By Storm - My Ghosts Go Ghost
83

This is not exactly my type of experimental music, mainly because for the first 5 songs of this album there is mostly ambience and not as much rhythm. After Zig Zag, however, this album picked up the pace and delivered. I’m just sad that its first half wasn’t as consistent.

Vince Staples - Cry Baby
90

Two great political rap / rock albums within a few weeks of each other is crazy. First genesis Owusu, now Vince Staples.
“Cry Baby” doesn’t blow me away, but once it finishes you can see that it is quite a beautiful thing in its entirety. Not too tame, not too preachy, just the right album we needed this year.

BoyWithUke - Serotonin Dreams
NR

Coming back to a forgotten album from my very early music days was not something I was expecting to do, I barely even remember a song on this album. Interesting to see the way things progressed, at least

Radiohead - In Rainbows
96

An absolutely beautiful continuous sound.

Vince Staples - White Flag
80

This is pretty good

Tame Impala - Currents
96

TAME IMPALA DISCOGRAPHY RUN:
His 3rd Album: CURRENTS

This is a collection of beautiful, ethereal soundscapes that can be played individually or all together, still conveying the same dreamy vibe. Some tracks make you bang your head, some chill you out, and all together they make one of the greatest blockbuster alt-rock records of the century.

JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP
78

A fun album from Peggy that doesn’t try too hard and instead tries a little too much. Many of the less-than-two minute songs could have easily been left off, but there is a decent amount of great music being gifted to us by the 2020s most controversial veteran.

Drake -  Honestly, Nevermind
41

I’m not even counting Jimmy Cooks as a song on this album, we can tell he just wanted to make a boring r&b album but needed a banger for the streams

Very, very, very boring, repetitive and forgettable. Overall, it doesn’t strike you as bad, it just puts you to sleep. I’m not even joking, I found myself slumped over half-awake for the entirety of tracks 9 - 13.

Travis Scott - UTOPIA
89

A somehow very underrated album that serves as a blockbuster anthology of Travis Scott’s many abilities.

Travis Scott - Circus Maximus
80

Pretty cool trippy visuals, nothing that great though.

Don Toliver - OCTANE
NR

*WILL RATE WHEN I FULLY LISTEN*

Don toliver has officially crossed the threshold from experimental / underground / creative to now being just plain old formulaic. Long, sleepy, sloppy and uninspired.

detahjae - Abyss
90

This is beautiful, best of Lone Borealis

detahjae - Lone, Borealis
NR

This guy, Matt proxy, protect, skeletrix and slayr are my freshman class
Very well done, scrapbook sounding debut

JPEGMAFIA - ¥ (Yen)
NR

I love Peggy and I am hyped for this album, but these singles just don’t have much to offer. They are short with production that is not his best and lyrics that just don’t work with me. I can tell that this is going to be very different from something like ILDMLFY, and I just don’t know if he’ll pull it off.

(Just kidding I know he will)

LUCKI - Dr*gs R Bad
70

Remember the cloud rap kid who made Alternative Trap? He’s totally different now, but still good.

For some reason, I really love Lucki’s new music. This album is chill and fun. It’s not great, but it’s dreamy and there’s not much to hate about it except for the fact that most of the bonus tracks and daysb4bad songs are better than half the album.

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
87

A great jazz rap record, I just don’t come back to it nearly as much as others in its genre.

Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
90

Though I would have loved to hear more of what we heard on “Stampede,” “The Worldwide Scourge” and “One4All,” this album’s versatility and effective commentary make it so consistently enjoyable. Though at times it can be a little sleepy, this is still a great spectacle of a record.

21 Savage - WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?
58

Nowhere near as bad as people say. A handful of great tracks, a handful of mid / bad ones. It’s alright.

Paris Texas - Red Hand Akimbo
70

Quick and pretty cool, too

Playboi Carti - WLR Leaks and Beyond
NR

Just drop Ts already Carti it’s not that hard

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"Plenty of artists have expressed fictional “characters” of their music in real life. (Donald Glover for Because The Internet; Ethel Cain for all their work; Jane remover for Leroy; so on.) Peggy was not only fucked up by SA in the military but also by previous incidents. He calls himself a racist on this album, is he? No, don’t be stupid. Comparing JPEGMAFIA while he plays a narcissistic role to a mentally ill + damaged artist off his meds (kanYe) and calling them the same is like comparing Pennywise (fictional) to Jeffery Dahmer (real) Saying this as a ye fan btw (not all of us are nazis)"
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