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XTC – “Drums and Wires”

GENRE: New WaveLABEL: VirginRELEASED: 1979 8.8 Drums and Wires is the album where XTC fully came into focus. While their

GENRE: Hip-HopLABEL: LoudRELEASED: 1993 9.6 Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) arrived at a moment when hip-hop was increasingly split between

GENRE:Indie RockLABEL: XL RecordingsRELEASED: 2010 8.2 Contra marked a clear turning point for Vampire Weekend, showing a band unwilling to

GENRE: R&BLABEL: LaFaceRELEASED: 1997 7.7 My Way is the album that transformed Usher from a promising teenage singer into a

GENRE: Indie PopLABEL: Team LoveRELEASED: 2008 8.0 By the time o arrived in 2008, Tilly and the Wall had already

GENRE: Alternative RockLABEL: RCARELEASED: 2009 7.3 By the time Say Anything released their self-titled album in 2009, the band was

GENRE: Pop PunkLABEL: NitroRELEASED: 2003 7.1 MCMLXXXV arrived during the early 2000s pop punk boom, yet Rufio never quite fit

GENRE: Alternative RockLABEL: MatadorRELEASED: 2023 8.0 Queens of the Stone Age’s In Times New Roman… arrives carrying far more emotional

GENRE: Alternative RockLABEL: Fueled by RamenRELEASED: 2009 8.4 With Brand New Eyes, Paramore took a noticeable step away from the

GENRE: Pop RockLABEL: GeffenRELEASED: 2023 8.4 With Guts, Olivia Rodrigo makes it clear that she has little interest in smoothing