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...from five years ago and his signature relationship-centric self-deprecation pulses through quotable tracks like "Child's Play" while his ego and paranoia duel it out like the rap beefs he knows well. B.S. 50 Best Albums of 2016 | Rolling Stone

author’s initials or apt reaction to the inclusion of views on an aoty list?

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clearly shouting out bennyswans

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Views is trash

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Twin Peaks - Down In Heaven Heisenferg – 104 Album Challenge
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lmao wow I updated this after watching the chaplin movie and it looks like that crept in. typing while distracted ruins lives.

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dvsn - SEPT 5TH Brock C – 2016

some cool nu-r&b vibes at times but a lot of it is over-grandiose and/or goes too far with it’s sexual schtick

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Phil Cook - Old Hwy D EP Brock C – 2016

soothing guitar instrumentals from justin vernon’s pal and former bandmate

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Hazel English - Never Going Home EP Brock C – 2016

airy, almost-shoegazey rock a la the waxahatchee mold, plus some synths. possibly my favorite EP of the year, for whatever that’s worth.

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Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being Pop Genius – The 10 Best Pop Albums of 2016: Finalizing
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Pros:

  • everything you could ask for in a pop album, or album of any genre for that matter. in their debut they seemed content with making odd sounds and layering them with catchy vocals, but where the two seemed like separate elements in zaba, htbahb melds them in a much more immediate and infectious way. “agnes” is a top-5 song of the year for me. -brock

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The Weeknd – Starboy Pop Genius – The 10 Best Pop Albums of 2016: Finalizing
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  • this album is flames. top 3 -babuc

  • Starboy was my favorite album of the year. Abel is so conscious with his music. The directions he takes continue to amaze. Every collaboration on Starboy does not seem unwanted, every song and transition has a purpose. So glad Daft Punk was on this album, too. The Weeknd wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them, so they are a perfect match. This is a very misunderstood album that may or my not hold up. It is certain that this is an album. It continues and starts the incredible journey of Abel, The Weeknd, and Starboy. -rovert37

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I think you're too soon to call us old
When and where did we go cold?
I thought I had you on hold The xx – On Hold
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Romy and Oliver use a call and response style to invoke the symbolism of putting one’s lover “on hold.” Each capitalizes on the telephonic metaphor with the word “call”: Oliver with “I think you’re too soon to call us old” and Romy with “Call it a lesson.”

Oliver’s character invokes the titular “on hold,” but Romy only mentions its inverse, in that she can’t “hold on.” Oliver’s insistence that it’s too soon to call their relationship “old” contrasts Romy’s reflection on “young hearts.”

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Romy suggests that the two people were younger when they began their relationship with the lines, “My young heart chose to believe/ We were destined.” She felt deep love for him at the start and for a long time, even as they drifted apart. It took time for her to wisen with age and learn her “lesson” that “Young hearts/ All need love.”

In contrast, Oliver doesn’t have the same deep love for her and stalls the relationship time and time again, putting her “on hold” as he tries to understand his feelings for her and determine what he wants from the relationship. He feels like they have all the time in the world to figure their relationship out, but she’s grown impatient without his affection. As she drifted from him the warmth of her love receded, leaving them both “cold.”

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To have someone on hold is just an easy way to say that you like the person in a sort of way but just want to browse around some more. You’re not sure that this person is exactly what you really want but you don’t want to lose him/her either eventhough the other person might have deep feelings.

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“I thought I had you on hold” references millennial hook-up culture relationships. One half of the couple thought were seeing each other exclusively, even though they never expressly discussed it.

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If you are one of those snobs too good for Neil Funk's gravelly voice and Stacey King's silly nicknames, we can't be friends. The Annual NBA League Pass Rankings, Part 1

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GFOTY - Call Him A Doctor Brock C – 2016

this is when p.c. music hits the nail on the head – taking their bubblegum (and in GFOTY’s case, boy crazy) schticks and mixing them with simutanteously gorgeous and abrasive instrumentation, all while turning pop lyricism on its head.

“snakes + ladders” sounds exactly like an electronic version of a song i can’t place. “call him a doctor” is laugh out loud funny, and the flow of the nonsensical lyrics in “the argument” make it the most infectious tune on the project. “u wood”, and “heaven” sound like glitching love ballads, but then there is also something like bubblegum metal in the “blown” to “lemsip” stretch, with the latter using vocals as an instrument as if they invented the Messina rather tha those working on 22, A Million. this is just fantastic in the weirdest way.

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