365 – New Music Daily

Welcome to the first month’s album tiers, each album categorized and given a one sentence recap. Full blurbs available on the new listens page, and monthly wrap-up playlist on main page under playlists. June’s Playlist.

Fucking Great/God Tier:

A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory: As if it could go anywhere else.

Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You: As if it could go anywhere else pt. 2

The Beatles – Let It Be: An underrated one from their great catalogue.

IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance: Brylcream, Creatine, and a bag of Charlie Sheen.

Pretty damn good:

The Beatles – Revolver: Get Yellow Submarine out of here.

IDLES – CRAWLER: Goddamn I’m feelin good!

JID – DiCaprio 2: Some great shit from one of the more under the radar mainstream rap guys (that makes sense, trust me).

Kendrick Lamar – Mr Morale and the Big Steppers: Kendrick’s (tied for) worst is better than your favorite’s best.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity: The psych rock effort from versatile Australian band delivers.

Nujabes – Modal Soul: Smoove.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – High Visceral Pt. 1: Nearly tier 1 – a great psych rock record.

Radiohead – The Bends: Radiohead’s least adventurous project is a great rock album.

Santana – Santana: Great Latin Rock.

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream: A nice intro to the band.

Viagra Boys – Cave World: Leave society, be a monke.

Solid:

The Beatles – Help!: Just a bit too 60’s.

Cream – Disraeli Gears: Clapton does his best to keep this in the solid tier.

Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk: The bands worst effort.

Khraungbin – Mordechai: A consistent solid output throughout, thus, the tier.

Nujabes – Metaphorical Music: Smoove pt. 2

Pup – Morbid Stuff: We love pop punk.

Radiohead – Kid A: A super adventurous electronic album that just doesn’t fall too well on me ears.

Sonic Youth – Goo: An amazing cover for this one, I failed to mention.

Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill: Steel Mill Dan.

Turnstile – Step to Rhythm: If you want good Turnstile, look elsewhere.

Losing your mind music:

Knocked Loose – Laugh Tracks: Let’s get manic.

Snacks tier:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication: Need I say more?

Jazz!:

Kind of Blue – Miles Davis: Jazz.

Meh:

Flaming Lips – Transmissions from Satellite Heart: Go listen to Yoshimi. Don’t even bother with this one.

Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin: Meh.