brokenbirds

iridescence was my first exposure to BH. i remember seeing all my friends as the time listening to it when it came out so i decided to check it out and i loved it, for some reason i never really checked out the SAT trilogy until years later (besides a few songs) but that's not the point. i guess i can kinda see why it was polarizing upon release considering the SAT trilogy and what was known about PUPPY at the time, but i think it's definitely one of their best albums as a whole. i can ... read more

the fabled scrapped album finally leaked and it's really fucking good, even with some parts clearly being unfinished. i'm going by the 12 track long leaked version for this. all the songs that weren't officially released in some way before are great (specifically READY FOR WAR and LET'S GET MARRIED), it makes me wonder how they never released/reworked them.

i loved that WILDFIRE, TRUMAN, and DIANA are all on here, they're some of my favourite BH songs and they fit really well with the changes, ... read more

this is basically exactly what i wanted out of the SAT trilogy. it has some of my favourite moments overall in their discography; joba's verse - the end in BLEACH, the switch from SISTER to NATION, and when the beat in SISTER starts going really hard (y'know the one) just to name a few. BOOGIE is such a fantastic opener, it really sets the expectations for the album and the following tracks reach it or even surpass it. i do wish LIQUID was more of a "full length" song but i still ... read more

i was kinda expecting this to be some kind of underrated gem that i'd end up loving since that's usually how these things go for me, but... it wasn't. don't get me wrong, i don't think it's bad, but knowing the heights they'd reach not even one album later kinda makes it hard for me to rate it highly. there's definitely some bangers here, the mixtape as a whole might even grow on me a little. you can also see the potential and talent they had on here so it's still a worthwhile ... read more