How I'm feeling currently:

Hiding Places
Aethiopes
Terror Management
Known Unknowns
Church
Maps
Today, I Wrote Nothing
History Will Absolve Me
Dour Candy
(Camouflage)
(Chalice)

• if we're including Brass then slot that in above Aethiopes

Damn, Today, I Wrote Nothing that low? Been bumping it recently and digging it.

A number of very high highs no doubt. But some of the beats aren't too great in my opinion, and woods' hook game has seen far better days.

E.g: Sleep, African Dodger, Woodhull, U-Boats

I do like it, but not as much as those others.

Plus recently for the first ever time my mind chose to hone in on woods' voice on Warmachines (a track I have always loved). And now I keep getting distracted and somewhat put off by the atypical hushed restrain in his delivery that I never really noticed before.

Ranking Armand Hammer full lengths is damn near impossible but current mood:

Paraffin
Rome
Haram
Shrines
Race Music

And I love Shrines but alas here we are

Soft landing one of the best songs I’ve heard all year

Hmmm lemme think about this

Aethiopes
Paraffin
Hiding Places
Haram
Maps
Brass
Church
Shrines
Terror Management
History Will Absolve Me
Rome
Today, I Wrote Nothing
Known Unknowns

(Excluded from the list: anything I haven’t heard 3+ times in full)

Specifically AM:
Paraffin
Haram
Shrines
Rome

(Same rule applies as above)

Haram and Paraffin are neck and neck in my mind, to the point that it’s hard to put one over the other, but its like - I don’t have the words for it fully, but it’s like comparing a massive tableau vivant to a titanium razor blade. Both are beautiful, Haram has a wider scope and everyone involved hits their marks perfectly but Paraffin is just so f***ing impossibly sharp, disemboweling everything it its path

Real for the Terror Management love

Wtf is this

My deluxe vinyl hasn’t had any movement and I seen Twitter pics of standard vinyl arriving. Anybody get a deluxe here?

Born Yesterday tho I actually think Today has some of my favorite woods hooks. but its my favorite album from him so

I can get behind most of this. And agreed there's just something about Paraffin which is so unique and relentless.

HOWEVER

I will no longer stand for Known Unknowns slander. You and @marcusg are both guilty of this. So many of the beats knock hard as hell and woods goes absolutely off on it. Some of his best ever lines on there. Sure it's a little long and can be liable to veer into slightly poppy territory, but never egregiously so.

Born Yesterday is definitely a high point.

Nah no word on mine either just yet.

blockhead beats were amazing on known unknowns. I would put them above kenny even, especially after that initial novelty of his musical approach wears off

Ya got me! Lmao something’s got to be on that bottom slot, it’s only by virtue of Known Unknowns being the album I’ve engaged with least that still fits my meaningless critera - I do f*** with the “poppy” aspects of it though, and the beats are very good. Even the lowest-ranked woods project is superior to many other’s highest highs, in my eyes. I could see it swapping places with Today I Wrote Nothing in the future

The press tour continues, this one is reeeeeeally f***ing good

thevinylfactory.com/features/the-records-that-made-billy-woods

Damn you really can hear that Kool Keith album influence heavily, hadn’t listened to Michael since college

woods perfected Keith's one-sentence (x4) hook game

woods is talking crazy on this one

Rifle on the wall is an icebreaker

JUST SAY HE'S THE BEST, LETS NOT ARGUE

That’s nobody’s wife, that’s Frida Kahlo

Great read

Looking at your rankings this might be an underrated opinion but Church is the most replayable Woods solo album to me