When our genius Crest Editor, Finn Gober, blessed me with the opportunity to do an album of the month, I nearly jumped out of my chair. But then the pressure hit. Choosing an album that would be good enough...
I love debut albums. They serve as the most genuine glimpse into what makes up the essence of an artist. “Section.80” is no different. Lamar’s top rate pen-game and grandiose vision for large concept-based...
The first Bob Dylan album I ever listened to was 1997’s “Time Outta Mind,” a raspy, dusty, vulnerable and suppressed collection of dark and aching ballads. Following this, I decided to listen to...
Talk about funk town. Andre 3000 does flute albums now (also wonderful in its own right) which means too many folks forget the Atlanta music legend could lay down absolutely stupendous bars. Don’t even...
This one is straight from funk town, full send. I’m pretty sure this is the most sampled album ever made, but don’t look that up. If you like juicy bass lines and scarce but wicked rapping then listen...
I’m still not really sure what “camp” means in an art context, but I definitely think this is it. I’m making up a new genre called “hip auntie” and “Dots and Loops” is the first album in...
Musical tapestry, via Bobbi Humphrey’s immaculate flute playing. This album is flavorful, dense, immense, and although lyrically scarce, feels like a good conversation with Mrs. Humphrey herself.
Kraftwerk predicted the future, dropping this techno-pop opus thematically based on the takeover of technology in 1981. “Computer World” laid the “groundwerk” for countless bands and artists...
A musical cluster-bomb adorning flying waves of Alternative, Hip-Hop, Bossa-Nova and everything in between. As the artist himself stated in a “Scrapyard” bonus-cut, all of his “scraps are on plaques.”...
“Blonde On Blonde” never backs down from the masterful songwriting the world had come to expect out of 1960’s Bob Dylan while taking a massive—and sometimes rather wacky (see “Rainy Day Women...
