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2 Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer

Jan 3, 2019 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 6 Comments

I know, I know, she’s not number one. This was all set up to be perfect, wasn’t it? Nobody has ever won Necessary Evil more than once, and after her outstanding debut won it way back in 2010 before anyone important was even born, it seemed as if it was all set up for her to … Continue reading 2 Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer

#1 070 Shake: You Can’t Kill Me (Greatest Album of 2022)

Dec 29, 2022 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 2 Comments

And finally, at #1 for a record breaking 2nd time, @070shake’s #YouCantKillMe is comfortably the greatest record of 2022
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2 SPELLLING: The Turning Wheel

Dec 27, 2021 ~ Lex Leeson ~ Leave a comment

At #2, the gorgeous third album by #Spellling, an astonishing experience, and a wondrous example of unfettered ambition so gorgeously paying off

Necessary Evil 2021 (70 – 61)

Dec 1, 2021Dec 19, 2021 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 5 Comments

10 more great albums but, artistically, @YvetteJJackson really towers over all the rest and would be much higher if I weren’t such a coward

2020’s Scientifically Proven Best Albums

99- The Men: Drift 98- Teyana Taylor: The Album 97- Beatrice Dillon: Workaround 96- Holy Golden: Sleepwalkers in the Milky Way 95- Shamir: Cataclysm 94- Lady Gaga: Chromatica 93- Royce Da 5″9: The Allegory 92- Lafawndah: The Fifth Season 91- Psychic Graveyard: A Bluebird Vacation 90- Vritra: Sonar 89- Lindsay Munroe: Our Heaviness 88- The … Continue reading 2020’s Scientifically Proven Best Albums

Who Needs Love Like Stat? Necessary Evil 2020 in Numbers

Mar 31, 2021 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 1 Comment

Science time! Or is it maths…?
Either way, we finally get to put 2020 officially to bed

Legit Bosses: The 125 Best Songs of 2020 (pt.1 #125-#81)

Mar 5, 2021Mar 6, 2021 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 2 Comments

Proof that 2020 was actually an amazing year, with just the first third of the magical bangers that battled through ‘unprecedented times’

Necessary Evil 2020 pt.6 (50-46)

Dec 12, 2020Apr 1, 2021 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 4 Comments

You know, since it takes 2’000 words to cover five albums, I might not be breaking them up into groups of 10 anymore. Most of these records were actually released this year!!

My Life in Albums (part 3 07-20/death)

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 4 Comments

My Life in Albums is finally finished! It’s been a long road, but it’s at least let me rediscover forgotten classics (it didn’t make the list, but everyone needs to seek out Everything Picture by Ultrasound)
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Rumble in the Bumble pt.9

Apr 26, 2020Apr 26, 2020 ~ Lex Leeson ~ 1 Comment

As Rumble in the Bumble reaches its ninth part, I start to wonder whether it should even exist at all. I turn the focus in on my own personality and then… crack…

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