Today is a great day for new albums from Lupe Fiasco, Mikky Ekko, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists, Marilyn Manson, Above & Beyond, Ryan Bingham and the 2015 GRAMMY Nominees and we're telling you if you should buy them or not.

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Fiasco's fifth studio album Tetsuo & Youth dropped today and the rapper told Billboard in an interview that published on Jan. 15, "It's an interesting album because it's a transition."

He's happy to take on the role of the "somewhat sophisticated, overly deep weird guy making powerful music." 

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Fiasco revealed in the interview that the album artwork is his own creation.

"I paint more than I write raps," he shared.

Anyway, Fiasco's album is earning rave reviews for its artistry on the 16 tracks such as described on FDRMX's review from today.

Ekko's debut album Time consists of 12 tracks and it's a great freshman effort, but overall it doesn't wow as much as his 2012 duet, Stay, with Rihanna has that soared when it was released as a single in 2013.

Rolling Stone revealed in a review today that Ekko's debut received praise for Smile and Mourning Doves, but Watch Me Rise is heavily criticized since Ekko's voice doesn't carry the way say Beyoncé's would on the "gigantic melody".

Belle and Sebastian's ninth studio album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, is garnering rave reviews for its ambitiousness and craft.

The Skinny shared on Jan. 6 that this album "is the work of a band challenging themselves" and "is lovingly crafted, laced with embellishment and detail, and it's full of unexpected twists" such as long tracks like Enter Sylvia Plath.

The Decemberists' seventh studio album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, is not getting praised.

Pitchfork revealed Monday that this album is a failure.

Manson's ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, is great.

Rolling Stone's review from today regards Manson as using the same themes in his songs from his previous efforts, but sees him as being "more focused" now. The site called this album "classier than you might expect from Manson."

Above & Beyond's We Are All We Need is earning praise such as seen in We Got This Covered's review from Jan. 18. The British trio is deemed to be "still at the top of their game."

Bingham's Fear and Saturday Night is proving to be fantastic. Rolling Stone revealed in an interview with the musician that published today that his marriage pulled him the darkness he previously felt.

"Marriage was the one thing that helped pull me through a lot of that stuff. That's been the one thing in my life that's been so stable. So [the album is about] Anna, the baby and life ahead of me. It's about stuff that's going on - good stuff. The stuff with my parents, that was all Tomorrowland. I had to deal with all that. I even went and talked to a therapist and got professional help, and it really did help a lot," he said.

Lastly, the 2015 GRAMMY Nominees album released today too and it includes Taylor Swift's chart-dominating Shake It Off along with other nominees. It's an eclectic mix of artists from the worlds of pop, rap, country and more.

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