Circles is a fitting, poignant finale for Mac Miller. Unlike so many posthumous albums that feel like heartless attempts to recoup lost investments, this album has care and earnest carried throughout the 12 tracks here. Executive producer Jon Brion has done an incredible job salvaging and refining these tracks to the point where these hardly sound like the bloated, demo-quality posthumous albums from other deceased performers like X and Peep. However, while there is emotion on Circles in ... read more

While Eminem has ditched the revvy, car-engine style flow of his previous albums, lyrically he still treads in the same bitter swamp of anger he has wallowed in for much of the past five years. This is the second album where Slim Shady laments of the failure of Revival, and while the songs here are better than that album or Kamikaze, the overall experience on the 20 tracks of this album fail to place Eminem back on the high pedestal he was on over a decade ago. The album starts surprisingly ... read more

There are some diamonds in the rough on this project, but most of them aren't worth wading through the very rough and overly aggressive stylistic clash to get to. THIS DOES NOT EXIST is a strange, focus-lacking mess of an album, where a bulk of the shouted, fast deliveries hardly match up with the grating instrumentals in the background. It's one thing to be lo-fi, but Lil Darkie really takes it to too much of an extreme to where the album just feels too rough. Darkie himself has a strange but ... read more

I didn't know what to expect going into this short album, but with Travis Scott's label and name slapped all over it I was sure that there would be some great tracks to come out of it. Lil Baby makes for a surprisingly good addition to HIGHEST IN THE ROOM, but apart from this and the great GANG GANG, most of this project just feels like ASTROWORLD leftovers that go in one ear and out the other. Inoffensive, but nothing revolutionary or really even worth your time, unless you're a massive Cactus ... read more