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46 days ago

Rubber Soul (Remastered 2009)

The Beatles · 1965

★★★★★★★★★4.0

The vocal performance is the centerpiece — restrained where lesser singers would oversing. The arrangement gives it room. That's the whole game.

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51 days ago

Wild West

Central Cee · 2021

★★★★★★★★★4.0

Song two onwards is a clinic. The arrangement builds without you noticing it building, which is the hardest trick in the book. I haven't been able to stop revisiting the bridge on the title track.

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51 days ago

LONG.LIVE.A$AP (Deluxe Version)

A$AP Rocky · 2013

★★★★★★★★★★4.5

The vocal performance is the centerpiece — restrained where lesser singers would oversing. The arrangement gives it room. That's the whole game.

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59 days ago

Alive 2007

Daft Punk · 2007

★★★★★★★★★3.5

Song two onwards is a clinic. The arrangement builds without you noticing it building, which is the hardest trick in the book. I haven't been able to stop revisiting the bridge on the title track.

@vinylhunter

65 days ago

Loud

Rihanna · 2010

★★★★★★★★★4.0

Ambitious arrangement throughout. The strings on the back half could've felt overwrought but the producer sits them low enough that the vocal still leads. Reminds me of mid-period Talk Talk if you squint.

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68 days ago

Late Registration

Kanye West · 2005

★★★★★★★★★4.0

Song two onwards is a clinic. The arrangement builds without you noticing it building, which is the hardest trick in the book. I haven't been able to stop revisiting the bridge on the title track.

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71 days ago

Dr. Feelgood

Mötley Crüe · 1989

★★★★★★★★★4.0

Lyrically uneven but the writing carries. There's a four-track stretch in the middle where every song feels essential. Closer is the kind of statement that makes the whole thing land harder retroactively.

@vinylhunter

85 days ago

Ram (Archive Collection)

Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney · 1971

★★★★★★★★★3.5

Composition is dense and rewards re-listens. There's a counter-melody on the third track that I didn't catch until the fourth spin. That's the mark of writing that has more underneath it than the surface lets on.

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96 days ago

Un Verano Sin Ti

Bad Bunny · 2022

★★★★★★★2.0

Sequencing is everything here. The label could've front-loaded the singles but they trusted the album. The patience pays off by the time you hit the title track.

@vinylhunter

96 days ago

Thriller

Michael Jackson · 1982

★★★★★★★★★4.0

Mastering is loud — almost too loud — but you can tell every choice is deliberate. The drums are the star: live, dry, tucked behind the bass. Not for everyone but I'm in.

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98 days ago

Favourite Worst Nightmare

Arctic Monkeys · 2007

★★★★★★★★★★5.0

Sequencing is everything here. The label could've front-loaded the singles but they trusted the album. The patience pays off by the time you hit the title track.

@vinylhunter

114 days ago

The New Abnormal

The Strokes · 2020

★★★★★★★★★3.5

Ambitious arrangement throughout. The strings on the back half could've felt overwrought but the producer sits them low enough that the vocal still leads. Reminds me of mid-period Talk Talk if you squint.

@vinylhunter

117 days ago

Voodoo

D'Angelo · 2000

★★★★★★★★★★4.5

The production sits between Madlib's haziness and J Dilla's percussion sensibility. Track 4 is the centerpiece — that bassline is going to live in my head for months.