Quite repetitive and formulaic compared to their later works, but a nevertheless solid start to a discography I dont think has a single song that is a skip

Insane Production

Most of the songs in this album are exactly what they are made to be: club bangers with catchy beats and vocals, but with a special flare only artists like Tyler can add

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I can see the Death Grips influence

Of course, you can say that this album (/mixtape) is nothing compared to what Kendrick did after this, but many of the ideas here are extremely solid.

Furthermore, the instrumentals here are quite mature - showing quite some complexity despite still being too simple to be something notable.

It is clearly possible to see how this mixtape was the start of his transition into a great rapper - yes, it is quite rough around the edges, but there are quite a few signs of greatness (such as Barbed ... read more

There is some solid production throughout the tracks, especially when Mustard shows his mastery in making quality songs with simple beats, like in the legendary song Ballin'

The rapping in nothing good and most of the other tracks are really generic.

Overall, just an ok album from Mustard

I wrote the below essay (2500 words) for a music leage round, where I sumbitted the song Vision One for my friends to listen to and explained why I consider it to be one of the best songs of all time.

--- Vision One - Music From Another World ---
- Introduction
For me, this is by far the most underrated track of all time

From the perfectly distorted synths,
To the hopeful, yet mournful lyrics
The mystifying vocals
And the incredible yet subtle progression,
This track is otherworldly in so ... read more

5.0/10

Never heard of glaive before, but because of how generic this sounds, I think I understand why.

6.8/10
Despite being quite a bit better than the original Harry Styles song, it still suffers greatly from the generic aspects of the original song and much better songs to cover could have been chosen.

Moreover, even though it was adapted into a song that sounds nearly completely different, the structure of the song fell apart a bit.

Ooh this is good
It joins elements elements of glitch Pop, dream pop and shoegaze so well

I heard that her 2023 album "softscars" is really good. This might be the needed push to get me to listen to it

From when could eggs make songs???

Anyway, sweater weather already is a bit over rated (from the people I talk to, who think it is absolutely amazing) and this cover simply just changing the indie rock elements to some extremely simple synths and ok vocals

9.3/10
Despite being a beautiful song, it does not have a high enough quality to be placed in my favourites
Still, the melancholy nature of the song, being recorded only a short white before Johnny Cash's death and its masterful simplicity, I have to give it a high score

It will probably grow on me after a few listens, especially if I look at other songs in the genre

Update: It grew on me - 9.5

This definitely sounds something that theatre kids would love

Despite containing quite a bit of emotion, just emotion does not make a song high quality. The instrumentation could be quite a bit better and more impactful, but it complements the vocals quite well as it is and the whole song would need quite some change to become anything extraordinary.

The only track which I adore that contains YUNGBLUD is "Obey" on Bring Me The Horizon's
"POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR". It seems like this is another song which he actually put in some effort in (unlike most of his other music).

Still, this version is a bit worse than the original (surprisingly not much) and even with his efforts of trying to create good vocals, it might be better if he just stops singing :\

Clearly trying to appeal to chronically online theatre kids worldwide.

Finally a meme with amazing music

Definitely an improvement over "Cythony, Pt 1", both in terms of the quality of the production and the levels that it is brought to.

The beats all throughout this EP are so much more vibrant than Cythoni, such as in "System Link" and "Ekstaasi", elevated by their mesmerising drum beats, distorted vocal samples and their well-handled repetition.

Still, I believe that there are huge improvements to be made, such as stopping quite prominent repetitive ideas ... read more

“Dance, No One’s Watching” is a quite alright Jazz album that cannot escape from the repetitive nature of many of the other Jazz albums which come out these days.

Despite its well thought out instrumentation with oscillating brass instruments and the constantly thriving drums in the background, it is plain to see that Ezra Collective did not come up with many new concepts, even having repetitive ideas all throughout this project.

There are a couple of moments which actually ... read more

I've already listened to this album for more than 20 hours, but practically everything that was worth saying was said in Fantano's 30 minute review so I guess I'm not writing a five thousand word essay this time 😔