br94

Given its playtime, this album holds extremely well. There are many mood shifts, unorthodox beats and virtuoso flows that keep things interesting. I still haven't met a single soul (and I have quite a few friends who are much more into hip-hop than me) who sit through these bloated 1+ hour records - and on repeated listens, mind you - instead of skipping tracks and/or throwing the best stuff into a playlist at some point, but I take this for granted before jumping in each time. Funcrusher ... read more

yaaaaaawn

The definition of a grower album. Didn't like it much at first but there's something to it that makes me want to revisit every now and then. Each time there are new sounds, flavors and paths to uncover, and if this is not great art then I don't know what it is.

Metallica's Black Album is arguably the most famous crossover in metal history. An album so far away from the band's previous releases that it caused intense polarization among the fans, and the "sell-out" tag continues to spread among the purists. In today's age, however, genre-defying internet communities still scratch their heads on what the whole fuss was about, oftentimes rejecting the "scene" mentality of older generations. And I think that this switch was something ... read more