Songs
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80
Sure, there are notes of the dreaded brostep on display here ... but there is also much fun to be had
14y
67
Songs is a nasty carnival of electronic pop that giddily hops between styles-- jungle, rave, dub, purple, reggae, pure Guetta-fied pop, and so on-- like a broken radio.
14y
60
His commercial experimentations are still hit and miss, enough hit to make these departures worthwhile, but also enough miss to make you wonder if Rusko is out of his comfort zone when he branches out.
14y
60
Songs does not kill Rusko’s brostep monster. It just drastically smooths out the edges and makes it a bit more ready for popular consumption.
14y
40
It's a shame to see how Americanised Rusko has become through listening to this release.
14y
okay now I get where do 2010-around big pops grab a piece of strange Brostep drop into the chorus.
this might be the last light of Rusko-type "UK Heavy" Brostep, sounded so conservative that it brought Dub back into Dubstep for real but failed to be a carnival banger
I'll drop the first review as a fan of this music.
Rusko was one of the main players in dubstep in 2012. Many see Skrillex as the downfall of dubstep and Caspa & Rusko's tearout tunes as his predecessor, but i can't agree. Dubstep split, but looking back Rusko was definitely still part of the original school. I mean skream and joker have tons of similar tunes and no one questions them, C&R just got big at the start of the loudness war in dubstep. Anyway, the album.
The sketches and ... read more
I wanted to like this more than the result of the product. by 2012 the edm world had made a diffinitive step toward trap and bass drops... Something we think Rukso would have excelled at. As the world moved toward bigger and harder drops Rusko doubled down on UK garage and pop sensibilities. Perhaps an attempt to show his roots while desperately trying to sway a dubstep crowd that he created into educating them on where the sounds came from. To never lose the DUB in DUBSTEP. Yet we get a sort ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Year 3000 Style - Intro 1:02 | |
| 2 | Somebody To Love 3:01 | 76 |
| 3 | Pressure 4:04 | 79 |
| 4 | Skanker 3:41 | 81 |
| 5 | Love No More 3:52 | 74 |
| 6 | Opium 3:39 | 79 |
| 7 | Dirty Sexy 2:44 | 78 |
| 8 | Be Free 3:13 | 52 |
| 9 | Thunder 3:50 | 83 |
| 10 | Roll Da Beats - Old School Edition 4:08 | 82 |
| 11 | Mek More Green 3:57 | 69 |
| 12 | Asda Car Park 3:39 | 85 |
| 13 | Whistle Crew 3:25 | 79 |
| 14 | M357 4:08 | 83 |
Total Length: 48 minutes
