January was not a very popular month for new releases, so I turned to albums from years past.
I’ve included album covers of some albums I enjoyed most during January. Again, this doesn’t mean I only listened to albums that came out this year, but really anything that I listened to IN FULL for the first time. No skips.
1st: Tame Impala – Currents (2015)
2nd: The Alchemist – Bread (2018)
3rd: Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 (2016)
4th: Blueface – Famous Cryp (2018)
5th: JPEGMAFIA – Veteran (2018)
The Alchemist – Lunch Meat (2018)
6th: Ab-Soul – Do What Thou Wilt. (2016)
7th: Ab-Soul – These Days… (2014)
8th: Flatbush Zombies – Vacation in Hell (2018)
9th: Flatbush Zombies – 3001: A Laced Odyssey (2016)
10th: D’Angelo – Brown Sugar (1995)
11th: D’Angelo – Voodoo (2000)
12th: D’Angelo – Black Messiah (2014)
13th: OutKast – ATLiens (1996)
14th: OutKast – Stankonia (2000)
15th: Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1991)
16th: Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever (1997)
17th: Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Iron Flag (2001)
18th: Marshmello – Joytime (2016)
19th: James Blake – Assume Form (2019)
Marshmello – Joytime II (2018)
20th: Louis The Child – Love is Alive EP (2017)
21st: Louis The Child – Kids At Play EP (2018)
22nd: Mura Masa – Soundtrack to a Death (2014)
23rd: Mura Masa – Someday Somewhere (2015)
24th: Mura Masa – Mura Masa (2017)
25th: Gesaffelstein – Aleph (2013)
26th: Young Thug – Barter 6 (2015)
27th: PARTYNEXTDOOR – PARTYNEXTDOOR (2013)
28th: Danny Brown – Old (2013)
29th: Danny Brown – XXX (2012)
30th: Kanye West – Graduation (2007)
31st: Kanye West – Late Registration (2005)