Intentions count for nothing, your reasons for doing anything are completely meaningless
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74 Britney Spears: Glory
Tag: 2016
75 Banks: Altar
In case you haven’t noticed, the actual order of this list so far has been pretty fucking arbitrary
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76 Vince Staples: Prima Donna
Christ, my contacts in the hip-hop community
weren’t lying when they warned me about the dangerous dulling of acceptable hip hop names
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77 DIIV: Is the Is Are
Yeah, I think it’s pronounced ‘dive’
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Not ‘div’, unfortunately
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78 Band of Horses: Why Are You OK?
When I first attempted to collate Necessary Evil 2016 back in the entirely understandable period of late 2016, I decided to write the ‘reviews’ alphabetically first before getting the abacus out and working out where the would be placed scientifically. This was a terrible mistake
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79 PJ Harvey: The Hope 6 Demolition Project
80 Tegan and Sara: Love You to Death
We’re at number 80! forever moving towards the appropriate!!
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81 Jeremih: Late Nights
Hey! The correct spelling of ‘nights’!
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The Weeknd’s first mixtape- 2011’s ‘House of Balloons’- was an absolutely marvellous piece of work and was the Necessary Evil album of 2011, even though I never actually wrote it down or told anyone about it, because when all’s said and done it’s really none of your fucking business is it?
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82 Plants and Animals: Waltzed in From the Rumbling
OK, children, we need to talk about ‘pretension’:
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83 Animal Collective: Painting With…
Aw, shucks, ‘Painting With’ is the very dang definition of a
When I threw all of you desperate plebs a bone by listing the best tracks of 2016 so far- back when life was good and we didn’t all automatically despise and mistrust our neighbours’ democratic menace- I named the undeniably fabulous FloriDada as the greatest artistic contribution of the year so far
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