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30. Caroline Polachek – PANG Polachek's first album under her full name and without the guise of another project or approach shares parallels with Charli XCX self-titled Charli released this year. This doesn´t only apply for both artists choosing the futuristic PC Music production team to exponentially grow the instrumental side of their music but in their attempt of going for the heart of pop experienced in their own voices. Polachek released two more experimental or left-leaning albums, notable her first 2014 album Arcadia as Ramona Lisa, trying to put her voice in all its effortless baroque abilities to the front and ultimately bordering from airy to incredibly vapid art-pop. On PANG the best elements of her vocal abilities grow together with her sensibility for sweet pop about love and heartbreak, elements that made the best Chairlift tracks lustrous or would come to the forefront when lending her voice to artists like Blood Orange. Opposite to Charli , PANG is an as...

90. Lingua Ignota – Holy Is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe) Kristin Hayter first made an impression through her work with the body. The at once beautiful and violently commanding strenght of her voice gave rise to many of the finest moments of the newest output of No One Deserves Happiness and I Have Fought Against It . Her solo work as Lingua Ignota is as pressuring to be comprehended and positions toward in the same way. Self-released in 2017, Profound Lore gave All Bitches Die a major release this year and thus it is only right to highlight the intensity of “Holy is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe”. Closing an album of industrial electronics mixed with metal and operatic vocal styles, “Holy Is The Name” is a nocturnal and transcendental conclusion. Hayters performance opens towards the operatic and ecclesial music while still grappling with rape and sexual violence in the framework of vengeance. It brilliantly captures the exhaustion of laying down between cold bodies of your aggre...