AM is probably the most overrated album of the 2010’s. The album is crushingly dull with the occasional corny songwriting, and the occasional annoying pop sensibilities. Most of the songs just sound the exact same, like ‘do I wanna know?’, ‘Fireside’, And ‘r u mine?’. They’re just mixed differently. I do enjoy the simplistically groovy opener and the later similar sounding track ‘Fireside’, the slow methodical vibe of ‘No. 1 ... read more

‘Brick by Brick’ is terrible, holy crap, and ‘Piledriver Waltz’ is fantastic, holy crap, but like, every other track on this is perfectly adequate/fairly enjoyable. Much better than ‘Humbug’, as the songwriting and instrumental work is a million times better.

‘Crying Lightning’ is the only song on this that grabbed my attention with its catchy hook and nice instrumental progression. As for the rest of the album? Just forgettable song writing or boring vocal delivery with such plain and unimaginative instrumental work. It’s just a dull attempt at a stoner rock indie record.

Another consistently enjoyable record from Arctic Monkeys. Track by track, there’s high energy bangers and nice melodic ballads, but it’s not quite as raw and fresh as their debut.

A consistently enjoyable indie rock record. Nothing groundbreaking, but it is charming and confident.

One of the best storytelling rap albums of all time, and one of the most cinematic sounding rap albums of all time. Period. You really feel apart of Kendrick’s journey, as we chronicle through his experiences in Compton, trying to get out of this toxic environment for the success waiting around the corner.

‘Evil Empire’ sees Rage Against the Machine recapture that same unmatched energy, sharp commentary, and artistic magic from their self titled debut record. I much prefer the fresh on the scene rawness of their debut, but this album goes just as hard.

Bombalbum. The electrifying vocals, the explosive guitar riffs, the fiery hot drumming, and the deadly bass lines blasting political activist anthems through your speakers. It’s bloody awesome!

Besides a couple of songs’ corny preachiness (fuck your ethnicity and no make up), and a lyrically lazy and sonically uninteresting effort from Kendrick on ‘Blow My High’, Section 80. is a solid concept album that’ll become the storytelling template Kendrick later perfects. The jazzy instrumental west coast boom bap style production on this and Kendrick’s rapping are the highlights on this album.

Ignorance is bliss is an enjoyable track as it shows the future brilliance that’ll come later in full formation for Kendrick, but this mixtape is just amateurish, bland, and uninteresting.

This project is a trainwreck of sorts, with muddy mixes, messy structure, undercooked song ideas, flat production, and obnoxious artistic execution.

‘Hoodrat’ is obnoxious with the repetitive vocal hook poorly integrated throughout the atrociously mixed, and terribly performed song. ‘Paid’ has a killer hook by Ty Dollar Sign, but is let down by Kanye’s carti impersonation, and a flat drum mix on what could’ve been a groovy tune. The only real takeaway from ... read more

Unfinished potential, a messy demo tape. I seriously fuck with some of the production ideas and song ideas on this, but how disappointing Kanye didn’t put the time and effort into finishing this.

Donda is an over bloated concoction of emotionally vulnerable moods and delightfully hard-hitting bangers, as well as unnecessary padded on tracks (especially the part 2 versions). Still, it’s a solid album with so much in its bag for anyone to get some sort of enjoyability out of it.

Jesus is King gets so much hate, and it’s completely fair. Kanye butchers a promising gospel album by making an album about wanting to be accepted as a Christian, because Jesus accepts him, so you should. It’s so unfocused, so slapped together, so bland, and so forgettable. I’m definitely not a fan of this album, but I’ve grown to enjoy a few songs from this album, so let’s find some positives amidst the negative sinkhole that is ‘Jesus is King’.

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Kid Cudi and Kanye West put their best foot forward and deliver an introspective collab album exploring their mental illness within an experimentally raw psychedelic hip hop soundscape. If GhostTown part 1 was put on this album as a companion piece to Ghost Town part 2, then this would probably be my favourite album from both Kanye and Cudi. That always felt like the missing link to bring this altogether, but nevertheless, ‘Kids See Ghosts’ is an alluring odyssey.

This album doesn’t blow me away, but I respect it as a vulnerable outlet of Kanye’s mental health and insecurities at the time, and as a minimalistic instrumental passage of song ideas. As much as I enjoy the hilariously goofy track ‘All Mine’, the skeletal instrumentation needed more to it to make it standout. Ghost Town is just incredible, honestly.

Kanye’s duality album. Life of Pablo is a screenshot of Kanye’s life, and the two sides of his world- the fighting urges of this rockstar lifestyle wanting to wreak havoc on the life he has created with his wife and family. Just like a Picasso painting, this album is a beautiful mess, and that’s what makes the listening experience entertaining and enthralling from beginning to end, venturing into this new stage of Kanye’s life with such masterful production—except ... read more

Kanye’s most underrated album. A diabolical deconstruction of ones egotistical mindset into sex, alcohol, and drugs fuelled by the pressures of fame, systematic racism in the industry, and the lack of love in their life. If the heartbreak from ‘808’s’ left Kanye lonely with only fame in his possession, and ‘MBDTF’ left Kanye struggling with this relationship by himself, then ‘Yeezus’ is Kanye on a complete downward spiral of self destruction until ... read more

I really enjoy this collab album from Kanye and Jay-Z. The chemistry between these two hip hop juggernauts is electrifyingly kinetic, and the distinct production style is refreshingly charming. I’m not a fan of the overdone and lazy ‘Lift Off’, the stale dubstep style ‘Who Gon Stop Me?’, as well as the disjointed and unnecessary ‘Illest Motherfuckers Alive’, but every other track goes so hard. My favourites are the lyrically dense and atmospherically ... read more

Often cited as Kanye’s magnum opus, and it’s understandable why. An epic culmination of his entire 2000’s discography meshed into a greatest hits special. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is exactly that, an examination on Kanye’s love hate relationship with fame. This is explored through the multi-layered lyrical content and the grandiose hip hop pop production, which helps give shape to this conceptualised world, and offers a compelling narrative to attach yourself ... read more