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12.     EMA – Exile in the Outer Ring (City Slang)   I had this to say when this album came out … https://spewrocks.blogspot.com/search?q=ema I would still say pretty much the same.   13.     Kendrick Lamar – Damn (Top Dawg/Interscope) Hip-hop. I know what I like. It’s impossible not to like Kendrick. Named for the Temptations’ Eddie Kendricks, Lamar is straight outta Compton, section 8 housing, the life. He’s also an artist unafraid, not reluctant to mix genres and sounds or to speak his truth, plainly and poetically. His last, To Pimp a Butterfly, was universally, justifiably acclaimed. Damn is harder, more personal, and just as impressive. ‘Duckworth’ (Lamar’s real last name) is a lyric tour de force of black millennial life. A story too good to be true, but that don’t matter,   because it says what it says so powerfully.   14.     Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice ( Matador) Barnett has, along wit...