Their most mature and concise work to date.
BROCKHAMPTON’s particular brand of magic comes from the careful balance of individuality in their unity. The tighter they are, the greater the music will be, and GINGER is testimony to that.
Less rascally and rambunctious than their prior output, Ginger found the crew delving deeper into heavy emotional territory, tackling mental health, depression, betrayal, and struggles with love, faith, identity, and substance abuse.
The boyband’s fifth album is short on potential hits but sees them move past the intense, dogged emotion of predecessor ‘Iridescence’, proving they're built for distance.
GINGER is a return to form for the BROCKHAMPTON boys, albeit a decidedly downcast one.
Since GINGER contains more fresh ideas than almost every great rap album of 2019 combined, once again it’s hard to pin down why it feels like such a relief when it finally ends.
Even the prettiest BROCKHAMPTON songs can feel cramped, but many of these songs, though each endowed with their little moments, are disorganized or inefficient.
While Iridescence proved that the group could survive Vann’s abrupt departure, Ginger exposes their creative limitations.
Each of their albums experiment with genre, but GINGER is all over the place, never really sure what it wants to be.
The self-proclaimed hardest working boyband in showbiz break new ground, but they're missing some of that old magic.
Unfortunately the final product doesn’t quite live up to the billing, with GINGER feeling like a confused, disjointed record, from a group that’s full of great ideas without the follow-through to fully realize them.
The 13-member “boy band” zips between sounds, signifiers and moods, usually staying on the surface but sometimes showing real depth.
ALBUM SWAP #3 - @DJaycup
Before this album swap, ‘GINGER’ was the BROCKHAMPTON album I was most excited for. I’m aware how acclaimed the Saturation trilogy is, but I was intrigued by the album’s warm embrace (mostly thanks to the album cover), so I just had to listen to this. While I wasn’t blown away, I still enjoyed it. From the mellow “NO HALO” to the admittingly hard “BOY BYE”, it was eclectic enough for me to enjoy, but not as ... read more
Pre-Album: BROCKHAMPTON has become stale and too worried about their image. I hope they prove me wrong.
Post-Album: I miss Ameer
I was completely wrong and am blown away by the quality of this album. The singles are by far the worst songs on the project. Stellar production throughout, great lyricism, and Ginger does an even better job at conveying that "indie rap" sound than iridescence had done awkwardly. The band has matured and progressed.
fav tracks: St. Percy (standout), Sugar, No Halo
Defenitely not the best BROCKHAMPTON album out there, but goddamn do I love some songs on here.
Their worst great album. Most of the tracks are amazing, showing a lot of maturity. Other tracks are just a mess or lack something. DEARLY DEPARTED, GINGER and others are some of the band's best material.
BROCKHAMPTON REVISITED 5/8
Ginger is Brockhampton doubling down on the mature theming found on the end of iridescence. After Iridescence I stopped paying attention to these guys for the most part only to be regained by roadrunner. Meaning this is a first listen *technically* a first listen aside from SUGAR which was honestly great, hearing them embrace their boyband title and just make a sweet R&B song was great. ALL I went in hoping for was for them to stay on track with this theme unlike ... read more
1 | NO HALO 4:19 | 88 |
2 | SUGAR 3:24 | 88 |
3 | BOY BYE 2:22 | 87 |
4 | HEAVEN BELONGS TO YOU 1:29 | 77 |
5 | ST. PERCY 3:30 | 81 |
6 | IF YOU PRAY RIGHT 5:02 | 82 |
7 | DEARLY DEPARTED 4:40 | 90 |
8 | I BEEN BORN AGAIN 3:39 | 78 |
9 | GINGER 3:54 | 81 |
10 | BIG BOY 3:55 | 75 |
11 | LOVE ME FOR LIFE 3:35 | 74 |
12 | VICTOR ROBERTS 4:23 | 80 |
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