Just too similar to every other sound-cloud dj. Even the features feel half-asleep, despite being the most tasteful part of this EP (Caesar, A.Chal & BBNG on one EP is enough to make anyone give these tracks a couple spins) but overall very uninspiring. You're better off looking to Stwo's future and past-mixtapes instead of this.
Some songs are so objectively better than others, its a navigation through the shit and the gems.
Favorites: Diamonds Dancing, Plastic Bag, Big Rings
Overall much like Watch The Throne, this album lacks an identity, this duality leads to scatterbrained ideas, unfinished concepts, what are half these songs about? There are some beautiful moments which can be found "doing me dirty" but that's just a testament to the artists involved and less about the songs in question, miss me on this
Oh lord, dedication 666, Lil Wayne goes bar for bar for bar. This is by far, by far the best I've seen him in the last 5 years. By the quality of this I'm actually interested in the mystical Carter V.
First Listen:
1. Fly Away(DNA) - 2/10
2. Everyday We Sick - 6/10
3. Boyz 2 Menace - 7/10 (Lil Wayne bodied this my god; the rest is pretty average)
4. Eureaka - 2/10 (very poor, though there are some memorable bars)
5. 5 Star(Rockstar) - ... read more
This might as well be a new band, that's how I approached this album, no real expectations and knowing it wouldn't sound like previous iterations. It's a culture shock, they've traded in their dark tones for a much more synth-based band despite their lead synth player leaving the band.
Because of this, we have seen Tom Smith(lead vocals) change the pitch of his voice dramatically. It is a testament to this mans vocal capabilities, I've never heard of someone with such a dark baritone being ... read more
I still have no clue how I feel about this band. I enjoy the vocals and I enjoy the instrumentation, so its a head scratching moment truly.
I think it may be the "pop" melodies which are scattered across this album, even though the guitars are always doing this beautifully intricate work, something, often the drums or xylophones(electronic pianos etc) add this weird bubble gum sound, which contradicts everything I expect and enjoy from this band, I mean look at that album cover, look ... read more
What a year its been in the world of Mr. Irisarri, I hadn't realized that he had released this as well, along with La Equidistancia & Thesis 10(with Julianna Barwick) Rafael Anton Irisarri is truly the best thing to come out of ambient music this year, and that is no small feat in a genre as vast and unflinching as ambient music, where every soundbit crafted and made to glitch onto another, there is no clearer example of how brillant ambient music can be than with Rafael Anton Irisarri
I'm originally from South Africa, so I present this as imo the best iteration of South Africa's newest hip-hop talent. It's worth a listen for those looking to see what's going on in SA from a 21 year old, mr.self re-leased.
Favorites: Need Me, On My Own, Winter
Slowly realizing that this is the best artistic choice Jay could have made, any other avenue of rap would have fitted him poorly, and with the grandeur stripped away from Magna Carta, this is truly the best form of Jay we could have received, that being said, its just not that interesting of a story anymore.
I do think that there is a discord between the beautiful instrumentation and Jay Z's new flow. Both are beautiful and well executed, great samples on No.ID's part and Jay Z's raps are ... read more
A reminder of how much the new wave live off of Lil Wayne's sound and cadence.
Ironically he does this on pre-exisiting beats, if only to show them how its done.
The second half of this album is OPN at his most intricately visceral, I bite through it is the type of soundtrack I'd like my nightmares to have playing, the animals music-video goes with the drowsiness that comes before.
![Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh - الإخفاء [Lekhfa]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/2017/97671-lekhfa.jpg)
This form of music is one that hardly ever interests me, and with lyrics in what I assume is Arabic, I don't get much lyrical substance from this album but with all those odds, this album is so well crafted that I still find myself immensely enjoying this album.
Definitely a hidden gem!
Expected a great deal more from Travis Scott, this is about what I expected from Quavo though without a doubt; This is awful
Eluvium continues to silently create one of the most consistent bodies of work in the genre of drone and ambient.
Simply Put The Suggested Manner Of Listening To This Work Is To Isolate The Collection And To Randomize The Play Pattern On Infinite Repeat – Thus Creating A Shuffling Drone Orchestration – The Intent Is To Create
A Body Of Work Specifically Designed For And In Disruption Of Modern Listening Habits And To Suggest Something
Peaceful, Complex Unique, and Ever-Changing, ... read more
A stand out in the world of ambient-cy, and in a genre which prides itself on hushed epiphanies its a hard thing being a stand out in a library full of great hushing ambient works,I say its the trumpets ^^,
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