Man, it's great to have the Beyonce back who really wants it. Though the collaboration list is a mile long, that voice is the star: vocally, this is easily the best album of the year. But best of all, she finally sounds like she has something she wants to sing about: Jay-Z, being married to Jay-Z, having Jay-Z's baby...
#39. Suuns - Zeroes QC
A dark, oily prog-krautrock machine: the musical equivalent to a Xenomorph. It's insane that a debut album can sound as inventive as this, especially as it's also so carefully edited.
#38. Grooms - Prom
There's no way an album with that title, featuring the lyrics '17 is the whole world / In my room / The Smiths and girls', made by two people who met on Friendster should be any good at all. And yet, the first time I listened to Prom, I let it loop twenty times before I put something else on.
#37. Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
The return of the rapper-as-poet. Paints an impressionist picture of a generation of bored, disenfranchised 'crack babies' losing themselves in meaningless sex and casual drug use, via snapshots of parties, hangouts and encounters. ADHD is the rap single of the year, comfortably.
#36. Liturgy – Aesthetica
The best, funniest way to become the most blogged about black metal band of the year? Be absolutely the opposite of everyone else in your scene, piss off everyone by being totally unapologetic about this, and then be better than everyone else.
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