III is most definitely BANKS’ best album to date and one that everyone should own.
These creative bursts help Banks deliver her most accomplished statement to date, a collection brimming with emotion, attitude, and unexpected delights.
‘iii’ is probably a couple of tracks too long, but Banks has created another supremely intriguing musical world filled with ear-snagging lyrics and quirky production flourishes.
III is the sound of an artist solidifying her already concrete career and becoming a musician ready to take over the world.
It’s a snow-globe of tainted love that makes the apocalyptic outside world seems near- manageable by comparison, a public service for that alone.
III is Banks’s most cohesive album to date because she’s no longer restricting herself to exploring one feeling at a time.
It’s experimental, it’s treacherous and it shows BANKS’ musical progression. III doesn’t play by the rule book, it creates its own.
Combining strong vocals, a pinch of venom, and a base of uncertain love, BANKS continues to explore the versatility of her voice. Through strong collaborations, her singing is amplified to showcase her voice in the best light.
While the brooding pop singer can’t always shake the anodyne songwriting that plagued her past work, III is still Banks’ best album to date.
III does little to push either Banks’s own limits, much less the precedents set by her alt-pop contemporaries.
Managing to be both half-baked and overdone, it’s an album that tries to do too much only to fail to deliver on its potential.
For the most part, it feels like Banks-by-numbers.
Her third album is a less-than-convincing attempt to lighten the old experimentalism in favour of chart-friendly ballads.
Banks did such a great job on this project. Great production and beautiful written lyrics.
With this brilliant record, Banks comes with a total different atmosphere, after 2 "dark pop" albuns, this time she comes with a glazing vibe, almost shining I must say. The pop production is dominant, almost like she step into the daylight and let it go (taylor swift reference), She feels more free I guess and the music reflects itself. I must say, probably one of the best pop albuns this year...
Till Now - 4/5
Gimme - 4/5
Contaminated - 5/5 ❤
Stroke - 3/5
Godless - 4/5
Sawzall - 3/5
Look What You're Doing To Me (feat. Francis and the Lights) - 4/5
Hawaiian Mazes - 4/5
Alaska - 3/5
Propaganda - 3/5
The Fall - 3/5
If We Were Made Of Water - 4/5
What About Love - 4/5
III is a fine album, there's some good tracks on here like the art-pop-esque 'Gimme' and the easy on the ears 'Sawzall', but the album is ultimately hindered by it's strange mixing. 'Stroke' is a perfect example of this. While I don't really mind the song, the heavy autotune and distortion effects are too much sometimes and don't sound good at all, the main issue present throughout the whole album. I did kinda enjoy this, but i feel like this is her weakest album that I've listened to (haven't ... read more
CLASSIC ALBUM
III by BANKS would be a near perfect experimental pop statement if it wasn't for the atrocious track "Propaganda."
1 | Till Now 2:36 | 86 |
2 | Gimme 3:39 | 92 |
3 | Contaminated 4:40 | 88 |
4 | Stroke 3:26 | 85 |
5 | Godless 3:10 | 80 |
6 | Sawzall 3:39 | 77 |
7 | Look What You're Doing to Me 4:00 | 70 |
8 | Hawaiian Mazes 4:03 | 75 |
9 | Alaska 3:07 | 70 |
10 | Propaganda 4:05 | 80 |
11 | The Fall 2:56 | 83 |
12 | If We Were Made of Water 3:24 | 71 |
13 | What About Love 4:18 | 70 |
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