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This year, pretty much every big name artist released an album…to varying degrees of success.

Guests include Diddy, Janet Mock, A$AP Rocky, and Project Pat.

The Weeknd,My Dear Melancholy,

Heinz does ketchup, McDonalds does burgers, andthe Weeknddoes heartbreak.

Play nice, stay put, and enjoy a shower of love and affection.

Earl Sweatshirt,Some Rap Songs

7.

He knew your day sucked.

Millers craft grew by leaps and bounds every year; he deserved more time.

Like whiskey, spite gains flavor with age.

They need each other.Daytonas effortlessness is the evidence.

Why that is, is a matter for genre purists.

The album is a joy.

Songs like Quorum and Tempest manifest their outrage as much through flayed vocals as through coarse electronic textures.

The final product feels like an exhausted machine reading humanity the riot act.

ImagineKid Awith sharper teeth, or a Grandaddy whoseSopthwareslapped rather than slumped, and you get the idea.