
| Yagya Will I Dream During The Process? |
| Yagya Rhythm of Snow |
| Young Thug 1017 Thug |
| Young Thug Barter 6 |
| Your Old Droog Your Old Droog |
| Yung Lean Unknown Death 2002 |
| Zomby With Love |
| 3.0 good |
| 9th Wonder The Wonder Years |
| ABRA Princess |
| Action Bronson Mr. Wonderful |
| Africa Hitech Hitcherous |
| Air France No Way Down |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti House Arrest |
| Atu Pictures on Silence |
| Atu's Pictures on Silence is a pleasant listen, but fails to leave a lasting impression. |
| Austin Cesear Cruise Forever |
| Autre Ne Veut Autre Ne Veut |
| AZ Doe or Die: 15th Anniversary |
| Boxed Boxed Vol. 2 |
| Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L |
| Cashmere Cat Mirror Maru |
| Cassie RockaByeBaby |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 3 |
| Currensy More Saturday Night Car Tunes |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dean Blunt Babyfather |
| Disclosure Settle |
| Evian Christ Waterfall |
| FaltyDL Love Is A Liability |
| Gold Panda Miyamae |
| Jeremih Late Nights |
| Joey Badass Rejex |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| Kehlani You Should Be Here |
| Kehlani Cloud 19 |
| Merchandise (Strange Songs) In the Dark |
| Miguel All I Want Is You |
| Nicolas Jaar Nymphs II |
| Rome Fortune Beautiful Pimp II |
| Royal Trux Veterans Of Disorder |
| Rustie Sunburst |
| Salem (US) King Night |
| Sir Michael Rocks While You Wait |
| Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One |
| The Drums Summertime! |
| Travis Scott Owl Pharaoh |
| Owl Pharaoh suffers from being inconsistent. While Travis Scott has unquestionable talent as a producer, lyrically he's still finding his feet. Other criticisms would be that Scott borrows too much from his influences, of which Kanye West and Kid Cudi are the most obvious, and that the mixtape would benefit from greater cohesiveness. Nevertheless, there are plenty of positives here and I'm looking forward to hearing what Scott does next as he continues to develop his sound. |
| UZ Trap Shit V6/9 |
| Willis Earl Beal Acousmatic Sorcery |
| Yagya The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart |
| Zayn Mind of Mine |
| While critics can (rightly) find fault with Mind of Mine's lack of originality and the adolescent nature of Zayn's lyrics, one cannot deny the sheer beauty of the production that can be found here. Working closely with producer Malay (Frank Ocean), Mind of Mine succeeds in fusing together elements from several genres to create a cohesive downbeat sound, one that feels distinctly personal. While it would be nice to hear Zayn do more, vocally, to assert himself, the dream-like haziness of his vocals really adds to the album's sound. Ultimately then, Mind of Mine is a solid, enjoyable album that showcases a young artist with a lot of promise. I will be watching his career with interest. |
