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Top Albums 2015 Part V 10–01

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00. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly Before entering the last part of the top albums of 2015, I have to name my one and only honorable mention. My zero of this list, To Pimp A Butterfly could have taken any spot of the following, but I want to make different point with this mention. You can read about the complexity, the huge message and meanings of To Pimp A Butterfly on a bunch of articles and reviews. To cut it short: You´ll have to listen to this record, read and study the lyrics. It´s no coincidence that “Alright” has become a common chant of black protestors and got panned by white media for inciting violence. What Kendrick has crafted, demands attention and breaches the boundaries of music.  Surely, music has political charge, if implicit or explicit, it can incite thoughts and action, just as art is meant to do. But, and this is my point, To Pimp A Butterfly is more art, than music meant for consumption. This record should be included into history less...

Top Tracks 2015 Part IX 20–11

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20. World´s End Girlfriend –  Whims of A Spring Day「春日狂想」feat. BOOL ( Voices Of  Days Past ) Poemcore is the name of the genre BOOL is trying to establish. I can´t say for sure what it is that distinguishes Poemcore for other spoken word enterprises, but if I had to pick, I´d say it must be the deep weaving of sound to create a texture beyond the words. On the tracks Whims of A Spring Day the words and sounds are heartbreakingly beautiful. World´s End Girlfriend contributes a quite conservative instrumental, keeping the electronic glitches on a low and letting the piano and strings take the lead. BOOL`s poem touches on keeping on living after a loved one has died. First, stating that there is no other way than killing oneself, he transgresses into the notion of having the urge to serve after this tragedy has befallen you. Feeling the springday, its little details and having a chance encounter with a random aquataince, BOOL resorts into telling that the way to go on must ...