Trailing Edge - Episode 010 - October 2018 (Mick Jenkins, High On Fire, Coheed And Cambria...)

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Channel: Spectrum Pulse · 2018 · Music

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In this episode of the Trailing Edge, we go through a selection of good albums that should have been great... and albums that could never achieve even that height

Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'N' Place - 6/10 (indie pop)
Best: 'Time Today', 'Dear Future Self', 'Swimming'
Worst: 'Sometimes

Morrow - The Weight Of These Feathers - 7/10 (black metal)
Best:  'Hiraeth', 'Allure', 'Last Light', 'Elysium II'
Worst: 'Beneath The Waves'

Lil Baby & Gunna - Drip Harder - 3/10 (trap/hip-hop)
Best: 'Never Recover' ft. Drake, 'Drip Too Hard'
Worst: 'Business Is Business', 'Off White VLONE' ft. Lil Durk & Nav

High On Fire - Electric Messiah - 7/10 (stoner metal/heavy metal)
Best: 'Steps Of The Ziggurat/House of Enlil', 'Sanctioned Annihilation', 'Freebooter', 'Drowning Dog'
Worst: 'The Pallid Mask'
 
Coheed And Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures - 5/10 (progressive metal)
Best: 'The Dark Sentencer', 'Love Protocol', 'The Gutter', 'Lucky Stars'
Worst: 'Black Sunday', 'True Ugly'

Sleep - The Sciences - 7/10 (stoner metal)
Best:  'Marijuanaut's Theme', 'Antarcticans Thawed', 'Giza Butler', 'The Botanist'
Worst: 'Sonic Titan'

Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology - 4/10 (death metal)
Best: 'Crop Killer', 'Putrid Fairytale'
Worst: 'Slave Goo World'

Naked Giants - SLUFF - 6/10 (indie rock)
Best: 'Everybody Thinks They Know (But No One Really Knows)', 'Slow Dance II', 'Easy Eating'
Worst: 'TV'

Mick Jenkins - Pieces Of A Man - 7/10 (hip-hop)
Best: 'Smoking Song' ft. BADBADNOTGOOD, 'Consensual Seduction' ft. Corinne Bailey Rae, Gwendolynn's Apprehension', 'Reginald' ft. Ben Hixon, 'Understood'
Worst: 'Soft Porn'

Homeboy Sandman & Edan - Humble Pi - 7/10 (hip-hop)
Best: 'Unwavering Mind', 'That Moment When...', 'Rock & Roll Indian Dance'
Worst: 'Evolution of (sand)Man'

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