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4.5 superb
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Alex G House Of Sugar
Angel Olsen All Mirrors
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Boygenius boygenius
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
David Bowie Blackstar
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deftones Ohms
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Fleet Foxes Shore
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Green Day American Idiot
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Jason Isbell Southeastern
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West Yeezus
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
Mac DeMarco 2
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Mastodon Leviathan
Muse Absolution
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today
Purple Mountains Purple Mountains
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Slint Spiderland
Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
Tame Impala Lonerism
Tame Impala Currents
A step down from 'Lonerism', but still a good album.
The Black Keys El Camino
The Cure Disintegration
The Killers Hot Fuss
The National Alligator
The National Boxer
The National High Violet
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify
The National Sleep Well Beast
Pitchfork didn't, but I'm labelling this Best New Music. AOTY for me.
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding
The White Stripes Elephant
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising

4.0 excellent
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Action Bronson Mr. Wonderful
Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
Algiers The Underside of Power
alt-J An Awesome Wave
Anderson .Paak Malibu
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Ashley Monroe The Blade
Beach House Teen Dream
Beach House Bloom
Beach House 7
Beck Morning Phase
An album worthy of its AotY win at the 2015 Grammys.
Ben Howard Noonday Dream
Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center
Beyonce Lemonade
Big Thief U.F.O.F.
Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Black Midi Schlagenheim
Bob Moses Days Gone By
An excellent electronic album. I highly recommend the first half of the album in particular.
Bon Iver Blood Bank
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Bon Iver i,i
BORNS Dopamine
Brand New Science Fiction
Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You
Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Brockhampton SATURATION
Brockhampton SATURATION II
Brockhampton SATURATION III
Cage The Elephant Melophobia
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B
Carter Burwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book
Chevelle The North Corridor
Chris Stapleton Traveller
Key tracks: Traveller, Parachute, Nobody To Blame, The Devil Named Music, Outlaw State of Mind
Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel
D'Angelo Black Messiah
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Deafheaven Sunbather
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Denzel Curry Imperial
Denzel Curry TA13OO
Dr. Dre Compton
Not as fun as "To Pimp a Butterfly" but nonetheless an excellent record. I expected Dr. Dre to be
more present in the tracks though, but the guests were equally good as well.
Father John Misty Pure Comedy
Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer
FKA Twigs Magdalene
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Frank Ocean Blonde
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana
Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins
Hans Zimmer Dunkirk
Highly Suspect Mister Asylum
IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance
Jack White Blunderbuss
James Blake James Blake
James Blake Assume Form
Jamie xx In Colour
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer
Japandroids Celebration Rock
Jason Isbell Something More Than Free
Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound
Jason Isbell Reunions
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?
Joey Badass B4.DA.$$
Jon Brion Lady Bird OST
Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread OST
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Julia Holter Aviary
Julien Baker Little Oblivions
Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo
Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem American Dream
Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas
Linkin Park Meteora
Lord Huron Vide Noir
Lorde Pure Heroine
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Mac DeMarco Salad Days
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
Massive Attack Blue Lines
Massive Attack Protection
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Melody's Echo Chamber Bon Voyage
Men I Trust Oncle Jazz
mewithoutYou [Untitled]
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
MGMT Little Dark Age
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Nirvana Nevermind
Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves
Parquet Courts Wide Awake
Perfume Genius No Shape
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt!
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
Pixies Bossanova
Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud
Portugal. The Man Evil Friends
Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
PVRIS White Noise
Queens of the Stone Age Villains
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Real Estate Real Estate
Real Estate Days
Real Estate Atlas
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy
Royal Blood Royal Blood
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
Run the Jewels RTJ4
Sampha Process
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)
Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone
Spoon They Want My Soul
Spoon Hot Thoughts
St. Vincent Strange Mercy
St. Vincent St. Vincent
St. Vincent Masseduction
Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension
The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
The Cure Pornography
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Cure Faith
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure Wish
The Killers Sam's Town
The National I Am Easy to Find
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths The Smiths
The Smiths Meat Is Murder
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come
The Voidz Virtue
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
The White Stripes The White Stripes
The White Stripes Icky Thump
The xx xx
The xx I See You
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
Tool Undertow
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool Fear Inoculum
Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
Tyler, the Creator IGOR
Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
UNKLE War Stories
Vampire Weekend Contra
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind

3.5 great
ABBA ABBA Gold
Adele 25
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color
alt-J This Is All Yours
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP
Beck Colors
Blur The Magic Whip
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn
Brockhampton Iridescence
Brockhampton Ginger
Bruno Mars 24K Magic
Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1
Cam Untamed
Catfish and the Bottlemen The Balcony
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun
COIN How Will You Know If You Never Try
Coin go for a more synthpop-focused album than their debut LP and the end result is a better album. My favorite tracks are "Talk Too Much", "Lately II" and "Feeling".
Converge The Dusk in Us
Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit
Not at good as what the critics are saying about this album, but still a really good album.
Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi
Death Grips Bottomless Pit
Deftones Gore
Demi Lovato Confident
Denzel Curry Zuu
Depeche Mode Spirit
Destroyer Ken
Don Henley Cass County
Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
EL VY Return to the Moon
Ellie Goulding Delirium
Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood
Faith No More Sol Invictus
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold
Foster the People Torches
Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending
Gorillaz Humanz
Green Day Revolution Radio
Greta Van Fleet Black Smoke Rising
Grizzly Bear Shields
Harry Styles Harry Styles
Highly Suspect The Boy Who Died Wolf
Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression
Key tracks: Paraguay, Gardenia, German Days, Sunday
Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A)
Interpol Marauder
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
Jay-Z 4:44
Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Joywave How Do You Feel Now?
Joywave Content
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material
Kaleo A/B
Pretty good album. Check out the harder tracks like "No Good" and "Glass House", as well as the more subtle tracks like "All the Pretty Girls".
Kanye West ye
Katie Pruitt Expectations
Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down...
Leon Bridges Coming Home
Lewis Del Mar Lewis Del Mar
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
An album that is mostly enjoyable and proves that Linkin Park still has it.
Lo Moon Lo Moon
Logic The Incredible True Story
Lorde Melodrama
Lori McKenna The Bird & The Rifle
Maddie and Tae Start Here
Maggie Rogers Now That The Light Is Fading
Maren Morris Hero
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor
Mat Kearney Just Kids
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Miguel Wildheart
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves
Muse Drones
My Morning Jacket The Waterfall
Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats
Nirvana Bleach
Nirvana In Utero
Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Paramore After Laughter
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt
Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo
PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
Radiohead The Bends
Real Estate In Mind
Rihanna ANTI
Rina Sawayama Sawayama
Rise Against Wolves
Robert DeLong In the Cards
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark?
Royal Blood's second album is a slight sophomore slump (emphasis on 'slight') that still has some enjoyable tracks.
Ryan Adams Prisoner
Seether Poison The Parish
Sevendust Kill the Flaw
Tame Impala The Slow Rush
Taylor Swift Folklore
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation
The Killers Day & Age
The National The National
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
The Shins Heartworms
The Strokes The New Abnormal
The Struts Everybody Wants
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
The Weeknd Starboy
Overall, another satisfying album from Mr. Tesfaye. I may even prefer this to Beauty Behind the Madness. I recommend Starboy, Party Monster, False Alarm, Rockin', Sidewalks and Reminder.
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes De Stijl
The xx Coexist
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride
Walk the Moon Talking is Hard
The highlights are "Different Colors", "Sidekick", "Shut Up and Dance", "Portugal", "Work This Body", and "Spend This $$$".
Weezer The White Album
William Michael Morgan Vinyl
"Missing", "I Met a Girl" and "Lonesomeville" are all great country songs. If you do like your country to be traditional (rather than the "metro country" phase that it's going now), this album is for you.
Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool
Young the Giant Young the Giant

3.0 good
21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin Without Warning
Adam Lambert The Original High
alt-J Relaxer
Arcade Fire Everything Now
Atlas Genius Inanimate Objects
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
blink-182 California
Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect
Breaking Benjamin Ember
Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L
Production and vocal-wise, it's great; it's the lyrics that bring the album down.
Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty
Liking this new Black Keys album, but where's the new Cage the Elephant album?
Carrie Underwood Storyteller
COIN Coin
Cold War Kids LA Divine
Darius Rucker Southern Style
Disturbed Immortalized
Drake Views
Views is a decent album, and Drake once again shows that he can both rap and sing well, but the album is overlong.
Dreamers This Album Does Not Exist
Based on the first two singles (Wolves and Drugs), these guys had a lot of potential. But
several of the tracks do not really live up to these songs. The album is decent guitar-
driven indie rock, but besides those greats two tracks, "Lucky Dog" and "Shooting Shadows"
(though "Painkiller", "Sweet Disaster", "Cry out for Me" and "Little New Moon" were good as
well), the remaining few tracks could have been better.
FFS FFS
G-Eazy When It's Dark Out
The first half of the album is pretty good, but it wears out towards the end. Key tracks: Random,
Me, Myself & I, One of Them, Calm Down, Don't Let Me Go, Nothing to Me
Greta Van Fleet From the Fires
Hillsong United Empires
Incubus (USA-CA) 8
Jack U Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U
James Bay Chaos And The Calm
Linkin Park Living Things
Meek Mill Dreams Worth More Than Money
Once again, what could have been an excellent album was watered down by some poor lyrics. Production and flow is very good though.
Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind
Nickelback Feed the Machine
Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor
Passion Pit Kindred
Pierce the Veil Misadventures
Portugal. The Man Woodstock
Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway
Ryan Adams 1989
Shinedown Threat to Survival
Fans will love this, but those who are looking more of the "Sound of Madness" sound may be disappointed.
Silversun Pickups Better Nature
Stone Sour Hydrograd
The Avett Brothers True Sadness
The Killers Battle Born
The Killers Wonderful Wonderful
The Lumineers Cleopatra
tobyMac This Is Not A Test
Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
Wilco Star Wars
Yelawolf Love Story
Young the Giant Home Of The Strange
Zedd True Colors

2.5 average
Alice Merton No Roots
I've got no roo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooots, I've got no roo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooots
Bishop Briggs Bishop Briggs
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams
Elle King Love Stuff
Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction
Includes some of their stronger cuts like "Battle Born" and "Far from Home", but also includes a decent amount of their poorer stuff like most of the Got Your Six singles and "Lift Me Up". And their cover of "Gone Away" does not do justice to the original at all.
Future DS2
Jason Derulo Everything Is 4
Joseph I'm Alone, No You're Not
Aside from "SOS (Overboard)" and maybe some other tracks, this album is boring and generic.
Justin Bieber Purpose
Kesha Rainbow
Kobra and the Lotus Prevail I
Korn The Serenity of Suffering
lovelytheband Everything I Could Never Say...
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
Nickelback Dark Horse
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth
Puddle of Mudd Stuck
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Rae Sremmurd SremmLife
Three Days Grace Human
Until The Ribbon Breaks Until the Ribbon Breaks
Weezer Pacific Daydream
Zac Brown Band Jekyll + Hyde

2.0 poor
3 Doors Down Us and the Night
Adelitas Way Notorious
Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire
Black Veil Brides Rebels
Catfish and the Bottlemen The Ride
Sophomore slump. Aside from "Twice" and maybe a few other tracks, this isn't very good.
Eminem Revival
Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six
Another average album from this band. "Boots and Blood" is terrible. If you want to listen to decent rock music, skip this and listen to Highly Suspect's "Mister Asylum" instead.
Five Finger Death Punch F8
Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers
Highly Suspect MCID
Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead
Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE
Linkin Park One More Light
Luke Bryan Kill the Lights
Meghan Trainor Title
Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage
Saint Asonia Saint Asonia
Sam Hunt Montevallo
Skillet Unleashed
Through Fire Breathe
Duplicate albums = more objectivity boost!
Walk Through Fire Breathe
Duplicate albums = more objectivity boost!
X Ambassadors VHS
A snooze fest, "VHS" consists mostly of filler tracks, and only "Renegades" and "Jungle" were outstanding. Not even Imagine Dragons could save this record.

1.5 very poor
Ded FMFY
Ded Mis-An-Thrope
Deuce Nine Lives
Dirty Heads Swim Team
"Vacation" is one of the worst hit songs of the year, and it's not like the rest of this is any better.
Fall Out Boy M A N I A
Hinder Extreme Behavior
Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
Meghan Trainor Thank You
Sleeping With Sirens Gossip
Three Days Grace Outsider
Basically a worse version of Human. Tracks like "Right Left Wrong", "Me Against You" and "The New Real" are just crap.

EDIT: How does this have a better average than that album? I know it's just a 0.1 difference, but still.
XXXTENTACION 17
XXXTENTACION ?
Zac Brown Band The Owl

1.0 awful
6ix9ine DAY69
I did not like XXXTentacion's debut album released last year. That was a masterpiece compared to this.
93Punx 93Punx
AJR The Click
AJR Neotheater
If their intention was to make an album that's worse than The Click, then they've succeeded. Why alternative radio continues to love these guys is beyond me.
Buckcherry Fuck
Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core
Doofus Wainwright Are Shit
Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None
"Sham Pain" is in the running to be one of the worst songs of the year.

EDIT: And it's not even the worst song on this.
Gang of Four Complicit
Jake Paul and Team 10 Litmas
Judah and the Lion Folk Hop N' Roll
There are some decent tracks here like "Forever Always", "Insane" and "Better Man", but the bad tracks outweigh what good these songs have. "Folk-Hop Sound", "Reputation", "We Own the Night" and "Uh-Huh, Yeah!" are all horrendous. The deluxe edition comes with a remix of "Take It All Back" and a bonus track.
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. Collector's Edition
Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings
There are some good tracks, like "And I Love Her" and "Reverb Experiment", but this as a whole is an album Cobain wouldn't have want to be released. Several of the tracks have Cobain's voice altered greatly, and it doesn't do justice to him. Strangely, the better tracks are the ones without Cobain singing.
me&me Playdough Cooked in Tea
Nostalgia Critic The Wall
Sachiko M Bar Sachiko
Didn't even make it past the five minute mark of this, because what I heard is what I'll hear for the rest of the album. And it's just noise.
Sam Hunt Southside
SEVEN POINT SIX FROM PITCHFORK Y'ALL
Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest
Soggy Butt Queef The Ass-Shank Redemption
Who the hell thought this was a great idea to make this?
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence
Thirty Seconds to Mars America
Your prayers were not answered.
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