In Rockingham, Barham details the decline of the American Dream from the perspective of a World War II veteran forced to watch jobs promised to him and his fellow soldiers dry up and disappear due to mechanization or lack of positions. Homesick but unable to leave the country, Barham wrote this entire record in the span of those two days, a mix of personal and fictional stories centered around his hometown of Reidsville, North Carolina. Tim ScottД«J Barham is known most popularly for fronting the rock 'n' roll band American Aquarium, but a forced quarantine in a Brussels hotel following the Bataclan attacks in November 2015 turned his attention home. This is New York punk inspired more by Velvet Underground, Urban Waste, and Eric B and Rakim than any CBGB matinee hardcore stuff, and it sounds cool as hell. Shiva, from New York's JJ Doll, continues his excellent and bizarre take on punk rock that blends elements of Dawn of Humans distortion, the psyched paranoia of Destruction Unit, and some Dead Head-type jams that he somehow manages to pull together through interesting melodic hooks. ' Shadow,'a track from Kaleidoscope's V.2 N.2: ZONE EXPLORERS, sounds like drifting in and out of heavy sedation while listening to doctors in the corridor outside discuss your brain surgery. Like we wrote earlier this year, 'If Awkward Pop Songs was JANK's joke-cracking icebreaker, then Versace Summer is your fourth time hanging out with them, the point where things start to get less funny and more serious.' With it, they give listeners a sense of optimistic nihilism, creating sad songs about sad things in a way that allows fans to laugh a little at being sad. With a combination of jazz and surf rock, JANK crafts tales of everything from losing a bicycle and hoping it's happy to the Grim Reefer, a nod to the paranoia involved with smoking weed. JANK, the pop punk band from Philadelphia, scored a hit with their first EP, Awkward Pop Songs, and quickly followed up with an equally good if not better second record, Versace Summer. For all its bravado, PRINCESS feels decidedly coming of age while also sounding way cooler than growing up should be allowed to sound. Yet another Atlantan with the world at their feet, Abra takes her love of fantasy, rebellion, and 1980s motifs, and wields them to create soundscapes under brutally and cavalierly honest stories of sex, heartbreak, and self-love. This year, the singer and producer hit us with PRINCESS, an atypically sparse pop and R&B record. Eric SundermannДЄbra, the pop defender of Atlanta's sort-of-hip-hop crew Awful Records, was born in New York, grew up in London, moved back stateside, and ditched college to write music. Purple Reign's finest moment comes near the end with 'Perkys Calling,' a linchpin song in the quest for any card-carrying member of #FutureHive-an existence determined by the ability to not only listen to Future, but understand him. Then there's 'Run Up,' which-fuck, who's ready to stand on some furniture? Purple Reign may be looked at as the final act in Future's villain era, a run of projects that continually outdid the previous installment with the ability to both turn up and self-loathe. Tracks like 'Inside the Mattress' and 'Wicked' find our hero Nayvadius Cash in his finest form: an intoxicating blend of syrupy bass and lyrics that are raw, self-destructive, desperate, careless, sick, hopeless-unwilling to compromise reckless decision making or even recognize pain.

At the start of 2016, the Atlanta rapper returned with Purple Reign, an initially divisive project that history will remember as one of his strongest. Last year, the entire world unanimously agreed that Future was better than Jay Z, Nas, and Biggie combined (this is scientific fact, don't look it up).

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