when you ask for most people's definitions of an "impressive album", the answer you'd likely get is an album that has an impressive display of performative skill or something that sounds epic and grandiose with many layers of instruments and while both of those are valid answers, the most impressive albums to me are ones that are as stripped back and unproduced as possible, relying entirely on the writing and composition of the music inside and this album is possibly the ... read more
it's interesting to note that "the fire this time" was almost a visual documentary and was only adapted into audio form due to channel 4 and the bbc rejecting it saying they "don't accept rant pieces", but in all honesty i don't think this would have the same potency it stayed true to it's original form. i think the experience is made a lot more personal and a lot more real by leaving the listener with no visual stimuli and having them piece together some ... read more
i find this quite noticeably worse than music of the spheres entirely because i could at least stay awake for that and it was a trainwreck i could appreciate but on top of the writing still not being much of an improvement over mots, there is absolutely nothing here. this is genuinely one of the most empty, boring and uninspired albums i've sat through not to mention including what i consider this band's worst song to date (we pray). i would've got more satisfaction from staring ... read more
once in a lifetime is a perfect track obviously but i wish i liked this album more outside of that. i don't know why but a lot of the experimentation on this album was cool but didn't rly land well enough for me to enjoy a whole album of it. don't get me wrong i can certainly see why this has the acclaim it does, it just isn't fully for me i guess
this song hits different now knowing it's probably the last masterpiece kanye's ever gonna drop
the more this track sits with me the more impressive it becomes for coldplay standards, and that's not me hating, i'm actually more forgiving towards the band than most tend to be, but coldplay's early material is usually just exceptionally good pop music. this track, however, genuinely blows me away everytime i listen to it.
chris's falsetto in the chorus and the harmonies in the second go-around elevate this track so high, they make a chorus literally just consisting of ... read more
this is one of those songs you really have to let simmer for a while to truly get how obnoxious it is. when you go out of your way to listen to it, it's just a very harmless, take it or leave it kinda track, however, when you start hearing it in public whether that be in stores, in the car, in other people's cars passing by, you start to realize just how goddamn annoying it is in how it's written. it's like chris martin and his merry men found the secret to writing the ... read more
the first side didn't rly interest me as much as i'd hoped but i really fucked with the ninth wave
weirdly i have the opposite opinion as everyone else with this track, the prog house half of this track feels kinda overdone and uninspired by this era of deadmau5's standards, but the brostep half actually sounds pretty cool and isn't anywhere near as obnoxious to me as most brostep tends to be
i feel bad for all the kanye dickriders, it is going to be HARD to defend this one
also i wanna know what switch got flipped in kanye's brain somewhere in the 2020s where he just lost everything that made him unique and likeable as a musical artist, like i know about all the shit he's said but even ignoring that his music has just gotten astoundingly worse out of nowhere
if you want an accurate chart for this album's tracklist quality wise google "inverted bell curve"
you've really pushed youre luck, kid, guess i'll have to show you what happens when you mess with the alpha... *slowly shifts into my wolf form*
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