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first listen was at work on a really chaotic and awful day, but playing this loud on the speakers in the restaurant before service turned my awful day into a great one. good to have the album of the summer already, and no doubt a contender for the big one, aoty.
THE LATIN KING

i <3 my drone girlies

wacced out murals > squabbled up > luther is the greatest three-song run of the year
and hey now > reincarnated > tv off is a close second

i think everyone can relate to the fear of mediocrity when a favourite band of theirs releases their first album in x amount of years, but this is insane, it's like they never stopped. wow.

YEE HAW BABY

happy to return to this band. maybe i was wrong in dissing that ep and ignoring the last two lps from them? will investigate...

so beyond any of the black midi albums, 'the magician' is just... wow

insanely strong debut, a lot of my favourite outkast tracks are on this album. especially player's ball

H-O-T T-O G-O

YOU CAN TAKE ME HOT TO GOOOO

'the glow pt 2' is great and all, but this is my fav.

one of my favourite rap projects from the last few years, shout out to jeff weiss, and extra big shout out to HYD for putting me onto this

yeah this goes insane, shame they haven't sounded this good since.

really wish we had gotten to hear more solo material from him, the most underrated beach boy.

just disregard ocean man as a meme, it's a great song, and this album fucking rocks. go listen to it.

no one writes indie pop like malkmus.

the soundtrack to the summer i graduated high school. nostalgia is absolutely a factor in this score, but i don't care.

the only good album by the xx. a modern classic.

kicked off the ukg revival, all killer no filler.

sleaze rock extraordinaire, with a big springsteen influence, easily his best.

how do people still not give danny brown enough love?

indie twang perfection.

one of my most played albums of the year so far, gendel's sax and nascimento's guitar marry perfectly on this.

I GET IT NOW. SORRY IT TOOK THIS LONG.

julia holter's pivot from straight baroque pop to this experimental, transcendental pop she's doing on this album has to be one of the greatest artistic evolutions in recent memory.