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51. Youth Code – Commitment To Complications  This is the best album I missed in 2016. I read something about Youth Code, but never checked them out and that was a mistake. Industrial works best when it knows how to interlock tension with release, the hard-hitting with silence and glimpses of space between the pressure. Don´t get me wrong, in contrast to their previous work Youth Code haven´t gone soft here, but you immediately get the refinement of their sound. The programming is richer and tends to include elements that could be straight up synth pop. In many instrumentals, I´m reminded of something you´d hear in a Prurient release, only in a stronger song structure and shaped up to fit the gruff vocals by Sara Taylor. The peak of this style and my favorite track on this is the closer “Lost At Sea”. This one shifts from synth ritual to broken musing only to arrive at the tortured screamed ending. After hard-hitting tracks like "Avengement" and more straightforward s...

Lastly, I want to make it short and sweet when talking some great EPs that came out in 2014 . Only one sentence for each release. Unofficially I would have to take Drake into account for all his released tracks, but just take it as noted now. 10. Auburn Lull – Hiber The return of Auburn Lull and the return of the truest form of celestial contemplation. ( Full Review Here ). 09. Oneohtrix Point Never – Commissions I Can´t say that Oneo goes mental on this one, he always is and pushes things further and further on Commissions – Meet Your Creator. 08. Majid Jordan – A Place Like This For all the fast moving, slow dancing love-birds, Majid Jordan soundtrack your heart. Majid Jordan "Her" Official Video from Jamie Webster on Vimeo . 07. Iliketrains – The Christmas Tree EP (Remaster/Reissue) Grand reissue of a heart breaking instrumental epic created by the beatniks of ...

89. The Underachievers – Caprice (Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium) The debut album by the Underachievers deserves to be respected. Coming up under the recent wave of New York rappers, Cellar Door is their mission statement and way of creating their lane. You could have guessed that after their mixtape they would come to rely on hooks and banging production akin to Herb Shuttles, but on the contrary the UA focused on content and lyricism. For this, Caprice is the best combination of both the catchy hook of "knock em, knock em" and a message. The UA speak against stereotypes and try themselves at being metaphysicists of rap – rightfully so. 88. AnD – New World Order (Esoteric Systems) This is the soundtrack for the overwhelming insanity of seeing your loved ones murdered. The deprivation of humanity through sheer force and the creeping loss of self-restraint as you find the murderer red-handed and bloody yourself with the remains of his free will. Esoteric Sy...