Best album of the year

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Indie music blog gorilla va. bear names Raekwon's "Only Buily For Cuban Linx II" the best album of this year. The runners up, including Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, and the XX, seem a better fitting choice considering the site's followers. Whatever, atleast they have the balls to represent Wu!

The most immersive hip-hop record in years, OB4CL2 is the follow-up everyone was hoping for, but no one thought Raekwon would ever actually deliver. NPR (ha) calls it "merely a well-constructed concession to aging nostalgists and too-young revivalists," but nah, this is vintage Wu-Tang. RZA, Dilla, Pete Rock, and assorted disciples lace the tracks with their distinctive eerie, cinematic beats, Method Man and Inspectah Deck go harder than they have in forever, and Ghost and Rae further cement their spot as one of the illest duos in hip-hop history. Even with a couple of (still pretty solid) Dre missteps near the end, this is the album of the year, and will likely rank up there with Supreme Clientele, Stankonia, and Hell Hath No Fury as one of the best rap albums of the decade.

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