Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe
Booka Shade Eve
CFCF Outside [CD release]
Daughtry Baptized
Death Grips No Love Deep Web [CD release]
Herb Alpert Steppin’ Out
Jake Bugg Shangri La
Magik Markers Surrender To The Fantasy
Mick Turner Don’t Tell the Driver [Of Dirty Three]
Nils Frahm Spaces
Polar Bear Club Death Chorus
VNV Nation Transnational
Webbie Savage Life 4
Yo Gotti I Am
Comment: “Two Fingers” does not make you Bob Dylan, but a lousy live show at Bowery Ballroom doesn’t make you the anti-christ. Jake Bugg’s “Shangri La”, produced by Rick Rubin, has a lot of buzz and with Chris Brown delaying the release of X not much else worth bothering about (or do you like Daughtry?) gets the nod. The only other album worth noting is Blood Orange, aka Devonté Hynes, whose 2011 Coastal Grooves was pretty good.