Feels pretty lacking in personality, both in the lyrics and glossed up production. This new phase in his career isn’t really looking too good so far. The Weeknd is a great vocalist but here it feels like his talent is being used insincerely, like he’s making music just to make it.

The bass sounds really good but thats really all I can say about it

Baby voice Vince Staples? Plus, Disco S**t was oddly refreshing. Otherwise, very rinse and repeat.

Kanye continues to sort of push the boundary of the structure of music, more so his own than anything, on Jesus is King. This record is clearly intended for his Sunday Service program, in that outside of the brash live settings tracks are very abrupt and just placed with not much of an important sequence, with the exception of the intro and outro tracks, though still abrupt. Despite this, Jesus is King is also his most thematic album to date. Historically, Kanye takes broad strokes of ... read more

First off, this artwork is really awesome. Its so grim and muddy yet strangely home-like. “Feet of Clay” by Earl Sweatshirt is somehow an even stranger and dirtier continuation of the concepts he pursued on “Some Rap Song:”, an album, though brief, was incredibly detailed and one of the most compelling hip-hop releases of all time (seriously, its that ground-breaking). With that being said, just some rap songs seem to have been the death of this persona he’s ... read more

Attained emptiness and honed oblivion, Lil Ugly Mane's final record is overwhelmingly mortal and reduced to absolute meaninglessness. It sounds like the tinkering of samples and instruments funneled through computerized sounds by the one man left standing after nuclear genocide and total apocalypse. With no body left standing there is no point to please or connect through music or through writing, its all entirely useless. Oblivion Access is, despite its title and manic song structures, focused ... read more

Its hopeless

Sounds like something you would hear on a Nintendo DS Flipnote animation or something cut from late 2000s internet culture

Its catchy, sporadic, and funny in its strange blend of genres, but I feel like their gimmicks will become jarring very quickly

Its not very interesting or compelling, but some of the vocal manipulations were pretty cool. Given the odd circumstance that this is the worst song on the album, it can’t be too bad. Lets hope it was worth the wait.

As someone who makes music, one of my biggest fears is passing before creating my opus, or really, anything at all so early in my process. I wake up and sometimes get this feeling like “what if I die and noone will ever hear the best I have put out?” Its safe to say David Bowie worked incredibally well under pressure, as this record is, regardless of what was truly to come for him, one hell of a final push out. Bowie’s vocals sound aged in a rarely good way for an artist, and ... read more

The rough, unattended backside of a painting. Completely pragmatic to hanging the real art for display, and nothing more. Yet, I have never been so compelled to look at it because this record truly feels like such. Its oddly unsettling, chilling, and commanding for so much emptiness and simplicity. Its sort of like being trapped inside the hallow shell of a post-apocalyptic factory after everyone has fled. Its solitary, yet strangely peaceful and reminiscent of times before the big whipe of ... read more

Everything about Danny Brown’s music, except, strangely, his delivery and lyrics, his biggest hook for me, takes time for me. Many of these songs, however, sort of clicked with me immediately. The thing is, this record, unlike what Atrocity Exhibition seemed to have been, probably took this year alone (a short amount of time) to make. There are a lot of reoccuring names and the roster is pretty small, which has been a trend in hip-hop lately with Kanye West’s label rollout and Vince ... read more

The things I like for hip-hop are changing. I wouldn't necessarily say its developing or growing, but I have been noticing myself going to some artists and projects way more than others despite at one point liking them maybe the same. Essentially, I like hip-hop with passion or restless abrasiveness. I like good flows, good bars, and insanely high egos as well as some very dense, focused, and passionate rap artists. I love Da Baby's moxie and commanding voice along with his humouress lines. The ... read more

Really glad she sort of steered more away from more conventional and single-based art, or so I felt. Her singing with the production feels so damn clean, like peeling the thin plastic off of electronics... Its a focused project that holds a collection of tracks equally as good singles as they create an ambitious tracklist.

LUM's music truly gives me a feeling noone thus far has given me. Its like this blend of nostalgia and desolation essentially in a kind of riling way (insanely conflicting, but it works for me.) This EP thingy is front to back his more mellow, not so abrassive and not so bragadocious content. The sampling and mix of this thing is fairly traditional under this name, but it has the right touch to it to make it click immediately. The start sort of puts me in this empty field of tall grass and ... read more

Consistently pleasing

good

This “cover art” is crazy dope.

The production is generic, sure, but its definitely consistent. I think Ameer Vann’s writing was incredibally focused and much improved than it was before as well. I thought his bars were stronger than pretty much any of the members of Brockhampton at this moment, but that’s mostly because of their turn into less hardcore hip-hop and more of a pop/indie rap group. In all, I’m actually sort of glad he’s sort of picking up the pieces. It is insanely hard to come back from ... read more

This new record is looking like its going to be his brightest and most positive record, as these two singles are spunky sonically with dark lyrics sort of pushed to the side for strange portrayal of content.