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Day 10 - Candyland - Play something sweet Daniel Caesar - Freudian I mean the first single had waves of people proposing at his shows and I'd guess the second single could very well been even more people's first dance at their wedding. We're talking saccharine.

Day Nine - Backgammon - Play something complex Moses Sumney - græ A stunningly beautiful album complex is its intricacies.

Day Eight - Crazy Eights - Play a record by an artist you are crazy about. . Baby Rose - To Myself My favorite album of the last 5 years. One of the crown jewels of my collection.

Day Seven - Scattergories - Play an artist or album that starts with the letter I roll on the big die. Edit: The letter is M Miles Mosley - Uprising The West Coast Get Down collective really blew up after To Pimp A Butterfly. Kamasi Washington was suddenly everywhere, Terrace Martin had...

Day Six - Mastermind - Play a record by an artist that strikes you as being very intelligent Esperanza Spalding - Exposure I was originally going to post her Emily's D+ Evolution album, which I think is superior, but this one allows me to better speak to her brilliance. I've been a fan...

Day Five - Five Card Draw - Play something with a drawing on the cover or play something related to poker Tyler, The Creator - Igor Had lots of ideas about records with drawn artwork. Eventually started getting lost in the weeds about drawings vs paintings before reeling it back in with this...

Day Four - Connect Four - Think of an artist that had a great four record run. Play any (or all!) of the four Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (Section.80 > good kid, m.A.A.d city > To Pimp A Butterfly > untitled unmastered.) With Kendrick's catalog, lots of people might skip unititled...

Day Three - The Game of Life - Play a record that deals with or has a song that deals with mortality Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant The last two songs pretty explicitly address mortality. On "Stone or Lavender" Nai Palm (one of the greatest front women people of all time), sings about her...

Day Two - Risk - Play something you bought without listening to first/went in blind. Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To... I was only a couple years old when this album came out and it wasnt something anyone I knew was listening to when I was growing up. But as a...

Day One - Uno - Play an artist or band's first album Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite I've been meaning to give one of these monthly challenges a try Forever. Finally giving it a shot.

Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza (2008) The album that really put her on the map. Her sophomore effort, released in 2008, and somehow the only album in her discography (currently 8 albums deep) not pressed on vinyl. Really doesn't make sense to me and definitely deserving of a wax treatment.

Haven't been around here much since the summer, so I'm sad to have missed out on this. It was so much fun last year. I'll be back next year for sure.

Welp...

I'm trying to decide what to do about this one. I listened to it when it arrived and it was seemed fine but I asked for a replacement jacket right away because it wasn't glued well and was coming a part (which I received). Then I saw people talking about the noise issue and went back to listen...

Thank you!

Can anyone do a stock check on Hiatus Kaiyote? I've got a couple different copies, but starting to realize I want that deluxe packaging...

Nvm. Got 'em!

Same with Sons of Kemet. Annoying. Oh and according to discogs, 50 people already have theirs. So annoying.

Called it! And, it's also much more reasonably priced through her website. With a color that makes more sense. Already made AND canceled my VMP order. https://fana-hues-merch.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/pre-order-hues-12-vinyl

Per reddit: Per Storf: "for free for you to bring back to Reddit, Essentials will have one of the albums in our top 5 most requested ROTMs ever. Per VMP: So given those hourglass posts a few weeks ago, Deloused has gotta be the front runner. Which I'm cool with because I was not willing to...