The final album of J.Cole, and it is a big one. Almost two hours and 24 tracks, this concept album is divided into two parts. The first part is rapping from the perspective of 29 year old J.Cole, the second half is from the perspective of 39 year old J.Cole. So this album is a two part album, and you can notice that the second half of the album feels more mature then the first part. This concept does make this album feel like you are listening to an album and not a collection of a couple of ... read more

This is a classic album, I had never heard anything on this album before listening to it and I was pleasantly surprised. An album that came out 55 years ago still has lyrical content that holds up until today, the themes and topics touched on by Marvin on this record are still very relevant today and that shows that this album will be timeless. Other than being a great poet, Marvin has a great voice. He sounds so pleasant and can really just sing great. On every song he shows this off, if it is ... read more

This album is a lot of fun, it is just 11 great songs (“The Art of Loving (Intro)” does not count here). The theming of this album is great, it is about love of course and it uses a lot of house metaphors in this entire album. These metaphors are supposed to represent love, these make this album feel really cozy and that is exactly what the sound of the album is for me. This album is obviously big on the radio and everywhere in the world, even though most songs on the radio are ... read more

True Romance by Charli xcx is just a fun pop album, most songs are well written but there are just some songs that don’t do it for me. Charli was definitely in her hook bag for this project, even my least favorite songs have undeniable catchy hooks. Besides the hook and the good writing this project is a little less great, when it comes to verses Charli just kind of does not do many very interesting stuff. The album is a lot of fun though with a lot of bops in it, but not every track gets ... read more

Black Country, New Road had to reinvent themselves after their lead singer and frontman left their band, it went from a seven piece band to a six piece band with the three females taking the role of Isaac Wood with them singing and writing the songs now. It was described as a healthy competition and that was noticeable on this album. The writing was definitely the best part of this record, although the instrumental hardly had any change after Isaac Wood left it felt even more like they could ... read more

Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road (2022):
Genre: Art-Rock, Post-Rock
Runtime: 58:51
Tracks: 10
Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road is an album where you really need to listen. I listened well to the lyrics multiple times and still don’t understand everything, this is down the middle for me. On one hand it is like discovering something every time but on the other hand this means that it is really hard to relate to any of this. The voice of Isaac is also hard to get ... read more

After hearing “Imaginal Disk” I did not think they would have made an album before that that would be very great, I did not hear anyone talk about this album so I thought it was just not great but I was very wrong. This album is filled to the brim with Pop hits or Bops. The album starts off great with the first six songs excluding “The End”, after those songs the album falls off fast. “Halfway” is a very forgetful song, and after that there are just songs ... read more

For this review I will also keep the first two bonus tracks on the album that were on there on release. A$SAP Rocky’s first album in almost eight years, the expectations were high for a lot of people and also for me. I was expecting a very experimental album from him and he delivered on that very well. The idea of every song being so different to each other is very ambitious and can sometimes even hurt an album but for Rocky it helped. The execution was definitely not perfect but still ... read more

Uesexua - FKA Twigs (2025):
Genre: Art Pop, EDM
Runtime: 42:58
I have wanted to listen to this album ever since it came out, and I do not know why I waited for so long, this album is great in everything it does. What this album wants to achieve for me is that it does that very well. For some reason this album gave me a very nostalgic feeling, of course “Childlike Things” is a song about that but other songs like “Striptease” and “Perfect Stranger” made me ... read more

This album was a little bit underwhelming, I went in expecting a lot. This was one of the highest rated albums on AOTY on my list. It was still a great album but in my first few listens I just was not a fan of how long it dragged on and that is still a thing that bothers me a little when listening to this record. There is amazing production on Mezzanine, this is what I think makes this album so popular because that was really what I liked about it, the vocals are great as well but the ... read more

This is the first Dutch album i ever listened to, my introduction to Dutch Hip Hop was alright. INSOMNIA touches on the condition with the same name, it talks about the night and not being able to sleep also just a night life such as going out. This album has nineteen songs and with that amount of tracks it is really hard to make a consistently good album and Sor did not really succeed to make a front to back skipless album for me. There was a moment towards the back half where it just fell ... read more

Man I like this record, it's just fun all round, at first I thought the album was a little front heavy but after a few listens that feeling went away completely. The opening track 2122 starts the record off amazing, the opening sentence “God of the sun I'm taking you down on the inside” starts the record off with amazing energy and the rest of the song shows the versatility in Cameron Winters voice. The next track “3D Country” is in the low vocal range and two ... read more

My introduction to Geese or Cameron Winter, this album made me want to listen to Heavy Metal and even listen to at least one album every week for the entirety of 2026. The first song “Trinidad” was the first time I listened to a geese song and immediately I did not like it, sonically the song was great but the chorus I thought was them just wanting to be funny with humor which I don’t like and is just not in my space, but when listening to the entire album I started to like ... read more

Lyrically I really liked what this album did, although some songs don’t have a lot of replay value I still liked to listen to every day because of the lyrics. Every time I caught something new or it felt like I figured something out, that is because Cameron Winter writes a lot of metaphors and it's difficult maybe the first time but after listening to it ten times you still get to find meanings to new things, or not. Songs like Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed) and Love Takes ... read more

No skips, amazing coke bars, fitting beats, some of the best rap performances of the year.