32. DOOM: 'Born Like This' (Lex) - Featuring the late, legendary boozehound poet Charles Bukowski as a guest vocalist should be indication enough that DOOM isn’t exactly your average rapper. Whereas many acts in the genre emphasise ‘keeping it real’ with depressingly predictable results, DOOM (aka London-born, US-based MC/producer Daniel Dumile) dives head-first into the deep end of the surreal, favouring countless pseudonyms and a zany, metal-masked supervillain alter ego over standard-issue thug-isms and street corner odes. ‘Born Like This’ may well be Dumile’s defining statement to date, his previous output’s occasional slips into unfocused meandering replaced by razor-sharp grooves, head-spinning wordplay and a welcome penchant for brevity (standout track ‘Ballskin’ does its lethal business in mere 90 seconds). Quality over quantity, in other words. (Janne Oinonen)
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- Moderat, Memory Tapes and Vitalic?!! Great list for including those alone
- The Blueprint 3? That is one rubbish album. Shame that Jay Z hasn't made a good album for 8 years.
- Tune-Yards should have been on this list.
- Gotta be the best album list I've read so far!
- bunch of marginally talented hipster douches ruined this list.
YYY and Muse are the only ones worth buying.
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