not much im looking forward to this week. ill probably check out the big sean...22 tracks tho? maybe dirty projectors? elzhi did release the JASON single this week. that was good.

If there are albums/projects missing from the list below, please post them.

What albums will you be listening to?

Genius List:
https://genius.com/Genius-september-2020-album-release-calendar-annotated
9/1
Mesus - Eracism - 3/10

9/2
ImDontai - Unburden - 0/7
Jake Hill - bad times friend... - 5/5
Lil Revive - Grim Peaks II - 7/7
RADWIMPS - 夏のせい - EP - 6/6

9/4
6ix9ine - TattleTales - 13/13
Ashton Travis - PHOENIX MODE - 7/7
Austin Stone Worship - With/In - 3/12
Big Sean - Detroit 2 - 21/21
Blxst - No Love Lost - 2/8
Brad Paisley - Pioneer - 3/?
Cole Swindell - CS4* - 1/?
Declan McKenna - Zeros - 3/10
Dirty Projectors - Super João - EP - 1/4
Elderbrook - Why Do We Shake in the Cold? - 3/11
En Minor - When the Cold Truth Has Worn It's Miserable Welcome Out - 3/11
HARDY - A Rock - 3/12
Hurts - Faith - 3/11
John Gabbana - New Beginnings - EP - 5/5
Lauren Alaina - Getting Over Him - EP - 1/6
¡MAYDAY! - Minute to Midnight 00:57 - EP - 1/4
Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber - 3/12
Scarypoolparty - Doom Hologram - EP - 0/8
SKAAR - The Other Side of Waiting - EP
Stryper - Even the Devil Believes - 2/11
The Living Tombstone - zero_one - 3/10
Throwing Muses - Sun Racket - 1/?
Yelle - L’Ère du Verseau - 2/10
Zedd & Jasmine Thompson - Funny (Remixes) - 4/4

Metacritic list:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Hannah Georgas - All That Emotion
Tricky - Fall To Pieces

Hiphop DX:
https://hiphopdx.com/release-dates?month=9
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i can never think of what to buy when these come up.

i think im going to pull the trigger on this one be lo that we missed.

https://onebelo.bandcamp.com/album/c-section

i havent seen it on streaming but listened to it a few weeks back and its good.

Now, full disclosure, I'm a Big Sean fan, so I figured I'd like it in general.

But specifically, the songs and the beats are WAY WAY better than his last album.

and even at an hour and 15 mins (which is crazy long for an album in 2020) it didn't FEEL long and i didn't get ear fatigue.

i havent heard much from him but have not been impressed.

this had some pretty good production. some nice features. kind of feel he wasted dwele but used paak well.

its a good commercial rap album just not my vibe.

missed this one, released 9/1.

its pretty great. dude kind of has a similar voice as skyzoo. not really the same flow or content. nice detroit sound to the beats. definitely worth checking out.

it's called Pompette. it's really a bit of everything: electro, soul, r&b, instrumental, hip hop.

never heard of dude before but apparently he works with Apollo Brown (who helped delived that incredible Che Noir LP this year).

the picture does not help, lol.

the connection with apollo brown might be enough to check it out though. looks like he released something in june too, Misery Funk

Public Enemy

What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down ?

https://twitter.com/PublicEnemyFTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


Paris

Safe Space Invader

https://twitter.com/paris_gfr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

single release ahead of Actress' album due in late October. Giving me DJ Kicks late-night vibes

if you never heard of him, peep his 2019 LP which was one of favorite albums of last year.

it features a fire alt-R&B song feat. Tanerell (get hip).

it features a SLAPPING Freddie Gibbs song called "Kane Train" that you prolly never heard unless you follow my playlists

it features a crazy flip/chop instrumental of the Jackson Sisters "I Believe In Miracles"

and the last song is in that same vein (can't quite pick out the sample).

this is what you call murking a project.

I'm probably only checking out the BOB and Conway.

If there are albums/projects missing from the list below, please post them.

What albums will you be listening to?

Genius List:
https://genius.com/Genius-september-2020-album-release-calendar-annotated
9/5
Caskey - I Changed - 14/14
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Scar - My Way - 12/12

9/6
Jacquees - Exit 68 - 16/16

9/8
Cameron Dallas- Dear Scarlett - 13/13

9/9
Aimer - SPARK - AGAIN - 5/5
Natanael Cano - Soy El Nata - 10/10
あいみょん aimyon - おいしいパスタがあると聞いて - 12/12

9/10
Barenaked Ladies - Maroon (20th Anniv. Deluxe Edition) - 16/18
Carly Rose - Wild - 7/7
Chrissy Metz - Feel Good - EP - 2/3
Ethan P. Flynn - B-Sides & Rarities: Volume 1
FLETCHER - The S(ex) Tapes - 7/7
JP Cooper - Too Close (Live Acoustic) - 0/4
NIKI - MOONCHILD - 10/10

9/11
Bernz - Sorry For the Mess, Part 3 - EP - 0/4
B.o.B - Somnia - 8/10
Chord Overstreet - Hold On - EP - 3/3
Christian Nodal - AYAYAY! (Deluxe Version) - 13/13
Conway the Machine - FROM KING TO A GOD - 2/12
DBangz - Been a Long Time - 6/6
Doves - The Universal Want - 2/10
Dua Lipa - Club Future Nostalgia - 17/17
Everything Everything - RE-ANIMATOR - 4/11
Feid - BAHÍA DUCATI - 10/10
Ihsahn - Pharos - EP - 1/5
Julie Bergan - HARD FEELINGS: Ventricle 2 - EP - 4/4
Keedron Bryant - I JUST WANNA LIVE - 3/8
kelsea ballerini - ballerini - 13/13
Lil Reese - Lamron Vol 1 - 0/7
Madina Lake - The Chasing Ones - 1/?
Maez301 - Hasaan - 13/21
Marilyn Manson - WE ARE CHAOS - 10/10
Mickey Guyton - Bridges - EP - 6/6
Mastodon - Medium Rarities - 11/16
Oscar Lang - Hand Over Your Head - EP - 2/7
Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It (30th Anniversary Edition) - 8/12
Riley Green - If It Wasn’t For Trucks - EP - 5/5
Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos - 2/11
The Flaming Lips - American Head - 13/13
TOKYO'S REVENGE - 7VEN - 7/7
Various Artists - Unpregnant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 7/10
YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Top - 12/21

Metacritic list:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed
Elizabeth Cook - Aftermath
Jeremy Gara - Passerine Finale
Sam Prekop - Comma
Will Butler - Generations

Hiphop DX:
https://hiphopdx.com/release-dates?month=9
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His last couple albums have been great. He shouldn't be aging as well as he has. I'd nearly written him off after High End of Low. (2009)

missed this last week. it was pretty good. at times it kind of sounds too much like mid 2000's underground but still worth a listen. gets some dope production from evidence, apollo brown, marco polo and others.

not much im looking forward to. i did check out the jaime remixes, definitely going to check that album out when it drops. for today i think im just checking for armani caesar, curren$y and sault.

If there are albums/projects missing from the list below, please post them.

What albums will you be listening to?

Genius List:
https://genius.com/Genius-september-2020-album-release-calendar-annotated
9/13
Shawn May - thus spoke - 13/13

9/14
Deko - Moonkid Monday, Vol. 2 - 7/7
Tom Aspaul - Black Country Disco - 8/10

9/15
BIGBABYGUCCI - Isolated - 7/8
FBG Duck - He Back - 2/8

9/16
Berner - Russ Bufalino: The Quiet Don - 3/18
MarMar Oso - Marvin's Room - 3/14
Old Dominion - One Man Band - Medley - 8/8

9/17
Brittany Howard - Jaime (The Remixes) - 2/2
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (The Eric Kupper Remixes) - 0/6

9/18
10 Years - Violent Allies - 3/12
8 Graves - Red
Ace Frehley - Origins, Vol. 2 - 1/12
Alicia Keys - ALICIA - 15/15
American Authors - Counting Down - EP - 3/5
Armani Caesar - THE LIZ - 2/11
Ava Max - Heaven & Hell - 15/15
Carnation - Where Death Lies - 3/9
Curren$y & Harry Fraud - Director’s Cut - 0/9
Damso - QALF - 14/14
Deradoorian - Find the Sun - 2/10
Dizzy Wright - My Hustle Unmatched - 3/12
Elderbrook - Why Do We Shake in the Cold? - 3/11
Evie Irie - The Optimist - 4/5
Fenne Lily - BREACH - 3/12
Finntroll - Vredesvävd - 0/10
Fit for a King - The Path - 4/10
Gus Dapperton - Orca - 2/10
Heathen - Empire of the Blind - 2/12
Jay Warren - Give Love - 2/8
Jesse Brown - Where To? 14/14
Joan Osbourne - Trouble and Strife - 0/10
Joel Corry - Head & Heart (The Remixes Pt. 1) - 1/4
Kamaiyah & Capolow - Oakland Nights - 0/10
Keith Urban - The Speed of Now Part 1 - 16/16
Knuckle Puck - 20/20 - 3/11
Koryn Hawthorne - I AM - 2/10
Krizz Kaliko - Legend - 19/19
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club - 0/?
Lido - PEDER - 4/12
Lil Tecca - Virgo World - 3/20
Luke Laird - Music Row - 0/10
MAX - Colour Vision - 12/12
Mike Shinoda - Dropped Frames, Vol. 3 - 1/14
MOL$ - HAREM - 7/12
Moneybagg Yo & Blac Youngsta - Code Red - 1/13
Moonshine Bandits - Fire - 2/14
Movements - No Good Left to Give - 2/12
Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism - 0/12
Otis Redding - The Best of Otis Redding - 16/16
Problem - Coffee & Kush, Vol. 2 - 2/11
Saint Motel - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Pt. 2 - 5/5
Shy Glizzy - Young Jefe 3 - 3/18
Slushii & sapientdream - Dream III - 17/17
Steven Moses - 99 - 5/12
Toosii - Poetic Pain - 17/17
VARG - Zeichen - 1/10
Yellow Days - A Day in a Yellow Beat - 4/23
Ziggy Marley - More Family Time 2/10

Metacritic list:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed
A. G. Cook - Apple
Cults - Host
Daniel Romano's Outfit - How Ill Thy World Is Ordered
Neil Young - The Times
OSees - Proteen Threat
Peter Katz - City Of Our Lives
Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant
Steve Arrington - Down To The Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions
Sumac - May You Be Held
The Elwins - IV
Yusuf - Tea for the Tillerman

Hiphop DX:
https://hiphopdx.com/release-dates
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https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-rise
Sault - Untitled (Rise)

So good. How they put out two quality albums so close together during THIS bullshit is beyond me

got TWO of my favorite songs of 2020 (Dark Web f. T-Pain being the other)

a name that's probably not on most radars.

bookmarks


"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

armani was eh. about the same production as the rest of griselda and didnt find her very engaging.

me eiht was okay. 20 tracks? not really missing much if you skip it.

curren$y is pretty good. some pretty nice beats. same old curren$y for better or worse.

the new sault was pretty good. definitely worth listening to. im kind of amazed at the content. theyre coming with it.

https://level.medium.com/black-thought-is-loved-and-feared-by-your-favorite-rapper-89e179cf3b3f

not sure if i will listen to elzhi or bt first next week.

there was another interview/article yesterday that said 10/2

until there is a press announcement or thought himself posts about it im not going to expect it. ill keep looking for it though.

It's called A Midsummer's Nightmare.

Utter fire. Reminds me A LOT of EARLY Little Brother despite being a solo MC.

9th SNAPPED on the transition from Ms. Out to Might As Well (which is the best Dreams of F***in An R&B Chick since the original). FFS 9th flipped the sample.

Not sure when the last time I said this, but this project should be LONGER.

Not sure if that’s common knowledge or not.

Heard a single a few weeks ago that I liked. Glad there’s an album out! Will check this out soon.

but had no clue of the bball angle.

good for him. love this project.

Those Felton/May/McCants to Tyler Hansbrough teams.

he never really panned out because his handle was loose and his vision was a little ambitious but he could tide us over when Lawson was out and he was good for a sick highlight every game

most importantly, unlike his clown ass successor Larry Drew II, he understood his role and embraced it. QT is beloved amongst the Tar Heel faithful.

Lived in Greensboro as a kid for a couple years in the Stackhouse era, and I still somewhat followed UNC in the 00s. I didn’t remember the details, but remember viewing him as a fun and likable player.

dudes flow is mostly like dave east which im not a fan of. he did start sounding different in the later tracks. this is definitely worth listening to and i would be down for a full project.

good looking out.

Would be cool if Jamla could get another rapper to pop, other than Rapsody. I’m liking this project on first listen.

best i could find was the album was produced by 9th wonder but i know that doesnt always mean he actually produced each song.

looks like thought got pushed back to next friday. still a lot to go through. gonna start with this potatohead people single featuring pos from de la soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpOSylR3HI&ab_channel=PotatoheadPeople-Topic.

definitely want to listen to the elzhi, gonna check out ferg, bronson, deftones, idles, public enemy, spillage village, 2chainz. maybe the paris. if nappy roots and arrested development actually dropped might check those out too. i have seen hiphopdx list many albums that were listed elsewhere recently so kind of surprised by these.

If there are albums/projects missing from the list below, please post them.

What albums will you be listening to?

Genius List:
https://genius.com/Genius-september-2020-album-release-calendar-annotated
9/22
Fleet Foxes - Shore - 15/15
Various Artists - EMPIRE Presents: Voices For Change, Vol. 1 - 12/21

9/23
Akapellah & Lil Supa - Funky Fresco - 10/10
Futuristic - FEATURISTIC - 15/15
Mozzy - Occupational Hazard - 10/14
Silver Sphere - all my boyfriends - EP - 5/5

9/24
LPX - My Best - 3/3
Oklou - Galore - 3/11

9/25
A$AP Ferg - Floor Seats II - 10/10
Action Bronson - Only for Dolphins - 12/12
Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place to Die - 1/11
Bryson Tiller - T R A P S O U L (Deluxe) - 17/17
Carrie Underwood - My Gift - 10/11
Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise (25th Anniversary) - 16/17
Deftones - Ohms - 1/10
DOM KENNEDY - Rap N Roll - 0/17
Dylan Scott - One of Them Girls - 1/?
Dylan Sinclair - Proverb - 2/8
EGOVERT & Cash Bently - Drugs and Flowers - 0/4
Elzhi - Seven Times Down Eight Times Up - 1/12
Fredo Bang - In the Name of Gee - 14/15
Gigolo Y La Exce - Las Torres - EP - 8/8
Granger Smith - Country Things, Vol. 1
IDLES - ULTRA MONO - 3/12
Jaah SLT - 9-25-20 - 1/11
JL - The Devil Hates Sundays - 21/21
Joey Trap - Playlist for the End of the World (Deluxe) - 19/25
John Gabbana - New Beginnings - EP - 5/5
Joji - Nectar - 18/18
Kaash Paige - For Healing - EP - 4/4
Kane Brown, Swae Lee & Khalid - Be Like That (Remixes) - 0/6
Kataklysm - Unconquered - 1/9
Kayzo - The Year the World Stood Still - EP - 5/5
KB - His Glory Alone - 13/13
KIDZ BOP Kids - KIDZ BOP Christmas Party! - 22/35
Left at London - Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2 - 6/6
Lil Peep - HELLBOY (Re-Release) - 16/16
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter V (Deluxe) - 33/33
Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall - 15/15
Melanie Martinez - After School - EP - 7/7
Memphis May Fire - MMF7* - 1/?
Mercy Hill Worship - Out of the Ruins - 0/12
Morta Skuld - Suffer for Nothing
Natalie Grant - No Stranger - 5/11
Neutro Shorty - Hay Vida en Venus - 7/7
Paris - Safe Space Invader - 0/10
Peggy Lee - Ultimate Christmas - 13/21
Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? - 7/17
Rock Mafia - Songs for The Eternal Optimist, Vol. 2 - 0/4
Sad13 - Haunted Painting - 3/11
Shay Lia - Solaris - EP - 5/5
Sizzy Rocket - ANARCHY - 3/10
Sola Rosa - Chasing the Sun - 2/12
Spillage Village - Spilligion - 12/12
Stalley - Speak No Blue - 1/8
Starley - One of One - 6/13
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension - 1/15
SuperM - Super One - 1/?
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? - 2/8
Sylvan Esso - Free Love - 5/10
Tems (NG) - For Broken Ears - 1/7
The Hives - Live At Third Man Records - 0/7
The Menzingers - From Exile - 3/12
The Neighbourhood - Chip Chrome & the Mono-Tones - 11/11
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic - 2/8
Thomas Headon - The Goodbye - EP - 6/6
Thurston Moore - By the Fire - 2/9
Tory Lanez - DAYSTAR - 17/17
Trevor Hall - IN AND THROUGH THE BODY - 2/16
Uada - Djinn
Various Artists - Blue Note Re:Imagined - 4/16
Will Butler - Generations - 1/10
Yonder Boys - Acid Folk - 2/10

9/30
Bangers Only - Bangers Only Vol. 1 - 0/13

Metacritic list:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed
2 Chainz - So Help Me God
A Certain Ratio - ACR Loco
Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Cayucas - Blue Summer
Jadu Heart - Hyper Romance
Roisin Murphy - Róisín Machine
The War and Treaty - Hearts Town
Tim Heidecker - Fear Of Death
Yves Jarvis - Sundry Rock Song Stock

Hiphop DX:
https://hiphopdx.com/release-dates
Arrested Development - Don't Fight Your Demons
White Horse - White Horse
Nappy Roots - 40RTY

And it does raise a lot of questions. We'll see if he can blast through this w/ fire music like Ross did when 50 was on his neck.

onto Spillage Village

I'ma give it another shot in the car tho

interesting that the singles were kinda light when the mood of the LP is clearly much less hopeful. Gonna need a bit of time to digest but hearing some standouts already

might be his best album. very cohesive without sounding repetitive. only complaint would be the skits/jokes. theyre not bad enough to bring down the album but they really are not needed. maybe the one after ferndale is needed, the album did need a break at that point but would have been nice if it was a stand alone skit instead of tied to the track. its short enough that its not a big deal.

these beats are dope. elzhi is sharp as always. the first track had him using a different flow/voice. that was interesting. rest of the tracks were standard elzhi, which is great. nice hooks, sometimes his tracks are brought down by hooks but not in this case. even JASON sounds better as a closer.

AOTY contender for me for sure.

Finale’s Pipe Dream and a Promise from 2009 has a two minute skit from a different 80s legend every three songs or so and just about all of them, well intentioned as they are, are ultimately pointless.


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