The Morning Benders - Big Echo

8.0

seafaring, changing leaves, blurred out days, gales, bitter blast

Standouts:

"Excuses"

"Promises"

"Wet Cement"

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

8.0

revelations, well-traveled, dilapidated, upper, sleaze

Standouts:

"Higher Ground"

"Living for the City"

"All in Love is Fair"

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Natural Resources

8.3

one people, opened eyes, arm in arm, wash over, shout from the mountaintops

Standouts:

"I'm in Love"

"Take a Look"

"Love, Guess Who"

Miguel - Wildheart

8.0

young at heart, piece of heaven, in a blaze, passing over, Cali coast

Standouts:

"coffee"

"DEAL"

"leaves"

The National - High Violet

8.9

retreat, flotsam, rising water, moribund, up on high

Standouts:

"Runaway"

"Sorrow"

"Bloodbuzz Ohio"

A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP

8.3

drop dead, old-fashioned, concupiscence, enterprise, the latest

Standouts:

"Fashion Killa"

"Goldie"

"1 Train"

Frank Ocean - Blonde

8.0

pure soul, nonconformity, night owl, mind over matter, juggled self

Standouts:

"Pink + White"

"Self Control"
"Nikes"

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

8.6

short memory, no regrets, self-sacrifice, sunward, pleasure is mine

Standouts:

"Don't Look Back in Anger"

"Cast No Shadow"

"Wonderwall"

Dan Deacon - America

8.8

flighty, plummeting, interplanetary, radial, overload

Standouts:

"Prettyboy"

"USA I: Is a Monster"

"USA II: The Great American Desert"

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand

8.2

through the darkness, vista, submerged, high altitude, grace

Standouts:

"Feet-Like Fins"

"Lazy Calm"

"The Thinner the Air"

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

8.0

world love, pump up, honor, progressives, color politics

Standouts:

"Revolutionary Generation"

"Fight the Power"

"Anti-Nigger Machine"

Amy Winehouse - Frank

8.0

disheartened, puppet, cast aside, cozy up, my weakness

Standouts:

"You Sent Me Flying"

"Stronger Than Me"

"Moody's Mood for Love"

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

8.8

back where it started, sweeping, war-torn, where the heart is, anchors

Standouts:

"The Last Living Rose"

"England"

"On Battleship Hill"

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

8.3

dissolve, reform, mucky, hazard zone, angelic

Standouts:

"Black Milk"

"Dissolved Girl"

"Teardrop"

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

8.5

hyperattentive, mature audience, fantasizer, River Styx, sepulchre

Standouts:

"Kinski Assassin"

"Only in My Dreams"

"Live It Up"

Dan Deacon - Bromst

8.7

ghost stories, break of dawn, same road, musical alchemy, spastic

Standouts:

"Slow With Horns/Run for Your Life"

"Woof Woof"

"Build Voice"

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

8.8

honoring, dusty road, real admiration, conquered, star of the screen

Standouts:

"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

"Jamaica Jerk-Off"

"Candle in the Wind"

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

8.0

celestial, extracorporeal, eternity, feet wet, night wanderer

Standouts:

"715 - CRΣΣKS"

"666 ʇ"

"8 (circle)"

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles III

8.4

cavern, violence, infantile, realm of the dead, safeguard

Standouts:

"Affection"
"Wrath of God"

"Kerosene"

Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

8.7

lighthearted, something different, lively, served, no strings attached

Standouts:

"Asleep on a Sunbeam"

"Piazza, New York Catcher"

"If You Find Yourself Caught in Love"

The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death

8.0

lavish life, futility, beef, blown money, indiscreet

Standouts:

"Somebody's Gotta Die"

"Mo Money Mo Problems"

"Hypnotize"

Aphex Twin - SYRO

8.6

imagining, club mix, berserker, melting, ghoulish

Standouts:

"xmas_EVET10 [120] [thanaton3 mix]"

"CIRCLONT6A [141.98] [syrobonkus mix]"

"produk 29 [101]"

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap

8.5

young boy, in a dream, out in space, languor, bumps in the road

Standouts:

"It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career"

"The Rollercoaster Ride"

"Is It Wicked Not to Care?"

Aphex Twin - Drukqs

8.0

tranquil, encryption, scenic day, haywire, skating

Standouts:

"Avril 14th"

"Jynweythek"

"Ziggomatic 17"

Beck - Sea Change

9.4

melancholy, downturn, winding road, futility, sunburst

Standouts:

"Paper Tiger"

"End of the Day"

"The Golden Age"

2Pac - All Eyez on Me

8.1

stressed out, ridah, best coast, money on my mind, life goes on

Standouts:

"All About U"

"Life Goes On"

"Thug Passion"

Tame Impala - Currents

8.7

relive, shifting, in due time, groovin', don't wanna know

Standouts:

"Let It Happen"

"The Less I Know the Better"

"Eventually"

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

8.6

off and away, brink, dripping, bring it back, in the dark

Standouts:

"Black Dog"

"Stairway to Heaven"

"When the Levee Breaks"

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

9.1

passing, destination, long way, hooked, smile

Standouts:

"Celebration Day"

"That's the Way"

"Since I've Been Loving You"

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

8.8

my baby, rambunctious, can't help it, burning man, round and round

Standouts:

"Whole Lotta Love"

"Thank You"

"Ramble On"

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

8.7

ablaze, fate, grounded, discombobulated, good times

Standouts:

"You Shook Me"

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"

"Your Time Is Gonna Come"

Grimes - Art Angels

8.0

abandon, freakout, blinding, dream girl, transcendence

Standouts:

"Belly of the Beat"

"Venus Fly"

"Realiti"

Tame Impala - Lonerism

8.4

daydream, fantasy, regression, lonely old me, sun daze

Standouts:

"Mind Mischief"

"Feels Like We Only Go Backwards"

"Elephant"

Green Day - Nimrod

8.0

grump, bothered, road ahead, bitterness, interrupted

Standouts:

"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

"Redundant"

"Worry Rock"

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

8.7

light, spatial, obedient, lost in time, crashing down

Standouts:

"Decks Dark"

"The Numbers"

"Burn the Witch"

Nas - Life Is Good

8.0

rewind, New York kid, fallen comrades, life to the fullest, moving on

Standouts:

"Accident Murderers"

"Stay"

"Cherry Wine"

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

8.2

freebird, rock and roll, brash, languid, on a spree

Standouts:

"Live Forever"

"Columbia"

"Supersonic"

Blood Orange - Freetown Sound

8.6

heritage, embrace, beautiful woman, her and her guy, walls inside me

Standouts:

"Best to You"

"But You"

"Hands Up"

Foals - Total Life Forever

8.5

seeing the world, dim future, bells tolling, below the surface, be there

Standouts:

"Miami"

"Blue Blood"

"Spanish Sahara"

U2 - Achtung Baby

8.3

dying love, awash, it's you, deceived, untamable

Standouts:

"So Cruel"

"Even Better Than the Real Thing"

"Zoo Station"

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

8.8

can't live with, can't live without, jocular, beware, poison, wrong track

Standouts:

"You Know I'm No Good"

"Tears Dry on Their Own"

"Rehab"

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

8.7

concession, unconscious, tongue-in-cheek, slow and steady, beautifully engineered blaring

Standouts:

"Dance Yrself Clean"

"I Can Change"

"Drunk Girls"

The National - Boxer

8.6

friend, years ago, wordsmith, falling night, like in a dream

Standouts:

"Fake Empire"

"Apartment Story"

"Gospel"

Beyonce - Lemonade

8.5

inner hood, trial, Southern roots, as one, thirst

Standouts:

"Sorry"

"Pray You Catch Me"

"6 Inch"

Jay-Z - The Blueprint

8.1

big-headed, balling, loyalty, Latin, street-raised

Standouts:

"Girls, Girls, Girls"

"Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"

"Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)"

Grimes - Visions

8.2

software, mystical, instinctive, metaphysical, esoteric

Standouts:

"Genesis"

"Vowels = Space and Time"

"Oblivion"

Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars

9.0

light in her eyes, in the sky, into the night, grateful, imaginary

Standouts:

"Majorette"

"The Traveller"

"Elegy to the Void"

D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah

8.8

backtrack, grasping, salvation, uprise, real

Standouts:

"Sugah Daddy"

"The Charade"

"Really Love"

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle

8.2

unspectacular, frustrated, misfit, drive off, burst of light

Standouts:

"Last Call"

"No Name #1"

"Drive All Over Town"

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

9.9

concern, worry, turbulent times, faith, love

Standouts:

"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"

"Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)"

"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"