Skip to Content. What were your favorite albums of the year? Written by redbull. Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor' Merge. Maybe we have all been a little unfair. Arcade Fire have always been a tad maudlin, tugging, and charmingly overwrought, but you'd never call them suave, or even all that cool. Their biggest songs -- the anthems tattooed to indie rock history -- have incited more tears than smiles and riots.
But then there was ' Reflektor. There was James Murphy behind the boards and there was a song about the disconnected immediacy of pornography from a man who wrote 'Neighborhood 1.
Luke Winkie. Honestly, I don't know if I will ever connect with Eminem the same way I did when I was scrawling death threats in my middle school notebook. But I can say I still love listening to him rap. Seriously, the words-per-minute ratio rivalled your average auction barker.
But he sure was still fun to listen to on this album. Mac Miller turned 21 in but he did not waste the year knocking back beers -- he released five albums. Among them was the silly, wild-out alter-ego mixtape ''Delusional Thomas' -- one of our favorite mixtapes of -- and 'Live From Space,' Mac's first live album, which featured recordings from his massive Space Migration Tour.
Mac has always been an honest and sincere and mostly wholesome guy, and this is why the kids love him so much. That continued on 'Watching Movies Like his pals Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt -- both are featured artists here -- success has left Miller cold and paranoid and confused. Mac was so lost on 'I'm Not Real' he pulled a Descartes and questioned his own existence. And now he has money a lot of it, presumably and everyone kept saying they loved him, but he did not know who he could trust.
