The Beatles - Beatles for Sale

8.0

in shrouds, dejected, arms joined, day's fade, outpour

Standouts:

"I'll Follow the Sun"

"Baby's in Black"

"Eight Days a Week"

Drake - Views

8.0

blow to ego, mental health break, different level, carry-on baggage, high price tag

Standouts:

"One Dance"

"U With Me?"

"Weston Road Flows"

Fiona Apple - Tidal

8.9

shades, stormy weather, wet behind the ears, encircling, losing the battle

Standouts:

"The Child Is Gone"

"Never Is a Promise"

"Shadowboxer"

Crocodiles - Summer of Hate

8.2

creation, sweltering, embattled, degeneration, raising hell

Standouts:

"Sleeping with the Lord"

"Flash of Light"

"I Wanna Kill"

John Lennon - Walls and Bridges

8.0

a world of hurt, hair raised, free from the clutches, closed eyes, cordons

Standouts:

"What You Got"

"Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"

"Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)"

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

8.0

ionic, cyphered, leave of senses, fine material, blip

Standouts:

"Knights"

"Vanished"

"Tell Me What to Swallow"

The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir

8.3

dust clearing, canticle, panache, mixed bag, made lemonade, cozy and warm

Standouts:

"'14: I Wish I Had Pictures"

"'86: How I Failed Ethics"

"'71: I Think I'll Make Another World"

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

8.5

my sunshine, kept in, a go-go, crusade, jump ship

Standouts:

"Intervention"

"No Cars Go"

"(Antichrist Television Blues)"

Wilco - Summerteeth

8.5

sonic radius, galaxy, rocket away, obstacle course, for dear life

Standouts:

"Via Chicago"

"I'm Always in Love"

"We're Just Friends"

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

8.8

run them down, silky, slip out, same cloth, apple of one's eye

Standouts:

"Brown Sugar"

"Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine"

"Alright"

John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

8.0

little ones, skeptic, grassroots, gazing, primordial love

Standouts:

"Love"

"Look at Me"

"God"

Prince and the Revolution - Parade

8.2

orchard, promenade, pastures, shooting stars, chérie 

Standouts:

"Mountains"

"Kiss"

"Sometimes It Snows in April"

The Who - Who's Next

8.7

stray thing, finders keepers, desolation, losers weepers, fanfare

Standouts:

"Won't Get Fooled Again"

"My Wife"

"Baba O'Riley"

Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever

8.3

clear visibility, off the hinge, dark days, bearing the torch, living hell

Standouts:

"Little Ghetto Boys"

"Triumph"

"Black Shampoo"

Atlas Sound - Parallax

8.4

halo, vector, scales, airhead, centrifugal

Standouts:

"Parallax"

"Te Amo"

"Lightworks"

Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance

8.5

fluttering by, crystalline days, accompanied, unsettled dust, retroactivity

Standouts:

"Strangers"

"Remember Our Days"

"Monoliths"

Mobb Deep - The Infamous

8.6

battleground, watchful eye, heart thumping, stared death, to the quick

Standouts:

"Shook Ones, Pt. II"

"Up North Trip"

"The Start of Your Ending (41st Side)"

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II

8.0

writhing, set straight, kicking ass, disarm, tear-stained

Standouts:

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

"Estranged"

"14 Years"

The National - Sleep Well Beast

8.7

dawn light, admission, short out, innermost depths, just us two

Standouts:

"Nobody Else Will Be There"

"Born to Beg"

"I'll Still Destroy You"

Judee Sill - Heart Food

8.9

in a flash, scrapper, down yonder, dusty road, dying spark

Standouts:

"Down Where the Valleys Are Low"

"The Vigilante"

"There's a Rugged Road"

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

8.3

love supreme, soldiers for peace, bitchface, hard knocks, superfly

Standouts:

"Bowtie"

"Hey Ya!"

"A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre"

Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal

8.7

dominion, mausoleum, astral travel, high order, convent

Standouts:

"Avatar"

"Indoctrination (A Design for Living)"

"Advent"

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

8.5

don, waits for no one, only the finest, the firm, raising stakes

Standouts:

"Dead Presidents II"

"Can't Knock the Hustle"

"Feelin' It"

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

8.2

setting off, northbound, idyll, standpoint, illuminated path

Standouts:

"Timothy Grub"

"Glow Worms"

"Jog Along Bess"

Aaliyah - One in a Million

8.4

gift that keeps on giving, sent from above, specialist, know every inch, unsealed

Standouts:

"4 Page Letter"

"One in a Million"

"Choosey Lover (Old School/New School)"

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

8.7

in a haze, social decline, insatiable, an excursion, trial and error

Standouts:

"First Night"

"Girls Like Status"

"You Can Make Him Like You"

Zola Jesus - Okovi

8.5

forsaken, transfigured, basin, cold and dead, hollows

Standouts:

"Witness"

"Soak"

"Wiseblood"

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

9.1

towards the night sky, upon a time, laid out, blinding shine, have to see

Standouts:

"Nothing to Find"

"You Don't Have to Go"

"Strangest Thing"

Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat

8.8

awe-inspired, herald angels, precious slumber, child of the light, born anew

Standouts:

"Morning Has Broken"

"Peace Train"
"Changes IV"

Robyn - Robyn

9.3

the baddest, bodywork, captain of this ship, thunderclap, without a prayer

Standouts:

"Handle Me"

"With Every Heartbeat"

"Cobrastyle"

Neon Indian - Era Extrana

8.0

diffusion, falter, landfall, amplifier circuit, relief mission

Standouts:

"Arcade Blues"

"Halogen (I Could Be a Shadow)"

"Hex Girlfriend"

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues

8.3

secure ground, failure to communicate, spiral, defamiliarization, tubular

Standouts:

"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"

"Making Flippy Floppy"

"Girlfriend is Better"

The Who - The Who Sell Out

8.4

hard bargain, over-the-counter, wildest dreams, great expanse, left in the dust

Standouts:

"Girl's Eyes"

"I Can't Reach You"

"I Can See for Miles"

Jay-Z - 4:44

8.7

next story, back to the heart, freedom-chasing, reparation, look a fool

Standouts:

"Kill Jay Z"

"4:44"
"Smile"

Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

8.7

revolution, end days, darkening, vessel, entry gates

Standouts:

"The Working Hour"

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

"Head Over Heels"

Norah Jones - Come Away with Me

8.0

journeyers, simple comforts, moonlit, fall with grace, as a feather

Standouts:

"Seven Years"

"Don't Know Why"

"Painter Song"

Atlas Sound - Logos

8.6

refracted light, chromatic life, blissful innocence, saturated, captured essence

Standouts:

"Walkabout"

"Kid Klimax"
"Quick Canal"

Prince - Dirty Mind

8.2

climbing heat, debonair, heart astray, tousled bed, debaser

Standouts:

"Do It All Night"

"When You Were Mine"

"Dirty Mind"

HAIM - Days Are Gone

8.0

no letting up, uncalm, wrestle free, temperature, deep study

Standouts:

"My Song 5"

"The Wire"

"Falling"

Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon

8.5

pitiful thing, gleamy-eyed, go-round, last in line, running out

Standouts:

"I Think I See the Light"

"Trouble"

"I Wish, I Wish"

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

8.8

woodland, sanctuary, far and away, craggy, fair lady

Standouts:

"Flume"

"Skinny Love"

"re: stacks"

SZA - Ctrl

8.8

down for, inside turned out, get hers, old news, prescribed image

Standouts:

"Broken Clocks"

"Love Galore"

"Drew Barrymore"

Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star

8.4

dark tone, alliance, knowledge seed, mean streets, donnas

Standouts:

"K.O.S. (Determination)"

"Thieves in the Night"

"Astronomy (8th Light)"

Lorde - Melodrama

8.7

high tide, storm and stress, happy hour, dead air, kaboom

Standouts:

"Hard Feelings/Loveless"

"Green Light"

"Homemade Dynamite"

De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead

9.0

lax day, on blast, reputation, boogeyman, mothersuckers

Standouts:

"Pass the Plugs"

"Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)"

"A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'"

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

8.4

upon all things, imagism, foot on the gas, greener pastures, bubbly

Standouts:

"This Year"

"Love Love Love"

"Song for Dennis Brown"

R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

8.4

above and below, unbridled, live wire, postcard, reshuffling

Standouts:

"Superman"

"The Flowers of Guatemala"

"Cuyahoga"

Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love

8.3

rearview, hop on, dreamer, heartbroken, bless you

Standouts:

"The Ghost of Rockschool"

"Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John"

"I Didn't See It Coming"

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

9.1

shoreliner, year-round, daughter of light, rearranged, other sea

Standouts:

"I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar"

"If You Need To, Keep Time on Me"

"On Another Ocean (January / June)"

Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

8.0

sensation, entertainment, the big time, in circles, secrets out

Standouts:

"Undercover Martyn"

"What You Know"

"Do You Want It All?"