They don’t really add to the originals, which I guess can be a good thing or a bad thing. Usually it evens out.
Favorites: Africa, Take On Me, Happy Together, Paranoid, Billie Jean
Worst: No Scrubs
The singing on this album is passionately expressive and the synth-sounding guitars brightly color in the back. Kind of reminds me of some 80s new wave.
Favorites: [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs], Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting, The Arbor, I/m Not Here [missing face], Auge/Maschine, Keep it All to Myself, Girl Chewing Gum, Let/s Get Lost, Videograms
Worst: VTr
It's way too long for all the songs to sound like each other, so it's obviously bad for him to make songs that sound like other Future songs that have already been released. And yet he still does it. Amazing.
Favorites: Crushed Up, F&N, Talk Shit Like a Preacher, Promise You That, Servin Killa Kam, Unicorn Purp
Worst: Overdose (It's not necessarily the worst but it's the one that stands out the most as the worst)
It's a fun album with bright and bouncy beats across the track list. However, the vocals usually falter between uncomfortable and unmemorable, with a few high points being in song topics like fashion or skateboarding.
Favorites: Fading, Ordinary Pleasure, New House, Freelance, Monte Carlo, 50-50
Worst: Miss Me
The songs are pretty decent, but everything about this album reeks in the smell of generic adult contemporary pop, an already unintresting genre. There is nothing unique about this album to consider it apart from the Taylor Swifts and P!nks of the radio scene. Merton's vocal delivery and songwriting are just enough to get a passing grade.
Favorites: 2 Kids, Funny Business, Homesick, I Don't Hold a Grudge, Honeymoon Heartbreak
Worst: Trouble in Paradise
It's okay. The production is okay. The singing is okay. The lyrics are okay. The track list is okay. The features are actually pretty good. The songwriting is okay. The overall atmosphere is okay. It's okay.
Edit: Same general opinions. but I'm more receptive of his artistic statement. Basically, it sounds the same but I like it more.
Favorites: Mile High, Tell Them, Barefoot in the Park, Are You In Love?, Where's the Catch?, I'll Come Too, Power On
Worst: Can't Believe The Way We Flow (an ... read more
The influence is pretty apparent, but the songs are beautifully sung and produced. The whole album is a cohesive indie pop album with a variety of styles and production that seems unique while still in the same vein of pop and indie. The lyrics are heartfelt, but aren’t very complex or developed, and sound like what you’d expect to hear from contemporary music on the radio, or at church. Her music sounds like what the current trends of underground pop sound like, but she does it by ... read more
A standout psychedelic rock album with some incredibly sticky riffs. I especially like some of the longer tracks like Unificado. The Spanish art pop vocals are mysteriously entrancing, and the seamless transitions on some of the songs make the whole project feel pretty cohesive.
Favorites: Ana, Acción Vaciar, Unificado, Inundación, “Lux, Lumina”, Resistir, La Maga
Worst: El Derrumbe
The lyrics tell a beautifully damaged story, but the production and songwriting is lackluster across the album and the overall album feels basic and uninspired.
Favorites: Cheer up Charley, Let's Be Us Again, Holly the Hustle, That Old Haunted Place
Worst: The Imperial
Beautiful, lavish production, but the vocals are pretty much generic art pop, and the songwriting isn't that complex either, despite having some nice choruses and verses here and there.
Favorites: Enough to Notice, Get Out of the Room, Foreign Parts, Water Cooler, Clarion Call, Josuka, Kabuki
Worst: No Hurry
It's a little boring at times, but is still an entrancing fusion of indie and synthpop, with an interesting Spanish twist on the vocals.
Favorites: Infrarrojos, Índigos, La Apuesta
Worst: Ultravioleta
Just because your music is weird an experimental doesn't mean it's automatically good. It's interesting and technically impressive but it's not that enjoyable or memorable.
Favorites: Ostinato, Electro
Worst: Drunk
Sounds like a conventional mixtape with traditional rap songs; there isn’t much variety or experimentation in song structure, but he has interesting flows and speaks on many subjects, and the whole thing bangs without any egregiously bad tracks.
Favorites: Energy, Learned From Texas, Pick Yourself Up, 1 Oh Oh, Look What I Got, 4 Tha Three
Worst: Higher (King Pt. 6)
As generic, basic, and uninspired as the reviews I put out. The only reason why I don’t write more about this is because I can’t be bothered to listen to this more than twice. The abuse suffered by K-Pop groups from the industry is evident in the music. This is a cry for help. Save APink.
Favorites: What Are You Doing? (Which is what I find myself asking)
Worst: Memories (Which I hope this won’t be)
The lyrics and vocal inflections are cute, and the production is bright and pretty decent, but the album is way too long for 16 songs that are essentially the same, and it gets annoying quick.
Favorites: Community Gardens, "Death, Thrice Drawn", Do You Believe Me, Starstruck, Admire the Architecture, Jeannie... You're a Tragedy, Sleepeyhead
Worst: No Leverage / No Pleasure
Great old-school hip-hop production mixed with intriguing sound clips about the Black Panther Party. Good flow throughout and can be listened to passively through the beats and actively through the samples.
Favorites: Intro Peace, We Gonna Be Heard, Problems Of The Poor, High On the People, Open Season, I Am Fred Hampton, Cointelpro, Tear For A Panther, Only People Can Save The World, Violent Government, Brother's Pride (Hear My Plea), Geronimo, Sense of Protection, Feed the Babies
Worst: ... read more
It's cool if you want to set an atmosphere, but your songs still have to have some progression in it.
Favorites: North
Worst: South
Not very memorable, but the songs were kinda cute, and the guitar work is cool, I guess. Very lacking on the song writing front
Favorites: Blue as I Go By, Movies, With You, Wait and See, Little Flowers
Worst: Now It’s So Late
It's short, but the songs are high quality, with bright and light-hearted production.
Favorites: In2 Your Love, Ultraviolet Rainbow, I Could Be the Voice Inside Your Head
Worst: Juno Lion
A bunch of fun, laidback, rap songs, but the production is way to simplified.
Favorites: Champion, Fly, Facts, Work, Bangarang, Mercy II
Worst: Coughing Up Smoke