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Make landfall on the most luxurious landfill in the middle of the ocean where everything is made from synthetic materials. Even the instruments composing the album sound like plastic (with the exception of sweeping orchestral strings). It's beautiful, yet clearly corrupted past a returning point. Is this the future we're hurdling towards?

Released in the same year as MM...FOOD, MF DOOM and producer Madlib take an even stranger approach to the fun they had on the aforementioned record. While it's still all good fun, there's more of a focus on the superhero theme.

Been country. Over the course of these 22 tracks (plus 5 interludes) Beyonce takes us back through the origin of country music, similar to how she does with dance music on Renaissance, in a way that only Beyonce's level of artistry can. Featuring several fantastic features from the likes of Dolly Patron, Shaboozey, Miley Cyrus, Willie Jones, and Post Malone. A seamless listen that twists and turns in a manner that's difficult to stop once it gets started.

The Downward Spiral is a narrative detailing a character's path towards his own self-destruction. It's sonically and lyrically detailed, and showcases the fusion of industrial music with rock at it's finest. Once you start the record it's difficult to stop no matter how badly you want to. Each listen holds something new to discover.

On the cover, Caroline Polachek is crawling out of a subway train car onto the sand of an unseen desert climate. Escapism and romance are the primary themes on Desire, this album is dreamy in every sense of the world, and several songs are woven into each other making it a very rewarding album to relisten.

GOJIRA returns with a message of environmentalism and mindfulness. It's also heavy as FUCK.

Wanna see something disturbing? After NIN concluded their 3-year long tour for their debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, they were sick to their stomach of how tame that album was and asked of by their label to make another album that was even more radio-friendly than PHM. So instead they sought out to make the most vile piece of media possible. I won't say where, but there exists a terrifying and very graphic promotional short film that never was released that acts as a 20 minute snuff-film this EP soundtracks. You can really go without it, though, this EP still rocks.

Charli XCX has become the posterchild of the PC Music trend that emerged out of the later 2010's, and Charli is the artist emerging from her cocoon fully formed with the iconic multicolored bob showing everything the PC Music sound has to offer. The sticker on the album says "The Best Album You'll Ever Hear!".

The villain in the mask delivers 48 minutes of lyrical acrobatics over anthemic beats with a common theme of snacks and Saturday morning cartoon.

Ghost was founded conceptually as a rock band from the 70's that passed everyone by and was only recently discovered, like a found-footage genre film. As the cover might suggest, it's very gothic and witchy aesthetically and dripping with satanic and occultist references in the lyrics. Later to be referred to a Scooby-Doo chase music, which is laughably accurate. Still fun, though!

Blur's Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett combine forces for an eclectic record founded on creative compositions and collaborations that otherwise wouldn't have worked in his band. Hewlett's illustrations also contribute to the fascinating lore of the imaginary band.

After the success of Kylie's 2001 album Fever it would have been easy to deliver more of the same danceable electro-pop, but Kylie took a left turn. Make no mistake, Body Language is still a dance album at it's core, but it takes much more influence from Electronic Body Music (EBM) of the 80's making a much more diverse sonic pallet to work with. It might take a few listens, but it's quite addictive once you finally break through.

ScHoolboy Q is one of the most interesting rappers to emerge from the TDE camp in the 2010's. Groovy Q's entire brand was solidified on Habits & Contradictions, and Oxymoron is a continuation of the contradictions as the title may suggest.

El-P and Killer Mike team up on the first of the iconic duo's several self-titled albums. Social justice has never sounded so badass, these two are like gruff motorcyclists (that are also rappers) who volunteer at animal shelters to take care of kittens.

Where Kesha had showed signs of her maturity from rowdy pop girl to womanhood in her two prior albums, Rainbow & High Road, she was still having fun then. Gag Order is not a fun album, instead it's a meditation on the dissonance Kesha experiences in her mind and why she can't seem to free herself from the abuse she is still haunted by.

Elton John has always loved rock & roll and western aesthetics, on Captain Fantastic he combines these themes with his own flamboyant fanaticism to create a body of work that's bigger than life, but firmly rooted in the soil beneath it's boots.

Sonny Moore (AKA Skrillex) finally returns on an alleged Quest For Fire with a whole lot of ammunition. He debuted in 2010, but he's still here with the ones that he came with.

Charli XCX's second mixtape after coalescing with PC music marks Charli's most experimental project since the celebrated Vroom Vroom EP. Here Charli plays the part of a female AI singer grappling with what would ordinarily be trivial themes of love, intimacy, and friendship that she finds difficult to wrap her wires around.

Enter through the gate into a world of fantasy, one that's all too familiar to this world yet built on the foundation of a raincloud where time is slowed and memories replay. Pang! is a dreamy artpop album with songs showcasing Caroline's siren-like voice that compliments the equally fluttery production.

Before Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, was known for photoshopping his creepy face everywhere, he was making melodic electronic music with schizophrenic drum patterns that are as dizzying to listen to as they are groovy.

We follow Danny Brown through his seemingly never-ending waking nightmare he calls his life. His mind is constantly at odds with him, trauma from his past eats away at his psyche, and his body demands substances that destroy him. We've seen his self-destructive behavior before and showered him with applauded, this downward spiral is his standing ovation.

Early 2000's Eurodance bliss. While not quite the smash back into mainstream stardom that was Light Years, Fever catapults Kylie back into the forefront of the pop world with the catchiest and most irresistible songs she had to offer.

The best piece of Batman media that seemingly has nothing to do with Batman despite it's name and 1989 movie clips peppered throughout. Strangely enough, Batman is like every Prince album up to this point in summation. The best way to get into Prince is through Batman.

GOJIRA spins sadness into salvation on their most uplifting, yet crushing record built on catchy hooks and pummeling riffs.

BRAT is fun! BRAT talks shit. BRAT acts mean. BRAT will follow you to the bathroom. BRAT is, well, bratty! BRAT is also insecure, emotionally volatile, yearning for stability, and eager to settle down and start a new life. While BRAT makes its modus operandi abundantly clear, it also seeks to be everything that BRAT is not. BRAT is complicated. BRAT is human.

Renaissance is a love-letter to dance music. A modern throwback album (one of many) that punctuates on loving yourself and others, relinquishing yourself of negativity, and being part of her "exclusive" social inner-circle all through dance.

During 2020, we experienced what I like to call 'quarantine-disco' as a ton of dance albums came out while everyone was locked inside. This album is no exception, but definitely one of the best the year had to offer.

While not groundbreaking, it does take an approach to 2000's electro-pop and R&B in a very roundabout way thanks to Timbaland & Timberlake's eclectic production and songwriting. This album stands as a time capsule of Justin and Timbaland at the top of their respective game.

Fun, cute, danceable, glittery, Kylie. The sound of dance-pop in the 80's.

This album was supposedly created to replace a different album scheduled for release, but deemed "evil" by Prince.

How does a white boy making frat-raps break back into the 2013 rap underground? By building a psychedelic playground of an album embracing its most essential artists.

Janet at the top of her game and comes dangerously close to stealing the crown from her brother.

Florence Welch finally stops singing about water and embraces the fact that she is a witch.

This is like a forbidden romance novel by Dr. Seuss.

There are many rapper-producer duos that were matches made in heaven (Snoop & Dre, Jay-Z & Kanye, Future & Metro Booming, Killer Mike & El-P...), and Madlib and Gibbs happen to be one of them.

The Weeknd focusing on the 80th new-wave sound that he flourished in on his previous album, After Hours, but with a concept of a radio station leading to the afterlife.

What happens Madonna has a kid and finds out about Buddhism? An electro-pop dance album with a shocking level of depth.

Effortlessly fun songs dabbling in themes of masculinity, sexuality, and queer culture.

Salacious, wholesome, badass, and feminine all at the same time over textured gardens of electronics courtesy of producers Sega Bodega, Mura Masa, and Arca.