Pinocchio Story is a heart-shattering closer, a man defeated by the heartbreak he experienced with the separation from his fiancé and the unexpected death of his mother is left with the one thing he tried so hard to obtain, fame. This track sees him lonely and broken amidst his rockstar life, pouring his heart out to a crowd of people, as they cheer and shout for him, oblivious to the pain he is actually going through. This final song on ‘808’s & Heartbreak’ sums up ... read more

Graduation is stadium status Kanye. He has graduated into super stardom. This third studio album sees Kanye bring his innovative hip hop production style to the glamourised and glittery pop soundscape for flashing light anthems and champion arena chants. This album is characteristically large and sonically grand in scope, and it never lets down from that epic scale or enthralling energy, except the middle section of the album where we run into the lyrically questionable and boringly repetitive ... read more

Late Registration is a fantastic continuation from College Dropout. Usually with sequels, everything is made bigger than the predecessor, and in doing so, it loses what made the original work so well. Kanye’s sophomore album goes bigger, sonically, but the core value of College Dropout is never lost in translation of the more expansive scope Kanye shoots for here.

A breath of fresh air in the hip-hop scene. Kanye’s debut album changed the game forever with biting witty social commentary on the issues rap music was selling to its audience and the struggles of hustling to get by, while also being a personal journey for Kanye dropping out of college and pursuing his dream as an artist. ‘The College Dropout’ is infectiously fun from start to finish, especially with such vibrantly dynamic and stylistically slick sample-heavy hip hop ... read more

Radioheads debut album is not a Radiohead album. It’s a mere reflection of the indie rock sound of that 90’s era. Not a terrible debut, but certainly not the bands best, not even close. A very safe and assured piece of music borrowing from its influences. While half of the tracks are enjoyably catchy, the other half are too derivative and too dull to really captivate the listener with something fresh and interesting.

An enjoyable modern fusion of rock rap. Not a mind-blowing or genre-bending mash-up, just a consistently entertaining tracklist of bangers!

The Idles are close to becoming one of my favourite bands of all time. There is not one single miss in their discography, as they constantly push the boundaries of their music, experimenting with their signature style in these new directions of sound.

Idles use the narrative of a car crash as a metaphor for addiction, and pump out a heart-achingly personal, beautifully raw, and sonically transcendent album. DAMAGE! DAMAGE! DAMAGEEE!

I checked this album out because I love the memeified use of the title tracks, “ohh wahahaha”, but the song itself is actually laughably stupid in its lyrical content and vocal delivery—seriously, wtf is up with that child abuse solo?—and the sound of this is so drab, so dull, and so generic. And that goes for the rest of the songs on this album. Pretty painful.

A giant pink balloon to the face.

An electrifying continuation from their last album.

A high pumped post punk adrenaline piece of brutal honesty. I feel like starting a riot screaming, “MOTHER.. FUCKER!”

Travis Scott could’ve made this album a conceptual juggernaut if he spent time mapping out the content of his songs into a thematic or narrative through line to match the dark and otherworldly trap soundscape he has created here. nevertheless, Utopia is enjoyable.

Infinitely better than Travis’ previous record, but fails to come even close to the heights off rodeo.

Same old boring shit. It’s just dull and calculated trap music with no fresh qualities to it.

If Rodeo was the pinnacle of the trap music scene, then birds is the redundant, insubstantial, and trite cousin.

I fuck with the ends, outside, lose, and goosebumps though.

An invigoratingly fresh reinvention of trap music through a psychedelic-inspired soundscape, which perfectly captures the content of this rockstar life Travis has thrown himself into with drugs, alcohol, and women.

After the shit fest that was ‘comedown machine’, The Strokes needed rejuvenation, and that’s what they did here with ‘The New Abnormal’. Outside of a few cuts that just don’t do much for me, I really enjoy this record.

I found it extremely hard to gel with this album. A lazy, dull, and uninspired concoction of musical ideas searching for creative success in its experimentation, and it’s normalcy, but just failing miserably at accomplishing anything that it wants to. Happy Ending has grown on me slowly, and feels the most like a classic ‘Strokes’ song.

Angles is a return to form for The Strokes. They explore their style in a new direction of sound, and it makes this album refreshingly dynamic and thoroughly interesting. Not all of it works though with songs like ‘games’ and ‘you’re so right’, but when the songs do work, it’s an enjoyable mix of genres with a nice flashy pop appeal.