Kyle Kramer
His talent is capable, if not exactly distinctive.
12y
At a time when so many young, emerging New York City rappers are eagerly presenting themselves as a sum of their classic New York rap influences, Ratking have generated attention by trying to represent something different. Ratking's palette is restless, chaotic, and cluttered, and So It Goes sounds like it exists in its own world.
12y
His music is full of intriguing, subtle touches of craftsmanship, but is inert and overwrought in spots.
12y
Irish singer James Vincent McMorrow's sophomore effort Post Tropical is an album that seems suited to winter. It features lyrics about “elements of frost” and “cold air” and taut, pensive songs that carry a pristine stillness.
12y
B.O.A.T.S. II is an album that feels happy just to exist, a rejection of the modern idea that album releases are serious events and all the tracks that sound like they were fun to make get relegated to bonus cuts or mixtapes.
12y
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