Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police

8.6

head in the clouds, love nest, flickering flame, haze, dream lover

Standouts:

"You got it"

"Are You Looking Up"

"New Low"

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

8.9

ejected, mystic, incarnation, electromagnetic, mirror

Standouts:

"Death & Romance"

"Tunnel Vision"

"The Ballad of Matt & Mica"

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

9.3

thin ice, sunburst, adrift, interchange, photo album

Standouts:

"Romulus"

"Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)"

"All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!"

John Martyn - One World

8.7

give and take, joie de vivre, cold light of day, sweep you off your feet, eyes unclouded

Standouts:

"Certain Surprise"

"Dancing"

"Big Muff"

Mount Eerie - Night Palace

8.6

ancient mariner, precipice, hidden life, song of myself, deluge

Standouts:

"Myths Come True"

"Stone Woman Gives Birth to a Child at Night"

"Writing Poems"

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

8.9

daydreamer, somebody to love, unchained melody, back home, candy girl

Standouts:

"Kingdom Come"

"Realistik Heaven"

"24/7 Heaven"

Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

8.2

mean streets, bloodthirsty, ghoulish, speedrun, gush

Standouts:

"New N3on"

"F33l Lik3 Dyin"

"ILoveUIHateU"

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

8.2

emperor, grimy, packing steel, those days, hard as a rock

Standouts:

"Cherchez LaGhost"

"Buck 50"

"Wu Banga 101"

Jamie xx - In Waves

8.7

sensation, summer of love, merry-go-round, suspended in a sunbeam, serenade

Standouts:

"Baddy on the Floor"

"Life"

"All You Children"

Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs

9.3

snow tracks, fireside, nocturne, recessive, midst of winter

Standouts:

"Opening Night"

"Poly Blue"

"Fare Thee Well"

Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle

8.4

ruptured, demented, ladylike, at the seams, dearest

Standouts:

"Mother"

"Bruise Violet"

"Quiet Room"

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

9.1

intricate, relative ease, night moves, on the prowl, equilibrium

Standouts:

"We Can Get Down"

"Electric Relaxation"

"Lyrics to Go"

Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

8.3

high as a kite, gloam, retrospect, chills, gossamer

Standouts:

"Life Is"

"The Last Year"

"Better Hate"

Bjork - Vulnicura

9.0

plume, incarnation, nest, majestic, antimatter

Standouts:

"Black Lake"

"Stonemilker"

"Quicksand"

Clairo - Charm

9.0

down the lane, sleeping beauty, heartstrings, velvet morning, down easy

Standouts:

"Second Nature"

"Juna"

"Glory of the Snow"

Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run

8.1

sunshine and rainbows, bright side of life, getaway, long way, light as a feather

Standouts:

"Mamunia"

"Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"

"Band on the Run"

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

8.9

piece of the pie, diagnosis, long game, pressed for time, high vibrations

Standouts:

"Fear Not of Man"

"Love"

"Ms. Fat Booty"

Charli XCX - Brat

8.0

off-balance, blood on the dance floor, ecstatic, loved up, floaters and flashes

Standouts:

"360"

"Club Classics"

"Apple"

Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

8.4

twilight years, winding back the clock, wear and tear, love of my life, far reaches

Standouts:

"Make You Feel My Love"

"Tryin' to Get to Heaven"

"Dirt Road Blues"

Charli XCX - Crash

8.0

born to die, cut, crisis averted, sympathetic nervous system, rush of blood

Standouts:

"Constant Repeat"

"Twice"

"New Shapes"

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

8.1

serenity, believe it when I see it, while away, fallible, little things that count

Standouts:

"Leave Me (Like You Found Me)"

"Impossible Germany"

"Either Way"

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

8.0

tranquility, time for bed, shut the door, pressed in a book, come to light

Standouts:

"What Goes On"

"Candy Says"

"Pale Blue Eyes"

Radiohead - Hail to the Chief

9.0

cyberspace, worst is yet to come, thoughtcrime, destroyer of worlds, system offline

Standouts:

"Backdrifts"

"Myxomatosis"

"A Punch Up at a Wedding"

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

8.9

safer feared than loved, dominion, equilibrium, beware of dog, sometimes

Standouts:

"Nothing Like"

"Loud Bark"

"Split Me Open"

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

8.7

death-defying, playing house, revival, caged lion, snow queen

Standouts:

"But Daddy I Love Him"

"Fortnight"

"So Long, London"

The Magnetic Fields - Holiday

8.6

wonderland, abuzz, downstream, spun out, one by one

Standouts:

"Desert Island"

"Strange Powers"

"Torn Green Velvet Eyes"

Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

8.9

hurt, fallen angel, special place, bleak midwinter, shadow of death

Standouts:

"Bug Like an Angel"

"I'm Your Man"

"My Love Mine All Mine"

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

8.6

empire, on high, deliver us, rapid transit, subterranean

Standouts:

"Classical"

"Mary Boone"

"Hope"

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

8.5

good ol', sun in your eyes, left my heart, easy living, paper moon

Standouts:

"Ice Cold"

"3 Sisters"

"Crowbar"

Selena - Amor Prohibido

8.0

rhythm of the night, love of life, heart grows fonder, restless, snapshot

Standouts:

"Fotos y Recuerdos"

"Bidi Bidi Bom Bom"

"El Chico del Apartamento 512"

The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost

9.0

starlit, flights of fancy, goodnight moon, in private, heaven weeps

Standouts:

"Why I Cry"

"All the Umbrellas in London"

"You and Me and the Moon"

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

8.3

dripping wet, round and round, liquid metal, falsetto, callipygian

Standouts:

"LoveStoned / I Think She Knows"

"Until the End of Time"

"My Love"

Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

8.7

perfect harmony, ethereal, social dilemma, breathtaking, amazing grace

Standouts:

"God Turn Me into a Flower"

"Children of the Empire"

"Hearts Aglow"

Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels

8.2

polar vortex, fright night, tempest, expressionistic, descent

Standouts:

"The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)"

"Sugar Hiccup"

"In Our Angelhood"