Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Old Danny Brown ★★½ 54 Hip-Hop Old is both a step forward (Side A) and a step back (Side B) for Danny Brown. Compared to XXX, the production’s more electronic, dynamic and gripping, even though Danny continues to tackle (or maybe exploit is a better word) dark themesContinue reading “Old – Danny Brown”
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Pure Heroine – Lorde ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Pure Heroine Lorde ★★★★ 80 Pop Indie Pop Pure Heroine offers everything you could possibly want from an indie pop record. Written and recorded when Lorde was 15 and 16 years old, the album displays the expertise a young musician would have growing up through the social mediaContinue reading “Pure Heroine – Lorde ★★★★”
AM – Arctic Monkeys ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 AM Arctic Monkeys ★★★½ 73 Rock Alternative Rock Sometimes there are albums that make a big impression when they come out, with a lingering impact and high level of nostalgia it can generate that goes beyond the actual quality of the record itself. AM, the Arctic Monkeys’ 2013Continue reading “AM – Arctic Monkeys ★★★½”
Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend ★★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend ★★★★★ 95 Rock Indie Pop Chamber Pop Listening to Modern Vampires of the City feels like being warmed by the sun at the beach on the first perfectly warm spring morning of the year. Maybe you’re thinking about the job you’reContinue reading “Modern Vampires of the City – Vampire Weekend ★★★★★”
Trouble will Find Me – The National ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Trouble Will Find Me The National ★★★★ 86 Rock Alternative Rock Chamber Pop Trouble Will Find Me might not be my all time favorite album by The National (I still think Boxer has the slight edge), but it probably best represents all there is to love about theContinue reading “Trouble will Find Me – The National ★★★★”
Yeezus – Kanye West ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Yeezus Kanye West ★★★★ 81 Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop Electronic R&B Kanye West was on quite a run heading into 2013: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010, Watch The Throne in 2011 and Cruel Summer in 2012 showcased his skills as a producer, a lyricist, a curator ofContinue reading “Yeezus – Kanye West ★★★★”
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Run The Jewels Run The Jewels ★★★★ 80 Hip-Hop In 2013, respected by at-the-time essentially forgotten hip-hop veterans Killer Mike and EL-P joined forces to form Run The Jewels. Together, they created an album that felt 100 percent authentic to them and was sonically different from the trappyContinue reading “Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels ★★★★”
Random Access Memories – Daft Punk ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Random Access Memories Daft Punk ★★★★ 86 Electronic Dance-Pop Disco I remember listening to Random Access Memories the night it came out in 2013 and being blown away. One of the most acclaimed electronic groups of all time — in putting out one of the most anticipated electronicContinue reading “Random Access Memories – Daft Punk ★★★★”
Settle – Disclosure ★★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Settle Disclosure ★★★★½ 92 Electronic House Synthpop It’s fitting that Disclosure’s debut album came out less than three weeks after Daft Punk’s final album. Disclosure’s Settle is, I think, as close to perfect as a house record can get, while Daft Punk, one of the genre’s titans, putContinue reading “Settle – Disclosure ★★★★½”
…Like Clockwork – Queens of the Stone Age ★★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 …Like Clockwork Queens of the Stone Age ★★★★★ 97 Rock Alternative Rock When it’s all said and done, I know Songs for the Deaf will go down as Queens of the Stone Age’s crowning achievement, a breakout album filled with edgy riffs, sometimes operatic vocals, and raw, hardContinue reading “…Like Clockwork – Queens of the Stone Age ★★★★★”
Fresh Out The Deli 