Looks like this unfinished mess is, in fact, the final product after all.
I didn't enjoy the first Donda record either, unlike some, so its sequel turning out to be a turkey didn't exactly disappoint me. It's just sad to see such a once-great artist with a real vision end up at this place. Maybe one day he'll get back on medication, go to therapy, and release good music again. But until that time, the hype one one's past greatness can only get an artist so far, and I do believe Ye's ship has ... read more
Kendrick returns to the musical front lines with perhaps the most raw, bare, and vulnerable record he's ever made. It smacks of introspection, frustration, and human imperfection. It's also without a doubt the most truly progressive and ambitious musical sojourn he's brought his faithful listeners on since "To Pimp a Butterfly." The year is only half over, but, pound-for-pound in pure artistic richness and listening joy, "Mr. Morale" is going to be very difficult to beat as ... read more
An ethereal trip through the musical rain. And a very beautiful one, at that. It's almost as if O'Callaghan has managed to tap into my nostalgia without even knowing me. Very entrancing and calming listening experience.
Plenty of ratings, but no reviews yet prior to this one. That seems about right. It's a fine salsa album, but it runs a little long and all of the songs, while great on their own, sound very similar and end up running together when taken in total as an album listening experience.
As far as acoustic instrumentation goes, this is about as ethereal and ambient as a folk record could get. It has celtic influences which contribute to its more haunting melodies, but it's still very much its own project. Equal parts disquieting and comforting, somehow at the same time. A listening experience not soon forgotten.
Their debut impressed me immensely already, but I may even like their sophomore effort even more. It definitely has a bit more old school homages in it, but this record overall has enough originality in it to ensure that the music of Undeath remains a bastion for progress and creativity in modern death metal.
It's pretty. It's lush. It's well-recorded and well-mixed. It's also largely unremarkable in a genre that already has fallen victim to a lot of samey artists dragging it into an indecipherable haze.
The boys have done it again. They've come together in the studio to give 110%, go all out.... And produce a totally decent album.
If this "band" would stop and take the time to come up with something coherent instead of attempting to meet this weird self-imposed quota of ten albums per year, maybe they would release something worth listening to again.
It's undeniably beautiful music. Deceptively simple indie rock compositions that are awash with some of the most lush layering I've heard on anything this year.
Really fun psych and garage rock. Nothing groundbreaking, but it makes a helluva noise!
It's fun, but it is also almost irredeemably padded out with filler.
I have never heard such positive and inclusive lyrics set to such inventive and fresh music in my life. What a wildly new combination!
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