After a series of middling reviews over the course of several years, Paul randomly decides to create his best album in decades. Sounds like it easily could have been made in his prime; an insanely impressive feat to maintain a creative drive this long

Every Cure album is just way more grand and cinematic than the last. Disintegration most likely stands as The Cure's best and most complete work

Doesn't really sound like any of their individual styles, and I don't think it brings out the best of any of them

Sounds really good; musically and with SZA's amazing voice. Still, something just doesn't fully capture me. It almost feels "too" perfect and polished to the point that I don't find it as interesting as CNTRL

There's something so reflective and sad about Nujabes' music aside from the fact that he's passed away. Luv(sic) is a really get series of songs, and while I don't normally love remixes, they add a decent bit to the Compilation. Feels like an alternate version or reimagining as opposed to some tacked on extras.

Nujabes always manages to craft soulful stuff, and this Hexalogy is no exception

Not always the biggest country guy, but MJ Lenderman is a great instrumentalist, producer, and a pretty good lyricist. The fairly brief runtime is the perfect amount of time for "Manning Fireworks" to fully blossom without overstaying its welcome

Some really interesting songwriting choices that pay off pretty well for the most part. I don't think I fully understand the various levels...I guess irony? regardless, still a really nice listen that I can only imagine grows on you overtime

Maybe it's just my expectations coming from his newest album (which is amazing), but I found this album just kinda okay. It's got some nice beats and Jean has a nice voice, but I'm not a big fan of the Emo Rap elements or the sort of cringe lyrics in some instances that sort of comes with the emo rap territory

Another insanely well done and influential MPB album. It doesn't feel quite as varied and grand to me as Clube Da Esquina, but an amazing bit of Singer-Songwriter with some influence from the Brazilian Avant-Garde scene

On a separate but related note: Brazil has such a fascinating art-history

Packs so many sounds in such an effortlessly elegant way. Justifiably considered among the best albums of Brazilian Popular Music, and potentially the best from the whole country

Songs that are way too short to develop into much of anything, painfully surface level lyrics and themes of depression, A few decent samples amongst pretty boring and unpolished production.

A warm album that sounds like quite the departure from other Frost Children stuff.

The sound is a very well done "emo but happy and sunny" type beat, but the lyrics were pretty thought out and clever at times, with a song like "Bob Dylan" best showcasing this

Takes a few songs (about 25 minutes) to fully materialize for me, but once I fully engaged with it, I liked it more than I initially expected to.

"Frances the Mute" is an accurate title because there isn't a whole lot of singing, which does end up sort of making those moments with vocals stand out more

SB2H is a unique blend of stank. It drones on for song after song of incomprehensible and unfinished messes. The cherry on top is Beavis and Butthead telling me how to feel about the album in skits that last an absurd amount of time

beautifully joyful and whimsical, layering a variety of sounds into a dreamy album

To a degree, I can see the appeal; I just didn't find all that much to really grab on to on "Stratosphere."

I don't want to say it's "pretentious" because it definitely isn't and I like plenty of stuff that is pretentious, but something about that Slowcore, Post-Rock soup sound feels a little masturbatory to me

Probably a bad time to say anything good about Drake, but I finally gave another album of his a try and it's actually decent.

I found "Take Care" to be a draining black hole of energy, but Drake is actually putting in a lot of effort on "Nothing Was The Same," which definitely shows. Beats are WAY better and Drake manages to drum up some level of charisma.

I do think there's lot of bad examples of bars still: "Ni**as talk more than bitches these days. Just ... read more

"Bloom" is the sun showering your face on a cool day. It's standing at the edge of everything and taking a breath in. It's finally accepting that it's over.

Bloom really good

I'm currently researching and writing a school paper on Brazilian Popular Music, and so I've begun to make my way through some of the most iconic Brazilian albums. I actually didn't know that "The Girl From Ipanema" was on here, which was a pleasant surprise as it's a very iconic song that I had never heard it all the way through.

There really isn't a whole lot I can say about Getz/Gilberto. Bossa Nova is an incredibly influential genre that would go on to a ... read more

A pretty great beat selection, but despite being a pretty good lyricist times, the bars would occasionally have me rolling my eyes. At its height, GO:AD AM is pretty good and at its lowest it's just sort of decent enough. The last couple songs have a cool Cloud Rap feel, which I wish would have been cool to see more of