This is not a good week for music.

At all.

With the Grammy’s (the worst award show where, year after year, the music that gets remembered is not the music that gets rewarded), a slate of new albums that are fine, and the most obnoxious pop star in the world releasing a new album that will surely saturate Twitter for the next week. . . I’m not thrilled.

With that said, I still managed to listen to five new albums. A few of them are decent. None of them are great.

Let’s check them out!

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5. Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited / Mercury Rev

Highlights: “Tobacco Road (feat. Susanne Sundfør)” / “Jesseye ‘Lizabeth (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”

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4. Quiet Signs – Jessica Pratt

Highlights: “As The World Turns” / “Silent Song”

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3. VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR – HEALTH

Highlights: “BLACK STATIC” / “STRANGE DAYS (1999)”

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2. AJ Tracey – AJ Tracey

Highlights: “Double C’s” / “Ladbroke Grove”

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1. Electric Lady Sessions – LCD Soundsystem

Highlights: “american dream” / “tonite”

 

Updated List of Best Albums of the Year

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1. IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME – The Twilight Sad (4th)
2. Phoenix – Pedro the Lion (4th)
3. Heard It In A Past Life – Maggie Rogers (4th)
4. Remind Me Tomorrow – Sharon Van Etten (4th)
5. Outer Peace – Toro y Moi (4th)
6. Gallipoli – Beirut (2nd)
7. Better Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center (3rd)
8. Olympic Girls – Tiny Ruins (2nd)
9. Nowhere Now Here – MONO (2nd)
10. Electric Lady Sessions – LCD Soundsystem (1st)
11. This is Not the End – Spielbergs (2nd)
12. Almost Free – FIDLAR (3rd)
13. FIVE – White Lies (2nd)
14. Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken (2nd)
15. Assume Form – James Blake (4th)
16. Everythings For Sale – Boogie (2nd)
17. Future Hndrxx Presents: THE WZRD – Future (4th)
18. Homebrew – DIRE GNOME (3rd)
19. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? – Deerhunter (4th)
20. Stuffed & Ready – Cherry Glazerr (2nd)
21. AJ Tracey – AJ Tracey (1st)
22. Love Hates What You Become – Lost Under Heaven (3rd)
23. VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR – HEALTH (1st)
24. Goes West – William Tyler (3rd)
25. What Chaos Is Imaginary – Girlpool (2nd)
26. Zeppelin Over China – Guided By Voices (2nd)
27. Quiet Signs – Jessica Pratt (1st)
28. XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only, Vol. 4 – XXXTENTACION (3rd)
29. Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited – Mercury Rev (1st)