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Album: Kid A: TBH first time really sitting with this album in full. And yeah, I get it. Its peaks are mammoth

Everything In Its Right Place: 10 Five seconds in and I wanna say it's all over for the rest of you clowns. Cancel the rate. This is your winner, crown them already and be done with it.

Kid A: 8 Kinda Radiohead bedroom pop if Thom Yorke in full pied piper regalia was the night terror at the foot of my bed

The National Anthem: 10 Now how do we get Fergie to do this one too

How To Disappear Completely: 10 Thom Yorke has spent the last three songs sounding like he is about to kill me and now I must console him ig

Treefingers: 7 They play this when you're waiting in line for Space Mountain

Optimistic: 10 I know this is an Electronic rate but the star of the show so far are these riffs that ya feel in the pit of your stomach

In Limbo: 8 "You're living in a fantasy world" Me quietly watching city pop winner predictions

Idioteque: 10 Kinda a perfect song tbh

Morning Bell: 8 Why is he singing "car" in a Boston accent

Motion Picture Soundtrack: 8

Untitled: 7 Porter Robinson instrumental

Album: Give Up: This is as good a place as any to say I saw them for their second to last show (at the time) at Lollapalooza, and they had the second smallest headlining crowd of all time because they played against peak Mumford & Sons, who had the then largest crowd ever bc their only other major time slot competition, Azealia Banks, dropped out the week of, and then Death Grips, who moved up to replace her, also dropped out, so they had to be replaced last second by Olympic snowboarder Shaun White's band. Anyway, great album I'm gonna give it a 5/5 on RYM now

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight: 10 Absolutely kicking myself that I went to DC this summer and missed the chance to listen to this in its ideal setting (staring out the window on the bed of a quiet darkened hotel room)

Such Great Heights: 10 Whenever I need to use the Spotify headphone test playlist this is always the go-to first track

Sleeping In: 10 Ben Gibbard was on the grassy knoll

Nothing Better: 10 GET 👏 HIS 👏 ASS 👏

Recycled Air: 5 TBH I'd probably hate this if I listened to this on a plane, prefer more livelier tracks that can keep my mind active

Clark Gable: 10 That's right, they can drop smashes too

We Will Become Silhouettes: 10 Never underestimate the musical power of a good "ba"

This Place Is a Prison: 8 Fart noise intro

Brand New Colony: 10 Anyway stream the EP where the Beths cover this/Car Seat Headrest does a rockin cover of a Death Cab track

Natural Anthem: 8 Oh shit I forgot there was lyrics in this

Album: Vespertine: I gel a bit more with the other two albums in this rate, especially since I'm much less familar with Björk, but this album is just so sonically extraordinary & intriguing

Hidden Place: 6 Sounds good but I bounced off it a bit more than I expected

Cocoon: 8 Rice Krispies in milk quality crackling

It's Not Up To You: 10 A perfect day containing any number of phone calls? Couldn't be me

Undo: 10 Hell yes I love a good layered self-harmony

Pagan Poetry: 11 Now that's an Incredible Lush Soundscape for the ages

Frosti: 9 A true bad bitch instrumental track

Aurora: 8 I don't think she's talking about snow

An Echo a Stain: 5

Sun In My Mouth: 7 She pulled out the big guns (a harp)

Heirloom: 8 Can't imagine listening to this album without headphones, that opening percussion just leaps perfectly into my ears

Harm of Will: 7

Unison: 9 Excellent closer

BONUS TRACKS

Caribou - Hendrix With Ko: 7 The absolute jumpscare when this came on after Unison

Dntel - (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan: 10 Putting basically another Postal Service song in the bonus feels like cheating

The Knife - Heartbeats: 9 Yeah baybeeeeee

Fischerspooner - Emerge: 8 The photo Spotify uses for the About the Artist section made me audibly guffaw

Four Tet - She Moves She: 7 Idk why we put an interlude in bonus rate 🤪

Frou Frou - Let Go: 8 I can't sabotage this

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge: 10 But have you seen my scrobbles? The National, Genesis Owusu, Outkast, Nation of Language, Sobs, The Killers, The White Stripes, Sufjan Stevens, The Strokes, Sum 41, Hall & Oates, Japanese Breakfast, Wilco, Genesis Owusu, Beach Bunny, JID, Kero Kero Bonito, Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, Bartees Strange, Bruce Springsteen, Kendrick Lamar, PUP, JPEGMAFIA, Modest Mouse, Yves Tumor, Tyler the Creator, Tkay Maizda, BLACKSTARKIDS, Royal Trux, fromis_9, beabadoobee, Sleater-Kinney, Pavement, Charly Bliss, Subsonic Eye (I deadass don't know what to put here), Kilo Kish, Frank Ocean, Jai Paul, Remember Sports, Carly! Rae! Jepsen!, Pinkshift, Lorde, Alvvays, Florence & the Machine, Cloud Nothings, Los Campesinos!, The Beths, The Beths, The Beths, The Beths

Moby - Porcelain: 6 Oh shit it's the guy who makes those caramel puffs

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla: 9 Yeah it's great

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