Cudi's most inoffensive release yet, HAVE U BN 2 HEAVEN @ NITE barely holds itself up at all.
The last 6 tracks and STUNT HOUSE ! are the only intriguing songs, the rest of the album is mind-numbingly repetitive punk rage with constant buildups yet nothing to show.
After a long, tense, and scary buildup from Indicud to this point, SB2H is a masterpiece where Kid Cudi lets go of all outside pressures as the only way to heal himself. He never intended for this album to be acclaimed, he intended to make music he felt captured his truest emotions deep down so that he could restart his career, and he did exactly that from Speedin' Bullet to PP&DS.
If insanity was an album, it would be this, with the chopped guitars and constant drums filling every song.
An intense, abrasive album that perfectly carries out themes of depression, self-worth, suicide, in a perfect, unconventional 80 minutes.
How does one make an album so revolutionary yet boring at the same time?
Just a really agreeable album, and for good reason. It sets a very warm soundscape, and you have to be in the right setting to fully enjoy the intricate progressions and loops throughout the songs.
Guitars that rip, super natural jazz fusion, and just very emotion-driven music with free song structure that remains just as good today. Providence kinda hinders the album a bit, but it is good in its own right.
Twinkcore shimokita-kei that just makes you feel happy any time of the day. Fairly basic, but it excels in those basic qualities.
Gets unbearably repetitive towards the middle, but the two ends of the album tie it together neatly into a decent-at-best reissue to one of the greatest albums of all time.
Insanely satisfying stutters and microtiming combined with filthy 808s and slightly detuned songs, bleood is truly peaking.
Energetic, awkward, full of personality, great concept, and mind-blowing production.
A kind of fourth-act release from the legendary MCR lead singer, Hesitant Alien holds up insanely well, really being able to channel that feeling of youth through an album with bittersweet chords, lyrics, and distorted singing.
Little bits of the album get cliché at times, but most of the album remains incredibly unpredictable, electronic, and calculated, while managing to channel hate through music incredibly.
Death Grips' breakout, absolute masterclass in projecting uncontrollable human anger and greed through song.
The absolute peaks of this album absolutely rip as metal songs, such as The Blue and Scream of the Butterfly. However, despite the vivid and impressive representation of horrid ideas and overwhelming instrumentation, it does get incredibly repetitive after three songs or so.
Ingeniously allegorical, ★ provides total new perspectives on death and combines it with intense instrumentation and complex song structure.
Not only does it have a possible top 10 song ever, the other songs also hold up incredibly with an incredible range of funky music, calm music, and ambient masterclasses, taking everything Bowie has learned from his past three albums and making the true peak of the Berlin Trilogy.
Another super danceable album, but... ambient this time? And electronic? Count me in.