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"