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As much as I love some of the bangers in here, I can't bring myself to rate it any higher than an 80. I adore the soundscape Medasin creates in this album and that's always his strong suit. He just loves fucking around with different sounds and you hear that in this step he takes. It's just that some of the songs leave me wanting more. Either a song feels bland with empty space or just isn't that sonically interesting despite having a neat texture. Otherwise, most songs are at least enjoyable ... read more

Sometimes I wish this album did more to create a more intense or complicated sound with more niche rhythms and patterns and such. Aside from that, this is a solid album that's nice and chill for the most part and I use it for reading certain manga. It's just a nice, clean auditory landscape to be in.

In love with most of the songs in this album and can hum back all of them by heart. It's not my favorite album of all time by any means but a good number of the songs have ingrained themselves in my mind with no foreseeable way of getting out. The drums for this album keep me coming back and the catchy guitar riffs. The metric manipulation, instrumentation, and chops just make this album a classic in my library. I just could do without songs like Glitch and Feel This Way
Bangers include ... read more

Got into Kiana Lede when she dropped this solid project. Production for Kiana has always been a strong suit in most of her songs and this EP showcases a bit of that. Each song has its own voice, whether its heartfelt and relaxed or bitter and bad bitch vibes. We all love and know the classic song Ex by now and it's the keystone of the EP but Take It All now takes my #1 song in this EP after digesting it for as long as its been out.
Also Kiana's vocals are so good all the time. It's raw, real, ... read more