27, 2016), a self-titled album (March 11, 2017), HNDRXX (March 18, 2017) and now WIZRD.įuture's 'The WIZRD' Is a Fitting Capstone for the Rapper's Prolific Hot Streak 1s with What a Time t o Be Alive (with Drake Oct. 1 albums in a remarkably quick amount of time - just three years, five months and three weeks.
1 - will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Jan. 2-dated chart - where WIZRD debuts at No. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD debuts atop the tally with 126,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. A record you can take home to mama, but not a record you can really take out and party with.Future collects his sixth No. Emma Pollock In Search Of Harperfield ★ ★ ★ on Chemikal Underground RecordsĬountry-folkie with a nice enough turn of phrase and a decent sense of navigation around a plaintive melody, still not much to really write home about. Overly sensitive without being eye-rollingly weepy, Meet The Humans dances all over the pop-rock map in search of Mason’s heart, and hits far more often than it misses. Steve Mason Meet The Humans ★ ★ ★ ☆ on Domino Records Harder to pin down than your average hip hop record, and a good sight more freeing. Africaine 808 Basar ★ ★ ★ ★ on Golf Channel RecordsĪ seamless blend of West African heart, German efficiency, and the classic thump of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Like most Wild Nothings records, the single is the best part, but there are some real moments of strength and revelation found throughout. Wild Nothing Life Of Pause ★ ★ ★ ☆ on Bella Union RecordsĪs usual, Wild Nothing’s latest record conjures up a daydream of the Eighties, a snatch of John Hughes remembered at the moment of death. Cavern of Anti-Matter take their chosen genre back to its retro moment, conjuring up images of later Kraftwerk or E2-E4. It’s a hell of a way to go out, and at the very least it leaves me with fond memories of a group that I previously had no such memories of.Īnd the rest… Cavern of Anti-Matter Void Beats/Invocation Trex ★ ★ ★ on Duophonic RecordsĮlectronic music may be a big festival draw now but it’s origins lie in open synth work layered over Krautrock-inspired motorik beats.
I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had just walked away from the project after her creative partner died, but the fact that she stuck to it and released such a stellar final album is a bit inspiring in its own way.
Alejandra Dehaza took what they had, polished it up with some help, and released this one last School Of Seven Bells album. During the process of recording (in 2013), one half of the duo, Benjamin Curtis, passed away from lymphoma. It seems like a celebration and in a way it is. It’s slick, but dreamy the drums hit hard but the melodies remain slippery. I didn’t expect much when I sat down with SVIIB, their fourth (and now final) album.Īs it turns out, it’s leaps and bounds beyond their earlier material, a record that takes in the best moments of Eighties alt-pop while still remaining aloof and individual. They came off as the nadir of the cross-pollination of shoegaze and dream pop, an amalgamation of the worst parts of both that hung around like the miasma of a bad dream for just long enough to get obnoxious.
School Of Seven Bells were never one of the bands pushed by indie radio that really ever appealed to me. School Of Seven Bells – SVIIB ★ ★ ★ ★ Released February 26th, 2016 on Vagrant Records