This is a pretty cringe and boringly stale attempt at death metal.
The vibrantly colourful bittersweet nostalgic vibe of the production creates an aesthetically beautiful soundscape for Tyler to lay out an introspective narrative of self-discovery and self-growth (for himself; not just as a person, but as an artist). All of these songs are immensely relatable and emotionally mature, and it gives the listener so much to engage with on this journey.
Kendrick’s most open and honest album. A series of confessional songs structured as a therapy session, and executed like a musical play, where Kendrick unpacks his unresolved childhood and generational trauma buried deep down in lust addiction, materialistic attachment, a fractured masculinity, and a saviour complex. As Kendrick dives into these issues that not only plague his life, but others too, he urges the listener to not look to him for guidance, and to not look at him as some sort ... read more
“Is it wickedness? Is it weakness? You decide. Are we gonna live or die?” The key to understanding the album, and if Kendrick’s path in life is damned by weakness or wickedness?
As conceptually solid and thematically interesting as DAMN. is, this is Kendrick’s most accessible album, and this is his least impactful album, and artistically speaking, it doesn’t really do much with its more pop centric tracks. However, there is no denying how entertaining the album ... read more
A bloated soulless generic filler trap album. Nothing memorable about this trilogy closer, except maybe the fact that the features on here make Yachty sound so lame, especially on TD and Pardon Me. Westside is the only track on here I can see myself revisiting without getting bored or pissed off- the booming catchy chorus and the elegant instrumental save the song from Yachty’s rocky vocal delivery on the verses.
Even though these are just leftovers from ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’, I ate up every track on this.
“You can take your boy out the hood, but you can’t take the hood out the homie.”
The poetically rich and thematically dense narrative of multi-layered lyrical content, the grand cinematic scope grounded in African-American history and culture, and the experimentally transfixing sonic blend of hip hop, funk, soul, spoken word, and jazz makes this a truly astonishing and profoundly Important piece of timeless art. My favourite album of all time.
One of the best break-up albums of all time, and one of the most sonically nuanced alternative hip hop albums ever made.
There’s a boyish innocence to this trap album, not just because of Lil Yachty’s vocals and lyrics, but the production as well, complimenting his vocal presence. Unfortunately, this quality given to the trap scene is also soulless and amateurish. The one night, out late, fucked over, and I’m sorry run on the album is an enjoyable run of songs, everything else is forgettable.
Utter trash. This is the ultimate cringefest with disastrously amateurish production.
I like their reinterpretation of ‘Maggie’s farm’, but this album is just an awkward and dull release of covers.
The Battle of LA is a step down in quality from their previous two records. ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ sounds like someone doing a Rage Against the Machine impression. ‘Ashes in the Fall’ is just an awkwardly disjointed, and sonically unmemorable track. Both ‘Calm like a Bomb’ and ‘Mic Check’ have an obnoxious guitar loop in the verses, a sonically flat presentation, and a terrible chorus. The rest of the songs on the album; Testify, Guerrilla ... read more
The Car is a tediously dull, boringly unimaginative, and frustratingly directionless album from Arctic Monkeys. This is their worst album.
It took me 4 consecutive listens for this album to actually grow on me. Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino is such a fascinating experiment; a science fiction lounge rock jazz concept based around a luxury resort on the moon. It is ambitiously strange, and conceptually absurd, but it’s executed superbly to create this alluring atmosphere of interesting ideas and ambiguous depths. The only misstep on this album is ‘She Looks Like Fun’, whereas every other track is like a ... read more