2023

Top 10 Records of 2023

1. The Aces — I've Loved You For So Long
2. Chappell Roan — The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
3. Jess Williamson — Time Ain't Accidental
   
4. Chris Stapleton — Higher
5. Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   
6. Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
   
7. Art School Girlfriend — Soft Landing
8. Snakehips — never worry
9. Masego — Masego
10. Maria José Llergo — ULTRABELLEZA

Top 10 Rap Records of 2023

1. Oddisee — To What End
2. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal — Maps
3. Killer Mike — MICHAEL
4. Open Mike Eagle — another triumph of ghetto engineering
5. Noname — Sundial
6. Giggs — Zero Tolerance
7. Paradime — Period.
8. Drake — For All The Dogs
9. El Michels Affair & Black Thought — Glorious Game
10. Black Milk — Everybody Good?

Top 10 Electronic Records of 2023

1. Sultan + Shepard — Forever, Now
2. Elderbrook — Little Love
3. Ross Quinn — Azure EP
4. Simon Doty — Universal Language
5. Joseph Ray — A Power Over Me EP
6. Karen Harding — Take Me Somewhere
   
7. CRi — Miracles
8. Róisín Murphy — Hit Parade
9. Barry Can't Swim — When Will We Land?
10. Aluna — MYCELiUM

2022

Top 10 Records of 2022

1. Horace Andy - Midnight Scorchers
2. Foals — Life is Yours
3. Liam Gallagher — C'mon You Know
4. Metric — Formentera
5. Maggie Rogers — Surrender
6. Orville Peck - Bronco
7. LÉON — Circles
8. Gang of Youths — Angel in Realtime
9. Everything Everything — Raw Data Feel
10. Sharon Van Etten — We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Top 10 Rap Records of 2022

1. Nas — King's Disease III
2. Freddie Gibbs — $oul $old $eparately
3. Homeboy Sandman — There In Spirit
4. Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future
5. Joey Bada$$ — 2000
6. Roc Marciano and The Alchemist — The Elephant Man's Bones
7. Quelle Chris — Deathfame
8. Open Mike Eagle — Component System with the Auto Reverse
9. Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
10. JID — The Forever Story

Top 10 Electronic Records of 2022

1. Bonobo — Fragments
2. O'Flynn & Frazer Ray — Shimmer
3. Anish Kumar — Postcards EP
4. Daniel Avery — Ultra Truth
5. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee — BAMANAN
6. Diplo — Diplo
7. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs — When the Lights Go
8. The Range — Mercury
9. Rachika Nayar — Heaven Come Crashing
10. Drake — Honestly, Nevermind

2021

Top 10 Records of 2021

1. MarthaGunn — Something Good Will Happen
2. John Mayer — Sob Rock
3. Elder Island — Swimming Static
4. Birdy — Young Heart
5. SG Lewis — Times
6. Lana Del Rey — Chemtrails Over the Country Club
7. Low — Hey What
8. Wolf Alice — Blue Weekend
9. Maxïmo Park — Nature Always Wins
10. Rag 'n' Bone Man — Life By Misadventure

Top 10 Rap Records of 2021

1. J. Cole — The Off-Season
2. Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim — Tha Wolf on Wall St
3. Nas — King's Disease II
4. Joshua Luke Smith — The Void
5. Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
6. Wiki — Half God
7. Ghetts — Conflict of Interest
8. Kanye West — Donda
9. Drake — Certified Lover Boy
10. Yung Bleu — Moon Boy

Top 10 Electronic Records of 2021

1. Porter Robinson — Nurture
2. DJ Seinfeld — Mirrors
3. Bicep — Isles
4. Black Coffee — Subconsciously
5. Etherwood — Neon Dust
6. Ebende — Skimmer
7. Madlib — Sound Ancesters
8. Art School Girlfriend — Is It Light Where You Are
9. Nora Van Elken — Eternal Nights
10. Gilligan Moss — Gilligan Moss

2020

Top 10 Records of 2020

1. The Killers — Imploding the Mirage
2. Future Islands — As Long as You Are
3. NeedtoBreathe — Out of Body
4. Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
5. Sea Girls — Open Up Your Head
6. Orville Peck — Show Pony EP
7. Another Sky — I Slept On The Floor
8. Låpsley — Through Water
9. Ghostpoet — I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
10. Taylor Swift — Folklore
    

*Bonus* Azure Ryder — Running With the Wolves EP

Top 10 Rap Records of 2020

1. Run The Jewels — RTJ4
2. Jay Electronica — A Written Testimony
3. Oddisee — Odd Cure
4. Freddie Gibbs / The Alchemist — Alfredo
5. Drake — Dark Lane Demo Tapes
6. Giggs — Now or Never
7. J Hus — Big Conspiracy
8. Apollo Brown / Che' Noir — As God Intended
9. Goodie Mob — Survival Kit
10. Benny the Butcher — Burden of Proof

Top 10 Electronic Records of 2020

1. Four Tet — Sixteen Oceans
2. Elderbrook — Why Do We Shake in the Cold?
3. Kllo — Maybe We Could
4. Tycho - Simulcast
5. Lane 8 — Brightest Lights
6. Paul Epworth — Voyager
7. Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
8. Roisin Murphy — Róisín Machine
9. Grimes — Miss Anthropocene
10. Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?

2019

Top 10 Records of 2019

1. Bruce Springsteen — Western Stars

2. Mark Ronson — Late Night Feelings

3. Maggie Rogers — Heard It In A Past Life

4. Sam Fender — Hypersonic Missiles

5. Jai Wolf — The Cure to Loneliness

6. Crazy P — Age of the Ego

7. Gloria Gaynor — Testimony

8. Hayden Thorpe — Diviner

9. Nimmo — The Power

10. Liam Gallagher — Why Me? Why Not.

Top 10 Rap Records of 2019

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana
2. The Game — Born 2 Rap
3. Dave — Psychodrama
4. Black Milk — DiVE
5. Skepta — Ignorance is Bliss
6. Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin?
7. Apollo Brown — Sincerely, Detroit
8. Giggs — Big Bad...
9. Kanye West — Jesus is King
10. Gang Starr — One of the Best Yet

*Bonus* Drake — So Far Gone / Care Package

2018

Top 10 Records of 2018

1. Metric — Art of Doubt
2. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
3. Mumford & Sons — Delta
4. Rhye — Blood
5. Djrum — Portrait with Firewood
6. Chvrches — Love Is Dead 
7. Jungle — For Ever
8. SiR — November
9. Robyn — Honey
10. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

*Bonus* The Weeknd — My Dear Melancholy

Top 10 Rap Records of 2018

1. Pusha T — Daytona
2. Flatbush Zombies — Vacation in Hell
3. Nas — NASIR
4. Drake — Scorpion
5. Evidence — Weather or Not
6. J. Cole — KOD
7. Freddie Gibbs — Freddie
8. Swizz Beatz — POISON
9. 6LACK — East Atlanta Love Letter
10. Guvna B — Hands Are Made for Working

2017

Top 10 Records of 2017

1. Bleachers — Gone Now
2. Rationale — Rationale
3. Lorde — Melodrama
4. Anna of the North — Lovers
5. The xx — I See You
   
6. MUNA — about u
7. Majid Jordan — The Space Between
8. Courtney Marie Andrews — Honest Life
9. Bonobo — Migration
10. Alex Cameron — Forced Witness
    

*Bonus* Ralph — Ralph EP

Top 10 Rap Records of 2017

1. Freddie Gibbs — You Only Live 2wice
2. Jay Z — 4:44
3. Run The Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
4. Drake — More Life
5. Kendrick Lamar — Damn.
6. Oddisee — The Iceberg
7. Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory
8. Jonwayne — Rap Album Two
9. Open Mike Eagle — Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
10. Big KRIT — 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time

2016

Top 10 Records of 2016

1. Beyoncé — Lemonade
2. Majid Jordan — Majid Jordan
3. The Weekend — Starboy
4. Anohni — Hopelessness
5. Logistics — Electric Sun
6. Clams Casino — 32 Levels
7. Gallant — Ology 
8. Submotion Orchestra — Colour Theory
9.  DVSN — Sept. 5th
10.  Roy Woods — Waking Up At Dawn

Top 10 Rap Records of 2016

1. Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
2. Skepta — Konnichiwa
3. Vince Staples — Prima Donna
4. A Tribe Called Quest — We got it from here... Thank You 4 your service
5. Drake —Views
6. Schoolboy Q — Blank Face
7. J Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only
   
8. CZARFACE — A Fistful of Peril
9. A$AP Ferg — Always Strive and Prosper
10. Bas — Too High to Riot

2015

Top 10 Records of 2015

1. Carly Rae Jepson — Emotion
2. Brandon Flowers — The Desired Effect
3. Miguel — Wildheart

4. Foals — What Went Down

5. Jamie XX — In Colour
   

6. Hudson Mohawke — Lantern

7. Seal — 7

8. Rudimental — We The Generation
   

9. The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness
   
10. James Taylor — Before This World

Top 10 Rap Records of 2015

1. Drake — If You're Reading This It's Too Late
2. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Dr Dre. — Compton
4. JME — Integrity
5. Freddie Gibbs — Shadow of a Doubt
6. Jay Rock — ‎90059
7. Apollo Brown — Grandeur
8. Little Simz — A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons
9. Med + Blu + Madlib — Bad Neighbor
10. Dreamville — Revenge of the Dreamers II

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