Mark Abraham
It is boastful yet scathing, exaggerated yet brutally honest self-portraiture that doubles as listener portraiture, because they’re selling us to ourselves, and that consolidated duality is used to push its music like the crack it is.
14y
If you give it a chance (or maybe even a dozen chances, if you can stand it), and don't immediately dismiss it because it's by Joanna, I’m sure you’ll find something to love.
14y
While I don’t really want to drop a hackneyed anecdote about sex and pizza, it’s kind of true, because even if this is my least favorite of Jóhannsson’s albums, it’s still really good, and yet another example why he’s a master of this stuff.
11y
Game Theory’s highs never quite reach those of Do You Want More?!!!??! or Illadeph Halflife, and those albums, even with those highs, are still inconsistent affairs. Which means that the Roots are back on track, but the track itself was never something we praised wholeheartedly in the first place.
14y
When T.I. is on, he’s really, really on, and, at several points, King lives up to its own hyperbole. It’s just that those points correspond precisely to the places where T.I. is actually talking about how great he is.
11y
They capture and transform generic ideas about space and environment in ways beyond the grasp of most bands. Sadly, this approach limits their accessibility; even so, theirs is a world well worth, at least, a visit.
11y
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