Unique in every sense while still stripped back instrumentally. It's a bit too scatterbrained for me but I imagine anyone spending time with this album will come to love its erratic and wild textures.
Also, what a lovely voice, even the back-up vocals are wondrous
Favourite: Homebody
Always willing to try out an album if the album artwork is good, (Phillip Clarke is the artwork artists name btw)
As far as this album goes, its a well crafted album, by a bunch of musicians who you can tell truly care about their art.
That being said, there is very little here if i'm being blunt. No great new sound nor any real sonic landscape that takes your breathe away or anything along those lines.
I think the next natural step here would be to become an instrumental band tbh the ... read more
Not too sure about sagun, but its on Apple Music so I'll assume all the permissions are sorted out.
The main appeal here are the vocals of Shiloh Dynasty which is sampled here over some chillwave instrumentation, what a voice.
HOW Y'ALL MAD AT THIS, WHEN YOU beeen bumping GUCCI GANG!?
A great debut, it has its flaws(with some serious delusions of grandeur) and a terrible finish, but its originality is refreshing.
Also, I take this over the rest of his contemporaries by a LOT, next to Brockhampton; this is the most exciting new iteration of the hip-hop genre I've heard in 2017.
Favourites: Ninety B, L, U, E, The Passion, Fallen.
Avoid: Watch Me, Batman, Rapper
Update: It's really strange to see someone create a ... read more
The worst thing about this track is Beyonce and then there's the terrible piano-piece. Even with all of that Eminem comes thru
Uniquely Jesse Rutherford but as much as I wanted to love this album, its not all that good. and man it has a slow-start.
However, for what it is, which is a pop album, its good? I mean I didn't want to cut my ears off, so there is always that,
But I think Jesse could have created a lot more than this.
Jump off the stage like Yee-haw
The only hip-hop live-album I can name that isn't terrible. DOOM is charismatic and spits every bar flawlessly,
The stellar God's Whisper and the Kanye Co-sign put too much pressure & expectation on this album, its putrid-ly average.
The best version of Gazzillion Grand/Ear is found on this mixtape, and that's saying a lot
(there are a plethora of remixes including one from Yorke)
As a whole the combination of Sade and MF Doom works wonderfully. And brings a new side to many of Doom's lyrics, there is sensuality that Sade brings to everything.
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Everytime I listen to this album, which is admittedly not that often, I'm blown away. Its not an album I dissect either, unlike other albums where I pick and pull my favourite tracks into a monolith playlist, here I listen to it a few times and leave it for a while, perhaps if I were to keep coming back I'd find issues but so far so fucking good.
There has been little progression of his sound, which shatters me, was really looking foward to his debut but nothing to be found here that cant be found on his EP to greater effect.
No variation in tone, lyrics or his instrumentation.
I imagine this may be an album worth listening to if you're new to Yellow Days and fans of Pablo Nutini & King Krule.
Otherwise there's not much here.
hidden gem of a man, too bad he never seemed to ever finish his tracks, but again that in itself made his music uniquely his.
I imagine this song becomes complete once surrounded by the rest of its album, at least the instrumentation seems to point to that.
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