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Reviving classic house sounds in an era full of hard EDM bass drops, their clean, effective dance songs stood out in the best way possible, offering a degree of melodic sophistication to a scene that had become increasingly bro-driven. To position themselves as the future of dance music, all that the Howard brothers who make up Disclosure had to do was simply look into the past.
While his brief-but-impactful "Daytona" from 2018 and subsequent Drake beefing helped make him a solo superstar, the wit and power on display on his debut feels like lightning in a bottle, as Push takes his leisurely time to pepper his album with so many good lines it's almost unfair. While the beats are quirky and the guest stars are many, Pusha T remains the unquestioned star of the show, sometimes packing so many great thoughts into the span of a single couplet (like on "Nosetalgia," where he raps "N***a, this is timeless, simply 'cos it's honest / Pure as the fumes that be f****n' with my sinus"). Pushing himself to new lyrical innovations, "My Name is My Name" has the ex-Clipse member going as hard as he can over peak-era Kanye West productions that are as interesting as they are sly.
"I'm King Push / This king push" the legendary Pusha T raps on the opening song of his how-is-it-possible-this-is-his debut album, and no matter how long we had to wait, dear goodness was worth the wait. A sidewinder of an album that's still revealing its mysteries to us years later. From the simmering fire of "Hot Knife" to the Tin Pan Alley shuffle of the gritty outsider anthem "Periphery," Apple's ever-acidic lines about love and isolation felt even sharper this time out, as if she discovered a weirdness to her music only previously hinted at and decided to build songs around it that were melodically satisfying even if they shifted around constantly.
For all its fussy production choices, "Wheel" has elbowed its way to become one of her all-time most beloved records. It was acclaimed despite her switching producers partway through the recording process, but seven years later, she put out a self-produced record called "The Idler Wheel." that saw her get even more raw and gritty than ever before.
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"Read skies 'cos time don't exist," is an incredible lyric and only set Tesfaye up to become a semi-accidental stadium pop star in the years that followed.Īfter fans rallied behind a Free Fiona campaign to force Sony/Epic Records to release an album they thought was being held up by the labels, Fiona Apple got to work and delivered 2005's "Extraordinary Machine," her first new album in six years. The album's striking centerpiece is "Glass Table Girls," which follows a beat-switch from a Siouxsie and the Banshees sample into something sinister, seemingly subconscious and endlessly quotable. "You bring the drugs, baby / I could bring my pain," he extols on "Wicked Games" and with that line alone, "House of Balloons" concept comes into focus: He's someone who seeks to numb himself so he can't feel anything.
Sexual in tone but far removed from the concept of "sexy," The Weeknd's grimy beats and foul mouth took modern R&B to dark new places, and we couldn't help but get wrapped up in the debauchery. Photos of The Weeknd didn't exist at the time, but the answer to the question of "Who made this?" was far less interesting than the answer to "What is this?" Less concerned with starting the party than dissecting the messy emotional aftermath, Abel Tesfaye's introduction to the world was nothing short of striking: gritty, brutal and at times unflinching. Initially considered a mixtape (before being rounded it up as part of the "Trilogy" rerelease in 2012), "House of Balloons" came out shrouded in mystery and ended up intriguing everyone whose ears it touched.
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