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                <title>The 20 Best Metal Albums of 2014</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Every year has its highs and lows, but 2014 sure seemed to take pleasure in keeping us in the metal community on our collective toes. It swung between triumph and tragedy, often in the space of a few weeks. Angela Gossow stepped down from Arch Enemy, Slayer's lineup continued to rotate like a damn rotisserie,&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Kanye West&#8217;s &#8216;Yeezus&#8217; Is 2013&#8217;s Album of the Year</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<strong>Kanye West</strong>'s <em>Yeezus</em> is the most important album of all time inspired by a lamp.Struck by one of Le Corbusier's sleek, minimal fixtures, West responded with <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/06/kanye-west-yeezus-roc-a-fella-def-jam/" target="_blank">an album of simple shapes, uncomplicated colors, and instant gratification</a> — an immediate sculpture made for the Pinterest age, but still clogged with enough lewd lyrical selfies to get&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Avant Albums of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Here, in one place, is all the free jazz, cassette noise, doomy dronescapes, 21st Century recomposition and bloodthirsty skronk-punk that we listened to when we weren't riding for Frank Ocean and Taylor Swift. You knew we were trouble.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Country Albums of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[There are plenty of country-music delivery systems these days: lurid network dramas, Nashville-minted gleaming-teeth megastars, hirsute good ol’ boys, sensitive-poet road warriors, honky-tonk princesses, Kennedy-kidnapping tabloid fixtures, hacky-sacking surfer boys, Appalachian exorcists, alt.lifers, critical darlings, bluegrass virtuosos, rockabilly tarts, Swedes. Some pine for a Golden Age, some pine for 1994, some pine for Jake Gyllenhaal.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Dance Albums of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Last season's post-dubstep murmurs and moombahton grooves have ceded the spotlight to the class of 2012. This year's best dance albums move with the frenetic jostle of footwork, the slam-dance frenzy of festival dubstep's newest mutations, the drilling rattle of the EBM revival, the hypnotic pulse of Cuban drums, and the "I-can't-believe-it's-called-trap-rave" of trap rave.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 40 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[The anarchy of the Internet — and the major-label system's attempt to harness it — has fractured the hip-hop narrative into its most diverse smash-up of personalities and ideas since the days when N.W.A and MC Hammer could exist safely in the same gang. Our list of the 40 best hip-hop records of the year&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Pop Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Here's a little something to enjoy with your boof boof. SPIN celebrates the girls that run the world, the Girls that run Korea, and one Fall Out Boy running dry. We rolled in pop's deeps for the year's best: Hold it against us.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Avant Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Suffocating drones, feverish out jazz, bucolic fingerpicking, audacious shredding, gothic soundscapes, transcendent guitar armadas, and at least one dead salamander. In short, the best of the rest.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best R&#038;B Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[For much of 2011, arguing about what is and isn't R&#38;B appeared to be more fun than actually listening to R&#38;B (however you personally defined it). But it turns out that was all just an illusion. Here are 20 terrific records that could start arguments, and end them.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;S 20 Best Dance Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[House goes R&#38;B, dubstep goes subterranean, panic goes to the disco, Justice goes to space, and moombahton does whatever moombahton wants. Groove, however, is still in the heart. Presenting our picks for the 20 best dance records of 2011.]]></description>
                

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