10. Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA — Ecstatic, eclectic, and chaotic in all the right ways, Rina Sawayama’s debut album is the mash-up of pop and nu-metal nobody knew they needed this year.
Described as a work of self-exploration and self-discovery, with a focus on the scars the past leaves on the present, SAWAYAMA makes a melodramatic mockery of its subject matter with over-the-top production and a boldness matched by few other albums.Sufjan Stevens9.
Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension — How did Sufjan Stevens get so jaded? If we take him at face value, The Ascension reads as a prolonged answer to that question.
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