Love Sick is an excruciatingly dull, boringly generic, and awfully lazy trap rnb album with no ounce of originality, creativity, or personality to its name.

At almost 40 minutes, A Different Shade Of Blue gets worn down in it’s familiarity and repetitiveness, where the longer the album goes on, the more the tracks start to blend together into one tiresome concoction without a lot of distinct moments to make certain tracks stand out on their own.

‘Belleville’ is a decent start, a heavy opener with lyrics about depression and that feeling of numbness. The second track, ‘Trapped in the Grasp of a Memory’ comes through ... read more

A bloated filler tracklist of generic, boring, and cringe summer pop tunes.

The ultimate white girl cringefest.

Often hailed as her best project, 1989 consists of Taylor’s most popular songs, almost like a radio’s morning playlist. That’s the only reason why this album is considered her best, and it’s because all of these songs have had the most radio plays out of all of her albums.

‘Welcome to New York’ sounds like it’s from a teen movie where the teenager moves to New York at the start. It’s cheesy generic pop trash with a basic cliche 80’s synth ... read more

Don Toliver is a feature artist. This album is proof of that. Not only does he fail to follow through with an entertaining album from beginning to end, but he can’t even carry a single song idea on his shoulders, and not only is his songwriting terribly weak and his vocal work plainly derivative, but all these tracks start to bleed into one another, as well as with his contemporaries’ songs. Hardstone psycho is a generically boring and repetitively stale trap album that goes nowhere ... read more

Life is one big laugh track of depressing shit.

The album opens with ‘Oblivion’s Peak’, a dirty guitar thrashing hardcore beat down with dynamic rhythmic tones changing things up as the song progresses. The hatred towards institutions with twisted ideologies is the driving force of this tracks narrative. ‘Deadringer’ is a head banging delight with intense breakdown grooves that you get completely lost in. Unconventionally, the song abrasively switches from its ... read more

This debut project from Knocked Loose is an unpolished and scrappy endeavour into the band trying to figure out their style and sound amidst the metal scene. This just doesn’t compare to their 2020’s work. The vocal delivery isn’t quite there yet, the lyrics range from heavy-handed to goofy, and the instrumentals sound too familiar to one another.

This EP is split between poorly mixed bootleg sounding Knocked Loose songs and just straight up awful tracks by a band called Damaged Goods.

Much like ‘YWGBYST’, Knocked Loose deliver a relentlessly heavy 20 something minute piece of metalcore destruction, but the narrative about a man dealing with grief and guilt after killing his girlfriend in a car crash makes this even heavier.

Doris use to be my favourite Earl Sweatshirt album, mostly because ‘Chum’ was the first song I ever heard from him, and so there’s definitely some nostalgia in plain sight. Unfortunately, listening through his entire catalogue, Doris is actually one of his weaker projects. There’s some fantastic songs on this, but it also has some awful songs here and there that ruins much of the experience.

‘Pre’ has a plain instrumental that Earl Sweatshirt actually kills ... read more

Relatable album title.

The dark moody lofi soundscape sets the stage for Earl to rap about his reclusiveness, his isolation from the world, and how he has never found a place called home. While the second half still delivers enjoyably solid tracks, they don’t compare to the strong set of songs in the first half, especially the literal perfection from ‘Huey’ to ‘Grief’.

With a fresh dynamic range of fantastic instrumentals and a densely packed arrangement of poetically charged lyrics and slick hard hitting bars, this album is truly sick! This project is just as much a look at the sickness in our world as it is a spiritual self-reflection for Earl.

Feet Of Clay feels like leftovers from Some Rap Songs, and without any coherence or direction to drive the listening experience. Even a couple of the beats and rap performances just don’t successfully meld together.

‘74’ sounds like Earl is rapping in this heavy thick fog, and it’s equal parts entrancing and haunting. The one note beat on ‘EAST’ never varies up throughout, where it just becomes repetitively annoying, while Earl poorly raps over something ... read more

Stylistically, Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist compliment each other so well. The laid back vibe of this project is super chill to listen to, especially when Earl is nonchalantly spitting slick bars and raw poetry over such pretty and tasteful instrumentals. Even if the album doesn’t quite progress track by track, sort of just staying in the same spot without much development to push the experience forward, Voir Dire is still a solid listen.

Solace is a depressing collage of emotions and thoughts running through Earl’s head, and it’s the perfect prelude to Some Rap Songs.

Some Rap Songs is an abstract portrait painting Earl’s current psyche in fragmented waves of emotions and thoughts, as he tries to make sense of the pain in his life, descending the listener inside his scattered mind for a nightmarishly existential trip. Throughout this dauntingly heavy meditative experience, Earl is trying to deal with the death of his absent father, as he struggles with depression, anxiety, hidden trauma, and suicidal thoughts, while numbing himself through substance ... read more

Ramona Park Broke My Heart sounds like an extension of Vince Staples’ self-titled album that came out a year prior to this release. I’d say this is on par with that album, since the self-titled project has a bland uninteresting closing stretch, and Ramona Park Broke My Heart has a bland uninteresting middle section, while both albums deal up a decently enjoyable album experience.

‘THE BEACH’ is pretty much every other Vince Staples opener, but still, it does its thing ... read more

Vince Staples’ self-titled album is Vince recounting his past life as a gang banger over mellow trap production by Kenny Beats. It’s exactly what you would expect with that information in mind. It’s a decently enjoyable rap album up until the last three tracks, where it loses its enjoyability factor and it’s introspective angle for a bland uninteresting closing stretch.

FM! has a fun concept with its summer time radio station feel, but it’s never fleshed out and developed into something more promising and investing as an experience. It just comes and goes without leaving much of an impression on the listener.

‘Feels Like Summer’ does a good job at setting up the summer vibe, but the song itself, it’s a generic trap cut. ‘Outside!’ is an undercooked song that had so much potential to be more, which is highlighted in the ... read more