Death Grips � Government Plates (self-released): In an awful release week, you'd think an incoherent, out-of-nowhere Death Grips albatross would take on added dissonance. Instead they throw everything they lack into a blender and delete ideas like "songs" and "rapping" altogether, railing against Yeezus by leading with a riff with no notes�try and co-opt this, Mr. Kim Kardashian. The only reason they quote Bob Dylan is because they love martyrdom, the only reason they employ the timbres from a beheaded bounce track on "Two Heavens" is to proudly display how it no longer bounces. But at least "Two Heavens" adheres to some kind of Tibetan bowl clang. Too often we're supposed to marvel at how they abruptly switch from one random programming sequence to the next, without making too much of the surrounding audio field, sticking to hyperquantized hyperactiveness like playing a badly scratched El-P CD. They aspire to be the Liars of rap, earning praise no matter how much they self-sabotage; The Money Store probably sounds like pop now compared to the randomness of "Birds." See who else made the list.

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