*Álbuns clássicos entre 1960-1999* parte 4/??
Cancelamento parte 2. Eu não nasci pra ouvir glam rock, principalmente pré anos 2000.
The aspect of this album that I find most amazing is that it can hop between the agressive experimental hip-hop and the melodic R&B tunes without sounding forced or abrupt. It's almost insulting how many people have not heard about this yet.
*Álbuns clássicos entre 1960-1999* parte 3/??
Essa aqui vai ser a review que vai me cancelar. Antes de ouvir, eu tinha três percepções de realidade desse álbum.
1. Esse é o álbum mais incrível dos anos 80 e é genial, tudo faz sentido, Roger Waters é um gênio.
2. Esse álbum é overrated, chato e longo demais pra passar pouca coisa.
3. Esse álbum é famoso por ser famoso.
A verdade ... read more
*Álbuns clássicos entre 1960-1999* parte 2/??
Essa é a minha primeira interação real com rock experimental da era mais inovadora do mundo moderno (provavelmente). Eu tenho que admitir que não foi a melhor experiência que eu já tive. Enquanto algumas músicas são super _a frente do seu tempo_, a maioria é só irritante. Talvez porque eu ouvi esse álbum sóbrio ele não bateu tão forte ... read more
*Álbuns clássicos entre 1960-1999* parte 1/??
Por mais que eu não tenha tido grandes interações com alt rock raiz, esse álbum me surpreendeu bastante. Eu esperava algo muito mais leve e mais na vibe de rock clássico, mas Doolittle seria considerado experimental se tivesse sido lançado em 2021. Além de ser super experimental, usando riffs rápidos e sons absurdistas, ele consegue ser extremamente atual e você consegue ... read more
IDLES has solidified themselves as one of the greatest bands of the last 20 years in this record.
I had to listen to this twice in like three hours just to wrap my head around the project. I feel like I need to begin by acknowledging the masterful production and mastering by Kenny Beats, he literally gave new life to an already very much alive band. I can feel his influence on basically every song and he really shines on all of them.
The people who like IDLES were expecting something ... read more
I feel like this is a very polarizing record. On one hand, CZARFACE sounds amazing through most songs. But DOOM style doesn't really feel DOOM-esque. Most of the time his lyrics are on point, but he doesn't portray that classic pattern. For the surprise of literally no one ever, we do not know how DOOM was when this was recorded (circa May 2020), so his strange flow could be result of something out of his hand. This could be partly because of the mixing too, DOOM bars, especially on the first ... read more
This sounds like a 16 year old producer sent Carti a folder full of random beats and Carti just put his vocals over them without looking. The first half of the LP is the most cringe I've heard since CLB dropped. If someone told me that there is a hip hop album with features from Ye, Cudi and Future, I'd say that this is probably the most lit shit ever. And I was right, this is hot fucking garbage.
I agree that this is an 'experimental' album, but this doesn't mean that it is good. It's just ... read more
In what shouldn't be a surprise for AM fans, the band does another big turn in their style, now pushing a more aesthetical ambiance and more focused on the lyrics. After five years waiting for a new record, the lowest bars were beaten: this is different and very well polished.
It is now expected that every new project by this band is supposed to be completely different from the last. The introduction of a piano was a big focus on most tracks and, in the first few listens, it sounded pretty out ... read more
If this is what peak Arctic Monkeys sounds like, I am more than fine with it. This record is filled to the brim with very memorable and borderline perfect songs, even the most mild ones like Mad Sounds and Snap Out of It still feel like something unique and that has life to it.
I will be the first to admit that this is the soundtrack to my high school experience, every song brings back a different memory, which will affect my view on it in some capacity, but I don't care. All the things that ... read more
You can definitely tell when Alex fell in love and had his heartbroken in this AM era. This LP feels like it's the bridge between the very underground and aggressive first albums and the more love driven and impactful new vibe for the band.
Now that they have some years under their belt, I feel the need to be more emphatic on what they lack, mainly the repetitiveness of the melody on some tracks. They have such talented musicians that looks like they are trapped in a box playing the same ... read more
This is the most experimental that AM will get for the next decade, so this will be fun. The sound is definitely strange, very uncharacteristic this far from the band to have this many slow songs on a sequence. Normally, I'd say there is no breathing room between songs, but this is the exact opposite, there is no build up to a real banger. Most of them are not really that bad, except Fire and the Thud and Potion Approaching (both of which managed to make Alex sound bad, which is a feat in ... read more
I think it was here that AM really stood out and made themselves different from other indie rock bands from the 2000s. Only one year after their debut record, Favourite Worst Nightmare comes out taking everything that was amazing from the first album and turns it up. It has the highest amount of great songs from the band but it also has some stinkers that, although I love them, I understand why people would not be as appreciative of them as I am. They sound more aggressive and more original ... read more
AM is my favorite band of all-time and is a big part of my life, so I'll be revisiting each album, giving them a review and I'll try to be very objective. In chronological order, this is what I think about this LP.
This has aged so well. After 15 years, it is still a great record with a lot of memorable songs. The band really ditched this style of production going into the 2010s and although I can see why (mostly because they were getting too old to be talking about high school relationships ... read more
This is criminally underrated. I found myself in love with every aspect of this LP less than third of the way in. Her clear and big vocals are perfectly accompanied by a bold set of distorted guitars and synths, this is much more than what I expected. The lyrics feel so alive, I can't explain, you just have to hear them for yourself. She combines multiple aspects of brazilian music with such mastery, I've never seen someone that could transform a usually samba-like track into a very ... read more
This is a mashup of unoriginal lyrics, old tricks from pop music and it's nowhere near the amount of hype that it gets.
edit: I listened to it one more time and I have to say that my opinion is still the same, mainly the hype part. It still feels like a very middle of the pack album. I am most certainly not the target audience but I can recognize why it is popular but it's just not that great. On a second listening, the production on tracks like 'jealousy, jealousy' and 'deja vu' stand out for ... read more
For me, Alessia suffers from the impact that her debut album had on me. Her second and third albums were *very* boring, talking about the same exact topics in the same exact way, and this one finally does not follow the same line. I understand she being 20 and wanting to talk about the pains of young love, but if she were to talk about the same things for the fourth time now as a full grown adult, I'd be very disappointed. This is her best work since Know-It-All hands down.